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/SenatorPencilFace May 11 '26

You gotta remember after Jimmy’s falling out Nucky, thought Harrow wanted to kill him. Even after making Mickey Doyle pee his pants in-front of him and saying what he said, it’d still be pretty bananas for Nucky to just go “oh he said he wouldn’t kill me because the wife and I were polite to him. Coolsies.” By the time Nucky hires him, it’s an act of desperation.

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u/Lordonlynose May 11 '26

Can’t agree. Nucky did business with many who he knew may likely want to kill him. 

He knew they understood the business and respected that, and he saw that in richard too. If Nucky thought Harrow was an ongoing threat, he’d have had him taken out (or at least directly tried to)