“Hell on Wheels,” season 3, episode 9: ‘Fathers and Sins’ airs tonight on AMC, where Bohannon’s in big trouble.
With General Grant’s deadline only two days away, a gang of riders attack Cheyenne while Cullen and Elam pay Durant a visit.
“Hell on Wheels” is a contemporary Western that centers on former Confederate soldier Cullen Bohannon (Anson Mount), whose quest for vengeance has led him to the Union Pacific Railroad’s westward construction of the first transcontinental railroad. In a post-Civil War America, Cullen sets out to exact revenge on the Union soldiers who have killed his wife.
His journey takes him west to Hell on Wheels, a dangerous, raucous, lawless melting pot of a town that travels with and services the construction of the first transcontinental railroad, an engineering feat unprecedented for its time.
The series documents the railroad’s engineering and construction as well as institutionalized greed and corruption, the immigrant experience, and the plight of newly emancipated African-Americans during Reconstruction. Hell on Wheels chronicles this potent turning point in our nation’s history and how uncivilized the business of civilization can be.
“Hell on Wheels,” Fathers and Sins airs on Saturday Sept. 28 at 9:00-10:00 p.m. on AMC.
Check out the sneak peek below.
