"Deadwood" - "The Catbird Seat" Quiz

Answer: Swearengen

Swearengen was angry when he thought that the group was having a strategy session without him. He later learned that Bullock was leaving Deadwood early to go campaigning out of town and was making plans on how to be reached in case of an emergency.

Answer: Hawkeye

As George Hearst's private army of Pinkerton men grew in numbers, Swearengen reluctantly allowed Silas Adams to contact Hawkeye concerning the hiring of gunmen. The telegram that the men were "on the way" only infuriated Swearengen, who had little trust in the unreliable man, and was certain that he would arrive too late to be of any help.

Answer: Ellsworth

Alma's hardworking mine manager and estranged husband had a long-running feud with mining magnate George Hearst. As he sat in his tent discussing his relationship with Sofia with his dog, a Pinkerton man shot him in the head.

Answer: Trixie

Trixie became outraged when she saw Ellsworth's body in the back of a wagon. She knocked at Hearst's door, exposed her ample breasts to distract him, and shot him with her Derringer. Unfortunately for Trixie, she missed his heart on only wounded him in the shoulder.

Answer: Langrishe's cruelty

Claudia poured her heart out to the disinterested Countess about how cruel Langrishe had been. Apparently Claudia was feeling a tinge of jealousy toward the other women in her employer's life.

Answer: To campaign

Bullock and his opponent Manning traveled to Sturgis to give campaign speeches. An urgent telegram to return to Deadwood cut short Bullock's talk, and he became aware that many Army troops were poised in town to vote for whomever Commissioner Jarry designated.

Answer: Lose weight

As Swearengen dressed in the morning he commented to his bedmate, "You know, saying I like you hefty don't mean you couldn't stand to lose a few _______ pounds."

Answer: Wipe his face

The menacing bully Hearst had repeatedly spit in the face of Deadwood's mayor, and threatened to kill him if he wiped it off. After debating with himself, E.B. cleaned his face, adding, "Surely this is not a culminating indignity. There remains, for example, receiving his regurgitations, or swallowing his feces."

Answer: Tolliver

Cy Tolliver's newest prostitute, Janine commented to him about how quiet it was. He replied, "I notice, too, Stupid, we're each of us breathing in and out. Not that you'd understand how, Stupid, or why, I happen to be in the catbird seat. In the camp. Even though we're breathing in an out and it's 'quiet' in here."

Answer: Wu

Swearengen's ace-in-hole in dealing with the threat of Hearst's private army was some 125 Chinese men that Wu had recruited and had camped out of town. Swearengen promised to furnish them guns, provided of course that they knew how to use them.