BOARDWALK EMPIRE: 21 {SECOND SEASON PREMIERE} (TV)
Summary
The second season premiere in this historical drama series based on the nonfiction book by Nelson Johnson about the gangsters and bootleggers who rose to power in Atlantic City during the years of Prohibition. In this episode, Nucky's bootlegging business is going well with the help of Jimmy, Richard, Chalky and others, but Chalky's warehouse is suddenly attacked by Klansmen. Several of his workers are killed, though Chalky manages to shoot back. Nucky learns that Teddy was physically punished by a teacher at school, while elsewhere Angela struggles with Gillian's constant presence in her new home. Rose visits Atlantic City and Van Alden introduces her to his colleagues, who nervously assure her that the town has plenty of "wholesome entertainment." In Chicago, Al and Torrio meet with his eccentric lawyer George Remus, who urges him to sever ties with Nucky and to buy liquor from him instead. Elsewhere, Nucky and Bader make plans to buy some cheap New Jersey land and then re-sell it at a profit once it has been built up with roads, but Nucky then gets the news that Chalky has shot a Klansman. Rose is distressed to find that Atlantic City is not so wholesome after all, glad that they have not yet brought a child into "this world."
Nucky and Eli meet with a furious Chalky, who points out that the black community runs the city by working all of the service jobs and demands that something be done about the shooting. Margaret confronts Teddy's teacher, who informs her that the boy was caught playing with matches and coolly hints that she knows about Margaret's relationship with "Uncle" Nucky. Jimmy and Eli discuss the warehouse shooting, revealed to have been engineered by the Commodore to hurt Nucky through Chalky, and the Commodore tells Jimmy to "lay groundwork" for his coup. Nucky addresses the black community and vows to bring the killers to justice, though he then addresses the Klansmen and makes similar promises to them. Upon learning that another one of the shooters has died, Nucky orders Eli to arrest Chalky for his own safety. Nucky then attends the Klansman's funeral and is joined by Jimmy, who swears that he knows nothing about the deaths. They briefly discuss Jimmy's recent wedding to Angela and their new home, but Nucky then warns Jimmy that the Commodore is "duplicitous." Van Alden and Rose share an awkward anniversary dinner, but he then violently raids the restaurant when he learns that it is serving alcohol and she admits that she found his show of power to be "thrilling."
Nucky tells Margaret that Jimmy is hiding something, though she points out that Teddy too has need of a father figure. Nucky confronts the boy, but seeing that he expects to be beaten, merely scolds him lightly and then bribes him with cash to behave. Richard attends breakfast at the Darmodys' and, seeing their apparent domestic bliss, asks Jimmy how it feels "to have everything." Rose leaves town and Van Alden visits Lucy, now heavily pregnant with his child, revealing that he has been paying her off for months. Richard and Jimmy break into Chalky's warehouse and sell off the crates to Mickey Doyle, while elsewhere a lonely Richard pastes images of happy families into his scrapbook. Margaret and the children head off to the pictures to see "The Kid," but Nucky is summoned to his office and arrested for election fraud. Jimmy finally opens his wedding present from Nucky, upset when he sees that it is a statue of a father and son.
Details
- NETWORK: HBO
- DATE: September 25, 2011 9:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:53:53
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: 110017
- GENRE: Drama, historical
- SUBJECT HEADING: Drama, historical; Crime and criminals; Prohibition
- SERIES RUN: HBO - TV series, 2010-2014
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Stephen Levinson … Executive Producer
- Mark Wahlberg … Executive Producer
- Martin Scorsese … Executive Producer
- Tim Van Patten … Executive Producer, Director
- Terence Winter … Executive Producer, Created by, Writer
- Howard Korder … Co-Executive Producer
- Eugene Kelly … Co-Executive Producer
- Joseph E. Iberti … Producer
- Rick Yorn … Producer
- Steve Turner … Co-Producer
- Pepper O'Brien … Co-Producer
- John Flavin … Associate Producer
- Cristine Chambers … Associate Producer
- Jennifer Ames … Associate Producer
- Stewart Lerman … Original Music Producer
- Richard Friedlander … Visual Effects Producer
- Tolly Swallow … Visual Effects Producer
- Nelson Johnson … Based on the book by
- Glenn Allen … Visual Effects Producer
- Pat Birch … Choreographer
- Steve Buscemi … Cast, Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson
- Michael Pitt … Cast, James 'Jimmy' Darmody
- Kelly Macdonald … Cast, Margaret Schroeder
- Michael Shannon … Cast, Nelson Van Alden
- Shea Wigham … Cast, Eli Thompson
- Aleksa Palladino … Cast, Angela Darmody
- Michael Stuhlbarg … Cast, Arnold Rothstein
- Stephen Graham … Cast, Al Capone
- Vincent Piazza … Cast, Charlie 'Lucky' Luciano
- Paz de la Huerta … Cast, Lucy Danziger
- Michael Kenneth Williams … Cast, Albert 'Chalky' White
- Jack Huston … Cast, Richard Harrow
- Anthony Laciura … Cast, Eddie Kessler
- Paul Sparks … Cast, Mickey Doyle
- Gretchen Mol … Cast, Gillian Darmody
- Dabney Coleman … Cast, Commodore Louis Kaestner
- Dominic Chianese … Cast, Leander Cephas Whitlock
- Greg Antonacci … Cast, Johnny Torrio
- Enid Graham … Cast, Rose Van Alden
- Robert Clohessy … Cast, Ward Boss Neary
- William Hill … Cast, Ward Boss O'Neil
- Kevin O'Rourke … Cast, Mayor Edward Bader
- Victor Verhaeghe … Cast, Ward Boss Fleming
- Glenn Fleshler … Cast, George Remus
- Bill Sage … Cast, Solomon Bishop
- Joseph Aniska … Cast, Agent Sawicki
- Matty Blake … Cast, State Trooper
- John Bolton … Cast, Carl Switzer
- Joel Brady … Cast, Agent Clarkson
- Rony Clanton … Cast, Butler
- Justiin Davis … Cast, Lester White
- Lucy Gallina … Cast, Emily Schroeder
- Josie Gallina … Cast, Emily Schroeder
- Marceline Hugot … Cast, Sister Bernice
- John Keating … Cast, Ernie Moran
- Heather Lind … Cast, Katy
- Edward Manley … Cast, John Wright
- Edward McGinty … Cast, Ward Boss Boyd
- Rory McTigue … Cast, Teddy Schroeder
- Declan McTigue … Cast, Teddy Schroeder
- Tracy Lynn Middendorf … Cast, Babette
- Brady Noon … Cast, Tommy Darmody
- Connor Noon … Cast, Tommy Darmody
- Franklin Ojeda Smith … Cast, Deacon Lemuel Cuffy
- Natalie Wachen … Cast, Lenore White
- Kathryn Avery … Cast, Dancer #1
- Leslie Flesner … Cast, Dancer #2
- Kate Harpootlian … Cast, Dancer #3
- Sarh Skogland … Cast, Dancer #4
- Emily Tyra … Cast, Dancer #5