Hell on Wheels (TV Series)

Slaughterhouse (2012)

Christopher Heyerdahl: The Swede

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  The Swede : In the beginning, there was blood. The land demands it. Every new land demands blood, and we relent. It is our nature.

  [farmer bludgeons a pig] 

  The Swede : We are after all, animals. In our arrogance we forget this. But, in the end we rise from the land - only to return.

• The Swede : Our Lord rode into Jerusalem on the back of an ass. One of the first things he done when he got there was cleanse the Temple. Threw the money lenders out on their avaricious rumps. It's time we over turned the tables, Reverend. We must cast them out.

• The Swede : You keep agitating trouble on this railroad, and you're goin' to a deep sleep at the bottom of your mud pile. And they'll be no one to mourn or miss you, either.

  Cullen Bohannan : You will miss me, Mr. Bohannan.