Boardwalk Empire, Season 1

Boardwalk Empire (2010–2014) is an American television series airing on HBO. Set in Atlantic City, New Jersey during the Prohibition era, it is written by Emmy Award-winning screenwriter and producer Terence Winter. more »

Liam:
The whore, Pearl... I was just doing Sheridan's bidding.

Jimmy Darmody:
Relax, I'm not gonna kill you. Did you serve, Liam? In the war.

Liam:
I had pneumatic fever.

Jimmy Darmody:
3 years. France, mostly. It's almost impossible to describe the horror. It's a living... waking... nightmare. There was a soldier, a German; him and his men tried to attack our position in the Argonne forest. It was nighttime. While he was trying to climb through some barbwire, I shot him twice; once in the stomach, once in the neck. He slumped over the barbwire, and no matter what he did to try and wriggle free, it just got worse for him. I left him there, like that, for days, listening to him moaning, crying, "mutti, mutti, mutti". That's German for "mama"; "mama", that's what he kept saying. The curious thing is that despite the fact that his situation was utterly hopeless, he didn't wanna die. I offered to kill him several times, but he just kept fighting. Like some miracle would befall him, get him out of his predicament. We hold on so desperately to life. Some people feel, certainly in that soldier's situation, that being alive is much, much worse. [pause] I'm gonna go now. I don't wanna ever see you again.

Liam:
[frightened] You won't.

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