Deadwood s03e03 Episode Script

Yeah When did you turn recluse? You and the Jew settled in? The Jew's a born fuckin' householder Scouts furniture in the fucking catalogues mornin' and night The Mrs.
Ellsworth's a 10-day miracle Up and about and up and fucking doing Meets with fucking Hearst today, her and fucking Ellsworth, that I'd have thought would have steered her fucking clear Hearst's invite? Lady's bright idea I've pretext enough if you'd have me call to dissuade her Don't you get in the fucking middle Jesus fucking Christ, Al She might as well set herself afire I can't imagine that cocksucker got to you Or you're folding your fucking tent The last shot ain't yet fired Stage is coming My God, look at Wu Lost his mind in San Francisco You think he married the nigger? I'm talking about his suit Mr.
Blazanov! Merrick! Oh God I am barely speaking to you Who the fuck is that? A shabby, shabby exit from Virginia City No "Farewell, Jack.
" No "By your leave.
" Nothing Did you notice I was being pursued? Is that us over there? That is we, my dear, yes I will install us momentarily Countess I stay till the costumes come down Admirable Only the most minimal of civilities "Hello, how are you?" "A bit warmer today than Tuesday.
" last may be too forgiving Aunt Lou! Hey Good to see you Hearst's meals are about to improve Come on in Okay Go away Stay close to the Jew If it's Ellsworth apprising you of the widow, let him fucking continue and do likewise for me That's more fucking like it Very considerate of you to come to me when I thought I was coming to you As I was feeling well, I thought you'd agree the exercise might be beneficial Does your examination confirm my suspicions as to how I'm feeling? It does You seem fully recovered I'm delighted to be recovered And to find my own judgments reliable I would, however, advise against rushing back into things Would any meeting between us be complete, Doctor, until I'd had your counsel against something? Have you finished taking the medicine I gave you? Implying what, Dr.
Cochran? I'm implying nothing, Mrs.
Ellsworth I'm putting a question to you I disposed of the medicine you gave me, Dr.
Cochran, knowing I had a weakness for it, without having finished taking it I see You seem incapable of crediting me as a full and normal person I credit you as exactly that, Madam, which is to say as having limits like the rest of us, and to urge upon you the humility of not asking more of yourself than is reasonable And I'd add my observation that refusal to make such adjustment sometimes is symptom in women of an inadequate recovery from the rigors you've just endured You say this as my physician? Yes Not my reprover or rebuker? No Then thank you, Doctor, and good morning You ain't getting' no cobbler, Mr.
Hearst, till I get my hands on them boots Uh, here they come.
Here they come Not one spoonful till I got 'em clean Filthy It's frontier living out here, Aunt Lou Where I go, ain't no frontier I bring some standards with me Ah… I miss Missouri yet, Aunt Lou Wasn't the world peak of ripe back then? Didn't even the birds seem to sing different? More like they meant it More like they meant it You understand I don't suppose you operate another pair in secret You know I wouldn't fib Then I'll brush 'em up directly I got you living right here in the building, Aunt Lou I wouldn't even think about any other arrangements Mightly generous, Mr.
Hearst Mighty brave Will you take a walk, see the camp? I'll take a walk as far as my kitchen I should have known you'd say that You want that peach cobbler, don't you? I do for a fact And they know downstairs who's boss Is this here a rich place, Mr.
Hearst? Oh, very, very rich, Aunt Lou For pure scale, maybe the richest find I've seen Guess we can live without them birds then The high points of the fucking high points of your trip, Wu Cause I won't be able to follow you anyway Wu San Francisco You look like a fucking idiot, if no one has yet conveyed to you the truth Wu, San Francisco, Hearst Yeah, you in San Francisco, collecting workers for Hearst Ho How soon, fucking Wu? The many Chinks in Hearst's employ? Huh? "Hello, hello, hello, hello!" The many chinks here, huh? How soon? Ah! "10-Day, Wu.
" Clever cocksucker You come back with more fucking English Ho Now once I get my ducks in order, you will give your information to Hearst in a sit-down, so we can gauge his attitude toward me Wu, Hearst, "Swedgin.
