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“Ourselves Alone”, the second episode of Boardwalk Empire‘s second season, is brilliant and the fact that the show is firing on all cylinders this earlier in the season shows that Terence Winter and company have a good grasp on how things are going to play out over these twelve episodes. And the smartest thing they did was have Nucky Thompson (Steve Buscemi) arrested. So while he’s busy doing some damage control to fix his reputation, and to fend off The Commodore’s (Dabney Coleman) brand new posse of politicos — and newly dyed hair — three characters get to shine in ways they haven’t in Season One.

JIMMY DARMODY: Jimmy (Michael Pitt) travels to New York City, on the behest of his father, to meet with Arnold Rothstein (Michael Stuhlbarg). He wants Rothstein to end his deal with Nucky and to go into illegal booze business with him and his cohorts instead. Rotherstein is taken by his gumption, and the fact that Jimmy rose up quick through the political/gangster world in Atlantic City, but he can’t simply jump ship as of yet. Jimmy is disappointed at the not-rejection but his mother’s lover, Lucky Luciano (Vincent Piazza) tells him that he has been on Meyer Lansky’s (Anatol Yusef) radar and invents him to his underground poker game.

Lansky’s world isn’t as glamorous as Rothstein’s. His underground poker game is really underground, as in only the riffiest of raffs come to play. It’s blue collar and immigrant as it gets, a far cry from The Ritz where guys like Rothstein, Nucky, and The Commodore could feel at home.

Lansky offers to go into business with Jimmy, if he agrees to deal his heroin on The Boardwalk. It’s a brand new endeavor, one that not many people in the 1920′s understand or are aware of.

Jimmy walks away from the poker game, a little richer, when two of the riff raffs attempt to mug him. Jimmy is clam, cool, collective, and a f***ing badass when it comes to slicing throats. He might not have taken Manhattan they way he originally planned, but he’s taken it nonetheless.

CHALKY WHITE: Chalky (Michael Kenneth Williams) is still sitting in a jail cell, to both punish him for killing a Klan member and to protect him from the racist lynch mob calling for his blood. He even shares a cell with Nucky for a short while, proof of how powerful both of these men are. Or how powerful Nucky is because when Nucky is bailed out, Chalky is transferred to a ‘Blacks Only’-cell, which happens to include a borderline psychopathic man named Dunn (Erik LaRay Harvey) who has no problems ogling Chalky’s wife and making fun of the book she left for her husband. (She leaves him a copy of “David Copperfield” but when Dunn demands to know what book Chalky is holding, Chalky tells him it’s “Tom Sawyer”.)

Dunn’s berating doesn’t end there. He goes on about Chalky’s ‘zip coon’ clothing and the like, pretty much insinuating that Chalky is an ‘Uncle Tom’. Dunn talks to the other men in the cell as if Chalky isn’t one of them. He even knocks the book out of Chalky’s hands. All in the while, Chalky sits silently, biting his tongue. He’s calm, cool, and collective — much like Jimmy — but he also has more power than other people think. When Chalky grows tired of Dunn’s jealous shenanigans, he asks his cellmates to remember all of the awesome things he did for them and their families. When they do, he asks them to return they favor. And they do, by beating the living shit out of Dunn.

And with the stomps of the men’s feet, Chalky White declares himself a badass gangsta and Mayor of Black Atlantic City.

(Question: did we also get a reveal that Chalky can’t read? Or was he feigning dumb regarding the book’s title as a ways of shutting Dunn up the first time?)

MARGARET SCHROEDER: Margaret (Kelly Macdonald), in the meantime, is contending with the aftermath of Nucky’s arrest at home. It sucks because as the help try to keep the news from her, she and they have to plan out an important dinner that will involve members of the IRA — and it also happens to be Valentine’s Day. (She did get a nice card that was handmade by her children.) When she she finally reads the newspaper, she asks the maid for her coat and goes to Nucky’s office incognito as a poor, pregnant Irish lass looking for some assistance (an amazing callback to her introduction in the Pilot episode). There she meets the men investigating her lover, pretends to need to go to the bathroom, and grabs Nucky’s ‘secret’ ledger and $20,000 (give or take). She reveals what she’s done to Nucky with the advice that he burn the ledger and start memorizing the ‘kick backs’ he receives. Nucky may still be corrupt but damn him if Margaret loses another man.

