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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Down at the warehouse, Gyp’s goon gives Mickey his money for the cases and makes a dumb joke. Mickey’s suddenly too good to laugh at them because he’s riding high on his non-existent power from claiming to kill Manny. Gyp arrives and looks for Nucky so Owen can have his contractually obligated scene where he tells Gyp that Nucky’s “indisposed.” Gyp doesn’t understand what that means so Eli comes over to tell him it means Nucky’s not there.

But this was more for Gyp to meet Eli. He tries to get a rise out of Eli, unaware that Eli had the hothead drilled out of him at Rahway, so Eli just tells him he’s all loaded up and will happily christen him with a bottle of champagne, if he wants a big sendoff. Unable to get that rise, Gyp tells Eli to tell Nucky goodbye and Owen remembers he has a message from Nucky:

 

Heh. And nice manicure, Owen. Unsure how to take this, Gyp chooses to take umbrage, his default setting.

Nelson’s down at the speak and looking about as comfortable as you’d think. But the other guys are getting piss drunk so they don’t really care. Except to rib him for wanting a glass of Sarsaparilla or near beer. A drunk chippie at the next table comes over to mock him but pours her drink on his just laundered from the ink stain shirt and vest. Poor Nelson the only thing that could make that night worse is the raid that happens as he tries to leave. Oops.

Mickey’s coming home to his room at the rooming house with his own chippie and telling her about the Kama Sutra, but she just wants to get drunker. They fumble around drunkenly until the chippie sees Richard sitting in the corner with his gun drawn.

Boner killer.

She runs out, screaming, but he’s not there for her so he doesn’t try to stop her. Mickey’s surprisingly not pissing himself but is babbling like a lunatic as Richard tells him to get his hat. Okay, Richard. Whatever. Once Mickey’s almost properly dressed to leave, since he’s still having problems pulling his pants up, Richard pulls Mickey’s gun and shoves him out the door while Mickey the tough literally snivels. Ah, that’s the Mickey we know.

Nelson’s forlorn as the Prohies interview the patrons. An agent finally comes over to interview him. Nelson’s anxious, probably moreso about being recognized than being in the speakeasy, but the agent thinks he recognizes Nelson from their neighborhood in Cicero so he shakes him down for his last few dollars then sends him on his way. As Nelson leaves, though, we linger on the agent watching him. This can’t be good.

Gyp and his goon are driving back to New York while the goon explains the plot to Nosferatu. Gyp’s not listening because he’s busy picking the “bone for tuna” scab. He’s decided that Nucky’s attempt to wish him luck in his native language is somehow Nucky ridiculing him and wishing for him to fail. The goon tries to get a word in edgewise but remembers he works for a loon and they’re in the middle of nowhere so he meekly lets Gyp continue on his rant circling it all back to the “it’s not personal” comment from days earlier, literally spitting out “What is life if it’s not personal?”

“Stay in school,” mama said. Did I listen to her? No. Now look at me.

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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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