Boardwalk Empire (TV Series)

Two Boats and a Lifeguard (2011)

Shea Whigham: Elias 'Eli' Thompson

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Quotes 

• Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson : [at his father's wake]  I'm here for mother, and for Susan.

  Elias 'Eli' Thompson : They're all together now.

  Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson : Heaven? If such a thing existed, you really think that son of a bitch would be there?

  [Eli starts crying] 

  Elias 'Eli' Thompson : Was he that bad, Nucky? Really?

  Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson : You've obviously forgotten key events from our childhood.

  Elias 'Eli' Thompson : I turned out OK. So did you. Whatever he did, he made us the men we are today.

  Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson : What's that?

  Elias 'Eli' Thompson : We run this fucking town, Nucky!

  Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson : WE don't run anything, brother. And he can rot in hell.

  Elias 'Eli' Thompson : That's you, boy, in spades. No capacity for forgiveness.

  Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson : Grow up, brother, please. And take some responsibility. At long fucking last.

• Elias 'Eli' Thompson : [coming into the funeral parlor and surprised to see Nucky]  Nucky... what are you doin' here?

  Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson : I have just as much right to be here as you do.

  Elias 'Eli' Thompson : I'm surprised is all.

  Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson : That it's not me in the box?

  Elias 'Eli' Thompson : [referring to the attempted assassination of Nucky]  I had nothing to do with that.

  Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson : You had nothing to do with stopping it either.