In this scene Calamity Jane, as played by Robin Weigert, reminds the commissioner who is a representative of the interests of Yankton of his human worth! Granted Jane is keen on the verbal smiting, and a particularly adept word-slinger when inebriated, but she’s especially fond of the commissioner in those regards – she can’t so much look at him without insulating him one way or another! And that he thinks he can rent the coat of Wild Bill Hickok, which Jane very much treasures (it being Wild Bill’s last-surviving possession), she let’s the commissioner know:

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from HBO’s Deadwood, season 1 episode 6. In this scene Al Swearengen bursts in on a whore that has recently been in the company of a man who couldn’t “get it up” (Swearengen’s words), who paid a dollar for her to kill time in his company so as not to arouse any suspicion to his sickness. His sickness is an epidemic of smallpox whose outbreak in the camp is imminent.

The whore, who lost her mother to the “fucking plague” (also Swearengen’s) coming out West, after which her father gave her up and left her to her own devices, fears she herself may be dying. She’s in a panic. Thankfully Al’s logic is stoic, as he interprets her sad sad story to mean she cannot become contagious again. and grants her to “stick to handjobs for a day or two” instead of french fucking or normal:

GET BACK TO WORK!