Richard was a sharpshooter in the US Army during World War I. He was badly disfigured during the war, losing his eye, upper jaw and most of the cheekbone on the left side of his face. He has also suffered some throat damage which causes him to speak in a low, muffled voice.

Julia runs to meet Richard on the large lawn, during his approach — and the second reverse shot on Richard’s face shows the man as he would like to be seen: whole. Uninjured by a life of violence. And then the brutal cut back to the Atlantic City reality: Under the boardwalk, Richard’s face mask is torn off.

In the show’s final moments, Nucky was gunned down by Gillian’s grandson Tommy Darmody, who was carrying out revenge for all the pain that Nucky had inflicted on his family. While fans and critics were split on the ending, series lead Steve Buscemi believe it was a great conclusion for the gangster drama.

Gillian, the ultimate survivor, makes it to the end of the series alive, but she may be doomed to spend the rest of her days as a living cadaver. In Gretchen Mol’s final scene appearance, it is clear the onetime teenage mother has already been subjected to psychiatrist Dr. Cotton’s disturbing dissection experiments. 2.

Suddenly it’s not Eli on the defensive, but Nucky. The tragic irony of Eli’s betrayal is that even as he risks everything to get his son out of harm’s way, Will credits his uncle for getting him out from under the murder charge, driving him ever deeper into the criminal underworld Eli always wanted him to escape.

The fourth season finale served as the last episode for WWI vet Richard Harrow (Jack Huston), who succumbed to a gunshot wound after botching an assassination under Nucky’s orders. Harrow had finally built the family he always craved.

We ran the different versions of how it might end. We had talked about him going off to a life of obscurity after he gave everything up. In some ways, that felt like a punishment, too — not that we were necessarily trying to punish him. But this felt like a more powerful and dramatic ending.

Unfortunately, she didn’t show up last night. Boardwalk Empire sorely missed Margaret in its first episode, and the Season 4 opener was worse because of it. When last we saw Margaret, she had decided to leave Nucky and pursue her own interests, taking the children with her.

Clarkson suffered his injuries while following Van Alden’s corruption to a bootlegging warehouse. Van Alden waits in a hospital corridor and watches a nurse pass, carrying a newborn. A second nurse allows him in to see Clarkson. Horrific burns cover Clarkson’s right side and he is unconscious.

Harrow is shot while trying to escape and after making his way under the boardwalk, he has a vision of returning to his family with his own face healed, before it’s revealed he died of his wounds during the night.

While Richard wasn’t based on anyone in particular, executive producer Howard Korder said in the season one DVD commentary for Boardwalk episode “Paris Green” that the inspiration for the character came from an article he read in Smithsonian Magazine about a Boston sculptress named Anna Coleman Watts Ladd.

Boardwalk Empire (season 4) Jump to navigation Jump to search. The fourth season of the HBO television series Boardwalk Empire premiered on September 8, 2013, and concluded on November 24, 2013, consisting of 12 episodes.

Series overview. Boardwalk Empire is a period drama focusing on Enoch “Nucky” Thompson (based on the historical Enoch L. Johnson), a political figure who rises to prominence and controls Atlantic City, New Jersey, during the Prohibition period of the 1920s and 1930s.

Boardwalk Empire is an American television series created by Terence Winter and based on the book Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times and Corruption of Atlantic City by Nelson Johnson. The series debuted on September 19, 2010, and concluded on October 26, 2014 on HBO, consisting of 56 episodes over five seasons.