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"Progress" is a bad word around here.
-Clear the road! -There's a standoff between rez
and truckers trying to get to that new mine.
- -All y'all, out of here!
Family name doesn't carry water anymore,
so you got to hide behind a federal badge.
- -
These bullets are meant for us.
Shooters are the Clegg brothers, Carson and Wes.
Move and you're dead!
Life's become more dangerous for me
since becoming your brother.
I guess being close to me comes at a cost.
Brought you gifts.
Did you take them from a fugitive again?
Okay, we got battery-operated cameras,
motion activated and night-vision enabled.
I'm my own security system.
And that crack system allowed somebody to walk up undetected,
drop a shell casing on your porch.
Hell, I been through worse than a bullet on my doormat.
Yeah, see, I've come to learn Montanans don't do theatrics.
You can't ignore this threat.
Well, I sent Tate to his grandpa's,
and it took you three days to find this stuff.
It took me a minute to special-order the right gear
for vengeful Cleggs.
Well, we upset a lot of people at the standoff.
Could be anybody.
Randall Clegg accosted you before you killed his son.
I mean, you-you can bet the field, but my money's on them.
Well, if my past has proved anything, whoever it is,
they'll come for me, some way, somehow.
Well, let's be ready.
["Less Honkin' More Tonkin'" by The Deslondes playing]
Whoo! City slicker embarrassed you at your own sport.
- Beginner's luck. -
And in my sport, we don't use a rope.
-I'm a bulldogger. -A what now?
I jump off a horse and wrestle a 400-pound steer.
You make a living suplexing cows?
It's a fair fight.
He comes out of the chute when I do,
and then another cowboy called a hazer keeps him
on a path so I can get my angle.
So it sounds like the hazer does all the work,
and then you get the glory.
I get it.
I feel more like a hazer than a bulldogger as of late.
Get the fuzzy end of the lollipop at work?
For now.
But I keep delivering, making my bosses happy,
they'll send me back to civilization soon enough.
Okay. Beginner's luck, huh?
["All Around Cowboy" by Charley Crockett playing]
What will it be, Henry?
Nose paint, neat, Mads.
You from around here?
You're barking up the wrong tree, hoss.
No. Sorry, I was just wondering
if you might know the Clegg family?
Nothing but trouble.
Really?
How much, exactly?
'Cause I might've kicked a hornet's nest there.
Don't have much use for rules the rest of us follow.
They making threats?
You know.
Well, you can count on them to deliver.
What's with the face?
No way Henry was giving you a hard time,
even though you probably deserve one.
No, I was just trying to figure out
how much I got to watch one of my guy's backs.
You have that math down cold.
Team comes first, above everything else.
Always has, right?
["Working on a Mystery" by Brandon Santini playing]
Miles?
Sabrina. Wow.
Been a while.
You mean since you ghosted me at our reunion?
Turning your back on the rez is kind of your thing.
I'm messing with you, dude.
Like I'd dunk on your ambitions beyond Broken Rock.
College football, Marines, MMA.
I was always cheering you on from afar.
Ambitions and achievements are two different things.
So how are you?
Worried there are two of us at a cowboy bar.
I'm on a date.
What's your excuse?
-Here with my teammates. -Right.
Heard you're a marshal now.
How's it going?
Traded badges to finally police for my people,
but some of the elders think
being a marshal makes me a traitor.
Never were one for fitting in.
But I'm still cheering.
Don't be a stranger, Miles.
How in the hell do we have mayo
that's expired before this team's even stood up?
Sorry.
I-I swear I'm great at this.
She needs your bulldogger for inspiration.
- -Bulldogger?
From "Get me out of Montana"
to rodeo bunny in the blink of an eye.
- -You missed the action, Belle.
Yeah, I know.
Movie night with my kid took priority.
- - Hey.
How are those cameras working out?
You ready to bring your boy home?
I'm gonna give it a little more time.
So you'd rather hang out
where you were threatened than with us?
Just trying to keep you out of the line of fire.
Says the guy who's gotten us shot at
ever since he showed up.
Harry.
Did we know that you were coming?
Well, some news is best delivered in person.
DOJ got a complaint from Randall Clegg.
Claims you violated his son's civil rights
when you killed him.
I violated a lot of things. His rights wasn't one of them.
Well, Clegg claims that Carson dropped his weapon
before you fired, so Dutton's in a time-out.
And the rest of you, get ahead of whatever
the DOJ investigation will find.
Putting our teammate under the microscope is a waste of time.
Going shields up
for your friend is as admirable as it is unhelpful.
I need an impartial review. Deputy Cruz, you're in charge.
Fine. I'll get things started.
Perhaps Carson Clegg dropped his weapon and you missed it.
I mean, the woods are shadows, foliage, chaos.
I'm calmest in the chaos.
If he dropped it, I'd have seen it.
You got any proof?
I got my word.
Good luck with your investigation.
Hey, you know those claims don't have legs.
Don't need any with Gifford propping them up.
I'm not waiting around to learn my fate.
No, you're not. You're actually rolling out with me,
'cause the Forest Service needs bodies to help
with a search and rescue up at Bridger Range,
and I'm betting you know the area.
Yeah, it's a brutal group of steep peaks.
Well, you up for some man versus nature?
Safer than what I'm facing here.
Helicopter carrying Tom Weaver
and his pilot called in an SOS after the wind kicked up.
We're still trying to locate it.
You don't have eyes from above?
The wind up there is a no go for air assets, even unmanned.
Leaves us with over a thousand square miles
to cover on foot and a shortage
of search-and-rescue-qualified Rangers.
You two will be handling section D4.
Sorry to interrupt.
Are there any updates on my father?
Elevation's over 8,500 feet up there.
Get ready for some climbing.
Please. I'm a damn mountain goat.
Just try and keep up, bro.
Be nice to get Dolly Weaver some answers about her dad.
Weather's only gonna get worse, so shove off.
We're armed, but thank you.
Your standard issue can't handle what's on that mountain.
- - Is this what
you being hard at work on the investigation looks like?
Good food's in the good kitchen,
and we've worked up quite an appetite already.
Okay, so, Miles said he didn't see anything
because he was engaged with Wes Clegg,
and there are no red flags in Kayce's incident report.
Well, you trust a Dutton's word at your own peril.
Okay. It's not like Kayce is some dirty beat cop.
So why have you decided he's guilty?
It's not about guilt.
If he's here with his own personal agenda,
how effective can this team be?
And Dutton dragging this team down is gonna be
that much harder for you to get reassigned to D.C.
It's in your best interest
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