We get a couple of very interesting meetings in “Ourselves Alone”. There’s one where Nucky and the IRA — which include Joe McGarrigle, a straight laced Protestant-hating lanky hulk of a man (kinda of an oxymoronic description but if you’ve seen the episode, you know what I’m talking about) and a rather charming Irish rogue (Charlie Cox) — come to an agreement of how much he will donate to their fight against the British. There’s another where The Commodore introduces Eli (Shea Whingham) to the ‘powers that be’ — which includes The Sopranos’ Dominic Chianese — after Eli calls Nucky at his office and taunts him for being left out in the wind. (Chianese, in two episodes, has only said a few words and they happen to be in Latin. Weird but kind of creepy as well. It’s intriguing but here’s hoping that we get more of a glimpse into what his character’s all about.)

By the end of the episode, Nucky takes center stage again. Margaret sweetly asks him who is plotting his downfall. He answers: “all of them”, including Eli. It’s a heartbreaking admission for a man who had amassed so much power. But in the meantime, others found theirs.

Boardwalk Empire’ Season 2 Episode 2 Review: ‘Ourselves Alone’

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In episode 2 last week, The Commodore was quite confident that Nucky was on the ropes and would be rendered powerless before long. After this week's epsidode entitled "A Dangerous Maid", I'm certain the Commodore doesn't feel that way after their confrontation inside the restaurant. Nucky simply won't go away quietly.

Van Alden Returns After a One-Week Hiatus

Everyone's favorite scumbag and creep Nelson Van Alden (Michael Shannon) returns this week. Lucy Danziger is really, really pregnant and looks like she could have his child any day. And, she's also being held prisoner by Van Alden "per their agreement."

She wants to get out of this virtual prison (a seedy apartment Van Alden put her up in), but he won't let her until she satisfies her end of the agreement. Later on in the episode she is ready to throw herself down the steps, when a special delivery comes in the form of a record. This music saves her from complete madness. Even Van Alden can't take it away from her when he comes to the apartment to see her dancing.

Something tells me this won't end very well. Either Lucy will commit suicide or Van Alden will murder her before or after she has the kid. There is a brilliant, subtle, dark undertone to this storyline which the writers and director of Boardwalk are carefully playing up to. And, you know something disturbing will come out of this...

Al Delivers the Bad News to Nucky

Al Capone has a sit-down with Nucky and delivers the bad news to him. Torrio found a new supplier and is moving in another direction. Nucky pries Al for information on this "new supplier" and is told simply they are from Canada.

Deep down Nucky has to know that the Commodore is behind this, which is he is. Right after the meeting, Al heads over to Jimmy's house and they have some catching up to do. Al is in town to settle his father's affairs who just passed away. His father was a barber, which Al claims worked him to death, but you can see that this honest form of living was something Al did respect.

Nucky and Jimmy Square Off at The Restaurant

Nucky tells Margaret to get dressed so he can take her out for a fancy dinner. Once they get there the hostess didn't realize he was coming as he sees The Commodore and Jimmy dining at a table. Nucky doesn't give in and wants to get a table anyway.

Nucky eyeballs the table as he walks by and when Margaret is told they are out of lobster it's the final straw for The Nuckster who sees The Commodore chowing down on a big one.

He rushes over to their table and promptly throws the Commodore's expensive dinner on the floor and tells him it's his last dinner inside this restaurant and that he will ruin all of them.

Jimmy gets in Nucky's face and is ready to deck him when Nucky gives him the business about The Commodore. The truth is The Commodore is only Jimmy's father by accident - he just happened to pick his Mom to sleep with that night.

When Jimmy goes home he's asked how his Dad is doing and he responds "which one?"

Jimmy is playing the game right now to rise up, but don't be suprised to see him side with Nucky at the end of the day. He was always more of a father to him than his elderly counterpart.

One final thing to point out is an emerging character on the show - Owen Slater. He has a proposition for Nucky in that he wants to step up and provide some muscle. Nucky doesn't say anything and he thanks him for his time. Slater makes his first move when he steps in and refuses a liquor shipment, which is about to be delivered. Look for Slater to play a critical role in Nucky's battles this season.

