Warned that he would be shot if he urinated in the saloon's cuspidor again, a man named Slippery Dan has switched coats with fellow sot Bummer Dan and dared him to relieve himself in the establishment. 10 saloon is a practical joke gone very wrong. 'What is it? Taken by a vision? You wouldn't want to be staring like that at me.' But Bullock is on an official mission, having heard a gunshot, and strides away angrily to investigate.
'Lucky trouble didn't jump off earlier, eh Bullock? Might've found you mid-thrust at other business,' he says, glancing towards the widow Garret's window.Outraged by the public insult, Bullock stares so hard at Swearengen even Al is unnerved. 'Our sheriff, about his duties to the camp,' he says loudly. 'What some people think of as progress.'And when Bullock, fresh from his tryst, steps out of the Grand Central wearing his Sheriff's badge, Swearengen's rage boils over. 'Messages from invisible sources,' he says disgustedly. Not only is Al upset by the inexorable encroachment of civilization on the perfect little corner of hell he controls, but by the fact that all three of the Commissioners hail from Yankton and without representation from the Hills, which means they're less susceptible to his bribes or threats.Dority, looking to cheer Al, points out that it 'saves time travelin' to the one destination- murder the three of 'em, 'see how they like being Commissioners after they're dead.'When he steps on to the balcony outside his office, Al's mood is not lifted by his view: workers have begun putting up telegraph poles. Joanie Stubbs, now intent on separating from the increasingly poisonous Cy Tolliver, anxiously awaits the arrival of three prostitutes and an old friend, Maddie, who will serve as the madam in her new brothel.At the Gem, Al Swearengen is in a particularly foul mood as he learns that Governor Pennington of the Dakota Territory has divided the hill country around Deadwood into three counties, each with its own Commissioner. Farnum also notices the commotion upstairs and comments about the impending shipment of Garret's gold to Denver.Elsewhere in town, other eyes scan the distance for the approaching stagecoach. Even as a stagecoach bearing Bullock's stepson and wife-the widow of his brother-heads toward Deadwood, Bullock makes passionate love to Alma in her hotel room at the Grand Central.Their lovemaking is so exuberant that it threatens to bring down the ceiling on Sofia and her new tutor, Miss Isringhausen, as they sit beneath the bedroom in the hotel lobby, trying to concentrate on Sofia's lesson. Directed by Ed BianchiWritten by David MilchSeth Bullock's growing affection for the widow Alma Garret finds full expression.
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