Yellowstone (2018–…): Season 5, Episode 2 - The Sting of Wisdom - full transcript

Previously on Yellowstone.

Allow me the honor
of introducing your next governor

John Dutton, and U.S.
Senator Lynelle Perry.

Look at him. His
father is the governor.

He'll be next.

This should be the
happiest day of his life.

Why isn't he smiling?

- Get Sarah Atwood out here.

It's time we took
the gloves off.

- Is this a good
thing or a bad thing?

- It's a good thing for
the land but I don't see



how it's good for us.

Congratulations.

- My God. Four years
is a long time.

This is not where
I want to spend it.

Hey. It's me.

Carter.

- Jesus. It's been a while.

- The cramps are getting worse.

- I'll send an ambulance out to meet you on the road, okay.
- Okay.

- You need to go to Billings.

- I had a brother for an hour.

They named him John.

- Mom?

Ah!



Mom?

No!

Mom! Mom!

Mama! Mama!

- No! Stay there!

Find your phone,
call an ambulance.

Now!

9-1-1.
What's your emergency?

- We had a wreck. My
mother's having a baby.

We need an ambulance.

- Is anyone hurt?

- Everybody's hurt.
We need an ambulance.

- Do you know where you are?

- We're on the road to Billings.

I don't know the road.

I can send you a pin.

- I'll give you a number.

Let me know when you're ready...

- I'm ready.

406-412-0911.

- I sent it.
- Good.

What's your name?

- Tate Dutton.

- There is already an
ambulance en route, Tate.

- Mom!

Tell them to hurry!

- Dad?

- I'm coming, buddy.

- She gonna be okay?

- She's a strong woman, son.

- That's not what I asked.

- We're all gonna be okay.

It's just... gonna take time.

You lost a brother.
I lost a son.

But she lost more.

He was a... part of her, so
she lost a part of herself.

If that makes sense.

- Yeah.

Are you gonna try again?

For another one?

I don't know.

- I think you should.

I liked having a brother.

- I want you to go saddle
up Mister Dutton's horse.

- Is he here?

- No, but we need to
keep him legged up.

- Who's gonna ride him?

- You are.

- I am?
- That's right.

I don't have all
fucking day, let's go.

Go grab him.

God didn't add extra
daylight to Tuesday, Carter.

Now, let's go, man.

Go get his fucking saddle.
Let's move this along.

I think this fucker tripped
this morning and hit his head.

Let's go!

Fuck this, you can
take care of this shit.

I'm not dealing with it anymore.

We'll catch up.

Don't do it fast,
do it right, now.

Back cinch.

- Right.

- You know, kid, you only
do this fifteen times a day.

- I know, I just don't
do it for myself.

- Uh, right. What else?

- Where's your rope?

- What else?

Right, fuck hat.

- Chaps if you got 'em.

- All right.

- Hell, I think those
used to be mine.

- All right, what else?

- We ain't got
time for what else.

Swing on up there, cowboy.

All right, now we play
catch up. Come on.

This is unbelievable.

Why do I have all these
damn meetings in one day?

- Because tomorrow
you're in Butte,

and then Thursday you
speak in Missoula.

- Why am I in Butte?

- You're speaking at
White Song Elementary

about your new
education initiative.

- What's my new
education initiative?

- Uh, it's uh...

"To further education
with hands-on learning

through the Dalton-Wiggins
Technical and Trade Academy."

- Never heard of it.

- It's a trade school.

- Run by the state?

- No, it's a private
technical college.

Answer me this, Clara.

Who exactly is my
Chief of Staff?

- The party's nominating
committee chose Jim Roberts.

- Is Jim Roberts
in the building?

- He's in his office.

- Could you bring
him to me, please?

-Mm-hm.

- I forewarned you,
if you don't pick 'em

- they will pick them for you.
- Mm.

- Governor, it's an honor.

- Tell me, which one is your
buddy, Dalton or Wiggins?

- Uh...

- The beneficiaries of
the education initiative

that I'm unaware that I support.

- The education initiative...

- Jim, I'd like to introduce
you to my daughter, Beth.

- Pleasure to meet you.

- She's my new Chief of
Staff. Get out of my office.

Now, Jim.
- If I could just...

- You can't. Get the
fuck out of my office.

- Dad, I, uh...

I don't have time to follow
you around the state.

- You got me into
this, sweetheart,

you're going to get
me through it, now.

Hand her that satchel.

- The football. We
call it the football.

- All right, Clara.
The football.

Now hand her the football.

Let's start with this schedule.

- Um, well...

in 15 minutes you have a meeting

with the Montana Trade Alliance.