" And "Swedgin" must act as translator, as he is the only one in camp versed in both languages Ho Chung Kuo Am I right or am I fucking wrong? Chung-Kuo Chung-Kuo, Heng-Dai Heng-Dai Heng-Dai, Chung Kuo And I'll tell you when the meeting is, huh? Welcome home, Wu Mmm It's arrogance, nothing more to Goddamn less Do not use profanity, please, speaking to me For goodness sake Apologizing for my language, I ask you consider my meaning It hardly seems arrogant to me to seek an equitable and mutually beneficial resolution with Mr.
Hearst Then spare him that paper with your pretty ideas Tell him your price for how much you'll sell, because Hearst don't let his partners set policy I hadn't realized you were so intimate with his business methods Please don't be smart with me Not about this "This," Mr.
Ellsworth, being the question of my mine? Well, what in the hell else would it be?! Excuse me I will meet with Mr.
Hearst I'll be delighted if you should choose to accompany me Oh, I ain't one to miss a train wreck Though if you cannot forbear from patronizing me, I'd prefer you didn't come at all All right, Mrs.
Ellsworth, all right Empty You sure you don't want me to work behind here, boss? If I wanted you working behind here, you'd be fucking working behind here Fucking work over there It occurs to me, Al, as you and he are so evidently well-acquainted, the decent interval that Mr.
Langrishe is owed to make his domestic arrangements I might spend hearing you talk of him Ever wonder if you expressed yourself more directly, Merrick, you might fucking weigh less? I see no logic in that whatever I don't want to talk of Langrishe He makes me fucking nervous On what account? I can't say on what account That type, he type you don't know exactly how you feel about him is who you're made nervous by Young man! Keeping the wolf away, I see Jack John Langrishe, sir The operator has the manners of a pig A.
W.
Merrick, Mr.
Langrishe, publisher of "The Deadwood Pioneer.
" Ah! Accounted for the halo I see above you Shit blizzard's early today He takes his tone with you as a familiar Oh, we're well-acquainted, Mr.
Swearengen and I Mmm, new friends, old campaigners The infrequent bloody win Always superfluous, bloodshed The deeper damage is best Ahh! Candidly, Richardson, as I imagine you foraging for berries and grubs, and flicking at insects with your sticky tongue, I feel a certain dismay What are you talking about? You are to be discharged, fool As, I suspect in a wink of time, once some stage from a different direction arrives with my replacement, am I What did we do wrong? Your error, surprisingly enough, is not to be a grotesque of inconceivable stupidity, but that you are white and male and not repulsively obese As for my own, I wonder if it lies in an excessive courtesy and eagerness to please Shoo, skunk.
Shoo Go, go Mr.
Hearst Farnum, have you a moment for us to talk? I do I'd ask only that you be brief and forbear from false camaraderie Come, Hearst I've seen the Ethiop Who indeed could miss her? And even as she supplants Richardson, what person, I wonder, of what depraved exotic origin have you engaged to take my place? I hadn't thought of replacing you Do you want me to? The world begins to dance before my eyes As for Richardson, Aunt Lou will be taking his position, but he can keep doing whatever else it is that he does with no reduction in wage What a surprising and gratifying turn Paid through Tuesday That one's paid through Thursday Having secured your approval as to my hiring plans, I wonder now if I might elicit the information I came for, which is in regard to Mrs.
Ellsworth I am abjectly at your disposal For some time, without the unseemliness of approaching her directly, I have sought without success to generate a connection with Mrs.
Ellsworth A haughty cunt Formerly weak for dope Most fundamentally a sexual peccant, though I'm sworn against providing specifics Now, as it seems of her own volition, Mrs.
Ellsworth appoints to meet with me, leading me to wonder what change in her situation prompts her approach I will look into that, Sir, vigorously and immediately You don't know I do not know at present Just send her up when she gets here I can seek the knowledge out I can pursue it as a first priority Just send her the fuck up All right, Sir And may I say… how delighted I am our relation is to continue? Why don't you see to your type? Excuse me? Type Don't you use type to print out your words? Uh, well,I'd hoped to secure from Mr.
