Deadwood - July Episodes

Episode #28: "Full Faith and Credit"
Debut date: Sunday, July 2 (9:00-10:00 p.m. ET/PT)
Other HBO playdates: July 4 (11:00 p.m.), 5 (9:00 p.m., 3:05 a.m.), 7 (10:00 p.m.) and 21 (8:00 p.m.)
HBO2 playdate: July 3 (10:00 p.m.)
Amidst as much fanfare as Deadwood can muster, Alma (Molly Parker) opens Deadwood's first bank. Cochran (Brad Dourif) administers to Tolliver (Powers Boothe), but it's unclear who is now more ill. Hostetler (Richard Gant) and Fields (Franklyn Ajaye) return to Deadwood, looking to settle scores and move on. Captain Turner (Allan Graf) throws down a gauntlet to Dority (W. Earl Brown), who hesitates to pick it up. Looking for credibility in his campaign for sheriff, Harry (Brent Sexton) is persuaded by Nuttall (Leon Rippy) to start a fire-wagon rental business. Con Stapleton (Peter Jason) seeks out the company of Claudia (Cynthia Ettinger), one of Langrishe's (Brian Cox) actresses, to scratch a very old itch. Hearst (Gerald McRaney) has a stand-up sit-down with Swearengen (Ian McShane) and Tolliver to explore long-term business allegiances. Following Utter's (Dayton Callie) counsel, Stubbs (Kim Dickens) counters Langrishe's offer to buy the Chez Ami. Looking to avoid all hell breaking loose, Bullock (Timothy Olyphant) brokers a deal with Hostetler and Steve the Drunk (Michael Harney) for the livery. Swearengen chooses Adams (Titus Welliver) to be his deputy in dealing with Hearst, to Dority's temporary dismay.

Written by Ted Mann; directed by Ed Bianchi.

Episode #29: "A Two-Headed Beast"
Debut date: Sunday, July 9 (9:00-10:00 p.m.)
Other HBO playdates: July 11 (11:00 p.m.), 12 (9:00 p.m., 3:30 a.m.), 14 (10:00 p.m.) and 21 (9:00 p.m.)
HBO2 playdate: July 10 (10:00 p.m.)
Enabled by Leon (Larry Cedar), Alma reverts to her bad habits, though she's able to exhibit enough charm to get Merrick (Jeffrey Jones) to endorse her bank's liquidity during a time of crisis. Two actors, Bellegarde (Dennis Christopher) and an ailing Chesterton (Aubrey Morris), are reunited with Langrishe in Deadwood; the troupe then prepare to work on transforming the Chez Ami into a theater. Swearengen, still trying to decipher Hearst's intentions, finally finds use for Farnum (William Sanderson) after a long chill. After much posturing and delay, Steve and Hostetler work out the arrangements by which the livery will change hands, but all's not ending well. Two couples, Trixie (Paula Malcomson) and Star (John Hawkes), and Alma and Ellsworth (Jim Beaver), display different degrees of domesticity. Dority rises to Captain Turner's challenge, driving Hearst to the Bella Union, where Bullock hands him an earful.

Written by David Milch; directed by Dan Minahan.

Episode #30: "A Rich Find"
Debut date: Sunday, July 16 (9:00-10:00 p.m.)
Other HBO playdates: July 18 (11:00 p.m.), 19 (9:00 p.m., 3:30 a.m.) and 21 (10:00 p.m.)
HBO2 playdate: July 17 (10:00 p.m.)
Aunt Lou's (Cleo King) long-lost son Odell Marchbanks (Omar Gooding) arrives in Deadwood after a circuitous trip from Liberia, although his mother soon attempts to orchestrate his immediate departure. Bullock and Swearengen contemplate a preemptive strike against Hearst, whose ire has been inflamed overnight. Alma's bad habits lose her the bank services of Trixie and, possibly, the attentions of her husband Ellsworth. Her indisposition also makes her vulnerable to Hearst, who's apprised of her condition by an anxious Tolliver, playing both sides. Swearengen summons Dority to be at the ready to travel to Cheyenne for reinforcements. Stubbs offers Jane (Robin Weigert) a place to stay, again.

Written by Alix Lambert; directed by Tim Hunter.

Episode #31: "Unauthorized Cinnamon"
Debut date: Sunday, July 23 (9:00-10:00 p.m.)
Other HBO playdates: July 25 (11:00 p.m.), 26 (9:00 p.m., 3:45 a.m.) and 28 (10:00 p.m.), and Aug. 11 (8:00 p.m.)

HBO2 playdate: July 24 (10:00 p.m.)
Odell makes Hearst a proposition involving "the color," causing his mother to fret further for his safety. The camp elders hold another Gem meeting, sans Doc Cochran, complete with peaches and cinnamon, to map out a strategy to deal with Hearst. Their solution, proposed by Bullock via a letter to the family of a slain Cornishman, promises to make news in "The Pioneer." Blazanov (Pasha Lychnikoff) violates a communication credo for the supposed good of the camp. Langrishe's theater renovations are delayed by illness of Chesterton, who is hovering near death in the Grand Central. Steve offers Fields a reason to stay in Deadwood, though the latter won't bite. Jane is convinced to bunk up with Stubbs at Shaunessy's. Cloth swatches given to Swearengen by a tailor are put to a different use by an ailing Cochran.

Written by Regina Corrado; directed by Mark Tinker.

Episode #32: "Leviathan Smiles"
Debut date: Sunday, July 30 (9:00-10:00 p.m.)
Other HBO playdates: Aug. 1 (11:00 p.m.), 2 (9:00 p.m., 3:25 a.m.), 4 (10:00 p.m.) and 11 (9:00 p.m.)
HBO2 playdate: July 31 (10:00 p.m.)
The edition of "The Pioneer" containing Bullock's letter is published, raising concerns about Hearst's response. Erstwhile lawman Wyatt Earp (Gale Howard) and his brother Morgan (Austin Nichols) ride into town, having ostensibly defended an incoming stagecoach against sabotage, which marks them as heroes. Though they maintain that they intend to work on a timber lease won in a card game, some question the brothers' actual motives. Langrishe grants Chesterton a curtain call, and offers to perform long-term therapy on Hearst's chronic aching back. Fields' departure is delayed by an injury to Steve the Drunk at the livery.

Written by Kem Nunn; directed by Ed Bianchi.

Deadwood is produced by HBO Entertainment in association with Red Board Productions and Paramount Network Television; created and executive produced by David Milch; executive producers, Gregg Fienberg and Mark Tinker; supervising producer, Scott Stephens; producer, Ted Mann; casting directors, Junie Lowry Johnson, CSA and Libby Goldstein.