"Timshel" is the ninth episode of the first season of the American television drama series Hell on Wheels, which aired on January 8, 2012, on AMC.
In the episode, Cullen Bohannon (Anson Mount) and the search party find the Cheyenne who attacked the surveyor's camp and later derailed a train; Elam (Common) and Eva (Robin McLeavy) discuss their future, before getting a strange visitor; and the railroad crew reaches the important 40-mile mark.
The ritual is attended by his father, Chief Many Horses (Wes Studi), who says he mourns the loss of both of his sons, admitting that losing Joseph to the "white man" hurts him more.
Bohannon affirms his suspicions that his boxing match had been fixed and is offered a bounty of $100 by Sean McGinnes (Ben Esler) to kill the Swede.
Toole, his head draped in cloth, is still alive, after the bullet Elam fired into his mouth exited out the back of his neck.
Sean McKenna of TV Fanatic rated the episode with 4 out of 5 stars, saying "'Timshel' was a rather enjoyable piece, touching on all of the major characters.
Club's Phil Nugent rated the episode a D, stating that Hell On Wheels "is the work of hacks, people whose lack of personal obsession and conflicted emotions render it an ambiguity-free zone.
"[2] The ninth episode was watched by 2.29 million viewers and had a 0.7 rating with the 18–49 age range – the series' third-lowest viewership of the season.