Boardwalk Empire’s final season moves to 1931, and this is what we expect.
Potential Boardwalk Empire Season 5 spoilers await.
It wasrecently revealed toDen of Geekthat whenBoardwalk Empirereturns in September, season five will begin in 1931.
Thats seven years after the end of season four and two years into the Great Depression.
So far,Boardwalk Empirehas Charlestoned through the roaring twenties.
So what does this mean for the gangsters in Atlantic City, Chicago, and New York onBoardwalk Empire?
Lets start with who aint gonna be around no more.
Rothstein bought it in 1928 after losing in a fixed poker game on 54th Street and Seventh Avenue.
Rothstein lost $319,000 and tried to parlay it on the November election results.
Rothstein never got to make good on his marker.
On November 4th, 1928 he was ambushed at the Park Central Hotel on 55th Street and Seventh Avenue.
Rothstein never squealed in his life, not even on his own killers.
When the cops asked him who filled him full of lead, Rothstein said My mother did it.
His mother, Edith, had an air-tight alibi, she didnt see nothing.
Arnold Rothstein died on Election Day, Nov. 24, 1928, at the Stuyvesant Polyclinic Hospital in Manhattan.
So, I predict that Dutch Schultz will be a player in the new season.
Were also not going to be seeing Joe The Boss much longer.
He should last until about the middle of the season.
Joe Masseria ate his last plate of linguini and clam sauce on April 15, 1931.
He was dealt the ace of spades at an after dinner game with Charlie Lucky Luciano.
His right arm was pushed out straight, as if it had been his play with the cards.
His hand laid frozen on the gleaming cloth.
The lone bright spot of the Ace of Diamonds sparkled up from his lifeless palm.
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TheNew York Daily Newsreported that the card was an ace of spades.
Legend has it Benny Siegel, Vito Genovese, Albert Anastasia, and Joe Adonis were the shooters.
Ciro Terranova drove the getaway car.
This will endthe Castellammarese War in New York.
Salvatore Maranzano will tell everyone that hes the capo di tutti capi, the boss of bosses.
But hell say that in Chicago and Lucky wont hear it.
Joe Bonnano will basically give his blessing and look the other way.
Public Scumbag Number One, J. Edgar Hoover will also cut some big cheese.
If they were alive today, maybe theyd all be part of Occupy Wall Street.
Hoovers alleged lover, Clyde Tolson, was named assistant director in 1931, making the pair inseparable.
So, love should bloom at FBI HQ.
Capone would be thumbing his nose at the courts too.
He was pinched for vagrancy and it got him a contempt of court charge.
He started doing time as a shoemaker in May 1932 at the Atlanta U.S. Penitentiary.
He wouldnt be fighting the law any more.
Hed be fighting little bugs that were messing up his head.
Capone was a partier.
He happily screwed around and caught himself a case of the clap.
He also had to start his jail stint doing detox for his heavy coke habit.
Capone would spend most of the thirties on Alcatraz.
Id like to see Slick Willie Sutton onBoardwalk Empireif they can find an excuse to write him in.
Sutton robbed banks with an unloaded gun.
Slick was also an escape artist.
He pulled three Houdinis.
One time he escaped from jail by climbing over the wall dressed as a prison guard.
He was caught by the spotlight in the middle of his climb and still got away.
He just yelled down Its okay and the other bulls figured, well, it was okay.
Let the man climb.
Why did Sutton rob banks?
Because I enjoyed it.
But to me, the money was the chips, thats all or so some reporter said he said.
Sutton liked robbing banks so much he even did it while he was on the lam.
Too bad Baron Lamm died in 1931.
Seems that Enoch was sticking his Johnson in one of Hearsts favorite showgirls.
As far as Nuckys tax aversion, the feds liened on Johnsons property in 1933 to get back taxes.
Boardwalk Empireis going to skip completely the reason for its being.
The 1929 meeting of The Big Seven.
Lansky knew how to throw a honeymoon too.
Along with Lansky, the Atlantic City Conference was thrown by Johnny Torrio, Lucky Luciano and Frank Costello.
Morris Moe Dalitz and Louis Lou Roddy Rothkopf came in from Cleveland.
The Purple Gang came in from Detroit.
Santo Trafficante and Sylvestro Silver Dollar Sam Carolla came in too.
Any of these men would be great additions to theBoardwalk Empirecast of rogues.
Well keep our eyeballs peeled.
Al Capone and Nucky Johnson almost got into a fight over hotel accommodations.
What a shame it wont be featured.
I also predict Jack Diamond will show off his Legs this season.
Expect the gangsters to assemble to watch em and make cracks.
I predict they will love these movies and, just maybe, Martin Scorsese will direct that episode.
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