Brief uh, idle time,
a harmless wilin' away.
I'm considering, Con,
being Swearengen's decided a underling'll represent him
in certain of our mutual transactions, would it be my seemly tactic
to do likewise?
I occasioned to * a woman
after a considerable period of abstention,
and that seems now to have...
throwed me unawares
into a *' spasm of * interest,
which I...
*' pray will be brief.
Well...
I believe I'll defer enlisting you in this other aspect.
Prudent, sir,
till I get well on the other *' side.
Mr. Tolliver and Mr. Swearengen are...
- uneasy colleagues. - I wouldn't know, sir.
That feels to me less than a full verity.
I don't know what that means, Mr. Hearst.
That you not knowin' about any...
uneasiness between Tolliver and Swearengen
- sounds to me like a lie. - Yeah.
- I guess so. - Better.
Would you want me saying my first loyalty was to you, Mr. Hearst,
or to verity instead of Mr. Swearengen?
That'd sound like a lie too, and peg me a liar in the bargain.
So I'll have to win you away.
I guess so.
But I oughtn't to imagine the process will be quick.
Guess not.
Good, Adams.
Did he coach you long?
Didn't *' coach me at all, Mr. Hearst.
Captain Turner.
Go tell your friend I know he's afraid of me.
Dority? Big guy?
I guess he looks big to you.
Is that what you brought me here for?
You want me to take that back to Dority?
I guess so.
Crazy nigger at the livery's in your debt.
Crazy nigger at the livery
ought not plan on this becomin' no habit.
No chance of that. He's bound for Oregon, Miss Lady,
with the handsome nigger you're talkin' to right now,
if our luck holds to the afternoon.
Get off your * and start to walkin'.
Your friend might get to eat that warm.
Go ahead. Put a hole in that thing.
I'm measurin' the stroke to move you along with the rest of this shit.
Much obliged.
Travel safe.
Biggest day of my goddamn life,
and I get a *' spittoon spilled over my head.
That you already knocked on its side
when you were *' dozing.
I'm glad I did it.
I've enough blood and guts spilt in my goddamn place, Steve.
For a lifetime, you understand?!
If it takes the contents of a spittoon
to make you *' wash, then so *' be it!
What does washin' have to do with the other, Tom?
Well, to put you on the *' path,
*' respect yourself, and the *' occasion,
and bring no more *' shame onto my place, God damn it!
After I own the livery, you slanty-eyed bastards,
maybe you'd like to come by and look at me then!
Now get the * outta here!
Here! Harry, what time is it?
Hour's 17 minutes till 10:00.
67 minutes until my *' luck
changes forever.
No harm in him showin' up early.
You've done this camp a great service, Mrs. Ellsworth.
You're very kind.
And yet, Mr. Merrick, in candor,
witnessing the events of late in the East,
oughtn't any depositor pause and consider
before trusting his savings to a bank?
Uh, well, I suppose that's true.
Which is why
a bank owned locally,
wishing to make available funds to organize
- and develop our community... - Mm-hm.
...to build businesses and homes,
and whose deposits are guaranteed by gold
not two miles distant from this building
in which we sit,
isn't that
why the depositor at the Bank of Deadwood, having considered,
ought come forward in assurance and confidence?
Yes.
Have you any questions for me?
I have not, madam. Not... not at the present moment.
Well, I guess that argues for me showing
Captain *face how goddamn afraid I am.
It wasn't aftertalk between you and Turner?
Hearst was there when Turner said it,
and Hearst I asked did he want it brought back to you.
Hearst says to me, "I guess so."
"Guess so" don't sound like Hearst.
I'd said "I guess so" before. I think he was making small of me.
What is there to consider over, Al?
That sea creature Turner called me out.
It's Hearst calling you out.
I'm trying to decipher his reason.
Me seein' to Turner will not delay your goddamn decipherin'.
Can you shut up now, Dan, that you *' couldn't before?
He hurt you, then he calls to you like a dog.
I had to tell him to * himself.
Even as I forbore till I could see to my *' arrangements.
Think they'll get seen to by the snows?
Ready your pen.
Your addressing me like a *' field hand
won't impede me cooperatin'.
Now go!
That... that's it, Hostetler.
'Cause I keep my sense of priority
on what the * is important.
I broke your *' tip.
"Mrs. Alma Ellsworth,
serene and comely principal
of the just opened Deadwood Bank,
assured this reporter that depositors need fear no local echo
of Eastern financial panics.
A locally-owned bank..."
