Prohibition or no, people will drink. Nucky Thompson is making his fortune on that truth. The Temperance League, however, is seeing numbers dwindling and have little means to change anything. Then Margaret Schroeder speaks up. She noticed men shipping barrels of beer off a truck behind her home that morning. Perhaps Mr. Thompson could be of help, he’s been of great assistance to her since her husband died (or, rather, got killed as scapegoat for Jimmy’s shootout), she might try and arrange a meeting. Once in Nucky’s office, she realizes her folly: asking a man who’s making a living off the illegal liquor trade to shut down some contraband beer operation. He promises her to take care of it before the tide goes out, and emphasizes he isn’t doing this as a personal favor to her. “Yes, I realize that,” she replies. That night, another shipment is loaded into the garage behind her home. So, Margaret turns to Agent Van Alden, who informs her he doesn’t have the means or personnel to enforce the law. But when she tells him ward boss James Neary owns the garage, it’s a whole other ballgame.
Van Alden busts the St. Patrick’s Eve Celtic Dinner with the press and the women of the Temperance League watching everything outside. Although Nucky spots Margaret among the chanting crowd, he is only drawn more to her for standing up against him. At night, while Van Alden’s men destroy the beer barrels, Nucky knocks impatiently on Margaret’s door. He needs to be with her and they kiss passionately. If she is his angelic conscience, then he must be her repressed desire for danger. (Your Cricket can’t seem to find their mutual attraction very compelling, though. The “opposites attract” trope feels rather trite.) Meanwhile in Chicago, Jimmy’s precious Pearl shoots herself with his gun – seeing no other way out after her face got cut up badly. Jimmy hits Chinatown to forget his miseries in an opium den. Over in New York, Rothstein is afraid of getting caught for fixing the 1919 World Series (i.e., the Black Sox Scandal).
Van Alden busts the St. Patrick’s Eve Celtic Dinner with the press and the women of the Temperance League watching everything outside. Although Nucky spots Margaret among the chanting crowd, he is only drawn more to her for standing up against him. At night, while Van Alden’s men destroy the beer barrels, Nucky knocks impatiently on Margaret’s door. He needs to be with her and they kiss passionately. If she is his angelic conscience, then he must be her repressed desire for danger. (Your Cricket can’t seem to find their mutual attraction very compelling, though. The “opposites attract” trope feels rather trite.) Meanwhile in Chicago, Jimmy’s precious Pearl shoots herself with his gun – seeing no other way out after her face got cut up badly. Jimmy hits Chinatown to forget his miseries in an opium den. Over in New York, Rothstein is afraid of getting caught for fixing the 1919 World Series (i.e., the Black Sox Scandal).
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