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00:00:00For 84 years, Charlie Bankston prided himself on rising with the dawn's early light.
00:00:12Rain or shine, hot or cold, and every day of the week.
00:00:17Charlie said that was what cowboying was all about.
00:00:21Truth is, he could hardly wait to get at it every morning.
00:00:25Sure it was, and is, hard work and not enough money to write home about.
00:00:32Charlie spent every day doing something he loved, and not many folks can say that.
00:00:39What do you think?
00:00:40Enough said?
00:00:41It'll do.
00:00:42Well, Amos.
00:00:43Ah, this ain't gonna be easy.
00:00:44Yep.
00:00:45Yep.
00:00:46Yep.
00:00:47You sure you're okay?
00:00:48Heck, no, I'm not okay.
00:00:49Me neither.
00:00:50You sure you're okay?
00:00:51Heck, no, I'm not okay.
00:00:52Me neither.
00:00:53You sure you're okay?
00:00:54Heck, no, I'm not okay.
00:00:55You sure you're okay?
00:00:56Heck, no, I'm not okay.
00:00:57You sure you're okay?
00:00:58Heck, no, I'm not okay.
00:00:59You sure you're okay?
00:01:00Heck, no, I'm not okay.
00:01:01You sure you're okay?
00:01:02Heck, no, I'm not okay.
00:01:03You sure you're okay?
00:01:04Heck, no, I'm not okay.
00:01:05You sure you're okay?
00:01:06Heck, no, I'm not okay.
00:01:07You sure you're okay?
00:01:08You sure you're okay?
00:01:09Heck, no, I'm not okay.
00:01:10You sure you're okay?
00:01:11Heck, no, I'm not okay.
00:01:12You sure you're okay?
00:01:13Heck, no, I'm not okay.
00:01:14You sure you're okay?
00:01:15Heck, no, I'm not okay.
00:01:16You sure you're okay?
00:01:17Heck, no, I'm not okay.
00:01:18You sure you're okay?
00:01:19Heck, no, I'm not okay.
00:01:20You sure you're okay?
00:01:21Heck, no, I'm not okay.
00:01:22You sure you're okay?
00:01:23Heck, no, I'm not okay.
00:01:24You sure you're okay?
00:01:25Heck, no, I'm not okay.
00:01:26You sure you're okay?
00:01:27Heck, no, I'm not okay.
00:01:28You sure you're okay?
00:01:29Heck, no, I'm not okay.
00:01:30You sure you're okay?
00:01:32Heck, no, I'm not okay.
00:01:33You sure you're okay?
00:01:34Heck, no, I'm not okay.
00:01:35You sure you're okay?
00:01:36Heck, no, I'm not okay.
00:01:37You sure you're okay?
00:01:38Heck, no, I'm not okay.
00:01:39You sure you're okay?
00:01:40Heck, no, I'm not okay.
00:01:41You sure you're okay?
00:01:42Heck, no, I'm not okay.
00:01:43You sure you're okay?
00:01:44Heck, no, I'm not okay.
00:01:45You sure you're okay?
00:01:46Heck, no, I'm not okay.
00:01:47You sure you're okay?
00:01:48Heck, no, I'm not okay.
00:01:49You sure you're okay?
00:01:50Heck, no, I'm not okay.
00:01:51You sure you're okay?
00:01:52Heck, no, I'm not okay.
00:01:53You sure you're okay?
00:01:54Heck, no, I'm not okay.
00:01:55Here is Lord Charlie Baxton.
00:02:02Eighty-four years.
00:02:06Here is Lord Charlie Baxton.
00:02:15Eighty-four years.
00:02:22Here is Lord Charlie Baxton.
00:02:39Like I said, Lord, here's Charlie Baxton.
00:02:44Eighty-four years he believed in you, but more than that, he figured you believed in him.
00:02:50He lived his life accordingly.
00:02:52Generous to his friends.
00:02:54Strangers, too, for that matter.
00:02:57A loving man.
00:02:59A forgiving man.
00:03:04Well?
00:03:08Charlie lived in a simpler time.
00:03:10The world wasn't so bent on going to heck.
00:03:13He was a lucky man.
00:03:17Amos?
00:03:21You folks might not believe it.
00:03:23I have nothing to say.
00:03:26He said it all when he was here, I reckon.
00:03:29Say the amens, Brother Jordan.
00:03:32In your name we pray, Heavenly Father, for the eternal peace of Charlie Baxton.
00:03:39He's a simple cowboy.
00:03:41Amen.
00:03:42Amen.
00:03:43Amen.
00:03:44Amen.
00:03:46Well?
00:04:06Hello, Mama.
00:04:08It's been a while.
00:04:16Girl, don't go there again.
00:04:18Just let go of it.
00:04:24It's good to see you again, Jake.
00:04:33You know what?
00:04:34Once or twice in life, if you're real lucky, you get the chance to do something bigger and braver than you think you can.
00:04:41This may be one of them times I expect.
00:04:59Well, when life hands you lemons, I always say make lemonade.
00:05:03A little shot of tequila now and then never hurt either with or without.
00:05:06With.
00:05:08Gosh, Amos, I have missed your lemonade.
00:05:11Well, that's one thing to miss.
00:05:13That's yours on the end there, John William.
00:05:15No tequila, no sugar, just plum sour.
00:05:17Just like your granddaddy dying to get her home.
00:05:22I'm doing something different with my life.
00:05:24This way of life's never done anything but put people in their graves way ahead of time.
00:05:29Your granddaddy's scared the heck out of the whole century.
00:05:33I'm thinking more of Mama.
00:05:45You ever notice how hard it is to impress a fella that owns this many acres of genuine Texas cow patties?
00:05:52Amos, I have missed you.
00:05:55Right back at you, Jake.
00:06:00We've spent a big part of our lives out here on this porch.
00:06:04Some of the best parts, anyway.
00:06:08Like old Charlie says, used to say, the best parts of life are the little ones all added up.
00:06:19Look here.
00:06:23Just like I used to.
00:06:33Mama, Grandpa.
00:06:39Why don't you just drag me behind the car like a new rope?
00:06:41Don't go flying off the handle like that, Will.
00:06:45This is Charles Bankston's last will and testament, and we're obliged to honor it.
00:06:51Besides, the witness that signed off on it's sitting right there.
00:06:54Jump on Amos.
00:06:55I imagine he did more than witness it.
00:06:57Conspires more than like it.
00:06:59Like it or not, Will, Charlie left his interest to the Dry Creek Ranch to Jacqueline Cooper.
00:07:06Jake, will you retain your late wife's holdings?
00:07:09It all stays in the family.
00:07:11Family.
00:07:12Took somebody dying to get the girl to set foot back on the place.
00:07:16How can I partner up with her when she won't even speak to me?
00:07:19Will, it was Charlie's idea of a joint venture.
00:07:23No, Otis.
00:07:24It was Charlie's idea of having the last word and you darn well know it.
00:07:30What are you laughing at?
00:07:32I could draw up a buy-sell agreement.
00:07:34Why don't you just buy out Jake's interest?
00:07:36Disgruntled partners do it all the time.
00:07:39How about you, Jake?
00:07:41Just buy your daddy out.
00:07:43I could draw up the paperwork.
00:07:44Now you hold on one minute, Otis.
00:07:46This ain't no business partnership.
00:07:48It's a family.
00:07:49Not so you'd notice.
00:07:50Would you stop talking about me like I'm not even here?
00:07:53Habit, I guess.
00:07:55It's not for me to tell you how to work this out, Will, Jake.
00:08:00But I can tell you this much.
00:08:02Aside from whatever else you owe,
00:08:05you've got one heck of an inheritance tax breathing down your neck.
00:08:10If you folks can't work together, then that's the end of Dry Creek.
00:08:18I believe I'll have that special lemonade now, Amos.
