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'Suffer the Little Children' gets off to a joyous start when riders arrive in Deadwood with both the smallpox vaccine, and news that a possible treaty could be struck with the Sioux. Alma reassesses her plans when she learns that, in fact, her late husband HAD struck it rich. She decides that she will stick around for now, and continue taking care of Sophia. And Joanie gets taught a deadly lesson when the intentions of the two con artists become clear, and they receive swift and BRUTAL punishment from Cy and his henchmen.

The characters continue to be developed in interesting ways, as some of them are shown to be more than one-dimensional and real human beings with assets as well as flaws. But what really struck this viewer about this episode was the VERY strong second half that metes out such horrible violence. We see how savage Cy can be, and that crossing him would NEVER be advised. We also take sympathy on Joanie, who's revealed to be not exactly happy to be part of Cy's world. The big subplot with Trixie also makes her a sympathetic character. We know that Al is furious and demanding to know where she is; it turns out that something disturbing has happened with her.

Not that every bit of material here is heavy and grim. There's some highly amusing comedy relief, as an impatient Doc explains to Merrick why he might be having back pains now, or when a disgusted Al has to show his cleaning lady how to properly scrub a bloodstain off a floor. There are also throwaway gags involving characters' reactions to getting the vaccine.

This series continues to be an engaging and superior bit of television.

Eight out of 10.

Brave people against bosses

Trixie can slap al. other blonde woman can say "i can kill you" to cy.

It was interesting episode.

mccall killed bill but they did not kill the killer. 2 people tried to steal only, but they were killed. Noone did nothing. What is this?

I thought dan would save her. because even if she was lying, dan liked her. but did not do anything.

trixie is doing two ways between al and alma. Probably will go to new york i think. i hope also.

This episode doesn't look so great, but when you decompose it piece by piece. You realize how much work was put in, and how much character development is done. From Al swarengen side, we see him rubbing the floor from blood, getting snapped by trixie on the face, even he lost the goldmine because it turns out Like expected, they won't sell. So, it's the first time for him to let go his badass personality and shows us his human side and it was perfect. On the other hand, nothing much happens on bullock side except that now there is clearly a relationship developing with alma. What's more interesting though is how Cy Tolliver handled the situation with flora. He caught her stealing from Joanie, and what a punishment she got with her brother, they have been beaten until they can't see well anymore In a great showcase of cinematography. Then of course they were killed, but this incident won't pass like nothing happened, Cause Joanie liked this woman for some mysterious reasons we don't know yet. So, she told Cy "either you let me go or kill me, or I will kill you", strong words, but did she mean it? How is he going to deal with her? That's questions we will get their answer in the next episodes.