headphones are on

We also meet Mary Ann, who could’ve been Jenny to Tommy … if Jenny wasn’t Jenny. And boy does Tommy’s penchant for helping women in his life fuck him over, once again.

Whitey makes his debut, a former bookie and current junkie, Jimmy’s new “business partner” and from Joey’s heavy foreshadowing, this the start of a very violent end.

Kevin, the world’s unluckiest gambler, is the third wheel to Whitey and Jimmy’s new found friendship, with Joanie serving as the landlord of their new set up in her apartment. All sounds like it’ll go off without a hitch, right?

Jenny discovering her dad is putting the nightly diner deposits in a mailbox instead of the bank’s drop box is so sad. And Jenny confronting the route’s mailman, and obvious thief, is so New York attitude, you know the Donnellys have rubbed off on her over the years. Olivia Wilde plays it perfectly.

Meanwhile, Vinnie and Nicky learn the hard way with a steel shovel to the head that all isn’t what it seems to be between the late Sal and Huey. Alo’s clearly in on the deal, leaving Nicky fuming and knowing his death is coming if he doesn’t get a step ahead.

Soundtrack: Would love to have a copy of the song playing during the night scenes with Jenny and Mr. Reilly and Tommy and Mary Ann.  It seems to be a very obscure song, “It Wasn’t Me” by Rachel Scott, with full lyrics on the internet, but no full version of the song that I’ve found.

Favorite Scene: The scene where Jimmy hits Whitey over the head with a beer mug, making sure to finish the beer first, and Kevin follows suit, because Whitey calls Tommy a jerk for a taking a cut of the Maxwell money.