00:08:21I believe I'll join you.
00:08:37You know, Will, it really isn't all that hard.
00:08:40I don't want them hard.
00:08:42It affects them the way it always did.
00:08:44Not the eggs. Life, John William.
00:08:47You go down that hall and you wake your daughter up and you tell her...
00:08:51And you tell her that you want to talk.
00:08:54And you sit down on the edge of the bed and you just tell her your side of this.
00:08:58And then you shut your mouth while she tells you her side.
00:09:01You know, try little things, you know, like let her finish a sentence.
00:09:05Just go in there and for once try to act like you don't think.
00:09:10Things always have to be your way or the highway.
00:09:18Come on.
00:09:30Amos says breakfast is on the table getting cold.
00:09:34You coming?
00:09:48John William.
00:09:50Old Charlie didn't set this deal up to provoke another family fight.
00:09:54He was hoping for a family reconciliation.
00:09:58That's going to take the two of you.
00:10:00Come on. Call her.
00:10:02I don't know how to use that thing.
00:10:04Well, it ain't that hard. Just punch in the number.
00:10:07I don't know how to use that thing.
00:10:09Well, it ain't that hard. Just punch in the number.
00:10:12I don't know how to use that thing.
00:10:14I don't know how to use that thing.
00:10:16Just punch in the number.
00:10:18I don't know her number.
00:10:20Well, if you ain't going to call the girl, maybe you better put your thinking cap on.
00:10:24Because this time the bank may not let you roll your note over and play dead.
00:10:28They haven't had a problem with it a dozen years, Amos. Why should they now?
00:10:32Maybe you don't owe the bank enough money.
00:10:36Maybe that's the problem.
00:10:38You just need to go down to the bank and convince them that they made a terrible mistake by loaning you the money in the first place.
00:10:45You certainly have a strange point of view, Amos.
00:10:47Yeah, well, when you ain't the lead dog, that's the point of view you get.
00:10:50Yeah, that's the work of my headaches.
00:10:53But this liniment's not doing a bit of good for this old horse's leg.
00:10:57I told you I can stop them headaches and I don't need no liniment.
00:11:01That's funny coming from you. You are the headache most of the time.
00:11:05If you'd only just...
00:11:06Look, Amos. She quit on me twice.
00:11:09First time eight years ago, second time two weeks ago.
00:11:12I'm not calling her.
00:11:14And I'm not letting you do my banking.
00:11:18And there's not gonna be any foot rubbing, so deal with it.
00:11:28Relax, Amos. Bill collectors don't drive fancy cars like that.
00:11:32California license plate.
00:11:36I believe the girl has come home.
00:11:39I never thought she'd be driving a car like that.
00:11:47I told you!
00:11:49I knew it! I knew it!
00:11:52You have to go back and gather up your stuff, huh?
00:11:56Hey.
00:12:06His name's Billy.
00:12:21You're coming, you're going.
00:12:23What's going on, girl?
00:12:25You waltz out of here while there's still shoveling dirt on your mom's grave.
00:12:29And you waltz back in eight years later like nothing ever happened.
00:12:33Only something did happen, didn't it?
00:12:35Yep, you're right. Billy. Charles William Cooper happened.
00:12:39Where's the father?
00:12:42You know, nothing I ever said then ever mattered.
00:12:45Nothing I'm gonna say now is gonna matter.
00:12:47So the way I see it, it doesn't really matter, does it?
00:12:51All right, let's just get this over with, then.
00:12:53The land's worth little or nothing after five years of drought and taxes.
00:12:57Taxes have gone sky high.
00:13:00House $5,000, earnest money.
00:13:03Why don't we just dicker the details?
00:13:05How about $50,000, that is, earnest money?
00:13:1090 days till closing, water, mineral rights.
00:13:13Seller, that's you, pays for the environmental study.
00:13:17Here's my check for $50,000.
00:13:20It's good, don't worry. You can call the bank.
00:13:25Where'd you get this kind of money?
00:13:27How the heck are you gonna get the rest?
00:13:29Same way I got this. Worked my back off for it.
00:13:35Hope you've got some tape. You're gonna need it.
00:13:37Hi.
00:13:39Oh, hey, Bug.
00:13:42You're my Grandpa Will, aren't ya?
00:13:47I'm Charles. That's a great grandpa.
00:13:50And William, that's a you. Right, Mama?
00:13:55You can call me Billy.
00:13:59How you doing, Billy? Good to know you.
00:14:03How you doing, Billy? Good to know you.
00:14:11Get him out of the brush back there.
00:14:13I don't need any educated guesses. I need an accurate count.
00:14:16You fellas take the northern pasture, and Gabe and I...
00:14:20We'll take the river section.
00:14:28Where you going, Will?
00:14:30Them boys can do the count. You and me supposed to go up...
00:14:33Get your co-conspirator to help you out. See if she's got it in her.
00:14:45It's Morgan and Lucky. They're here.
00:14:56Hi.
00:14:58Hey, Tiger. How you doing?
00:15:01Hey. How'd we do?
00:15:03You're half a day early. Yeah, I know.
00:15:05How'd Lucky do? He did just fine.
00:15:07He got all the rest he needed.
00:15:09Hardly any traffic once we got east of Tucson.
00:15:11Okay.
00:15:13Hey, buddy.
00:15:15Easy.
00:15:21That's it. That's it.
00:15:23That's good.
00:15:28Second stone, all right.
00:15:30I've been working on it all morning. I helped.
00:15:32Yes, you did. Sure you did, Billy.
00:15:34Hey, how you doing?
00:15:42Like I always told you, Will...
00:15:45There's a whole lot more to that girl than you've been willing to see.
00:15:50I've got a feeling things are gonna get real interesting around here.
00:15:59Hey, Grandpa.
00:16:01Maybe Mama will let you ride Lucky.
00:16:04We'll see, Billy.
00:16:22Tiger.
00:16:24Seems like every time prices are down, we're between a rock and a hard place.
00:16:27We've been beat up in the last three auctions.
00:16:30Well, look at it like this, Will.
00:16:32We ain't the only ones taking a beating.
00:16:34Half the brands in the hill country are milling around out here.
00:16:36Yeah, that's true. Come on, boy. Here you go.
00:16:40Half those people are selling off land as fast as they're selling off cattle.
00:16:44Sell 1,000 acres and save 1,000.
00:16:47Here you go.
00:16:49Now, that ought to cover our feed bill for the last month.
00:16:55Time's always changing, Will.
00:16:57Yeah, not on Dry Creek, by golly.
00:16:59You said anything to Jake?
00:17:01Said anything to Jake about what?
00:17:04Oh, Jake.
00:17:06You know, ranching stuff, heifer stuff, bull stuff.
00:17:09We ain't got no money stuff.
00:17:11What are you talking about?
00:17:14Amos?
00:17:16Just how bad is it?
00:17:20What, nobody's gonna answer my question?
00:17:22Grandpa Charlie was a heck of a cowboy.
00:17:25Just wasn't much of a businessman.
00:17:27And you are.
00:17:28We're starting to work it out.
00:17:30You know, it's a little late to start working this out, don't you think?
00:17:34Things didn't go to heck when Grandpa died.
00:17:36They went to heck when you were out on the rodeo circuit six months out of every year.
00:17:39Did it ever occur to you that the rodeo winnings is what kept the Dry Creek afloat through the drought years?
00:17:44You don't think I was out there riding bulls and broncs for belt buckles, do you?
00:17:48I know what you're thinking.
00:17:50The prodigal son returns home, try to take over.
00:17:53Somebody sure as heck has to.
00:17:55You know something? I wish to gosh you were the prodigal son returning.
00:17:59I'd knock you on the ground right now.
00:18:02I wish to gosh I was the prodigal son, too,
00:18:04because I would have knocked you on the ground eight years ago when you unplugged my mama.
