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Boardwalk Empire Season 2
DeeezNuuuts83:
After watching the last episode again, I still think that Nucky and Jimmy faked his death... really well. You may disagree with me, but this is why I think so:
1. When speaking with the Commodore's lawyer, Jimmy went out of his way to ask if the Estate would go from the Commodore to Jimmy, then to his son, if Jimmy were to die.
2. When interacting with his son on the pony ride, when asked if he wanted to be a soldier or a cowboy, he said a soldier (like his father), though Jimmy was looking back at his mother than away from her like he was worried (or perhaps going away for a while).
3. Jimmy's son had his dog tags, which to me was foreshadowing. Additionally, it was odd for him to have asked Richard to stay behind.
4. Knowing he would be meeting up with Manny (who he knows killed his wife), why would he have shown up unarmed without a single weapon?
5. The first shot was at Jimmy's left cheek, which you don't see at all during that scene since it's in the dark (as his car is on the other side, shining its headlights on his right side), and Boardwalk Empire is typically pretty gruesome in such scenes (like earlier when they shot the alderman through the mouth, and you could see the back of his head open from the exit wound), but you didn't see the back of Jimmy's head bleeding onto the ground, so it's POSSIBLE that he may have been sporting a fake wound already that no one would've been able to see beforehand. He was spitting up blood, but maybe it was planned and he had some stuff in his mouth already.
6. Nucky plays it safe and has other people do his dirty work -- why would he put himself at risk by murdering someone in front of three witnesses, all of whom have had their hands dirty before while having a reason to do it themselves? Even though Manny already killed Angela, he'd probably still want Jimmy dead. Owen doesn't have anything against Jimmy, but he works for Nucky and has already put in work for him. Eli was already in disagreement with Jimmy several episodes ago and basically sold him out by lying to Nucky and saying that he didn't have anything to do with the attempt on Nucky's life. But obviously any of those three people having done the deed wouldn't leave any question about Jimmy being dead, whereas MAYBE Nucky and Jimmy did plan something when they talked at his beach house.
7. Nucky may not always tell the FULL truth to Margaret, but he generally doesn't lie to her. When he told her the following morning about having run into Jimmy and "cleared the air" with him, maybe he was telling the truth to her. While to us it looks like he killed him, what if they did plan it, and that was their next move? I'm thinking that maybe he did really re-enlist in the military, which I thought could've been possible given the battle scene from the trenches after Jimmy was "shot," plus he had given his dog tags to his son (so maybe he's leaving that identity behind), though the episode with the flashback to Princeton shows how Jimmy can lie his way into the military, so maybe he's doing it again. Perhaps he's realized that he wasn't meant to give orders (as his short reign was completely difficult and unsuccessful), though he made a great soldier who was fully capable of carrying out orders to the T.
My guess is that with Manny, Owen and Eli having "seen" Nucky "murder" Jimmy, he knows what only they would know. So if there are rumors that circulate talking about Nucky having killed Jimmy, he'd know one of the three of them turned on him, though with Jimmy not really being dead but having faked his death, he can always turn up again to prove that Nucky didn't commit murder, which is definitely something Nucky wouldn't ever want to get busted for or even do. Additionally, maybe he himself did that to appear to the other three as if he is actually capable of killing. Similarly, I don't see Nucky really having just cut Jimmy loose like that with their history (but despite their recent troubles with one another), as Jimmy supposedly being dead will allow him to get his revenge on Manny in the future. I'm pretty sure that Nucky sympathized with him, as he knows the importance of family life to a man while having clearly expressed to Manny that they had "even less in common" after Manny basically said that it was he who killed Angela.
Javier:
He's dead. That scenario would be very cheap for the writers to do.
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