Not to kill him - although he did think that Nucky was lying about setting him up - but to get him to negotiate a "safe passage" deal so that Chalky could go to Maybelle's wedding, which he didn't know had been called off (a mistake caused directly by him not being with his family). Who returned to Jersey to stick a gun in Nucky's face. The deck was most definitely shuffled and people were scattered - far away from the actual boardwalk strangely enough as last season seemed to suck everyone back in closer together. As the notes and words of the Ma Rainey song (sung by Daughter in a club somewhere/elsewhere) took us out of the episode, Chalky seemed to have forsaken his old life, sitting on Oscar's porch over in Maryland, Margaret was being shown into her hew upscale apartment by Rothstein, and Eli (in a nice surprising twist) was being picked up by a car driven by Van Alden. Good thing Nucky held up his end of the bargain first, huh? "Farewell Daddy Blues" was filled with tension and pain, removing Eli from Nucky's life completely while setting up Will as Nucky's new number two. And so despite the fact that he messed up his actual task (though it did, by hook and crook, manage to take Narcisse out of Nucky's affairs), he still wound up saving Tommy by making sure Gillian went to jail. Because Harrow, almost exclusively, really was part of Jimmy's tale. There is, truthfully, only so much you can do with Harrow and I'm glad that his end was tied back to Jimmy. Especially on a show where I freely admit to only really enjoying two or three. *weeps openly* I don't think it was a huge move to kill off Harrow, since the foreshadowing was well in place, but it does pain me to lose a very interesting character. And the almost silent dream he experienced at the end, where we got to see actor Jack Huston's complete face, made the final image of his corpse all the more haunting. So Harrow wandered off to die, settling on the sand underneath the boardwalk, where he and Julia once spent the night, as a place to expire. So much so that it affected his work and caused an innocent to die (although Maybelle really did pop into frame at the last second - I had to rewind it to see it clearly). But that wasn't the Harrow on display here. Someone who doesn't want to kill, but can take out an entire town if pushed too far. No, I didn't expect a full repeat of his one-man army performance from last year, but I think most of us like the idea of Harrow as being someone who can turn it on and turn it off, as it pertains to his "particular set of skills." Like the archetypical retired gunslinger.
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