Gene Jones

Season Four Premiere. Having survived his epic battle with Gyp Rosetti, Nucky makes a peace offering to Joe Masseria while working the odds with Arnold Rothstein. Chalky prepares to open the Onyx Club on the Boardwalk, but the impulsive Dunn Purnsley clashes with a booking agent. A fresh-faced prohibition agent, Warren Knox, arrives in Atlantic City to learn the ropes from Agent Sawicki. Gillian seeks custody of Tommy while trying to find a good man to keep the Artemis Club afloat. Eli's college-age son Willie turns to Nucky for career advice. Al Capone enlists his brothers, Frank and Ralph, to help him expand his business in the Chicago suburb of Cicero. Richard Harrow returns to his violent ways.

Civil war comes early to the West. In “Bleeding Kansas,” abolitionists battle for free soil. In Utah, federal troops march against Mormon polygamy. And along the Rio Grande, oppressed Mexican Americans rebel. The war between North and South unleashes brute savagery in the West, and leaves behind an army prepared for total war against the native peoples of the plains.

A triumph of the human spirit, the transcontinental railroad opens a new era in the West, carrying homesteaders onto the prairies, bringing cowboys up the cattle trail from Texas, helping give women the vote in Utah and sending buffalo hunters onto the plains, where they drive a symbol of the West -- and a way of life -- to the brink of extinction.

Episode two looks at New York's rise as a burgeoning cultural center and multi-ethnic port.

As a tragedy in his home district forces Francis (Kevin Spacey) to abandon the teachers’ union negotiations on the education bill, Zoe’s (Kate Mara) elevated public profile creates friction at the Herald.