Dutton Ranch (2026) s01e06 Episode Script

1
[Beulah] Mismanagement has been
a bit of a bugaboo of late.
Well, would you like
me to fix your problem?
Well, I wonder, can you?
There are calves to wean.
Get your gear together and
get your asses in the saddle.
Y'all got ten minutes.
Dramatic music ♪
[Austin] I'm looking for answers for
Wes and Whitney, you son of a bitch.
Go pack your fucking shit.
The Jacksons are gonna chew you up,
spit you out,
forget you ever had a name.
Why? I did the job just
like Ms. Beulah told me.
Circumstances have changed.
[Beth] This place is held together
with tape and baling wire.
You are easy prey, Beulah.
Evolve or die.
What are you selling?
You hire me, nobody will
fight harder for you.
[gunshot]
[crying]
[gurgles]
[Rip] Three weeks ago, I found
a dead body on our property.
It floated over from 10-Petal.
We need to be careful with this family.
You scared the shit out of me, brother.
I'm back in the saddle.
Gentle music ♪
[door closes]
What's all this?
Had a minute.
Te quiero mucho, but it's
too early to build a crib.
I don't care about some wives' tale.
Plus, I'll sleep better
knowing it's already here.
How do you feel about today?
Not bad, as long as it's not forever.
Nothing's forever. Not your job,
not mine, not 10-Petal.
Nor anything else that may come our way.
And that don't scare you?
Bringing a kid into this world?
To have a father that would do anything
to protect it, to raise it, to love it?
A mother that would do the same?
Corazón
I'm scared, too.
But we're gonna figure
this out together.
Yeah?
Yeah.
This is cute.
- You're cute.
- [laughs]
[sizzling]
I was getting used to you
in cowboy boots, honey.
Well, I won't be out of them for long.
Hey. Breakfast's ready.
- Here you go.
- Looks good. Thanks.
[Beth] I'll, uh,
I'll be home late tonight.
Me, too.
[Beth] Yeah?
You seeing Oreana?
Uh, she wants to go fishing,
and then maybe grab dinner after school.
Nice.
You know how to fish?
I'm sure it won't be that hard to learn.
Yup.
Well, just, uh, don't be too late.
Yup.
I know, um,
there's been a lot of
change around here lately.
But we're gonna get through it together.
Like a family.
Carter, is there, uh,
is there something you
want to talk about?
I got to get to class.
I got a math quiz.
- Love you.
- [door opens]
- [door closes]
- Fuck.
We were fucking impossible at 19,
weren't we?
[chuckles]
Honey, you're still impossible.
You're welcome.
[chuckles]
slow, dramatic music
There's some good ol'
boys in that bunkhouse.
And some sons of bitches.
- I've seen plenty of both.
- My old man
is rolling in his grave.
Partner, you got a kid on the way.
Hey. The 10-Petal's
got a new herd of Angus
that needs branding.
So let's start loading up these horses.
We spending the night, viejo?
You ain't. Zachariah, go get your shit.
You're gonna be my eyes and ears.
I'll meet you all over there.
Yes, sir.
Good morning.
Hi.
[chuckles]
Last night was fun.
Yes, it was.
You got my hat off my head.
[both laugh]
[Beulah sighs]
So, I'm gonna see you later tonight?
Uh, I think I better sleep
in my own bed tonight.
Oh, well, then I'll just, uh
I'll leave the light on, just in case.
There you go.
So, you got a busy day ahead?
Yeah, due at the clinic now, directly.
Aha.
- There you go.
- Oh, wow. Thank you.
Well, truth be told,
I'd rather spend the day
with you than your friend.
Oh, hell, Beulah,
you and Beth may have more
in common than you think.
Hmm. [scoffs]
I got your invite.
It sounds like another big to-do.
Oh, it's bigger.
Ranch only turns 190 years old once.
Change is on the horizon.
Mm. That a good thing?
Well, I
I want you to be my date.
Do you?
[chuckles] Well, I would be honored.
Well, all right, then.
Slow, dramatic music ♪
Here we go.
[brakes hiss]
[cattle lowing]
[distant shouting]
[Rip] Azul, you see any
that need doctoring,
- I want you to pull 'em, yeah?
- Yes, sir.
