"Hold Me in Paradise" is the eighth episode of the first season of the HBO television series Boardwalk Empire, which premiered on November 7, 2010. It was written by staff writer Meg Jackson and directed by Brian Kirk. Nucky attends the Republican National Convention in Chicago, while Eli fills in for him in Atlantic City. Plot Nucky visits Chicago as a delegate for the 1920 Republican National Convention, where he finds himself intrigued by the candidacy of Warren G. Harding over more established candidates, including the presumed front-runner Leonard Wood. Discovering that the married Harding has a daughter out of wedlock with a young woman named Nan Britton, Nucky persuades campaign manager Harry Daugherty that he can deliver the votes of the New Jersey delegation in exchange for Daugherty blocking Senator Edge's nomination for the vice-presidency, as Nucky is eager to exact revenge for Edge refusing to give him the road funds for Atlantic City. He also agrees to hide Nan and her child until Harding is elected president. Nucky stops by the Four Deuces; while conversing with Torrio and a federal judge from Ohio, Jimmy comes downstairs to deal with an unruly guest and runs into his old patron. Nucky behaves coldly towards Jimmy as he is upset that the latter has never called or sent money to his family, unaware that Van Alden, working out of Atlantic City's post office, has been intercepting the steady stream of money and letters Jimmy sends to Angela. Back home, while collecting money at an illegal casino, Eli walks into an armed robbery by the D'Alessio brothers and sustains a shotgun wound while trying to stop them from escaping. When Nucky learns that Eli has been incapacitated, he asks Jimmy to come back to Atlantic City as his personal enforcer, reminding him that, as an Irishman among Italians, Jimmy will always be an outsider in Torrio's crew. Nucky stresses that he needs Jimmy's help in the intensifying turf war against Rothstein and the D'Alessios, offering in return a percentage share in his bootlegging operations and help in dealing with Van Alden's investigation of Jimmy's heist. Jimmy is initially hesitant, but ultimately reconsiders after watching Al and the others speak Italian while playing cards, all while feeling completely left out. Van Alden's wife, desiring a child even though she is infertile, asks him to pay so she can undergo an expensive operation. He