In case you haven’t learned to suspend your disbelief by now and are in search of an explanation about where the secret casino under the Arconia came from, I’ve got good news for you. The episode opens with Charles providing a little history lesson about how the rise of automobiles in the 1910s rendered the horse stables under the building obsolete. The mob saw an opportunity for all of that space, and thus The Velvet Room was born, where some of the most consequential decisions in the city have been made for nearly a hundred years. But until they stumbled upon it, he had always assumed that it was just a myth.

And speaking of stumbling upon things, when they’re down there they hear Oliver up in the dry cleaners through the vent where Nicky’s body had just fallen onto him. They tell him t

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