Boardwalk Empire Recap: Don’t Go To War Without an Army

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By vallegirl | Thursday, November 15, 2012 | 9:24 am | 8 Comments
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Down in the lobby some of the NYC gangsters are arriving while Owen and…Mickey???!??!…wait. Out on the boardwalk, Luciano and Lansky come walking up and, there’s no delicate way to put this, but did Meyer actually shrink in the off season? I know he’s wee but he literally looks like a child with old-man face in this scene.

Teddy could totally take Meyer.

Up in the suite, Eddie’s rushing Margaret down the hallway because Nucky wants to see her, and he needs to get to his meeting quickly. As she walks into the bedroom, Rothstein comes out of the elevator like he’s GOB about to do the Final Countdown but Eli shows he’s grown since being in prison and welcomes Rothstein. Then we incongruously shift to the display case with the Revolutionary War uniform to see someone break into it and steal the tricorn hat (Thanks, Google, for correcting my ignorance in the minicap) with a big, meaty hand wearing a big, tacky ring. Oh lordy. Wonder who THAT could be?

Nucky’s slumped in the bathroom when Margaret comes in. He perks up when he sees her and she feels his forehead. He’s running a fever so Margaret gets a cool, damp cloth for his head and Nucky tells her he found it so she needn’t worry. Margaret’s not sure what he’s on about so Nucky hands her Billie’s hummingbird earring. Margaret tells him it belongs to someone else and walks away. Nucky starts to  process this as he has one last vision of Billie in the embers as Babette’s explodes and Nucky finally accepts that she’s dead.

Oh man. I suck.

Margaret turns to listen and Nucky says that Billie’s dead and it’s all his fault. He starts to say something about everything he touches, but switches tacks, saying that no matter what Margaret thinks he has no choice. There is no walking away. Either he does it to them or they do it to him. Margaret asks about the men waiting in his office and Nucky says either they’re with him and he goes to war or they’re not and he’s alone and as good as dead.

Then Little Miss Self-Pity Party screws up her amoral nerve and asks Nucky if he can hear her. Does he know who she is? When he calls her Margaret “Schroeder” she corrects him that she’s Margaret Thompson, his wife, then tells him to finish getting dressed and get in there and take care of business because she hasn’t squirreled away nearly enough money to run away, yet. Or maybe I just imagined that last part.

Tommy’s sleeping like the sweet little angel he can be on occasion and Richard comes in to check on him. Instead he finds the girl from The Ringhovering nearby…oh wait. That’s just Gillian, waiting for Richard to come in so she can cast all blame for her shitty guardianship on him. She tells Richard that Tommy wandered onto the girl’s floor and got an eyeful of old-man ass so she had to get him liquored up on warm milk and rum so he could go to sleep. Richard apologizes but Gillian tells him that the damage is already done then, spying Julia’s lipstick on his mask (hehe…aw), tells him she’s sure he had a “stimulating” meeting and walks out. Richard just walks over to the mirror to look at it and wish iPhones had been invented so he could take a picture of it to put in his scrapbook.

I’m never washing my mask again.

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8 Comments

  1. 1
    hot cawfee
    Posted November 16, 2012 at 6:27 am

    Amen Valle—I was so happy this season to see Richard in the VFW Hall and interacting with people who are accepting of him. Granted it started with the hookers first but this is nice–teasing, accepting and kindness is why my beloved Richard needs. These are good folks.
    And question– the red-head in the scene–am I crazy (prolly) but is she the girl in the Wendy’s comercials??????
    back to reading

  2. 2
    hot cawfee
    Posted November 16, 2012 at 6:47 am

    Awesome recap Valle!!!!!

    I am forever loving how this show forces me to look at scenes beyond the actors on the screen. Its the room decor, costumes, something that has intrigued me from day one–the glassware. OMGL-does everyone have the same crystal?? Love it. Gillian’s necklace last week?? Its so much like a tiny one inch lavelierre (sp??) that my great-aunt wore and left to me.

    I am in agreement that chickens are coming home to roost. And we will see some unhappy chickens.
    It will be Eli and June unscathed–I love them and wish also that we would get more of them on scene. I hope the writers dont pull the “Margaret gets pregnant by Owen and hids her pregnancy and gives the baby to June to raise” story line.
    I think my beloved Richard will get the call from Nucky to bring his sniper skills to the war with Gyp and as a reward will help Richard get Tommy away from Gillian. Julia, Richard and Tommy–nice. I think Julia knows he works in Gillian’s “house” does she???

    Bobby Cannavale–another slow clap– he is amazing. Like you I am laughing and shielding my eyes each week. I hope we get more of his family soon. Henpecked and emasculated in his little tenement apartment.

  3. 3
    Classy Drunk Classy Drunk
    Posted November 16, 2012 at 7:03 am

    @hot cawfee… I definately think we are leading up to Margaret being preggers.

  4. 4
    hot cawfee
    Posted November 16, 2012 at 12:33 pm

    jeepers–my cap-code is hobby-horse!!!!

    I think its the universe telling us she is prego!!!!!!
    There are some ways they can play it–she can jump into bed with Nucky and play the old “I almost lost you !! Lets try again!!!” after the fact scenario.

  5. 5
    plockeness monster plockeness monster
    Posted November 16, 2012 at 8:29 pm

    Soooooo, Margaret’s son…no longer a serial killer?!

  6. 6
    Rebecca
    Posted November 17, 2012 at 4:36 pm

    Off topic, but I missed “Boardwalk Empire” last Sunday…
    … Because I was watching Bobby Cannavale (Gyp Rossetti) LIVE ON STAGE in “Glengarry Glen Ross”…. and he was BRILLIANT!!!!!!!!

  7. 7
    vallegirl vallegirl
    Posted November 18, 2012 at 11:53 am

    Hot Cawfee, I didn’t notice it but per tumblr, the girl at the dance is, in fact, the new Wendy’s girl. And I just found out that my niece went to school with Sheriff Jerry!

    Classy, I sincerely hope that the whole women’s rights storyline doesn’t boil down to Margaret getting knocked up by Owen but fear that’s probably where it’s going. And if that is where it’s going it will be the worst head fake ever. She started this season with so much promise and actually having a normal friendship outside of her marriage but all roads led back to Owen. Blerg.

    Plockeness – I don’t know if Teddy’s a serial killer, but that boy ain’t right. Nothing good will come of an unchecked Teddy.

    And Rebecca…I hate you. Nothing personal but the jealousy that you got to see Cannavale live and in Glengarry Glen Ross of all things is just too bitter to process right now. Who knew that when he started bubbling up again as Louis the pissed off clown in Modern Family he’d take over TV.

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    hot cawfee
    Posted November 19, 2012 at 7:46 am

    WEll Valle– that is where we are going !!! OMG– Richard has a new hat–a fedora like a dad would wear and …omg–I cannot wait to watch the past few epeiosed again–its going off the rails!!!!!!!!

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