Cullen and Elam disagree after Durant's new suggestion for solving the railroad's financial problems is overheard. A traveling circus offers the railroad workers some reprieve.

Episode Viewers and Ratings

Season 1 Episode 5 of Hell on Wheels resulted in a 0.00 rating in the 18-49 demographic.

Hell on Wheels Season 1 Episodes...

• s01e01 - Pilot
• s01e02 - Immortal Mathematics
• s01e03 - A New Birth of Freedom
• s01e04 - Jemais Je Ne T'oublierai
• s01e05 - Bread and Circuses
• s01e06 - Pride, Pomp and Circumstance
• s01e07 - Revelations
• s01e08 - Derailed
• s01e09 - Timshel
• s01e10 - God of Chaos

Hell on Wheels Show Summary

Set in the 1860s at the beginning of reconstruction, the series follows Cullen Bohannon, a former Confederate soldier, who is determined to exact revenge on the Union soldiers who cuddled his wife.

His quest for vengeanace sends him westward to Nebraska's "Hell on Wheels", the lawless towns that move with the construction of the transcontinental railroad. However, things get complicated when a Cheyenne tribe attacks the construction of the railroad, determined to destroy the project because it is being built through their lands.