- Careful, be careful. - Thank you.
Uh, "lending to develop businesses and build homes in the region,
and backed by the underground assets
of one of the strongest mining concerns in the Dakota territory,
such a bank cannot help but..."
Do you mind if we
walk on more level ground, Mr. Blazanov?
Oh, no no no no. I'll watch out for livestock.
Thank you. "Such a bank cannot help
but draw prudent customers in great numbers
from every area of our Black Hills."
Mrs. Ellsworth, being so elevated,
so sweetly radiant in spirit,
I wonder if her words
resonated with me at the time
as being more poetic and compelling
than now they seem in cold transcription
and with the lady herself absent.
This is bad.
To abandon a friend like that when he's overtaken by drink.
I think this is more woeful, Mr. Merrick.
We shall fetch the sheriff, Mr. Blazanov.
Leon.
Mr. Tolliver.
That's a guilty skulkin' *' look on your features, son.
I'd think by now you'd be more come to terms
with your weaknesses.
Merciless conscience, sir, since childhood.
You're buyin' drugs?
I was buying drugs, yes, sir.
That is the *' cross my weakness has to bear.
And do you bear it for yourself alone, Leon,
or long as you're about it, with others as well
and earn the extra dollar thereby?
I do not do that, sir, no.
I got to wonder, son...
is it you been helpin' Lila in her fall?
It is not, Mr. Tolliver.
Lila drops her own bucket down the well.
I'm telling you, sir! Takin' a whore o' yours down,
that's next to directly robbing you.
Fella like me that's been...
indisposed,
to show he's back in play
might cut a thief's throat.
You're *' misinterpreting it.
I-I was copping for another but it wasn't *' Lila.
I was copping for that * at the bank.
Their faces weren't familiar,
the men who left him here.
His name was Pasco.
Does Pasco have a friend here?!
How do you know his name?
Cornishman. Talked union,
worked for Hearst.
Do you feel there's a significance to that?
The third of those Cornish organizers's been killed.
You've got nothin' to say to that or on any other *' topic.
On Hearst's orders, you believe?
A knife to the chest, body atop Hearst's works in the thoroughfare.
I withdraw from our agreement.
I'd ask its very brief extension.
No.
No. Or we're both just *' cowards.
I ain't no * coward!
Though Dan might support your position.
What's he talking about?
Wait a bit, Bullock.
Don't go for Hearst yet. You know Al.
I've got the briefest of other business.
See to it.
Yes, s-see to it, Bullock.
Watching us advance on your stupid teepee, Chief,
knowing you had to make your move...
did you not just want first
to * understand?
Huh?
Your repayment of the loan we make you now, Mr. Fields,
whose proceeds purchase Mr. Hostetler's livery,
is secured by the livery deed itself
to be held as collateral
in the possession of the bank until the debt shall be satisfied.
Understood and agreed to.
And don't lose one second to wakefulness or worry.
I'll repay in a timely fashion.
Will you be paid in specie
or currency, Mr. Hostetler?
Gold, please.
Thank you, Trixie.
I don't suppose a handshake
signaling the transaction's completion
is absolutely required.
Then I guess we don't have to do it then.
And if you're hoping to pass as a man before you hightail it to Oregon,
you will return to me that board you made me sign.
Thank you so much for squiring me,
these gentlemen being so obviously compelled by other responsibilities.
Such acid scrutiny by former boon companions.
We was never your * boon companions, E.B.
Forgive my confusing, Dan, my own deep feelings for you
with what yours may have been for me.
I did not offer my hotel to Hearst...
which sale has made me outcast among you.
Hearst forced the transaction upon me.
I miss our morning coffee.
Yeah?
Being no one is frequenting the main bar, Davey,
what in * business you think you're gonna do standing behind there?
Boss says I'm to attend the auxiliary bar.
The auxiliary bar ain't made
a * hair's bit of business sense
since its *' inception!
Go on up and set the boss straight.
Hey, you don't want to take that smart-aleck tone,
that *' attitude with me, Davey. You hear me?
Hearst organizes violence between his man and Dority.
- Does he? - Orchestrates combat between them,
mutilates me, plants that organizer's body
like a flag in the *' thoroughfare.
That last is fresh news.
Makes of me and Tolliver a two-headed beast
to savage what might be healthy borne out of the * election
and gnaw its own privates off-hours.
Plans keep coming to the *
that their final sum is this:
But for what brings income to him,
break what he can: What he can't,
set those parts
against themselves to weaken.
Scoundrel!
Hearst.
