01x01 - Daybreak

[bunniefuu]

- Shh.

- [HORSE SNORTS]

[SOFTLY]

Shh.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, easy.

Easy.

[LOW WHINNY]

Oh.

It's not fair, this life.

[GRUNTS]

I know you deserve better.

[COCKS TRIGGER]

Best I can offer you is peace.

[COWS LOWING]

[SOMBER MUSIC]

♪ ♪

[METALLIC CLATTER]

[STEAM HISSING]

[INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER]

[RADIO CHATTER]

[SIRENS WAILING]

[SOMBER MUSIC CONTINUES]

- _ - ♪ ♪

♪ ♪

[SIRENS WAILING]

[COWS LOWING]

[BRAKES SCREECH]

[CAR DOORS SHUT]

The things we lose to keep you fed.

[LOWING]

[POLICE RADIO CHATTER]

Jesus, that's John Dutton.

Commissioner, you all right?

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

♪ ♪

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

The state of Montana has never gauged its progress

by the size of its cities.

We measure our progress

by how those cities impact the people

and the land surrounding them,

the land that feeds them,

provides their water, nourishes their souls.

This doesn't sound like a legal argument, Mr.

Dutton.

It sounds like a lecture.

Well, it's a summation of our state constitution,

which clearly states that land preservation

and property rights take precedence over public expansion.

The constitution clearly denotes the state's right to eminent domain and grants the authority to condemn property for the public good.

For essential public services like hospitals, schools, highways...not housing developments.

Housing is essential.

Bozeman has doubled in size in a decade.

We're miles away, and our population is less than it was years ago.

- Why?

- Because their fence guarantees we don't grow.

Stagnation is death for a town, and the Duttons are the ones k*lling it.

Well, poetic if it were true, since a Dutton founded the town.

As it stands, the defendant is correct.

Our land use laws are quite clear.

For this commission to grant eminent domain, you must show public need, not desire.

I think that's enough posturing.

- Let's put it to a vote.

- The plaintiff hasn't shown any legal imperative for a vote, so this case is dismissed.

[GAVEL THUDS]

It's , acres, Jamie.

That isn't a fraction of the ranch.

Okay, look, you can harvest the timber first, no environmental review, nothing.

You can cut every tree to the root.

You want to suggest to my father that he clear-cut his land, be my guest.

You're a braver man than me.

Just mention it, Jamie.

The town grows, or it dies.

Well, maybe it should grow... up.

Condos, Alan, like they have in San Francisco.

Condos?

Who wants to live in a condo in Montana?

I don't know how you're gonna get 'em out by yourself.

Don't have to get 'em all out.

Just that stallion.

Once he's gone, the rest will leave on their own.

Best of luck.

That bastard kicked my truck door so hard, we had to use a crowbar to get it open.

That damn mustang's done more in one week to stop drilling than every environmental group in the state.

Maybe I should just leave him where he is then.

Where'd you find this guy?

Yellow pages.

Ad says he works with problem horses.

Oh, this'll be interesting.

Kid's f*cking crazy.

[HORSE WHINNIES]

Yeah, uh...sure is building something.

[KNOCK ON DOOR]

- [SOFTLY]

Beth.

- Of course he didn't.

He couldn't find his ass with both hands.

- Bob...

Bob needs you.

- Give me a minute.

I don't think he has a minute.

God damn it, Bob, I didn't come here to do business with these people.

I came here to do business with you.

I can hear you screaming halfway down the hall, Craig.

I thought we were gonna try and work this out, Bob.

We've been trying to work this out for three hours, Craig.

This is the alternative.

We don't want to merge.

No one wants to merge with you.

You have a three-to-one debt ratio.

It'd be easier to sell VCRs.

I'm not gonna be bullied by your hatchet man, Bob.

We will pull our funds, and we will take our business down the street to Chase.

We're just asking you to suspend the dividend.

And k*ll the stock!

What do you think's gonna happen when I dump our % share tomorrow morning?

I'll tell you what.

The stock will drop below , SEC will suspend trading, and every creditor you have will file on you.

Your company will be chapter by Friday, and since we're your largest creditors, I can promise you there'll be no negotiating then.

I will be CEO of IL Energy by Monday.

I will fire every f*cking employee.

Then I will sell your leases and equipment to Chevron for ¢ on the dollar, and you, buddy, you will have the unique distinction of being the only drilling company to go bankrupt in the largest oil boom of the last century.

Won't that look good on a résumé?

I started this company in my garage.

That's where it's gonna end up if you don't suspend the dividend and allow us to assume management.

Don't look at him.

You're dealing with me now.

So what's it gonna be?

Are we restructuring your company tomorrow or k*lling it?

Good.

You made the right choice, Craig.

We'll get you through this.

[UNDER BREATH]

Bitch.

I just saved your house.

I put your kids through college.

