![]() Eli’s wife June (Nisi Sturgis) innocently brings up the “baby faced” insurance man that dropped by the Thompson household (Agent Knox a few episodes ago). Just hours earlier, Knox gave Eli an ultimatum: get his mobster brother in a room with all the co-conspirators of this bootlegging operation, Narcisse, Masseria, Petrocelli, Lansky and Luciano together discussing the particulars of their ongoing activities across state lines, or face the consequences of his son Will likely heading to jail.Īll seems well until dinner, which is up until this moment a jovial affair. Imperceptibly shaken, but not unnerved, Eli, who just came from a shakedown meeting with FBI Agent Knox ( Brian Geraghty), tries to brush it all off or throw Nucky off the scent, but it doesn’t work. “Who don’t you trust?” Nucky questions his brother ( Shea Whigham) out of the blue when the Eli Thompson family comes over for dinner. Who sold out Means, how it connects to the narrative of this episode and more will remain a mystery for now.īut more importantly, it plants a seed in Nucky’s head the next morning that he can’t shake. Before Means can make a sale, a frustrated Nucky hangs up and then Means is arrested by the United States Capitol Police for perjury in front of the Senate committee. Still in a sleepy fog, Nucky can barely understand that Means is trying to sell him information (the fact that FBI Agent Knox is not who he says he is, and more importantly not as corrupt as Nucky believes). “There’s a skunk in your cellar,” venal special investigator for the Department of Justice Gaston Means ( Stephen Root) says in a desperate, possibly drunken phone call to Nucky in the middle of the night. Oscar is bitter, cranky, but still has wisdom to give his old protege, and part of that is ditching the girl, Daughter Maitland, who got Chalky into this mess in the first place.Īs Chalky lays low to recover from his recent ordeal, Enoch “Nucky” Thompson ( Steve Buscemi) gets a tip that’s about to lead him to understand what’s really been going on under his own nose. He was once the Chalky White of his day, but that was a lifetime ago. But what we glean, if listening in, is that Oscar was a former bootlegger himself who also worked with and under the era of The Commodore (Nucky’s Atlantic City mobster predecessor played by Dabney Coleman). Rather than receiving the backstory of Chalky and Oscar in expository monologues, their involved relationship and history unfolds in organic pieces of dialogue over meals and late-night porch conversations. This is an episode you’ll need to keep your ears open to, paying strict attention. But as an old friend who taught Chalky everything he knows, Oscar is there for him in this time of need (the literal translation of the town is Haven of Grace for anyone checking the thematic temperature this week). Oscar is worse for wear, mostly blind, cantankerous and old like an elderly dog that’s overstayed his welcome in life. In the wee hours of the night, on the edge of the Pennsylvania and Maryland border, Chalky and Maitland are taken to the titular Havre De Grace, a rural town in Northeast Maryland that houses Oscar Boneau ( Lou Gossett Jr.), Chalky’s old mentor. Where the prior episode was electrically charged and nerve-wracking, “ Havre De Grace” is moody and menacing-a foreboding pall of portent thick in the night sky.
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