Margate Sands Quotes: Boardwalk Empire

Here are some quotes from the Season Three Finale of Boardwalk Empire: Margate Sands.

• Mayor Bader: Let’s get something straight — Nucky Thompson doesn’t run this city. I do.
• Reporters: (all bursting out in uproarious laughter). Right. That’s a riot!

I can’t do EVERYTHING!

• Al Capone: The deal’s with me.
• Nucky Thompson: What’s a handshake with you worth?
• Capone: We’ll head to the boardwalk. Down by Margate. See if we can’t get Rosetti to stick his head up.
• Eli Thompson: You watch out for civilians.
• Capone. No, we need to watch out for ourselves. The rest is for you to clean up. Get your bingo bongos to help.

Now we know where Flavor Flav got that line

• Joe “The Boss” Masseria: How many men I give you?
• Gyp Rosetti: Exactly?
• Masseria: Exactly.
• Rosetti: 43.
• Masseria: And how many of my men you have left. Exactly?
• Rosetti: 31 plus 9 of my own.
• Masseria: So 12 of my men morte — and for what?
• Rosetti: I got the hotel, I got the casino, I got his warehouse…
• Masseria: You no have Nucky Thompson, hah? And Arnold Rothstein, he’s still eating dinner in Times Square. All these words you say. What do they mean?
• Rosetti: I’m leaving bodies on the ground, Joe. We’re winning. And half of Thompson’s crew — they’re shines. You can’t count them as a whole person.
• Masseria: (in Italian) This is their home. That’s why they fight…. Everyone dies. Not everyone keeps their promises.
• Rosetti: I’m gonna keep mine.
• Masseria: (Sets clock by his watch) Perfect. Now you know what time it is.

A guard at Tommy’s door?

• Gillian: I’d like to go in. (Gyp’s man guarding Tommy’s door, open it for her). Such a gentleman.
• Gyp’s Man: Not always.

Mending Fences

• Nucky: You got them someplace safe (meaning Eli’s wife and children).
• Eli: With her sister. In Brigantine. And you… Margaret and the kids?
• Nucky: Look at us.
• Eli: Two Pineys and a broke down car.
• Nucky: Maybe that’s why… we didn’t stop while the going was good. Always try’na pinch for a little more, just in case.
• Eli: I never told them to pass the Eighteenth Amendment, did you?
• Nucky: Where’s it gotten us?
• Eli: We’ll worry about that later, after Rosetti’s in the ground.
• Nucky: Stop kidding yourself, Eli. You’ll never be Sheriff again…. It’s over here, however this plays out. No one’s gonna come within a hundred yards of me. Not in Atlantic City. Not in New York. Not anywhere.
• Eli: Sure they will. You just gotta offer them something they want.
• Nucky: How do I do that?
• Eli: I don’t know. You’re the man with all the angles.

I’ve got 3 words for you

• Mickey Doyle: I know you didn’t want to talk to me again. It’s just, I’m all at sea over here.
• Arnold Rothstein: And uh, where is it you’ve gone adrift?
• Doyle: I’m saying 3 words: Overholt. Distillery. Pennsylvania.
• Rothstein: I know about Overholt, Mr. Doyle. What I don’t is why you wish to discuss it with me.
• Doyle: Because I’m sitting in it right now. It’s very large and a certain person that we both know made an arrangement with another person to run it. And that first person — his back is against the wall. I bet he’d give up anything just to keep from going under for a third time.

Someday you’ll get your own scar and everyone will remember

• Lucky Luciano: Where’d you get that scar?
• Sam: Mulberry Bend. You know where that is? Bandit’s alley. Little shit came up behind me one night with a shank. Carved me another smile.
• Gaetano: Pricks like you — they come and go. Nobody remembers them.

Gillian’s a pistol

• Tonino: I got the broad here.
• Gyp Rosetti: Please show her in.
• Gillian Darmody: It must be hard to be away from your girls…
• Rosetti: Huh?
• Gillian: Your two daughters…
• Rosetti: Oh yeah. Yeah, at that age, you take off for a few days, you miss so much.
• Gillian: How old are they?
• Rosetti: 16 and 14 — I think.
• Gillian: You and me?
• Rosetti: I’m gonna treat you like a queen up there on a pedestal.
• Gillian: And where are you?
• Rosetti: I’m way down below, like a little bug crawling around on your toe.
• Gillian: I could crush you
• Rosetti: Just squash me flat till I’m beggin for more.
• Gillian: Is that what you like?
• Rosetti: I’m just having some fun.
• Gillian: People have fun in different ways. There’s no need to be ashamed of any of them. That’s what this club is all about
• Rosetti: You’re a pistol, Red.
• Gillian: Then why don’t you pull my trigger and see what shoots out. I don’t know about you, Gyp, but sometimes I wish someone would give me exactly what I deserve.

