- Walker: This ranch... it's ain't like no place you ever worked. You might wanna think about making a U-turn.
- Cowboy: Work's the same. Just the ranch name that changes.
- Walker: No. This one's different. Reminds me of that place down on the border. Fuckin' drug-runners, militia, and all that shit.
- Cowboy: There ain't no border here, son.
- Walker: Oh, yes, there is. We just can't see it.
- 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.
- Bob Schwartz: Let me order you a drink.
- Beth Dutton: No, I'm fine. It's a brand new me. Money's my new drug. It's my favorite.
- Bob Schwartz: You found offices?
- Beth Dutton: Right on Main Street. For all the world to see.
- Bob Schwartz: So, what's your first move?
- Beth Dutton: You've got these land developers like Jenkins. They find pristine recreational property, build McMansions, and sell the dream. Some, like Jenkins, they take it further, build hotels, subdivisions. But they all leave with their tails tucked because they don't have the cash flow to make a real business out of land.
- Bob Schwartz: You do that in town.
- Beth Dutton: Or you do this... we set up a fund. That fund buys land, puts the land in a conservation easement which cuts the property tax by two-thirds, then we go to the Department of Agriculture, and we enroll the land in a CRP.
- Bob Schwartz: What the hell is CRP?
- Beth Dutton: It's the federal government paying us not to farm it.
- Bob Schwartz: Why would they do that?
- Beth Dutton: To control the supply, Bob. That way they don't have to worry about local farmers diluting the market. It's pretty fucking shitty. But it's great for us. The government pay per acre, per year.
- Bob Schwartz: How much?
- Beth Dutton: Depends on the land. Around here? Could be 3-400 dollars an acre. The government paid off the land for us in 7 years. We become landlords who get paid not to rent.
- Bob Schwartz: Sounds like a pyramid scheme.
- Beth Dutton: With the government at the bottom. We start with a 100 million dollar investment in land. We funnel the CRP funds into more land purchases. We can buy roughly 50 thousand acres per year without spending a dime. We are profitable by the end of year two with a net revenue of 46 million per year. The more land we buy, the more that number grows.
- Bob Schwartz: Why hasn't anyone done this before?
- Beth Dutton: Because they can't afford the two years. They don't have the investment infrastructure. The Dan Jenkins of the world don't have this much junk in their shorts. Know what I mean? How are you fixed for junk, Bob?
- Bob Schwartz: I understand what's in this for me. Beyond your fee, what's in it for you, Beth? Because something's buried under the skin with you.
- Beth Dutton: I'm making you money, Bob. And I am digging a 200 square mile moat around my father's ranch.
- Bob Schwartz: We put the land into the hedge fund. Use the brokers to buy up the land. Don't haggle on price. Just start gobbling. That's how I'm fixed for junk.
- Beth Dutton: I always knew you tucked it in your sock, Bob.
- Bob Schwartz: I need another one of these from... anyone.
- Avery: You couldn't ride a horse if you were strapped to it.
- Jimmy Hurdstrom: If you strap me to it, I do pretty good.
- Monica Dutton: It used to be "Long Spear," until my grandfather was taken from his parents and sent to a Catholic school funded by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, where they changed his name and tried to teach him how not to be Indian. I look forward to teaching young minds all about the man who introduced genocide to the Western Hemisphere.
- [with regards to Columbus]
- Avery: What's your name?
- Cowboy: Cowboy.
- Colby Mayfield: Your name's Cowboy. Shit. We're all cowboys.
- Cowboy: Ha. The hell you are. And you... you ride a horse like a teenager fuck-- bouncing up and down with your eyes wide, stunned you're doing it at all.
- Ryan: Only cowboy thing I seen you do is clean your plate.Stand up and tell me I can't cowboy.
- Cowboy: I didn't say you can't.I said he can't.And he sure as hell can't. And you don't want me standing up, boy.I'll beat you like a rented mule.
- Rip Wheeler: There's one rule on this ranch, Cowboy.If you wanna fight somebody, you fight me.I guess you forgot that rule, right? Go sit down.
- John Dutton: Morning, Dan.Impressed you're eating solid foods so soon.
- Dan Jenkins: That cowboy wit. Never gets old.
- John Dutton: Yeah, I bet you're gonna miss it.Your last meal before you hit the road?
- Dan Jenkins: On the contrary, John, why would I leave? I've come to love Montana. Everyone is so welcoming.
- John Dutton: Yeah, well, your head wasn't screwed on straight. We straightened it. You're welcome.
- Dan Jenkins: There goes that wit again.
- Dan Jenkins: Oh, I went to the sheriff.
- Waitress: John, your breakfast's ready.
- John Dutton: Thank you, sweetheart.
- Dan Jenkins: But on the way, I turned around. I don't want to see you taken away in handcuffs. Where's the fun in that? Where's the fun in having you read about me taking over the Yellowstone in some jail cell? I want you on the Yellowstone when I take it. I want to watch you dragged from your front porch.
- John Dutton: Every man needs a dream, Dan. But dreams take courage.
- Dan Jenkins: I haven't seen you since your son died. My condolences. You know, they say there's no greater failure than a parent outliving a child. Because it's the one failure you just can't ever overcome. Ever.
- Dan Jenkins: You should've gone to the sheriff, Dan. You ain't getting cut down next time. Because next time, I'm doing it myself.
- Dan Jenkins: I haven't seen you since your son died. My condolences. You know, they say there's no greater failure than a parent outliving a child. Because it's the one failure you just can't ever overcome. Ever.
- Meg Thurman: And obviously, there's a rent reduction for a multiyear lease.
- Beth Dutton: If I'm in Bozeman this time next year, Jason here has instructions to poison me. Let's start with six months.
- Meg Thurman: Six-month leases do require payment in advance.
- Beth Dutton: That's fine. Get me account information and I'll have the money wired tomorrow. Furnish it.
- Meg Thurman: Schwartz and Meyer in Bozeman. I guess we're a real city now. And I didn't think Bozeman could grow any more after the co-op moved in.
- Beth's Assistant: What's the Co-op?
- Meg Thurman: It's kinda like a Whole Foods.
- Beth's Assistant: There's a Whole Foods here? Thank you
- Avery: My dad had me break all the colts 'cause he said that women have quiet souls, makes the horses quiet.