Recap of ep.2 Please
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Recap of ep.2 Please
Can someone tell me what happened in the second episode? As detailed as possible.Thanks.
Title: Genesis 27:29
<i>May nations serve you
and peoples bow down to you.
Be lord over your brothers,
and may the sons of your mother bow down to you.
May those who curse you be cursed
and those who bless you be blessed.</i>
Tommy is trying to prevent the highway spur from going through the Hill, after the speaker put pressure on the Italian rep and made him reneg on his deal with Tommy. He goes to Judd Fitzgerald, a legendary power broker (Len Cariou in a wheelchair), for help. Judd tells him that he will support an alternative location (which Tommy suggests), if Tommy can persuade two other reps to allow the spur to go through their neighborhood instead. Tommy uses the snowplow contracts he finagled (and wouldn't give to Freddie) in the first episode to bribe one of them, and he uses gambling debt information that he obtained from Michael in Ep 1 to blackmail the other one into going along with it.
It also turns out that Rose has some history with Judd, but she's keeping mum, no pun intended, except to say that he lived on the hill and helped her out once.
Michael and Pete coerce a really annoying woman into selling them her liquor store at half the going rate by playing Russian Roulette with her mentally challenged brother, Slow Charlie. She reports the crime to Declan, who immediately goes to Tommy about it. Tommy plays slippery politician and all but asks Declan to make it go away, which he does by scaring the crap out of the woman. When he goes back to Tommy to tell him what he's done, Tommy throws up his hands, feigning ignorance and saying that whatever Declan did was Declan's choice.
The ear victim from the first ep confronts Michael and Pete in a parking lot, returning the rotten ear Mike gave her, but keeping the earrings, because "A girl has to dress up sometime." Michael, for some strange reason known only to the writers, goes on a date with this woman. He plans to take her out for ribeye, but she's a vegetarian. Then he takes her to a karaoke bar, because she says she likes to sing, but she proceeds to have way too much to drink, which turns her into Surly College Girl. Michael tries to be conciliatory, because he's obviously confused by her metamorphosis into a baffling bitch, but he keeps his temper, until she makes an ugly remark about his age. He leaves her (but still pays the bill) and goes home, stopping to beat the crap, no pun intended, out of two guys who are urinating on a fence in his neighborhood.
Eileen is still slipping out on Tommy and getting high as a kite, even going so far, it's implied, as snorting coke in the ladies at the Portugese Festival of the Holy Ghost, where Tommy is putting in an appearance and twisting a few arms, including the rep with the gambling problem. (There's a really funny bit about Portugal being a third rate Spain, and Spain being a 6th rate Ireland by the House speaker.)
Michael has moved into his old bedroom at Rose's house, and after he comes home from his date with Surly College Girl, he sulks in his room. Rose brings him hot chocolate, which she doesn't let him drink, before insisting he go to bed. Whereupon she tucks him in, kisses his forehead, and turns out his lights. It's either really sweet, or just plain icky. Boundaries, Rose. Boundaries.
The episode ends with the Italian rep telling Tommy that Judd had wanted the spur in the alternative neighborhood for years, but had never been able to get the two reps to budge. He congratulates Tommy on his ability to "get 'er done". Although he doesn't use that exact language.
How's that?
<i>May nations serve you
and peoples bow down to you.
Be lord over your brothers,
and may the sons of your mother bow down to you.
May those who curse you be cursed
and those who bless you be blessed.</i>
Tommy is trying to prevent the highway spur from going through the Hill, after the speaker put pressure on the Italian rep and made him reneg on his deal with Tommy. He goes to Judd Fitzgerald, a legendary power broker (Len Cariou in a wheelchair), for help. Judd tells him that he will support an alternative location (which Tommy suggests), if Tommy can persuade two other reps to allow the spur to go through their neighborhood instead. Tommy uses the snowplow contracts he finagled (and wouldn't give to Freddie) in the first episode to bribe one of them, and he uses gambling debt information that he obtained from Michael in Ep 1 to blackmail the other one into going along with it.
It also turns out that Rose has some history with Judd, but she's keeping mum, no pun intended, except to say that he lived on the hill and helped her out once.
Michael and Pete coerce a really annoying woman into selling them her liquor store at half the going rate by playing Russian Roulette with her mentally challenged brother, Slow Charlie. She reports the crime to Declan, who immediately goes to Tommy about it. Tommy plays slippery politician and all but asks Declan to make it go away, which he does by scaring the crap out of the woman. When he goes back to Tommy to tell him what he's done, Tommy throws up his hands, feigning ignorance and saying that whatever Declan did was Declan's choice.
The ear victim from the first ep confronts Michael and Pete in a parking lot, returning the rotten ear Mike gave her, but keeping the earrings, because "A girl has to dress up sometime." Michael, for some strange reason known only to the writers, goes on a date with this woman. He plans to take her out for ribeye, but she's a vegetarian. Then he takes her to a karaoke bar, because she says she likes to sing, but she proceeds to have way too much to drink, which turns her into Surly College Girl. Michael tries to be conciliatory, because he's obviously confused by her metamorphosis into a baffling bitch, but he keeps his temper, until she makes an ugly remark about his age. He leaves her (but still pays the bill) and goes home, stopping to beat the crap, no pun intended, out of two guys who are urinating on a fence in his neighborhood.
Eileen is still slipping out on Tommy and getting high as a kite, even going so far, it's implied, as snorting coke in the ladies at the Portugese Festival of the Holy Ghost, where Tommy is putting in an appearance and twisting a few arms, including the rep with the gambling problem. (There's a really funny bit about Portugal being a third rate Spain, and Spain being a 6th rate Ireland by the House speaker.)
Michael has moved into his old bedroom at Rose's house, and after he comes home from his date with Surly College Girl, he sulks in his room. Rose brings him hot chocolate, which she doesn't let him drink, before insisting he go to bed. Whereupon she tucks him in, kisses his forehead, and turns out his lights. It's either really sweet, or just plain icky. Boundaries, Rose. Boundaries.
The episode ends with the Italian rep telling Tommy that Judd had wanted the spur in the alternative neighborhood for years, but had never been able to get the two reps to budge. He congratulates Tommy on his ability to "get 'er done". Although he doesn't use that exact language.
How's that?
No, but I think it was implied, as Min said. It's just the way she looks at the girls, while not voicing any objections. Then the scene cuts to her and Tommy as they walk to the car. I half expected her to start sniffling or wipe her nose or something.I didn't see Eileen do Coke...did I miss something?