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Season 1  "Boardwalk Empire"  1x1

Aired 14 years ago - Sep 19, 2010

January 1920. On the eve of Prohibition, Atlantic City's Treasurer, Nucky Thompson, condemns alcohol at a Women's Temperance League meeting, where he is noticed by Margaret Schroeder, a pretty, pregnant housewife who comes to him for help in getting her abusive husband Hans a job. Later that evening, the duplicitous Nucky privately tells his ward bosses about the opportunity to make huge profits selling bootleg liquor. At a countdown-to-midnight blast at Babette's Supper Club, he assures Jimmy Darmody, a recently returned WWI vet, that his appointment as "Man Friday" to the new Chief Clerk of the Fourth Ward, Paddy Ryan, will lead to bigger things. Jimmy, meanwhile, has higher aspirations and ends up making an alliance that could have dire consequences for both him and Nucky.

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who lived in this very city.
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Come on in, boys! Don't be shy.
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liquor will be declared illegal by decree
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- The feds! - You're under arrest.
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- Will you look at this shit? - James.
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- I drank all my milk. - Good.
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and Charlie Luciano.
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My husband says I sound like an immigrant.
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Hey, uh, Nucky?
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I don't know what to say, how to thank you.
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¶ some ¶
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- May I help you inside? - I'm fine.
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But the laryngectomy.
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- Where do you get your alcohol? - Potatoes.
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You know who dies for their country, kid? Fucking rubes, that's who.
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I told you.
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This is them.
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So... who's Colosimo?
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- You should come to my restaurant sometime, eh? - Sure.
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For starters.
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- salut. - Salut.
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Oh right.
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Nucky!
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He's obviously more important than me.
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What's all this about cutting me off?
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I don't mind the homely ones,
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¶ I couldn't budge, I hope to choke... ¶
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It was like a fucking firing squad.
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- Where are you going? - To get some air.
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These bodies in the woods
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It's Jimmy.
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You know how many times I went over the top?
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¶ that blissful all-enthralling day ¶
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