Boardwalk Empire, Season 2

Nucky Thompson:
[to Jimmy] Your father is a very duplicitous man. You've been told.

Mickey Doyle:
Should I be concerned that there's blood on some of these crates?

Jimmy Darmody:
Not unless it's yours.

Commodore Louis Kaestner:
[to Jimmy] You will be judged by what you succeed at, boy, not by what you attempt.

Jimmy Darmody:
[Joining Nucky on the porch outside a Klansman's funeral] An awful waste of a lot of good tablecloths.

Nucky Thompson:
The laundry bills alone..

Commodore Louis Kaestner:
Ask the man inside of you this: When you come face to face with destiny, do you want to be the bear or do you want to be the one holding the shotgun?

James Darmody:
I won't pretend you're inclined to be warm to me. I wouldn't insult you like that, cuz before anything else, I have great respect for you, your wisdom, your achievements.

Arnold Rothstein:
You're better spoken than I expected.

James Darmody:
We never really talked before.

Arnold Rothstein:
You and Charlie are acquainted?

James Darmody:
We have someone in common [Lucky slept with James' mother and tried to murder him].

Arnold Rothstein:
You hear, Charlie? Discretion. Charlie volunteered to absent himself from this meeting. He felt his presence might be disruptive, but I counseled what?

Lucky Luciano:
Never let the past get in the way of the future.

James Darmody:
We are all learning, Mr. Rothstein.

Arnold Rothstein:
And what can I learn from you, Mr. Darmody?

James Darmody:
That things are changing in Atlantic City. If you're in the market for quality liquor coming in off the beaches at a reasonable price and in good supply, I can get it for you.

Arnold Rothstein:
You personally?

James Darmody:
Me. My associates. I'm expanding my business and you are precisely the type of discerning customer I'm looking for.

Arnold Rothstein:
And Nucky Thompson?

James Darmody:
Nucky's like a father to me.

Lucky Luciano:
I have a father. Barely said hello in 5 years.

James Darmody:
Sorry to hear it.

Arnold Rothstein:
Who are you, Mr. Darmody?

James Darmody:
Pardon?

Arnold Rothstein:
Y-Y-You show up well dressed with a suit cravat and a bold proposal. A year ago you were a brigand in the woods. Who are you?

James Darmody:
I'm a businessman, a veteran, I just got married.

Arnold Rothstein:
Congratulations.

James Darmody:
I have a son. He's almost 4.

Arnold Rothstein:
Cart before the horse?

James Darmody:
Do you have kids, Mr. Rothstein?

Arnold Rothstein:
No, but I'm told they often say unexpected and amusing things. I appreciate you coming to me. I applaud your audacity. And I give you my word that your offer remains in this room.

James Darmody:
What does that mean?

Lucky Luciano:
I'll show you out.

Margaret Schroeder:
[to Nucky] You are smarter than your enemies and you will persevere, but you aren't thinking clearly now. You must concentrate and not give over to emotion.

Leander Cephas Whitlock:
[Toasting Eli] Propinate nobis similibusque. [Translation: "Here's to us and those like us - damn few left]

Nucky Thompson:
I keep my promises, James, and I'll make you one now: I will ruin you, all of you.

Nucky Thompson:
How's Torrio handling the competition?

Al Capone:
We're killing them.

Mickey Doyle:
You've got your friends on the Coast Guard to thank for that three ship's worth of booze: the Nina, the Pinta, and the Canadian Club.

Manny Horvitz:
We got a deal, but just so we're clear, my ice box is filled with pieces of fellas who tried to fuck me over.

Jimmy Darmody:
[unmoved] I just got creamsicles in mine.

Jimmy Darmody:
You think I can't play this game?

Nucky Thompson:
I don't think you even know the rules.

Eli Thompson:
You're one nasty prick!

Nucky Thompson:
And you're a frightened little boy with nowhere else to go.

[after Richard returns late from his would-be suicidal trip into the woods on Memorial Day]

Jimmy Darmody:
Where were you today?

Richard Harrow:
Needed to take a walk.

