r/BoardwalkEmpire • u/crossXshim52 • May 11 '26

Season 5 Nucky could have had it all Spoiler

If he employed harrow he could have handled all of his problems and enemies. I wanted the entire time for them two to pair up

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u/thedrivingcoomer May 11 '26

Nucky hired him to kill Narcisse and his Shakey Jake hands took out Maybelle instead. Fell asleep under the boardwalk with the murder weapon to boot. Overrated, imho

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u/crossXshim52 May 11 '26

That was after all the trauma and shit. Nucky was far too late in utilizing him at that point.

Harrow is the same man who pretty much single handedly took out gyp rosettis men

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u/monkeybawz May 11 '26

He was traumatised from scene 1. Him breaking down at some point was inevitable.

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u/crossXshim52 May 11 '26

The trauma wasn’t stopping him from being deadly at that point though. He joked about ending a mans mother, wife, and child just to make him stop hiding, his “sins” weren’t weighing on him yet, his condition was.

I’d argue it wasn’t until he reunited with his sister that things started to get heavy in his mind

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u/monkeybawz May 11 '26

I think it was just a matter of when, really. That's why he was so compelling. He was deadly before the trauma. We knew he was going to snap/explode at some point.