Maybe you should say something more appropriate.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

[HORSE WHINNIES]

[THUMP]

[HORSE WHINNYING, THRASHING]

[MUFFLED THUMPING]

[HORSE WHINNYING]

- [THUDDING CONTINUES]

[POP/FOLKSY RAP MUSIC]

♪ ♪

[RAPPING]

[HORSE WHINNIES] [THUMP]

♪ Another su1c1de, that's just the worst ♪

[INDISTINCT SINGING]

♪ ♪

[HORSE WHINNIES] [THUMP]

♪ And here's the kinda town ♪

♪ Singing to the moon our lonesome song ♪

[HORSE CONTINUES WHINNYING]

[THUMP]



- [SONG CONTINUES]

- [THUMPING CONTINUES]

[HORSE SNORTS]

[HORSE WHINNYING, THRASHING]

[THUMPING, SNORTING]

- [CHILDREN PLAYING]

- [THUMPING CONTINUES]

Daddy!

Hey, buddy.

[HORSE CONTINUES THUMPING, WHINNYING]

Bet it was fun putting him in the trailer.

Yeah, they call him a tornado.

How are you planning on getting him out?

I'm just making this up as I go, babe.

[THUMPING, SNORTING CONTINUES]

I'd step back a bit further if I were you.

[HORSE WHINNYING, THUMPING]

It's all right.

[THUD]

I know it don't seem like it, but it is.

[THUDDING, WHINNYING]

- Easy.

- [HORSE SNORTING]

- Easy.

- [HORSE GRUNTS]

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Easy, easy.

That's it.

That's it.

- Hey.

- [HORSE GRUNTING, SNORTING]

- Whoa...

whoa.

- [HORSE GRUNTING]

Whoa, whoa, whoa!

You kids get back!

Hey, hey, hey.

[GRUNTING]

That's it, that's it.

Come on.

[HORSE GRUNTING, SNORTING]

It's all right.

It's all right.

[HORSE GRUNTING SOFTER]

Can I pet him?

Sure, son, in about a year.

No fear in this one.

He got that from you.

You mean no common sense.

He got that from you.

Well, I suppose your homework is in the kitchen doing itself.

[KIDS CHATTERING, GIGGLING]

[LOUD GRUNTING]

Oh, he's gonna be fun to break.

Well, holler at me if you need my help.

Free tomorrow?

Could use a hand.

Yeah, sure.

Bring a horse.

Just not that one.

Wow.

My brother actually talked to you.

Well, that was progress.

Yeah, it was something.

I got parent conferences tonight, so you're on Tate patrol.

All right.

I wonder what he's thinking.

Well, he's probably thinking I took his freedom.

Well, he's right.

[HORSE SNUFFLING SOFTLY]

Supper's ready.

Ah, damn it.

Your mother was always better at this.

Hey, you know who's really good at it?

- Doctors.

- Yeah.

Should have done that yesterday.

Here, let me do it.

Let me do it.

All right, Alan asked me to mention it, so I will.

They'd allow us to harvest the timber before the...

No.

- The answer's no.

- Yeah.

Can I do this?

Yeah.

When you say no, it must be the death of the question.

Mm-hmm, I understand.

If there's even a hint of maybe, the questions won't stop until they find something you can't say no to.

Mm.

You got to learn when to think like a lawyer, you understand?

And when to think like a landowner.

Or a lawyer's all you're ever gonna be.

Yeah.

Well, I'll say this.

You...

You got your mother's hands.

[BARKING]

[HELICOPTER BLADES WHIRRING]

[HORSES WHINNYING]

Hey.

I told them no.

Hey, I said you wouldn't consider it.

Should you consider it?

Absolutely.

We could use the money and the leverage that comes with it.

You're not coming, Dad?

No, I got a meeting in Bozeman.

Why don't you take your badge out with you today?

Take a r*fle too.

I mean, they won't give us any trouble over strays.

I mean, hell, they'll probably help us round them up.

Well, the badge is for the ranchers riding with you.

It'll keep them from bringing home any extras.

Did you hear me?

[HELICOPTER ENGINE POWERING UP THRUM]

Leverage is knowing if someone had... all the money in the world...

This is what they'd buy.

[FOREBODING MUSIC]

♪ ♪

[INTENSE MUSIC BUILD-UP]

[SOFT, DRAMATIC MUSIC]

♪ ♪

[BIRD OF PREY CRIES]

[DISTANT CHANTING]

[CHANTING IN NATIVE LANGUAGE]

♪ ♪ [DRUMMING INTENSIFIES]

[CHANTING]

♪ ♪ [CHANTING, DRUMMING CONTINUE]

[KNOCKING AT DOOR]

[CHANTING AND DRUMMING CONTINUES IN BACKGROUND]

Senator.

I'm sorry I'm late.

I wanted to see the reservation first.

Did you enjoy your tour?

No, no, I did not.

Well, it's good that you took it.

Inequity must be witnessed to be changed.

Please have a seat.

Oh.

I can't imagine all your mother overcame just to raise you here.

I never met my mother, and I wasn't raised here.

Till I was , I thought I was Mexican even though I didn't look Mexican and I didn't feel Mexican, if one can feel their heritage, which I believe one can.

When I turned , my adoption records were unsealed, and imagine my surprise.

I confronted my adopted parents, who said they lied to protect me.

They said as a Mexican, I would face discrimination, sure, but as an Indian, I would know a hatred that had to be endured to be fully understood.

They thought they were giving me a better chance at life.

That's this nation's policy toward us, always has been.

If we want a better life, all we have to do is stop being Indian.

I'm gonna change that policy.

My people are the only ones that can change that policy.

