Complete story — includes the ending
The Swede investigates Cullen's past, while Durant wants to remove Cullen. Lily gets some help from Cullen in building her house and they get closer somehow. After his crime, Reverend Cole becomes erratic. Elam distances himself from the other black workers. Elam and Eva each begin to see the future differently. Durant and Lily conspire to gain arriving investors' interests, after she pleads for Cullen to not let his vengeful path ruin him. Sean ( Ben Esler ) and Mickey McGinnes ( Phil Burke ) exact their own revenge on the Swede. Cullen tracks down the elusive Sergeant Harper and strangles him to death, but later he realizes that he killed the wrong man.
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