Written by:
David Matthews - two earlier episodes this season
Jennifer Ames - associate producer, getting first writing credit
Steve Turner - co-producer, getting first writing credit
Directed by Ed Bianci who directed an early Damages episode
Previously on Boardwalk Empire, Van Alden went nuts! (George! Be reasonable!)
I don't believe we've ever seen Gillian be as honest and frank about her background as she was with her manfriend at the beach. She's not the most reliable narrator, but in this case I don't believe she has anything to gain by lying. She doesn't name Nucky as the sheriff who took her to the Commodore when she was all of twelve, but we know it was him. Gillian changes one detail about Jimmy's death, that he died of a heroin overdose. I'm not positive she hasn't convinced herself that is what happened, replacing his disappearance with her murdering the kid in the bathtub. It's entirely possible in her mind she's inserted that kid's death as Jimmy's. Basically, I believe she believes that. She's not entirely unsympathetic and we'll probably feel a little bad when she kills herself (either accidentally or on purpose) after whatever Mr. Piggly Wiggly is planning finally happens.
That's not to say she should get Tommy back. But inexplicably, the custody battle seems to be leaning toward the addict-prostitute and away from the family whose cared for Tommy ever since he showed up at their door following a little late night massacre at the addict-prostitute's house of whore. This because she works at a store and her dad is on a fixed income and Gillian's about to have a windfall from selling the aforementioned house of whore.
Van Alden is back in a big way this week, adding unintentional humor to every scene he's in with every movement he makes and every word he speaks. Here is a list of things Nelson Van Alden a.k.a. George Mueller does in this episode
- Unsuccessfully employs sarcasm when speaking to his non-native English speaking wife
- Creates a nice arrangement of flowers in a wreath
- Delivers the flowers, unwittingly, to Capone
- Offer's to kill his boss at the flower shop for $1,000
- Makes his baby cry multiple times
- Get's jumped by his former co-workers from the iron shop
- Murders said former co-workers
- Admits his entire past life to O'Banion, including murdering his Prohibition agent partner
- Sweeps up some flower trimmings
- Watches O'Banion get murdered
- Robs O'Banion's store
- Has weird sex with his wife while admiting his past life and throwing all the cash he robbed from O'Banion's in the weirdest music video ever
- O'Banion - Rival gansters in the flower shop with multiple guns (while shaking his hand)
- Iron salesmen x 3 - Van Alden in the alley with his pistol
"Take care and God Bless" even though Van Alden says he used to believe in God but doesn't believe in anything now
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