- John Dutton: We're gonna mark a little territory, grandson. Get to it.
- Tate Dutton: Just in one spot?
- John Dutton: Everywhere you can. Let 'er rip... Whoa, hey, don't mark me!
- Jimmy Hurdstrom: You ever have a girl look at you and your world just stops?
- Lloyd Pierce: Every Saturday night.
- Beth Dutton: You know, you're smarter than you look... Not sayin' much, but you are.
- Rip Wheeler: Well, you're as smart as you look, and that's sayin' a heap.
- Tate Dutton: Thought ranching would be tougher.
- John Dutton: This isn't ranching, grandson. This is the spoils of it.
- Tate Dutton: What's that mean?
- John Dutton: It means this is the reason we do it. Ranching's a... Ranching's a terrible business, grandson.
- Tate Dutton: Terrible? How?
- John Dutton: Well, where do I start... We can't control the price of beef, or hay, or the diesel it takes to take the cattle to auction, or the hay out to the cattle. There's, uh, federal regulations and state regulations and county regulations and these people in the city suing us, and complaining about the way we raise the food they eat. What else? Then there's blizzards and droughts and half the herd is trying to kill itself in the river and the other half looking for a hole in the fence so he can go stand in the middle of the highway and get hit by a car. Or wander into the forest and get eaten by a wolf or a grizzly... or a big, stinkin' Sasquatch...
- Tate Dutton: What the hell is a Sasquatch?
- John Dutton: I don't know.
- Tate Dutton: There's no such thing as a Sasquatch, is there?
- John Dutton: Well, I've never seen one.
- Tate Dutton: Well, if ranching's so hard, how come we do it?
- John Dutton: Because it's one hell of a life, Tate. One hell of a life.
- SGCJ Deputy: Turn that off.
- Jamie Dutton: Can only turn it off when he meets his attorney.
- Jamie Dutton: I am his attorney.
- SGCJ Deputy: Shut camera in three.
- Livestock Agent Steve Hendon: What the hell, Jamie? Hm? All I did is what they told me to do. What you told me to do. And now...
- Jamie Dutton: Shut the fuck up! Now, you need to tell me exactly what happened from the moment you arrived.
- Livestock Agent Steve Hendon: Little barrel racer girl, she was all just beat to hell. And the deputies, they took these two old boys and they put him in a horse stall.
- Jamie Dutton: In a horse stall. Not the squad vehicle?
- Livestock Agent Steve Hendon: In a horse stall. And told me to send a message with 'em. And so we threw 'em in the back of the victim's horse trailer. And I just drove them around. And I worked the brakes pretty hard. Too hard, I guess...
- Jamie Dutton: Who loaded them in the trailer?
- Livestock Agent Steve Hendon: Um, the deputies did. Mm-hmm.
- Jamie Dutton: Is there a chance that they were assaulted prior to your arrival?
- Livestock Agent Steve Hendon: No, I didn't see...
- Jamie Dutton: Is there a chance?
- Livestock Agent Steve Hendon: Sure. Yeah, there's a chance.
- Jamie Dutton: Yeah. All right. You loaded them in the trailer because your vehicle cannot accommodate two perpetrators. They had indicated to you that there were other horses stolen. So you loaded them in the trailer so they could lead you to the location of the stolen horses.
- Livestock Agent Steve Hendon: Are you telling me...
- Jamie Dutton: Listen. While driving to this location another vehicle pulled in front of you so you were compelled to make a defensive move for your safety and the safety of the two men in your custody. After avoiding the accident, you checked on the accused and you realized they had succumbed to the injuries sustained by the deputies in the horse stall at the fairgrounds. Do you recall the events I am repeating to you?
- Livestock Agent Steve Hendon: That's what happened. It was just like that.
- Jamie Dutton: Burn it in your fucking brain.
- Beth Dutton: Where the fuck are you putting that airport?
- Roarke: I told you, I'm not involved in the day to day...
- Beth Dutton: Bullshit.I drive this road every single day, you're never here. And now you're here every day while attorneys sit with the governor to decide what properties to condemn.
- Roarke: You know, paying state officials for information is a felony.
- Beth Dutton: You've never done it?
- Roarke: I've done about all you can do to make money. So have you. You have broken companies, ruined families, ended careers and now you stand there looking at me with those big, mad eyes because someone's doing it to you. And all we're going to do is make him one of the richest men in Montana. Oh, the tragedy.