The why's
what * confounds me.
What's in his head, I cannot * find in mine.
Don't suppose you talk to the Captain?
Hails and farewells, but he never replies.
- Or the cook? - The negress and I are not intimate.
All right, E.B.
- May I ask your plans, Al? - No.
Only to further their achievement.
- No. - All right.
All right.
Yeah.
Glad to have been of help. Always available to counsel.
I dare not think
what you've been through to reach us.
It's been a crucifixion.
Too painful, even the merest details.
Formidable, even at bay.
My last camp, Jack.
As it may be for us all, young man.
The place is yearning for elevation
and festering with wealth.
Oh dear.
Augment of cupidity in the iris,
a healthy augury.
We must help them however we can.
Heave ho, young man,
but slowly.
It's past me.
I cannot figure the * angle.
Go ahead and * fight him.
All right then.
What you want to be carrying, Dan?
Nothing I would want found secreted on me,
worse comes to worst.
Well, don't say you ain't bringing your blade.
*, visible in its * sheath
and dispensable before we join.
If he dispenses with his.
If it's getting to go wrong, Dan,
you just drop down flat.
What the * did you just say?
Drop flat if it's going wrong,
and I'll blow his * head off.
You do and it'll be the last goddamn thing
you do on this * earth.
Going wrong is not the end of * things, Johnny.
* no!
I have come back from plenty of shit
that looked like it was going wrong.
All right, Dan.
He's got the advantage on you there, don't he?
That short-cropped * hair?
Well, he's not lacking for brass.
"Come scare me in the thoroughfare."
Star City, Captain,
you remember the man's name?
Leonard.
That was a fight.
Not how I remember.
...As an object lesson to every man watching.
For not much fight, it did not end quickly
I suppose is what I'm trying to say. Do you understand me?
Yes, I understand.
Oh, you son of a *!
Thank you, Jack.
I am your Jack, Chesterton,
but your producer too.
A rigor we've always sustained.
To carry a performer through illness
when recovery is in prospect
is an indulgence one can sometimes justify.
But support of idleness
destined for the grave,
that, Chesterton,
the narrow economy of our art does not permit.
You would have me die destitute?
You will purchase your keep with that voice...
intrusive and incessantly opinionated...
no vagary of our past has yet stilled.
The subject?
We have but one. In this instance,
the theater is formerly a bordello.
The eye lines must be quite wrong.
In the morning, it meets
with your atrabilious scrutiny.
I must rest.
Bellegarde?
We proceed.
- Costumes, Countess, will you chair? - Ja.
Props and scenery, chair?
Only if you serve as second.
I'm so so so so sorry. Is costumes taken?
- Are they performing now? - Quiet.
Civic relations...
I'd appoint myself...
without objection?
Will we continue as if all among us are well
when one so plainly is not?
And what committee, Bellegarde, to address the old man's mortal illness
- would you have us * form? - No committee.
Committees is the task before us.
- No business as usual. - Business and tasks is what we'll have,
just as you are tardy and ginger on your bum
for the usual * reasons,
despite your deep personal grief.
Not offered as a case for change.
Civic relations is me,
and we'll include here a subcommittee
for the renovation of the bordello.
Supervision of the work, subcommittee head... Countess, done, with thanks.
Civic relations,
construction subcommittee, Claudia.
Countess is the second.
Hiring laborers.
A truth divinely writ:
We make more devotees of theater
engaging 20 laborers at $2 apiece
than two of the same at $20.
Busy busy busy.
Is he receiving as yet?
Let me go see.
Tell him last * call.
Broken bones mortally interfering
with organs is what I would like to rule out.
Doc's back, Dan.
Don't need the * doc.
Come on, Dan. Let him look at you.
He come back special.
You heard what the * I said.
He wants to poke around in some innards,
tell him to work on the one I killed.
Bottle?
One of the girls?
There's a clamoring line to see to you.
Get the * out of here, Johnny.
Sure.
Listen for raspy
* shallow breathing
in the course of the * night.
Him going blue too, would hint to you
- to * come get me. - Definitely.
Have you ample towels?
Uh, ample, thank you.
Enough hot water?
Well, I could almost wish it cooler.
May I help you with your back?
What?
Scrubbing your back.
Uh, I'm out now.
Thanks anyhow.
Does it occur to you, banging repeatedly on the * wall,
either I'm not in... which makes what you're doing stupid...
or being in, don't want to see you...
which makes you a pain in my *!?
Doubtless now nodding agreement
like Little Boy * Lost.