- What's that?

- Their focus is enhancing
trade between foreign nations.

- What does that
have to do with me?

- It's politics, John.

You're going to
shake a lot of hands,

you're gonna take
a lot of photos.

It amounts to
absolutely nothing,

but it does maintain
the good will

with the people
that elected you.

- I'm not seeking good will.

I'm seeking the end of
the airport on my land.

- Well, as Governor,
you can cancel funding

and tax rebates for the build.

They'll file an emergency
injunction to block the order.

A judge will uphold
your decision,

and Market Equities
will just go get a loan

from Blackstone or Goldmans, and
continue to keep on building.

- Then cancel the lease.

- You can't cancel the lease.

They will sue you and win.

- The lease has
progress thresholds.

That build site
cannot lay dormant.

- They have a one year
grace built into the lease.

- I'm not waiting a year.

Revoke the funding.

Order an environmental
review and cancel the lease.

- They will sue
you. And I mean you.

Halting the build will
create real damages.

And canceling the lease, that's
how they end up with your ranch.

- He's right, John.

- That land is
zoned agricultural,

right?

- Yeah.

- So how are they building
an airport and condos

on land that is agricultural?

- The application has
already been submitted.

It's a formality.

The Commissioners are
gonna sit on it as long

as they get free dinners
and campaign contributions.

- Right, so, it's
not yet approved.

- Not yet.

- Surely there is some law
that prevents the state

from funding projects that are
not, you know, properly zoned?

- Yes, Beth, there is,

and that statute is waived
by this office all the time.

- Well, not this time.

Clara, will you set a drink
for the Governor and myself,

and the Park County
Commissioners?

- Just Ronnie and Kyle.
- For what day?

- Today.

- The Governor has a
dinner tonight with

the Montana Clean
River Alliance...

- For fuck's sakes, Clara,

if it has the word "alliance"
in the name, cancel it.

6:00 P.M. Deerfield Club.

And Clara, you're going
to want to pack a bag.

We're going to take
this party south.

I think our work is done here.

- Not yet.

I want it on my desk in an hour.

- Can we talk about
this, just you and me?

- Just you and him?

How many one-on-one
conversations

do you want me having?

Just go do your fucking job.

- Okay.
- Good.

See you in a bit.

- Clara, can I take a
peek at his schedule?

Okay, I'll absorb as
many of these as I can.

John, the Governor's
office is a game of favors.

You start by giving them,
then you can ask for them.

When the State
committee finds out that

you are not in this
for the long haul,

everyone that supported you
will be looking for a parachute.

Market Equities will
not just go away.

This will be a
fight. A big one.

When they realize that
all they have to do

is wait four years,
then they'll just wait.

You need to change laws if you
want them to never come back.

To change laws, you need favors.

- You should've never
let them in, Lynelle.

- I didn't grant
them the lease, John.

Jamie did, and he was
really wise to do so.

The land Board is made
up of five officers:

the Governor, the
Attorney General,

the Secretary of
State, the Auditor,

and the public interests
Superintendent.

Now who do you think funded the
campaigns for the other three?

If it had gone before
the land committee,

the state would own your land.

That's their next move

when you cancel the
lease, by the way.

You could be a really
good leader, John,

but you're a shitty politician

because you won't play the game.

But if you don't play the
game, the game plays you.

I'm here for another month.

Use me.

- That's a refreshing thought.

- It's not what I meant.

- Hey.

Hey!

- That's how you
slam a door, Jamie.

Never contradict him again.

When he says jump you
don't ask how high,

you just start fucking hopping.

- I am trying to protect
him and the ranch.

This isn't some sleazy
developer from Beverly Hills,

this is a multinational
firm that has invested

billions of dollars,

and leveraged billions more on
the back of this development.

They will fight you. They
will fight you dirty.

- Is there any other way?

I want to believe
that you're advising

what's best for
the family, I do.

this isn't your family.

And he's not your father.

And we both know how you
treated your own father.

Just stop thinking
that you have a chance

to earn redemption,
Jamie. You don't.

Just do as you're fucking told

until these fuckers tuck
tail back to New York.

Then I will just quietly
put you out to pasture.

Your political career was over

the moment you chose
your father over mine.

You're in my prison now.

And if you ever forget it...

I'll put you in a real one.

I, uh, heard you
sold your ranch.

- I want you home
at the weekends.

Where I can keep an eye on ya.

Say "Yes, ma'am."

- Yes, ma'am.

- Good boy.

- What are you doing here?

- Just here. In case
you need something.

We need to have a funeral.

Just us.

I don't need fifty people to
tell me how sorry they are.

