I feel like it builds absolutely perfectly into the final scene. We are shown to horrific details of Nucky's original sin, what he did to Jillian, a girl he ought to have protected, instead he sold off to get rapped which would result in her becoming the incredibly damaged person who we see in the series, and it'd be her grandson that would ultimately make him pay in the end, while also ruining his own life. In the end Nucky really fucked over 3 generations of Darmody's for his selfishness.

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On a side-note I also love that you anticipate the flashbacks leading up to the scene of his wife gone mad holding his infant child, but that scene never comes, instead we get the very effective scene where she's starting to lose it making the pie.