- Beth Dutton: It's not what he wants. He wants the land.
- Roarke: You know the trick to never losing your land? Find land no one else wants. That's the only way.
- Beth Dutton: I'm gonna stop you.
- Roarke: How? You gonna move another river, Beth? We'll just move it back. None of us want to spend a year in a courthouse but we will. We can afford it. How about you, Beth? Can your family afford it? Can you afford to fight the army we'll march in there? Make us a proposal. Make it very fair to your family. We'd prefer to avoid a fight. But we aren't scared of one either.
- Governor Lynelle Perry: Okay, where to begin...
- Ellis Steele: You've looked over our proposal?
- Governor Lynelle Perry: I have. Yes.
- A.G. Stewart: This the airport?
- Ellis Steele: Mm-hmm.
- Governor Lynelle Perry: What investment are you requesting from the state?
- Ellis Steele: We want the land. You retain ownership, we operate on a 30-year lease. The airlines are assuming construction costs on their respective terminals, we'll build the infrastructure, contract management and operations back to the state for obvious reasons. Our build costs are just over a billion. Now, we're looking for 400 million in land and a tax subsidy of 500 million over ten years.
- Governor Lynelle Perry: Talk to me about numbers.
- Ellis Steele: The park has roughly 4 million visitors a year, the majority flying or driving through Jackson Hole. Now, Cody, Wyoming sees the most automobile traffic. We feel once ski resorts are operational, the airport could see 2 million guests a year.
- Governor Lynelle Perry: Has the forest service agreed to the lease for the resort?
- Ellis Steele: They have.12,000 acres will be developed in three phases. The first resort will be open in eighteen months with roughly 2000 beds available through our three resorts. Ancillary building: condos, hotels not under our umbrella, those things lag by another 18 months to two years.
- Governor Lynelle Perry: Well, here's my concern: uh, I don't really look at Jackson Hole as a model for responsible development. You have multimillion dollar second homes that are pricing the locals from living there. Jackson has multiple bedroom communities to absorb the displaced. Paradise Valley doesn't have that.
- Ellis Steele: Livingston is ripe for growth. Our urban planners feel the town could absorb 40,000 people in the next decade, and it needs to: Multimillion dollar second homes paying property taxes into the community without drawing on its services is exactly what this valley needs. And we're talking about between 3 and 6 billion in annual tax revenue generated by these developments.
- Governor Lynelle Perry: Have you chosen a location for the airport?
- Ellis Steele: Initially, we thought the golf courses at the Paradise Valley sporting club could be repurposed, but the FAA feels the valley there is too narrow. The FAA chose this location. This area here.
- Governor Lynelle Perry: That's the Yellowstone. That's a seven-generation ranch. He'll never sell. Then you'll invoke eminent domain. It's been attempted. He beat it.
- Ellis Steele: Mm-hmm, for a three-hundred unit condo complex. That was a land grab. Did seven generations of ranchers infuse 6 billion dollars into the economy? That's progress, Governor. And progress has a price.
- Phil Hawthorne: That was quick. Sheriff said they'd need it for a while.
- Jamie Dutton: How can she rodeo without a truck and trailer?
- Phil Hawthorne: That's what I said. But they said they needed it for...
- Jamie Dutton: For what?
- Phil Hawthorne: Guess one of the deputies took it too far with those assholes.
- Jamie Dutton: Uh... not one of the deputies. What I'm telling you could put my agent in prison. It could put me in prison, too.
- Phil Hawthorne: Maybe you shouldn't tell it.
- Jamie Dutton: My sister was beaten to within an inch of her life. Whatever else they did... I can't say. She won't either. But I can say this: a man who puts a hand on a member of my family never puts a hand on anything else.
- Jamie Dutton: Is a beating all she got?
- Phil Hawthorne: I don't know. She won't talk about it. I got half a mind to stand outside the courthouse with a gun and wait for those sons of bitches to get out on bail.
- Jamie Dutton: You don't have to do that.
- Phil Hawthorne: Everyone says that, but... everyone's daughter isn't beat to shit and God knows what else. So don't tell me what to fucking do. It ain't your daughter.
- Jamie Dutton: I'm not telling you what to do.I'm saying you don't have to do that. Eighty years ago we could've hung them from a tree. But today... this is the best I can offer. I can promise this: they're never getting arraigned.