[SIGHS]

The gambler's money is like a river, flowing one way.. .

our way.

Senator, you've never driven a road or walked a trail or skied a mountain in Montana that didn't belong to my people first.

This nation doesn't want to give it back?

So be it.

We'll buy it back. . .

with their money.

So what do you want from me?

I want you to help me spend it.

Come.

Meet the people we're saving.

Ladies and gentlemen, let's welcome the new chairman of Broken Rock, Thomas Rainwater!

[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

What about water and power?

You don't need a permit for that?

See, the bank's concern is that you're gonna break ground, and the state or the f*cking EPA paper us in lawsuits because we built a power plant without a permit.

In the state of Montana, no permit is required to build a power source for a mine or a mill.

Now, we'll construct our own mill that will also allow us to harvest wood directly from the forest, cutting our lumber cost by %.

Damming the river here will generate enough power to light every home in the subdivision.

Now, this is a self-sustaining community miles from the most pristine wilderness in North America.

Now, if you don't see the potential in that, we need another bank.

We see the potential. I just. . .

There are no restrictions on damming a river?

Beavers do it all the time.

On our land it's our river.

Now, this isn't California, gentlemen.

This is Montana.

We can do whatever we want.

[TRAFFIC NOISES]

[SOFT ROCK PLAYING]

♪ ♪

My name's Ted.

Where are you from?

Really?

[LAUGHS]

I've been here a week.

You're the first person I've met who's actually from here.

Can I buy you another drink?

Why not?

Hey, Dalton, give me another one.

You don't live here anymore, though, not dressed like that.

You came back for a family reunion.

No, no, those never happen at home for some reason.

Let's see, Bozeman is a college town, so I'm gonna say a school reunion, class of. . .

.

Am I close?

Do you feel close, Ted?

Ah, it feels like I'm getting close.

My turn.

You're in real estate or something equally as unimportant, married, couple of kids, one on the way.

That was your excuse to come out here.

Need the break.

Work, family life.

It's so demanding.

A little fresh air, a little "me time. " You came alone 'cause none of your friends could afford it, and those who do, they. . . they have wives a lot smarter than yours 'cause let's be honest, Ted, you didn't come here to fish.

You're hunting.

That's why you're sitting in a bar instead of standing in a river.

Who the hell are you to judge me?

I ain't judging you, buddy.

Morning, gentlemen.

I'm hunting too, just not hunting you.

What's wrong with me?

You look like a real soft f*ck, Ted.

All you city boys do.

Gentlemen, mind if I join you?

[MEN SHOUTING]

They even got the barb wire tore down.

That is our property, god damn it.

Can't hear ya.

Come about feet closer.

- You think I won't?

- I think you shouldn't, but coming on our land is bred into you people.

I've had enough of your sh*t.

Let me tell you something. . .

[MEN SHOUTING]

When those cattle walked onto our land, they became our cattle to do as we please.

Whatever happens next happens to you first.

[HELICOPTER WHIRRING]

[TENSE MUSIC]

Son of a bitch.

♪ ♪

Back up.

You should respect your betters.

Boy, you sure made a mess of this.

It was a mess when I got here.

This is a tribal issue, John.

Livestock commission's got no authority here.

Those look like livestock to me.

The Chief's at Commencement, but I'm calling the sh*ts.

I'm impressed you said that with a straight face, Ben.

Cattle wandered onto res land, John.

Yeah, well, cattle don't know the difference between your land and ours.

Neither did we till the government showed us.

Ha.

Now I guess we're showing you.

I argued against it, but the new chief. . .

Hungry for a fight, this one.

God damn it, I just. . .

I just don't see how anyone gains from all this, Felix.

I don't either, but he don't think like me.

Grew up in Denver, went to some big university.

Now he thinks like you.

I'll keep 'em here as long as I can, John.

I'll bring up hay so they don't wander.

Lee!

I got to go.

Clear everyone out.

You know, there was barbed wire on this fence a week ago.

I know.

Now clear them out.

Move out!

All right, let's go!

♪ Our flag was still there ♪

♪ Oh, say does that star-spangled ♪ ♪ Banner yet wave ♪ ♪ O'er the land of the free ♪ ♪ And the home of the brave ♪ [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

Ladies and gentlemen, I'd like to welcome you out to the Greater Montana Livestock Auction.

We're gonna start out with lot number one.

It's Royal M.

Duke, a registered English bull offered by Double G Angus Ranch, sired by Supreme Domino out of Miss Domino.

Now we're gonna start the bidding out at , .

I'm at .

I'm at .

[AUCTIONEERING]

I'm at , gonna go , at now, now on , , looking for .

[AUCTIONEERING]

, and now bid at , , , ?

, now , ?

One phone call.

I'll be right back.

We have any legal recourse on the Reservation land?

Civil maybe, but if you're talking prosecution, we need friends in the U. S. Attorney's Office.

Make some.

[APPLAUSE]

Hello, Trent.

John.

I wouldn't wish the week you're having on my mother-in-law.

- [LAUGHING]

- Well, it's only Tuesday.

, , .

Now .

now.

, now bid at , .

John.

This is not the day, Dirk.

The word has it you're hiring.

Cowboys, not criminals.

I can't stop him.

You can.

Jimmy's the only family I have left.

The favor's to me, not to him.