Langrishe I want copious discourse between us, Mr.
Merrick Where shall I find you soon? Well, we could speak now if you wish No, not now, young man Not immediately But soon Very, very soon Where is your lair, that I may beard you? My lair adjoins the Gem Wonderful I can be bearded there most hours Fine Thank you Thank you very much Thank, uh, very nice to meet you, Sir Ah, the camp is lucky to have you Uh, no way, actually, you would know that Go on there, Merrick Get away Oh, incessant and unrelenting, exactly that type of banter I'll just go out the front You know, I could go out that way but I I'll You're looking fucking well, Jack It's the learning fucking nothing, Al, that keeps me young Please I hope you'll forgive the disarray I seem to feel a greater priority about making space for myself than adorning the space I've made Refreshments? No I must say I feel less the grown man just now than a boy from Missouri My Aunt Lou Marchbanks has come to camp Is your Aunt's visit a surprise? No.
Heavens no, no.
I expecting my stay to be brief, I left her at other diggings Your Aunt Lou prospects, too? My Aunt's my nigger cook I see Wonderful, wonderful cook And a tyrant, of course, as the best ones always are I quite quake before her Do you? About our conversation too, wanting so awfully much we come to an agreement Don't disappoint him, being as he's 12 with his Aunt in camp I've learned that we shared time in the Comstock, Mr.
Ellsworth.
I'm sorry we didn't meet Whatever's toward what he wants Not a flying fuck if it's true or how fucking soaked in blood That talk serves no purpose What talk to a murderer does? I'd not be insulted in my own rooms, Mr.
Ellsworth Where shall we go for me to do it? Will you be in this afternoon, Mr.
Hearst? There's bodies in here I certainly can be The walls are down to make room for 'em.
I see every fucking one! Perhaps we could speak later then I will look forward to that You don't look forward to nothing far as her, you murdering cocksucker You hear me? I'm very glad to have met you I recognize perhaps as I never fully recognized before, how profoundly you feel about him I know him I will present my offer to him You will not I will not permit it You behave in his rooms as virtually a maniac and now assert your superior prerogative? I forbid you, yes Well, I suppose that settles it I know him May I ask you to collect Sofia once you've seen me home? Do you understand? In ways you can't Mr.
Ellsworth, you hardly need explain yourself to me, your wife, in the thoroughfare, having once laid down the law Hey Look at me! Talk to me He said they come up in cage The guard was behind Jory The guard wait for air change First breath from above, he push Jory to the wall, catch his legs and cut them off.
He saw it? Jory was organizing That's why they push him to the wall We're awful sorry Get the fuck away from him! Get out of here go ahead Get on Accident Another friend, he says, was shot 10 days ago in bar At the Gem The friend talked union too Jory and him were in the bar when he was shot Now they're dead Pasco says he'll be next Tell them they can go when they're done crying Make them understand I was only talking to him Hole in the building's front wall He can pop out at any moment Hearst I'd not have him see us together Prudent Ah, bacon Might have a bit of a human aftertaste Lurid with Chinese No one suggests a theater here Only observing, turning you outward Deen a ma na ha mo goh ya! Eh, chon choy! Whi nee fie! Fie ne jowa! Jow! Boss of the neighborhood Won a war to take over One hopes you are his backer and not his tailor You're the first I've fucking revealed this to Fucking throbs all the way up Goes with me to the grave Yeah You fucking tip your hat to everybody? Everybody Morning We're low on our hardware, just doing the order Dogs For him to laugh at while we chase our tails I'm gonna write it up anyway Hearst's phony fucking accident, I'm gonna present it to him and put him on notice I'm concerned about Mrs.