00:18:12Let's go, Billy.
00:18:21There you go.
00:18:30How did I get so lucky as to find you?
00:18:34I guess you found me, huh, boy?
00:18:36That's the way it should be.
00:18:39Show your mama.
00:18:40Okay.
00:18:44There you go, spoiling him.
00:18:46He's worth spoiling.
00:18:48Lookie, Mama.
00:18:49That's great, Billy.
00:18:54That is one fine-looking piece of horse flesh.
00:18:57What are you going to do with it?
00:18:59Oh, it's what I've already done with him, Amos.
00:19:01He's fast. He's a winner.
00:19:03Is that so?
00:19:05Believe it or not, we were building up quite a reputation out on the West Coast.
00:19:09Lucky running, me training.
00:19:12My plan was to use my winnings to set up a training facility with a rehab center for injured horses.
00:19:17I was this close.
00:19:18So why'd you walk away from that and come back to the hill country?
00:19:22I truly wish I could tell you, Amos, but I don't know myself.
00:19:26Oh, sure you do.
00:19:30Billy, you all right?
00:19:36Where did you get this buckle?
00:19:48Come on.
00:20:11Here, Mama.
00:20:13I never want you to come in here again, you understand?
00:20:16This isn't our stuff.
00:20:22Come here.
00:20:23Hey.
00:20:25I'm not mad at you.
00:20:28Okay? I just want you to understand that this stuff doesn't belong to us.
00:20:32It's his.
00:20:33It belongs to Grandpa?
00:20:35Yeah.
00:20:38These things are very important to him.
00:20:40They're his.
00:20:43Sorry, Mama.
00:20:45I thought they were yours, too.
00:20:57Come on. Let's go.
00:21:13It's Wildfire Whiskey by a half-feet as they come into the stretch.
00:21:17Cover that ground.
00:21:19Come on, Lucky. Come on, Lucky.
00:21:21Yeah, I think so.
00:21:23That's our horse.
00:21:25Go, Lucky.
00:21:26Wait a minute, folks.
00:21:27Looking back, Lucky is making his move from the outside.
00:21:30Look at that horse come to the ground.
00:21:31That's a good horse, Jake.
00:21:32And it's Wildfire Whiskey looking back.
00:21:33Oh, again.
00:21:34Neck and neck, stride for stride.
00:21:35Come on, Lucky.
00:21:36And it's looking back.
00:21:38Lucky by a head.
00:21:41What a race!
00:21:43The black horse has been out of the gate five times, folks.
00:21:45Three wins any place twice.
00:21:47Looking back, Lucky has owned and trained...
00:21:49Like I said, that's good horse flesh, honey.
00:21:51You've done good.
00:21:53I'll tell you, all the people I've ever worked with,
00:21:55I've never met anybody who could train a horse like she does.
00:21:58She's got some real talent.
00:22:00What do you think of your girl's horse, Mr. Cooper?
00:22:02I think that horse must come from some pretty good bloodlines.
00:22:06Like the daughter, sir.
00:22:09You staying around these parts, Morgan?
00:22:11Yeah, yeah.
00:22:12I think I might check out this hill country of yours.
00:22:15Yeah, the chamber of commerce ought to hire your daughter, sir.
00:22:18She's not talking horses.
00:22:19She's talking Texas.
00:22:20Texas, huh?
00:22:25Um...
00:22:27I think I'm going to have to get going.
00:22:29It's getting kind of late.
00:22:31Thanks again, Morgan, for bringing Lucky...
00:22:33And for bringing the video of his last race.
00:22:35I know you didn't get a chance to see him before you left.
00:22:37I thought your dad would get a kick out of it.
00:22:40There you go.
00:22:41Okay.
00:22:42Good night.
00:22:43It's a real pleasure.
00:22:44It's good to meet you, son.
00:22:45You come back again, all right?
00:22:47Come back all the time.
00:22:48There's always a sideshow going on around here.
00:22:50I appreciate that.
00:22:52Pleasure, Mr. Cooper.
00:22:53Yeah.
00:22:54See you, Billy.
00:22:56Well, don't just stand there, girl.
00:22:58Walk the man out to his truck.
00:23:00Ain't you a liberated woman?
00:23:03Ha-ha!
00:23:10I've forgotten how beautiful this place can be.
00:23:20You, uh...
00:23:21You better get going.
00:23:23You're gonna go?
00:23:26Yeah.
00:23:28Morgan...
00:23:33We've, uh, been friends for a long time.
00:23:38Let's not mess it up.
00:23:40Before I met you...
00:23:42I thought I was a pretty good trainer.
00:23:45But...
00:23:47You taught me that the first thing you teach a horse is to trust you.
00:23:52Now...
00:23:53Now, does that work for people, too?
00:23:55Now, does that work for people, too?
00:24:08If I don't get to see you...
00:24:10Take it easy.
00:24:14I thought you were...
00:24:16Sticking around.
00:24:18This country's pretty big, isn't it?
00:24:26What?
00:24:28Did I say anything?
00:24:32I know what you're thinking.
00:24:34No, Morgan's not Billy's dad.
00:24:36No, he's not my boyfriend.
00:24:38No, he's not gonna be my boyfriend, either.
00:24:40You know what I was thinking, Jake?
00:24:42I was thinking that, standing out here...
00:24:44In this moonlight...
00:24:46You look just like your mama.
00:24:48You look just like your mama.
00:24:50You look just like your mama.
00:24:52You look just like your mama.
00:24:55I do?
00:24:58She always had this certain look in her eye, like...
00:25:01She knew some secret that me and Will were never gonna figure out.
00:25:06Oh, me and Will used to shovel it at her.
00:25:09She loved every minute of it, too.
00:25:11She could dish it back just as good as we could shovel it at her.
00:25:15That's not how I remember it, Amos.
00:25:18Well, it ain't the kind of thing that a little kid can understand.
00:25:24You know...
00:25:26You never have really understood just how much they loved each other.
00:25:31It's funny how...
00:25:34Some people can find so much love...
00:25:37Other people just can't get it right.
00:25:43That's Billy's dad.
00:25:48Gosh, I just gave up on it.
00:25:52I don't have the time or energy for that stuff.
00:26:02Mom loved her roses, didn't she?
00:26:06When your ma and pop first got married...
00:26:09She planted about a dozen fancy rose bushes.
00:26:14They burned in the summer, froze in the winter.
00:26:16The deer ate them, the bugs ate them.
00:26:18No matter how hard she tried, they always come up looking like a bunch of sticks.
00:26:22There are roses out here everywhere, Amos.
00:26:25Well, you see...
00:26:27Your daddy thought them rose bushes was a pain in the back.
00:26:30So his idea was just to smother them out.
00:26:32So when we dug that north stock pond...
00:26:35He took a whole truckload of dirt and brought it down here...
00:26:38And dumped it right on top of them sticks.
00:26:40Of course, that just happened to be some of the best fertilized dirt in the hill country.
00:26:45So nature took its course, and next thing you know...
00:26:48Sarah's roses was popping up out of the cow patties.
00:26:53Your daddy was mad as a hornet, too.
00:26:56But she thought he hung the moon.
00:27:00She didn't know he was trying to kill him?
00:27:03John William may be ornery...
00:27:05But he ain't stupid.
00:27:07He planted two more long roses for her.
00:27:13That just happened to be the same year you were born.
00:27:18You know...
00:27:20If you could turn loose of that anger...
00:27:23That pain...
00:27:26You might find time and energy for that love.
00:27:31I'm telling you...
00:27:33If you don't, you're gonna need to get a clock and some vitamins.
00:27:36If you don't get that stuff right...
00:27:39Ain't nothing else ever gonna matter.
00:27:42What's going on?
00:28:06Nothing wrong with this road.
00:28:08Maybe not for you, but I'm not gonna risk exercising like you with these rats in the road.
