Written by series creator Terrence Winter and David Matthews, of this season's "All In" which also featured a good amount of Chicago/Cicero action, as well as A.R.
Directed by Jeremy Podeswa of Homeland's "In Memoriam"
- The second title this season to come from one of Lil' Thompson's Temple lectures
- All Poe narrations need to be voiced in a Vincent Price timbre, even those that pre-date the Vincent Price recordings
- Two pop culture Poe references: "The Tell Tale Moozadell" which included this great Dragnet-esque scene from which the title comes and "Lisa's Rival"
- They open with a Looney Tunes-esque circle transition on the streets of Chicago, where a cop is shot in the face. IN THE FAAAAAAAAACE!
- Esther Randolph returns. The stark male domination of these circles is deftly shown when the new AG welcomes all the gentlemen and then her by name (rather than ladies and gentlemen) at the dinner celebrating Hoover's appointment
- Andrew Mellon has not had much to do considering he's a relatively well know historic figure who they cast a "name" actor for
- Everyone is literally selling swampland to suckers lately
- Not the best investment unless you turn it into DisneyWorld
- Much is made about Nucky's ability to suss out these scams, and read people so well, so it's surprising he doesn't think much of Eli's concern about "Knox"
- Halfway through the season, Ron Livingston has made zero impact, except as a sucker for Gillian, attached to her for no reason apparent to us
- Gillian has largely been in isolation from everyone as well this season, and it's hard to imagine if this story ties into anyone else
- Compare that impact to Margaret's three or four scenes so far this season. You can feel something coming with her now
- "Hanky" should not be in this many grown men's vernacular
- Musical stage performance which manages to not draw the same ire of those found on Treme
- AR is so cool and confident when he sees Peg of Old that I can't tell if he went to see her on purpose and expected her, doesn't recognize her at all, slowly recognizes her during the encounter or recognizes her by chance encounter and keeps it under his hat.
- From the follow up call it appears it was by chance and he recognized her immediately. The $100 appears to be both out of kindness and to ensure her silence, even though she would be putting herself in the jackpot to spread around that their paths crossed
- So, Nucky/McCoy/Lansky/Petrucelli are in on some real estate, as are Joe Tthe Boss/Luciano/Petrucelli, and separately, AR
- O'Banion's all like "O'Dear! The police!" which is pretty much the least effective ruse possible to deal with Torrio. We know O'Bannion bites it later in 1924
- He seems intent on making enemies where adverse relations could easily be avoided
- While Narcisse introduces heroin to the community, he manages to appear publicly as an upstanding community member who wants nothing more than to rid the very scourge he is peddling to people there. And is able to do so because he has Chalky distractedly hooked on something else, he's able to fill a role that Chalky is known and loved for
- Body count - 2 (17 for the season, they've really taken it easy lately)
- RIP Rando policeman, murdered by Capone henchman in the middle of the street with a gunshot to the FACE
- RIP Deacon, murdered by Purnsley in the church with the knife. Pro tip: don't tell the person who is secretly dealing heroin that you're going to tell his boss he's secretly dealing heroin, especially when he's a murderer
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