- I should've been here.

I should've driven you myself.

- We're not gonna do that.

No "should've."

I could "should"
myself to death.

But I won't. And I won't
let you do it either.

I'd like to bury
him at the ranch.

That way we can
always visit him.

Ask your father.

- His answer will be
yes. You know that.

- Ask anyway.

- I'll do it.

- When you said you
saw the end of us...

is this what you saw?

- No, baby.

I never saw this coming.

And this won't be the end of us.

- What will?

- I would have to
choose the end of us.

And I will never choose that.

Tate said he wants
us to try again.

Said he wants a brother.

I really wanted him to have one.

- Hey, come here.

- Hey!

- Hey!

- Lloyd!

- Shit. Wolves.

- Yep.

- It's odd they'd go
after the mama, though.

- She was probably
protecting her calf.

- I don't think
wolves killed it.

- You got wolf
tracks all around.

Ate the stomach and the ass out.

That's what wolves do.

- Not saying they didn't eat it,

I'm saying they didn't kill it.

No bites on the hocks.

Wolves found her down...

- Don't matter, they
got the taste of beef.

Can you get us depredation tags?

- Let me call Kayce, let's
get a state hunter out here.

- We ain't going to Kayce with
all the shit he's dealing with.

And we don't need state
hunters out here three days

into Mister Dutton's term.

Just gets us tags and we'll
deal with it ourselves.

Lloyd, let's start moving this
herd back toward the barn.

- Hey, got a stray
over here, boys.

- Get that calf
back to the barn!

- Boys, I want you to get
after those fucking wolves.

- Hey, little
fella. You get lost?

How you doing?

Got the legs.yep.

- You from here?

- Nobody's from here.

- Is there an
event this weekend?

- Just another Tuesday.

- Press conference
starts at three o'clock.

- I can put it on
the TVs down here.

- We don't want him
on TVs down here.

Ah. Great.

- You're aware of
the press conference?

- Going to watch it now.

- Great. We'll watch with you.

- Right this way.

- If you're gonna look,
be man enough to stare.

Not there yet, I guess.

I don't mind, really.

- Is this a test?

- It's an opportunity.
You missed it.

- It's through here?
- Uhh, yes.

Yes, ma'am.

Ah, just in time.

- Dutton called a
press conference.

- He's going to
pull our funding.

- That's been announced?

- It was his campaign slogan.

- Let me see.

Good.

- As the State's attorney,
I must inform you

that by signing this order

you are signing a
declaration of war.

- Really?

As we speak, they
are raping the land

our family has bled
into for over a century.

We're already at war.

Good afternoon.

Freedom.

Been thinking a lot
about that lately.

The word, what it means.

The dictionary
thinks that it means

"The power or right to
think, speak, or act

as one wants without
hindrance or restraint."

As Governor of this State, I
am sworn to protect that right.

Building a city in the middle
of our most pristine wilderness

strips you of that freedom.

It eliminates your freedom
to breathe clean air

and drink clean water.

It strains the ability
of our schools,

our hospitals and our police.

That requires an
increase in our taxes

which in turns
strains our families,

forcing you to decide
if you can even afford

to live in a place
that you call home.

That's not progress in my mind.

That's an invasion.

And the invasion is over.

Today, I am signing
an Executive order

that ceases all
state funding for

the Paradise Valley
development project,

the Airport development project,

and the paradise
Valley Ski Resort.

All state permits are revoked.

Thank you for your time today.

Enjoy the rest of it.

- There'll be no
questions today.

- And we're right
back where we started.

- We're gonna have to
watch out for that one.

- Chairman, you can't ever
stop watching that one.

- Let's get a cease and desist

before a judge by
end of day tomorrow.

File suit against the state
for breach of contract,

and negotiating in bad faith,

and anything else
you can think of.

- Who is that?

- That's Jamie Dutton.
Attorney General.

- That's the Governor's son?

- Mm-hmm.

- This is like doing
business in Utah.

- In Utah, they
want to do business.

Here...

Here, they want the
business to go away.

- Son doesn't look
up to this fight.

Think I'm gonna start with him.

I love it when she
gets really mad.

It means I'm going to
make a lot of money.

- Good afternoon, Miss Dutton.

- Mrs. I'm an
honest woman now.

- Beautiful car.
- Doesn't suck.

- Bet the payments are steep.

- You know, I've learned
that the lease payments have

an inverse relationship
to the length of my skirt.

- I don't know what that means.

- It means the payments
aren't that steep, buddy.

- Sh-sh-sh-sh...

- Getting the crash course
in cowboy today, kid.

- Yeah. Hope I get
another one tomorrow.

