Seth Bullock quotes from Deadwood

Sol Star

I'm guessing you've done things today you wish you could amend.

Seth Bullock

What kind of man have I become, Sol?

Sol Star

I don't know. The day ain't fucking over.

Seth Bullock

May I speak?

Cy Tolliver

Mr. Bullock.

Seth Bullock

I was a marshal in Montana, my father served in the British Royal Army, and my brother Robert was a cavalryman, killed fighting the Comancheros in Texas.

Why are you here, Mr. Bullock?

Seth Bullock

A man named Otis Russell is laid up in this establishment, he needs protection.

Protection from whom?

Seth Bullock

Several in this camp. I beat him badly. Others have reason to wish him dead, and the camp sheriff can be bought off for half a can of bacon grease.

Well, while we're here, I will hold Mr. Russell under protection, as a gesture to your brother's sacrifice.

Seth Bullock

Thank you, sir.

I would add, in a camp, where the sheriff can be bought for bacon grease, a man, a former marshal, who understands the danger of his own temperament, might consider serving his fellows. We all have bloody thoughts.

Seth Bullock

Will I find you have a knife on you?

Al Swearengen

I won't need no fuckin' knife.

Al Swearengen

Age impedes my stream, no fucking fear of you.

Seth Bullock

Get in here.

Al Swearengen

All in due fucking course but tell me one thing first, Bullock, as I stand here fucking humbled. Does the widow Garret have a going fucking hard rock concern and five-stamp mill crushing gold out of her quartz all day and fucking night?

Seth Bullock

What?

Al Swearengen

Or does she cast her lot with the camp, furnish others here a chance to develop what they got, to hang on or even prosper?

Seth Bullock

You pie-faced cocksucker, get in here and account for your insult.

Al Swearengen

Or, with you at her ear - among other points of entry - instead of doing your civic duty, does she ship her fucking loot to Denver?

Seth Bullock

Civic duty? Opposed by her own and her dead husband's family, to put her assets at play in a camp with no law or government worth the name?

Al Swearengen

See as here where she lives and struck lucky, civic duty? Yeah! And it's time for her and some others to quit their fucking shirking, Yankton's making its move. Ah, the fucking thing!

Seth Bullock

Meaning what, "Yankton's making its move"? Without more insults.

Al Swearengen

We're getting ass-fucked. Carved into counties, but not one fucking commissioner coming from the hills.

Seth Bullock

How do you have this information?

Al Swearengen

From the governor himself in a pricey little personal note. They want to make us a trough for Yankton's snouts, and them hoopleheads out there, they need buttressing against going over to those cocksuckers. Now I can handle my areas, but there's dimensions and fucking angles I'm not expert at. You would be if you'd sheathe your prick long enough.

Seth Bullock

Shut up.

Al Swearengen

And resume being the upright pain in the balls that graced us all last summer.

Seth Bullock

Shut up, you son of a bitch.

Al Swearengen

Jesus Christ. Bullock, the world abounds in cunt of every kind, including hers. [Bullock removes his Sheriff's badge] Of course, if it would steer you from something stupid, I, uh, could always profess another position.

Seth Bullock

Will I find you've got a knife on you?

Al Swearengen

I won't need no fucking knife.

Al Swearengen

[Receiving a blowjob] Even this, now gives me no pleasure.

Seth Bullock

[From outside] Swearengen! Be down in five minutes with my gun and badge!

Calamity Jane

Start down now, you limey cocksucker! Allow for getting stuck from crawling out from under the bed.

Al Swearengen

That Bullock is a fucking strategist, ain't he? Sets terms to publicly humiliate me, and my penalty if I don't comply is he walks into the bar downstairs and takes fifteen bullets in the chest. And that ain't no hooplehead, you know. Bullock, he's one of those special fucking cases, you don't know what in fucks going on in their mind, and he's big with Montana. Big. I heard that today. Because the news earlier from Yankton and the fucking commissioners wasn't adequately confusing. Not to mention the fucking telegraph coming in and four whores that I don't know who the fuck they work for.

Seth Bullock

[From outside] Three minutes!

Al Swearengen

Shut the fuck up! I suppose I do fucking understand. So fucking confused and disgusted and wanting it to end and looking for the blessing of a quick way out. Sets himself to a higher fucking standard than our natures, and he wants execution 'cause he's failed.

Seth Bullock

One minute!

