Quotes from Seth Bullock

Seth, aka "Clench" to many Deadwood fans, is rarely funny, and almost never on purpose. But he has his moments.

Season 1 episode 5

Jack: I guess after bumrushin’ me outta your fine, fuckin’ hardware establishment, you didn’t see this comin’, did you?
Seth: I halfway did, you droop eyed cocksucker!
Jack: I was born droop eyed, alright?
Seth: And who do you blame for the rest of the fuckin’ mess?

Season 1 episode 8

Al: Very good of you and Mr. Star, incidentally, to make your venue available so the hoople-heads can get vaccinated.
Seth: I was the second hoople-head stuck.
Al: Them riders that brought the vaccine say the heathens have been called back to the agency. In a spasm of good sense, they’re fuckin’ going.
Seth: I heard. Before you know it, we’ll have laws here and every other fuckin’ thing.

Season 1 episode 9

(to Alma, about bringing their business dealings to an end soon) Toward a future point when you tell me my thinkin’s so consistently wrongheaded it’s a waste of your valuable time having to deal with me.

Season 1 episode 10

Seth: Wife and child I barely know.
Sol: I don’t guess you need me to say it. If there’s a heaven, your brother sees what you did and he’s grateful.
Seth: Maybe he sees me borrowing his life so I didn’t have to live my own.

Season 1 episode 11

Alma: They rescued a child in the wilderness and brought to justice one of the men who murdered her family.
Otis: And um, how was justice meted out?
Seth: We shot him.

Not many here would give a damn what a New York court held or didn’t.

Season 1 episode 12

(to Stapleton): Next murder you do on an errand, gotta take off the fuckin’ badge.

The camp sheriff can be bought off for half a can of bacon grease.