Yellowstone (TV Series)

An Acceptable Surrender (2020)

Wes Bentley: Jamie Dutton

Quotes 

• Jamie Dutton : A man who puts a hand on a member of my family never puts a hand on anything else.

• SGCJ Deputy : Turn that off.

  Jamie Dutton : Can only turn it off when he meets his attorney.

  Jamie Dutton : I am his attorney.

  SGCJ Deputy : Shut camera in three.

  Livestock Agent Steve Hendon : What the hell, Jamie? Hm? All I did is what they told me to do. What you told me to do. And now...

  Jamie Dutton : Shut the fuck up! Now, you need to tell me exactly what happened from the moment you arrived.

  Livestock Agent Steve Hendon : Little barrel racer girl, she was all just beat to hell. And the deputies, they took these two old boys and they put him in a horse stall.

  Jamie Dutton : In a horse stall. Not the squad vehicle?

  Livestock Agent Steve Hendon : In a horse stall. And told me to send a message with 'em. And so we threw 'em in the back of the victim's horse trailer. And I just drove them around. And I worked the brakes pretty hard. Too hard, I guess...

  Jamie Dutton : Who loaded them in the trailer?

  Livestock Agent Steve Hendon : Um, the deputies did. Mm-hmm.

  Jamie Dutton : Is there a chance that they were assaulted prior to your arrival?

  Livestock Agent Steve Hendon : No, I didn't see...

  Jamie Dutton : Is there a chance?

  Livestock Agent Steve Hendon : Sure. Yeah, there's a chance.

  Jamie Dutton : Yeah. All right. You loaded them in the trailer because your vehicle cannot accommodate two perpetrators. They had indicated to you that there were other horses stolen. So you loaded them in the trailer so they could lead you to the location of the stolen horses.

  Livestock Agent Steve Hendon : Are you telling me...

  Jamie Dutton : Listen. While driving to this location another vehicle pulled in front of you so you were compelled to make a defensive move for your safety and the safety of the two men in your custody. After avoiding the accident, you checked on the accused and you realized they had succumbed to the injuries sustained by the deputies in the horse stall at the fairgrounds. Do you recall the events I am repeating to you?

  Livestock Agent Steve Hendon : That's what happened. It was just like that.

  Jamie Dutton : Burn it in your fucking brain.

• Phil Hawthorne : That was quick. Sheriff said they'd need it for a while.

  Jamie Dutton : How can she rodeo without a truck and trailer?

  Phil Hawthorne : That's what I said. But they said they needed it for...

  Jamie Dutton : For what?

  Phil Hawthorne : Guess one of the deputies took it too far with those assholes.

  Jamie Dutton : Uh... not one of the deputies. What I'm telling you could put my agent in prison. It could put me in prison, too.

  Phil Hawthorne : Maybe you shouldn't tell it.

  Jamie Dutton : My sister was beaten to within an inch of her life. Whatever else they did... I can't say. She won't either. But I can say this: a man who puts a hand on a member of my family never puts a hand on anything else.

  Jamie Dutton : Is a beating all she got?

  Phil Hawthorne : I don't know. She won't talk about it. I got half a mind to stand outside the courthouse with a gun and wait for those sons of bitches to get out on bail.

  Jamie Dutton : You don't have to do that.

  Phil Hawthorne : Everyone says that, but... everyone's daughter isn't beat to shit and God knows what else. So don't tell me what to fucking do. It ain't your daughter.

  Jamie Dutton : I'm not telling you what to do.I'm saying you don't have to do that. Eighty years ago we could've hung them from a tree. But today... this is the best I can offer. I can promise this: they're never getting arraigned.

  Phil Hawthorne : You should run for governor.

  Jamie Dutton : Let's just focus on today.

  Phil Hawthorne : You did that for me?

  Jamie Dutton : I did that for every father who would be sacrificing their family if they did it.

  Phil Hawthorne : So they're gone.They're done.

  Jamie Dutton : I don't know you, sir. And I'm showing you a lot of trust. I need you to show me the same. I just want to be clear about what this means.

  Phil Hawthorne : You've been plenty clear.

  Jamie Dutton : This makes you an accessory. Your daughter needs to understand that.

  Phil Hawthorne : My daughter won't say a word and it makes me more than that. Don't worry about this: soon as the grounds dry, it never happened.But between you and me... Time'll come you'll need a favor and I can't wait to give it.

  Jamie Dutton : I might ask for it.

• Governor Lynelle Perry : Kate, get me John Dutton on the line, please.

  Kate : Yes, ma'am. It went straight to voicemail.

  Governor Lynelle Perry : Try Jamie.

  Kate : Yes, ma'am.-- I'm putting him through.

  Governor Lynelle Perry : Jamie?

  Jamie Dutton : Governor..

  Governor Lynelle Perry : What can I do for you? I need to sit down with you and your father.

  Jamie Dutton : Oh, okay. Can you give me the broad strokes of what we'll be discussing?

  Governor Lynelle Perry : Sorry, no broad strokes today. When can we meet?