A hefty percentage

• Arnold Rothstein: Your distillery in Pennsylvania.. for a percentage in ownership. I can arrange for Joe Masseria to back away from Gyp Rosetti.
• Nucky Thompson: How much of a percentage?
• Rothstein: 99, Mr. Thompson. I will require 99%.
• Nucky: (hangs up phone and says to Eli) Big bait catches big rat.

You’ve come to the right place

• Margaret Thompson: I need to bring my monthly on.
• Mrs. Hollis (abortion doctor’s wife): When was your last?
• Margaret Thompson: Six weeks.
• Mrs. Hollis: He can help. He does that for many women. He’s very careful. Very thorough.
• Margaret: I’m lost. I’m completely lost.
• Mrs. Hollis: I never tell anyone what to do.

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it’s bad they’ve got our white, don’t get us killed, too

• Meyer Lansky: 50 pounds. 100 thousand bleeping dollars.
• Joe Masseria: Meyer.
• Lansky: (about heroin on table) Is that ours?
• Joe Masseria: Not anymore.
• Lucky Luciano: You set me up, Joe. (then to Rothstein) You bleeping set me up! Who the bleep do you think you are? I worked for that. I busted my ass for that. It was my idea. My deal. You didn’t lift a finger, sit by your desk making phone calls. I’m out there with the bleeping world.
• Lansky: Charlie, if you don’t shut up, we’re both dead. Yes! A.R., Mr. Masseria, you know how he gets.
• Rothstein: All this time I thought I had some civilizing effect. But there’s only so much you can teach a person until you reach the limits of his capabilities.
• Rothstein (to Masseria) Seeing as how I’m flush with product… how would you like to join me in the heroin business.
• Masseria: In exchange for what?

Put ’em up, put ’em up

• Chalky White: You sure do like to reach for that pistol. What’cha so scared about?
• Al Capone: Nothing I’m looking at now.
• Chalky: Let’s see what you’re made of.
• Nucky Thompson: I just hung up with Arnold Rothstein. Gyp Rosetti’s at the Artemis Club. Joe Masseria is withdrawing his support. I know that. Rosetti doesn’t.
• Chalky: How’d that happen?
• Nucky: I paid for it.

What’s an ape like you doing in a place like this

• Gillian Darmody: Well, what is it you’re intending to do to me?
• Gyp Rosetti: I’m gonna break you in half. Split you right down the middle till you beg me to stop… and when I’m done there won’t be nothing left but a wet spot and a hunk of hair. You know why?
• Gillian: Tell me.
• Rosetti: You’re a worthless piece of shit.
• Gillian: Am I?
• Rosetti: You know you are. You look in the mirror and you know you deserve everything you’re going to get.
• Gillian: I’m ugly, aren’t I? Just an ugly little animal.
• Rosetti: Say it again.
• Gillian: Ugly little ape.
• Rosetti: You laughing at me?
• Gillian: Why wouldn’t I? Everybody else does. Would you like me to whip you? (wraps belt around his neck). That’s not tight enough, is it? Not for an ape like you.
• Rosetti: No, no.
• Gillian: You need to be held down so you don’t run off into the jungle.

Who was that masked man

• Gyp’s man (as they run out of Club Artemis to escape Harrow’s massacre): Where’s Tonino?
• Gyp: F*ck him, let’s go.
• Gyp’s man: (pointing a gun at Tommy Darmody’s head). Put the gun down. You think I give a bleep?
• Richard Harrow: Tommy, close your eyes.

The aftermath:

• Nucky Thompson: Who did this?
• Gillian Darmody: You came… I was good. I went upstairs like you said to. The man… Nucky, he did something very bad to me.
• Paul Sagorsky: You don’t come home like this. Whatever battle you fight — it’s not what a soldier does.
• Richard Harrow: He’s safe. That’s all that matters.

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Nothing personal, Gyp

• Gyp Rosetti: Relax. It’s a party… I’m an important person. I have important garters holding up my very important socks. Do you have any idea who the bleep I am? Do you? DO YOUUUUUU???
• Tonino: You’re Nucky Thompson.
• Rosetti: I’m Barney Google with the goo goo googly eyes and I never ever take anything personal. F*ck ’em all, huh? I came here with nothing. How do you lose what you never had? Start over. It’s what this country’s all about, right? We head west. Find some hick berg. Blow ’em right over. How hard can that be? …. (starts singing)
  Barney Google with the goo goo googly eyes
  Barney Google, bet his horse would win the prize
  When the horses ran that day, Spark Plug ran the other way
  Barney Google … uhhhhhhhh
• Tonino: Sorry, I gotta.
• Tonino: It’s done.
• Nucky: Tonino, I see you in Atlantic City again, I’ll kill you myself.

Baby, Come Back

• Nucky: Your life is with me. You’re spoiled for anything else… Nobody’s watching. Nobody’s watching. Take this for the children. Take it for yourself. You don’t have to pretend with me… This is only money. It doesn’t mean anything.
• Margaret: Yes, it does.