Ellsworth, Trixie If concerned means "Is she using?"… I don't think she is I don't either Then why'd you ask if she was? I didn't You just took me for asking that Ask the one you want to then I'm concerned that her temperament is is labile I guess that means she's talking through her cunt? Her moods seem inappropriately variable Saying "variable," I don't disagree I said so myself this morning to somebody else Did I fucking embarrass you, Doc, hat you go so fucking red? Don't throw a fit, Doc Look, I'll put it out This is new This entire area is recent The Ellsworth house, the richest claim next to Hearst, that woman What sort of plays does she favor? Oh, Christ, she told me and I fucking forgot Goes through her men like Sherman to the fucking sea This can't remember who this fucking belongs to And who does this fucking belong to? Well, I guess this belongs to fucking everybody The Bullock house Fucking Sheriff Insane fucking person The one at Swearengen's, too, I'll put him on notice about I'm gonna put him on notice about it all Wouldn't be looking for anyone coming through the wall to deal with your Johnson And don't you try fucking coming to my side either, or your Jew head will be wearing that fucking dresser as a tiara All right We're supposed to read your mind, understand what you fucking mean I mean… all right Shut the fuck up "Please don't smoke" means "I'm at death's fucking door.
" You can smoke I'd prefer… if you did it outside You're a fucking idiot, anyways Pus is a deeper yellow Aw, cocksucker What are you staring at? Fucking boot fits, huh? Home base, young man There's the whole fucking area on the other side I'm quite worn out I fucking started this job, I'll fucking finish it This motherfucker Al… It's not the first impression I'd make Heartfelt thanks With such disagreement among the statements, Mr.
Bullock, on what basis could an inquiry justifiably go forward? I put you on notice, Mr.
Hearst I identify a pattern in these events Unless some law is broken, Mr.
Bullock, whose sanctions you have power to apply, why in fuck should I care what pattern you identify or don't? There is a sanction against murder The man lost his legs in a shaft It happens quite often I now learn that your worker who died in the Gem last week was killed by two of your guards I defy you to prove that event, about which the two of us have spoken, was murder Whereas, in the same saloon nine days ago, two guards of mine, giving no provocation, had their throats cut with two others of my guards as witness Certainly,the guards who survive are capable of naming the killers Shall I have them make complaint? I put you on notice Many new people are in the camp, Mr.
Merrick And a very eventful time we had during your absence, Mr.
Blazanov You and I will have much to discuss in our evening perambulations Okay Main line coil, artificial line coil,… new armature lever, separate battery, supplementaries All new contrivances I was instructed about in Chicago Without this many innovations, differential duplex would no be possible Differential duplex? Can you speak in a high voice, Mr.
Merrick? I can speak in a low voice Blazanov then will speak in high voice Keep speaking on in your low voice while Blazanov at the same time, speaks highly Blazanov : This is duplex telegraphy Merrick : From this point on, I shall speak in my low voice Blazanov : Both messages sent at the same time…from the same office at different voltages Merrick : Excuse me, but I can't understand you when we both talk at once And recorded elsewhere by instruments with appropriate sensitivities Well, I I won't keep you from your work Mr.
Merrick? I met a girl in Chicago Oh, yes? Also for our… perambulations Hmm Yeah Seeing you on your balcony the other night, Mr.
Tolliver, taking in the life of the camp, I thought maybe it was time we had a talk I regret we have to meet in this environment, Sir Not at all No Changes that have gone on here, it's not the place I'd be seen in by you I'm sure whatever changes you allude to, Mr.
Tolliver, will come clear from your behavior Fresh start How many men would be grateful for that opportunity? Do you have more you wish to do with that, or shall I state my business? Please, state your business Your letter from Mr.
Wolcott naming me as having knowledge of his misdeeds A letter I mentioned to you, yes, in a conversation I regret or you would circulate the letter's contents Exactly what I regret and now find reprehensible and why I thank God that you take a new look at me To this point, Mr.
Tolliver, you make no materially different impression Still lying, still bullshitting I hope I'm not, Sir, but I I can certainly understand why that would be your material second impression Shall I show you the letter from Mr.
Wolcott that I have in my possession? That's not necessary from my point of view You tell me you've got it, I believe you Here it is Will you compare it to your letter? Verify its authenticity? It's not necessary Shall I read to you certain pertinent sections on Wolcott's assay of your nature and likely behavior after his death? is detailing your complicitous participation in the aftermath of his crimes disposing of the bodies and so forth? You have no letter from Wolcott, Mr.
