31 Facts About Jimmy Darmody

James Edison Darmody is a fictional character in the television show Boardwalk Empire, played by Michael Pitt.

Jimmy Darmody is one of the main characters in the first two seasons of the series.

Jimmy Darmody's mother was only 13 at the time of his birth, while his father was 54.

Jimmy Darmody was raised by his mother with support from Nucky, who became a father figure to Jimmy Darmody; the Commodore was indifferent to his son.

Jimmy Darmody went to Princeton University, where he met his future wife, Angela.

Jimmy Darmody left school to fight in World War I, leaving behind his pregnant girlfriend.

Jimmy Darmody was stationed in France fighting on the Western Front against Germany.

Jimmy Darmody's leg was wounded by fragments from a German grenade, leaving him with a permanent limp.

Jimmy Darmody suffered from reoccurring nightmares related to his traumatic wartime experiences.

In January 1920, Jimmy Darmody had recently moved back to Atlantic City after recovering from his war injury.

Jimmy Darmody displayed signs of post-traumatic stress disorder from memories of the trench warfare and refused to go back to school.

Jimmy Darmody ends up working for Nucky as his driver and bodyguard.

Jimmy Darmody is left wondering if he is doing the right thing.

Jimmy Darmody enters a deal with Philadelphia gangster Manny Horvitz to supply him alcohol.

Jimmy Darmody is short on cash and demands a $5,000 advance.

However, Nucky has Owen Sleater, a former IRA assassin, blow up the warehouse where Jimmy Darmody's liquor is stored.

Jimmy Darmody finds himself with no alcohol and thus no way to pay his debts.

Jimmy Darmody ends up buying medicinal alcohol from George Remus and uses it to make whiskey.

Jimmy Darmody has Chalky White, the leader of the black community in Atlantic City, to get all the black workers in the city to go on strike.

Meanwhile, Jimmy Darmody grows tired of Horvitz asking him to repay his debts, and contacts Horvitz's rival Waxey Gordon to have him killed.

Since Jimmy Darmody is out of town, he instead finds Angela with her lesbian lover and kills them both.

Jimmy Darmody is devastated, and dulls the pain with alcohol and heroin.

Jimmy Darmody tries to make amends with Nucky, and he and Harrow help him with his election fraud case by killing the main witness for the prosecution, Alderman Jim Neary, and staging it to look like a suicide.

However, Jimmy Darmody knows that he is being lured to his death, and willingly goes unarmed to see Nucky.

Jimmy Darmody tells Nucky that he truly died during the war, and even tries to talk him through the mechanics of shooting someone.

Jimmy Darmody turns the house into a high-class brothel and raises Tommy as her own.

Jimmy Darmody eventually kills a man who resembles Jimmy and uses his body in place of Jimmy's, giving her control of the Commodore's estate until Tommy is an adult.

Jimmy Darmody's corpse is dug up and Gillian is convicted of murder.

Series creator and showrunner Terence Winter said he always planned on killing off Jimmy Darmody, but did not think it would happen so soon in the series.

The further they got in the writing process, the more the writers realized that Nucky killing Jimmy Darmody was the only logical conclusion to the story.

Winter has said that the decision to kill off Jimmy Darmody was made at the beginning of Season 2.