Boardwalk Empire (TV Series)

Two Boats and a Lifeguard (2011)

Michael Pitt: James 'Jimmy' Darmody

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Quotes 

• Angela Darmody : Why'd you marry me, Jimmy?

  James 'Jimmy' Darmody : Because I love you.

  Angela Darmody : Is that what you tell yourself?

  James 'Jimmy' Darmody : It's what I just told you.

  Angela Darmody : But it isn't true.

  James 'Jimmy' Darmody : I could ask you the same question.

  Angela Darmody : Because we have a child together. It's what society expected from me. Because you kept pushing it.

  James 'Jimmy' Darmody : Huh. That's romantic.

  Angela Darmody : It's honest, Jimmy. All I'm asking is the same of you.

  James 'Jimmy' Darmody : I haven't lied to you, Angela.

  Angela Darmody : You haven't told me anything. You go out, I don't know where. You come home all hours, sometimes days later, with blood on your clothes. God knows what you're doing.

  James 'Jimmy' Darmody : Selling booze. So what?

  Angela Darmody : Did you try to have Nucky Thompson killed?

  James 'Jimmy' Darmody : [long pause]  Yes. I didn't want to, but I did.

  Angela Darmody : Why would you do such a thing?

  James 'Jimmy' Darmody : The plan was for him to go to jail. My father and Eli approached me last fall. Nucky would go away, we would take over.

  Angela Darmody : You used to love him.

  James 'Jimmy' Darmody : He's not what he seems, Ange. It's complicated. It wasn't supposed to be like this. Kept drawing lines for myself in the sand, got further and further involved, and then...

  Angela Darmody : You didn't want him killed, yet you went along with it anyway.

  James 'Jimmy' Darmody : Yes.

  Angela Darmody : What changed your mind?

  James 'Jimmy' Darmody : My mother.

  [Angela gets up and quietly stubs out her cigarette] 

  Angela Darmody : Thank you for talking to me.

  [Angela walks away]