Charlie Utter

What the fuck happened to two?

Al Swearengen

Talk about one person, fucking up another person's entire fucking day. [Goes outside to the balcony, points at Bullock] Wait.

Seth Bullock

Swearengen said the county commissioners are all from Yankton.

Sol Star

When was this?

Seth Bullock

Just before we hit the mud. It's wrong the hills get no representation.

Sol Star

Even in an Eden like this, wrongs sometimes occur.

This roof over our heads, Mr. Bullock, testifies to your care for William and me. The fostering affection and guidance you show my son to shape him into a man will only deepen my gratitude to you. As for myself, no further demonstrations are necessary as.. other duties claim your attentions.

Seth Bullock

None such as you conceive since your arrival, nor will they again, whatever the state of our relations.

Do not sacrifice further on my account, Mr. Bullock. I reject the offering. I repudiate it! I find it poisonous!

Charlie Utter

A letter come to hand I need to take to Bill's missus.. He wrote just before he got killed.

Seth Bullock

I see.

Charlie Utter

And you know who fucking give it to me? How crazy life got? And money must buy these bastards any fucking thing they want! That cocksucker inside, Mr. amalgamation & fucking capital!

Seth Bullock

Hearst's geologist gave you the letter?

Charlie Utter

And god knows who he fucking bought it off of or how many hands it passed through. It fucks me up thinking Bill's missus got to handle something that cocksucker touched.

Seth Bullock

Was it over the letter you beat him the other day?

Charlie Utter

No, no. I give my word not to say what that was over. I'd best go, lest Mr. amalgamation & capital takes one through the fucking head.

Seth Bullock

What's the import of that expression?

Charlie Utter

Do I look like I'd fucking know? Some big-shot eastern magazine reporter interviewing Bill said that was what's changing things around. Jane, I don't know what's gonna come of fucking Jane.

Seth Bullock

I'll keep an eye on her.

Charlie Utter

You should lock her in that cell and don't let her fucking drink! And don't fuck yourself up over Mose Manuel. He will get hisself fleeced of what is rightfully his and what he got by fuckin' murder. He'll be judge on hisself and jury too, just like the fucking most of us.

Al Swearengen

What makes you think any good will come of confronting Hearst now?

Seth Bullock

Now is when he's killing people.

Al Swearengen

What, you feel he'll leave off soon?

Seth Bullock

Tactics and timing ain't the issue.

Al Swearengen

The hell you say.

Seth

Charlie Utter thinks it has to come to blood.

Al

Charlie Utter's likely right.

Seth

And if it has to, that we should strike first.

Al

Believe me, even now in the forest the blade would be between my teeth; me and you making our way stealthily forward. And as to us and him, if blood's what it finally comes to, 100 years from now the forest is what they'll find here. Dewy morning's lost its appeal for me. I prefer to wake indoors. Dan! You don't travel tonight! Need of canned peaches, Johnny. Let's collect the camp elders. Be baffled among friends, huh?

Seth Bullock

I've had a wire... says your statement is true, far as having worked as a lawman. Not asking why you put the work aside, I'll say only some that do find themselves ready and uniquely able to work the other side of the street. Some do that. I took the badge off myself once; without losing my impulse to beat on certain types.

Though, that seems never to go.

Hearst

Have the gold seen to [Alma's] bank, Newman. Have its purity assayed. Let her or her seconds choose the man. When that tedium is completed, have the documents witnessed as though we were all of us Jews. And bring the business back to me. [turns to leave] Excuse my absence, Mr. Star, as I hope you'll forgive my thoughtless aspersion on your race. [Sol nods.] You stand for local office, but some contests being countywide, I await wires from the other camps. [holds the door open and Alma turns to leave. Hearst sniffs as she passes by.] You've changed your scent.

Seth Bullock

Can't shut up! Every bully I ever met can't shut his fuckin' mouth... except when he's afraid.

Hearst

You mistake for fear, Mr. Bullock, what is in fact preoccupation. I'm having a conversation you cannot hear.

Charlie Utter

You done fuckin' good.

Seth Bullock

I did fuckin' nothin'.

Charlie Utter

That's often the tough one, in aid of the larger purpose.

Seth Bullock

Which is layin' head to pillow and not confusin' yourself with a sucker?

Charlie Utter

Far as I ever get.

Seth Bullock

'Cause that's gonna be a project tonight.