Classic scene from a first season episode of Boardwalk Empire called 'Anastasia', where Chalky gets his revenge on a KKK leader who lynched a black man who was part of his crew.

TRANSCRIPT:

Chalky: I was born in Elgin, Texas. My daddy taught himself the carpenter trade doing for the black folk there. I tell you, anything that man put his hand to - table, chair, wedding chest - he'd make that wood sing.

Now one day, a man, Mr. T.O. Purcell, come around. He a white man. Own his own store. Stable. Hotel. He say to my daddy, "I hears you the finest carpenter in Elgin." My daddy tell him, "Well, I can't say one way or the other, but uh, I knows a bit about somethin." So Mr. T.O. Purcell take my daddy to this house he was building. Biggest house in town. They walk in there, say, "This here goin be the libary. Whatchu think bout that?" My daddy say, "Well, I thinks you need some bookcases." "Well then that's what I want you to make me."

Ten month my daddy worked there, and when he finish, he bring me round. "Uh, Mr. Purcell, this here my boy. I'd like to show him what I done." "Well come on in! Through the front door." Just like that. And we did. And when I seen them bookcases, all carved with scroll and flowers, baskets of fruit. Little angels floating in the corner. That was the most beautiful thing I ever seen.

'Bout a month later, nother man come round. "I seen what you did for T.O. Can't let that old dog top me. You come round my house, I show you what I need." My daddy go with him to the edge of town. Wasn't nothing there but six white men, twelve foot 'a rope, and the pepper tree they hung him from.

[unravels the tool kit] These here, my daddy's tools. [picks up a pair of pliers]

KKK Chief: What are you going to do with 'em?

[pause]

Chalky: ... Well, I ain't building no bookcase.

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