  Jamie Dutton : Actually, governor, can I get back to you tomorrow?

  Governor Lynelle Perry : This meeting has to happen tomorrow. Time is not on our side.

  Jamie Dutton : I'll get back to you first thing, then.Thank you

• County Attorney Randy : Hey.

  Jamie Dutton : Did you talk to anyone?

  County Attorney Randy : No, I did everything the way you said to do it. Is there a problem?

  Jamie Dutton : I don't know.

  County Attorney Randy : Jamie, if there's a problem I need to know about it...

  Jamie Dutton : There's no problem. The lie is the truth now. The lie is the truth and it is the truth forever. Do you understand me?

  County Attorney Randy : You're on your fucking own with this. Make up your own truth. Shit !

  Jamie Dutton : Randy? Fuck!

• John Dutton : Here goes the day.

  Jamie Dutton : Governor wants to see us.

  John Dutton : You mean the Governor wants to see you. I'm retired. And enjoying it.

  Jamie Dutton : She said both of us. I can bring the chopper out here. We can be in Helena in an hour.

  John Dutton : Sounds important.

  Jamie Dutton : Sounds like it.

  John Dutton : If it's that important, she shouldn't mind coming to see me. And I'll be at the rodeo in Livingston.

  Jamie Dutton : Well, we can get back by...

  John Dutton : I said I'll be at the rodeo. I'm sure her voters would enjoy watching her partake in something they actually care about. Rip, decide who's stayin' with the herd tonight. I'm gonna take this outfit to town and we're, uh... we'll go watch Jimmy rodeo.

• County Attorney Randy : County Attorney Randy Harper to see Commissioner Dutton.

  Jamie Dutton : He's expecting you.

  County Attorney Randy : Yeah. You got a lot of fucking balls summoning me into your office... Are you out of your fucking mind?

  Jamie Dutton : Out of my mind is me testifying in court, to the phone call you made to me asking me to send an agent to assault detainees.

  County Attorney Randy : What phone call?

  Jamie Dutton : The one I recorded, you asshole. Think this is my fucking hobby? An agent of my office was sent to retrieve two assailants who had visible marks on them when loaded onto a vehicle by your deputies... A vehicle my agent had every right to hold as evidence.

  County Attorney Randy : If your agent takes the fall for this, we're all clear.

  Jamie Dutton : Yeah, sure. I guess all he has to do is spend the rest of his life in prison while his wife and two kids rot in some fucking single-wide in Belgrade. You want to pitch him that idea or are you starting to smell the reek of an immunity deal with state prosecutors?

  County Attorney Randy : I just told you to teach them a lesson.

  Jamie Dutton : Yeah, you sure did, Randy. I mean, that's exactly what you said. Are the perps local?

  County Attorney Randy : One's from Louisiana, one's from Missouri. Last known address is a oil camp in North Dakota.

  Jamie Dutton : Toe tag them as John Does, say your deputies pulled them from a truck in a bar ditch with three times the legal limit of alcohol in their system.

  County Attorney Randy : What about the victim? She saw everything.

• Jamie Dutton : Governor.

  Governor Lynelle Perry , John Dutton : Jamie.

  John Dutton : Can we just enjoy the evening and talk about the problem tomorrow? Come on, Lynelle, that's the one good thing about problems: they'll still be problems tomorrow.

  Governor Lynelle Perry : You want to walk me through the plan behind that dirty grin?

  John Dutton : Well, that all depends.

  Governor Lynelle Perry : On what?

  Governor Lynelle Perry : On how big your security detail is.

  [Both laughing] 

  Governor Lynelle Perry : How's, uh... forced retirement?

  John Dutton : Bliss.

  Governor Lynelle Perry : I'll make you a deal. All right. I'll give you the solution tonight and the problem tomorrow. You agree to the solution, and we can play teenager for the remainder of the night.

  John Dutton : All right. What's the solution?

  Governor Lynelle Perry : I appoint Jamie interim Attorney General and Jamie appoints a person of your choosing to run the Livestock Commission.

  John Dutton : Something happened.

  Governor Lynelle Perry : Is what I'm proposing best for the state? I don't know. Is it best for you? Yes. Is it best for the people in this valley? I... I think so. In my heart, I think it is. thing.

  John Dutton : And we do all this with what goal in mind?

  Governor Lynelle Perry : To negotiate an acceptable surrender.

  John Dutton : What are we surrendering?...

  John Dutton : The problem... There's plenty... but problem number one is: I don't have anyone to replace Jamie.

  Governor Lynelle Perry : What about the war hero?

  John Dutton : Already asked him. He won't do it.

  Governor Lynelle Perry : You've never asked anybody for anything in your life.

  [John laughs] 

  Governor Lynelle Perry : You tell. I'll ask him. And he won't say no. If that's what you want for him.

  John Dutton : It's all I've ever wanted for him.

  Governor Lynelle Perry : Then let me put a little sugar on this pill. John Dutton admitting that he can't do everything. I admitted no such thing.