In a tense meeting early in the episode, Arnold Rothstein—pale and stolid as always—summarizes for the audience: “Rosetti controls the roads in and out of Tabor Heights.

(MORE: Boardwalk Empire Watch: The Crate) I’m going to skip over the history lesson involving Meyer Lansky, Lucky Luciano, Arnold Rothstein and the rest.

At the end of the second season of Boardwalk Empire, Nucky Thompson (Steve Buscemi) put a cap--or maybe it was two--in Jimmy Darmody's (Michael Pitt) pretty, treacherous noggin, ending two seasons ...