Please.

Please.

All right.

We're gonna do this my way, all right?

- You understand?

My way.

- Yeah.

I remember when your way was the only way, and the world was better for that.

- Hello, Governor.

- John.

How are you?

Thank you.

Jamie did well at the hearing.

It's easy to do well when the outcome's decided.

I couldn't hit it if he didn't tee it up, and my offer still stands, John.

Yeah, well. .

I don't want him in politics.

He's already in politics.

Yeah, with a constituency of one.

[LAUGHS]

How concerned should I be about this issue on the Res?

It's a new chief showing off for his voters.

We've all done it.

- [APPLAUSE]

- Well. . .

we should schedule a lunch.

I could use a lunch.

[BACKGROUND CHATTER]

[SOLEMN MUSIC]

♪ ♪

Sold it to you.

.

Sold it, .

- [INDISTINCT CHATTER]

- [CATTLE LOWING]

[DISTANT HOWLING]

You were right.

- _ - They're building a city.

Goodnight, Daddy.

Goodnight, sweetheart.

Good to have you home.

[PENSIVE STRING MUSIC]

♪ ♪

[CLICKING LIPS]

[CLICKING TONGUE]

That's it.

Come on.

That's it.

That's it.

That's it, buddy.

Got tiger stripes on his legs.

You know what that means, don't you?

[EXHALES SHARPLY]

Spanish blood.

Pure.

One of his ancestors probably bucked a conquistador and took to the hills.

You manage to break his spirit, no horse will serve you better.

He'll serve me just fine with spirit intact.

Yeah.

I used to think the same thing at your age.

Hope you prove me wrong.

I didn't know them were your cattle.

Would it have made a difference?

You don't want to be on the wrong side of this, son.

Yeah, well, the list of things I don't want is endless.

You telling me what to do is one of them.

I'm not telling you what to do.

I just don't want you to get in trouble.

Well, if I'd have known there was sides, I wouldn't have been there at all.

Good lord, even here the world just keeps on coming.

Rough week, huh?

Yeah.

One only a grandson could fix.

Thought I'd come see Tate play in the dirt, maybe even join him.

He's at Monica's parents.

I guess the early grandpa gets the worm, huh?

Can I give you some advice, Kayce?

Someday your son's gonna test you.

He's gonna force you to make a decision that not only determines his future but your place in it.

I want you to remember me standing here, son, before you make that decision, because this. . .

this is a consequence of choosing wrong.

Anything else?

I just want to know him, Kayce.

- You know him.

- No, I don't.

I don't.

We've met, but I don't really know him.

And he doesn't know me.

Is it too much to ask that you help make that happen?

[HUMORLESS CHUCKLE]

You've always asked too much.

[CLICKING TONGUE]

[TRUCK STARTS]

What was he doing here?

[SIGHS]

Who knows?

Dad!

Is this for me?

[HARD ROCK MUSIC PLAYING]

♪ ♪

[MUSIC STOPS]

You Jimmy?

Dirk Hurdstram's boy?

[STAMMERS]

You alone, Jimmy?

I'll take that as a yes.

[TASER ZAPPING]

You're a two-time loser, Jimmy.

One more felony, and they throw away the keys.

You know what?

You might do all right in prison.

You got the lips for it.

You're either a servant or a king in this place, and I ain't no f*cking servant.

No, no.

You're a thief.

Oh, what the f*ck, man?

What the f*ck, man?

Wait, wait, wait!

Wait, wait, wait!

Wait, wait!

f*cking psycho, wait!

Jimmy, I'm gonna give you two choices.

One is I take you and all this sh*t, and I drive you down to the sheriff's office, and it's good riddance to your sorry ass, or you prove that you deserve another chance.

From what I can see, you don't, but it ain't up to me.

You're with the Yellowstone?

It's getting cold, Jimmy.

You know what?

f*ck it.

I'm taking you to the sheriff's.

- Wait, just. .

- Just get up.

Why would John Dutton give a sh*t about me?

He doesn't.

But he will.

Now, you be a man about it.

Don't scream.

[BREATHING HARD]

- [BRANDING IRON SIZZLES]

- [GROANING]

[GROANS]

You know where the ranch is?

You start Monday.

Hey, we need a new dishwasher.

I notice you never ask for appliances with your pants on.

Number one, I make more money - than you do, cowboy.

- Oh, yeah?

And number two, I already bought it.

No pants is so you don't bitch about driving to Billings to pick it up.

Ugh, Billings.

It's so far.

Tell me about today.

He just wants to know his grandson.

I guess we could give him that.

What do you think?

You know what I think.

But we'll give it to him anyway.

It'll happen to us too someday.

Tate'll move away and have a family of his own, and all we'll get is little fixes.

That is the meanest thing you've ever said to me.

I know, baby, but it's true.

We can make another.

That way when he leaves, it won't hurt so bad.

[SOFT MUSIC]

♪ ♪

Hold on.

.

.

Lost one last year.

Old gal just turned .

Get rid of her.

[CLEARS THROAT]

I needed you at the auction.

I was at the auction.

I don't mean checking brands.

Dad, I stand in bullshit hours a day.

I'm not gonna do it at night.

That's Jamie's job.

You can't run this place if you won't interact with the people, Lee.