Tolliver Let's say that's the case I just did Let's hear you say it I have no letter from Mr.
Wolcott Never did I never did have one You're a lying, blackmailing sack of shit What do you want? I want you to go to work for me How was your walk? I seemed to get around adequately Seemed to get along with that dandy Yeah, he's all right Theater fella, huh? Langrishe? He's a fucking promoter of the first fucking quality, I can tell you that I don't go to plays so I can't speak to his worth as an actor Ahh Tuesdays… he'll tend to have amateur nights Been to plenty of those Virginia City Guy farted seemed near an hour Well, that don't sound like no amateur Bullock Tell that Chinaman when I want admission to his meat locker, it behooves him to fucking cooperate What did he do instead? Said "Swedgin"! and barred my way Had you eyes to select your own cut? Are you gonna fuck with me? I had eyes for the Cornishman killed in here last week I explained it to him, and he Goddamn understood me Did he mosey over to a corner, lift up a fucking tarp? Yeah, he went to the tarp That's what the croaker was under That's our nook in Wu's structure Why Wu delayed cooperating, he hadn't known the croaker was under there His stupid suit so overcome me, it slipped my mind to tell him I want that body I'll see Wu hands it over Hearst just had another Cornish killed at his diggings for trying to organize They're calling that one an accident What makes you think any good will come of confronting Hearst now? Now is when he's killing people What, you feel he'll leave off soon? Tactics and timing ain't the issue The hell you say If his pigs get that body, Wu is their next fucking meal You make him understand "Chez Ami" "Cooperage" I'm watering these kids' vegetables We don't do the other anymore Very good Lovely building Sturdy? Get away now I apologize for the awkwardness between you and my husband My dear Phoebe, Mrs.
Hearst, like your Mr.
Ellsworth, while pleasantly conversable on most subjects, find others not to suit her at all Will you hear my offer, Mr.
Hearst? Of course I am willing to sell to you a 49% ownership in my claim, in return for and here… of course, I am out of my depth but for the sake of beginning a negotiation, I'll say You would have an easement through my holdings for the transport of your ore, unqualified in any regard except that it not impede my mining operation Naturally, at a separate fee, I would wish access to transport for my own ore Have you finished? I have, yes Your proposal is thoughtful, but I'm afraid I lack the qualities that minority participations require As I said, these are the most preliminary thoughts A vulgar man would ask before preceding any further if you would require him to produce his jackknife and make himself a capon before you What in my ideas do you find emasculating? I can offer no inside explanations, Mrs.
Ellsworth, as I am not a capon, which details offend me and why your proposal offends completely It mistakes my nature absolutely All right Will you hear my counterproposal? I think not, Sir Do hear it, Mrs.
Ellsworth Let me name an amount to buy you out I will not hear it, Mr.
Hearst Let me out Shall I scream? The hour makes the thoroughfare uncertain Will you have an escort until your dear home's lights appear before you? No You are reckless, madam You indulge yourself Stand your watch.
I'll I'll get this part later Everything fixed to your liking, folks? Wonderful Thank you Have you supped sumptuously? Actually, we have I'm delighted Countess? Costumes were damp Oh dear Are you drying them? You are, of course I am tedious beyond bearing to ask A newly rakish tilt Cheyenne and Black Hills Telegraph Company Telegram for Mr… "Langinshire.
" Langrishe! Langrishe I am he Telegram Yes Wait Thank you Very welcome What did you give? A dollar Too much Chesterton and Bellegae are in transit from Cheyenne Having "suffered the tortures of the damned"? "Endured indescribable inconvenience.
