Purged Away with Blood

"**Purged Away with Blood**"
"Purged Away with Blood"
Hell on Wheels episode
Episode no.	Season 2; Episode 6
Directed by	Joe Gayton
Written by	Tony Gayton; Tom Brady;
Production code	206
Original air date	September 16, 2012
Guest appearances
	Darcy Singer as Yellow Dog; Grainger Hines as Doc Whitehead; Kasha Kropinski as Ruth; Peter Strand Rumpel as Train Engineer;
Episode chronology
← Previous; "The Railroad Job"	Next →; "The White Spirit"
	Hell on Wheels (season 2)
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"Purged Away with Blood" is the sixth episode of the second season of the American television drama series Hell on Wheels, which aired on September 16, 2012 on AMC. The sixteenth episode of the series is co-written by series co-creator Tony Gayton and Tom Brady and directed by series co-creator Joe Gayton. In the episode, The Swede (Christopher Heyerdahl) reveals himself to be the "White Spirit" as he aids the Sioux in their war with the railroad. Reverend Cole (Tom Noonan) also plays his role and hijacks the train taking Durant (Colm Meaney), Eva (Robin McLeavy), and Doc Whitehead (Grainger Hines) to Chicago.