Season 3

Complete listed story — includes the ending

1. Tell Your God to Ready for Blood

Six weeks later, Deadwood's posts go up for reelection and Hearst's thugs kill a miner at the Gem. Al theorizes that the man did it on Hearst's orders to test if Bullock will work for him. A pregnant Alma is struck with a sudden illness. At a meeting with Bullock regarding the election, Hearst snidely brings up Alma. Assuming E.B. told Hearst about their relationship, Bullock beats him. Ashamed at his loss of his control, he considers not running until Utter reminds him that the position will then go to Manning. When Hearst refuses to make it up to Al for staging the shooting at the Gem, Al postpones the upcoming election speeches.

2. I Am Not the Fine Man You Take Me For

Hearst's enforcer Joe Turner delivers a diagram that seems to predict men will come to the Gem. When they arrive, Al kills them and decides to set the debates that night. As Alma prepares for surgery to avoid a miscarriage, she makes out in her will that Sofia should inherit her properties and Bullock will remain their guardian, who promises to protect them if Hearst goes after them. The speeches are held, where Bullock easily beats out Manning. Cramed asks a recovering Tolliver for forgiveness, and he enters a supposed fit of religious psychosis that causes Cramed to flee. Hearst and Turner cut off Al's middle finger to force him to help get Alma's claim, though he continues to refuse them.

3. True Colors

Al's friend Jack Langrishe arrives in town with his theater troupe, as well as Hearst's personal cook, Lou Marchbanks. As Alma's condition improves, Doc coughs up blood during a conversation. Bullock and Utter learn that Hearst's men are killing miners that try to unionize. When Hearst denies involvement, Bullock demands that Al relinquish the body of the miner killed in the Gem. Hearst shows Cy a letter from Wolcott that implicates Tolliver in helping to cover up Wolcott's crimes, using this to strong-arm Tolliver into working for him. Alma meets with Hearst to discuss a price for her claim, but it goes awry when a mistrustful Ellsworth erupts at him. At their second, private meeting, she offers a price but quickly becomes unsettled after Hearst violently rejects it. He considers raping her but lets her go. Al wonders to Langrishe why he hasn't plotted revenge against Hearst yet, and Langrishe posits that he cares about the town.

4. Full Faith And Credit

The bank opens, while Langrishe buys the Chez Amis, now a schoolhouse, from Joanie on the condition that he build a new one in its stead. Dan and Turner begin antagonizing each other. Hostetler and Fields return to town with the horse that killed William, and Bullock accepts the former's repentance. Having taken over the livery, Steve is livid that they intend to take it back and refuses Hostetler's offer to hire him full time. Planning to leave town anyway, he agrees to sell it to Steve, who refuses to sign the agreement first. Hearst tries to hire Al, but he refuses until he sets a proper figure and establishes Adams as his go-between.

5. A Two-Headed Beast

Turner asks Adams to pass along a challenge to Dan. They engage in a long, brutal struggle that ends when Turner is bludgeoned to death, an experience that leaves Dan deeply disturbed. Bullock organizes a way for Steve and Hostetler to sign the agreement simultaneously in different locations, though Steve demands the confession that he was forced to write. Steve accuses Hostetler of treachery when he cannot find it, prompting him to commit suicide. Alma returns to laudanum, causing Ellsworth to move out, believing she is unhappy and he is causing it. Hearst's men kill another miner, prompting Bullock to arrest him.

6. A Rich Find

Hearst is released from prison after refusing to confess, and Al warns Bullock that they should partner to fight him. Lou's son Odell comes to town to discuss gold he found in Liberia with Hearst. Lou gives Fields money to pass along to Odell and get him to leave town, but he refuses it and goes to dinner with Hearst. Tolliver orders Leon to overdose Alma on the laudanum he sells her, but he cannot bring himself to kill her. Hearst orders Tolliver to leave her alive. Utter warns Bullock that Hearst will soon become violent, and he and Al agree to gather the local government to figure out what to do. Joanie finds Jane drunk in the street and takes her back to her room.

