"The Good Listener" is the second episode of the fifth season of Boardwalk Empire, and the 50th episode overall. It is scheduled to air on September 14th, 2014.
Plot
Synopsis
Nucky visits Johnny Torrio in New York City to discuss his close call in Cuba and find out if new Mafia boss Salvatore Maranzano had anything to do with it. Meanwhile, law-school graduate Willie has a job interview; Eli and Nelson's liquor stash is raided by Eliot Ness in Chicago; and Joseph Kennedy listens to Nucky's pitch for post-Prohibition prosperity. Also: A young Nucky and his family mourn the loss of his sister, Susan, in 1884.
Appearences
First Appearences
- Mike D'Angelo
- Warden
- Joseph Kennedy
- Eliot Ness
Deaths
- Joey - Shot by Eli Thompson.
- Jack - Shot by Eli Thompson.
- Tonino Sandrelli - Stabbed to death by Arquimedes.
Production
Starring
- Steve Buscemi as Enoch "Nucky" Thompson
- Kelly MacDonald as Margaret Thompson (credit only)
- Michael Shannon as Nelson Van Alden / George Mueller
- Shea Whigham as Elias "Eli" Thompson
- Stephen Graham as Al Capone
- Vincent Piazza as Salvatore Charlie "Lucky" Luciano
- Michael Kenneth Williams as Chalky White (credit only)
- Paul Sparks as Mickey Doyle (credit only)
- Jeffrey Wright as Valentin Narcisse (credit only)
- Ben Rosenfield as Willie Thompson
- and Gretchen Mol as Gillian Darmody
Guest Starring
- Anatol Yusef as Meyer Lansky
- Ian Hart as Young Ethan Thompson
- Chris Caldovino as Tonino Sandrelli
- Domenick Lombardozzi as Ralph Capone
- Matt Letscher as Joseph P. Kennedy
- Greg Antonacci as Johnny Torrio
- Michael Zegen as Bugsy Siegel
- Boris McGiver as Sceriff
- John Ellison Conlee as Young Commodore Louis Kaestner
- Louis Cancelmi as Mike D'Angelo
- Jim True-Frost as Eliot Ness
- Erin Dilly as Elenore Thompson
- Christiane Seidel as Sigrid Mueller
- Reg Rogers as
- Paul Calderon as Arquimedes
- Michael Countryman as
- Giampiero Judica as Salvatore Maranzano
- Paul Fitzgerald as
- Richard Bekins as
- Nolan Lyons as Young Enoch Thompson, 1884
- Oakes Fegley as Young Elias Thompson