What?
Hello.
You * work at the bank.
I do now.
Not a noble "hello" at opening,
and regal * look-by at the closing up of shop?
I'm at the hardware store all day, Trixie.
I'll switch with you.
Bank's a Jew's proper province anyways...
along with the addled self-deceived.
Our depositors?
The bank's founder and president,
chief officer, as well, of air-headed smugness
and headlong plunges unawares into the * abyss.
- I don't understand. - You wouldn't.
You're too * healthy-minded.
You'll sit here waiting for me to materialize
from a piece of * furniture
and think the world is normal.
Do you want to get *ed or not?
Please.
Your hair looks like a porcupine.
Forgot the brush.
Will you have me...
bring the little one back?
- I'll collect Sofia. - Don't forget.
Five hours looking for this goddamn board.
Come on, come on, come on, come on, yeah.
Think this is pretty * funny,
- don't you, Hostetler? - No.
Watch me crawl around here like a goddamn fool,
and you laughing up your * sleeve.
Hostetler don't know where the board is. I'm the one hid it.
Oh, I believe that. Definitely.
Assistant * baboon.
You hid it, he don't know where
and you can't remember where it is!
I wasn't too drunk not to know I should hide it,
but I was too drunk
to keep track of where.
Is this it? Is this the board?
Clean it the * off!
Well...
Yeah.
Bring it here. Bring it in.
Unwrap that *!
What the * is that supposed to be?
Give him the board.
You think I'm a * moron?
You think I'm a moron
- to fall for your * lies. - Don't you call me dishonest.
I'll call you that and worse.
You hand me that, and then ride off with the actual board?
This is the actual board, wrapped in the cheesecloth that I stole off a horse.
I never knew this board was took
from where I had it until I looked for it
during late last night, and that's when he told me
that he had hid it.
To keep you from doing something stupid.
This is the board! For Christ's sake,
what difference does the rest of it make?
I don't know it's the actual board.
There's no more * writing on it!
Shall I accept myself as satisfied,
only for Hostetler once escaped
to send the real * board back from Cheyenne
while he's laughing up his lying sleeve?
For Bullock to open the package and humiliate me?
Or for the * bank woman to humiliate me
with the true * board?
Or to revoke my * security
on my * loan?
Or whatever your *ed-up plan is to make me a * *!
I will not be called
a * liar.
I didn't live my life for that.
Yeah, * you, Steve. We're leaving.
Talk stupid to our * dust!
Yeah?
I wish you'd look in on Dan, boss.
Not for being poorly as...
down.
Johnny...
some shit's best walked through alone.
Dan's killed people before. You have too,
but neither've been solitary after.
A fair fight,
something Dan and I have always struggled to avoid,
is different.
You see the light go out of their eyes.
It's just you left
and death.
So that's why Dan wants to be alone.
He knows where to find me.
Sit down if you want to.
What are... what are we waiting for?
To see what kind of hell breaks loose.
Whiskey, please.
And leave the bottle.
I just saw to the remains of a friend.
Yes, sir.
George Hearst.
Jack Young.
- Jack Young. - Yes, sir.
- How do you do, Jack? - How do you do?
- Sheriff. - Is he up there?
- Who? - Is Hearst * up there, Farnum?
I cannot say. I cannot say.
I cannot betray the whereabouts
of an owner-guest.
Mr. Hearst...
I regret not being out here
with you before, sir. Help too stupid to wake me from my nap.
Not at all.
Go on down there now, Jack.
At least do that much right.
Hell of a * day.
How much do you know?
I heard there was a set-to
in the thoroughfare.
Did you know it was my man killed?
Was that the outcome?
My man was killed, yes.
I'm sorry.
It happens.
It's the nature of things.
It don't lessen the sadness
when it's a friend.
The sheriff joins us.
Whiskey.
The sheriff recently put me on notice
he is vigilant
of my possible transgressions.
You sound drunk to me.
Whom are you addressing?
You. You sound drunk.
- Do I? - Mm-hmm.
When I say "* yourself, Sheriff,"
will you put that down to drunkenness
or a high estimate of your athleticism?
Did you just tell me
to * myself?
I think I did, and to shut up
or I'll quiet you myself.
- You're under arrest. - * you,
and shut up
or I will shut you up for good.
Threatening a peace officer,
I'm taking you into custody.
- Don't be stupid, Bullock... - Don't you be * stupid.
* you.
Johnny.
The sheriff eliminates several of our options.
Not a * word comes to print.
Understood.