They believe you're the man to deal with. Yankton.
I am.
It's just the magistrate looking to earn off that warrant. But no one else even knows it's out on you.
Maybe the magistrate needs to die.
Maybe he does.
“Jewel's Boot Is Made For Walking” · Season 1
In this episode: Al Swearengen (5), Seth Bullock (4), Sol Star (2), Doc Amos Cochran (1), Silas Adams (1)
[On Stapleton being appointed Sheriff]
Bullock, it's a ceremonial position to give comfort to Tom Nuttall, who feels the camp's leavin' him behind. Putting a badge on Stapleton makes him feel he's got friends in high places.
That job shouldn't go to a shitheel.
Where as my feeling would be it should go to a shitheel, as it's shitheel's work.
I want to tell you somethin' about the law. Please, take a seat. Separate from all the bribes we put up, I paid 5000 dollars to avoid being the object of fireside ditties about a man that fled a murder warrant then worked very hard to get his camp annexed by the territory, only to have them serve the warrant of him and to face the six-foot drop. Into the magistrate's pocket the money goes, after which he sends a message. The 5,000'll need company if I'm to be off the hook. I give you the law.
It doesn't have to be like that.
Don't you think I don't understand. I mean, what can anyone of us ever really fuckin' hope for, huh? Except for a moment here and there with a person who doesn't want to rob, steal or murder us? At night, it may happen. Sun-up, one person against the fuckin' wall, the other may hop on the fuckin' bed trusting each other enough to tell half the fucking truth. Everybody needs that. Becomes precious to 'em. They don't want to see it fucked with.
I won't pay.
You pay… or she pays. No home visits. Do your visiting on the premises, five. [Sol slides five coins across the bar] Seven for an ass-fuck.
Cold enough world without gettin' gone against by your own.
Hey Doc, how long were you planning on taking before you told me what the fuck was wrong with Jewel?
Nothing, nothing she wasn't born with.
Mmm, I mean, she told me she was knocked up but I assumed that was her gimp sense of humor.
She wants me to brace her leg so her dragging it doesn't drive you crazy.
So what'd you tell her?
Not to worry about your moods, that you generate those yourself and then you find your excuse for having 'em.
Saucy words Doc, good thing you're handy with the snatch.
I had an idea for a boot, just now measured her for it.
If you treat her as successfully as you did the minister, she'll be kicking up her heels in no fucking time.
I will leave you now to pursue another excuse.
That man's not here to help his daughter, he's looking to root at her claim. You went to see that whore again?
I guess she had to account for her being outside, Swearengen sent for me to pay him his fee. I guess she told him where she'd been.
It might have been me he found out from, Sol, 'cause I'm sometimes that stupid.
You think it could have been you?
I'm sure it was, speaking without thinking, justifying being in his place.
Being you'd been ousted from your own.
I was hot seeing that tinhorn Stapleton getting installed as sheriff, and I used poor fucking judgment.
Sorry Mrs. Garret's pa turns out a shitheel.
Cold enough world without gettin' gone against by your own.
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