In the blink of an eye, fortunes change. One week you're up, the next week you're down. And it's strange to see a seemingly unassailable man like Arnold Rothstein (Michael Stuhlbarg) down on his luck, but that's exactly where we find the Manhattan gangster in this episode. It's perhaps a shock just to hear through dialogue that Rothstein's empire is crumbling, but the writing has been on the wall for a few months now, especially as revealed in "All In," the episode where the gambler lost his shirt in one of Nucky Thompson's (Steve Buscemi's) Atlantic City clubs. "Why is it you don't gamble?" Rothstein asks his valet Peter while at home, playing billiards in an introspective mood. "Because I don't have the stomach for it," the man responds. Rothstein tells a story of how he won the first time he gambled as a little boy, but now he's not quite so sure he's still lucky. And while we don't see exactly how it happened, we're told that Joe Masseria (Ivo Nandi), Rothstein's former...
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