I agree, the assasin was probably sent by Lansky,but I suspect the ear chopper was sent by Bacardi, who thinks that healthy competition is in his best interest.

The Cochise hand shake scene is no doubt intended to be the inaugural meeting of the five families.

The series started to lose it's way last season.

I am sad they jumped to '31. All of the Chicago stuff is wasted. We missed St valentines day and Capone is about to go to prison.

Unless VanAlder has changed his name to Nitti or Ness, they could have killed him off in Jersey.