Jimmy Darmody:
I should've gone with you.

Richard Harrow:
We're both back now.

Jimmy Darmody:
You up for a job tonight?

[Richard just looks at him]

Jimmy Darmody:
Is there a problem, Richard?

Richard Harrow:
[haltingly] Would you... fight for me?

Jimmy Darmody:
[walks over to him; with intensity] Of course I would. Right down to the last bullet.

Richard Harrow:
[near tears] Then let's go to work.

Margaret Thompson:
Are you in the habit of toying with women, Mr. Sleater?

Owen Sleater:
I wouldn't call it a habit.

Jimmy Darmody:
Not every insult requires a response.

Jimmy Darmody:
It doesn't make a difference if you're right or wrong; you just have to make a decision.

Gillian Darmody:
The men talk, the Geisha retires.

Esther Randolph:
You're like an onion, Mr. Thompson, the more we peel.

Nucky Thompson:
I prefer to think of myself as an artichoke.

Nucky Thompson:
[to Eli, at their father's wake] I'm here for mother, and for Susan.

Eli Thompson:
They're all together now.

Nucky Thompson:
Heaven? If such a thing existed, you really think that son of a bitch would be there?

Eli Thompson:
[choking up] Was he that bad, Nucky? Really?

Nucky Thompson:
You've obviously forgotten key events from our childhood.

Eli Thompson:
I turned out OK. So did you. Whatever he did, he made us the men we are today.

Nucky Thompson:
What's that?

Eli Thompson:
We run this fucking town, Nucky!

Nucky Thompson:
We don't run anything, brother. And he can rot in Hell.

Eli Thompson:
That's you, boy, in spades. No capacity for forgiveness.

Nucky Thompson:
Grow up, brother, please. And take some responsibility. At long fucking last.

Waxey Gordon:
[on killing Horvitz] Before we go any further, you need to tell me if that's a problem.

Jimmy Darmody:
Maybe, but it's not mine.

Commodore Louis Kaestner:
Just... show 'em your cunt. [Jimmy looks puzzled] You heard me. Just lift up your skirt and let yourself get fucked!

Jimmy Darmody:
I know you're not happy, Angela. I know there are things that you think about me that you're afraid to say. I'm gonna make it up to you. I'm gonna get everything settled once and for all. You'll see. I can be the person you want me to be.

Nucky Thompson:
[to Margaret] You listen! If you want to punish yourself because your daughter got sick, that's your business, but I will not permit you to sacrifice me!

[After Angela's murder, a traumatized Jimmy sits with Gillian]

Gillian Darmody:
There will have to be a funeral, of course. It's important that everything look right. There won't be many people there, anyway. She didn't have a very wide circle, did she? The other one... not a local girl. They're trying to find some family. Not our concern. We'll need to consider Tommy. I told him, "Mommy went away for a few days to paint." That buys us some time. I think, tell me if I'm wrong, we'll say that she went to live with her friends in Paris, and she wants her little boy to stay here, where he'll be safe with his daddy, who works so hard, and his meemaw, who loves him so very much. And, you know what? A month from now - and I don't mean to sound cold - he won't even remember who she was...

[Enraged, Jimmy grabs her by the throat]

Jimmy Darmody:
I'll remember! I'll remember! I'll remember! I'll remember!

[The Commodore attacks Jimmy, and the two fight]

Gillian Darmody:
No!

[Jimmy suddenly stabs the Commodore in the gut. He pulls the knife out and stares at his father, unsure of what to do]

Gillian Darmody:
Then finish it, goddamn you! Finish it!

[Jimmy stabs the Commodore in the heart, killing him]

Nucky Thompson:
Et tu, Eli?

Eli Thompson:
What?

Nucky Thompson:
Shakespeare, Julius Caesar.

Eli Thompson:
There's a character named Eli?

Jimmy Darmody:
[moments before he is shot] All you got to worry about is when you run out of booze and you run out of company and the only person left to judge you is your...

Nucky Thompson:
[to Jimmy, just before shooting him] You don't know me, James. You never did. I am not seeking forgiveness.