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Season 1  "The Ivory Tower"  1x2

Aired 13 years ago - Sep 26, 2010

Investigating a crime which he feels has been pinned on a scapegoat, straight-arrow Agent Nelson Van Alden pays a visit to Nucky and leaves convinced that the Treasurer is "as corrupt as the day is long". Nucky quickly does damage control, enlisting his brother, Sheriff Elias Thompson, to close ranks with their underlings. Nucky discusses the upcoming election with his aging mentor, Commodore Louis Kaestner, with whom he debates the women's vote issue. Later, before heading out for a night on the town, Nucky rebukes an irate Arnold Rothstein over the phone, then meets privately with Margaret Schroeder, who asks him for help in providing for her children. As a long day ends, a traveling salesman named George Baxter, in town for a few days with an unwilling young beauty named Claudia, makes a startling discovery while on the road home to Baltimore.

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Hans Schroeder was a baker's apprentice
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His wife isn't there
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fraternal and pro-American organization governed by...
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How about it? Is he a card
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Did you ever follow your husband when he went out at night?
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My brother would like you to have this.
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His aldermen make the collections, then fill his coffers every week.
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Frankly, sir, I'm beginning to think
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So long, sucker.
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Merry Christmas. Ho ho ho ho.
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I was visiting a friend. So what?
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Don't eat a cue ball?
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I don't mind.
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Jimmy!
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Oh, I...
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but let's not quibble over that little detail, shall we?
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I'm going with a story linking Johnny Torrio
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- If you want. - Well, I have to borrow one then.
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Is this the way you do business?
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Is everything all right?
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Is this a bad time?
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I'm sure your husband was a fine and decent man.
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You see, I'm thinking of sponsoring a beauty contest
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- Jim Darmody. - Who?
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Yeah, you... you can go jump in a fucking lake.
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He's got his eye on Washington.
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what your thoughts are on the league of nations.
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We now take you to feudal Japan!
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for how much longer I cannot say.
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Who's Mrs. Schroeder?
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I don't know what it is, what it's for.
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When I came to you for help,
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Will you help me, Mr. Thompson?
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Come near you? Who can get close to you?
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Do I need to count it?
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Not my night apparently.
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