Yellowstone (TV Series)

A Thundering (2019)

Gil Birmingham: Thomas Rainwater

Quotes 

• Marcus : Here's my issue, Chairman. I've got plenty, but my first one, is we already have a casino. It would seem to me improving it makes much more sense than building one 90 miles off the reservation.

  Thomas Rainwater : Our reservation is not a destination... it's a gas stop on the way to destinations. Truckers and buses filled with senior citizens putting nickels in slot machines will not improve our schools...

  Marcus : So you want to spend $200 million building another one? Off-site casinos come with regulations, they come with partners we don't control... It won't be off-site.

  Thomas Rainwater : We will own the land. And once we do, we annex it into the reservation.

  Marcus : Can we do that?

  Thomas Rainwater : The precedent's already set. The Chumash did it in Santa Ynez. We can build businesses... hotels, restaurant. With no state oversight. Because it's part of the reservation. All I need is council approval for the loan.

  Marcus : Ambitious.

  Thomas Rainwater : It's what I was elected to be.

  Marcus : You were elected to bring change to the reservation. This isn't change. This is the same thing white man's been doing to us for centuries. And now you're doing it.

  Thomas Rainwater : Yes. At last. Someone is doing it to them. This is where change begins.

  Marcus : I don't see anything in this proposal that shows how the money from this development is gonna help the community. Just your promise it will. And promises are how we got on the reservation in the first place.

  Thomas Rainwater : Trusting them is what put us on reservations. And I don't trust them.

  Marcus : You don't get my vote.

  Thomas Rainwater : Do I need it? I don't need it.

  Marcus : Well you will, Tom.