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Big Mouth Billy Bass
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It was nice that Rothstein got to hear a child say an unexpected and amusing thing first-hand tonight.

The piece in the Jimmy/Angela scene was The Whippoorwill Dance. It's been played before on Boardwalk Empire - interestingly enough, it was in the scene between Jimmy and Pearl just before she gets her face cut. I guess the song is some sort of harbinger of death for Jimmy's love interests.

Bye-bye! Wave bye-bye grandpa! Bye-bye pop-pop!

'No major acts of violence'? Doesn't he hit Georgie in the face with a cash register?

Of course Emily is an important character - all Margaret ever talks about are "the children".

Anyone else here played Red Alert before? I swear the military chant at the end of the Nucky/Rothstein/Torrio meeting was from the "Hell March" theme: "Die Waffen, legt an!"

"What are we, children? At our age, it's surprise enough we're still alive every morning."

Line of the night: "Heads will roll gentlemen. 'Van Asshole'?"

It's nice to see Mickey Doyle again, what a shifty bastard. I have no idea why I like him so much, he has no endearing qualities at all. Maybe it's just because he's one of the few characters who don't take themselves so seriously.

One odd thing that struck me about this episode was the amount of men in fez hats around the lobby of the Ritz. My prediction for next week: Nucky gives away more guns, this time to the Turkish nationalists.

That there's his daddy's tool.