![]() The Commodore has the New Jersey District Attorney's office arrest Nucky for election fraud and recruits Nucky's political allies. Season twoīy the beginning of season two, Jimmy is married to Angela, with whom he raises their son, Tommy. Jimmy is deeply hurt when he finds out that it was Nucky who arranged for the sexual affair between his parents, and plots with his father and Nucky's brother Eli ( Shea Whigham) to take back control of Atlantic City from Nucky. ![]() Jimmy reconciles with his father after the Commodore survives a poisoning attempt. Jimmy also orders Richard to kill a rival gangster who had disfigured a prostitute Jimmy was fond of. They become close friends, with Richard becoming Jimmy's main ally in bootlegging. Jimmy returns to Atlantic City with Richard Harrow ( Jack Huston), a disfigured marksman whom he met in a military hospital in Chicago. When Nucky faces trouble back home from Philadelphia gangsters hired by Rothstein, he takes Jimmy back into his operation. There, he works for Johnny Torrio ( Greg Antonacci) alongside Al Capone (Stephen Graham), with whom he committed the hijacking. One of them survives and identifies Jimmy, but Nucky gets him out of trouble by blaming the hijacking on Hans Schroeder ( Joseph Sikora) and sending Jimmy to Chicago. Frustrated that he is not doing more, he hijacks a shipment of bootlegged liquor that Nucky sold to Arnold Rothstein ( Michael Stuhlbarg) and shoots the deliverers. He ends up working for Nucky as his driver and bodyguard. He is haunted by the trench warfare he experienced, and refuses to go back to school. ![]() In January 1920, Jimmy has recently moved back to Atlantic City after recovering from his war injury. He injures his leg in France from shrapnel from a German grenade and walks with a limp for the rest of his life. In Season 2, it is revealed that he joined the Army because he felt guilty about a drunken sexual encounter with his mother, and because he likely faced expulsion from college after assaulting a professor who had made a pass at her. He left school to fight in World War I, leaving behind his pregnant girlfriend. Jimmy went to Princeton University, where he met his future wife Angela ( Aleksa Palladino). Nucky eventually took over the Commodore's political machine and set Jimmy up for great success when he grew up. Jimmy was raised by his mother with support from Nucky, who became a father figure to Jimmy the Commodore, meanwhile, was indifferent to his son. The Commodore's protege, Enoch "Nucky" Thompson ( Steve Buscemi), arranged for the Commodore to have sex with Gillian, at the Commodore's request. His mother was only 13 at the time of his birth, while his father was 54. And he has to figure out very quickly how to respond to that.Jimmy is the son of Atlantic City political boss Commodore Louis Kaestner ( Dabney Coleman) and showgirl Gillian Darmody ( Gretchen Mol). ![]() And I think what Nucky discovers, those people who form his army have suddenly decided to desert. Or if they choose to, then you have a battle on your hands. But unless somebody is willing to bow down before you, then you can't dominate them. We could argue, is that absolutely true or not. Eli has a line in this episode: you know the funny thing? Nobody takes power. And it became an interesting reason to explore what happens when a man in power is no longer supported by the people who give him that power. And so almost all the figures that we had met in Atlantic City were now on the other side of the fence from Nucky. And once that commitment was made in the story, we really had to honor it. Howard Korder: Season one ended with the forming of a conspiracy between Jimmy, Eli (Nucky's brother) and the Commodore. The conspiracy between Jimmy, Eli and Commodore in Boardwalk Empire Season 2 Episode 2īoardwalk Empire Season 2 Episode 2: ‘Ourselves Alone’ making of. ![]()
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