While he began his career with small television roles, Mount's first big break came with the movie, Urban Legends: Final Cut. ", Captain Bohannon returns home to Meridian. The show stars Anson Mount (Star Trek: Discovery) as Cullen, a former Confederate soldier seeking revenge for his murdered wife and child.The role was something of a breakthrough for Mount, who previously appeared in various movies and TV shows like Jason . Allowing him to leave his battle behind, setting him free, opening up a new chapter that allows the audiences imagination to work rather than closing it down, Mount says. When the main character Cullen Bohannon (Anson Mount), the ex-Confederate guerrilla, admits that he was a slaveholder, he also declares that he freed his slaves one year before the Civil War broke out. The term Hell On Wheels was used to describe the ever moving rail workers and camp followers (who provided such services as prostitution, gambling, and liquor among others) as John Casement as his crew pushed across the tough plains. Was it a coincidence? The following are some facts about John S. Casement; Olive was born in Illinois in 1837 to a family of Mormons. Colm Meaney as Thomas Durant (Michelle Faye/AMC). Bohannon enlists help from restaurant owner Chang, Tao, and his son, Fong. Fong devises a way to make the sled carrying the train engine stay, but later gets injured. Cullen Bohannon is a rugged, stone-cold southerner. We actually talked about it. Instead . Did you consider any other option for her?Wirth: Personally, Robin McLeavy scares me. Bohannon is a composite character loosely based on a few of the real people in similar positions that worked on the Transcontinental Railroad. He became a member of the Cavalry and quickly rose to the rank of Colonel where he served under the command of General Nathan Beford Forest. It was small, and I could put it in my home office and my wife wouldnt threaten to get rid of it. This article is riddled with spelling mistakes and date inconsistancies, the the person Bohannon was besed on has dating errors born in 1897 but joined union before? Watch our June 8 Facebook Live chat with Anson Mount. The group travels towards Nebraska and steals the Union Pacific Railroad payroll from the inbound train several times. Mickey manages to convince his countrymen to return to railroad work, while Bohannon fails to convince the Chinese. Bohannon travels with Fong, who intends to take Tao's body home. One of the men he oversees, Elam Ferguson, becomes indignant after learning that Bohannon was a former slave owner. Shortness of breath. I thought that this was a really appropriate way to tell the story of what the workers were going through. In The Battle of Monocacy on 9th July 1864, he used half a keg of black powder to destroy the Baltimore, Ohio bridge over the monocacy river. Bohannon and Ruth find Ezra there, burned alive and dead. The Swede arrives as Brother Thor, with the Mormons, to tell Bohannon that Brigham Young was a "false prophet" and that Bohannon is a devil sent to test him. Wirth: Its interesting. Distraught, Cullen begs the dying man to tell him what the sergeant's name was, but he dies. The total viewership bested network slot rivals CSI: Miami and Pan Am.[9]. Snow not only kills Marcos in the general store, but also fires wildly and kills a young boy hiding behind a barrel. They later participated in The Beefsteak Raid as as part of the Siege of Petersburg where they managed to steal 3,000 head from under Ulysses S. Grant's nose and feasted like kings for a month. Elam Ferguson (Common) aids him to get drinking water, but before they can return to the cut, Johnson arrives on horseback. Some time while in Meridian, he meets a group of former Confederates mostly from Alabama. They had big dreams about America, but they were unrealistic, as a lot of our dreams are. Not that new is always a good thing. Shortly after he begins, the priest asks the soldier about Meridian. However, the mother superior helped her set up restaurant in a nearby Cascade. Bohannon's plans are delayed when he finds Naomi has taken the baby and left for Fort Smith. "Hell on Wheels" or "Pilot" is the pilot and first episode of the first season of American television drama series of the same name, which premiered November 6, 2011, on AMC in the United States and on TCM in the UK. He later shows Delaney and Durant his plans on how to reach the mountain summit, but he needs men to refit the shovel. Sydney returns to challenge Bohannon to a duel though Bohannon says he's done with killing and will arrest him. Naomi Bohannon - Wife (separated) Over time, Cullen eventually renounced his vengeance and became a 'railroad man'. Later, Dressed in his Union Army uniform before Congressmen, Bohannon refuses to implicate Durant, repeating that their railroad could not have been built without Durant. Regardless of their history, Bohannon allows the Swede to work for the Central Pacific with the other Mormons, shoveling snow on the mountain. He later met a Northern woman named Mary who convinced him of the evils of slavery. After burying Ezra, Ruth tells Bohannon that her wish is for Sydney to be returned to Hell and for his suffering to be "deep and eternal". Bohannon does not run, and decides to stay, much to the happiness of Lily Bell. Not to mention the fact that his own life was yet again at a crossroads: Was he going to dedicate the rest of his life to