Hell on Wheels (TV Series)

White Justice (2015)

Tim Guinee: Collis Huntington

Quotes 

• Chang : I want justice.

  Collis Huntington : It's not easy to know what that means. Frankly, Mr. Chang, I don't know what's possible.

  Chang : What's possible?

  [sitting down] 

  Collis Huntington : A 20-year-old Chinaman gets on a boat in Guangdong, China. He sets sail with a Sze Yup Company flyer and a ticket for passage. He arrives in San Francisco, where a team of men herd him and a hundred others into freight cars that transport them to Cisco. In Cisco, another team loads the men into wagons. Then three days later, after traversing the Sierra Summit, they deliver those Chinamen to the railroad. Now neither you

  [Strobridge] 

  Collis Huntington : , you

  [Bohannan] 

  Collis Huntington : , or you

  [Huntington] 

  Collis Huntington : have the capability to reproduce that impossible feat once, let alone 15,000 times. So when I ask for justice, I mean justice. The kind reserved for civilized men, free from the danger of a rope.