Deadwood, Season One

Al Swearengen:
Before a guilty verdict would get executed on that cocksucker, three men would walk in that meat locker where he's bein' held with bags over their heads and cut his f***in' throat. And within half an hour, that celestial's little pigs will be on their backs with their hooves in the air, belching up human remains.

Judge:
Are you saying you'd order that to be done?

Al Swearengen:
I'm sayin' I had a vision it'd happen. My second of the day. First come when I was watchin' you and them lawyers on line this morning. They began to slither in my sight like vipers. So as not to puke, I had to close my eyes. The vision went on. Got worse. I saw the vipers in the big nest in Washington. They were takin' us in the camp for actin' like we could set out own laws up or organizations and then saw the big viper decide to strangle and swallow us up every f***in' thing we gain here. It was horrible. How could we f***in' avoid it? How could we let the vipers in the big nest know that we didn't wanna cause any f***in' trouble?

Judge:
And that's when you had your second vision.

Al Swearengen:
Yeah, the cut throats and the pigs. But who wants all that blood spilled, judge, huh? Isn't there a simpler way of not pissing off the big vipers?