Yellowstone

Previously on Yellowstone...

Fished a radio collar out of the Yellowstone River.

Seen any wolves around lately?

Sounds like poachers.

Sure does. Care to ride with us?

Kayce: Monica wants to have a funeral.

She wants him here where she can visit.

Whatever she wants, you.. you give it, son.

I can't serve both.

I choose her and I choose my son.

You promised and you took millions in lease payments!

You have no case.

And you know it.

You're better than I expected.

I am here just to find a soft landing.

How busy are you tomorrow night?

New York would like to drop the suit.

Find a way to ruin this family, Ellis.

Hey, let's go to a bar in Bozeman.

Yeah, that's a bad idea every time.

Aren't you a tall drink of water?

I'm married. Go on.

I'm taking your husband home.

What day is it?

Thursday, I think.

What happened to you?

Fucking men.

Worked you over pretty good, huh?

I'm talking about the cop that arrested me.

Prick is in the club three nights a week.

He can't cut me a break?

They get you for D.U.I.?

Aggravated assault.

Some bitch from California tried to fuck my husband

so I beat her with a beer bottle.

So, you're like a fucking criminal.

I am the wrath of a woman scorned.

Call it what you will.

It's always some bitch from California.

Every fucking time.

Bethany Dutton. Let's go.

You don't look like a Bethany.

I'm not a Bethany. I'm a Beth.

My hero.

Knock when you're done.

Boy, you have really fucking done it this time.

What's the big deal, Jamie?

I got into a bar fight in Bozeman.

I mean, Montana Board of Tourism

should put that on fucking t-shirts.

I don't think the Montana Board of Tourism

is too fond of locals beating the shit

out of tourists on vacation.

Well, that's why I called you.

You can find the rug to sweep this under, right?

There is no rug for this one, Beth.

It's a County Attorney issue.

So your best bet is to hope this woman has a plane to catch

or she's too hungover to come down here

and file formal charges.

This is your legal advice?

Sit here and hope?

It's not advice. It's your only option.

If she doesn't file charges,

and that's a big fucking "if" considering the photo

I saw of the grapefruit on her forehead,

then I will ask the County Attorney

to show some mercy based on your diminished capacity

to control your fucking emotions.

So, yeah, you just sit here and hope.

But no matter what, if this reaches the press,

it's a big embarrassment for our father.

You mean my father.

Your father's out of chances to be embarrassed, isn't he, Jamie?

I'm going to go back to my cell.

I'm going to take a nap.

And you're going to sit on the fucking steps of this place

and you're going to wait for Miss California

to walk up, and when she does, you are going to stop her.

How the hell am I going to do that?

It's not my problem, Jamie.

Hey. You got this Dutton assault case?

Uh, yes, sir.

Why no charges against the complainant?

It was a bar fight, wasn't it?

It was one hell of a bar fight from the report.

There is no self defense in a bar fight,

which is to say the victim is a defendant as well.

Is she coming in?

I'm waiting for her now. I'll wait with you.

You have the Montana Educators Luncheon at noon.

Cancel it.

Governor, I think that sends the wrong message.

All right, who exactly attends the Montana Educators Luncheon?

Everyone. Senator Perry will be there.

Legislators, School Superintendents,

the President of Montana State.

Why do they call it the Educators Luncheon

if there's no educators there?

It's Thursday, Clara, all the educators are in school.

Tell you what, when the Educators' Luncheon

is about teachers, I'll go.

Who are they?

It's the policy advisors' meeting.

Policy advisors for who?

For you.

How can my policy advisors have a meeting

about policies without me?

Um...

You're in my seat.

So what policies are we discussing today?

Nobody?

Let's see...

"In accordance with the U.S. Green initiative,

"Montana is leasing 7,000 acres in Powder River County

to Sun Energies."

What is Sun Energies?

It's a solar farm company.

Mm. And you are?

Stanley... Roberts.

And you are?

Your chief policy advisor, Mr. Governor.

Well, nice to fucking meet you.

I tried to schedule a lunch but you're...

She said you aren't taking lunches.

Where's your office, Stanley?

Just... Right down the hall.

Know what? So is mine.

Ever dawn on you just to come by and say howdy?

My mistake.

I'd say.

Let's see what other policies I'm proposing.

Suspend natural gas leases on state land

in Powder River County to support

the Sage Grouse Restoration Project.

Um, there's been precipitous drop in sage grouse numbers

and there is empirical evidence

that gas exploration and extraction

have a negative impact on the sage grouse environment.

And what effect do you think seven thousand acres

of solar panels are going to have on their environment?

There's... no evidence that solar panels

would have any impact on the sage grouse environment.

What do they do with the sage brush

when they put in the solar panels?

They, they...

They would clear it before putting in the solar panels.

They remove the sage brush.

Yes, sir.

Sage grouse live in the sage brush.

They do.

And you don't think removing the sage brush

is going to have an effect on the population?

I just said there's no evidence..

Know what scares me about you, Stanley? You're serious.

You're looking at me and you're not joking.

I think tops on my agenda today

is going to be budget discipline. You're all fired.

I'm very mindful of our tax payers' money,

and you are all wasting it.

I'll advise myself on policy, Clara.

How much money did we just save?

I would say...

Roughly 1.6 Million dollars in salary and benefits

if you're serious.

Oh, I'm pretty serious.

Look at that.

What a great day for the State of Montana.

Where to next?

We have an emergency meeting with park officials

and U.S. Fish and Wildlife.

Emergency meeting about what?

Doesn't say.

Usually means someone died in the park.

They're in your office.

What's the emergency?

Governor, we'd like for you to take a look at this map.

The red lines indicate the path of a radio-collared wolf

associated with the Rescue Creek pack.

All right.

As you can see...

Wherever we see these clusters,

we associate with a kill site.

They'll feed on a carcass for a few days, then they'll move on.

They left the park here roughly three weeks ago,

they traveled the tree line to here,

then they dropped down in this valley to here.

Mm hm.

That's my ranch.

We're aware.

The wolves clustered here for three days,

around what appears to be a kill,

then they move straight south for thirty miles to here.

Now, that's the Yellowstone River...

They jump into the river, according to this data

and they swim downstream for five miles.

Wasn't aware wolves swam down rivers.

They don't.

We recovered one of the radio collars from the river.

What are you getting at?