Al Swearengen: Every rumor you floated in your article, Merrick, I believe is a living possibility for this camp, and I want you to fucking hear that as a compliment.
A.W. Merrick: If so, it's the first from your lips.
Al Swearengen: Because all them possibilities, called next to accomplished fact, in one fucking outgush makes people smell a rat.
A.W. Merrick: Yes, I suppose so.
Al Swearengen: These interests coming after us, Merrick, they're fucking rough. They're going after our nuts. They're hypocrite cocksuckers, and the fucking lying tactics and instruments they use to fuck people up the ass can be turned against them.
A.W. Merrick: My newspaper being such an instrument.
Al Swearengen: But scale, amount, proportion, seasoning. Drink that fucking second shot, Merrick!
A.W. Merrick: I like my fucking liquor.
Al Swearengen: A trait in you that gave me early hope.

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