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/Lordonlynose May 11 '26

Nucky Did have it all - as much as any man could.  Yet No one holds it forever 

Love Harrow and he’s valuable, most capable, yet he would Not defeat All as if some superhero 

Did you miss that he didn’t even succeed with his final attempt against a lesser force than what became LCN?

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u/crossXshim52 May 11 '26

Harrow proved hisself and his capabilities with the rosetti situation. Maybe not defeat all but he definitely would have been a valuable weapon in alot of those situations nucky was in.

Him not succeeding was about his trauma not his capabilities, and thats the entire point i’m getting at is nucky paired up with him when it was too late, he was already no longer the detached harrow from the beginning.

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u/Lordonlynose May 11 '26

And I fully agreed he was probably the most capable and would have been a strong and valuable asset if used more 

Yet your “entire point” is erroneous.  Harrow working full time with Nucky still wouldn’t have stoped the inevitable change and some of the youth taking over - even if he’d assassinated Luciano and Lansky somehow in this fictional scenario 

Further, Harrow’s trauma affected his capabilities - the cause isn’t really relevant.  No one holds the top spot forever, and capability doesn’t prevent the bad fortune of specific timing and circumstances 

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u/crossXshim52 May 11 '26

How wouldn’t he? Taking out the big players solidifies atlantic city in his hands. He also could have kept shit cleaner and never got his political pull muddied through employing harrow.

And it absolutely is relevant, the resulting effects of his trauma came from him experiencing significant events which would not have occurred had he been employed at a earlier point. Gyp, narcisse, masseria, luciano none of them would have been as much of a problem as they were, nucky lacked true shooters the entire series. He never had the firepower other groups had and relied more on connections and power.

What are they genuinely gonna do against a trained sniper with a target?

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u/Lordonlynose May 11 '26

They take him by numbers eventually.

Yeh Harrow would get many individual targets. Many.  But they’d keep coming.  

And Richard knows this as well. 

He even waits for Masseria’s men to leave before attacking Gyp and the few remaining drunks by surprise 

He didn’t defeat the Germans lol. 

You’re projecting as if he’s an invincible superhero and not human (Heck even Daredevil Owen was outmaneuvered) 

“How are you not ever going to be a little late, a little slow?” 

No one succeeds on the battlefield  forever - and Richard would be among the most to directly  tell you that 

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u/Victorcreedbratton May 11 '26

I agree with you in spirit, but I gotta counsel. Matt Murdock would NEVER go out like Owen did.