Boardwalk Empire Recap: Never Wish a Sicilian Good Luck

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By vallegirl | Wednesday, October 3, 2012 | 1:00 pm | 8 Comments
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Welcome back! A whole lot and yet, not much, happened this week so let’s jump right in.

Never go against a Sicilian when death is on the line.

Fade up on a phone ringing and ringing because people could actually avoid their phones back in 1923. Nucky clicks through to an operator saying he’s been trying to reach Billie Kent for hours and the operator tells him that the only thing he has to worry about is when he runs out of company. Nucky and I are both “The hell?” because those were Jimmy’s last words but it’s just another David Lynch sequence.

Nucky sees a little blond boy whose features aren’t nearly lush enough to be Baby Jimmy but go with it. It’s a dream sequence. He offers Dream Baby Jimmy something to eat then is magically holding a pan of bacon (mmmm, bacon). Before he can plate up the delicious bacon the phone starts ringing even though it’s off the hook, distracting Nucky long enough to hear a gunshot. Dream Baby Jimmy’s been shot under the eye and Nucky’s now holding the smoking gun. As the phone continues to ring (off the hook) Nucky is distraught about killing Dream Baby Jimmy…

But Eddie’s here to wake him from his nightmare. The phone was just Margaret calling and not symbolic or anything. Nucky takes her call and the first words out of Margaret’s mouth are:

And a fine “Fuck you” to you, too, Margaret. Nucky says it nicer, though. Margaret’s wondering where he is because he was supposed to be at the house to meet with Father Schuck, the bishop’s man, to discuss the plans for his Nucky’s awards ceremony. Nucky’s acting like a cranky baby and whining about how he didn’t want to do it anyway and Margaret can’t make him. He practically holds his breath and bitches about it being a “shakedown” but Margaret’s over Nucky and tells him it’s an honor and he can’t say no, and besides, he said appearances matter so it’s time for him to appear like a respectable adult. Nucky gets off one last whine about Margaret writing down everything he says.

They hang up and Nucky remembers more pressing matters. He needs to know if Billie called. Really, Nucky? That’s just…sad. Eddie bluntly informs Nucky that she did not and he needs to drag his ass out of bed because he has a meeting. Nucky pulls himself up and then hallucinates that something’s frying. Phantom smells might be a symptom of a brain tumor.

It’s not a tumah.

Margaret lies to Father Schuck that Nucky’s just too busy with work to make the meeting and the priest smarms that if Nucky didn’t work so hard he wouldn’t have been able to donate all that land. The priest thanks Margaret, again, and she lies that it was all Nucky’s idea. As Father Schuck goes over the logistics Margaret notices that there’s no private audience with the bishop.

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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.

8 Comments

  1. 1
    aschowe
    Posted October 3, 2012 at 7:44 pm

    Excellent recap!

  2. 2
    plockeness monster
    Posted October 4, 2012 at 7:39 am

    I am wondering about the Gillian/Dead Jimmy situation too. Luciano was there when he was killed, right? So he knows. I guess Gillian is holding her hate in until the end of the season.

    Thanks for the screen cap of Jimmy. I miss him so.

  3. 3
    plockeness monster
    Posted October 4, 2012 at 7:41 am

    Valle, this, “A whole lot and yet, not much, happened this week ” PERFECTLY sums up this episode. Next week’s should be a doozey!

  4. 4
    queenofthesouth85
    Posted October 4, 2012 at 7:41 am

    Vallegirl I just wanted to tell you what an amazing recapper you are! Boardwalk Empire is my favorite show and one of the very few shows I actually watch live rather than from my DVR. But when I come on here and read your recaps it makes me see things I didn’t even catch and understand things that got past me! I love this show but you make me enjoy it even more! Very, very well written and insightful! Thank you!

  5. 5
    vallegirl vallegirl
    Posted October 4, 2012 at 11:55 am

    Thank you so much,aschowe and queen of the south. BE is my favorite show currently on, and maybe one of my favorites of all time, so it’s tough getting into the sarcastic mode because with very few exceptions (Owen) and despite being full on, batshit crazy (Gillian/Gyp) I love all the characters on the show. Probably because to an actor they seem to realize that this is going to be a highwater mark in their careers and are really delivering. I’m glad I’m able to straddle the “I love them all so much,” mentality with actually writing the recaps.

    Without giving anything away, I picked up on something from the pre-season promos that looks like it started to play out this week.

    And plockeness, Charlie wasn’t at the War Memorial when Nucky shot Jimmy. It was Owen, Manny and Eli. It seems like the only other people who know Jimmy’s dead, and Nucky killed him, are Richard and maybe Margaret, since she didn’t buy Nucky’s story, and Gillian. I just thought it was curious that in the year and a half since Jimmy’s been dead no one’s concocted a story about how he died. If for no other reason than for Nucky to assuage his guilt.

  6. 6
    plockeness monster
    Posted October 4, 2012 at 1:07 pm

    Thanks for the info, Valle. You are awesome as always!!!!!!!

  7. 7
    bumblebee
    Posted October 5, 2012 at 8:05 pm

    Every time Gyp is on, I think, “Wow. Will’s boyfriend really went bad.”

    Smiling Van Alden is so unnerving. It’s like seeing a dog walk around on it’s hind legs. “Haha…okay that’s cute, but now you’re starting to creep me out.” It boggles my mind that an entire office of people supposedly make their living by selling nothing but clothes irons.

    I know you don’t like Owen, but I can’t help it, I love him. What he doesn’t have in looks, he makes up for with that accent and smile. My completely uneducated guess is that Nucky flaunts Billy in front of Margaret and she hate fucks Owen by the end of the season. I LOVED when she got the woman’s clinic.

    I’m too lazy to go back and post it on the episode one recap, but, vallegirl, you mentioned the whole Irish versus Italian mob war thing. That’s super significant in this whole story, because in reality, O’Banion tricked Johnny Torrio into getting sent to prison. Then Torrio ordered O’Banion killed. Eventually, Al Capone orders the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre against the rival northsiders.

  8. 8
    vallegirl vallegirl
    Posted October 6, 2012 at 7:13 am

    That is the perfect way to describe Van Alden trying to smile. A for effort now cut it out. But have you seen the tumblr Michael Shannon Tries to Smile? It’s not just Nelson who isn’t used to smiling, although Shannon does manage an actual smile at least once, but the tumblr’s pretty funny. Here it is:

    http://michaelshannontriestosmile.tumblr.com/

    And thanks for the info on O’Banion. If wikipedia is to be believed, we’ve got some really good times coming out of Chicago real soon.

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