Yes, "Boardwalk Empire" takes a long time to coalesce, but we'll admit, when its early chess piece moves begin to fall into place and you can see forest for the trees on the board, boy does it get good. In tonight's absorbing episode, Nucky Thompson's (Steve Buscemi) latest booze shipment from Florida arrives with some unexpected cargo. It's Sally Wheet (Patricia Arquette), Nucky's lady in the Sunshine State who is overseeing the business. She's the mercurial firecracker who got into a fistfight with Nuck and then made love to him in the season's sixth episode, "North Star." Arriving unannounced, she throws Nucky for a bit of a loop. And what's more, she's hard to pin down and seems to be in no mood to pick up where Nucky and her last left off. In fact, Atlantic City underling gangster Mickey Doyle (Paul Sparks) appears to be taking a shine to her and she doesn't seem to mind the attention. Nucky doesn't really know where he stands and he doesn't like it. Several threads simmering...
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