Rothstein himself is similarly disquieting. In other gangster dramas, we're supposed to root for the Eliot Ness-like figure here it seems we're meant to think of him as the bad guy … He is a man so repressed that his letters to his wife include instructions to remember to run the tap regularly so that the pipes don't crack. "He's the county treasurer but he lives like a pharaoh." There something rather creepy about Agent Van Alden's fastidious demeanour and piercing gaze. Van Alden persuades his bosses at the FBI to switch their focus from Arnold Rothstein to Nucky in Atlantic City –.
Nucky tries to buy him off with the promise of girls and theatre tickets, to no avail: "Tell me, what you do like?" he asks wearily. Nucky offers him a shoe shine, coffee or "something stronger maybe?" It is clear that he has the entire city in his back pocket everything operates under his watchful eye, and Van Alden knows it. As he stamps on the reporter's face, Capone, played very convincingly by Stephen Graham, proclaims: "I'm making a statement."īack in Atlantic City, Agent Van Alden barges his way into Nucky's office enquiring into the massacre in the woods the previous week. A Chicago Tribune reporter unwittingly tells one of Torrio's men, Al Capone, that he plans to run with a story connecting his boss to the crime and asks for a statement a move he may live – or not – to regret. Nucky Thompson has sent a wreath, with the words, "Sleep with the Angels". As the snow falls in Chicago, the crowds gather for the lavish funeral of Chicago mobster Big Jim Colosimo, last seen having his brains cinematically blown out at his restaurant.
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