00:28:13What's with the silver?
00:28:15Wow, look at that saddle.
00:28:18Just one belly that's hit.
00:28:20Can I ride with you, Grandpa? Can I, Mama?
00:28:23I thought you were gonna help me upgrade the road.
00:28:25Sure you can, son.
00:28:27All right, and be careful. Take good care of him.
00:28:30I will.
00:28:32Okay, let's get him through.
00:28:34Hold on to that horn.
00:28:36Okay.
00:28:38Let's go, Grandpa. Bye, Ma.
00:29:03Whoa!
00:29:05Huh?
00:29:10Hey, Will, that girl sure knew what she was doing when she bought that big black horse.
00:29:14Look at the time.
00:29:22Well, Mr. Cooper.
00:29:25I've been trying to track you down all day.
00:29:28Well, we've been right here for five generations.
00:29:31Shouldn't have been that hard.
00:29:34I heard your daughter was home. That should speed things up.
00:29:37Bob Sanchez? Sanchez Realty, out of San Antonio, in Austin.
00:29:43My condolences on your loss, Mr. Cooper.
00:29:46But now that Mr. Bankson's passed on, a merit deal is prepared to make more or less one last offer.
00:29:51And what would that be exactly? More or less? Which is it?
00:29:55Mr. Cooper, we're giving you a very fair offer.
00:29:58More than fair when you consider the current circumstances in the ranching business and market conditions.
00:30:02Mr. Sanchez, are you trying to buy acreage from the Dry Creek?
00:30:06No, Ms. Cooper. We're trying to buy all of Dry Creek.
00:30:09Land, improvements, implements, livestock.
00:30:12A merit deal wants the whole operation, lock, stock and barrel.
00:30:15Well, for the last time, Mr. Sanchez, that Dry Creek is not for sale, and it's not going to be for sale.
00:30:21It's not going to be divided up into them ten-acre ranchettes.
00:30:25And it's not going to be a tax write-off for some big corporation.
00:30:30The truth, Ms. Cooper, you can sell or lose it.
00:30:34The sale to a merit deal has a lot to offer.
00:30:37And it assures the rest of your years will be a lot more comfortable.
00:30:45You see that hill right there, Mr. Sanchez? That's known as Liberty Hill.
00:30:50The town's named after it.
00:30:52A bunch of folks buried up there just happened to be my kin.
00:30:56They made it through a lot of different wars.
00:30:59Diseases that no one even thinks about anymore.
00:31:01Drought, pestilence, the Great Depression.
00:31:04They were stewards of the land. They passed it on, the care of it, the love of it.
00:31:09And that's what we're going to do.
00:31:11The girl and me, we're going to pass it on.
00:31:14That's the way it works back home.
00:31:16Mr. Cooper, well, this is the new millennium.
00:31:21You've got to stop looking back over your shoulder and look ahead.
00:31:24And you're going to be hit with an inheritance tax that's probably 35% of what this whole place is worth.
00:31:32Between you and me, Mr. Sanchez, I'd like nothing more than to give it up.
00:31:37Spend the last of my days in a lap of luxury.
00:31:40But between you and me, it'd be downright embarrassing to be the only one who didn't.
00:31:43I have a little stress.
00:31:45And I'm not planning on being the one who, after five generations, dropped the ball.
00:31:50No, sir.
00:31:53Be the last of your kind, Will Cooper.
00:31:57My hat's off to you for going down fighting.
00:32:00But go down, you will.
00:32:10You better talk some sense into your father.
00:32:12Not to lose this place to the bank and the tax man and get nothing in return.
00:32:17Take care now.
00:32:21Tell him the truth, isn't he?
00:32:23We're a little behind on the note.
00:32:25Ira Collins is down at the bank.
00:32:27He's been rolling the Dry Creek's balloon note over for 10, maybe 12 years.
00:32:31One more rollover is not going to make or break him or us.
00:32:34We'll pay the interest a little on the principal, and the tax man, well, he'll have to less pay that off, too.
00:32:40Why am I just now hearing about this?
00:32:42Jake, I just wanted to spare you.
00:32:44Spare me?
00:32:45Yeah.
00:32:46Don't do me any favors, all right?
00:32:47I am my mother's daughter, after all.
00:33:18I love you.
00:33:36All right, they're making it work out in California, and it'll work here, too.
00:33:40You just need to listen to me with an open mind.
00:33:44You drive a pickup truck.
00:33:46You think of your horses as tools, but there is a whole world of people out there who buy those 10-acre ranchettes,
00:33:51drive Lincoln Navigators on semi-annual leases, and think of their pleasure horses as big investments.
00:33:56Those people take care of their investments.
00:33:59That is where we come in.
00:34:01The Dry Creek Training Stable and Equine Rehabilitation Center.
00:34:07Specifications, pro forma.
00:34:09Oh, I see. You've been talking to Amos.
00:34:12Gonna go into hock up to your eyeballs to get out of hock up to your butt.
00:34:16Right now, the future of this place is held together the same way as it was in the past,
00:34:20with rusted barbed wire and rotted rubber bands.
00:34:23There's room here for a horse operation.
00:34:25This has been a cattle operation ever since it started.
00:34:28That's the way it's gonna wind up.
00:34:30I'm gonna talk to Ira Collins at the bank tomorrow, and we'll do what we've always done.
00:34:33It's just that simple.
00:34:35You know, that might work for you, but sure as heck doesn't work for me.
00:34:39Now, we can do this the easy way or the hard way.
00:34:42There's one thing for sure. This time, we're not gonna be doing it just your way.
00:34:46And for the record, I haven't eaten beef in six years.
00:34:50I'm a vegetarian.
00:34:52I don't believe in killing animals. I'm into healing them.
00:35:09I'm talking to a nationwide network of trainers and managers,
00:35:34all in desperate need of rehabilitation for their horses.
00:35:37That's where the training and rehab facility comes in.
00:35:39Up and running in 90 days, near immediate cash flow.
00:35:43Ira, you and I both know the cattle market's got no place to go but up.
00:35:47We did all right when we had Angus Herbert cross.
00:35:50We just need a little more time to get the mix right,
00:35:53and we'll pay off this note once and for all.
00:35:55But for now...
00:35:56Look, it sounds like a good plan, Will, but this is now.
00:36:00And right now, I can't give you the time,
00:36:02not even if you reduce the principal by 50%.
00:36:05This is an up-and-coming trend.
00:36:07We tie in with a big restaurant chain, maybe two.
00:36:09We feed and sell exclusively at a predetermined price per pound.
00:36:14There's no risk in it.
00:36:15If you would just look at the proposal, Mr. Collins, it's all there.
00:36:18An integrated and complementary concept for the horse operation.
00:36:21I'm telling you, service the horse lover. That is where the money is.
00:36:26I must say, I'm impressed. Very.
00:36:29I've never seen a better pro forma cash flow analysis on a horse ranching operation.
00:36:34It's all beautifully laid out.
00:36:36It's all here in black and white.
00:36:38The trouble is, uh,
00:36:40I can't get approval for any additional loan commitments
00:36:43until and unless you make a substantial reduction in the current note.
00:36:48You're already holding our land and improvements as collateral
00:36:51worth far more than what we're asking.
00:36:53Miss Cooper, Jake,
00:36:54we're here to talk about the dry creep's current obligations.
00:36:58This will work, Mr. Collins. It's cutting edge.
00:37:01Look, all right, girls set her piece.
00:37:04Now, you and I have to talk some turkey.
00:37:07I simply came here to roll a note.
00:37:09Now, let's get to it.
00:37:12Like I said, Jake, it's all very well thought out.
00:37:15No argument.
00:37:16And if you'd had this plan a year ago, before...
00:37:20I-I can't do it, Will.
00:37:24Not this time.
