Nucky Thompson and Margaret Thompson in “Unfinished Business”

Nucky Thompson

You have to understand: No matter what you think of me, there's no walking away. It doesn't work like that. I do it to them, or they do it to me. And that's all there is.

And the men in your office?

Nucky Thompson

Either they're with me and we go to war, or they'll smile, shake my hand and walk away. I'll be alone, and that's as good as dead.