- I'm running it right now.

- This ain't running it.

- Don't start with me.

- This ain't running it!

This is working it.

God damn it, years old, you still don't know the difference.

sh*t, one's down.

[COWS LOWING]

[COWS LOWING]

Looks like a breech.

Can we get her up?

No, we'll pull it. . .

We'll pull it while she's down.

You got her?

Okay, ready?

[LOWING]

I'm sorry.

[COW HUFFING]

You feel the legs?

Not yet.

[COW GRUNTS]

Easy, mama.

Easy, easy.

Okay, got them, I got them.

All right, tell me when.

- [STRAINING]

Tell me when.

- [COW MOANING]

- All right, go.

- [GRUNTS]

Shh, easy, mama.

Shh.

[GRUNTING]

[LOWING]

[BOTH COWS LOWING]

[SIGHS, LAUGHS]

[SIGHS, GROANS]

Whew.

When you look at that calf, what do you see?

I see a life I got to feed and defend until it grows up and feeds me.

That's what a cowboy should see.

But a cattleman sees a $ investment worth $ , in seven months whether it feeds anyone or not.

Wish I saw it different, Dad.

Well, we see it the way we see it, son.

[CATTLE LOWING]

Well, if it isn't bachelor number two up at the cr*ck of : and dressed to seize the day.

Yeah.

It's Saturday.

No weekends on a ranch.

You know that.

Nice to see you're still smoking.

[LAUGHS]

Well, women in this family don't live much past anyway, so I might as well enjoy my time.

What are you doing here?

Same thing I always do.

Fixing something you couldn't.

You missed breakfast.

[DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES]

[BUFFALO GRUNTING]

Now, what the hell are we supposed to do with buffalo?

You'll see.

Yeah, well how much these sumbitches cost?

Well, they ain't cheap.

[HORSE WHINNIES]

I was thinking about you yesterday.

A friend of mine in Jackson Hole was talking about their rodeo.

Bozeman doesn't have one.

Why not?

It's 'cause nobody here cares about rodeos.

Oh, you're wrong, John.

Every millionaire I know wants to be a cowboy.

Authenticity's the one thing that money can't buy.

It'd be good for Bozeman and a great way to honor men like you.

Yeah, well, parading us in front of your friends, Dan, isn't an honor.

It's a. . .

it's an insult.

You want to build subdivisions, move to Dallas.

I won't have them here.

Yeah, that's right.

Nothing happens in this valley I don't know about.

It's called progress, John, and progress doesn't need your permission.

Yeah, in this valley it does.

What do you care what I build?

You expect me to believe that you're concerned about the environment?

You raise cattle, you f*cking hypocrite.

You know what I think it is?

I think it's ego.

I think it chaps your ass to walk through a grocery store and nobody knows who you are.

You bet your ass it does because every family you move in moves a family I know out.

With every winner, there's a loser.

First thing you said I agree with.

Can't stop it, John.

Watch me.

Go ahead, say it.

It'll make a lawsuit much simpler.

Say, "Stop building or else. " [HORSE GRUNTING]

I'm skipping straight to "or else" with you, you cocksucker, and from now on "or else" is all you get.

And by the way. . .

you owe me a horse, you son of a bitch.

[FOREBODING MUSIC]

♪ ♪

He's not there.

You look nervous, Rip.

Like a stray dog who can't enjoy being in the house 'cause he's so worried about the broom.

You're up early.

I don't really sleep.

Yeah, well, they say spiders don't, so. . .

[CHUCKLING]

Oh.

What are you doing?

Adjusting my web.

[AHEM]

You know, life's not that complicated, Rip.

You either walk on down the hall. . .

Or f*ck me.

[DRESSER THUDDING]

[BOTH BREATHING HEAVILY]

[MOANING]

There's a music festival in Livingston this weekend.

You want to go with me?

You ruin it every time.

That's funny.

I always remember your d*ck as being bigger.

I guess that's just the nostalgic in me.

[SOFT GUITAR MUSIC]

♪ ♪

Is this where you ate ice cream when you were a boy?

This wasn't here when I was a boy.

None of this was.

I will say this though.

These transplants sure can make some ice cream.

What's a transplant?

It's, um, a person who moves to a place, and then they try to make that place just like the place they left.

That don't make sense.

Not one bit.

It's all right.

Here.

Give me that.

Hold that in both hands and eat it from the top so it don't fall off again.

Is he a transplant?

They're all transplants.

[COUNTRY ROCK MUSIC]

♪ ♪

What's the matter, Dad?

Nothing, buddy.

Just hope I don't regret this.

[WHISKEY MYERS' "ON THE RIVER"]

- _ - ♪ Lord Jebediah, won't you let me down ♪

♪ Promise me a place from here much better ♪

♪ ♪

♪ There's the aftermath them ties and tracks ♪

♪ Your red dog, won't you give it all up for me? ♪

♪ ♪

♪ I'm set to save a dime a day ♪

♪ And get a log cabin down there by the river ♪

♪ ♪

[CAR DOOR SHUTS]

Thought I'd bring the fix to you.

You know how to ride a horse?

Course I do.

I'm Indian.

[STRAINING]

Yeah, maybe so.

But you're a cowboy today.

Thank you for this.

