Al recovers, but asks Doc to hide the fact that he is partially paralyzed. Alma begins to get sick in the mornings. Seth and Martha begin to get along. Commissioner Jarry tries to get Merrick to print a "legal statement" explaining Yankton's position on the status of the Deadwood gold claims. A.W. refuses to print it, as it is nothing but political doublespeak. A mob forms, wanting to string up the commissioner, but decide to tar a black man as a distraction. Bullock is forced to put the whole situation in order before it gets out of hand.
In an age of plunder and greed, the richest gold strike in American History draws a throng of restless misfits to an outlaw settlement where everything - and everyone - has a price.
Welcome to Deadwood... a hell of a place to make your fortune.
The story begins two weeks after Custer's defeat at Little Big Horn, combining fictional and real-life characters and events in an epic morality tale. Located in the Black Hills Indian Cession, the "town" of Deadwood is an illegal settlement, a unhappy and uncivilized outpost that attracts a colorful array of characters looking to get rich - from outlaws and entrepreneurs to ex-soldiers and racketeers, Chinese laborers, prostitutes, city dudes andballoonfighters.