00:37:27If I did it for you, I'd have to be doing it for them,
00:37:30and we'd all go to heck.
00:37:32You, me, and them.
00:37:34Well, that'd be a darn shame, wouldn't it?
00:37:36I would have to help them.
00:37:38Rex over there didn't his daddy do the carpentry work on these trees?
00:37:42I don't know.
00:37:44I don't know.
00:37:46Rex over there didn't his daddy do the carpentry work on these teller cages?
00:37:50And Fausto, his daddy, split up the first oil well in Colorado County?
00:37:54Saved this very bank from going belly up back in 31.
00:37:57Charlie Banks in the dry creek.
00:37:59He stayed on the board of this bank, served on it,
00:38:02till the day he died.
00:38:03Them is what made Liberty Hill.
00:38:05And I might add, kept you in the job for over 25 years.
00:38:09It's not the same Liberty Hill, Will.
00:38:12Newcomers aren't farmers or ranchers.
00:38:15Times change, people change, banking changes to keep the pace.
00:38:19Will, ranching has changed.
00:38:28When I married Sarah,
00:38:30old Charlie Banks made me make three promises.
00:38:33To love that woman with all my heart,
00:38:36to always wear a clean shirt if I can,
00:38:40and to always pay my debts.
00:38:42And I'll keep that promise till the day I die.
00:38:48Now, we just gotta get through this.
00:38:51What do you want me to do, Ira? Just tell me.
00:38:53Just pay it off, Will.
00:38:56It's been due ten times over.
00:38:59We're not on the good old boy system anymore.
00:39:04Tell me something, Ira.
00:39:06Have we changed?
00:39:08You, me?
00:39:13That's right.
00:39:16With 50,000, buy me half a year.
00:39:23120 days.
00:39:27Come on, Ira.
00:39:29You know,
00:39:31I can maybe get you another 90,
00:39:35if I apply it to principle.
00:39:39Got any tape?
00:39:48Well, what did you good old boys come up with?
00:39:51We talked it over and worked it out like we always do.
00:39:54Put another Band-Aid on a gushing artery?
00:39:57Sounds like a good, solid business plan to me.
00:40:02You know, after all that work I did,
00:40:04he didn't really look at it. He just sort of dismissed it.
00:40:07You're a two-of-a-kind, you know that?
00:40:09As for you, you...
00:40:12Ira ought to be fired or retired.
00:40:15You just don't understand the system, young lady.
00:40:18Ira's a good sort.
00:40:20He's just stuck between a rock and a hard place like the rest of us.
00:40:23He's the biggest junkhead in five counties, if you ask me.
00:40:26I thought you thought I held that honor.
00:40:30I hadn't met Ira Collins.
00:40:32You want the post office or the feed store.
00:40:35No matter what the bank says, we've still got bills to pay.
00:40:38Feed store.
00:40:40Pick me up in front of the post office.
00:40:42I'll be the one with his pockets turned inside out.
00:40:46Not used to Dry Creek folk calling ahead with their order.
00:40:50Miss Cooper.
00:40:52Jake.
00:40:53Welcome to the cell phone generation, Dabney.
00:40:56We'll get somebody out to load you as fast as we can.
00:41:00Your order's all set up, Morgan.
00:41:03Anything else we can do for you?
00:41:05Yeah, Dabney, one more thing.
00:41:12Thanks.
00:41:18Here we go.
00:41:20Yeah, give me a second. I'm just making some room here.
00:41:22Hey, let me give you a hand.
00:41:24Morgan?
00:41:26Hello, Jake.
00:41:28What are you doing here?
00:41:30I got bills to pay.
00:41:33Get this truck loaded right up for you.
00:41:36Listen, if you had it in your head to stick around,
00:41:40I'm sure you'd get a job as a horse trainer somewhere.
00:41:42There's lots of horse ranches.
00:41:44I could put in a good word for you.
00:41:46Here you go, Morgan.
00:41:48We'll keep all the special oats and stock for you from now on.
00:41:51You don't really work here, do you?
00:41:54Yeah, I'll take care of the rest. Thanks.
00:42:03Peace.
00:42:12I'm coming, old man.
00:42:14Oh, you would not believe what I had to go through to get your dinner.
00:42:28I know. You miss Grandpa, too.
00:42:31Come on.
00:42:35Oh, uh...
00:42:37I just saw the clock, and I saw the light was on.
00:42:40I figured I'd better come down here and take a look.
00:42:44You know, uh...
00:42:46Jake...
00:42:48I've been wanting to have a talk with you.
00:42:50Yeah?
00:42:52You know, you need to cut yourself some slack.
00:42:55Nobody can do it all, girl.
00:42:58You just take a look around.
00:43:01There's some really good things happening here.
00:43:05I mean, your home.
00:43:08Billy's a fine little boy.
00:43:11And that big old black horse of yours is really something else.
00:43:14He's fast.
00:43:16You know, the day when you were working him out,
00:43:18I thought for a minute my watch was busted.
00:43:23Must have set you back a pretty penny, huh?
00:43:26I bought him with the money Mom left me.
00:43:29That's kind of putting all your eggs in one basket, huh?
00:43:33It's the only basket I had.
00:43:35Besides, he didn't cost that much.
00:43:37Didn't come from champion bloodlines.
00:43:40Nobody believed him but me.
00:43:43I figure Lucky is my ticket to the Promised Land.
00:43:50You know, Jake...
00:43:52It gets awful lonely in that Promised Land by yourself.
00:44:13It's hard to imagine all you've been seeing from a horse with no bloodlines.
00:44:17Can I help you two gentlemen?
00:44:20Here's the real reason why he's a winner.
00:44:22Jake Cooper, horse trainer extraordinaire.
00:44:24Jake would like you to meet Alex Kerwin,
00:44:26Rio Bajo Farms over in Travis County.
00:44:28Mr. Kerwin?
00:44:30Ever since Morgan and I partnered up,
00:44:32I've heard nothing but amazing things about you and your horse.
00:44:35I just had to see for myself.
00:44:37Partners? That was fast.
00:44:39Well, I've been needing someone like Morgan for a long time.
00:44:42I know first class when I see it.
00:44:44We train, breed, and sell.
00:44:46And of course, I'm always on the lookout for buying the right horse.
00:44:50Yeah, I'm familiar with Rio Bajo Farms.
00:44:53But I need to let you know, Mr. Kerwin, Lucky's not for sale.
00:44:56And he's already been in the winner's circle more than once.
00:44:59Well, what Morgan means is the really big winner's circle.
00:45:03Ah.
00:45:04Now maybe we can work something out, the three of us.
00:45:07With Morgan being trainer, running under my silks,
00:45:10splitting the profits, you do trust Morgan, I'm sure.
00:45:13Excuse me.
00:45:17You should have known better than to bring him here.
00:45:19Uh, Jake, we never even talked about Lucky being for sale
00:45:22until you took a look at him.
00:45:24I only brought him here because...
00:45:26Because he's got the money and you have the time and I have neither, right?
00:45:29Your little partnership looks like it could solve all my problems, is that it?
00:45:32Well, exactly, Miss Cooper. Exactly.
00:45:35Alex, we've seen what we've come here to see.
00:45:42Miss Cooper.
00:45:44You know, Morgan, I can fight my own battles.
00:45:49I didn't bring Alex here to make our offer on Lucky.
00:45:52You've seen the videos. He took one look at him, he knew he was a winner.
00:45:55That's his business.
00:45:57I brought him here because I wanted him to meet the amazing woman
00:46:00who took a no-blood line skittish cult and turned him into a winner.
00:46:05Oh, my God.
00:46:11I'm a fine saddle here. Item 24 on your list.
00:46:14It's a page in, uh, Yuletide.
00:46:16Lexington, Massachusetts.
00:46:17Flatland, 65.
00:46:18San Francisco, 48.