Well, sh*t, Kayce, I've dated women with shorter hair than you.

Yeah, you sure they were women, Lee?

I know.

[BOTH GRUNT]

Hey, cowboy.

Last time I saw you, that was high and tight.

How's Mr.

Daniel?

Good for you.

Yeah, you're the only one who shares that opinion.

That's 'cause I'm the only one who got to know him.

[LAUGHS]

What are you doing here?

Closure, I guess.

You?

Penance.

Not sure you'll find that here.

Penance you earn.

Closure you find.

Look somewhere else, and you might.

Hey, Kayce, let's go.

- Grab a horse.

- [SIGHS]

Any chance you'd join us?

I don't get near those f*cking things.

Yah!

Move it!

[MEN SHOUTING, WHISTLING]

- [BUFFALO SNORTING]

- [HORSES NEIGHING]

- [BUFFALO SNORTING]

- [MEN SHOUTING]

[SOMBER MUSIC]

♪ ♪

Let me do it, Grandpa.

- Can you do it?

- Yeah.

Hi-yah!

This horse ain't got any go.

He's got some go.

Hold on.

I'll get him going for you.

- Race you.

- Yah!

Yah!

[CLICKS TONGUE]

- Yah!

- Whoo!

Think they should hold here.

[MEN SHOUTING DISTANTLY]

Kayce might be the only man who can outride him.

Just might be.

[QUIET MUSIC]

♪ ♪

Fish on.

Tate.

All right, buddy.

Here, grab. . .

grab that rod.

Reel him in.

There you go.

Reel it in, buddy.

[CHUCKLES]

Whoo!

Lee, get my horse.

Whoo!

Little late in the year for that.

Got him.

I caught a fish!

Can you pull him up?

Look at that.

Whoo!

That's a big one, huh?

- Yeah.

- Oh, she's pretty.

- Yeah.

- Look at that one.

Any luck?

Here, wait, don't touch it.

It's kind of hot.

Careful.

You're gonna raise him on a reservation?

People do it every day.

'Cause they have no choice, Kayce.

Yeah, looks like you're ready to eat.

It's a good day.

Every day, just like this.

Who are you kidding?

Bet you haven't fished here in years.

Only thing we haven't done in years is see you, Kayce.

Well, he told me to leave.

He told us all to leave.

You were just the only one who did.

It's different.

You know that.

Right, so you're gonna raise him in that meth-filled desert to prove a point.

What I'm proving you'll never understand.

[BOTH CHUCKLE]

[CHUCKLES]

sh*t, I miss being young.

You wake up in the morning, and you just keep right on dreaming, huh?

You're a -year-old bachelor living in your father's house, working -hour weeks for a nibble of his approval.

Is that the dream, Lee?

Sure as sh*t ain't mine.

- Hey.

- [LAUGHS]

Hey!

Don't throw things at my dad.

- Hey, hey, hey, hey.

- Whoa!

- Oh.

- Fucker.

- Tate!

- Whoa!

[LAUGHS]

[LAUGHING]

It's okay, buddy.

We're just brothers arguing, man.

Nobody's mad, okay?

It's all right.

You gonna tell me there's no fight in that blood?

He's right though.

It is a good day.

He said "fucker. " [LAUGHTER]

You got green for water.

Blue is sewage, yellow for gas.

Driveways are marked in pink and corner buildings in red.

If I were to dam the river. . .

I'd do it right there around the bend.

That's where they're doing it.

That's your property upstream?

Now, I'm not gonna lie to you.

There's gonna be a severe impact to your land.

Erosion's my biggest concern.

My biggest concern is a subdivision sucking on our river.

There's nothing you can do.

On their land, it's their river.

I mean, I can't stop the river from flowing.

I don't want you to stop it, Ron.

I want you to move it.

_ How's it going over there?

Oh, hey, we got to make the dressing.

Oh, okay, I'll make it.

[TV PLAYING]

How could you give him a D, Monica?

He's your nephew.

The D was a gift, believe me.

What can I say?

Math is not his thing, like his father.

Well, he better make it his thing, or he's gonna end up like his father.

He's my brother.

I can say it.

When I get my steers, I'm gonna take one, carve out a porterhouse the size of a radiator.

[BOTH LAUGH]

They divvying up the cattle?

You don't like it, maybe you shouldn't have rounded them up.

They ain't yours to divvy.

What is that one?

It's a Silver Star.

You got one of those?

What do you have to do to win one?

You got to k*ll someone to get one of those.

Ain't that right, Kayce?

What about that one?

That's the Navy Cross.

You wouldn't believe what I had to do to get that one.

[CAR APPROACHING]

What's he doing here?

Well, I hope I'm not intruding.

Of course not, but my grandfather's not here.

Well, I'm not here to see your grandfather.

I want to thank you for helping the other day.

I don't know your father.

I hope it didn't put you in an uncomfortable position.

Well, if you plan on keeping his cattle, you'll get to know him real well.

[LAUGHS]

Those are bargaining chips, a means to an end.

Politicians are like crabs.

We move sideways to go forward.

Well, that won't get you too far with him.

An honest man?

He says he'll do something, you're not gonna stop him, if you call that honest.

I do.

It's a rare thing these days.

What do you want from me?

To help me understand the man I'm negotiating with.

