- Jamie Dutton: My father hates me. Hates me. He hates me for becoming the very thing he asked me to become. No, forced me to be.
- Sarah Atwood: Do you care that he hates you? Is his love something you feel you really need?
- Jamie Dutton: Evidently not. I've lived without it my whole life.
- Sarah Atwood: Mm-hmm.
- Jamie Dutton: But I would like his approval. I want his appreciation for that fucking sacrifice.
- Sarah Atwood: He can't give you that. He resents the tool that he relies on the most, because he can't be that tool. He's jealous of you, Jamie. And he's scared of you. He's scared because the future of that ranch depends on its evolution. If it doesn't evolve with society it will be devoured by society
- Jamie Dutton: I know, I know. I've said that for years. Decades. And he's still running cow-calf pairs like it's the 1950s, when cow-calf pairs in the 1950s didn't even make any money.
- Sarah Atwood: Cattle. Let me tell you the future of the cattle industry. Right now, the biggest meat processor in the United States is a Brazilian Corporation. 10,000 acres of rainforest cleared every day. For what? To raise cattle. Is that a coincidence? The future of the beef industry in the United States is no future.
- Jamie Dutton: Mm-mm
- Sarah Atwood: In twenty years Brazil will be to American beef what China is to American manufacturing. There will be no more cattle in America.
- Jamie Dutton: That's why the airport development was vital to the ranch's future.
- Sarah Atwood: You don't have to tell me that. Mm-mm. But you do have to tell the rest of Montana. Tourism is Montana's only resource. What else do you have, timber? Cutting down something it takes 200 years to replace? That is not a business. That is self mutilation. No. Tourism. That is all you have. And you can seize it or you can witness it. Those are your options.You love that ranch.
- Jamie Dutton: I know.
- Sarah Atwood: You love that ranch.
- Jamie Dutton: It's the only thing I've ever loved.
- Sarah Atwood: Let me help you save it. I can help you save it if you want me to.
- Jamie Dutton: I do.
- Sarah Atwood: Ask me, then. Ask me to help you save it.
- Jamie Dutton: Will you help me? Help me.
- Sarah Atwood: Yes. I will help you, baby. I will help you, baby.
- Rip Wheeler: Sweetheart... Don't bite my head off for asking this question.
- Beth Dutton: Ii don't like the way this is starting.
- Rip Wheeler: Me either... Um... Would you like to come to the fair with me?
- Beth Dutton: Sure, when?
- Rip Wheeler: Yes? Really?
- Beth Dutton: Yeah, why wouldn't I want to go to the fair?
- John Dutton: Is "fair" some sort of metaphor for something a father shouldn't be hearing?
- Rip Wheeler: No, no. It's the fair. It's the county fair.
- Ellis Steele: What's on your mind, Mr. Steele?
- Ellis Steele: This. Your father put his ranch in the Land Trust. He put the land in a conservation easement, Jamie.
- Sarah Atwood: How could you let him do that?
- Jamie Dutton: Well, I... I didn't know.
- Jamie Dutton: Do you have the authority to override that?
- Jamie Dutton: Theoretically, yes, But... You're not battling a man, anymore, you're battling the legal defense funds of environmental groups, which had no basis to sue you, but now they are the stewards of the fuck! God damn it! Thank you for coming. I'm going to need some time to process this information.
- Sarah Atwood: Market Equity will sue the state for a bad faith negotiation. They will file it in federal court in New York, where they incurred the damages, and those attorneys will wipe the floor with you. Your state will be on the hook for around 4 billion dollars in compensatory damages. That's ten percent of Montana's GDP. The state's gonna go bankrupt.Sounds like an impeachable offense to me.
- Jamie Dutton: Yes, it does.
- Sarah Atwood: What's the procedure in Montana when a Governor resigns or steps down?
- Jamie Dutton: You have a special election.
- Sarah Atwood: We're fully committed to your election. Our PAC will fund it. Go before the Assembly. This is your chance to become governor and get our fucking land back.
- Customer Service Representative: Supply House.
- Beth Dutton: Is this the number to order beef?
- Customer Service Representative: Yes, ma'am, or you can do it online.
- Beth Dutton: Can I be nosey?
- Customer Service Representative: Umm, sure.
- Beth Dutton: Is this your beef, that you raise and sell online?
- Customer Service Representative: Yes, ma'am. Some comes from neighboring ranchers 'cause we sell out of all ours, but they follow the same program.
- Beth Dutton: You sell out?
