Kevin Kearns

Al Swearengen and the rest of the seedy low-lifes return, as Deadwood is on the threshold of its first elections.

Alma reverts to her bad habits of old, Swearengen finds a use for Farnum, and the troupe prepares to transform the Chez Ami into a theatre. Are the filthy locals ready to accept such progression?

Bullock and Swearengen contemplate a pre-emptive strike against Hearst, whose anger has recently been inflamed. However, the ruthless mining baron is preoccupied with Alma. Will he get the better of Mrs Garret?

When a truck driver is shot at a busy dock, Mac and Stella are called to the crime scene; the truck driver is still alive but the crushed lower half of a cadaver is found in the back seat; meanwhile a woman's death leads to a school for sexual fetishes.