Previously on Boardwalk Empire: Nucky hooked up with Sally down in Tampa, Will decided he wanted to join the family business, and Dunn got a bit out of hand and killed the Baptist church’s reverend.

Small satchel in hand, Dunn approaches a house, stopping to pluck a cigarette from the porch steps. He knocks and is admitted by an elderly lady he calls Ms Monroe. Inside, we see that the place has become a really, really nice crack den. Junkies are draped all over Ms Monroe’s furniture, passed out on their heroin highs. Ms Monroe tells Dunn she’s got relatives coming that week and he smilingly pays her off. As Dunn walks through the house, he steps on a discarded needle and scolds one of his minions, reminding him that Monroe likes to keep the place tidy.

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Previously on Boardwalk Empire: Lansky went into business in Florida with Nucky, Chalky gave his new singer a hard time, and Eddie killed himself out of extreme guilt for telling Knox about his meeting with Capone.

We open on Nucky sitting in a restaurant, watching his coffee cup vibrate. He’s in a train station, hence the vibrations, and he tells the waiter he never noticed that before. He looks up and sees none other than Margaret coming towards him, with a kicky new haircut. She sits stiffly (this was obviously a prearranged meeting) and tells him she doesn’t have much time. He tries to get some intel on where she works but she chooses to focus instead on the cinnamon roll he has in front of him, reminding him he hates cinnamon. They talk a bit about Nucky’s upcoming trip to Florida, and then Nucky tells her Eddie’s gone. She misunderstands, thinking he just quit, and Nucky can’t quite deal, so he instead of explaining he hands over the gift for Teddy. She backs up and asks what happened to Eddie and Nucky hesitantly hints around that Eddie’s dead. She tries hard to wrap her head around that and scolds him, saying he can’t just turn up and tell her these awful things that happen in his business. She’s trying to live a normal life now. They turn back to the present, and she asks if he’s giving Teddy some kind of creature. ‘I wouldn’t put something alive in a box,’ Nucky says thoughtlessly. Ouch. Both of their faces register as much, and after an awkward moment she thanks him, checks the time, and excuses herself. Before she leaves, she tells Nucky she’s sorry about Eddie, because nobody knew how to look after Nucky like he did.

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Previously on Boardwalk Empire: Chalky lost 10% of his club to Narcisse, Nucky considered a business opportunity in Florida, and Two Face started to put his killin’ days behind him.

Two rather menacing looking men escort Nucky down a dark corridor and into a fairly palatial hotel room. Nucky takes a minute to check out the mural on the wall, which I’m going to assume is Xanadu or something like it, since that seems to fit, and then goes over to the window where he stands, looking out at the sea, which is a bit bluer than it is in AC.

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