The Milkmaid’s Lot Quotes: Boardwalk Empire (S3 E9)

Here are some quotes from The Milkmaid’s Lot (11/11/2012) — Episode 9 of Season 3 of Boardwalk Empire. The recap of the episode is here.

Concussion and tinnitus symptoms
Eddie Kessler: He’s very stubborn not to take his medication.
Nucky Thompson: Because they don’t work. Why don’t you give me something stronger.
Dr. Carl Surran: I could prescribe laudanum, but it’s just as likely to give you headaches. What you need is bed rest.
Nucky: Call Eddie. Get him over here.
Eddie: But I am here.
Nucky: Not you. My brother.
Eddie: Eli.
Nucky: That’s what I said.

The Ritz-Carlton kind of life
Teddy Schroeder: Thompson suite. Who’s calling please? …. I asked you first. Because the first…
Eddie Kessler: (grabbing the phone) Thank you. Thank you, young man.
Margaret Thompson: (checking behind Teddy’s ears). You’re to give yourself a proper scrubbing.
Teddy: What’s the difference? We’re not going anywhere.
Margaret: I asked you to make your bed.
Teddy: The maid will do it.
Margaret: There won’t always be maids.

Gyp’s motive
Margaret Thompson: Not a wandering vagrant this time, is it?  Knowing nothing doesn’t make it better.
Owen Sleater: It’s Mr. Rosetti as you probably guessed.
Margaret: What did Enoch do to him?
Owen: He said “no” and he wanted to hear “yes.”
Margaret: That’s all?
Owen: Sometimes that’s enough.
Margaret: He’s welcome to take his dog back.

About that Pony
Margaret: What’s Dr. Surran say?
Nucky: I have impetigo.
Margaret: Really!
Nucky: We need to discuss something. The three of us — right now. What happened?
(Margaret and Owen share an uncomfortable glance)
Nucky: To the pony? The pony, the pony. The goddamn pony.
Margaret: We didn’t buy a pony.
Nucky: Why the hell not? Wasn’t I clear on this?
Margaret: Because as it turns out, we’re living in a hotel and they don’t allow horses, not even small ones.

Let’s talk about this before someone gets hurt
Sheriff Ramsey: If you sell alcohol — I — the Sheriff’s Department gets a piece of it. That was made very clear.
Home Bootlegger: It’s just a few quarts of homebrew, Jerry.
Gyp Rosetti: Howdy, Sheriff. What’s new on the prairie?
Sheriff: Gyp! Good to see you again…
Gyp: What’s so good about it? You miss my company? You like the way I Iook? Are you some kind of finook?
Sheriff; Just ready to get back to business.
Gyp: No kidding. You been twiddling your thumbs just waiting for me to show up.
Sheriff: There’s no need for any of that. You know me, I’m flexible.
Gyp: Not for much longer.

In and out of touch
Nucky: (to Chalky White) When did you get so uppity?
Chalky: Come again?
Nucky: Work on my shoes later.
Owen Slater: This is Mr. White.
Nucky: Gas — Babette’s — tell them it was a gas leak.
Teddy Schroeder: The man’s on the phone…  the gypsy.
Nucky: Hello?
Gyp Rosetti: I want to read you something from the paper. It plucked my heartstrings, I don’t know why. “Lights dimmed all along the Rialto last night for a fallen star who had just begun to shine. Lillian Kent… was remembered by a glittering array of Broadway’s brightest.
Nucky: (to Owen) One day you wake up and you realize what’s been going on.
Gyp: You hung up before I had a a chance…
Nucky: To do what?
Gyp: Offer condolences from me and Joe Masseria. Why don’t you come see me sometime. I’m right up the road in Tabor Heights.
Nucky: Frankie Yale, Waxey Gordon, Peg Leg Lonergan, Bill Lovett in Brooklyn, Torrio if he’ll come, and Arnold Rothstein. We need to get them here as soon as possible.

Does the rhino have his ticket?
Josephine: What’s that?
Tommy: That’s a rhinocerous.
Josephine: What’s he doing there?
Tommy: Waiting to go home.
Tommy: (to Richard Harrow) Mississippi choo choo.
Harrow: Hmmm. The rhinocerous is waiting for the train.
Gillian: Josephine, it’s half past six. Don’t you have an appointment shortly.
Josephine: I didn’t realize the time. I’m sorry.
Gillian: Tommy, where are you going?
Tommy: With Josephine.
Josephine: No, chipmunk. You stay here.

Sometime protection fails. Then where are you?
Clifford Lathrop: George Remus? You’re under arrest for violating Title 2 of the Volstead Act with particular reference to Section 7.
George Remus; You’re making a mistake.
Clifford Lathrop: I’m correcting one.
George Remus: No. No! You can’t do this. Remus doesn’t get arrested. Not in his own home. Not anywhere! Remus is paid. Remus kept receipts!
Esther Randolph: What receipts?
Remus: From Jess Smith. Daugherty’s man
Randolph: Then Randolph would be very interested in seeing them.

It’s Margaret, not Mabel
June Thompson: Is there anything I can do?
Margaret Thompson: He’s in a bit of a tentative state.
Nucky Thompson: Mabel, please. There are children. Happy birthday, hummingbird!
Everybody (singing): Happy birthday, dear Emily, happy birthday to you.
Nucky: Happy, happy, happy, happy birthday, sweetheart…. We’ve got to have cake. It’s no party without a cake. Let’s carve it up, huh. Slice it wide open.
Eddie Kessler: I vill take care of zat.
Nucky: I’m on top of it, Bismarck. What do you want, the gypsy? I mean, the pony.

Let’s run away and live on love
Margaret Thompson: Is business meant to be like this?
Owen Sleater: Ask the man buried in the coal mine or digging a canal or working in a slaughterhouse. No one asks where what they want comes from. They just want it. And they’ll believe what suits them.
Margaret: And that’s your peace with it?
Owen: There’s no half way. And there’s no excuse either. I’m in it now. And when I’m done, I’ll walk away.
Margaret: Do you mean to?
Owen: Yeah, in a year… two years.
Margaret: Why not now?
Owen: Is that what you want? If it is, say it. Say it and we’ll go.
Margaret: It would have to be far.
Owen: We’re thousands of miles already. What’s a few more?
Margaret: You don’t think I would. That’s why you’re asking.
Owen: No. I’m not as complicated as you.