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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Nucky’s suite is festooned with floral arrangements and congratulations from all his greedy muckety-muck friends who still need his help. While Eddie reads all the congratulatory telegrams, Nucky’s on the phone, not getting through to Billie, and orders Eddie to bring the car around. Eddie thinks that means they’re going out, but this is a one-man trip. Eddie manages to control his disdain for Nucky’s schoolboy crush and tells him he’ll bring the car around back.

While Nucky scowls at the ringing phone Richard drags Mickey in at gun point. Good security. Must be Pinkerton. Mickey’s crying and sniveling about it all being a joke and Richard’s lecturing him about how a man’s death is no laughing matter and I pause along with Nucky to wonder what the fuck is going on. Richard wants Mickey to admit his lie, which he freely does to stop the creepy half-faced man from pointing a gun at his head.

Killing a man is no laughing matter, but holding Mickey at gun point is.

Richard tells Mickey and Nucky that it’s true, Mickey didn’t kill Manny. Nucky wonders how he knows but Richard wonders how Nucky hasn’t figure it out. Even though Nucky’s fully aware of how Jimmy, and by extent Richard, took care of Neary, he’s still a bit taken aback that Richard would just randomly kill Manny. All Mickey wants is for Richard to put his damn gun down. Which he eventually does, after Nucky asks.

Finally out of danger, Mickey realizes that life’s better as the cockroach no one really cares about and excuses himself. Richard explains how he killed Manny but that’s not at the top of Nucky’s mind, he wants to know why. Richard tells him for Angela and Nucky wants to confirm it wasn’t for “her husband.” (Nice touch making him not say Jimmy’s name.) Richard shows his weird sense of honor and says that Jimmy was a soldier who fought and lost but Angela was an innocent in all this.

Nucky’s pretty sure that Richard knows what happened to Jimmy and wants to make sure nothing will happen to him, Margaret or the children. They’re safe because they were always good to Richard. Jimmy? Eh. Feeling more secure, Nucky asks Richard how many people he’s killed. 63. Does he ever think about them? The question alone answers itself, so Richard points that out to Nucky. Who was probably hoping he’d say “Nah, sleep like a baby even though I’m keeping a running total.” On that bombshell, Richard leaves Nucky with his Dream Baby Jimmy thoughts.

But look at my shiny new medal.

Margaret’s down at the hospital, walking the corridors with Dr. Mason, regaling him with how awesome it was to smack down Landau. Mason’s managed to tamp down most of his dickishness now that Margaret’s gotten them that women’s health clinic but still gets in some incidental assholery when he says he can’t believe she pulled it off. Margaret teases him that she’s sure he meant that as a compliment then gets a little giddy when she finds the clinic’s office. Mason pulls out his pipe but before Margaret can get too stern, he tells her he switched tobaccos. Ah, the approximation of love between a battle-scarred immigrant widow and a priggish doctor. But Margaret can’t hide her joy because she’s about to see the new home of the St. Theresa’s women’s clinic…which is currently being used as a storage closet. D’oh.

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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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