Eddie Sawyer (portrayed by Ricky Jay) appears in the first season. A card shark at Cy Tolliver's Bella Union saloon, Sawyer had worked with Tolliver for 17 years and was one of Cy's most reliable hands. He became disillusioned by his boss's callousness at sending Andy Cramed to die in the woods and torturing two young thieves, skulking around the Bella Union and embarrassing Tolliver at a town meeting. He decided to rob Cy in retaliation, in part to fund Joanie Stubbs in opening her own brothel. In the second season, Tolliver revealed that he knew Eddie had been stealing but that he had left the camp before Cy could take any form of retaliation.
Cy accuses Eddie of being a homosexual pedophile, on the grounds that Eddie was overly disturbed to see Cy beating and murdering the thieves who tried to rob The Bella Union.
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