00:46:19Warren, out.
00:46:20Edsworth, 74.
00:46:21Cowboys, 50.
00:46:22Moseley, 50.
00:46:23Now, who's there?
00:46:24Tyler Harrell, 67.
00:46:25Hunter, now.
00:46:26We'll go 100 and a half, one time.
00:46:27We'll go 100 and a half, now.
00:46:28You want to go 2 and a half, now.
00:46:29You want to go 2 and a half, now.
00:46:30You want to go 2 and a half, now.
00:46:31You want to go 2 and a half, now.
00:46:32You want to go 2 and a half, now.
00:46:33You want to go 2 and a half, now.
00:46:34You want to go 2 and a half, now.
00:46:35You want to go 2 and a half, now.
00:46:36Times must be tougher than I thought.
00:46:38This ain't that much of a crowd.
00:46:51If you want to go play, Billy, you can.
00:46:53Just stay where I can see you, okay?
00:46:56Remember, Billy, stay where I can see you.
00:46:58Okay.
00:47:03Right, Chandra, it's the hottest item at this auction.
00:47:06I wonder how high that bidding's gonna go.
00:47:15Jack, what?
00:47:17It is you, isn't it? Stone, hi.
00:47:21Oh, my, my. You're the spitting image of your mom.
00:47:26Where you been keeping yourself?
00:47:29Oh, I've been around.
00:47:31Oh, wow.
00:47:33Sixty years of hard work to the highest bidder.
00:47:37Oh, well, pay my taxes for one more year.
00:47:41Good afternoon, Jake.
00:47:43Mrs. Stone, this is Morgan Murphy.
00:47:47I know Morgan here. He's been helping me all morning to get this organized.
00:47:53Oh, excuse me, dears.
00:47:57That's my kind of woman.
00:48:01Hannah Stone's my kind of woman.
00:48:05Trouble is, they make darn few of them like that anymore.
00:48:08Sure are making yourself at home here in Liberty Hill.
00:48:12Places begin to grow on me. Some nice people.
00:48:16Here we go, folks. The prize of the whole shebang, one of a kind.
00:48:22What we have here is a classic, folks.
00:48:24It's one of a kind. I bet this beauty's a hundred years old if it's a day.
00:48:28Hannah? Hannah Stone, am I right?
00:48:30Sam's granddaddy built it.
00:48:32You heard it, folks. Now, Sam's daddy built it.
00:48:34Granddaddy. Sam's granddaddy built it.
00:48:37I'm sorry. Sam's granddaddy built it.
00:48:39All right, Randy, let's get this show on the road.
00:48:41Now, you heard the lady, folks.
00:48:43This hundred-year-plus desk, solid pecan wood, is beyond price.
00:48:47But let's see if we can get close to something fair for it today.
00:48:50All right, who wants to start us out?
00:48:52All right, who wants to start us out?
00:48:53What do you want to give for it?
00:48:54Who'll go $300? Who'll go $300?
00:48:56$300. Who'll go $400?
00:48:57Do I hear $400 bid?
00:48:58$400. Now, who'll go $500?
00:48:59Who'll go $500?
00:49:00$500. Five anybody?
00:49:01Five anywhere?
00:49:02Oh, come on now, folks.
00:49:04Now, we're trying to help a lovely lady give the government its due.
00:49:08They need it more than we do.
00:49:11Now, who'll go $500 one time?
00:49:12Who'll go $500?
00:49:13Who'll go $500?
00:49:14Now, who'll go $600?
00:49:15That's the spirit. Who'll go $600 one time?
00:49:16Zachary just in the back.
00:49:17Now, we're cooking. Let's go $700.
00:49:19We don't want that tax man to win now, do we, folks?
00:49:21Who'll go $700 one time?
00:49:22$700. Now, who'll go $800?
00:49:23Do I hear $800?
00:49:24$800 anywhere?
00:49:25Oh, now, folks, you won't find another like this in all of Texas, or in all the world.
00:49:29Native pecan wood, and I need $800.
00:49:31Now, who'll go $800 one time?
00:49:32Who'll give me $800?
00:49:33Who'll give me $800 bid?
00:49:35Now, folks, you know that this here is a jewel.
00:49:37This one sets the pace.
00:49:39Now, do we come here today to raise money or just eat barbecue?
00:49:42I'm talking to you, Randy.
00:49:43You've still got sauce in your mustache.
00:49:44Now, let's go $800 one time.
00:49:45Who'll go $800?
00:49:46Who'll go...
00:49:47$800 in the back for $800.
00:49:48Now, who'll go...
00:49:49Do I hear $900 anybody?
00:49:50$900 anywhere?
00:49:51Do I hear $800 going once?
00:49:52$800 going twice?
00:49:53$1,000.
00:49:54$1,000.
00:49:55Now, is that you, Will Cooper?
00:49:57Yep.
00:49:58$1,000 now going once.
00:49:59$1,000 going twice.
00:50:00Come on, folks, let's get a little bit up higher in the saddle, shall we?
00:50:04Let's make it $1,200.
00:50:05$1,200.
00:50:06Anybody gonna top that?
00:50:07Anybody anywhere?
00:50:08She's sold right there to Will Cooper for $1,200.
00:50:11Thank you, Will.
00:50:13Now, that'll make a nice desk for sitting down and writing out checks
00:50:15and paying those bills every month, won't it?
00:50:17Now, folks, if you give us just a minute,
00:50:19we'll have line item 126 up here for you.
00:50:22$1,200?
00:50:24That's money we could use.
00:50:25We don't need a desk.
00:50:28Jake, if you don't know what just happened here,
00:50:30you got farther to go than I thought.
00:50:34You ladies need a beer?
00:50:36I should.
00:50:43Take care.
00:50:54Amos, we ought to sort out all this old equipment
00:50:56and sell off anything we're not using.
00:50:58We should have an option.
00:51:00Maybe find out if that trophy saddle of mine's worth anything.
00:51:03You know, Will, what you did for Hannah was mighty fine.
00:51:06But you need to remember, no good deed goes unpunished.
00:51:10We just have to...
00:51:17put one foot in front of another.
00:51:25Where'd this come from?
00:51:27Smiling Sam's used cars.
00:51:29Where's your little purple love machine?
00:51:32Smiling Sam's used cars.
00:51:34We have bills to pay.
00:51:36They're paid.
00:51:41GROWLING
00:51:51GROWLING
00:52:11What in the world are you doing?
00:52:13Acupuncture.
00:52:15My dad will cure him when he's old,
00:52:18but I'll give him some relief.
00:52:20At this point, that's all that can be done,
00:52:22besides hydrotherapy, and I can't pull that off here.
00:52:26Hmm.
00:52:31Oh, come on, Grandpa, read again.
00:52:34I don't have to read it. I've got it memorized by now.
00:52:37Please?
00:52:39Just not sleepy, are you?
00:52:42Let me see.
00:52:44I'm not sleepy.
00:52:46I'm not sleepy.
00:52:48I'm not sleepy.
00:52:50I'm not sleepy.
00:52:52I'm not sleepy.
00:52:54Let me see.
00:52:56I think... I think I got the trick.
00:53:10What are you doing, Grandpa?
00:53:12Looking for something, Billy.
00:53:14Grandpa, what are you looking for?
00:53:20Close your eyes.
00:53:22It's a surprise.
00:53:27Okay.
00:53:29A long, long time ago, he was your mama's.
00:53:32Now he's yours.
00:53:34His name's Buddy.
00:53:36Since you're gonna be up all night,
00:53:38maybe you and him could talk things over,
00:53:40get to know each other.
00:53:42Come on, hop in bed.
00:53:44The both of you.
00:53:46Get in there.
00:53:49Did you talk Mom in bed when she was little?
00:53:53Not often enough, Billy.
00:53:56Is that why she's a matcha now?