[cattle lowing]
[whistling]
Git!
[Nico] Ramos, finally left the nest.
Nico, didn't you fail ninth grade?
I was busy cowboying while you were busy
- playing grab-ass.
- It's called football.
¿Grado nueve?
N'ombre, está bien burro este güey.
What the fuck did he say?
Something about cow shit, I think.
Got a runny nose, viejo.
[shouting]
[shouting continues]
[Azul] Pull 57 now.
[whistles]
I'm lengthening the
leash with Oreana today.
She and the Dutton boy
are headed to the lake.
Yes, ma'am.
[Beulah] Thank you, Miguel.
- [Miguel] Have a safe flight, ma'am.
- [Beulah] Thank you.
You're every bit as advertised.
Well, you get what you pay for.
I suppose that's up for
Zane Nash to decide.
Businessmen like Zane,
they make deals on the details.
We win him, the rest will follow,
so preparation is everything.
I've also found that it
helps to bend with the wind.
He was born and raised on
the South Side of Chicago.
Started busing tables at 15.
Built his empire by 30,
without inheriting a penny,
without going to college.
Zane sees what most people don't.
So this
this helps me bend to that.
Hmm. Bend away, Beth.
Gentle music ♪
When are you gonna talk to your ma?
[inhales sharply] When the time's right.
When's that?
You got to relax, man.
Have another beer.
I gave my goddamn blood
and sweat to this family.
Upheld my end of the deal, kept my
mouth shut about everything y'all done,
and still y'all throw me out on my ass?
Well, you only get tossed out on
your ass if you let 'em push you.
Hell, you did no better.
Chet
a weak man
goes through life without
ever standing up for himself
'cause he starts counting
the cost of fighting.
Ominous music ♪
[inhales sharply]
That's a coward's heart.
Now, I don't want to believe
that's what's inside of you.
Motherfucker, you know it ain't.
Don't you dare fucking
doubt what's inside of me.
[cattle lowing]
[cowboys whooping]
[shouting]
[Azul] Hey, watch out. Métete, métete.
Ey, con cuidado. Eh, está cerrado. ¡Eh!
- Entrale.
- [cattle lowing]
- [sizzles]
- [Zach] Yah! Hey!
[moos]
[shouting]
[cattle lowing]
That baling wire on that buckle?
Yeah.
You got that rough-stock look about you.
What's that? Handsome?
Used up.
You're plenty handsome, mi compa.
Don't listen to him.
Plenty used up, too.
[Austin] You get that cowboy
hat at the gas station?
I did, you know.
Your dad showed me where to go.
[indistinct chatter]
[elevator dings]
You aren't nervous, are you?
We'll close him in 20 minutes.
I want to be back on my porch
with a drink in my hand by sundown.
Hi, we're here to see Zane Nash.
Gentle music ♪
I bet Dwight liked to fish.
The drinking part for sure.
[Oreana chuckles]
Doesn't feel real.
Does it?
I don't know what to feel.
My mother died when I was 11.
My father OD'd when I was 14.
I never had much of anyone or
anything till Beth found me.
I suppose I should be grateful
for all they've done, but
somehow I
just don't feel like I have a choice
in who I am, what I do, or
hell even what I like.
It's hard to be thankful for that.
Dwight might've been a bad man,
but he was good to me.
[mutters]
- [chuckles]
- He talked an awful lot
- [laughs]
- but somehow he listened.
And he liked you.
Beth and Rip do, too. It's just
just different.
That's because you're theirs.
I don't want to be anyone's anymore.
Then don't.
Contemplative music ♪
Not even mine.
[chuckles]
[sighs]
[over radio] Only feel alive ♪
Underneath the spotlight ♪
A different stage every night ♪
A new girl holding you tight ♪
All you wanna do is
put miles on your van ♪
You ramble on man ♪
- Ramble on man ♪
- Oreana?
Yeah?
I think I love you.
Mr. Jukebox keeps on playing ♪
Ramble on man ♪
I don't think either of us
really know what love is.
Um
You don't think this is it?
Ramble on ♪
[phone chiming repeatedly]
[chiming continues]
We got somewhere to be.
Come on.
[engine starts]
[Oreana] Hold on.
[indistinct chatter]
Good afternoon.
Good afternoon.
