Hold Me in Paradise

"**Hold Me in Paradise**"
"Hold Me in Paradise"
Boardwalk Empire episode
	Angela receives nothing from Jimmy
Episode no.	Season 1; Episode 8
Directed by	Brian Kirk
Written by	Meg Jackson
Original air date	November 7, 2010
Running time	50 minutes
Guest appearances
	Gretchen Mol as Gillian Darmody; Greg Antonacci as Johnny Torrio; Edoardo Ballerini as Ignacious D'Alessio; Danny Burstein as Lolly Steinmann; Max Casella as Lucien D'Alessio; Jack Huston as Richard Harrow; Christopher McDonald as General Harry Daugherty; Geoff Pierson as Senator Walter Edge;
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"Hold Me in Paradise" is the eighth episode of the first season of the

television series Boardwalk Empire, which premiered on November 7, 2010. It was written by staff writer Meg Jackson and directed by Brian Kirk. Nucky attends the Republican National Convention in Chicago

, while Eli fills in for him in Atlantic City.

Plot

Atlantic City

. He also agrees to hide Nan and her child until Harding is elected president.

Nucky stops by the Four Deuces; while conversing with

armed robbery by the D'Alessio brothers and sustains a shotgun

wound while trying to stop them from escaping.

When Nucky learns that Eli has been incapacitated, he asks Jimmy to come back to Atlantic City as his personal enforcer, reminding him that, as an Irishman among Italians, Jimmy will always be an outsider in Torrio's crew. Nucky stresses that he needs Jimmy's help in the intensifying

Jimmy's heist

. Jimmy is initially hesitant, but ultimately reconsiders after watching Al and the others speak Italian while playing cards, all while feeling completely left out.

Van Alden's wife, desiring a child even though she is

infertile, asks him to pay so she can undergo an expensive operation. He gathers all the money he has intercepted from Jimmy, then mails an envelope to his wife. However, it is soon revealed that he had actually sent the money to Angela; his wife receives a letter in which he informs her that he doesn't want children and won't pay for the surgery. Rothstein prepares for legal trouble over his role in the Black Sox Scandal. Margaret has a public spat with Lucy and finds herself entangled in Nucky's affairs when he calls from Chicago and asks her to watch over his office and hide a ledger

that contains every detail of his criminal empire. Margaret spends the entire night sitting at Nucky's desk, and against his instructions, reads the ledger.