00:53:59No, sir. It's a bunch more complicated than that.
00:54:03There you go.
00:54:10I'm not matcha, Grandpa.
00:54:13I love you.
00:54:19Good night, son.
00:54:44I didn't know you were...
00:54:46Yeah, I'm just finishing up.
00:54:48I'm calling it quits after I balance my checkbook.
00:55:05Here you go, little buckaroo.
00:55:07You finish those, I'll give you some more, okay?
00:55:09Your great-grandpa used to say,
00:55:11waste not, want not.
00:55:13It's all the syrup we got.
00:55:15Take a mother, folks.
00:55:16That's a novel concept coming from you.
00:55:18Just what's that supposed to mean?
00:55:20The check.
00:55:22Oh, yeah, I've been meaning to talk to you about that.
00:55:24If that check was for the buy-sell agreement
00:55:26I was buying you out, remember?
00:55:28You cashed the check.
00:55:30I don't ever remember us coming to an agreement.
00:55:32You got any coffee?
00:55:36Billy, why don't you take one of Amos' biscuits
00:55:39and Buddy Bear and get outside and wait on the porch?
00:55:46Like Grandpa Charlie said,
00:55:48it's a partnership.
00:55:50You put in $50,000,
00:55:52I put in a lifetime of blood and sweat.
00:55:54I'd say that makes us partners.
00:55:56That money bought family 90 days at the bank.
00:56:02Family discuss matters.
00:56:04They talk about their thoughts and their ideas,
00:56:07their problems.
00:56:09I bought us 90 days, Jake.
00:56:11You bought us 90 days with my money.
00:56:14That's a decision we probably should have made together.
00:56:17You know, you have not changed at all in eight years.
00:56:21If you would just for once stop and listen...
00:56:24Grandpa, there's a man sitting on the porch!
00:56:27At this time of the morning?
00:56:29Who is it, Billy?
00:56:30Just sitting there.
00:56:32He's home with my grandpa.
00:56:34Excuse me.
00:56:36Billy, honey, come finish your breakfast.
00:56:44Ira?
00:56:46Morning, Will.
00:56:48I couldn't bring myself to knock at being so early.
00:56:52You look like you just run over your favorite cow dog, Ira.
00:56:55What's happened?
00:56:58I should have called you last night,
00:57:01but I couldn't make myself do it.
00:57:05What's wrong?
00:57:08They let me go, Will.
00:57:1125 years, and they let me go.
00:57:15They can just do that.
00:57:17Yeah, I get the pension and all,
00:57:20but it wasn't my choosing.
00:57:24And neither was the other, Will.
00:57:28I told them it was a promise.
00:57:31I told them we had a deal.
00:57:34Northern Lights Bank Shares is...
00:57:37calling the note on the Dry Creek.
00:57:42I'm sorry, Will.
00:57:48You want some breakfast, Ira?
00:57:52You've come a long way to get out here.
00:58:08I know just what you mean. My grandson is back.
00:58:13Irene, can you tell me who took over Ira Collins' job?
00:58:16Well, that'd be Mr. Wainwright, Jack Wainwright from...
00:58:19Seattle, Washington.
00:58:21Where can I find him?
00:58:23Well, he's in the loan committee meeting with all the other...
00:58:25Mr., you can't go in! Mr. Cooper!
00:58:27What we have to focus on this quarter is moving our non-producing loans
00:58:30out of the portfolios.
00:58:33I had a feeling I'd find you here, Sanchez.
00:58:36We'll talk later, but right now I'm looking for Jack Wainwright.
00:58:39And you would be...?
00:58:41Will Cooper, Dry Creek Ranch.
00:58:43Ah, Mr. Cooper. Well, if you'll just wait out in the lobby.
00:58:46I signed over a check for $50,000 in return.
00:58:49I was promised 90 days' grace to sell off stock and pay a note.
00:58:53Now, what happened to my $50,000?
00:58:56Dry Creek Ranch, yes.
00:58:58Duly applied to the balance of the loan.
00:59:00Dry Creek Ranch, yes.
00:59:02Duly applied to the balance of the loan.
00:59:04A past-due loan and...
00:59:07insufficient to cover that loan.
00:59:10We've decided as a committee to call the note.
00:59:12Well, what happened to my 90 days?
00:59:15What happened to five generations of honest work and trust?
00:59:18Trust on both sides.
00:59:20Mr. Collins had no authority to accept those conditions.
00:59:23Mr. Collins did not and does not represent Northern Light's bank shares.
00:59:27Your note has been called, and yours isn't the only one.
00:59:30Who made that call, you?
00:59:32Or was it Sanchez over there?
00:59:34Or some outfit called Americrook?
00:59:36No, Mr. Cooper, the decision came from Seattle.
00:59:39Now, if you'll just...
00:59:41Dry Creek is gonna be cut up and sold off for 10 times, 20 times what's owed.
00:59:46Mr. Wainwright, that gives bank robbery a whole new meaning.
00:59:52Disposal of the property will be Seattle's decision.
00:59:55And here's my decision.
00:59:59You sent Matt on to Seattle.
01:00:01You're in Texas now, mister.
01:00:03I'm really sorry, ma'am.
01:00:06We'll talk later, Sanchez.
01:00:26Seattle, pull the plug.
01:00:28We either pay the note or they'll call the collateral.
01:00:31Which means?
01:00:32Means, uh...
01:00:34We're just about done here.
01:00:36Got our work cut out for us?
01:00:38Yes, sir.
01:00:39Where do we start?
01:00:42First one.
01:00:43First one.
01:00:44First one.
01:00:45First one.
01:00:46First one.
01:00:47First one.
01:00:48First one.
01:00:49First one.
01:00:50First one.
01:00:51First one.
01:00:52First one.
01:00:53First one.
01:00:54First we cull the breeding stock.
01:00:58And then we find a buyer for the rest and get the best price we can.
01:01:02Then we flesh out and round up every head of stock on the place.
01:01:06And pray.
01:01:09Amos, your horse needs a ride.
01:01:11I believe he does.
01:01:24Thank you.
01:01:54Thank you.
01:02:25Thank you.
01:02:39Stop right there!
01:02:43What's going on in there?
01:02:51Get up there!
01:02:54Get up there!
01:03:11That a girl, Jake. You ain't lost your touch.
01:03:25Get up there!
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01:04:13How'd it go, boss?
01:04:14Not good enough.
01:04:15Better get back out there.
01:04:23Come on!
01:04:24Come on!
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01:05:06Yeah.
01:05:07That's close enough.
01:05:08Well, not by a long shot.
01:05:10Our tallies match close enough, Fulin, but I'm
01:05:12gonna be a lot shorter on a head count
01:05:14that I made not more than two weeks ago.