I would like to see a Republic.
And a Republic would like to see you.
Quiet, dramatic music ♪
Most folks let the hat wear them.
I'm not most folks.
Well, let's get it fitted.
[steam hissing]
- [Nico calling out]
- [cattle lowing]
[creaking]
[cattle lowing]
[shouting]
[cow moos]
Send 'em.
[cow bellows]
[shouting]
[Azul] Last one, boys.
Don't hurt that other arm.
You might lose that buckle.
Shit, Ramos, I can rope
better than you with no hands.
It's "R-R-Ramos," partner.
[Zach] Ramos!
Is that a challenge?
That's just a fact.
[Zach] Oh, it's a fact.
You talk a big game.
Little pretty boy talking big.
- Pretty boy? You like that?
- Yeah.
Your sister said that last night.
- [Zach] Oh.
- Hundred bucks.
10-Petal versus Dutton.
[Azul] I don't want your money, I want
- that pretty little buckle.
- Uh, you want that buckle
- 'cause you can't win one?
- [Rip] All right, all right,
all right. Let's settle
it the old-fashioned way.
He wants this buckle, 500 a man,
one-handed match roping.
10-Petal versus Dutton.
[Zach] Let's go now.
- All right.
- [Zach] All right.
- [Rip] Come on, boys.
- Mm.
- [cowboy] Easy work.
- [Zach] Boy.
Let an old man teach you, boy.
[Beth] Well, sourcing your kitchens
from all over the West is bad business.
It's a constant back-and-forth.
Ranchers, feedlots, packers.
It's a lot of middlemen,
and I know 'cause I'm one of 'em.
If you have a license
with 10-Petal Steaks,
you get to cut all that bullshit out.
And the margins are so volatile,
it's like bleeding cash.
And I don't know about you, Zane,
but I fucking hate overpaying.
We have the highest-quality Angus,
bred, fed and finished in-house.
We're one of the few operations that has
its own USDA-approved slaughterhouse.
It is a resource so coveted,
even I couldn't get on the schedule.
Well, you've assumed what I need,
but why do I need it from you?
The people who dine in your restaurants,
they don't pay top dollar
just for a steak, right?
You know, they want a story.
They want an experience.
We can give them that, a story,
an authentic cowboy story.
At 10-Petal, it is unlike any other,
and we're here to offer you first look.
Well, that's generous.
You know, I walked this deal
into your office for a reason, Zane.
Deals like this walk into
my office all the time,
but money talks and bullshit walks.
Well, we're still sat, aren't we?
True,
and I've never had a Dutton
- sitting across my desk.
- Or a Jackson.
Your father was a legend, Beth.
McChesney spurs.
They're beautiful.
Worn, but not for a long time.
[Zane] They were worn by the
Duke himself in The Searchers.
My parents worked nights and weekends.
Double features at The Music
Box became my babysitter.
The screen, my escape from the city
and John Wayne, my guide.
I loved cowboys. And outlaws.
Clearly, you still do.
Tell me about the Yellowstone.
The Yellowstone will be written
about in the history books.
But the 10-Petal and the Jacksons,
they're still at it.
190 years, they have been ranching.
You know, they arrived here
as the Sullivans, right?
Escaping famine in Ireland.
[Beulah] With dreams of
full bellies and warm sun.
Instead, we got thrown smack dab
in the middle of the Texas Revolution.
My great-granddaddy's
great-granddaddy, Liam Sullivan,
was dodging bullets and herding cattle
for the O'Connors in Refugio.
He knew that if the
cholera didn't kill him,
the Comanches or the war would.
So, in the dead of night,
battle raging on the horizon, he rustled
a mess of his boss's longhorns and
drove them to the Winter Garden.
An outlaw, he took the name Jackson
from the whore he fled with,
and never looked back.
[laughs]
Hell, John Ford couldn't
have dreamed that up.
[laughs]
John Ford visited our ranch
when I was just a little girl.
- [Zane] Really?
- [Beulah] Yeah.
You know, the Jacksons,
they, uh, they understood
that knowing when to walk
away is just as valuable
as knowing when to fight.
We'll gladly walk away if you
can't see this opportunity.
[Beulah] It's an
opportunity to work with
two of the greatest ranching families
in this country's history.
