Deadwood (TV Series)

The Trial of Jack McCall (2004)

William Sanderson: E.B. Farnum

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• E.B. Farnum : [alone, EB pauses from scrubbing at a stain on the floor of a guest room in his hotel]  You have been tested, Al Swearengen, and your deepest purposes proved: there's GOLD on the woman's claim! You might as well have shouted it from the rooftops. That's why I'm jumpin' through hoops to get it back. Thorough as I fleeced the fool she married, I will fleece his widow too, using loyal associates like Eustace Bailey Farnum as my go-betweens and dupes. To explain why I want her bought out, I'll make a pretext of my fear of the Pinkertons. I'll throw Farnum a token fee. Why should I reward EB with some small, fractional participation in the claim? or let him even lay by a little security and source of continuing income for his declining years? What's he ever done for me? except let me terrify him every goddamn day of his life, 'til the idea of bowel regularity is a forlorn fuckin' hope?

  [pours water over the stain] 

  E.B. Farnum : Not to mention orderin' a man killed in one of EB's rooms, so Every Fucking Free Moment of his life, EB has to spend Scrubbin' the BLoodstains off the GodDamn FLoor

  [goes back to scrubbin'] 

  E.B. Farnum : to keep from

  [breathes deeply / speaks softly] 

  E.B. Farnum : havin' to lower his rates... GOD DAMN