They are desperate to catch what the men are so easy to cast off. A young, poor Nucky, lying in wait with other boys in the water, as rich men throw change off the pier. How easily they wasted their precious currency in these days. “Be honest and true boys/whatever you do boys/let this be your motto through life” a voice-over that sounds uncannily like Gretchon Mol reading a children’s poem opens up the season premiere, as we see coins “sprinkling the sea with gold” sinking into the blue hazy waters of Atlantic City, 1884. Boardwalk Empire, “The Golden Age of Girls and Boys”, Season 5, Episode 1
