"The Ivory Tower" is the second episode of the first season of the HBO television series Boardwalk Empire, which originally aired September 26, 2010.
At Nucky's direction, Eli visits Margaret in the hospital and delivers an envelope of cash, while making a subtle threat to have her children taken into state custody unless she lies to Van Alden about her husband being involved in bootlegging.
Rothstein telephones Nucky and demands $100,000 to cover his losses from the robbery and for the murder of one of the drivers, who happens to be his sister-in-law's nephew.
Nucky visits his political mentor, "Commodore" Louis Kaestner, who humiliates his black maid to mock the idea of women's suffrage.
After Van Alden writes home to his wife, he takes a hair ribbon he had stolen from Margaret and smells it to satiate his lust for her.
Jimmy, short $500 and unable to get Capone to loan him the rest, steals the necklace from his mother and pawns it to pay Nucky back.
Elsewhere, one of Rothstein's men, alive but badly wounded, stumbles across a businessman getting sexually pleasured in his car outside Atlantic City.