Well, he's reasonable till he's provoked.

Then reason don't factor in at all.

Doubt that helps you, but that's who he is.

It helps.

Thank you for your time.

Have a good evening.

[EXHALES DEEPLY]

[CLICKS LIPS]

You're not joining him?

You didn't ask me here to hunt.

I'm here to talk cattle.

They don't belong to you.

They don't belong to you either.

They belong to the people now.

Every one of them wears a brand.

If anybody tries to move them off the Res. . .

They'll never leave the Res.

We'll use them to raise calves, wear our brand.

I understand your position, Thomas, and what you think you need to do. . .

but I won't allow you to make victims of the people who elected me just to appease the people who elected you.

Your people don't know the concept of victim.

Let's keep this about cattle.

If you act like a thief, Thomas, I will treat you like one.

How can you stand there on a ranch the size of Rhode Island and accuse me of theft?

Is this your idea of respect?

Letting some crippled old man ride his lame horse out toward your half-tame buffalo so he can pretend to be something we haven't been in a century?

[SOMBER MUSIC]

♪ ♪

Whoo!

Look what you've reduced us to.

[CLICKS TONGUE]

Here's another one.

[CHICKEN CLUCKING]

You lay everywhere but the coop.

[CHILDREN CHATTERING]

[SPEAKING NATIVE LANGUAGE]

[SPEAKING NATIVE LANGUAGE]

Backstraps.

- Staying for dinner?

- Can't.

Just need a few words with this young buck here.

Can you give us a minute?

If you can say it to him, you can say it to me.

Hard to talk about you when you're standing here, darling.

Come on, Tate.

We're being sent to our room.

The Nation will keep the cattle.

Your father will try to take them back.

He has every right.

We had every right to take them, so now we will fight.

It's his fight, not mine.

You will be judged for the actions of your father.

If you do nothing, you will be judged for that too.

They all will.

Maybe it's best you go home for a while, eh?

This is my home.

You know what I mean.

I've been nothing but a friend to everybody here.

If somebody wants me to leave, you can tell them to come make me.

Pretty silly thing to say on a reservation.

I don't ask much, but I'm asking you this.

Go home.

Take care of my granddaughter.

Be good to that boy.

Until they find a cure for human nature, a man must stand with his people.

And we are not your people.

[SOMBER MUSIC]

♪ ♪

Hey.

Hey, Jimmy!

Let's go.

You're late.

Let's go.

You're late.

You know how to ride a horse?

Uh. . .

Figures.

Come here.

Give me your sh*t.

Let's go.

That there is Ron.

You do whatever the hell he asks you to do.

Come on, get on.

Get on the horse.

I don't. . .

Get on the horse, Jimmy.

Pull the reins to stop.

Kick him in the belly to go.

All right, let's move.

Both in one night?

Everyone's forgotten who runs this valley.

So this is how you remind them?

This is not the way to remind them.

It's a. . .

It's a bad idea.

We don't choose the way, little brother.

[HELICOPTER POWERING UP]

[PUCIFER'S "TUMBLEWEED"]

♪ ♪

Dad, I'm the fastest runner.

I'm bucking.

I'm bucking.

And he falls.

[THUD]

[LAUGHS]

♪ Home ♪

♪ A candle you can hold, you're not alone ♪

♪ ♪

♪ Home ♪

♪ So far away, come on home ♪

♪ ♪

♪ Home ♪

♪ A voice from within, you're not alone ♪

♪ ♪

♪ Home ♪

♪ A candle you can hold, you're not alone ♪

♪ ♪

♪ Home ♪

♪ You're so far away, come on home ♪

♪ ♪

♪ Home ♪

♪ A voice from within, you're not alone ♪

♪ ♪

♪ Home ♪

♪ You're so far away, come on home ♪

[DRILL WHIRRING]

This is the last one.

Jimmy, hey, get your ass up here.

- I just saw a trout.

- Shut the f*ck up.

Crank this thing until I tell you to stop.

Holy sh*t, is this legal?

You're a criminal.

What do you care?

I thought the oldest Dutton was gonna keep me out of trouble.

Getting in trouble's the only skill you got.

The only difference now is you ain't gonna get caught.

Start moving it down to the river.

Let's go.

That's good enough.

Start moving it this way now.

Hey, quit looking at fish.

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

[QUIET PIANO NOTES]

♪ ♪ _ - Hi, Marian, how are you?

- Hi, how are you?

- Hello.

- Hello.

[PIANO MUSIC CONTINUES]

♪ ♪ - Sir?

- Thank you.

♪ ♪ - How are we all doing here?

- Oh, good!

- It's been a long time.

- Yes.

- Thank you for coming by.

- You look well.

Thank you for joining me.

Bye.

[BACKGROUND CHATTER]

♪ ♪ I feel different here.

My skin tingles.

Never felt like this before.

That's because you live in the city.

Cities are the sunsets of civilization.

.

.

monuments to an exhausted landscape.

Man is migratory by nature.

What you're feeling is instinct.

.

.

a hunger for new land that's woven into your DNA.

That's the reason our species survived when countless others failed.

That tingle is the sensation of touching your destiny.

[EXPLOSIONS BOOMING]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

- The f*ck was that?

- [BOOMING ECHOES]

Don't know.

