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Commodore boardwalk empire9/1/2023 And then we had ol’ Chalky White (Michael K. Heck, ain’t nuthin’ a little cash stashin’ can’t fix, eh, old gal? Meanwhile, it was a real treat to see Luciano put in his place by Rothstein (Michael Stuhlbarg), the professional businessman to Nucky’s professional showman. Meanwhile, Margaret gets disillusioned by Nucky’s cheerfully amoral politicking (“It’s about happiness” he tells her after deliberately publicizing a scandal with whores and votes so that he might get charged by the feds and then let off the hook by his old pal, the Attorney General) as well as by the attitudes of her servants. The show opens with the Commodore (Dabney Coleman) suffering a stroke at the height of lechery, leaving Gillian (Gretchen Mol), Jimmy (Michael Pitt) and Nucky’s idiot brother wondering what the heck to do now. Owen's death summarily quashed Margaret's plan to escape her wretched marriage – pushing her farther down a hellhole of her own making, as she's pregnant with her lover's child.The Spin: Kornacki crafts a compelling hour built upon the themes of disillusionment and being put back in one’s place. When a crate carrying Owen's dead body is delivered to the Ritz-Carlton, Nucky doesn't just receive a message to watch his back: Margaret's shattered reaction reveals that she and Owen had been carrying on an affair. The repercussions of their decision are far-reaching though, as Nucky's hit man, Owen Sleater, is killed during the botched murder attempt. What better way to avoid getting bumped off than to owe a huge debt to one of the most dangerous gangsters in New York? This is the tactic taken by up-and-coming mobsters Charles "Lucky" Luciano and Meyer Lansky, who persuade Joe Masseria to purchase a large quantity of heroin (that they will sell) in exchange for the heads up that Nucky is planning to assassinate the Italian mob boss.
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