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“Ourselves Alone”, the second episode of Boardwalk Empire‘s second season, is brilliant and the fact that the show is firing on all cylinders this earlier in the season shows that Terence Winter and company have a good grasp on how things are going to play out over these twelve episodes. And the smartest thing they did was have Nucky Thompson (Steve Buscemi) arrested. So while he’s busy doing some damage control to fix his reputation, and to fend off The Commodore’s (Dabney Coleman) brand new posse of politicos — and newly dyed hair — three characters get to shine in ways they haven’t in Season One.

JIMMY DARMODY: Jimmy (Michael Pitt) travels to New York City, on the behest of his father, to meet with Arnold Rothstein (Michael Stuhlbarg). He wants Rothstein to end his deal with Nucky and to go into illegal booze business with him and his cohorts instead. Rotherstein is taken by his gumption, and the fact that Jimmy rose up quick through the political/gangster world in Atlantic City, but he can’t simply jump ship as of yet. Jimmy is disappointed at the not-rejection but his mother’s lover, Lucky Luciano (Vincent Piazza) tells him that he has been on Meyer Lansky’s (Anatol Yusef) radar and invents him to his underground poker game.

Lansky’s world isn’t as glamorous as Rothstein’s. His underground poker game is really underground, as in only the riffiest of raffs come to play. It’s blue collar and immigrant as it gets, a far cry from The Ritz where guys like Rothstein, Nucky, and The Commodore could feel at home.

Lansky offers to go into business with Jimmy, if he agrees to deal his heroin on The Boardwalk. It’s a brand new endeavor, one that not many people in the 1920′s understand or are aware of.

Jimmy walks away from the poker game, a little richer, when two of the riff raffs attempt to mug him. Jimmy is clam, cool, collective, and a f***ing badass when it comes to slicing throats. He might not have taken Manhattan they way he originally planned, but he’s taken it nonetheless.

CHALKY WHITE: Chalky (Michael Kenneth Williams) is still sitting in a jail cell, to both punish him for killing a Klan member and to protect him from the racist lynch mob calling for his blood. He even shares a cell with Nucky for a short while, proof of how powerful both of these men are. Or how powerful Nucky is because when Nucky is bailed out, Chalky is transferred to a ‘Blacks Only’-cell, which happens to include a borderline psychopathic man named Dunn (Erik LaRay Harvey) who has no problems ogling Chalky’s wife and making fun of the book she left for her husband. (She leaves him a copy of “David Copperfield” but when Dunn demands to know what book Chalky is holding, Chalky tells him it’s “Tom Sawyer”.)

Dunn’s berating doesn’t end there. He goes on about Chalky’s ‘zip coon’ clothing and the like, pretty much insinuating that Chalky is an ‘Uncle Tom’. Dunn talks to the other men in the cell as if Chalky isn’t one of them. He even knocks the book out of Chalky’s hands. All in the while, Chalky sits silently, biting his tongue. He’s calm, cool, and collective — much like Jimmy — but he also has more power than other people think. When Chalky grows tired of Dunn’s jealous shenanigans, he asks his cellmates to remember all of the awesome things he did for them and their families. When they do, he asks them to return they favor. And they do, by beating the living shit out of Dunn.

And with the stomps of the men’s feet, Chalky White declares himself a badass gangsta and Mayor of Black Atlantic City.

(Question: did we also get a reveal that Chalky can’t read? Or was he feigning dumb regarding the book’s title as a ways of shutting Dunn up the first time?)

MARGARET SCHROEDER: Margaret (Kelly Macdonald), in the meantime, is contending with the aftermath of Nucky’s arrest at home. It sucks because as the help try to keep the news from her, she and they have to plan out an important dinner that will involve members of the IRA — and it also happens to be Valentine’s Day. (She did get a nice card that was handmade by her children.) When she she finally reads the newspaper, she asks the maid for her coat and goes to Nucky’s office incognito as a poor, pregnant Irish lass looking for some assistance (an amazing callback to her introduction in the Pilot episode). There she meets the men investigating her lover, pretends to need to go to the bathroom, and grabs Nucky’s ‘secret’ ledger and $20,000 (give or take). She reveals what she’s done to Nucky with the advice that he burn the ledger and start memorizing the ‘kick backs’ he receives. Nucky may still be corrupt but damn him if Margaret loses another man.

