Worse, Eddie’s feeling the sting of pride. Out of sorts physically from his wounds, Eddie’s not really up to snuff any longer, spilling the coffee he serves, barely able to get his boss dressed. Shot up badly last season, when Gyp Rossetti’s men tried to assassinate Nucky, his dutiful manservant assistant Eddie Kessler ( Anthony Laciura) appears for the first time this season and he’s in rough shape. Meanwhile, Nucky’s already essentially confessed what he does to this undercover agent, so it’ll be interesting to see how this plays out and how much of a force Hoover ends up becoming on the show. Yes, he’s corrupt, but Knox’s “proof” is totally fabricated. What’s interesting about this is Knox narc-ing on Elliot is false. Edgar Hoover ( Eric Ladin) and now, supervising Government Revenue agent Frederick Elliot ( Peter McRobbie), who has been in cahoots with Nucky and company, is screwed. ![]() While he was introduced as a corrupt Prohibition Agent that met Nucky Thompson ( Steve Buscemi) and bootlegger Mickey Doyle ( Paul Sparks), it turns out he’s been working for J. This proves to be mistake when another mystery figures kills Billings and then calls up the Harrows demanding they pay the three years of taxes that Emma is behind on.ĭimwitted hayseed FBI Agent Warren Knox ( Brian Geraghty) is brighter than he looks. ![]() Harrow had been hired to kill a Plover County Associate Carl Billings by his own partners, but the disfigured war veteran takes mercy on him when the man reveals he has two children. They deal with old family wounds literally and figuratively, even putting down the family dog with a bullet. R.I.P.Killing spree completed, Richard Harrow ( Jack Huston) has made it back home to his sister Emma ( Katherine Waterston) in Plover, Wisconsin. He saw himself as a monster, but we saw him as a lost boy. And, yet, it's devastating to say goodbye to the character. He was never going to get the happiness he deserved, and ultimately wouldn't have been able to live with himself if he did. One understands why, in the creative evolution of the show, Richard had to die. He was, despite himself, good with children from the very start, and a romantic, cutting out and saving pictures of generic families and happy couples, envisioning a life he thought was impossible. Yet Huston and the Boardwalk writers constantly imbued him with vulnerability. In another context he might seem like a villain. Harrow had a growl for a voice that he used infrequently. What was brilliant about Huston's performance as Harrow was you saw a man who saw himself as a scary outcast. He nearly had that life, but he ended up sacrificing it, with the good of his surrogate son, Tommy, in mind. And yet, much to the credit of actor Jack Huston, he was lovable-a tortured soul doing the only thing he knew how to do well, dreaming of a better life. Harrow, as creator Terence Winter has brought up in post-mortem interviews, is a murderer. The mask that hid his gruesome facial injury from World War I, discarded in the sand. Harrow is dying, alone, underneath the boardwalk. There's a flicker of hope when we see Harrow, on a train, going to meet Julia and Tommy, but then we realize it's only a dream. Valentin Narcisse, and was in turn shot himself. He shot Chalky White's innocent daughter instead of the villainous Dr. If Nucky revealed the location of Jimmy's body, keeping Gillian Darmody in jail and away from her grandson Tommy, Harrow would return to killing. But in order to keep Tommy in Julia's care, he made a deal with criminal kingpin Nucky Thompson. After running away from Atlantic City out of shame-going to the midwest to be a hired killer-he returned to be a father to Tommy, the son of his fellow vet and friend Jimmy Darmody, and a partner to Julia Sagorsky, the woman he fell in love with in the third season. ![]() Boardwalk Empire unfolds slowly, and Harrow did not have as big a role this season as he did the last. Richard Harrow, Boardwalk Empire's sad, disfigured assassin, probably didn't deserve to die, but die he did on last night's finally, and so we bid farewell to one of the most wonderful performances on TV. Last night, Boardwalk Empire ended the season with a moment of truth for Richard Harrow. This article is from the archive of our partner.
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