01:05:22I can't say I'm a bit surprised disappointed but not surprised Charlie used to say nothing
01:05:49done in a hurry is ever done right we're way short here Jake give me some more
01:05:55time I might be able to have to throw in the breeders to even come close Amos
01:05:59what jingle bells John Williams what are we gonna have left in a heck of a
01:06:02collection of cow patties we're not gonna have anything left to build on
01:06:06what good is land without stock a good stock without lamb what did Charlie's
01:06:11daddy have when he started rumor was about two dozen head of Russell heifers
01:06:16and a bully barn from somebody whose name he couldn't recollect we've got your
01:06:20checks in as we weigh that last year loads tomorrow we load up the breeding
01:06:24stock and the bull pasture are you sure that's almost like the end of the trail
01:06:30you heard him load him up make a new trail
01:06:37Oh
01:06:54this was Sarah's favorite spot glad she didn't see this
01:07:08what are we celebrating I don't know the end of everything well let's have us a
01:07:16drink to pessimism maybe the beginning they take the ranch I'm gonna have to
01:07:21make any more payments on the note I pay my debts well here's to darn fools and
01:07:26pessimists
01:07:28Oh
01:07:35Billy get in the cab of the truck I get him looks like it's moving pretty fast
01:07:41make it down the barn
01:07:48that was too close
01:07:53the barn
01:07:59Amos call County Fire hang on Billy
01:08:11there we got a lightning strike John Creek Rancho County Road we got our barn
01:08:15on fire
01:08:28Oh
01:08:35stay put Billy
01:08:48I like you stay in the truck don't move okay I know baby I'm gonna get him I
01:08:55stay here
01:09:26Oh
01:09:28Oh
01:09:51all right all right lock him in if you have to
01:09:58Oh
01:10:28Oh
01:10:49come on
01:10:58Oh
01:11:28Oh
01:11:42well look at that one that's an intone July 72 well that's a darn fool move John
01:11:54William you could have polished it up fourth of July rodeo right yes ma'am
01:12:01here I was born how's that supposed to know you born a week early
01:12:06what about all my other birthdays you know fourth of July it's a big rodeo
01:12:12purse we sent you a present didn't I I didn't want your presents right
01:12:17wanted you to be around like a father it's one thing I always said when I had
01:12:21Billy at least I'd be around for him you know why that buckle meant so much
01:12:25to me it's the hardest ride I ever took I spent all my time thinking about your
01:12:29mama having my baby you all right the both of you just shut the heck up I
01:12:34swear heads as hard as green pecans you know I spent most of my life right here
01:12:39working Dry Creek and I'm doing what I love and I feel like a mighty lucky man
01:12:43but ranching ain't no easy business it ain't for the faint of heart you work
01:12:48the good times as well as the bad you're big help if you don't need much
01:12:51sleep you must don't get your blood to boil you know John William living with
01:12:55you ain't always been no better roses I understand it hard times and burying
01:13:00people you love can make a man tough but this girl's aching inside and she's been
01:13:05given all she's got to help us and what do you do you keep cutting her off at
01:13:08the knees and that's for you Jake you ought to understand by now that your
01:13:13daddy's done more with less than any other man around these parts rodeos and
01:13:16all don't you know he dies a little bit every time you yeah both of you you're
01:13:22two of a kind don't you hardheads get it what happens to all this don't matter
01:13:26what happens to this is what matters family that's all there really is
01:13:34Oh
01:13:44over here fella
01:13:58he's out of ICU he's in room 104 now you can stick your head in the door but
01:14:03only stay a minute
01:14:25you hard-headed old peckerwood you almost let yourself in I don't guess so
01:14:31riled up leave names wake up I ain't got anybody to talk to you I hate this
01:14:48place I can't remember worst day besides they lost Sarah
01:14:59girl says some pretty awful things to me that day
01:15:03said she hate me hate me till the day I die
01:15:08how did it all come to that
01:15:11how the heck did it all come to that
01:15:17Grandpa Charlie he went numb that day too
01:15:23he didn't want to say goodbye to this baby girl
01:15:29I had to do it I had to take off this dirty machine
01:15:38Sarah's never gonna come back not being Sarah yet
01:15:45not in this world
01:15:51I couldn't just let her lay there
01:15:58one any way I could talk to you I didn't want her carrying a load of that
01:16:02decision you know I never thought I wind up losing the both of them that day my
01:16:14wife and my daughter please wake up famous the good Lord didn't bring us as
01:16:20far as to drop us or be hands
01:16:59Oh
01:17:04they think it was a stroke maybe mild and he's still partially sedated
01:17:14go figure laid-back Amos having a stroke maybe he'll shake it off a lot of people
01:17:23do yeah
01:17:27we won't know anything for 24 hours or so how about you you okay
01:17:34okay
01:17:39I don't have any more answers
01:17:48there you do
01:17:53you
01:18:10Irene morning Will Cooper I heard about the fire and I hope Amos is gonna be
01:18:17all right I'm looking for that fellow Wainwright he's out at the office at a
01:18:21meeting will all right where do I find Sanchez well mr. Sanchez does an office
01:18:26here at the bank will is there anybody here that actually runs the place well
01:18:34is there I believe that's you will what's me your cell phone it's ringing
01:18:40I don't know
01:18:45longs to Amos answer for me will you hey hello it's the hospital will for you
01:18:57will Cooper
01:19:02thank goodness you're here mr. Cooper how serious is it very how long has this
01:19:09been going on most of the morning it's getting worse
01:19:12William Cooper it's about time you got here now you tell this jailer here to
01:19:16give me back my pants cuz we're going home absolutely out of the question
01:19:20bed rest and monitoring is what was ordered your test will be back pasta
01:19:24la vista baby you heard the lady Amos turn around get back into bed before
01:19:28this goes from serious to worse worse you mean as in dying oh no no no if you
01:19:34got a feeling somebody needs to do that you do the honors cuz I'm figuring on
01:19:37sticking around for another 20 years or so just to make people like you and her
01:19:41miserable now give me my pants you know what could kill a felon laying around in
01:19:45that bed back there hard as rocks got the ceiling tiles I will I'm going home
01:19:50you get me my britches or I'm going like this wouldn't do to have his back
01:19:54waving in the breeze get the man his pants I'm getting the doctor yeah you do
01:19:59that maybe he knows who stole my britches
01:20:03you know when I was up there in that coma I had the strangest dream I dreamt
01:20:08she was rubbing my feet I'm worried about you how many fingers you see I
01:20:12ain't counting fingers what happened to Jake I don't know one minute she's
01:20:18standing a hospital room door next minute she's gone it's like before
01:20:22we're down the parking lot in the old truck just wasn't there well it ain't
01:20:26like she just took off will
01:20:34I wanted to die in the state in the hospital will wear blazers full think
01:20:41he's going in such a hurry looks like you don't get a chance to ask him he's
01:20:45turning in a dry Creek
01:21:03you
01:21:22what the heck is going on here Jake can't sell this place out for money no I
01:21:29couldn't and I wouldn't somebody tell me what's going on here
01:21:34Amos who let you out of the hospital I let myself out Jake what do you fellas
01:21:38want to answer his question bygones be bygones mr. Cooper
01:21:41congratulations congratulations for what it's gonna be a big boost for Liberty
01:21:46Hill the county in the whole hill country Northern Lights Bank sure is
01:21:49glad to be a part of it what you're looking at mr. Cooper is phase one of
01:21:53the dry Creek training stables and equine rehab center and I am proud to be
01:21:57a part of it Jake you want to tell your daddy what these guys are talking about
01:22:00it's my dream it's coming true
01:22:07okay lucky here's how this is gonna work you gotta go run your race
01:22:15we can do this buddy together we can all do this
01:22:21you want me to take them I'd be happy if you do the honors
01:22:28come on boy
01:22:32Jake
01:22:36we're gonna rebuild the barn I had some new stables right over there that's
01:22:40where the new hydrotherapy pool is gonna go Morgan called mr. Kerwin he's agreed
01:22:45to be our financial partner put up the seed money for the next two years
01:22:50lucky runs under his silks wants his winnings and he will win cover our nut
01:22:54he comes back and races for the dry Creek when his racing days are over he
01:22:59comes home and his bloodlines start here where it belongs so has been a cattle
01:23:05ranch you better get your premium beef scheme up and running hot Eddie South
01:23:12pasture still has 50 head left we're keeping half the breeding stock and
01:23:16bulls
01:23:22okay I'll use your horse for us the afternoon
01:23:25Zachariah's yours too come on big fella
01:23:30Morgan look after belly wait Jake and I got some work to do Jake let's go for a
01:23:37ride
01:23:43take a look at the gates check that old water tank do account of all those bulls
01:23:51you're talking about then you can explain to your daddy how this is all
01:23:55gonna work out
01:23:57like old Charlie Bankston always said cowboying is hard work from before
01:24:17daylight to way past dark not enough