Chalky White and his fellow prison escapee break into a house, silently and calmly raid the kitchen before Chalky asks Milton if it's "the right house." A woman confronts them and Chalky asks for cash, saying they're go "easy." The woman says "we don't have any cash," which makes Milton wonder whether she's alone. He tells Chalky to check upstairs. He walks toward the stairs and sees another woman there.
Back in 1884, we see Nucky answering the call of "Boy" whenever a guest of The Corner Hotel needs anything. The whole time, the youngster is eying a young girl from afar. Later, a man staying at the hotel asks Nucky what he would do for love. He spins together some poetic words about what one might do for love, and Nucky agrees and says he'd do that. Then Nucky hands over some flowers in exchange for a tip. The man asks Nucky for fresh ones every day, adding, "I'm counting on you." Nucky catches a glimpse of the man's girlfriend naked under the sheets in the bed.
Nucky meets with Mickey Doyle, who is auditioning a burlesque dancer, and asks them to bring some muscle, urging him to hire one of the 8 million men looking for work if he needs workers to unload the trucks in the muscle's absence. Nucky gets a phone call from Cuba connected from Sally, who says their man at Bacardi is fine. Nucky tells her he's "lost" Sen. Lloyd, but has a big fish coming from Wall Street. Nucky laughs as "Happy Days Are Here Again" plays on the radio. He holds the phone up so they can listen to it together. Meanwhile, Nucky flips through his mail and finds a letter from Nellie Bly.
Margaret is being asked about "A. Redstone," which was the alias Arnold Rothstein used in his dealings with the bank. She denies having known this, or Rothstein. Mr. Bennett had been making withdrawals from the account long after Rothstein's death, to the tune of $111,000 dollars. Mr. Bennett's partner and the bank's lawyer ask Margaret about her signatures being on the withdrawals. She says she signed lots of things for Mr. Bennett.
Back at the house Chalky and Milton broke into, one woman offers $9, which she says is all they have. The younger woman, Fern, says her father is gone for work. She says she goes to school. Milton points his gun at the women and tells them about a big party they'd had in the house. He worked the party and got nothing but a "that'll do" from the man who put him to work. The older woman denies having ever held such a party. Milton stands and approaches the women, getting closer with the gun before asking Fern which grade she is in. When she says 10th, Chalky suggests that a truancy officer could come around soon. Chalky wants to get the cash and go. The phone rings and Milton slams it to the floor in frustration. He shouts at the women about a safe in the cellar that he's seen with his own eyes. When they go downstairs and there's no safe, Fern quickly claims that her father moved it to the bank. Fern offers to go into town and get it, but Chalky pulls Milton aside to suggest that they should leave to "wherever we're headed." Milton says, "We ain't headed nowhere."
Lucky Luciano and "Bugsy" Siegel meet with Dr. Narcisse in Harlem, telling them Mr. Maranzano is offering a business partnership and protection against whatever may come up. Dr. Narcisse isn't interested, saying, "What I have belongs to me." Lucky says Mr. Maranzano would like to help him hold on to what he has, but Dr. Narcisse sends them away, telling them he's sorry they came up so far for nothing. They leave.
Back in 1884, Nucky is still hard at work and is about to deliver more flowers to Mr. Beckert, but The Commodore pulls him away and tells him to leave them at the desk so he can handle another task.
Nucky meets with Joe Kennedy, who has stopped in Atlantic City. Kennedy makes reference to his ninth child on the way. They chat about their families a bit before the veal parmesan, which Nucky has ordered for them both, shows up. Kennedy turns down wine, saying he works hard to thwart the notion that Irish-Catholics are all drunkards. Nucky puts his own wine down and asks for a seltzer. Kennedy goes on to say such impressions can change in one generation. When Nucky tells him he sounds like a gambling man, Kennedy replies that he takes the "risk" out of gambling by rigging the game, adding, "What else is the stock market good for."
The two women have their hands tied when Milton falls asleep in a chair. The older woman whispers to Chalky that he could leave with the money, urging him to take Milton's gun. She says she can tell that Chalky is not like him, but Chalky says he is and tells her to shut her mouth. Fern asks Chalky about his daughter, and Chalky starts to tell her about Maebelle and tells her she needs to stop talking. A car rolls up, waking Milton. He and Chalky hide near the door. Someone knocks for a moment before leaving. Milton cracks the door open and pulls in a package that was left. Milton brings the package in, which is a dress. Her mother says it is for her spring formal. M Ilton tells her to put it on. She begins to put it on over her dress when he tells her to "put it on proper." She starts to take her clothes off when Chalky steps toward Milton and the mother suddenly says, "It's upstairs," referring to the safe. Everything stops.
