Van Alden says he'll stay if God gives him a sign. Van Alden's wife says being a fed is God's work. We get very little Van Alden in this episode so I'll sum it up quickly: He's decided to leave the FBI in order to become a full partner in his uncle's business upstate in Schenectady, NY (he also passed off Sepso's death as a heart attack, which, you know, if anyone was gonna cause a heart attack with his mere presence it'd be Van Alden for sure). Angela helpfully opines that lil' Tommy's probably uneasy because Jimmy's apparently having some PTSD night terrors where he grabs Angela and starts yelling in German (side note: having seen daddy dearest throw a guy through a window and beat him half to death with a camera probably didn't help either). Onto Jimmy: tension between him and Angela is at DEFCON 3, and to top it off, Jimmy's convinced his son is becoming disrespectful of his pa. Either way, I'm still waiting for Nucky to be as explosive and dangerous character as everyone seems to think he is. I'm also still confused/concerned that Nucky's character still hasn't been solidified: I was expecting the magnanimous king of the Jersey Shore, but given the fact that Buscemi's face changed expressions all of five times this season, maybe they were going for "shell of a man" over "silent hero who bears his pain well." Not really sure, to be honest. Side note: Nucky is surprisingly well-adjusted given all of this, wouldn't you say? I mean, all Tony Soprano had to deal with was a crazy mother and those freaking ducks this guy's got big-time baggage. Living with Margaret and her family was Nucky's replacement. Because this is TV and dramatic setups like this always work flawlessly, Nucky spills his guts: his son died six days after he was born but his wife went crazy and continued to care for the boy even after he was dead (oof). Margaret does not slap her in the face.īut, after Margaret passes by the grave of Nucky's wife and son (she didn't know he lost a child), she's inspired enough to go see him in a last-ditch attempt at a Very Important Conversation. Nan simply shrugs off this rather alarming excuse for a five-year plan with more inane blatherings about her future as the Presidential goomar'. Depending on what she gets in her slice of cake, according to superstition, she'll either be poor, married, or rich. Turns out Margaret's placing her future in the hands of Irish tradition: she's gonna bake a cake with a piece of rag, a ring, and some money inside it. She's currently holed up with Nan and weighing her options. Jimmy also recruited another war vet to the killin' crew: a sniper named Richard Harrow ( Jack Huston) who wears a creepy, "Phantom of the Opera" mask to hide the missing left side of his face (side note: he's also my favorite character on the show). The fallout led Jimmy to flee to Chicago, where he and Capone worked as enforcers for the mob boss Johnny Torrio ( Greg Antonacci). Anyway, he's back in AC and kind of bitter/shell-shocked, and misguidedly teamed up back in the premiere with a babyface Al Capone ( Stephen Graham) for a carjacking that turned into a massacre. He also looks so much like Leonardo DiCaprio I can't freaking believe it. Jimmy Darmody ( Michael Pitt) is Nucky's driver/protégé, but left Nucky's side to serve in WWII. Margaret recently left Nucky after she kinda-sorta found out about all this. Like any great cinematic ruler, he also has a comically foreign butler named Eddie and a sex kitten girlfriend named Lucy ( Paz de la Huerta), who he later dumps for a comely Irishwoman named Margaret ( Kelly Macdonald) whose abusive husband Nucky had Eli execute, Fredo Corleone-style, on a boat after he beat Margaret so bad she lost her unborn baby. For instance, he's appointed his grumpy brother Eli ( Shea Whigham) as county sheriff. His official title is county treasurer, but he's leveraged that into a far-reaching bootlegging enterprise where he controls pretty much everything going on in the town. Nucky Thompson ( Steve Buscemi) is the wheeling, dealing ruler of Prohibition-era Atlantic City.
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