7. Unauthorized Cinnamon

As Hearst makes a deal with Odell to send manpower to Liberia, he confesses his hatred of Deadwood and his desire to destroy it. Joanie kisses Jane while bathing her. The governmental meeting occurs, where Bullock proposes publishing a letter of condolence in the Pioneer he wrote to a dead miner's family that implicates Hearst as immoral. The town's telegraph operator warns Al that he intercepted a coded message to Hearst confirming the imminent arrival of Pinkertons under his employ in town. Al confronts Doc, who is showing symptoms of tuberculosis, on his plans to leave town for everyone's safety and demands he stay.

8. Leviathan Smiles

The Pioneer publishes Bullock's letter to Hearst's ire. Wyatt and Morgan Earp arrive in town claiming to have protected a stagecoach from bandits. Al suspects the story is false, but offers to hire them as henchmen anyway, while Tolliver makes the same offer. Disapproving of their descent into lawlessness, Bullock tries to get them to leave. Fields plans to leave Deadwood and Steve tries to steal his saddle to prevent this. Fields's horse kicks him in the head, leaving him paralyzed and under Fields's care. Odell leaves for New York to meet with Hearst's men. Langrishe has his ailing lead actor come to the Chez Amis so he can view their future venue as he dies. Hearst's Pinkertons arrive in town.

9. Amateur Night

Morgan duels and unfairly shoots a Pinkerton after an altercation, which Bullock uses to press the Earps into leaving town. Hearst has Merrick beaten by his man Barrett. Alma clears Fields of any obligation to the livery, but he stays in town and leaves Steve in the care of the No. 10. Wu informs Al that, due to Hearst's increased hostility, he has laborers and armed men ready to defend them in Custer. Odell is found dead outside Rapid City. Jarry returns to Deadwood to inform Hearst that state soldiers are ready to come to town and rig the election in Hearst's favor. Langrishe holds an "amateur night" that allows residents to show off their talents, which leaves the town delighted. Al does not attend and instead sings " St. James Infirmary Blues " in the empty Gem.

10. A Constant Throb

With Bullock campaigning in Sturgis, Alma is shot at while walking to the bank. Al shelters her in the Gem, believing the shots were only meant to scare her. He encourages her to go back to the bank to show defiance, and she does without issue. Hearst sends Barrett to ask Al if Alma needs guards at the bank, to which Al responds by torturing him until he admits that more Pinkertons are coming. Al kills him.

11. The Cat Bird Seat

Ellsworth is killed by a Pinkerton to press Alma into selling her claim to Hearst. As his body is wheeled through town, Trixie goes to the Grand Central and shoots Hearst, only wounding him in the shoulder. Sol hurries her to the Gem for protection. Preparing for the elections, Bullock encounters more of Hearst's soldiers in Sturgis. He's given a telegraph on recent events and hurries back to Deadwood. Al discusses Alma's options with Langrishe, concluding that she either needs to hire protection and leave the camp, or sell her holdings to Hearst. As Bullock comforts Alma and her daughter, Doc points out to Alma that Sofia may have not gotten to see her family's bodies, suggesting she allows her to see Ellsworth's. Al orders Wu to bring his men from Custer.

12. Tell Him Something Pretty

Out of options, Alma sells her claim to Hearst. He demands Trixie's death, but Al decides to kill Jen, Johnny's favorite prostitute that looks vaguely similar to her, instead. Johnny refuses Al's order to do the killing; Al tells Dan to knock Johnny out and restrain him while he kills Jen himself. Al then passes her off as Trixie to Hearst. The election occurs, and Hearst's soldiers vote for Manning, winning him the position of sheriff. Tolliver learns that Hearst is giving him a low-ranking position in his organization and kills Leon in frustration. Satisfied with what has occurred, Hearst leaves Deadwood as Tolliver aims a gun at him from afar but does not fire. Johnny asks Al if Jen suffered, and he assures him that he did his best, grumbling about how Johnny wants to be told "something pretty" as he cleans Jen's blood.