Boardwalk Empire

Boardwalk Empire

Boardwalk Empire is an American period crime drama television series created by Terence Winter and broadcast on premium cable channel HBO. The series is set in Atlantic City, New Jersey, during the Prohibition era and stars Steve Buscemi as Nucky Thompson. Winter, a Primetime Emmy Award-winning screenwriter and producer, created the show, inspired by the book Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City by Nelson Johnson about historical criminal kingpin Enoch L. Johnson. The pilot episode was directed by Martin Scorsese and produced at a cost of $18 million. On September 1, 2009, HBO picked up the series for an additional 11 episodes. The series premiered on September 19, 2010, and completed its five-season run on October 26, 2014. Boardwalk Empire received widespread critical acclaim, particularly for its visual style and basis on historical figures, as well as for Buscemi's lead performance. The series received 57 Primetime Emmy Award nominations, including two for Outstanding Drama Series, winning 20. The series also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series – Drama in 2011 and two Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series in 2011 and 2012.

Year:
2010
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Arnold Rothstein:
Meyer, Charlie, I believe you know Mr. Masseria.

Lucky Luciano:
Everybody knows Joe the boss.

Arnold Rothstein:
Then perhaps you also know, though it is of course news to me, that a card game you operate is located in territory that Mr. Masseria considers to be his.

Joe Masseria:
Not considers! Is mine.

Arnold Rothstein:
My thinking was, before any more blood is shed, that a compromise can be reached.

Meyer Lansky:
More blood?

Joe Masseria:
Tompkins Square Park, my two nephews? [imitates throat-cutting]

Lucky Luciano:
I don't know what you're talking about.

Arnold Rothstein:
Apparently two of Mr. Masseria's emissaries to your establishment were murdered shortly after their visit.

Meyer Lansky:
We do operate a game in what might be termed a grey area territorially. But as to any violence in the neighborhood...

Joe Masseria:
They stab themself, eh?

Lucky Luciano:
A coincidence then. It happens.

Joe Masseria:
On my streets, no coincidence. [indicates Charlie] This little prick, since he's 10 years old he causes problems.

Arnold Rothstein:
It seems to me you boys ought to extend a token of goodwill towards Mr. Masseria. Shall we say a one-time fee of $2,000 for the families of those gentlemen and a tax of 10% on the game going forward?

Lucky Luciano:
Hold on a f***in' second...

Arnold Rothstein:
Charlie.

Joe Masseria:
10% is okay. For now.

Arnold Rothstein:
Then we have an agreement? [shake hands]

Joe Masseria:
[in Italian] What are you doing with these Christ-killers? Come with me, I'll make you rich.

Lucky Luciano:
[in Italina] With your other hand in my pockets.

Joe Masseria:
[in Italian] I'm watching you, boy. Every f***ing step. [Luciano stands up angrily]

Arnold Rothstein:
Charlie.

Lucky Luciano:
A.R., two grand is bad enough, but 10% of the f***ing game?

Meyer Lansky:
We already pay half the take on that game to you.

Arnold Rothstein:
Yes. And now you boys know why.

Lucky Luciano:
There's another 50 in the car. They're ingersolls.

Meyer Lansky:
I wish you would stop with this. We schlep around with a box of watches, what do we look like?

Lucky Luciano:
Fellas who know what time it is.

Meyer Lansky:
Might as well set up a pushcart.

Benny Siegel:
[comes in, surprised] Arnold Rothstein's here.

Meyer Lansky:
We're talking, Benny.

Benny Siegel:
Oh. So I should tell him go f*** a duck?

Lucky Luciano:
Enough with the crazy sh*t already, huh?

Meyer Lansky:
[glancing at Rothstein through the window] Bring him in before he breaks the house. [they scramble to look presentable] A.R., did you come to sit in?

Lucky Luciano:
You know you're always welcome.

Arnold Rothstein:
I'm afraid those sharpers out there'd fleece me. Owing to his present difficulties, I've made a deal with Nucky Thompson. He'll be offloading his liquor shipments in Philadelphia. Waxey Gordon will ensure safe arrival. The route to Atlantic city will be my responsibility.

Meyer Lansky:
And you'd like us to recruit the muscle?

Arnold Rothstein:
I would like you to be the muscle.

Lucky Luciano:
A.R., we, uh, got some business going on just now.

Arnold Rothstein:
I can see that. But Mr. Thompson is paying me a premium.

Lucky Luciano:
Anybody could ride shotgun.

Arnold Rothstein:
Until you encounter Indians.

Meyer Lansky:
We're honored by your trust, A.R., and flattered that you would come below 14th street to discuss it personally. Aren't we, Charlie?

Lucky Luciano:
Sure.

Arnold Rothstein:
As it happens, I was down here having dinner with Joe Masseria, who left me with the distinct impression he'd still like both of you dead.

Lucky Luciano:
You broke bread with that prick?

Arnold Rothstein:
We were served a native dish of tripe, which I cannot abide. But I ate it anyway, to keep the peace. Some things, Charlie, you just have to swallow.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
What are you doing?

James 'Jimmy' Darmody:
It's 4:30. I'm clocking in.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
Just like that? I'd say our relationship has changed rather significantly in the past few days. Wouldn't you agree?

James 'Jimmy' Darmody:
You tell me.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
Actually, why don't you tell me? You can start with what the f*** happened the other night. How's that?

James 'Jimmy' Darmody:
All right.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
Did I invite you to sit?

James 'Jimmy' Darmody:
Me and Al, we got to talking about life.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
Who's Al?

James 'Jimmy' Darmody:
Capone. He works for Johnny Torrio.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
The chubby kid?

James 'Jimmy' Darmody:
Yeah.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
Did Torrio sanction this?

James 'Jimmy' Darmody:
Only after the fact. It was my idea. Mine and Al's. We got to talking about life, family, money. He's got a little boy of his own.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
Young children at home and there's no goddamn accountability whatsoever.

James 'Jimmy' Darmody:
I said I was sorry, Nuck.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
Really? When was that?

James 'Jimmy' Darmody:
I'm sorry. I thought it would be easy, okay? Get the drop on them, swipe the truck. No one would get hurt.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
And me? Where'd I figure in?

James 'Jimmy' Darmody:
It would have never been traced back to you.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
Well, guess what? A fed came in to see me this morning, standing right where you are now, asking questions about Saturday night.

James 'Jimmy' Darmody:
What'd you tell him?

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
To bugger himself. What the f*** do you think?

James 'Jimmy' Darmody:
There were deer in the woods. Al got spooked, he started shooting.

Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson:
So you kill four f***ing guys?


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