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George Mueller), Richard Harrow, Nucky and Chalky.

Van Alden is in an interesting spot.

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In some ways, he must like the flower deliveries because it’s straight, steady work.

Here, he struggles to compartmentalize his life as a contract killer with his life at home.

Nucky and Eddie Kessler also wrestle through their new relationship in the wake of Eddie’s trauma last year.

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He presents Nucky with a choice: resignation or promotion.

Nucky of course chooses the later, and the two have a new dimension their relationship.

Dr. Valentine Narcisse (Jeffrey Wright) also mixes things up for Nucky and Chalky’s partnership.

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Indeed, “Knox” is not who he seems to be.

He’s one of J. Edgar Hoover’s boys, though Nucky senses something is up.

– “Orphaned in April, married in May, pregnant in August, widowed in November.

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And they say nothing happens in Plover.”

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– So who is trying to trap Richard, who ended up killing his mark?

– “Everything is only something” - Eddie, who had a stand-out episode.

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– Van Alden’s wife is so cute.

– Biographical note: Chalky is from Texas, and Dr. Narcisse knows his Bible.

It cracked me up when one of the guys from the band piped up “John 13?”

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after the other read Dr. Narcisse’s letter out loud.

– Jack Daugherty resigning as the Attorney General in disgrace shows more of Nucky’s former cronies falling.

– How amazing wasMichael Shannonduring that political rally brawl scene?

(And yes, Caponewasknown for helping fix elections).

The way he shushed everyone at the start, and then hissed after he was hit … just unbelievable.

That’s an instinct it’s possible for you to’t teach.

– Dr. Narcisse has a lot of aphorisms at the ready.

“A thing mixed is a thing weakened.”

– “Mr. Thompson is part of everything.

He is in the sky and sea.

He is in the dreams of children.

He is all that there is, forever.”