"Deadwood" Here Was a Man (2004)

Director:

Alan Taylor

Writers:

David Milch (creator)
Elizabeth Sarnoff (written by)

TV Series:

"Deadwood" (2004)

Original Air Date:

11 April 2004 (Season 1, Episode 4)

Genre:

Crime | Drama | History | Western

Plot:

Swearengen directs Farnum to buy back the Garret claim. Garret's wife, Alma, prevails on Calamity Jane and Wild Bill for help with the claim issue...

Plot Keywords:

Shot In The Back | South Dakota | Saloon | Vigilante | Greed

Cast

Timothy Olyphant	...	Seth Bullock
Ian McShane	...	Al Swearengen
Molly Parker	...	Alma Garret
Jim Beaver	...	Whitney Ellsworth
Brad Dourif	...	Doc Cochran
John Hawkes	...	Sol Star
Paula Malcomson	...	Trixie
Leon Rippy	...	Tom Nuttall
William Sanderson	...	E.B. Farnum
Robin Weigert	...	Calamity Jane
W. Earl Brown	...	Dan Dority
Dayton Callie	...	Charlie Utter
Powers Boothe	...	Cy Tolliver
Keith Carradine	...	Wild Bill Hickock
Jeffrey Jones	...	A.W. Merrick

Runtime:

58 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

USA:TV-MA

Filming Locations:

Melody Ranch - 24715 Oak Creek Avenue, Newhall, California, USA

Company:

Home Box Office (HBO)

Goofs:

Continuity: After Wild Bill is shot and falls out of his chair to the right, the chair falls straight back on the floor. When the camera angle changes. the chair is now on it's side behind Bill. When it changes again, it is on it's back again where it originally fell over.

Quotes:

Al Swearengen: I got a healthy operation here, and I didn't build it brooding on the right and wrong of things. And I do not need the Pinkertons descending like locusts.

A very sad conclusion of one of the greatest characters of Deadwood

*** This review may contain spoilers ***

A very sad conclusion of one of the greatest characters of Deadwood. Only four episodes, but he won't ever be forgotten. This is a very important episode which sets up most of the characters. Mainly Jane, she goes downhill from here and turns into a depressing uncontrolable drunk.

This episode dealt with the aftermath of Brom's death. He's gone and Al had to keep Alma happy, but she is not numb. She hires Wild Bill to find out what happened to her husband. Wild Bill had two very memorable lines in this episode, 'Listen to the thunder' and 'Let me go to hell the way I want to'. He was a good, but tragic man wasted on a cruel world.

Meanwhile Ellsworth confesses to Dan, he saw it and now Dan has to decide what to do about it. Ellsworth is a great man and everybody loves him, especially Trixie.

This episode also introduces Andy Cramed, new in camp but deeply ill. He brings a plague into the camp. 'Here Was A Man' concludes with Jack, a whimpering fool shooting Bill in the head from behind. A very sad ending to a once powerful man.

Five stars