Old Ship of Zion Quotes: Boardwalk Empire

Here are some quotes from The Old Ship of Zion, the eighth episode of Boardwalk Empire’s Season 4″

Agent 1: Nag’s name is Buddy Boy. Rothstein bets $100,000 to place.
Agent 2: Dollars?.
Agent 1: Yeah. This is one race, mind you. Horse comes in fifth. By the last race, Rothstein’s down 500 grand.
Agent Knox/Tolliver: I ask you to make connections. All you bring me are anecdotes. This operation is costing time and money.
Agent 1: Where’s the law for this?
Knox/Tolliver: We’ll get the crooks. Then we’ll find the law
Agent 2: Here’s something. Of course, it’s just an anecdote. … Nucky Thompson has a nephew at Temple University and this nephew’s roommate is currently facing trial for killing another student with spiked liquor. . . . All I know is that Nucky Thompson drove up from Atlantic City. Sat in the D.A.’s office for 35 minutes and another boy went to jail. I hope that amused you, Jim. I’ll get on those land fraud cases right away.

Sally Wheet: Well who’s this, the butter and egg man?
Mickey Doyle: Geez, ain’t you the firecracker?
Nucky Thompson: Sally…
Mickey: You know each other?
Nucky: Miss Wheet and I met down in Tampa.
Sally: He came he saw…
Mickey: And he conked her?
Sally: You are a wicked little boy.
Mickey: You think I need a spanking?

Sally: What’s his problem?
Nucky: That’s my brother.
Sally: No wonder he looks so miserable.

Dunn Purnsley: Bossman! What’s shaking?
Chalky White: Ain’t seen you in service this morning
Dunn: I ain’t no church man. You know that.
Chalky: People jawing about that deacon. Eyeing me all hincty.
Dunn: Nobody know nothing.
Chalky: Somebody do.
Dunn: We gonna find that somebody. Take some time.

Mayor Edward Bader: Election year again…
Nucky Thompson: I have a calendar.
Mayor Bader: I got a dead body on the building site.
Nucky: Make the sheriff do his job.
Bader: And now this business with the deacon — in his own church! I’m nowhere without the colored vote, you know better than anyone.
Nucky Thompson: That’s between you and Chalky.
Bader: I don’t have that connection with him.
Nucky: Then you need to make one.
Bader: If he can’t keep his house in order, that’s not good for either of us.

Chalky White: Who runnin’ things around here?
Junkie: Mose is.
Chalky: Where he at?
Junkie: In the bullrushes?
(Dunn Purnsley rushes in and kills Mose)
Chalky: I wanna talk to that man.
Dunn: He wasn’t in no conversing mood.
Chalky: You mighty quick to end things.
Dunn: He be quick to end me!

Nucky: Deacon Cuffy?
Chalky White: He was where he shouldn’t have been.
Nucky: He was in the church.

Agent Knox/Tolliver: Clayton, is it? I hear you like Chesterfields.
Clayton: When I can get ‘em.
Knox/Tolliver: (slides over 3 packs of Chesterfields) Tell me all about William Thompson.

Sally Wheet: If you’re bored, you’re boring. I was raised to keep myself entertained.
Mickey Doyle: She can shoot a bow and arrow … and she’s half Indian.
Sally: One-eighth.
Nucky Thompson: What do you think of the club?
Sally Wheet: Looks like you were slumming down in Tampa.
Nucky: It’s just that people expect something different here.

Find out who played Wanton and Africanus

Wanton: You shall not wrest the babe from my arms, Africanus.
Africanus: She is not yours to claim, Wanton.
Wanton: I bore her in my womb and nursed her at my breast.
Africanus: With the tainted milk of foreign kind. Pass her to me and redeem yourself. Redeem yourself and be freed.
Wanton: Oh, precious one, think mercifully of your mother — she who gave you life but could not hold onto life herself.
Africanus: Daughter, I name you Ominira and freedom is indeed what you shall bring. Live and lead us forward. Lead your people home!

Valentin Narcisse: Mr. White, are you here for the play? It just concluded.
Chalky White: Naw, Doctor. I came to show you something. … This one called “Harlem by Torch Light.”

Willie Thompson: Hey, why do they call them hush puppies?
Sally Wheet: My pa said they’d feed them to the dogs to keep ’em quiet but he said a lot of things that turned out not to be true.

Willie Thompson: I’m not asking for any favors. I’ll start at the bottom, hope I can make good. And if I don’t, it means I didn’t deserve it.
Nucky: Your mother and father?
Willie: I owe them an apology.
Nucky: And our agreement?
Willie: I just want you to give me a chance to show you that I can be the person you want me to be.
Nucky: That you want to be…. The person you want to be.
Willie: Yeah.
Nucky: Let’s see what we can do.

Valentin Narcisse: To give into melancholy. We have talked about this weakness. How you must fight it, hmmmm?
Daughter Maitland: I try.
Narcisse: Mr. White will come to you this evening. You keep him here. There will be another visitor.

Knox/Tolliver: My associate… would you mind sliding over.
Eli Thompson: Go bleep yourself.
Knox/Tolliver: How’s your boy, by the way? … His roommate is sitting in a cell, awaiting trial on a murder charge and you know about people in jail…
Agent Selby: They all say they’re innocent.
Knox/Tolliver: But he told me his story anyway. Two boys drive to Atlantic City, steal liquor from a warehouse controlled by the first boy’s father. They poison this liquor, give it another boy at school that first boy doesn’t like…
Selby: Henry Gates.
Knox/Tolliver: They called him Bucky. Now he’s dead. Clayton Davies is facing life. The first boy.. well, it’s all about who you know, isn’t it?
Selby: His Uncle Enoch got him out of it.

Daughter Maitland: You’re in a hurry
Chalky: Wasn’t in a hurry when it count, was I?
Daughter: You’re getting tired of me.
Chalky: You wear me out. That ain’t getting tired.
Daughter: Stay.
Chalky: When you sing, that sound.. like you tying up a secret.
Daughter: Spend your life walking over the world but you never find your place cause there isn’t one.
Chalky: Thought the Doctor look after you.
Daughter: That’s not what he does.

Chalky: What about her?
Dunn: He brought her around, didn’t he? Stick her in front of you
Chalky: One thing you ain’t mentioned, buck
Dunn: What?
Chalky: How much he paying you to bleep me?
Dunn: What… the… hell…
Daughter: (reciting Psalm 19:13) Keep your… Keep your servant also from willful sins… breathe, breathe breathe… may they not rule over me. Then, then will I be blameless, innocent of great transgression.