Warning: Full spoilers for the episode follow...
I have to admit, I wasn't completely thrilled with "Blue Bell Boy" (named after the Mother Goose rhyme) and the whole "last gas station in Tabor Heights" locale is getting a bit tired. But there were a few moments at the end of this chapter that seemed to pull the story back together a bit. Not enough to save the entire episode, but enough to make me appreciate going on the journey. And Al Capone singing Henry Burr's "My Buddy" to his deaf son at the end was sickeningly touching.
Our connection with Capone, if you judge a character's worth on this show by whether or not they're a direct part of Nucky's world, is tenuous at this point. Van Alden's over in Chicago, and at some point he'll get in on the Capone/O'Banion action. But then we could also ask "Why are we still following Van Alden?" There's definitely a rabbit hole to fall down into here, so let's just say that the only people we're allowed to follow on this series, even when they're not directly dealing with Nucky in any way, are famous, real-life gangsters. Or Michael Shannon. Capone's story was a simple one this time around, beating one of O'Banion's goons to death with a bar stool because the guy put the hurt on a fat, hygiene-deficient pimp. Easily seen underneath it all is Capone's love for his son and his rage against the world, and his own syphilis, for making the boy deaf. The best part of the tale was Capone, who we could comfortably accept as a stern, psychotic father, dropping his tough guy act after making Sonny cry while trying to teach him to fight.
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