re: "Boardwalk Empire" Season 3 Episode 8 Thread.

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When Nucky called him an interloper, 2 things occurred to me.

1.) I had never seen Nucky seem more put in his place than he was by Mellon, and using "interloper" made him seem slightly like a wounded little kid

2.) Using someonelses word is a very Lebowski thing to do, Donny.

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Yep, I thought the same, but he's too important and powerful to be exposed by Nucky. He'll ultimately take Nucky's deal--what does he care which bootlegger goes to jail as long as the heat's off of him. And publicly calling him an interloper and kicking him out gives him plausible deniability of any involvement with Nucky--then he can contact him behind the scenes and make the deal.