the service of Abraham Lincolns country now being run by General Grant, or was he going to pursue his heart? Despite all efforts to save Sydney, he dies. This would result in a great deal of power and money for Bohannon but also risks Bohannon meeting the same fate as Durant in the form of jail sentence. However, as a result of various disagreements along the way, her family was forced to travel alone along the notoriously dangerous westward expansion. His connections with the gangs back East allowed him to provide Irish immigrant labor to the railroad. Bohannon is an Irish and Scottish surname which is an anglicized form of the Gaelic surname Buadhachanin, a diminutive of buadhach meaning victorious.. Then he became a stockholder in the railroad. Originally Cullen told people that he granted his slaves a year of freedom before the American Civil War. Once the American Civil War began in 1861, Cullen eagerly enlisted in the Confederate States Army. Then, when Cullen shows up to take that job in Denver, it is the Swede as Cullen Bohannon. The Arena Media Brands, LLC and respective content providers to this website may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website. I talked about this before, but thats a movie about the end of the cowboy era, so thematically, it related to what were doing here this season on the end of the railroad. The full ramifications of that scene that were implied in the writing and it was great writing by Tom Brady and Jami OBrien I had not considered until I was in that booth shooting that scene. I got offered a lot of things. There was a lot of industry in San Francisco. The Swede kills Cullen. They encounter resistance from the Mormons, their cattle is stolen by Durant via proxy, and they encounter a spell of cholera. However Durant forces Huntington to give up the honor, upon the promise that the coming ceremony will be held on the CP side. "[4], The pilot premiered on November 6, 2011. Elam's friend, William, collapses due to dehydration and Elam takes him to a water spout to drink from. Arriving at the Hell on Wheels encampment, Bohannon seeks work from Foreman Daniel Johnson (Ted Levine), and though Bohannon has no experience in railroad work, Johnson hires him as a "walking boss" after learning Bohannon had owned slaves before the Civil War. Here are a few facts about Olive Oatman; Mary Fields was born a slave in 1832 (roughly around 1832) in Kickman, Tennessee. Instead, Bohannon later unhooks the rail-car with the prisoners, as they use a key he gave Mickey to escape their shackles. Looks especially cool when he's carrying two pearl-handled revolvers from Mexico. The pair head to New York City to convince the Union Pacific to take him on as the head of the railroad. His horse is suddenly frightened and kicks its rear leg. Cullen doesn't care. And further that his "Yankee" spouse led him to this morally right decision. And thats where it is. While digging the cut, Willie, one of Bohannon's workers, almost collapses because of the heat. He was later shot and killed by Yankees. And Louise?Wirth: I think Louise gets a job with a Chicago newspaper. Although he trained to become a physician, Durant was more interested in business, an interest that saw him moving to New York where he became increasingly involved in the stock market. Together with her sister, Olive was abducted and used as a slave before being traded to another group of Native Indians (Mohave, for horses and blankets) who are said to have treated them better. I came on the show at the third season, and it was sort of, Theres a new sheriff in town thought. He is later told the men will not stand trial. Emotionally devastated, Cullen buried his family, then set out to seek his revenge against the soldiers responsible. While Psalms is cold to him due to his murder of Elam. Johnson tells Bohannon that he read of the Union soldier killed in Washington, DC by a Griswold revolver, and seeing Bohannon's Griswold when he hired him, coupled with Bohannon's mention of Meridian, confirmed his suspicions. Cole: I rode in Bleeding Kansas with the abolitionist John Brown. We didnt really lean to heavily into the fact that she was a lesbian, but I wouldnt be surprised if Louise Ellison got married in Chicago and continued her career and possibly continued to have relations with women on the side. We are canceled because were at the end of the series, and being on for five years is a good, long run for any television show. RT @DelilahSDawson: I DID NOT INTEND TO HAVE A HEART ATTACK FOR NO REASON TODAY, YOU STUPID SITE. In 1870 he sold almost all of his Union Pacific stock. There, he learns that Fort Smith had an outbreak of smallpox. At one point, I thought it would be funny if you had a guy who was being buffeted around the fight, who really had nothing to do with it, who hadnt thrown a punch, so they grabbed onto that idea and they put a guy in the middle of it. He is a southerner and he smells. Cullen's main firearm is a Griswold & Gunnison Revolver. Bohannon goes to the dance, and sees Lily Bell dancing with Durant. You can really only understand that scene if you understand the scene that its cut against, which is all of the fat cats who came out for the ceremonial pounding of the golden spike who had considerably less to do with the building of the railroad than the men who actually pounded those spikes into the ground, the guys who actually did the work who