Boardwalk Empire Recap: Easter Eggs and Lovely Heroin

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By vallegirl | Thursday, November 1, 2012 | 11:00 am | 7 Comments
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Roger’s comfortable with Gillian and gets dreamy as she keeps running the sponge down his arm and bad vibe #4 when it’s so oppressively quiet that the water dripping into the tub echoes. Roger’s napping as the camera follows his face until he wakes up with a start and a syringe in his arm. Roger’s panicked, asking Gillian what the hell she dosed him with. Lovely heroin, and likely enough to cause him to OD.

Roger tries to fight against Gillian and the drug but he’s already overdosed and becomes fuzzy. He slumps into the tub and can barely speak or move. He asks Gillian if he’s talking but she tells him he’s dreaming then shoves him under the water with the sponge over his mouth and nose. He briefly, feebly fights back but he’s just too strung out to put up much of a fight and quickly fades, the last few breaths bubbling up from the water.

 

That was awful and cruel but she’s not done, yet. Gillian wraps a towel around her waist and goes to a box on the counter. She pulls out Jimmy’s dog tags and slips them on Roger’s neck as she stages his death to look like “Jimmy” killed himself through an overdose. Then she lights up a cigarette and looks at what she hath wrought. I’ve seen a lot of violence and death on this show, but that might be the worst murder so far and at least as bad as watching Angela plead with Manny.

Gyp’s meeting with Masseria, the most interesting man in the world, and Masseria’s reading him to filth for being late and turning in money that he hasn’t even counted, and in coins no less. Gyp tries to make excuses but Masseria’s fed up with him wreaking havoc and drawing attention to himself down in Tabor Heights while his actual turf in New York gets taken over by other gangs.

Gyp promises it won’t happen again, he’s loyal to Masseria yadda yadda, Masseria can’t trust him. He can’t rely on him. And Gyp’s just getting too expensive to keep around. Gyp thinks pleading that it’s Easter will help but Masseria points out that it’s also April Fool’s. (True. Easter was April 1 in 1923…Bless you, Google.)

Gyp asks Masseria what’s the joke, then, but Masseria tells him he’s not joking and starts to walk away as his goons stand up to remind Gyp he’s a penny-ante hood in New York. Gyp swings for the fences and tells Masseria what he’s learned about Nucky, Rothstein and the way they operate. With a minimum of bigotry, Gyp lets Masseria know Luciano’s loyal Rothstein and Meyer, not to Masseria. He can do what he wants with Gyp but he’s getting himself into a war. But if he gives Gyp the backup he needs, he can finish what he started in Tabor Heights, and he’ll “kill them all,” making Masseria “Joe the King.” Masseria’s intrigued and sits back down with Gyp. This would be scary if I didn’t have Wikipedia to see how this ends.

Go ooonnnn….

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Vallegirl has never actually lived in a valley, has a lot of time on her hands and likes to yell at kids about how things were in her day.  Currently in LA, she's also spent a lot of time in the great states of  New York and Florida so she's not crazy, it's just a cultural thing.

7 Comments

  1. 1
    plockeness monster plockeness monster
    Posted November 1, 2012 at 11:20 am

    Yes, Gillian, Tommy doesn’t need to be around rough language. You just continue to raise him in a whore house. And pretend you’re his mother.

  2. 2
    plockeness monster plockeness monster
    Posted November 1, 2012 at 1:56 pm

    Oh Lord, the scene w/ Richard and Tommy was so flipping cute!! I wish Richard would just steal Tommy and take him away from Gillian.

    [Pondering exactly how angry Gillian would be if he kills Paul in front of Tommy but doesn’t swear while doing it.] LOLOLOLOL, Valle!!!!!!!!!

    I was under the impression that the woman banging on Gyp’s door was his sister, but now I am remembering him telling Nucky that he hadn’t had sex with his wife in a while. Gag. No wonder he cheats. I really liked the scene in his apartment. I think it gave us a little insight as to why Gyp hates it when a person makes him feel like a moron…he’s surrounded by women that are constantly belittling him.

  3. 3
    Lo
    Posted November 1, 2012 at 7:59 pm

    All of the Boardwalk kids were awesome (and terribly cute) this episode. I thought it was a solid one.

  4. 4
    BlueCanary
    Posted November 4, 2012 at 5:28 am

    Vallegirl, you are killing it on these recaps. Awesome job.

    Gillian made my blood run cold in this episode, starting with the Real Jimmy-as-husband statement. Just wrong. Also, if I have to see Richard scrapbooking one more time, I may have to start self-medicating. He kills me every single week.

  5. 5
    vallegirl vallegirl
    Posted November 4, 2012 at 8:03 am

    Lo – you are correct that all the kids on this show are cute, and without being cloying or “precocious.” But the twins who play Tommy just get the best stuff to work with and from what I’ve read about them are actually like Tommy in real life since they started harassing Michael Pitt for smoking at some event. They’re a couple of little pistols. The twins who play Teddy also played “Little A” on All My Children (and the triplets who play Sonny played a deaf child on AMC as well) and the joke was how “special” Little A was because they never even let him walk until he was about four, and the only time they showed any life or personality was when they were working with David Canary. So I’m assuming the one who worked this week was the one who worked with Canary on AMC.

    plockeness – my initial thought was that Gyp still lived at home with his mother and sisters, too, but watching the scene a second time, the two young women are actually teens, so I revised it to he lived with his wife, daughters, and mother-in-law and that, plus the whole church scene, explains so much about Gyp.

    And BlueCanary (any relation to David?), thanks. I love this show so much and think it’s pretty meticulously produced but no one’s really completely likable so it’s surprisingly easy to make fun of but Gillian has slowly become the most compelling character to me. She’s cruel and monstrous but so damn tragic. And if they can make Capone sympathetic because of his deaf son, Gillian can get a little sympathy, too.

    The less said about Richard and his scrapbook the better because that will just make me start sobbing again.

  6. 6
    Kai88
    Posted November 4, 2012 at 10:50 pm

    Oh Gillian. Oh, creepy, insane, Gillian. Great recap! Also loved the David Sedaris reference.

  7. 7
    vallegirl vallegirl
    Posted November 5, 2012 at 10:40 am

    Thanks. And that’s my favorite line from one of my favorite Sedaris essays but thought it might not be that well known. Glad you liked it.

    And if you are unfamiliar with this particular bit of Sedaris brilliance, here’s a link to the essay.

    http://scottduncan.free.fr/blog/jesus_shaves.pdf

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