- Angela Blue Thunder: There is no protection from me, Tom.
- [Angela pours water on a smoldering bundle of sage]
- Angela Blue Thunder: You know that. It's barely been a year and already you're burning sage praying for a change, instead of being it.
- Thomas Rainwater: I'm trying to make it a better place.
- Angela Blue Thunder: All you've managed to do thus far is take all of our casino profits and buy land a Fortune 500 company is about to steal from you. And there is nothing you can do about it.
- Thomas Rainwater: You're what I'm doing about it.
- Angela Blue Thunder: You know what they say about making deals with the devil.
- Thomas Rainwater: No, I don't, Angela. What do they say?
- Angela Blue Thunder: That's the big mystery, Tom.
- Thomas Rainwater: Is that a yes? You'll help?
- Angela Blue Thunder: If that's what you want to call it.
- [angela exits]
- Thomas Rainwater: She's not evil, Mo. She's just angry and trying to punish the world for everything it did to her.
- Mo Brings Plenty: Yeah, I know. That's what evil means.
- Thomas Rainwater: There's two futures for this valley: One with the land stripped of the second homes and hobby farms, and returned to the way it used to be... You drive twenty miles into the park and that's how our whole nation looked at one time. Modern society wants people to go to school and learn a trade to make money to buy food, clothes, a place to live. But on land that hasn't been ravaged by man, you don't need to buy food. You just go find it. You don't buy clothes, you make them. And you don't buy houses, you seek shelter. You live with the land. Not on it.
- Doug: You said two futures. What's the other?
- Thomas Rainwater: The other's where you live. Concrete world with stick houses and grass that can't survive without fertilizer and sprinklers. You know someday this planet's going to shake your world off it's back like dirty water.
- John Dutton: I'm gonna leave these holes just like this, right here in the middle of my field. And if you ever come back here again, I'm gonna fill 'em. Understand?
- Jimmy Hurdstrom: What happened to my arm?
- John Dutton: They didn't mention your arm, so it must be fine.
- Jimmy Hurdstrom: Doesn't look fine.
- John Dutton: Well, compared to the rest of this shit, it's fine.
- John Dutton: [in Jimmy's hospital room] Every road from the rodeo leads right here.
- Jimmy Hurdstrom: What day is it?
- John Dutton: Well, it's payday for the hospital. They won the lottery with you.
- John Dutton: You have a grade 3 concussion. We're supposed to bring you back to the hospital if you experience nausea or confusion. I asked if there's other symptoms since nauseous and confused is your natural state of being.
- Jimmy Hurdstrom: What day is it?
- John Dutton: Well, it's payday, for the hospital. They won the lottery with you... Had to write all this shit down... You have a compression fracture in your neck and two in your back.A bone fragment's pressed against your spine, can't figure out how to get that out. Shattered your hip, which they just up and replaced. Doctor said you're the youngest person he's ever done that to. So, congratulations for that. He wants you up and walking today. How that's possible I have... I have no idea... You have a grade three concussion. We're supposed to bring you back to the hospital if you experience nausea or confusion. I asked if there's other symptoms since nauseous and confused is your natural state of being. They said your eyes might dilate. So, we'll be on the lookout for that.
- Doug: I am not sure this is appropriate, Chairman. I don't represent the Jenkins' estate. Or, whatever's left of it, I mean.
- Thomas Rainwater: His estate is not my concern at the moment. Is there any validity to this?
- Doug: It's a chess move. It puts you on the defensive. Stops you from building.
- Thomas Rainwater: But... But they don't have a winnable case.
- Doug: Well, define winnable. If you mean a judgment in their favor? No.But, you know, they can drag this out for years.This isn't a leveraged land developer, this is a multibillion dollar corporation that can spend , 50 or 100 million dollars in legal fees. And the reality is, that, you know, I doubt they even want your land. They just don't want an Indian casino adjacent to a planned community.
- Thomas Rainwater: So, they'll try to buy me out.
- Doug: I doubt they'll even bother. May I ask you a question? A personal question? Why build a casino in the first place? I mean what's the real reason? There are better locations with far better access.
- Thomas Rainwater: There's two futures for this valley: one with the land stripped of the second homes and hobby farms, and returned to the ways it used to be... You drive twenty miles into the park and that's how our whole nation looked at one time.Modern society wants people to go to school and learn a trade to make money to buy food, clothes, a place to live. But on land that hasn't been ravaged by man, you don't need to buy food. You just go find it. You don't buy clothes, you make them. And you don't build houses, you seek shelter. You live with the land. Not on it.