were not invited to the ceremony. Thats the take we ended up using in the final version. They are given the offer of leaving the railroad or working with the chinese for a $1 a day, when they were previously making $5 a day. "I'm a railroad man." "[3], Brian Lowry of Variety thinks: "while the diverse mix of characters could work to the program's advantage over the long haul, jumping to and fro among them creates a diluted, herky-jerky ride in the early going. As a child, he was practically raised by a female slave named Bethel after the death of his mother. Tonight marked the end of AMC's "Hell on Wheels," and with that the story of Cullen Bohannon as told on screen. When Durant tells Bohannon to wire General Grant that the summit will be reached by month's end Bohannon quits the railroad to be with his family. The answer, in the end: hes neither. His grandfather tore himself a thousand-acre plantation out from nothing. It is a real gunfighter hat! Bohannon has the opportunity to drown him but doesn't, after seeing him smile from underwater. Through all this, she ultimately became a forewoman at S.t. Cullen was brought to Washington to testify against him and then was offered this great job by the president. Within the last few miles, the Chinese return to help Bohannon, while Durant's urgings cause Psalms and the freedmen to switch teams. On his way to Hell on Wheels, Durant learns of Bell's death, which greatly complicates things. In the middle of the night, Naomi wakes up and realizes Bohannon is missing. Afterward, the two ride into the Hell on Wheels camp, to set up their church. After evading Louise's questions about his future, Bohannon drunkenly collapses in his train car, reflecting on all that he has lost. Where did they come from in the beginning? I was trying to think what would be really meaningful to me, and the only thing I took was a railroad police badge. She keeps all of her crap, but gets rid of all of my crap. In episode 2 of "Hell on Wheels" Season 5, fans were . Perhaps the most memorable scene of the series finale is when Cullen, having initially decided to become a colonel in the 4th Cavalry, goes back into the confessional. I had everybody watch [1970s] Monte Walsh with Jack Palance and Lee Marvin. Bohannan also appears to be suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, or as he describes it, "the soldier's heart". A heart attack, also called a myocardial infarction, happens when a part of the heart muscle doesn't get enough blood. The following are some facts about Mary Fields; Enjoyed the seriouslots of interactions and a taste of what building the railroad life might have been. The perilous trek weakens Bohannon, and the two men fight before reaching the fort. Cullen Bohannon returns to the secluded Hatch family home to reunite with Naomi and to inform her about The Swede's execution only to find that, during their long separation, his wife has more or less committed herself to Isaac Vinson (Toby Hemingway . He seems to particularly excel at teaching others to shoot and use and maintain firearms. After Bohannon fled Hell on Wheels, he returns to Meridian to find that Carpetbagers dug up the bodies of his wife and son looking for valuables. They eventually must bury his body and both return to Truckee. The pilot introduces the series' protagonist, Cullen Bohannon ( Anson Mount ), a former Confederate soldier whose quest for vengeance has led him to the Union Pacific Railroad 's westward construction of the first transcontinental railroad . The show has five seasons which is about the same time it took to complete the Transcontinental Railroad. [Laughs] Shes a very powerful woman and she had been telling me for three years that Evas going to ride a horse. On: July 7, 2022. [7], The Washington Post's Hank Stuever rated the show highly, commenting, "Hands down, the most intriguing show on the fall slate. Bohannon is then told that there is a great meeting between, Durant, Huntington, Brigham Young, and President Grant regarding the hubs and meeting point of the railroad. Smith while Naomi has his child. He tells Bohannon where they are in exchange for the push at the meeting. Bohannon and family arrive in Cheyenne. of universities and was apparently taught railroad technologies and construction well by his father who was involved in this field in the south. Durant bribes Crane with shares in Crdit Mobilier to secure his assistance in this endeavor, ensuring Crane's support by threatening to route his railroad to exclude the Nebraska lands Crane owns, which would significantly lower their value. Cullen ultimately decided to board a ship for passage to China to reunite with Mei. "You think I'm the Devil?. When the store clerk confronts Snow about this, he's also killed. The series opens in the year 1865, shortly after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. While we were breaking this final episode, Jami O'Brien, who co-wrote this episode with Tom Brady, came in and she said, I was thinking about it last night: Ive decided Cullen Bohannon must die. It kind of stopped us all. But [what Jami said] sort of stopped us, because we were going down a different road. series, after a rain storm. Snow finds Naomi, hiding with the baby, and he is about to shoot them with Bohannon stops him at gunpoint. This greatly affects Bohannon. I actually had a concept very early on for how he should die, and why he should die, and