Glad this thread got resurrected. Agree with everyone else - the Richard scene was fantastic. I am curious about how someone with only one eye could be that accurate. I would think he would have depth-perception issues, right?
Why didn’t Gip’s two body guards stop the 3rd guy from stabbing him in the back? They escaped with Gip and we were not shown anything to indicate they knew the 3rd guy was going to kill him. It just seemed odd to me, you’d think that 3rd guy would be on a suicide mission. He has to kill Gip but would be killed by the bodyguards in the process.
I thought the same thing. But dude’s a superhero - I’ll take it!
Same thought too.
Who was the guy at the door with Richard’s girlfriend? I sort of assumed it was her dad but he was being nice and didn’t look that old. Thought maybe it was a brother or someone else from Thanksgiving.
You’ll have to forgive my ignorance - I have a hell of a time keeping up with characters on dramas.
It was the dad. Apparently he was in one of his rare sober moments, and hence less of a jerk.
Yea, this show needs to work on their editing or something. I have a hell of a time keeping track of all the mobster characters outside Atlantic City. The fact that there are a million of them, they’re all sort of similar, and the show jumps around between them so often makes keeping tack of whose who a real nightmare.
Was the cop whose throat had been cut in a park the same guy Jimmy attacked in a previous season?
So was Nucky and super-stern gov’t guys plan the whole time to give the brewery away and then pin it on Rothstein and super-corrupt gov’t guy? Again, the choppy editing made that plot thread pretty hard to follow.
No, I don’t think that was the actual plan on the brewery – I think it was Nucky’s idea. There was a line he had about “big fish swallows big bait” or something similar.
I also sometimes have a problem keeping track of all the various mobsters.
This episode, its pretty clear that Nucky’s plan is. But was something like this always the plan? IIRC, Nucky went to see Mellon because he thinks he’s going to get served up to the DoJ to show they’re fighting bootleggers. Mellon seems to want to get at people in the DoJ because he thinks they’re corrupt. And so…Mellon gives Nucky his brewery for some reason?
What was the original plan between Mellon, Nucky, Gaston Means and the lady prosecutor?
I figured Nucky just told Mellon how it was, he had to trade his interest in the brewery away, probably knowing Mellon would simply use that information to snag Rothstein.
Looking at TV without pity, the original deal was that Mellon would arrest Harry Daughterys associates for bootlegging to keep Harry from going after Nucky. In return, Nucky would run Mellon’s distillery.
Not really clear why Mellon would agree to then turn around and rat out people working in his own bootlegging operation. But maybe it will make more sense next season.
I was surprised that Chalky and Capone killed all of Maseria’s men? He cut a deal and is not going full on after Rothstien/Maseria alliance and siding with Capone/Torrio. It kind of makes sense. They didn’t back him and then took advantage when his back was against the wall.
As for Mellon, Nucky got word to him that Rothstien forced him out and that he had no control anymore. I am sure that the plan is for Nucky to be back in charge as soon as Rothstein is out.
I wish that we saw Muller/Val Alden and that we see a lot more of him and Chalky next season.
In his interview w/ Sepinwall about the finale and the season as a whole, Terence Winter talks on this (and other questions brought up in this thread):
I agree. I thought the final two episodes were great and were really set up well by the rest of the season even though it meant some slower episodes in preparation.
Is Scorsese still involved with the show, because that Richard gunfight was straight out of Taxi Driver. Idealistic guy storms a whorehouse to shoot his way in to rescue a young kid – I’d seen it before – not that I didn’t enjoy it again.
Yeah, this was my biggest question out of the episode - why did Mellon so readily agree to get involved and drop a dime on his own brewery? Did he have some beef with Rothstein from a previous episode that I don’t remember?
Is this a whoosh or are you serious? Yes, for aimed shots with a rifle and scope I can see the point that you only need one eye. Richard took a lot of shots that were not using the rifle scope and the final shot at the end was from a kneeling position with the rifle held low to the ground and angled upward.
Au contraire, I think the forty mobsters are lucky they left before Richard showed up.
But also, y’know, he could have been watching the place for a while, looking for an opportunity when he saw most of the men abruptly drive off.
Well, it wouldn’t have taken much. Rosetti starts singing about googly-eyes, Sandrelli quietly draws his knife, looks inquisitively at the two other men, they nod (having had enough of Rosetti, as well as some sympathy stemming from the capricious and pointless murder by Rosetti of Sandrelli’s cousin) and it’s a go.
Well, she needed an official death certificate so she could inherit the house, so she found a drifter who kind of resembled Jimmy, maybe called him “James” in public a few times, killed and hastily cremated him, paid the necessary bribes in cash and/or sexual favours the get the paperwork…
My dad is blind in one eye. He can outshoot me any day and I’m pretty good. I keep both of my eyes open when I am using an eotech sight, but any other shooting is done with my non dominant eye closed.