My wife wondered the same thing. I thought I could gather the gist of it, though, just by his expression: Shock and outrage that SFC would do something so atrocious, especially since they should have been buried in China.
I don’t know, though, since I don’t speak any Chinese dialect. He could have been saying, “How are you, San Francisco cocksucker? Nice day today, what?” 
My favorite line:
Fat guy: “Kill me.”
Calamity Jane: “What, is that whale for ‘Thank you’?”
From poking around the web, it seems that the Chinese have a healthy respect for the deceased, so I think Wu just objected to fellow Chinese being discarded like garbage. Of course, Wu doesn’t mind Europeans being tossed into his pig pens. But to Wu, those people don’t matter. But the Chinese women do. That’s offending him.
Al believed that Wu was saying the Chinese women’s bones needed to be returned to China. I don’t think it was the burning as such.
Is that going to suck for someone if Mrs. Bullock leaves, and Alma winds up married to Ellsworth. . .with Bullock’s baby?
I’ve been wondering who will be playing Hearst.
Any leaks?
My wife goes, “they’ll probably bring back another dead guy.”
I suppose her guess is Keith Carradine.
Wasn’t that Gerald McRaney in the previews?
That was my take too – since Wu had that plate with China on it and he kept pointing to his “country.”
I didn’t watch the previews.
Good choice, though.
And it looks like McRaney is going to portray Hearst as powerful, yet also somewhat dim man, which seems to be in line with how he really was. He didn’t have much formal education.
It was quiet, but nothing wrong with a quiet episode now and again to build up the character. It seems the funeral had the effect of advancing Seth & Martha’s relationship, Alma & Ellsworth, and shedding light on Al’s past.
And something HAS to come out of the confrontation between Cy and the Reverend. Cy just can’t beat him down without any reprisal… or else what is the point of bringing the guy back?
Yes, but (obviously in my opinion) we’ve had a few too many of them. Nothing has really moved (and I don’t count the kid dying as moving, again, my opinion) in quite awhile. In fact, it really doesn’t feel like much has happened this entire season, with the exception of Mr. W showing up.
Well I think all the political machinations are something that has ‘happened’ ;). Jerry’s befrending of Cy and Wolcott. Wolcott’s arrival, as you mentioned. The buying up of gold plots and setting mass mining on it. The opening of the telegraph and the potential effects. The Pinkertons with Ms. Izz. San Francisco cocksuker perhaps moving Wu out of running Chinks Alley. Jerry getting really scared that Deadwood may be going to Montana. And next week it seems like Hearst himself will be in town.
I dunno… seems like a good amount to me ;).
And don’t forget Al and the “struggle with his prick.”
That gave us sequences that ran the gamut from low comedy to harrowing suspense to moving drama, sometimes all at once.
I dunno-- we had Alma accept Ellsworth’s proposal, Doc Cochran, Jane, and Joanie save Mose Manuel (whose continued existence will surely plague Wolcott), Seth and Martha getting closer, and general character development for Al, Trixie, Sol, etc. I think too much violence and frenetic action can jade one to the nuances of quiet insight.
Also, we saw Jane’s bare ass. That alone was enough for me.
PAB