the Swede was involved in it, which Ill tell you about in a second if you want to hear it. First, she wanted to have a gun, so I couldnt stop that from happening because she just pressed down too hard on it. Right as they arrive in town the new Marshals Jessup and Heckard threaten Bohannon and his family since they look Mormon, and Bohannon assaults them and takes their guns. Hatch tells Bohannon that The Swede went to Utah with Brigham Young. Upon arrival, Young considers Bohannon an apostate for returning the "gifts" God has given him to die "a lonely, wretched thing". It really got down to what it would mean to the series. Wirth: First of all, it was true. 1st episode of the 1st season of Hell on Wheels, Filming, cinematography, and environmentalism, "Sunday Cable Ratings: 'The Walking Dead,' 'Hell On Wheels' Lead AMC + 'Boardwalk Empire,' 'Homeland,' 'Dexter' & More", 'Hell on Wheels' review: It takes a while to get chugging along, 2011 TV season: Few smooth takeoffs, many bumpy arrivals, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hell_on_Wheels_(Hell_on_Wheels_episode)&oldid=1092215605, Short description is different from Wikidata, Television episode articles with short description for single episodes, Television episode articles with short description and disambiguated page names, Pages using infobox television episode with unnecessary list markup, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 8 June 2022, at 21:51. "[8], Robert Lloyd of the Los Angeles Times says the show "takes its cues more from the movies than from life. They ride off to greener pastures. By now you've probably watched all the seasons of Hell on Wheels. James refuses to participate and is fired from the railroad. Cullen warns Elam to not go through with the act or else he will be hanged. HubPages is a registered trademark of The Arena Platform, Inc. Other product and company names shown may be trademarks of their respective owners. The tunnel is later completed, and Chang becomes suspicious when he catches Bohannon exiting Fong's tent. He warns Bohannon of The Swede's plan to have the federal marshals come and arrest Bohannon with the testimony of Sergeant Frank Harper. I think, for us, Durant was kind of a scalawag; he was in history, and he certainly was in our show as Colm Meaney portrayed him. Johnson lets slip that Bohannon's wife was murdered; she did not commit suicide as the widower had thought. Plenty of guns, knives, arrows, scalpings mixed with the incendiary socio-psychological wounds left in the Civil Wars wake. He demands higher wages (an incredible amount) and a 2% stake in the railroad. When Cullen sees that bullet hole [that he made at the start of the series], he is suddenly confronted with the entire arc of his journey on this railroad. Cullen wouldn't leave his wife for her and probably couldn't. And given that Ruth's a woman of the cloth, she probably wouldn't condone a man . Wtf proof-read your work dude 2023 The Arena Media Brands, LLC and respective content providers on this website. His squadron initially held off against the 51st Pennsylvania infantry on the Burnside bridge and managed to kill 500 troops. Who were they? This was influenced by his wife Mary, a Northerner who was opposed to slavery. I think finally somebody said, If we kill him in the final episode, whats it all about? What did you envision for Psalms (Dohn Norwood)?Wirth: Psalms is a railroad man. Johnson shows no remorse and simply says, "This is what happens when you break my rules.". Bohannon then gets Maggie Palmer to sign off on a loan for a steam shovel by producing Durant's signature for collateral. He died at North Creek, New York, on October 15, 1885. Elam appears and slits Johnson's throat, saving Bohannon but killing his chances learning the sergeant's identity. Bohannon accepts and returns to the railroad as the new Chief of railroad police, with a full pardon for the previous murders and armed robbery. Toa helps Bohannon to make a deal with the chinese to continue working at their current rates if the Central Pacific agrees to pay to ship the deceased back to China, as their custom dictates they must rest in China or wander forever. And I realized what that thank you" was about. The look in his eyes as he sailed to China to reunite with her is unforgettable. With his health deteriorating, Durant retired to the Adirondacks. How does he get married in 1957 if he was born in 1827, that makes him 120 years old. Photo: Chris Large/AMC. We wanted to just honor the guy that had the dream, the guy who kept it going. Thomas Durant was born in 1820 to a well-off family and went on to study ophthalmology at Albany Medical College, hence the title "Doc". Bohannon then tries to buy Mei's contract from Chang, who refuses, stating Bohannon rejected his previous offer to own a share of the railroad. The following are some more facts about Durant and his involvement in the construction of the rail line; John Stephen "Jack" Casement is represented as Cullen Bohannon in Hell on Wheels. However, after he is captured, and subsequently released by the US Army, he switches to a Remington 1858 New Army for the remainder of the season. However, upon arrival, he finds some of the fort's residents are missing, including Naomi and baby William, and the rest are dead. Bohannon and Fong have difficulty working in the Sierra Nevadas.
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