[Rob-Will] Oh, what we got here, Oz?
- [chuckling]
- Is that a Mossberg?
What is that?
I like that.
[whistles]
tense music ♪
[Oz] Everything's as clean as a
nun's backside. [clicks tongue]
Shit.
Hunter or hunted, Chet.
Hero or coward.
You know, life always
comes down to two choices.
Always the hunter.
How's that one feel?
[chuckles] Like trouble.
How's it feel to you?
What the fuck, man?
Rob-Will.
Rob-Will.
We'll take 'em all. [laughs]
[both laughing]
Smoke?
[Oz] Hell yeah.
Upbeat country music ♪
[Zach] Git.
Let's go.
[whistling]
- [men whooping]
- [Zach] Yes, sir.
[grunting]
- [cow mooing]
- [cowboy] There it is.
[Zach] He was late, but he made it up.
- [men cheering and whistling]
- [cowboy] Let's go.
- [Zach] Get it, boys.
- Six-two.
I was yours the day you
flashed your eyes at mine ♪
- [Guillermo] See that?
- [cowboy] Oh, yeah.
That's how us vaqueros do it.
- Hey, you see this?
- [Guillermo] A ver.
- [Austin] See that, boys?
- [Guillermo] Mommy buy that
for you at the flea market, or what?
[laughter]
- Let's go.
- I put the hammer to ♪
The final nail this time ♪
[bellows]
[Guillermo] Oh!
Goddamn it, Frank.
Fucker's fast.
No, you're just fucking slow.
Snap on that head loop
hurt your ears down here?
[Zach] Shit, I was listening for
the stretch on that heel rope.
I didn't hear nothing.
Maybe I'm getting hard of hearing.
Let us real men show you how it's done.
I'd be surprised if that washed-up bronc
rider even knows how to swing a rope.
Shit, I know how to do lots of things.
Ask your sister, pretty boy.
I'm head and you're heel.
All right. Let's do it.
No pressure.
[men shouting]
[men whooping]
[cowboy] Golly.
Ooh, five-five.
Hey, you assholes got lucky!
[Zach] So did your sister.
[laughs]
[indistinct chatter]
- [Zach] Whoo, boys!
- [Austin] Damn, that was fast.
- [cowboy] Pretty damn good run.
- [Austin] Bullshit right there.
[overlapping chatter]
[Austin] Some certified
bullshit is what that is.
You come to do some roping? [chuckles]
No, just wanted to check if
the Angus got unloaded okay.
They did.
Mm.
Can I get you up to
the house for a drink?
Yeah. Give me an hour.
Dramatic music ♪
[insects trilling]
[lighter flicks open]
[lighter flicks closed]
[Rob-Will exhales]
When you washed up here, you were
[chuckles] you were a feral thing.
Running around in circles,
nowhere to go.
[laughs]
You've become a man since.
- This ranch has been good to me.
- Mm.
You've been good to it.
I knew you had fight.
Knew you'd always have my back.
Always.
I know we ain't blood, but
I'd like to think we're brothers.
You're the one I should've had.
Dramatic music ♪
That means the world to me.
It means nobody understands
what we done to protect this ranch.
No one will.
And no one knows what
we'd do to hold on to it.
Anything.
Everything.
This is your home.
Your family.
It's the only one I got.
We ain't gonna let nobody
take what's rightfully ours.
Tense music ♪
[exhales sharply]
[Chet] Hey, motherfucker!
Yeah, I got your attention now, huh?
Don't do anything you might regret.
No matter how dirty, how shitty,
I did everything you
and Ms. Beulah asked.
I risked my goddamn life.
I thought of y'all as family.
We are. We're-we're family, Chet.
Choice, coming from the bastard.
Put the gun down.
We-we can figure this out.
All right? Let's talk.
All you do is talk, Joaquin.
Talk in fucking circles,
and backstab and cheat
and fucking steal.
You said there are only two
ways to leave this ranch.
Two choices.
[gunshot]
[Joaquin] Oh, fuck me!
You shot me. You son of a bitch.
Wait, wait, wait, wait,
wait, wait, wait, wait!
- You two-faced piece of shit.
- [gunshot]
[exclaims]
[panting, groaning]
Fuck.
Gracias, Miguel.
