Hell on Wheels

Seasons

2011

8.3

TV-14

The Civil War is past, but former Confederate soldier Cullen Bohannon can't put it behind him. Fresh are the memories of the death of his wife, killed at the hands of Union soldiers, an act that sets him on a course of revenge.

Episode List

S1 • E1

Pilot

A former confederate soldier journeys to the transcontinental railroad to seek vengeance.

S1 • E2

Immoral Mathematics

Cullen fights for his life as he answers for his deadly actions. Lily struggles to survive in the wilderness, as Durant attempts to spin tragedy for political gain.

S1 • E3

A New Birth of Freedom

Cullen's search for the sergeant is diverted by an unexpected obstacle. Durant organizes a search party to retrieve the missing Lily Bell.

S1 • E4

Jamais je ne t'oublierai

Cullen closes in on the Sergeant. Durant pursues a hidden agenda while helping Lily recuperate.

S1 • E5

Bread and Circuses

Joseph Black Moon and Reverend Nathaniel Cole travel into Cheyenne territory in hopes of a peace talk. Lily Bell and Thomas Durant discuss the future of the railroad construction. Cullen Bohannon and Elam settle their differences in a public fight.

S1 • E6

Pride, Pomp and Circumstance

Durant attempts to end ongoing negotiations with the Cheyenne by challenging them to a competition.

S1 • E7

Revelations

Durant and Lily travel to Chicago - he, to further discuss the railroad with Senator Crane; she, to meet with her deceased husband's family. The Irishmen from Hell On Wheels prepare to hang Elam. Cullen interferes and helps him escape.

S1 • E8

Derailed

A train is derailed by the Cheyenne. Durant orders Cullen to lead a team to track them. Lily moves out of Durant's coach and into her own tent beside the brothel. Tension mounts for Cullen's team in the pursuit of the renegade Indian tribe.

S1 • E9

Timshel

Cullen and the search party find the natives who attacked the surveyor's camp and later derailed a train; Elam and Eva discuss their future, before getting a strange visitor; and the railroad crew reaches the important 40-mile mark.

S1 • E10

God of Chaos

Durant and Lily conspire to gain investors' interests. Sean and Mickey McGinnes exact their own revenge on The Swede. Elam and Eva each begin to see the future differently. Cullen tracks down the elusive Sergeant Harper.