Deadwood, Season Two

Cy Tolliver:
Now that's an attitude right there I want us to counsel on. Smart-alecky sort of attitude and almost with a quality of.. f***in' anger to it. I don't find the exact f***in' words for it, but it f***in' disturbs and concerns me.

Francis Wolcott:
By my lights, I feel I manage well.

Cy Tolliver:
Well, you can say that, Mr. Wolcott, yet I hear accounts that you're a dangerous lay, and that adds to my feeling disturbed. Are you inclined, sir, every so often to.. 'ride one off the cliff'? Girls, I mean.

Francis Wolcott:
I am disturbed at my private conduct being spoken of.

Cy Tolliver:
Well, I should think you f***in' would be. And to think of Mr. Hearst's disturbance if he was to f***in' know. Because, that's a dangerous habit to indulge when you're not among friends.

Francis Wolcott:
Are you my friend, Mr. Tolliver?

Cy Tolliver:
And 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 f***in' heaven.

Francis Wolcott:
I see

Cy Tolliver:
And who would never tattle to your employer or jeopardize what's got to be a handsome f***in' income. God damn right, I am your friend, Mr. Wolcott. All I can't provide for the party is the cliff.

Francis 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.