[Baby Lee]

Originally Posted by JennyGump

Somebody's been watching a little too much Deadwood.

This may be the stupidest segway ever, but I ran across this thread right after reading the transcript from the last Deadwood. Got the text of the best written exchange of the series to date.

Cy: Well, you can say that, Mr. Wolcott, yet I hear accounts that you’re a dangerous lay, (Wolcott finally looks up at Cy) and that adds to my feeling of disturbed. Are you inclined, Sir, every so often to…ride one off the cliff? Girls, I mean?
Wolcott: I am disturbed at my private conduct being spoken of.
Cy: Well, I should think you ****ing would be. And to think of Mr. Hearst’s disturbance if he was to ****ing know. Because…that’s a dangerous habit to indulge when you’re not among friends.
Wolcott: Are you my friend, Mr. Tolliver?
Cy: And as someone past surprise at habits or inclination, or turns of events, and who don’t confuse himself far as sitting in judgment with our Lord in ****ing heaven.
Wolcott: I see.
Cy: And who would never tattle to your employer or jeopardize what’s gotta be a handsome ****ing income. Goddamn right, I am your friend, Mr. Wolcott. All I can’t provide for the party is the cliff.
Wolcott: Believing yourself past surprise does not commend you to me as a friend. A man inadequately sophisticated, or merely ignorant or simply stupid, may believe himself past surprise, then be surprised to discover, for example, that Mr. Hearst already knows of my inclinations and finds them immaterial. Suggesting, as a corollary, that your skills for blackmail and manipulation no longer are assets to you, and for your fatuous belief in their efficacy, in fact have become liabilities. In short, you’ve overplayed your hand. Now I should think in consequence, now recognizing yourself as a man past his time, that during this last transitional period you would devote yourself with grateful and quiet diligence to such uses as others may still find you suitable...

D@mn near Shakespearian.