Margaret meets with Rothstein's widow, Carolyn, claiming she wasn't aware she lived in a building Rothstein owned. Carolyn suspects Margaret was one of Rothstein's mistresses. Margaret says all she did was give Rothstein some information on a stock in exchange for the apartment. Carolyn says she was left with nothing but humiliation and wants the money that was in the account. Carolyn tells Margaret that she'll sue her for the money personally and brings Nucky's money into the discussion. Margaret tries to tell Carolyn they have a lot in common, but Carolyn disagrees before adding, "But we're going to — let's see how you like reading your name in the paper next to 'notorious husband.'"
Back in 1884, Nucky is waiting on a couple that he drove to the beach on a cart pulled by a horse. The girl he's been watching approaches him and tells her, "Enoch walked with God and he was no more." It's a quote from The Bible, which Nucky says is "going in circles." She suggests maybe it's too hard for him to understand. She asks him if he has to do whatever anyone tells him to and he says it's his job. She offers him 10 cents to kiss the pony. When the girl's mother calls her toward the water, she runs off. But Nucky calls out to her and kisses the pony. She sees this, then turns and keeps running. Nucky spots Mr. Beckert, telling him he brought the flowers but no one was in the room. Mr. Beckert asks Nucky to "make sure she gets them."
Nucky and Kennedy are at the club as the burlesque dancer is doing her performance for real with a group of eager men watching. Kennedy watches Kitty, calling her a "talented young lady." Nucky says he's sure she'd love to meet him. The bartender brings them drinks, but Nucky turns them away and asks for a seltzer and a Coca-Cola. Mickey gets the two returned cups and pours them back into the bottle.
Chalky is trying to bust open the safe, which is hidden in a closet just as the woman said. Milton takes his own turn at breaking the safe, but he stops and says that isn't the one he saw. The woman insists her husband has the combination and has never given it to her. Milton loses it, then starts slamming the hammer into the wall, shouting that there's no man living in the house. As he points the gun to the younger woman's head, the mother screams that she'll open the safe, then pulls out some bonds she says are all they have. Chalky, having seen enough of unpredictable Milton, slams him in the back of the head with a hammer, then jams the back side of it into the back of Milton's neck. He dies. Fern grabs Milton's gun and points it at Chalky, asking if Maebelle knows "what you are."
"She knew what I was," Chalky replies. The mother tells Chalky to take the $9 and "get out of our house."
More dancing girls are on stage as Kennedy watches from the upstairs office. Talk turns back to family, with Kennedy asking him about his father. Nucky says he didn't make much of himself, and Kennedy says that might have been good for Nucky to give him a fire in his belly. Nucky turns the conversation back to Bacardi, urging Kennedy to work with him. Kennedy asks Nucky what he's trying to make money for, given that Nucky has no family items in his office. Kennedy asks Nucky to tell him what he really wants and they'll make a deal. Nucky first says he's not interested, but when Kennedy threatens to leave, Nucky says, "I want to leave something behind." Kennedy doesn't respond, but asks about Kitty, the dancer. Kennedy pours Nucky a drink and says, "Perhaps I'll bring her a saucer of milk." Kennedy leaves and Nucky downs the drink before pouring another.
Back in 1884, young Nucky brings flowers to Mr. Beckert's door. The Commodore's guard opens it and Nucky says he's delivering the flowers. The Commodore, who is in the room where Nucky catches a glimpse of the girlfriend's naked and bloody dead body on the bed, comes to the door and tells Nucky to get downstairs and tend to his duties.
Mickey Doyle comes to a group of men standing around a fire and tells them he needs eight workers. A 15-year-old jumps up but Mickey refuses to bring him along until he offers half his pay and tells Mickey he's "real hungry." Mickey brings him along.
Siegel and another man visit one of Dr. Narcisse's brothels, where they are directed to a room full of women awaiting their business. They shoot the man and all the women in the room before leaving.
Back in 1884, The Commodore hands young Nucky an envelope that someone left for him. Nucky puts it in his pocket, then steps over and tells the guard that he saw Mr. Beckert the day before on the beach. The guard says "it's taken care of." The guard says you can't stop every bad thing, then tells Nucky the whole is between them, "otherwise it's bad for business." He walks away, and Nucky opens the envelope. It's a card from the girl, Mabel Jeffries, reading, "We are here for a few weeks every summer. P.S. I would have let you kiss me."
Back on his office couch, Nucky wakes up to find woman's silhouette at the window.
"Mabel?" he asks.
"I'm afraid not," the woman says before turning on the light on the desk. It's Margaret.
This episode provides examples of:
- An Offer You Can't Refuse: Lucky orders Bugsy Siegel and another man to shoot up Narcisse's brothel when he refuses to pay Maranzano a protection fee.
- Ax-Crazy: Milton becomes this in this episode.
- The man who asks 1884!Nucky for flowers.
- Jerkass: Joe Kennedy in this episode. He's extremely condescending towards Nucky.
- Pragmatic Villainy: The Commodore orders the death of The Flower Man because reporting his crimes to the police because it would affect Atlantic City's reputation as a tourist spot.
- Redemption Rejection: Chalky: "Baby girl, Jesus was wrong."
- Sanity Slippage: Milton becomes a raving psychopath in this episode.
