Al Swearengen and Pinkerton in “A Constant Throb”

How well do you know the other guy?

Who would that be?

That my man Dority killed. The Captain.

We served in the 69th in New York.

Was that a mick regiment?

Yeah. What were you doing?

Cutting throats.

I was asking whose flag you were under.

The famous cocksuckers brigade.

Is that so?

Command of the all-whore detachment. Distress you, when my man downed your friend?

Let me tell you something, Mr. Swearengen. You don't scare me, and you don't fucking know what happened with the 69th New York. I will tell you this: I didn't like what happened to Joe Turner. Mr. Hearst came to him and said, "Make it last, even if you gain the upper hand and can kill him." And I think that was halfway selfish of Mr. Hearst, whereas Joe could have killed your man and didn't, and look how it wound up. But that's as much as I feel like saying, and that's neither here nor fucking there.