Bullock confronts Stapleton and pulls off his badge, throwing it in the mud. Con Stapleton has shot a Chinese citizen who was in an altercation with Leon and the ersatz sheriff is threatening others. Walking out, Bullock sees that Tolliver's efforts at creating hostility toward the Chinese are coming to fruition. "And draw a map for anyone who wants to believe your lies.and tell 'em I'll be here waiting." Finally stopping, he is barely in control. īut Russell has misjudged Bullock, who not only strikes the man, but savagely pounds his face until he is left gurgling and spitting teeth on the floor. Threatening to lie about Alma's involvement Brom Garret's murder, he dares Bullock to take a swing at him, smugly assuming that Bullock will do no such thing in the middle of Cy Tolliver's casino. Blithely condescending to Bullock, he asks him if he was bullied as a youth, since he now seems so interested in setting everyone's business straight. He demands to speak with Otis Russell, who suavely informs him that it would not look very good if Alma's father was injured by her agent in the wake of her husband's suspicious murder. īullock is incensed, more so than Sol Star has seen before. "No darling, you'll help me, and you'll have no such thing." Shaking and weeping, she picks up Sofia Metz and rushes from the boarding house, straight to Seth Bullock's store. Otis' reply mingles insult and threat, with a razor thin veneer of affection. The daughter is horrified, but agrees, with the stipulation that he remove himself-in writing-from the venture. Russell is in substantial debt again-$47,000 worth-and Alma will bail him out again, or he will create problems in New York. Īlma Garret's father Otis Russell offers to handle the "man's work" of mining Alma's claim, but the pretense of paternal warmth is quickly dropped between the two. "A human being in his last extremity is a bag of shit," he says, but he still accepts the arrangement. Afterward, he speaks with Swearengen about the reverend, asking him to arrange a girl to care for him, at the doc's expense. Ĭochran arrives at the Gem with Jewel's new boot brace and delivers a forceful lecture about reporting any problems. "The fucking magistrate don't go back to Yankton alive," he says, to no one in particular. As the meeting breaks up, Al apparently disagrees. But the magistrate is unfazed: "You can't murder an order, " he says. Unsure if the double-crossing Adams has double-crossed him, Al makes it clear to Clagett that more is at stake than a few orders. On the issue of additional bribes to quash the murder warrant, he can go fuck himself.
He learns that the bagman Silas Adams has not conveyed his message to the official, so Al is forced to deliver it himself. Īs the officers make arrangements to give the troops a respite in town-but not one that will lead them to "balk at re-harness," warns the general-Al seeks a moment with the magistrate.
The party includes the Yankton magistrate, Claggett, and General Crook, who is leading a force seeking reprisals against the Indians for Little Big Horn. "Tell Johnny brew some coffee, open some peaches," he calls out to Dan Dority. Ī small band of cavalry officers ride into town Al seems to have expected them. The Doc is clearly upset by the grim spectacle. Smith lies in Doc Cochran's office, twisting and talking deliriously. Plot Īs false dawn enters Deadwood, Al Swearengen is at his usual post at The Gem Saloon's balcony, staring out over the nearly silent town.
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