- You get one every day.

Now get around that pair
and push 'em up.Right.

- Holy shit!

- Damn it, kid. You all right?

- What happened?

- How's your arm?

- It's nothing.
- Raise it, then.

Then it ain't nothing.

- What happened?

- Horse fell, I think he
stepped in a hole. I think.

- I'm sorry. I
didn't see the hole.

- You need to keep
one eye on the cow

and the other one on the ground.

- Is the horse gonna be okay?

- No, he ain't.

Easy.

- You're gonna shoot him?

- That leg'll never heal.

I don't need him suffering.

Go on, get back to
work. Get back to work.

- I'm sorry.

- I bet you are.

I'm sorry, too.

Now take that bridle
and that saddle,

and walk it back to the barn.

Lloyd, help him out.

One, two, three.

- Hey, Glade?
- Yeah.

- Would you get me another?

- Yeah.

There you go.

- God bless you.

- Can I get a beer?
- What do you want?

- Let me get a Trout Slayer.

- Coming up.

- Care for a Trout Slayer?

- That what you been
doing, slayin' trout?

- Mountain biking, actually.

I'm not much of a fisherman.

You ride bikes?

Not since I was seven.

- Didn't expect to see a
dress like that in Montana.

- Yeah, well, I'm working.

- Really?
- Mm-hmm.

- What kind of work?- Buddy...

this is your one chance
to leave me alone

with your self esteem intact.

- Give me your best shot.

- You're a professor.
Somewhere fancy.

- Northwestern.

- You've got a
couple of grown kids,

and once they left the
house your wife divorced you

so fast she left
fucking skid marks,

but how nice for you, huh?

World
went a little wacko,

no longer cool to
boink the co-eds,

so you decided fuck this city.

Got a nice little
place in Bozeman,

'cause it's your
favorite place to ski.

Now you teach classes on
Zoom from the living room

of your creekside cabin

And you lecture about inequity
and the concentration of wealth

that how it's decimating
the middle class

all while you draw
your six figure salary

and finance your dream home
with a loan from the university

that's 275 basis points below
the loans that your students

need to take out to
listen to this bullshit.

And my guess, if I had to guess

is that you paid over
asking price for it...

because it's fucking monopoly
money to you, isn't it?

So you run up house prices here

and you fuck the middle
classes in two states.

Bravo, you fucking hypocrite.

- Fuck you.

- Not for all the tea
in China, pencil dick.

Fuckin' love this bar.

- Your guests have arrived.

- Thanks, Glade.yep.

Back to work.

- They're right behind you.

- John, what the hell was
that press conference?

Governor Perry and your
son pushed this thing

down our throat and
now you shut it down?

- Well, you really want 30,000
people from the Bay Area

running up and down
highway 89, Ronnie?

Putting up a Starbucks
where your fly shop is?

- We're well past want, John.

Do you understand
the tax revenue

that you just took
from this county?

The hotel tax alone
is a hundred million.

Not to mention the airport
tax, the car rental tax.

- Where are you going to
spend all that money, Kyle?

Hm? You're going to
have to double the size

of the Sheriff's department,
emergency services.

- Where do you treat the sewage
six thousand homes create?

Is there a treatment
plant in the valley

that I don't know about?

- I will increase
your tax revenue

without adding one structure
to this valley, all right?

Without one new road.

- Doubling property
tax on non-residents?

- It'll never work. They'll
just become residents.

- No, they won't.

If they could've
become residents,

they would have by now.

Hey. New York and California,
they do not give up

16 percent that easy.

- You didn't need our permission
to issue an executive order.

But you do need something.

- Deny their request to rezone.

Without the state's support,
there's no reason to give it.

- A lot of people in this valley
support that airport, John.

- A lot of people from
out of state support it.

People with no vote.

- They may not have a
vote, but they have money.

And they give it to the people
who support their agendas.

- Take a drive down Main
Street in Bozeman, Kyle.

That's what they'll do
to this place and worse.

- Our terms are up
in two years, John.

This wound will still
be fresh in two years.

- Hell, the state will still
be in litigation in two years.

- There will be no
litigation, Ronnie.

And you'll both
still be in office.

When's the last time a
governor gave you his word?

- Never.

- Well, you have mine.

- Andy will vote to approve,
no matter what we do.

- That's why Andy
is not sitting here.

I only need two votes.

Do I have them?

Once you deny their
re-zoning request,

I'm revoking their
lease on our land.

I'm placing the ranch in
a conservation easement.

There'll be nothing to litigate.

- Should've just told me
that from the beginning.

We'll issue the denial tomorrow.