We get a couple of very interesting meetings in “Ourselves Alone”. There’s one where Nucky and the IRA — which include Joe McGarrigle, a straight laced Protestant-hating lanky hulk of a man (kinda of an oxymoronic description but if you’ve seen the episode, you know what I’m talking about) and a rather charming Irish rogue (Charlie Cox) — come to an agreement of how much he will donate to their fight against the British. There’s another where The Commodore introduces Eli (Shea Whingham) to the ‘powers that be’ — which includes The Sopranos’ Dominic Chianese — after Eli calls Nucky at his office and taunts him for being left out in the wind. (Chianese, in two episodes, has only said a few words and they happen to be in Latin. Weird but kind of creepy as well. It’s intriguing but here’s hoping that we get more of a glimpse into what his character’s all about.)

By the end of the episode, Nucky takes center stage again. Margaret sweetly asks him who is plotting his downfall. He answers: “all of them”, including Eli. It’s a heartbreaking admission for a man who had amassed so much power. But in the meantime, others found theirs.

Boardwalk Empire’ Season 2 Episode 2 Review: ‘Ourselves Alone’

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In response to your question, I think he just wanted to shut up Dunn at the time. Also, it seemed that he was reading it fine before Dunn knocked the book out his hands. However, he was looking at a picture in the book at the time.

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In episode 2 last week, The Commodore was quite confident that Nucky was on the ropes and would be rendered powerless before long. After this week's epsidode entitled "A Dangerous Maid", I'm certain the Commodore doesn't feel that way after their confrontation inside the restaurant. Nucky simply won't go away quietly.

Van Alden Returns After a One-Week Hiatus

Everyone's favorite scumbag and creep Nelson Van Alden (Michael Shannon) returns this week. Lucy Danziger is really, really pregnant and looks like she could have his child any day. And, she's also being held prisoner by Van Alden "per their agreement."

She wants to get out of this virtual prison (a seedy apartment Van Alden put her up in), but he won't let her until she satisfies her end of the agreement. Later on in the episode she is ready to throw herself down the steps, when a special delivery comes in the form of a record. This music saves her from complete madness. Even Van Alden can't take it away from her when he comes to the apartment to see her dancing.

Something tells me this won't end very well. Either Lucy will commit suicide or Van Alden will murder her before or after she has the kid. There is a brilliant, subtle, dark undertone to this storyline which the writers and director of Boardwalk are carefully playing up to. And, you know something disturbing will come out of this...

Al Delivers the Bad News to Nucky

Al Capone has a sit-down with Nucky and delivers the bad news to him. Torrio found a new supplier and is moving in another direction. Nucky pries Al for information on this "new supplier" and is told simply they are from Canada.

Deep down Nucky has to know that the Commodore is behind this, which is he is. Right after the meeting, Al heads over to Jimmy's house and they have some catching up to do. Al is in town to settle his father's affairs who just passed away. His father was a barber, which Al claims worked him to death, but you can see that this honest form of living was something Al did respect.

Nucky and Jimmy Square Off at The Restaurant

Nucky tells Margaret to get dressed so he can take her out for a fancy dinner. Once they get there the hostess didn't realize he was coming as he sees The Commodore and Jimmy dining at a table. Nucky doesn't give in and wants to get a table anyway.

Nucky eyeballs the table as he walks by and when Margaret is told they are out of lobster it's the final straw for The Nuckster who sees The Commodore chowing down on a big one.

He rushes over to their table and promptly throws the Commodore's expensive dinner on the floor and tells him it's his last dinner inside this restaurant and that he will ruin all of them.

Jimmy gets in Nucky's face and is ready to deck him when Nucky gives him the business about The Commodore. The truth is The Commodore is only Jimmy's father by accident - he just happened to pick his Mom to sleep with that night.

When Jimmy goes home he's asked how his Dad is doing and he responds "which one?"

Jimmy is playing the game right now to rise up, but don't be suprised to see him side with Nucky at the end of the day. He was always more of a father to him than his elderly counterpart.

One final thing to point out is an emerging character on the show - Owen Slater. He has a proposition for Nucky in that he wants to step up and provide some muscle. Nucky doesn't say anything and he thanks him for his time. Slater makes his first move when he steps in and refuses a liquor shipment, which is about to be delivered. Look for Slater to play a critical role in Nucky's battles this season.

