* I look prescient for making such a thing out of Eddie’s shaky teacup a few episodes back now that it’s the visual callback that represents Nucky’s sadness about his passing. “You go your whole life with things right under your nose…”
* He’s there to meet with Margaret! It was awfully good to see her given this season’s dearth of female characters that command attention.
* Oh, Penn Station. How sad.
* “I wouldn’t put something alive in a box.” Oh jesus. hahahahahahaha
* “No one knew how to look after you like Mr. Kessler.” It’s a nice little double meaning, but it’s also true on the surface level. The Commodore, Jimmy, Eli, Owen, even Margaret — only Eddie was steadfast.
* Hahaha, Knox getting dressed down. Love the sarcastic laugh as Hoover snorts “A nationwide network of organized criminals.” Comsymps and Negroes, now that’s where the FBI should be spending its money.
* “If this was my room I’d kill myself. Oh I didn’t mean–oh fuck it, he can’t hear me, hee hee.” Was that Mickey Doyle’s first great line of the season?
* “He had kids?” Huh, Eli’s genuinely moved by it all. And he feeds the birds. Nice touch.
* Aaand that’s how he finds the safe deposit box key. Box 23, lol
* “New pianist?” lol
* “Don’t you ever feel bored?” “If I do I keep it to myself.” “That doesn’t stop you from feelin’ it.” This is a well-written show!
* I have a bad feeling that Richard’s girlfriend’s dad’s alcoholism will be used against them in the custody hearing by Piggly Wiggly guy.
* He’s the walking wounded.
* Richard!
* “You alright?” “I’m dying.” “Right now?” “Christ, I don’t know.”
* Mrs. White can’t stand that rock and roll.
* How’d Chalky wind up with this lady anyway? What does she see in him that prevents her from seeing everything else about him?
* “I killed those men, Paul. Every one of them….And, um, other things.” “How many?” “I’ve stopped counting.”
* “I am who I am. Who else could I be?”
* “You came home. You know why you did that. The rest is bullshit and I don’t wanna hear it.”
* I’d like to point out that the presentation of Paul’s war-criminality is one where we’re meant to empathize with his current plight but not forgive him for having murdered a little girl. Compare and contrast to True Blood‘s unforgivable handling of Terry.
* Hothouse atmosphere down in Florida lol
* I never won’t be happy to see Lucky Luciano and Meyer Lansky together.
* Oh lord, they’re using Knox to get into the bank. But what I realized at the end of his fishing expedition at the warehouse is that when he went there, he thought it was possible Eli and Mickey knew he was a narc and were going to kill him.
* Richard oh oh oh oh oh oh.
* “That man got a heart like a rock cast in the sea.”
* Eli still moved by Eddie’s death, and his birds: “No one’s been looking after them. What do they know what’s goin’ on.” But Knox is upset that he killed himself, too.
* Eli! Eli! “And the thought that…that I could just…leave them…” I’m awfully moved when grown men are moved.
* Ohhh, the monogram on Knox’s handkerchief is different. Eli’s gotcha, you fuck.
* Honeymoon’s over for Lansky and Luciano, huh?
* “I’m trying to build something. I don’t know why. And I’m wondering if I did nothing, nothing at all, would I be happier. But I can’t stop. I tried, but I get wound up.” Nucky can’t understand why he’s Nucky. Arquette is bored by this.
* Ha, she punched him! “I just hate a goddamn whiner.” The full-fledged fistfight as foreplay is not something I’ve seen before, I don’t think. Shit, why not. Although the best bit was what she said when they actually started having sex: “Let’s go, smart guy — I’ll give you something to cry about.”
* There’s enough going on in this episode that I actually wasn’t waiting with bated breath for Richard’s scenes.
* Lansky to Arquette: “Delighted to have you on board.” He makes even the minor players feel major, and gets in their good graces. He’s good at this.
* And he knows about Eddie. Yep, he’s good.
* Chalky White, graduate from the third-grade pull-your-hair school of flirting.
* Chalky on Narcisse: “He ain’t nothin but a nigger with a dictionary.” Invective aside, it remains to be seen if Narcisse’s vanity is merited.
* At last, Chalky and Daughter hook up. That’s a great dress, admittedly.
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