- Phil Hawthorne: You should run for governor.
- Jamie Dutton: Let's just focus on today.
- Phil Hawthorne: You did that for me?
- Jamie Dutton: I did that for every father who would be sacrificing their family if they did it.
- Phil Hawthorne: So they're gone.They're done.
- Jamie Dutton: I don't know you, sir. And I'm showing you a lot of trust. I need you to show me the same. I just want to be clear about what this means.
- Phil Hawthorne: You've been plenty clear.
- Jamie Dutton: This makes you an accessory. Your daughter needs to understand that.
- Phil Hawthorne: My daughter won't say a word and it makes me more than that. Don't worry about this: soon as the grounds dry, it never happened.But between you and me... Time'll come you'll need a favor and I can't wait to give it.
- Jamie Dutton: I might ask for it.
- Governor Lynelle Perry: Kate, get me John Dutton on the line, please.
- Kate: Yes, ma'am. It went straight to voicemail.
- Governor Lynelle Perry: Try Jamie.
- Kate: Yes, ma'am.-- I'm putting him through.
- Governor Lynelle Perry: Jamie?
- Jamie Dutton: Governor..
- Governor Lynelle Perry: What can I do for you? I need to sit down with you and your father.
- Jamie Dutton: Oh, okay. Can you give me the broad strokes of what we'll be discussing?
- Governor Lynelle Perry: Sorry, no broad strokes today. When can we meet?
- Jamie Dutton: Actually, governor, can I get back to you tomorrow?
- Governor Lynelle Perry: This meeting has to happen tomorrow. Time is not on our side.
- Jamie Dutton: I'll get back to you first thing, then.Thank you
- County Attorney Randy: Hey.
- Jamie Dutton: Did you talk to anyone?
- County Attorney Randy: No, I did everything the way you said to do it. Is there a problem?
- Jamie Dutton: I don't know.
- County Attorney Randy: Jamie, if there's a problem I need to know about it...
- Jamie Dutton: There's no problem. The lie is the truth now. The lie is the truth and it is the truth forever. Do you understand me?
- County Attorney Randy: You're on your fucking own with this. Make up your own truth. Shit !
- Jamie Dutton: Randy? Fuck!
- John Dutton: Here goes the day.
- Jamie Dutton: Governor wants to see us.
- John Dutton: You mean the Governor wants to see you. I'm retired. And enjoying it.
- Jamie Dutton: She said both of us. I can bring the chopper out here. We can be in Helena in an hour.
- John Dutton: Sounds important.
- Jamie Dutton: Sounds like it.
- John Dutton: If it's that important, she shouldn't mind coming to see me. And I'll be at the rodeo in Livingston.
- Jamie Dutton: Well, we can get back by...
- John Dutton: I said I'll be at the rodeo. I'm sure her voters would enjoy watching her partake in something they actually care about. Rip, decide who's stayin' with the herd tonight. I'm gonna take this outfit to town and we're, uh... we'll go watch Jimmy rodeo.
- County Attorney Randy: County Attorney Randy Harper to see Commissioner Dutton.
- Jamie Dutton: He's expecting you.
- County Attorney Randy: Yeah. You got a lot of fucking balls summoning me into your office... Are you out of your fucking mind?
- Jamie Dutton: Out of my mind is me testifying in court, to the phone call you made to me asking me to send an agent to assault detainees.
- County Attorney Randy: What phone call?
- Jamie Dutton: The one I recorded, you asshole. Think this is my fucking hobby? An agent of my office was sent to retrieve two assailants who had visible marks on them when loaded onto a vehicle by your deputies... A vehicle my agent had every right to hold as evidence.
- County Attorney Randy: If your agent takes the fall for this, we're all clear.
- Jamie Dutton: Yeah, sure. I guess all he has to do is spend the rest of his life in prison while his wife and two kids rot in some fucking single-wide in Belgrade. You want to pitch him that idea or are you starting to smell the reek of an immunity deal with state prosecutors?
- County Attorney Randy: I just told you to teach them a lesson.
- Jamie Dutton: Yeah, you sure did, Randy. I mean, that's exactly what you said. Are the perps local?
- County Attorney Randy: One's from Louisiana, one's from Missouri. Last known address is a oil camp in North Dakota.
