Hell on Wheels (TV Series)

Range War (2013)

Anson Mount: Cullen Bohannon

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Quotes 

• Jack : Indians killed us, rustled our cattle. I played possum while they done this to me.

  [reveals his bloody head] 

  Cullen Bohannan : How many dead?

  Jack : Five. Six if I die.

  [pulls his scalp from a bucket] 

  Jack : Think they can sew my hair back on?

  Cullen Bohannan : I think you ought'a stop talkin' and put your hat back on.

• Declan : You must be Mr. Bohannan.

  Cullen Bohannan : I am.

  Declan : My brother considered you the only upright man he'd ever met in America.

• Cullen Bohannan : You fight your war, I'll build my railroad, you crazy son of a bitch.

  [starts walking away] 

  Doctor Major Augustus Bendix : Bohannan, do you want to know why you lost the war? The typical Southern lacks the ability to look beyond his own parochial interests. It's a malformed brain plate, perhaps.

• Cullen Bohannan : Damn it. Ruth, it's my job!

  Ruth : I understand that. But killing them should make you lose your appetite as well.

  Cullen Bohannan : I don't take joy from it.

  Ruth : A man who hates his sin can be redeemed from it, even if he can't turn away from it. Do you hate your sin, Mr. Bohannan?

  Cullen Bohannan : [sits back down]  Cornbread's dry.

  Ruth : Then there is hope for you.

• Cullen Bohannan : [to Major Bendix, holding an Indian's head]  That woman put up much of a fight?

  Doctor Major Augustus Bendix : I honestly can't recall.

  Cullen Bohannan : That's marked up Arapaho. They'll come at us now. Pick off my outline crews, maybe full-on attack.

  Doctor Major Augustus Bendix : And we'll reprise but this is why we'll prevail. Foreshortened cerebellum, deep sub-cranial ridge that runs all the way around. No foresight or intellect. Just the faintest hints of humanity.

  Cullen Bohannan : Barely human, you mean

  Doctor Major Augustus Bendix : Show me the savage Plato and I will read him.