- Dad...

- Yeah?

- If you put the land in
a conservation easement,

we have no moves.

We can't sell off a piece
to cover losses or taxes.

We can't ever develop it,
and neither can anyone else.

- Exactly.

-No dad, we could
lose the whole thing.

- But it'll be whole,
honey. It'll be whole.

And that matters more
than any name on a deed.

We'll worry about who
runs things when...

when that's a worry.

- Wasn't expecting you.

I wish you would have called,

I would have had
supper prepared.

- Yeah. I'll get
by with a sandwich.

How's the herd?

- Wolves got into the
pairs in pasture nine.

So I moved 'em to the barn.

Got Ryan and Colby out
there hunting them now.

- You need depredation tags.

- Yeah, we got 'em.

Um, the boy, he
got in an accident.

It was on your horse.

- Is the boy okay?

- Broke his arm.
He'll survive.But...

the horse wasn't as lucky.

He stepped in a badger hole
and shattered his leg, so...

I had to put him down.

I'm sorry, sir, it's my fault.

- Riding is what the
horse is for, Rip.

Could've stepped in a badger
hole turned out just as easy.

- Thought y'all were in Helena.

- I manipulated the wheels of
government so I could see you.

How long you here for?

- We leave in the morning.

Gotta fill a week's worth
of loving into eight hours.

Hope you weren't
planning on sleeping.mmm.

- Got 'em.

Fire on three, two, one.

Three, two, one.

Safe.

Oh, fuck.

- Uh, these wolves
are from the park.

- Fuck!

- What do we do?

- If those radio collars are
motionless for twelve hours

they send out a distress signal,

then there's 15 Game Wardens
standing in this field

in the morning and you and I

are on the fucking
news tomorrow night.

- So what do we do?

- We gotta get these collars off

and keep them moving
until I figure this out.

- So what you wanna do is jog
them around in a fucking circle?

- These wolves have
fucking Facebook pages.

People walk around in t-shirts
with their pictures on them.

People find out
that we killed them,

on the Governor's ranch?

Sure, - We have
tags. It's legal.

Son of a bitch.

- It's over here, sir.

There's another dead elk
over there somewhere, too.

- There's something
in the water.

- Let's go.

Come on, Lloyd!

Put me down.

Over there.

- What the hell do you
think you're doing?

- What are you spraying it with?

- Paraquat for the weeds.
- What?

- Some kind of
pyrethroid for mosquitos.

- That's my ranch down there.

Whatever you're spraying it
with it's in the creek now

and it's killing my cattle.

It's killing everything.

- I'm licensed to spray
it. These are EPA approved.

- I don't give a
shit who approved it.

It's killing my cattle.

- Take it up with the EPA.

Phone company says put in a
cell tower, that's what we do...

I can't get a bulldozer up here.

It's the top of a mountain.

This is the only
way to clear it.

EPA says it's harmless.

- It's killing my cattle.

- Take it up with
the phone company.

You're cattle aren't my problem.

- Got a card?

Why am I not surprised?

- Hey.

All right, let's go.

Woo!

- What the fuck?

Hello?

Hey!

- Fuck.

- You still awake?

- Yeah.

- You should be plum wore out.

- Mm. Just thinking.

- Good thoughts?

- No, not really.

Yeah?

Why in the hell did you shoot
the ones with the collars?

- We were using thermal. We
couldn't see the collars.

- Is that right?

Well, start taking
the collars off.

We're taking them with us.

These things record every
step these wolves make,

So we're gonna have to
move like a wolf pack.

I want you to take one and
put it in your saddle bag

and I want you to take the
other and put it in front of you

while you ride.
- Where we going?

- Back in the park.

That's good.

No, no, no, Ryan.
Not that tight.

They need to come off somewhere.

That's good.

Listen up, you don't tell
a fucking soul. Ever.

This never happened.

- Who am I gonna tell?

That could put me in jail
for a fucking decade.

- Ryan, next time
don't shoot the ones

with the GPS beacons on them.

- Morning.
- Morning.

I've never seen
anything like it.

- Well, there isn't
anything like it.

- Where does it end?

- Well...

Well, you can't...

You can't see that from here.

- Can't imagine what it
takes to maintain this place.

- Takes everything, Clara.

It takes everything we've got.

Come on.

Next time on an
all-new Yellowstone.

Find a way
to ruin this family.

Turn her loose.

- My vision told me I'd have
to choose, so I'm choosing.

- This ain't easy, Kayce.

- We have no choice
but to fight.

We can remove him.

- You mean we can martyr him?

- I'm going to teach
you the master rules

and that lesson will
not be pleasant.