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'Boardwalk Empire': Meet the man behind mysterious sniper Richard Harrow
Harrow made his entry into the "boardwalk empire dvd" saga midway through last season, when he crossed paths with Jimmy Darmody (played by series star Michael Pitt), a burgeoning crime boss in 1920s, prohibition-era Atlantic City, N.J.
As it happened, both men were being examined in a Chicago veterans' hospital. Darmody was seeing a doctor for his bum leg, which was blasted by enemy shrapnel in the recent war. Harrow, a fellow vet, was there for — well, the left side of his face had been blown off during trench warfare, so there wasn't much the doctors could do except fit him for a half-mask of flesh-colored tin to shield the awful sight from the rest of the world.
But if much of the rest of the world recoils from Harrow — whether from his injuries, if glimpsed, or from the creepy mask (with its painted left eye and half-lip of a mustache) — Darmody was unfazed. Here was a fellow war casualty, and Darmody took him under his wing and back to Atlantic City, where Harrow, a tender man transformed by the war into a crack marksman, found renewed purpose as part of Darmody's outlaw liquor ring and, when called upon, a cold-blooded killer.
Like much of "Boardwalk Empire," the Harrow character is based on historical fact.
By World War I, "battlefield medicine had become more advanced," says series creator Terence Winter, "and there were an inordinate number of face and head injuries suffered by men who, 20 years earlier, would have died. A lot of men were coming home from the war with horrific facial injuries.
"We said, 'What a great character this would be.'"
In the upcoming season's fourth episode, Harrow has a showcase scene when Jimmy's wife, a painter, asks him to pose for a portrait — without his mask.
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