[Joaquin groaning]
[vehicle approaching]
Más problemas, jefe.
[groaning, panting]
[softly] Whoa, whoa.
[grunting]
[wincing]
Chet.
He didn't take his firing so well.
You want to get that hand fixed?
I can't go to a hospital.
I ain't taking you to the hospital.
Go on and get in.
[grunting]
[Beulah laughs]
Watching you in that meeting,
it was like looking in
the mirror 20 years ago.
You are a warrior and
a wildflower, Beth.
You are the one who charmed him, Beulah.
[sighs] Getting older, it just makes you
ache for parts of yourself
that you didn't realize
you were losing. Crave what used to be.
I held on too tight for too long.
Don't worry. The 10-Petal is
not going anywhere, I promise.
My daddy died to save that ranch.
He asked me to do the same.
A tale as old as time, isn't it?
It's hard to watch a man
love dirt more than blood.
I am gonna go to the ladies'.
Another round, please.
Tense music ♪
[Joaquin groaning softly]
[grunts]
[engine turns off]
I want to know who put
the body on my property.
[sighs]
My brother is a fool.
Joaquin, I know a lot of fools,
and they ain't killers.
You know a lot of killers?
Enough.
Wes Ayers was one of our hands.
He was also Rob-Will and Chet's dealer.
- Mm-hmm.
- I don't know how long ago
it started, but it spun out of control.
Wes paid the ultimate price.
Chet, too, I guess.
I don't know why
Rob-Will chose your land.
If you ask him,
he probably wouldn't either.
He's always seen himself like a prince
who never became king,
so the kingdom be damned.
I want to know exactly
where your brother is.
Sacred Mesa, rehab facility in Sedona.
After that, I've lined
up a job in Botswana.
He'll take disgruntled
princes like himself
to slaughter elephants
so they can pretend
to be heroic knights.
He's never coming back, Rip.
And if he does, I'll fucking kill him.
[engine starts]
You gonna tell me what happened?
Shit, you got to ask him.
A disgruntled cowboy.
[Rip] He'll be all right, Everett?
[Everett] Yeah, I got him.
He's not the first man I've stitched up.
Let's go.
Come on, get inside here.
Let's take a look at that.
[engine starts]
[machine whirs, beeps]
[Everett] Yeah, take it easy.
[Joaquin sighs]
[exhales sharply]
I'll set the bones, but you're gonna
need a surgeon to make it look pretty.
I don't want the whole
county asking questions.
That means you don't
want me asking questions?
It's complicated, Everett.
Yeah, always is with your family.
This'll sting.
[groans]
You're good at this.
Yeah, well, animals are easier.
Take it easy now. There you go.
Okay.
I see why she likes you.
Your mother likes everyone,
as long as they don't get in her way.
Yeah.
She's happiest when you're around.
I might have been wrong
about Oreana and Carter.
- Thank you.
- [bartender] Of course.
She certainly has taken a liking to him.
I told her, that kid, he has a
he has a really pure heart.
Mm.
Well, it must've been
an easy pregnancy, then.
He wasn't a pregnancy.
Mm-hmm.
I have a theory.
The harder the pregnancy,
the harder the heart.
I struggled to carry Rob-Will.
[groans] Then I labored for 48 hours
before he came out
kicking and screaming.
I was young, I wasn't ready,
I felt so alone.
His daddy died in an awful
flood before he was born.
[sighs]
Then, little baby Joaquin
was dropped in my lap.
Yeah, by a ranch hand who, uh
he got on the wrong side of the law.
[exclaims] I was scared
till that survival instinct kicked in.
After that, I had no problem
putting a bullet in the skull
of anything that threatened my boys.
I understand that.
Well, problem is,
you can't shoot addiction.
You just pray the experts know
what the hell they're doing.
Well, that must be hard.
Eh, it's a storm I'll weather.
But that's another
similarity in our families.
What's that?
Taking in wayward sons. Joaquin, Carter.
Montana's former
Attorney General, Jamie.
Quiet, dramatic music ♪
Yeah, I don't think about him anymore.
Yeah, well, I don't blame you.
[scoffs]
I mean, but one has to
wonder what really happened.
Him gone missing after what
happened to your father?
I don't think about that, either.
Hmm.
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