You forgot one thing: what was going on in NYC. Arnold Rothstein, Meyer Lansky and Lucky Luciano had a sit-down with Joe "The Boss" Masseria(who was a real person, I might add). Obviously, he is angry that his guys were murdered after the left Meyer's place of business, and that they should come to a arrangement before any more blood should be shed. Rothstein agrees. Joe gets up and speaks to Luciano in Italian. He says "What are you doing with these Christ killers?", referring to Rothstein and Lansky, who are Jewish. He continues, "Join me and I'll make you rich", then leaves.

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In response to your question, I think he just wanted to shut up Dunn at the time. Also, it seemed that he was reading it fine before Dunn knocked the book out his hands. However, he was looking at a picture in the book at the time.

in this case, it was revealed that he could not read, hence why after Dunn was beaten down he asked for someone to read it to everyone. Obviously he just didn't want to give him the satsifaction of knowing he is illiterate

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Boardwalk Empire Watch - Season 2, Episode 4: What Does The Bee Do?

It's a special kind of fool who relies on the promise of a drunkard.” This week was about control, and through our various main story-lines we see men losing it, men trying to keep it, and women about to take it. With Jimmy and The Commodore's bootlegging operation starting to require expansion, Nucky has to do something about this and pronto. So he decides to react with two key moves: he partners with Arnold Rothstein to move booze more freely into the country and he hires Owen Sleater to pay a little visit to Mickey Doyle's operation.

Meanwhile, Chalky seems to be losing his grip on his constituency, who are as fed up as he is with the “wait and see” attitude that he's forced to filter down thanks to Nucky's inability to do anything at the moment. As if that weren't enough, The Commodore suffers a stroke, leaving Jimmy, presumably in the driver's seat. (At least, he will be if Jillian has anything to say about it.) Alliances are just one step away from all out war, and Nucky wants to keep everyone in line and on his side. Even his servants are getting a little extra from the pot, though Margaret scuttles that quite effectively in a bid to shore up her own hidden nest egg. But perhaps the greatest advantage Nucky scored this week was thanks to a little S&M birthday party being thrown for Mayor Bader.

While cavorting with various women of ill repute, the subject of last November's election comes up. As it turns out the ladies of the evening were brought in from Philadelphia to sway votes, which puts Nucky in violation of the Mann act. This being a Federal offense and all, the case would become a federal indictment and would be in the jurisdiction of Attorney General Daugherty, who still owes Nucky a favor.

Meanwhile, in the Darmody camp, The Commodore's stroke leaves him disabled and Elias in a state of panic. Gillian tries to calm Elias down, in a scene which cleverly places them in front of the elephant tusk that The Commodore used to prove his strength just weeks before. (I saw what you did there, Boardwalk Empire). Jimmy heads off to Philly to meet with Manny Horvitz, a competitor to Nucky and Arnold's man in PA, who's just itching to head them off at the pass. A deal is struck, and now Philadelphia becomes yet another spot on the map for the Mob to play out its war games. Which look to have just started at the end of the episode, when Mickey Doyle's warehouse explodes. As if that weren't enough, we see Gillian recall the first time she'd made Commodore Louis' acquaintance. It wasn't a fond recollection, seeing as he raped her and made sure she couldn't scream for help. She returns the favor by beating him senseless while paralyzed from his condition.

This week's highlight involves the character that continues to be one of my quiet favorites: Richard Darrow. In the time we've seen him very little of his story has been fleshed out. But last night's episode gave him the depth and heartache I was hoping they would, turning him into a sympathetic figure as opposed to disfigured monster. The most crushing moment of all was after a day of talking and sitting for Angela's sketches, he has to sink back to the background as Jimmy and wife show him yet another scene in the “perfect life” he so desperately yearns for.

The pieces are set on the board, and things look like they're going to get a lot more complicated, and a whole lot bloodier. It'll be interesting to see just how the Attorney General weasels his way out of trying to fulfill his end of the bargain with Nucky, as he clearly doesn't want to play this round of ball. Also, the Young Mob continues to clash with the Old Mob, and it's only a matter of time before Luciano snaps and decides to go rogue. And if Van Alden's underlings, who are snooping around his dealings with Mickey Doyle, aren't careful, they might both wind up in the hospital.

