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"A New Birth of Freedom" is the third episode of the first season of American television drama series Hell on Wheels, which premiered on November 20, 2011 on AMC in the United States and on TCM in the UK. The episode was written by John Shiban and directed by Phil Abraham. Cullen Bohannon resumes his quest of vengeance by learning the name of one of the men responsible for his wife's death. His plans change when he crosses paths with Lily Bell and Joseph Black Moon. She has been wounded from a Cheyenne attack on her camp that also killed her husband. Joseph has been seeking answers from his former tribe, including his own brother, about the savage attack. ==Plot== While exploring his new canvas home, Cullen (Anson Mount) comes across a photograph of now-deceased foreman Daniel Johnson, a Union captain posing with some of his regiment. Cullen reflects on previously killing three men in the picture. His eyes fixate on the last of them: Sergeant Harper. Back at work, Cullen gives his crew their cut assignment, but The Swede (Christopher Heyerdahl) has other plans for them - find Lily Bell and receive $100. Cullen threatens all of them with termination should they take Swede’s offer. Elam (Common) offers that his crew of freedmen can handle the entire assignment, that the white workers can go. Before releasing the men, Cullen inquires about a Frank Harper. He’s told that Harper was westward with the logging crew. In Nebraska, Cullen finds Joseph (Eddie Spears) with an unconscious Lily (Dominique McElligott), her wounds worsening. Once he removes a sliver of arrow from her shoulder and sees that she's stabilizing, he leaves only to later return. He knows Joseph would be killed if he brought Lily back to town. The news of the massacre has circulated and everyone would assume Joseph, an Indian, was accountable. Cullen assumes escort duty of Lily and learns of her bounty when three men try to "rescue" Lily. Cullen shoots all three men and escorts Lily to Hell on Wheels, telling her where to find a doctor there. He leaves her, without collecting the bounty as he has a higher priority in Cheyenne territory. Durant telegraphs Senator Crane (James D. Hopkin), appealing for federal troops to help protect his railroad construction. "We must displace the savage," he tells the senator, meaning the native tribes. Senator Crane wires back about the troop request, the pacing of the construction, and Robert Bell's murder. Durant gets drunk and laments the entire project. He attends the McGinnes brothers' magic-lantern show. While viewing the slides of Ireland, Durant asks Sean (Ben Esler) why he and Mickey (Phil Burke) left there to work here on the railroad. Mickey tells him of traveling to Dublin by train as a lad. "The railroad gave you freedom," says Durant. Reverend Cole (Tom Noonan) conducts a funeral for the massacre victims, quoting the Bible and pleading with the townsfolk not to seek revenge. Durant quotes another biblical passage, describing situations that justify war. Durant takes over the sermon, telling the funeral attendees not to let "Stone Age primitives" slow things down. Praising Joseph for adopting the white man's ways, Durant says that there may be peace if other Indians also follow. If they don't, he adds, they are the authors of their own destruction. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「A New Birth of Freedom」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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