

And most importantly, before Masseria's murder, Lucky wanted to hurry away from the table, and Masseria asked where he was headed. Lucky making sure Masseria was killed helped him establish an Italian crime family that was not about turf wars anymore, but about the Five Families all getting a piece of the pie. And speaking of that, Boardwalk skimmed over the biggest mafia war in American history: the Castellammarese War, between Maranzano and Masseria. He lied about why he was there, suggesting that the turf war has come to Nucky. after the fall of Volstead (he hopes) have a kink in them now that Meyer is also in Havana. Nucky's schemes to bring Bacardi to the U.S. The key was that he advised Nucky being honest wouldn't get him anything. Though not at first, the Commodore did take an interest in him and his tenacity (and we all know how that turned out). He decided to be crafty instead, ultimately returning the Commodore's hat and $50, thinking he would be otherwise rewarded. Diving for coins and swarming carriages of the rich always found Nucky one step behind the others. Those flashbacks showed a young Nucky too slow and too scrawny to benefit from traditional ways that "warf rats" made their change back in 1884. Despite his many years now in Cuba, Sally aptly calls Nucky out for seeing it only as a "vacation." His heart and mind are still in Atlantic City, as per the flashbacks about his hard-scrabble upbringing. Nucky is counting on it, not only as a way to make more money, but as a way to reinstate himself in power in the United States. The Volstead Act, which has defined the timeline of the series, may be coming to a close once Hoover leaves office (if, if, of course, from their perspective). But what everyone still wants, according to Nucky, is booze. Things in America are indeed anything but rosy the stock market has crashed, and people are shooting themselves in their offices. Every locale was given its own palette: the flashbacks were, naturally, sepia-tinged, while Chalky, Lucky and Margaret were given dull and dark colors and settings. Under Tim Van Patten's direction, Nucky's time in Havana was painted with vibrant colors and lots of light. Visually, the story was also never about anyone but Nucky.
