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Anaconda choke gay9/10/2023 ![]() Unwisely, his metaphors about safety and danger are a bit on the nose, and Willie casts a stink-eye. Balenchuk, wink wink - who’s sold Eli some policy or another. Later on, after Tolliver/Knox chases down the reality that Balenchuk has been dead for a couple of years, he imposes on Willie and Eli’s wife, posing as an insurance salesman - a Mr. ![]() Eli’s bedraggled look shows that he’s not altogether pleased to be betraying his brother this time around - and his halting way of insisting that “Balanchuk” is “like, Torrio’s second” (when he’d have good reason to know that Capone is a bigger player), suggests that he’s playing for time. (And, in a pointed bit, late in the episode, we hear that the FBI has a plant, next to Garvey himself.)īut first, we open with Sad, Unshaven Eli looking into a cup of coffee, all 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her–style, while spilling the most inconsequential of Torrio’s beans (e.g., Jake Guzik) to Agent Tolliver (otherwise known as Knox). ![]() Edgar is still obsessing over Garvey-ite activity in Harlem more closely he’s paying mind to Agent Knox’s “organized crime” investigation. Willie becomes useful, by intuiting that Mayor Bader has turned on Nucky. Sally gets wise to the secret heroin trade going on down Florida way and clues Nucky in. The search for intelligence is our theme, this hour. And the show managed to build up a head of steam (even if, in the headlong rush, it may have fudged a point or two). ![]() But give everyone involved some credit: This antepenultimate episode of the season felt full of danger and risk, even for Chalky. You didn’t really think Boardwalk Empire was going to kill off Chalky White, did you? So soon after they did away with Dunn Purnsley? The fans would have gone mad. ![]()
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