White Horse Pike - BE

Boardwalk Empire  Episode 4-10 "White Horse Pike"

Written by David Flebotte of The Sopranos "Calling All Cars"

Directed by Jake Paltrow, previously of a few episodes of NYPD Blue

• Eli seems to be providing information without prompting which becomes more interesting when he provides a name, Balanchuck, as Torrio's #2 in Chicago (rather than Capone)
• Knox/Jim makes a lot of not veiled threats toward Eli about throwing his kid in prison
• Petrucelli and Lucky are stocking the orange crates with heroin to smuggle north.  The nerve of them to smuggle drugs instead of the thing they are supposed to be smuggling
• Oranges mean death
• Chalky is not happy about Narcisse so he and the rest of the lil Rascals meet in the alley and talk about how they're going to get him back.  They decide to drink a lot of pop and make pee balloons using a funnel.  Then they'll draw them onto their turf and pelt them with the balloons
• Just kidding.  They're going to shoot him
• So they go to shoot him and hit a bunch of people, but not Narcisse because this is only episode 10 and not episode 12 or 13

•  There are a lot of heavily stylized shots that sort of make me think "Scorsese" like as they enter the stock exchange, or the That 70's Show rotating camera around Van Alden & Co. or the POB shot of Narcisse coming in to see Nucky
• This season had a lot of embers burning in the fire and now they are converging
• Richard is home, working for Nucky and now involved in the Tommy custody battle with Gillian
• Lil Thompson is in the mayor's office and he's connected to Nucky there, spying for him, but he's also connected to his father, obviously, who is being pressed by Knox/Jim for information who is attempting to put together an interstate crime case at each of the locations our characters reside because they spend all their time doing interstate crime
• AR is giving a deal to Peg of Old who I expect to cross paths with Nucky at least once more before the end of the season
• Nucky is involved, reluctantly, with the trucks bringing heroin north.  He's staving off Chalky getting dead from Narcisse while he does business with Narcisse, Joe the Boss and Lansky (and Petrucelli and Luciano)
• "I've been around many people who've been shot" is like Michael Scott saying he was in the car that hit Meredith
• Narcisse introduces himself to Chalky's daughter (lowercase d) as Richard Pastor, which I guess is the long version of Dickie Pastor who is the buy Purns stabbled a billion times with the broken bottle all but decapitating him
• Between this and Homeland, Fall '13 is the season of broken bottles to the neck
• Body count - 3 (27 total)
• Lansky's henchman transporting liquor - Knox/Jim on White Horse Pike with the pistol 
• Two sheriff deputies transporting Chalky and Daughter - Chalky in the car with the knife and gun - not to mention doing it while he pretended to be asleep and with only one arm, the other recovering from being shot

"Take care and God bless!"