Boardwalk Empire Recap: Never Wish a Sicilian Good Luck

Recaps

By vallegirl | Wednesday, October 3, 2012 | 1:00 pm | 8 Comments
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Gyp reminds Nucky that there’s one direct route between NYC and Atlantic City and it runs through Tabor Heights. Nucky gives a shout out to the greatest episode of The Sopranos ever (directed by Nucky himself), and says he’ll take the back roads through the Pine Barrens but Gyp doesn’t know where the fuck that is, he just figures it’s way out of the way and he’d resent having to using it. Nucky lies that he learned long ago not to take business personally, except when he’s the one getting screwed. Gyp makes the meatheaded but not entirely incorrect analogy that everyone’s a person so how else are they going to take it.

In the spirit of keeping a revenue stream open, Nucky makes Gyp an offer. He comes down to AC with Nucky, as Nucky’s guest, and Nucky will set him up with a month’s supply of liquor, enough to float him until he finds a new supplier. Gyp tries to squeeze more out of Nucky but Nucky’s not budging so Gyp accepts the deal. Showing he doesn’t take things personally, rather than leave Nucky stands there, waiting and bugging his eyes, for Gyp to shake his hand, which he does reluctantly and only after being scolded by Nucky.

I’m not taking this personally, I’m just trying to teach you manners.

At the Artemis Club, Gillian’s arguing with Luciano about all the repairs that need to be done on the house because it’s big and falling apart and you can’t run a classy brothel with buckets catching rain water from the leaks. Charlie makes a rather vulgar joke about the only leaks he’s worried about and Gillian remembers exactly why she hates humanity. Still, Luciano doesn’t understand why she’s shaking him down for the money since Jimmy’s the one who owns the place (curious…) but Gillian sidesteps that and says Jimmy will sign over the deed once he comes home (curiouser..). Whatever, Charlie just wants to start making a profit.

With one headache unresolved, Charlie goes back to Meyer and Benny. They’re loading Benny up to deliver the heroin and are drilling him on all the different ways he should just walk away from the deal. If they’re short, walk away, they complain, walk away, Charlie’s even speaking Yiddish so you know he’s serious but Benny’s still a dumbass punk so he pulls his gun and starts waving it. Charlie’s all “the fuck?” but Benny thinks he can save the deal. This won’t end tragically.

I trust him.

Charlie sends Benny off with cabfare and the promise to take him out for Chinese if he brings back the change then tells Meyer that Benny’s gonna either get himself killed or kill six people on the way. Meyer foolishly says he’s not worried about Benny (Has he met that freak?) because they’re still dealing with Masseria. Charlie doesn’t understand why they have to cut him in on their business since they operate outside his little territory but Meyer has to explain long game to him, again, because Charlie’s only smarter and less volatile than Benny by slight degrees.

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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.

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    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.

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    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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