" "The damned" was from Fort Kearney I shall take the air Shall I accompany you? My destination is beneath you At least something would be Good evening Good evening Madam Sir Wonderful food! We got fish and we got ham, and don't pay no attention to the menu The thought I'd put into it, all the time I took to write it out and put it by and look again I began to read to him my proposal, but I I was more and more afraid I was only chanting sounds Finally, I made myself look to him to confirm that I was speaking intelligently and being understood Now you know He grinned at me like a jackal This is what I would have spared you He scorned my offer He said I mistook his nature absolutely You did Yes And was there more? After the jackal smiled? It seemed very possible that there could be, but finally he let me go He had restrained you? I was very afraid I can't say with any certainty exactly what was happening What the hell do you mean? Did you try to leave, and did he prevent you? Don't use that tone of voice with me Well, I guess I know what that means Oh, do you, Mr.
Ellsworth? That you're a Goddamn fool who almost go what she deserved And what would that have been? And why would I have deserved it? I only wanted to protect you You can't I wish you'd eat that outside, Mr.
Hearst I wanted to be sure you have all you need And more besides And now you done seen for yourself I really don't care what others think of me, Aunt Lou And you need only care what I think God, I hate these camps All this deferring and adjusting to other's wrong-headed stupidities I must have missed where they way better in San Francisco They're not They're worse Can't bear San Francisco Don't let Mrs.
Hearst hear you saying that Aw, she knows, she knows She knows why I always leave so quickly Goddamn truth is I'd rather be off by myself, Aunt Lou Free to do my work "Boy-the-Earth-Talks-To.
" That's your Indian name That's right, You remember Only Goddamn conversation I care to have Her telling me where to dig into her Wonderful Thank you, Sir Haven't ate potatoes quite that smooth I don't know if I ever had 'em that smooth These elections can't be a joke More tail-chasing for him to laugh at us about Hearst The offices have to count for something How will you work that? Laws Jesus Christ! Excuse me Seems like one way more for his kind to run us Laws do Who will have strawberries? I hope you'll take it as measure of my keenness, Sir, and curiosity Yes, yes, yes, Mr.
Tolliver You wish to know your duties in my service Well, I make my way through the muck to learn the details Your duties will be to answer like a dog when I call Like a dog? Complications of intention on your part in dealings with me or duplicity or indirection behavior, in short, which displeases me, will bring you a smack on the snout Ouch When administered by a practiced hand such a blow can be more painful and grievous even than your recent sufferings I don't doubt the hand would be practiced Mr.
Swearengen recently discovered as much I gather it cost him a finger But I should say too that in these rooms just this afternoon such displeasure brought me near to murdering the Sheriff and raping Mrs.
Ellsworth I have learned through time, Mr.
Tolliver, and as repeatedly seem to forget that whatever temporary comfort relieving my displeasure brings me, my long-term interests suffer My proper traffic is with the earth In my dealings with people, I ought solely have to do with niggers and whites who obey me like dogs If he hadn't meant me to wag it, Sir, why would the Lord give me a tail? So I make you my second deputy, you clever little heathen monkey tongue You stand there, Richardson You're lucky for Aunt Lou Don't shy away from a little noise now Ah chung ow chi See I speak your stuff You savvy? Clatter them Goddamn sparrows "I love your cobbler like sunset, Lou.
" And back-broke niggers in the fields George Hearst… do love his nose in a hole more, and ass in the air, and back legs kickin' out little lumps of gold like a fucking badger No more use for them nuggets, either Past counting them up, and saying that big number to astonish niggers to remind us we in the world Hah! I seem to have won That's the 13 orphans natural Shall we clatter them motherfuckers again? Strange affectations your devil friend has Shabby appearance, derelict hotel Put the hole through that wall just before he worked on my hand Americans… it never occurs to them to try the window I'll tell you the truth I begin to wonder if I mightn't be fucking queer You see more to admire in the male asshole than you'd… realized hitherto? That I haven't gone yet for Hearst's throat Ambition and the blessed simplicities of action don't always quarter in comfort I've no fucking ambition past trading to my favor and coming… once a day Bullshit! A thing of this order you'd as soon not see ruined or in cinders I will if I fucking have to Avoiding it if I could Good night, Al Good night Few enough I find tolerable Lucky our paths have crossed again Don't misinterpret that All right, Jack