Jimmy discovers an empty bottle of laudanum in her sheets and Pearl begs him to go to Chinatown and get her some real opium because it's so much better when she can smoke a bowl. Though it's a different century and decades later, the color scheme of the whorehouse and the old-style drug addiction did give me Deadwood flashbacks. In Chicago, Jimmy is doing his best to take care of the disfigured Pearl, whose fondness for opium has only escalated since her injury. Carl tells them he'll go see Nucky about the increase in wages. One man even asks someone to bring him his 'fucking shillelagh' and the others are suddenly more than willing to endure some humiliation if the price is right. It changes the mood of the locker room immediately. Carl suggests that he can get Thompson to double their pay and give them each $10 for the night's work. One of them though, Carl Heeley (Nic Novicki) speaks up with a suggestion: What if he can get them a raise? The other men want to know how much he is talking about. At least with the boxing matches, it's a show with someone who is their own size, but at the dinner, the inebriated Irish of normal height can get rough and most of the little people aren't in the mood to play this year. Each year, Nucky hires them to dress up as leprechauns for the Celtic dinner and the drunken Irishmen can get rough with them and they find it humiliating. The midgets who entertained with their boxing matches aren't too happy about the approach of St. 'My life is complicated enough.' When Margaret is out of their sight, she throws the soda bread away in a way that reminded me of the time Carmela dumped the dish she made for Father Phil on The Sopranos when she saw him flirting with Rosalie Aprile. He thanks her, but blows her off and tells her to give it to the bellhop and he'll be sure to get it, but he's late for a meeting. As he's preparing to depart, Margaret arrives with a gift of soda bread for Nucky. because last year some of the Civil War vets started nodding off and snoring.

Nucky adds that this year's dinner has been moved up to 7 p.m. Nucky tries to discourage him, but Eli believes the reformers are trying to vote him out of office so he's been reading up on Dale Carnegie and feels he has to do it.

Nucky says it's just a courtesy because he lives there, but Eli has even more on his mind. Eli, however, gets bent out of shape because the waiter ignores him entirely. The brothers sit down at an outside table in the lobby and a waiter brings Nucky coffee and asks if he wants any breakfast, but he declines. As far as Nucky's concerned, he's hoping for snow.

Patrick's Day when all the Irish get drunk and morose and end up either fighting with each other or crying. He loves being Irish, but he hates the spectacle of St. Eli says their father believes it's because Nucky hates being Irish, a claim Nucky denies. While the great majority of those of Irish descent in Atlantic City anticipate the impending holiday fondly, Nucky complains about it to his brother Eli as they ride down in his hotel elevator. She's mildly shocked as to what she sees: A truck unloading barrel after barrel of beer as men discuss how they must hurry to get all the alcohol dyed green in time for St. As she wipes her sleep-filled eyes and starts to fix herself some coffee on the stove in her walking but still slumbering state, she tightens a robe around her nightgown and looks outside her window to investigate. BLOGGER'S NOTE: This recap contains spoilers, so if you haven't seen the episode yet, move along.Īfter last week's episode, which raised Boardwalk Empire and specifically the character of Margaret Schroeder to an even higher level of excellence, this week begins finding Margaret awakened from a sound sleep with her two children by some unidentifiable noises coming from the garage behind her home.

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