- We hold here.

- Hold up here.

They're coming.

We're in position.

[COW LOWS]



- Ready?

- Yeah.

Hold on.

[HELICOPTER WHIRRING]

Get ready.

They're coming.

[COCKS g*n]

Let 'em.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC BUILDING]

[i♪ ♪[/i]

Let's get out of here!

Robert, let's go!

[CATTLE LOWING]

Lee, get in there.

Yah, yah!

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]

♪ ♪

Who's that?

Is that one of ours?

- Yah!

Yah!

- Hit him with the light.

- Yah!

Yah, yah!



- What the hell's he doing?

God damn that boy.

Get behind him.

Now take us down.

You see that?

Jesus Christ!

No.

Hold your fire.

What do we do now?

Pull back.

Pull back.

Abort.

Everybody pull back.

Put your g*n down!

- [OVERLAPPING SHOUTING]

- [CATTLE LOWING]

We got to get the f*ck out of here.

We ain't going anywhere without our beef.

Hold them back!

Get over in front of them!

Hold them back!

[g*nshots]

Yah!

Yah!

Yah!

tours in Afghanistan, and I got to deal with this sh*t in f*cking Montana.

- Wheel us around.

- Jesus Christ, John, - we got to get out of here.

- I said wheel us around!

We've still got men down there.

Drop us down and push those bastards back.

Yes, sir.

Closer.

Hang on.

[OVERLAPPING SHOUTING]

All right, we're through.

[MEN SHOUTING, WHISTLING]

[g*nf*re]

Keep them moving.

You want 'em back, come and get 'em!

[HEAVY MUSIC]

♪ ♪

- [g*nsh*t]

- Oh!

[GROANING]

I want them back.

Hang on, okay?

I'm gonna get you out of here.

Look at you.. .

you're a man now.

[SOMBER MUSIC]

♪ ♪

[CLICK, CLICK]

In case you don't already know, there's no such thing as heaven.

Hey.

[DARK, EMOTIONAL MUSIC]

♪ ♪

[SOBBING]

Yes, sir, yeah.

I hear you.

Give me four mounted agents and four agents on ATVs out there right now.

Yes.

I hear. . .

okay.

Okay, thank you.

Thank you.

All right, state police are sending a chopper out to look for him.

Tell them to hold off.

I found him.

Give me the reins.

Give me the reins.

All right.

Go straight to Jamie.

Tell him everything while it's fresh, all right?

[SOMBER MUSIC]

♪ ♪

What happened?

We'll just. . .

We'll just. . .

we'll just rest here a bit.

Then we can. . .

We can pick a spot together, huh?

How's that sound?

[PEEPING]

[EXHALES]

[WHISPERS]

Okay.

[HORSE SNUFFLES]

[HORSE SNUFFLING]

Mama?

[VOICE BREAKING]

Go back to your room.

Now.

[EMOTIONAL MUSIC BUILDS]

♪ ♪

[WHISPERS]

f*ck.

A dispute over cattle

between tribal police, BLM officers,

and members of Montana's livestock association

turned deadly last night. . .

- Turn it down.

- Leaving three men dead.



The FBI. . .



What did Kayce tell you?

The usual, nothing.

I should have seen this coming.

How could you know he wanted the cattle that bad?

He didn't want the cattle.

He wanted this.

The FBI and Bureau of Indian Affairs agents

are investigating two of the deaths as murders,

and though jurisdictional issues

will certainly complicate the investigation,

the U. S. Attorney's Office is pledging

every available resource.

I'll have a senate hearing on this next month.

You have the full weight of my office behind you.

Thank you, Senator.

We're gonna need it.

[GIGGLING]

Dad.

It's time.

Boys.

[FOLKSY FIDDLE MUSIC]

♪ ♪

Let us pray.

"Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried. . . " [VOICE FADES]

[FIDDLE MUSIC CONTINUES]

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

[FATHER'S VOICE GROWS LOUDER]

Amen.

[BOYS SHOUTING, LAUGHING]

[SNIFFLING]

He's one hell of a horse.

[SNIFFLES]

Yeah.

Ain't got the breeding of your stud, but he has a heart.

I know.

I saw.

He would have d*ed for me.

He almost did.

You want to stay for supper?

You can put him in the barn.

No.

I brought him for you.

You can put him in the barn.

[QUIET SOBBING]

[MELANCHOLY MUSIC]

♪ ♪

I deserve to know what happened, Kayce.

He was my brother.

What happened?

Baby, why won't you talk to me?

[DRAMATIC MUSICAL STING]

♪ ♪

He's never looked at me the way he looked at Lee.

And he never will.

I need you more than ever.

You have me.

Can you stay for a while?

I'm not going anywhere.

Just tell me who to fight.

Everyone.

[FIDDLE MUSIC]

♪ ♪

♪ Trouble, trouble ♪

♪ Troubled all about my soul ♪

♪ Just as soon as my feet touch down ♪

♪ I won't be in trouble no more ♪

♪ I won't be in trouble no more ♪

♪ ♪

♪ I wondered 'bout my mother ♪

♪ I wonder, has she gone ♪

♪ Just as soon as my feet touch down ♪

♪ I won't be in trouble no more ♪

♪ I won't be in trouble no more ♪

♪ ♪