re: Boardwalk Empire (Season 5, Ep 4 "Cuanto")

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I was wondering the same thing.

I'm not so sure I like the way the signs are pointing for this series to finish up so quick. To me it looks like Nucky will be whacked and the Capone and Lucky storylines will continue on as history depicts.

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To me it looks like this show is headed for Nucky to retire/be forced out of the business and end up back with Margaret. There's the foreshadowing of what Johnny Torrio was telling him about getting out, his background flashbacks showing us what Nucky really wants out of life, and his rum connection is pretty much over so he'll salvage what he can and get out.

Van Alden will get backed into a corner and will either go out in a blaze of glory or expose/kill the Fed and escape Chicago and start over elsewhere. I don't know how his character ends up but I hope he lives. I have a feeling Eli is a goner, or at the very least spends the rest of his days in Capone's crew and ends up dead or in jail. I don't see Capone killing him. Chalky will not regain his power and will end up broke and alone to remember his dead daughter.

IRL does Lucky kill the current boss in the show? They've been showing how Lucky, Meyer, etc. have been setting this up to take over.