- Customer Service Representative: Yes, ma'am.
- Beth Dutton: How many pounds of beef do you raise?
- Customer Service Representative: This year, a little over 8 million.
- Beth Dutton: What's the catch?
- Customer Service Representative: Ma'am?
- Beth Dutton: There's always a catch.
- Customer Service Representative: No catch. You just gotta have enough money to feed your herd for two years before you make any money. Or get a big loan. And have a lot of backbone, ma'am.
- Beth Dutton: Backbone we got, thank you.
- Beth Dutton: This is what you get your loan for.
- John Dutton: The cash flow is impossible, honey, and nobody can figure out the packer
- Beth Dutton: They figured out the packer. Do you know this ranch?
- John Dutton: Yeah, I was just on the phone with this ranch.
- Beth Dutton: So was I. They sold 8 million pounds of beef. On a website.
- John Dutton: I don't know what their arrangement is honey, but one thing I do know is nobody has ever been able to figure out the re-packer.
- Beth Dutton: That is because you are not a businessman, Daddy. You are a rancher.I am a businessman. And I have spent my career making fifty, hundred million dollar deals for others. Now I'm gonna make one for you.
- Lynelle Perry: Well, I'll get right to it, then. The Department of Interior has approved two pipelines in central Montana. One is a natural gas, and the other is captured carbon and the proposed pathway is through the reservation.
- Thomas Rainwater: The Secretary of the Interior was here with the President two days ago. They mentioned nothing.
- Lynelle Perry: As I'm learning, Federal politics is, well, they never take the gloves off because they never put them on.
- Thomas Rainwater: Is there a map of this pathway? The pipeline runs beneath our reservoir.
- Lynelle Perry: Yes.
- Thomas Rainwater: Our drinking water.
- Lynelle Perry: Yes.
- Mo Brings Plenty: How is the path chosen?
- Lynelle Perry: Well, it's the shortest distance between two points and the path of least legal resistance. To go to the west of you enters into State land forest service, east of you is private ranches, which have the funds to fight, and likely the support of our new governor.
- Mo Brings Plenty: They don't think we'll put up a fight?
- Thomas Rainwater: We can't put up a fight.Federal Government doesn't need our permission.
- Lynelle Perry: So that my position is clear, I do not support this. And I will declare my opposition, how much weight that holds in this instance I...
- Thomas Rainwater: If there's nothing you can do and there's nothing I can do, why are you telling me?
- Lynelle Perry: Because I know who's coming after your office and they'll use this against you. At least now, make a statement, get out in front of it. Make enough noise that the Department of Interior looks somewhere else. North Dakota, let's say.
- Mo Brings Plenty: That just ruins the land in North Dakota.
- Lynelle Perry: I'm not the Senator of North Dakota. So that's North Dakota's problem.
- Thomas Rainwater: I guess you don't put gloves on either.When will you publicly declare your opposition?
- Lynelle Perry: As soon as the pipeline is made public, which I assume is when you'll call a press conference.
- Thomas Rainwater: You set the press conference.Stand with the people this affects.
- Lynelle Perry: Standing beside you in solidarity is declaring my support for you as much as it is opposing a pipeline.
- Thomas Rainwater: We'll kill two birds with one stone.
- Lynelle Perry: Deal. I'll set it for tomorrow.
- Thomas Rainwater: Be good to have the governor there.
- Lynelle Perry: Well, the governor's playing hooky. Branding cattle.
- Thomas Rainwater: That's not what he was elected to do.
- Lynelle Perry: Oh, he did what he was elected to do. That's the way John sees it, anyway.
- Lynelle Perry: He's our governor, too. Perhaps you could remind him of that.
- Jamie Dutton: This was not what I was supposed to be. I was, I was, I was raised to be a cowboy. To to run a ranch. To To know the nuances of being a cattle producer. To You know, from, from from understanding the grass cycles, to to timing the calving season to maximize the grass cycles. Understanding bull genetics and diseases. It was I never wanted to be a fucking lawyer. This is what he wanted me to be. What he thought he needed. "The future of warfare is fought with a pen. Learn to fight with a pen". All right. So, I did. And I did. And then I get this acceptance letter from Harvard. Hell, I never even applied. He applied for me. There's no telling who wrote the fucking essay.
- Sarah Atwood: Your sister, I would think.
- Jamie Dutton: Never thought of that. God, why didn't I think of that?
- Sarah Atwood: Because you're too close to it.