Nucky seems to think that his troubles are coming to a close, but for those of us on the other end history (and the television), we know better. The stage is set for a good old fashioned street war, and the first casualties look to be coming really soon. Next week looks to bring us two deaths: one expected and one unexpected until this week's preview reel. The former could be written off as Nature taking its course (and a testimony to Gillian's backhand), while the latter could spark the war we've been waiting for.

Next Week's Installment: Gimcrack and Bunkum

*See Jimmy become a full fledged Corleone!

*See Elias hit the bottle hard!

*See Margaret take aim with a shotgun!

*See Eddie Kessler team up with Eddie Cantor on Vaudeville with "The Kaiser and The Kid"!

*See RICHARD GET WHACKED?! (Seriously, watch that trailer for next week and tell me that's not what it looks like is going to happen.)

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In response to your question, I think he just wanted to shut up Dunn at the time. Also, it seemed that he was reading it fine before Dunn knocked the book out his hands. However, he was looking at a picture in the book at the time.

in this case, it was revealed that he could not read, hence why after Dunn was beaten down he asked for someone to read it to everyone. Obviously he just didn't want to give him the satsifaction of knowing he is illiterate

Which begs the question why his wife brought him a book in the 1st place. :ermm:

Moving on, I would just like to ask some questions about the last episode. Chalky losing his grip on his constituency, is that the reason why he took it out on his family? Now we know why Jillian didn't want the Commodore to go to the hospital. Thing is, how bad did she beat up to Commodore, to death maybe? Eli is freaking out because with the Commodore's current condition, Nucky might get the upper hand back again, and he already promised he would ruin all of them. Jimmy might be in the driver's seat now, and the deal he made in Philly will add more tension between him and Nucky. However, in previous episodes, it looks like he might be able to forgive Nucky. MIGHT. And to LMS, you saw Micky Doyle's warehouse explode, right? Van Alden's guys were there, and as you saw, one of them is definitely going to the HOSPITAL.

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nah, she wants to make this pay back last, so she is gonna enjoy it and jsut abuse the Commadore. And Eli has no spine what so ever. he sees his meal ticket incapicitated and is freaking out.

and i am also confused as to why his wife brought him a book. I think she knows he cannot read, though it was not specifically stated. I do look forward to seeing mroe of Chaulky and his family though.

And with the wrehouse blowing up, Jimmy is up shits creek. As Nukki says on the scenes for next week, he doesn't even know the rules to this game

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Boardwalk Empire Ep. 5: Dark Clothes for Dark Times

Atlantic City is on serious edge. And getting damned bloody, too. Episode Five opens with a snake pit masquerading as a Memorial Day ceremony, draped with bunting, and fluttering with red, white, and blue flags. It's rare to see Nicky and Jimmy decked out in somber black pinstripes, and greys, and in spite of the tension, they look damn handsome in these funereal tones. While the town unites in remembrance of the heroes of war, they are also arming up for war within their own city limits. Jimmy is humiliated in front of dark-suited octogenarian investors, causing a loss of faith on Ian's part. And later, a vengeful scalping of his antagonist. Rough stuff.

Nucky continues to fight his own personal quest for acquittal, having escalated his legal situation to a federal level. He's lightly blown off again, though, by the Attorney General during a social game of golf. The scene features rounded collars, knit vests, and hilariously puofy caps. It's evidence that not all styles lessons from the show are worth emulating.

When Nucky's brother, Eli, loses faith in the rogue operation with the Commodore and Jimmy, his fear explodes in a full-on murderous brawl between the brothers, intercepted only by an awesome gun-wielding Margaret. Meanwhile, Ian goes on to brutally beat an equally frightened Mayor Pickford to death in his own woodshop with a wrench. It is horrible stuff, and seems to prove that the planning meetings for season two called for "more gore."

But there is a note of tenderness, even optimism, tonight. After his encounter with Angie, Richard Harris hitches a ride into the wooded countryside (wearing some beautifully spare hunting gear). He plans to take his own life. But, when interrupted by a dog and pair of hunters, he regains his footing and returns to the town. In a truly poignant (and well-shot) scene, Richard asks Jimmy if he would fight for him. Without hesitation, Jimmy replies, "to the last bullet." And while the subsequent scalping scene puts a damper on the sentiment, it's nice to see men acting like gentlemen, for just a moment, amidst all this evil and duplicity.

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