Yellowstone

Every road from the rodeo

leads right here.

What day is it?

- 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.

What's wrong with my arm?

- Well, they didn't mention your arm.

So it must be fine.

Doesn't look fine.

- Well, compared to the rest of this shit, it's fine.

How am I gonna...

How am I gonna pay for all this?

- Well, the hospital's pretty curious about that themselves.

Look at me.

Hospital bill's not a concern.

But you gotta make me a promise

no more rodeo.

- It's the only thing that ever...

ever made me feel like I was worth something.

Yeah.

Well, I figured as much.

Ow.

Learn to rope.

All you're risking is a thumb, and...

you got two of those.

Mister Dutton, uh...

Thank you.

- Yeah, well, learn to rope, Jimmy.

I'm not paying for this shit twice.

Okay, Jimmy.

We're going to help you up so you can walk.

- Don't really feel like walking, so...

- Your hip replacement needs you to move around a bit.

But first we need to remove your catheter.

All right, just lift.

There we go.

All right, deep breath.

You're going to feel a little pressure when I pull, okay?

Hi.

You survived.

Oh!

- All right, getting the mystery out of the way

right up front, huh?

Is it just... is it swollen from the...

- I think it's the way God made that one.

- Hmm. - This isn't happening.

Can I help?

Are you a relative?

- Yeah, I'm, uh... I'm his girlfriend.

- Yeah, sure. Just, uh, come over here. Grab an arm.

All right, here.

- I don't know if I can be in a relationship

with someone who shows such poor judgment.

Well, I'm a barrel racer.

So bad judgment's just part of the package.

Don't have a dog, do you?

I have two, actually.

That fuckin' figures.

- I am not sure this is appropriate, Chairman.

I don't represent the Jenkins' estate.

Or, whatever's left of it, I mean.

- His estate is not my concern at the moment.

Is there any validity to this?

It's a chess move.

It puts you on the defensive. Stops you from building.

But...

- But they don't have a winnable case.

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, 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.

So, they'll try to buy me out.

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.

- 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.

- You said two futures. What's the other?

The other's where you live.

Concrete worlds with stick houses

and grass that can't survive without

fertilizer and sprinklers.

Some day 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.

- People prefer concrete, I'm afraid.

Nobody wants your future.

No one in your world.

Well...

I wish I could tell you how to fight them.

- If anyone knew how to fight them,

there'd be no such thing as reservations.

What do you think, Mo?

- I think you need a lawyer and not him.

- Well, men like him have their use.

But no, not for this...

- We've always known how to fight them, Tom.

We just didn't 'cause we didn't want to be like them.

I think it's time you be like them.

- The people would never forgive me.

- It's for the people. - Still won't forgive me.

But I'm going to do it anyway.

Get John Dutton on the phone for me.

Angela Blue Thunder, please.

Chairman Rainwater.

- You're going to need to sage off after you speak with her.

I know.

- That's a pretty big bear to poke, Beth.

And their activity in the valley

has our holdings up twenty percent.

- 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.

- When you put the word out, they're going to know it's you.

- Well, I'm not gonna put the word out.

You are.

It is ripe to short. Do you disagree?

They're exposed, it's true.

And it's gonna cut them pretty deep,

and they are going to come out swinging.

- Yeah, well, that's just life in the Serengeti, I guess.

You want to call the fund managers or the press?

I'll take the managers.

But, Beth, just a little leak.

Just a leak, you know? Do not blow up the dam.

- Oh, come on, Bob. You know me better than that.

- That's why I'm saying just a leak.

A medium leak.

Anything worth doing is worth doing right.

Right?

Thank you. I'll call you back.

Stock trader.

- Hi, is Adam Tilly still running press releases?

- Yep. -Put me through to him.

One moment.

What's that flag for?

- Well, it teaches these colts to use their bodies

the right before I put them on a cow.

Why not just use a cow?

- 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?

A tough call.

Oh fuck, you're the Governor.

Miss, I'm sorry. Fuck, I...

I'm sorry. Shut up, Jake.

I'm looking for John.

- He's up there at the summer camp.

Well, can you point the way?

It's that way

but you ain't gonna get them machines up there.

Can you, uh, can you ride a horse?

- Hmm. Yeah, I can ride.

- Perfect, I'll go saddle you one.

- Ma'am, we can't have you on a horse.

Safety concerns. - He's, uh...

He's saying no to the horse, so...

He's worried Montana won't survive if I fall off.

Well, hell, uh...

I got a better idea.

- Thank you. - Yes, Ma'am.