‘Boardwalk Empire’ Kills Its Best Character

Our hero dies listening to the waves beneath the boardwalk

“Boardwalk Empire” star Michael K. Williams said last year that his character can’t have too many scenes with Jack Huston‘s Richard Harrow — because too many people would die.

We never imagined one of them would be Harrow, the masked marksman who became the heart of the show. He chose his words wisely, because his World War I disfigurement made it difficult for him to speak. He chose his shots with even more precision.

Until Sunday.

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In last year’s season finale of “Boardwalk Empire,” Harrow was the hero of the day: the bespectacled avenger dispatched an entire bordello full of gangsters to rescue Tommy, the young son of his friend Jimmy Darmody.

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