The kids then ask Margaret to perform next, and while she demurs, Nucky says he'd like to see what she's got up her sleeve. "You would, would you?" she asks in a very playful way that makes me just love her. So Margaret gets up an sings a silly little Irish ditty called "Tell Me Ma" (Margaret's version has less of a dance beat) and while she's a pretty modest singer, she gets the kids to clap along with her and really sells it. Now it's Nucky's turn to look at his spouse with fondness.

Richard and Julia are down at the boardwalk amusement park. It's hard to watch this show in the wake of this week's storm, and what happened to the Boardwalk and the amusement park there on the Atlantic City shore. I can imagine there will be more of that as this series goes on, but this scene is the first to really remind me of it. Richard tries to tell her that he had a lovely time, which she doesn't believe (though I think it's true). In truth, she's having a hard time knowing what to say to him at all. When he tells her to just say what she feels, she tells him to please not threaten to kill her father again. "He's a mean drunk and a horse's ass," she says, fighting back tears, "but I don't like it." Richard says he was just trying to sound tough, but obviously Julia's not looking for more of that in her life. She spots Tommy getting too close to the camel attraction, and Richard pulls him away, saying they bite. Tommy pouts that he doesn't care, so Julia calls over to him and asks if he's going to sulk all day just because her father's a dope. This gets Tommy to smile a bit. I'm noticing that Julia kind of resembles Gillian. A kinder, less Oedipal Gillian, to be sure. She says she should be getting home, and he starts to say something, addressing her as "Miss Sagorsky." She tells him to call her Julia, and he introduces himself as Richard. "Nice to meet you," she smiles. A barker hustles them both and Tommy in front of a backdrop and takes their photo, referring to them as father, mother, and son. Not a one of them is related to another, of course. But in a perfect world ...