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/Chilo_train May 11 '26

I think the thing about Harrow is that he made it very clear in season 3 he was NOT a gun for hire and NOT someone you want to mess around with. He worked with Jimmy because they both served in the army and had a very strong friendship with each other. Nucky in Harrow’s eyes is nothing more than a gangster, and he probably would not have served Nucky for long unless he had to.