- Jamie Dutton: My father hates me. Hates me. He hates me for becoming the very thing he asked me to become. No, forced me to be.
- Jamie Dutton: The actions of Governor Dutton have not only robbed Montanans of six thousand jobs and annual revenue in the billions, his actions have exposed Montana to litigation that will cost the state billions more, likely bankrupting the state. Which robs your children of school funding, robs our towns of emergency services, places our roads and infrastructure in disrepair. It threatens the quality of life for all Montanans. After weighing his actions and the cost of those actions for every Montanan, I call on this assembly for a vote to impeach. Mister Speaker, what say ye?What do you think?
- Sarah Atwood: I think it's perfect.
- John Dutton: Line up the trucks.
- Rip Wheeler: They're lined up. We just need to know where they're headed.
- John Dutton: Ground in Eastern Colorado and north of Panhandle in Texas.
- Summer Higgins: Don't get me wrong, I'm not ordering a steak for dinner any time soon. But I understand now. I understand why you brand and why you vaccinate and why you move them from one pasture to another. Twelve million tourists a year come to Montana from cities. You might wanna think about inviting a few of them over so they understand who you really are and what you really do, because they have you pegged as a bunch of misogynist bigots who are ruining the environment. And that is not who you are.
- John Dutton: You're a smart woman, Summer. Very, very, very smart woman.
- Summer Higgins: I'm a smart person.
- John Dutton: Well, women are smarter than men to begin with so I'm just judging you against your peers.
- Teeter: Hey. He's about to win me a fuckin' bar. Let's go, right here. Right here, I want that fuckin' bar. That fuckin' bar right there.
- Colby Mayfield: All these games are rigged.
- Teeter: Who gives a shit? I want it!
- Colby Mayfield: Why don't I just give you the thirty dollars it's gonna cost me to win the bear?
- Teeter: Give me the bar. Come on. Hi, what's up?
- Colby Mayfield: Can you explain this game to me?
- Carnival Worker: All you gotta do is toss three balls into the centre hole, you can pick your prize.
- Colby Mayfield: Sounds delightful.
- Teeter: All right. You get it in the hole all the time at home. Let's do it just like home.
- Colby Mayfield: There's kids around, relax.
- Lynelle Perry: Need to move our herd down south. Buffalo herd left the park. Spent spring on our ranch. Herd has brucellosis now.
- Mo Brings Plenty: That sounds ominous.
- Lynelle Perry: It is.
- Mo Brings Plenty: How far south?
- Lynelle Perry: Far enough that it doesn't snow, so we don't have to feed them all winter.
- Mo Brings Plenty: Okay, so do you have to lease the land?
- Lynelle Perry: Yeah.
- Mo Brings Plenty: And how much will that cost?
- Lynelle Perry: Dry as it is? I don't know. 12, 14 dollars an acre.
- Mo Brings Plenty: Okay, how many acres?
- Lynelle Perry: Depends on the land. Hundred thousand at least.
- Mo Brings Plenty: So that's 1.4 million dollars a year.
- Lynelle Perry: No, Beth. 1.4 a month.
- Mo Brings Plenty: Dad, we don't We don't have that.
- Lynelle Perry: I know. I'll take a loan.
- Mo Brings Plenty: Why don't you just sell them all now?
- Lynelle Perry: If we sell 'em all now, we have no income next year.
- Mo Brings Plenty: We don't have any income this year. We have no profit this year. We have no profit any year. Now I want to break shit. If we sell the heifers and the steers, what is that worth?
- Lynelle Perry: If I can get them to weigh 750, worth about 1100 dollars.
- Mo Brings Plenty: Okay, so that's a $1.50 a pound, Dad.
- Lynelle Perry: Yep.
- Mo Brings Plenty: A good steak is worth thirty bucks a pound, shitty ground beef is worth five.
- Lynelle Perry: We don't sell beef, we sell cattle.
- Mo Brings Plenty: Exactly. We're in the wrong fucking business. You know, I really, uh I really thought the airport would be the end of us, Dad, but Your business model, is gonna be the end of us.
- Lynelle Perry: Business model's worked for a hundred years
- Mo Brings Plenty: No, Dad, it hasn't worked. If it worked, this fucking valley wouldn't be filled with hobby farms and vacation houses. It would be filled with ranches. People don't sell businesses that make money, right? They sell the losers.
- Lynelle Perry: Randy, John Dutton. How are ya?... You all stocked up?... Yeah, I need some ground... . Five thousand if I can find the grass.