- Doug: You said two futures. What's the other?
- Thomas Rainwater: The other's where you live.Concrete worlds with stick houses and grass that can't survive without fertilizer and sprinklers. Someday this planet's going to shake your world off its back like rainwater.The casino gives me the money I need to make sure that happens. The first future is the only future.
- Doug: People prefer concrete, I'm afraid. Nobody wants your future.
- Thomas Rainwater: No one in your world.
- Doug: Well... I wish I could tell you how to fight them.
- Thomas Rainwater: If anyone knew how to fight them, there'd be no such thing as reservations.
- Bob Schwartz: That's a pretty big bear to poke, Beth. And their activity in the valley has our holdings up twenty percent.
- Beth Dutton: I'm not poking them. It's an opportunity, Bob. If they thought their airport approvals were guaranteed, they would be screaming it from the rooftops. Tell me it is not ripe to short.
- Bob Schwartz: When you put the word out, they're going to know it's you.
- Beth Dutton: Well, I'm not gonna put the word out. You are. It is ripe to short. Do you disagree?
- Bob Schwartz: They're exposed, it's true. And it's gonna cut them pretty deep, and they are going to come out swinging.
- Beth Dutton: Yeah, well, that's just life in the Serengeti, I guess. You want to call the fund managers or the press?
- Bob Schwartz: I'll take the managers. But, Beth, just a little leak. Just a leak, you know? Do not blow up the dam.
- Beth Dutton: Oh, come on, Bob. You know me better than that.
- Bob Schwartz: That's why I'm saying just a leak.
- Beth Dutton: A medium leak.Anything worth doing is worth doing right.
- Governor Lynelle Perry: John says you refused his appointment to Livestock Commissioner.
- Kayce Dutton: Yeah, I'm not a politician.
- Governor Lynelle Perry: That's not a job for a politician. I mean, sure, your father used it that way, but... That's because he could. What the cattlemen of Montana need is someone to protect their livelihood. That's the job. And at that, you would excel.
- Kayce Dutton: Well, that's Jamie's job now.
- Governor Lynelle Perry: No, I need Jamie for something else. So does your father.
- Kayce Dutton: Need him for what?
- Governor Lynelle Perry: To help me prevent this valley from becoming a city.
- Kayce Dutton: What do you care if it becomes a city? Feel like a city would be good for you.
- Governor Lynelle Perry: That's the great conflict of my position, you know? How to keep Montana growing without losing that thing that makes it Montana.
- Kayce Dutton: Well, then just say no. There'll be no city.
- Governor Lynelle Perry: If I say no, they just go and get someone that says yes, and that person has my job.
- Kayce Dutton: Don't make sense.
- Governor Lynelle Perry: No, it doesn't make sense to you. But it makes sense to Jamie. He knows how to make the law say no. I'm appointing him Attorney General, and I'm appointing you Livestock Commissioner, and you will set aside your fears of becoming like your father and take on this responsibility because all of this disappears if you don't. Destiny's a hard thing to run from, isn't it?
- Kayce Dutton: Just turned out to be a lot faster than I thought.
- Governor Lynelle Perry: [CHUCKLES] Well, that's settled then.It's your office.
- Kayce Dutton: If I do this, I gotta do it my way.
- Governor Lynelle Perry: You can do it however you want.
- Thomas Rainwater: I'm trying to make it a better place.
- Angela Blue Thunder: All you've managed to do thus far is take all of our casino profits and buy land a Fortune Company is about to steal from you. And there's nothing you can do about it.
- Biker Girl: Look at this pink-haired hick mad-dogging me.You got a problem, bitch?
- Teeter: Fuck you just say to me?
- Biker Girl: Called you a fucking bitch.
- Biker: I have children.
- John Dutton: So do I. And from what I've seen, yours will be better off without you.Where are you from?
- Biker: California.
- John Dutton: Figures... I'm gonna leave these holes just like this.Right here in the middle of my field. And if you ever come back again, I'm gonna fill 'em. You understand?
- Governor Lynelle Perry: What's that flag for?
- Governor Lynelle Perry: Well, it teaches these colts to use their bodies the right way before I put them on a cow.
- Governor Lynelle Perry: Why not just use a cow?
- Jake: For hell's sakes, lady, that's kind of like practicing a fist fight when you're already in the middle of one, ya know what I mean?
- Governor Lynelle Perry: A tough call.
- Jake: Oh, fuck, you're the Governor.