- Jamie Dutton: Toe tag them as John Does, say your deputies pulled them from a truck in a bar ditch with three times the legal limit of alcohol in their system.
- County Attorney Randy: What about the victim? She saw everything.
- John Dutton: When elk are babies, they don't have any scent. So the only way the wolf can find it is if it loses faith in its mama, makes a run for it. I'm feeling a little sentimental, Grandson. I'd like to see that little elk live. What do you say we tip the scales in his favor?
- [Tate and John urinate on the ground to create a scent which will misdirect the wolf]
- Roarke: [Voicemail message] ... I'm either on a boat or in a river or maybe I just don't want to talk to you. Have a blessed day.
- Announcer: Tonight in Livingston concession proceeds... will help fund our food bank.
- Announcer: The PRCA also proudly supports youth rodeo, education camps, and financial assistance to young standouts prepared to enter the professional ranks.
- Announcer: First draw of the night, Michael Murray, will be riding "Flies too much."
- Teeter: Hey. You wanna go skinny dipping down in the river?
- Colby Mayfield: No.
- Teeter: You wanna back rub?
- Colby Mayfield: I don't. Thanks.
- Teeter: You wanna give me'un?
- Colby Mayfield: No, I don't.
- Teeter: Shit, you don't like girls, do ya? Bet you want to pile drive one of them boys in my posters, don't ya?
- Colby Mayfield: No, I don't want to pile drive one of the boys in your poster.
- Teeter: Bullshit.
- Colby Mayfield: Can you not?
- Teeter: It's all right, baby.
- Governor Lynelle Perry: Hello, have a seat.
- A.G. Stewart: This should be good.
- Governor Lynelle Perry: Depends on your perspective. I just hung up with the President's Chief of Staff and they're appointing Miss Reid to Deputy Attorney General...
- A.G. Stewart: Of the United States? She's 30.
- Governor Lynelle Perry: I'm aware. They're rebranding in Washington. They're looking for youth.
- A.G. Stewart: Well, they sure got it.
- Governor Lynelle Perry: I need to appoint an interim and host a special election.
- A.G. Stewart: I'm three weeks from the golf course, lady. No.
- A.G. Stewart: What are my options? Can you please just stay on until I figure this out?
- Jamie Dutton: Governor.
- Governor Lynelle Perry, John Dutton: Jamie.
- John Dutton: Can we just enjoy the evening and talk about the problem tomorrow? Come on, Lynelle, that's the one good thing about problems: they'll still be problems tomorrow.
- Governor Lynelle Perry: You want to walk me through the plan behind that dirty grin?
- John Dutton: Well, that all depends.
- Governor Lynelle Perry: On what?
- Governor Lynelle Perry: On how big your security detail is.
- [Both laughing]
- Governor Lynelle Perry: How's, uh... forced retirement?
- John Dutton: Bliss.
- Governor Lynelle Perry: I'll make you a deal. All right. I'll give you the solution tonight and the problem tomorrow. You agree to the solution, and we can play teenager for the remainder of the night.
- John Dutton: All right. What's the solution?
- Governor Lynelle Perry: I appoint Jamie interim Attorney General and Jamie appoints a person of your choosing to run the Livestock Commission.
- John Dutton: Something happened.
- Governor Lynelle Perry: Is what I'm proposing best for the state? I don't know. Is it best for you? Yes. Is it best for the people in this valley? I... I think so. In my heart, I think it is. thing.
- John Dutton: And we do all this with what goal in mind?
- Governor Lynelle Perry: To negotiate an acceptable surrender.
- John Dutton: What are we surrendering?...
- John Dutton: The problem... There's plenty... but problem number one is: I don't have anyone to replace Jamie.
- Governor Lynelle Perry: What about the war hero?
- John Dutton: Already asked him. He won't do it.
- Governor Lynelle Perry: You've never asked anybody for anything in your life.
- [John laughs]
- Governor Lynelle Perry: You tell. I'll ask him. And he won't say no. If that's what you want for him.
- John Dutton: It's all I've ever wanted for him.
- Governor Lynelle Perry: Then let me put a little sugar on this pill. John Dutton admitting that he can't do everything. I admitted no such thing.
- Beth Dutton: I knew you'd be money well spent. What do you got?
- Kate: They're building an airport.
- Beth Dutton: So they say. Do you know where? The Sporting Club.
- Kate: Not the Sporting Club. Not anymore.