Home (Boardwalk Empire)

In Chicago, Jimmy learns from Capone that Liam, the Irish mobster who disfigured Pearl, regularly eats breakfast at the same restaurant. Later that day, he consults a doctor about recurring pain in his leg caused by old war wounds and agrees to take a psychological test designed to study the trauma of veterans. While waiting for the test, Jimmy meets Richard Harrow, a severely wounded sharpshooter who wears a tin mask over his disfigured face. After picking up that Richard is uncomfortable and nervous, Jimmy lies to the nurses and gets them both out of the test. He then takes Richard over to the Four Deuces, providing him with free drinks and the services of a prostitute.

In Atlantic City, Jimmy's estranged fiancé, Angela, is revealed to be in an lesbian affair with photographer Robert Dittrich's wife, Mary, who has arranged for an art dealer to assess her paintings. A man calling himself "Michael Lewis" offers Chalky White a deal to sell alcohol directly to him without paying Nucky first; Chalky believes Nucky is testing his loyalty and declines. Luciano and his associate Lansky meet with the D'Alessio brothers to discuss their burgeoning bootlegging operation. Luciano suggests financing the venture by robbing one of Nucky's casinos, and assures the brothers that he can persuade Rothstein to back them against Nucky.

Nucky and Eli's elderly father has an accident at the rotting old Thompson family home, and Eli takes him in. Nucky agrees to give the property to an associate, Damien Flemming, who is eager to start a family. A jealous Lucy confronts Nucky over his relationship with Margaret. When Margaret convinces him that he shouldn't feel afraid to confide in her, Nucky reveals how his father loathed and abused him, and how he's carried the memories of that abuse ever since. Van Alden learns of Jimmy's involvement from a petty criminal who assisted him and Capone during their truck heist and convinces the man to testify in court as an informant.

Jimmy confronts Liam and makes it clear he never wants to see his face again. Shortly after he leaves, a sniper's bullet, fired by Richard from the apartment across the street from the restaurant, strikes Liam beneath his eye and kills him. Lucy quietly watches Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by herself after Nucky breaks his promise to attend the showing with her. Nucky and his father have an unpleasant encounter as they look over the now-remodeled home. Nucky calmly lights a match and sets fire to the house. When the startled Damien arrives, Nucky gives him all the cash in his pocket so he can "find a better place to live."

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