Running Wild
1
Hey, let's go to Aspen.
- To ski?
- - No, to shop.
Oh, god, can it just
be the two of us?
Oh, please,
I am so tired of Melanie.
That dress...
It's like a hot dog
with a belt on it.
You are so mean.
Mrs. Stella?
Miss Stella?
I'm afraid I have some bad news.
There's been an accident.
You did great today.
You call me if
you need anything.
Mrs. Stella?
What do you want us
to do with all the food?
- How much is left?
- Half.
I thought more
people would come.
Um, take it for yourself,
give it to the staff.
Not the alcohol!
Um, throw the rest away.
Maybe I could give it
to the church instead?
Give it to the church,
that sounds good,
I don't know what
I was thinking.
You're mourning.
Hey!
Mrs. Stella!
- Mrs. Stella!
- Leave me alone!
Mr. Ciocca is here,
from the bank.
Give me a minute.
What does he want?
I'm just the maid.
Stella, again, my deepest
condolences to you.
Thank you, Doug.
Was good of you
to come yesterday.
Oh, of course.
So, did you forget something?
No, no, um...
This is really hard to say.
Uh, and forgive me for
the timing of this,
but, in about 90 days, you're
gonna lose everything here.
What?
You all have been in
trouble for a very long time
and JT did not have
the heart to tell you.
a downturn in '08,
JT refused to sellout,
so he leveraged the ranch
for you guys to survive.
This is my ranch, my family's
ranch, I didn't sign anything.
Come on, Stella,
you knew the deal,
takes care of you.
That's what your father
wanted and that's why
he signed the
estate over to him.
Plain and simple, you owe the
bank just north of, $6 million.
$6 million!
the ranch to keep it afloat.
But in 90 days, the probate process
and the bank's gonna want
Six million...
What about monarch, what about
monarch and his stud fees?
Breeders are a very informed bunch,
they know what's going on here,
they're just gonna wait
until there's a fire sale
and try and get him for cheap.
Whistler painted a portrait
of my great-grandmother,
she built this place.
- I'm not an art dealer.
- No, but it's worth $2 million.
If I showed you the appraisal with a
promise to sell, would that help?
$2 million would definitely feed the
wolves, yes, for sure, it would.
What?
No, no!
Oh, my god!
Oh, my god!
No, no!
What did you do?!
What did you do?
What did you do?!
This is 10 karats, how much time
does that buy me?
Not enough, honey.
I'm sorry.
Can I help you with
anything, miss Stella?
No, I'm okay.
My grandma used to make me
That was my job
around the ranch.
Do you mind?
No, ma'am.
Now, we're competing on
Tuesdays and Thursdays.
All right, you know what,
Susan needs some extra
time on the court.
I'll pay for it,
just make it happen.
Okay.
Thank you.
Oh, Stella, this is
Patrick, my new coach.
- Nice to meet you.
- You, too.
Oh, honey, I am
so glad you called.
Did you get the
casserole I sent over?
I did, yeah, thank you.
I haven't really been able
to, you know, eat much.
Well, that's
probably for the best.
You know, good idea
to stay thin now
more than ever, right?
Tea?
This was really difficult
for me to come here today.
Aw, my door is always open.
Um...
JT messed up.
If I don't figure something out,
the bank is gonna take
Honey, no, it can't be that bad.
I need to borrow $100,000.
Another hundred? For what?
Another?
Yeah, Robert gave JT $140,000.
I thought you knew.
No, nope.
JT didn't tell me that.
He didn't tell me
a lot of things.
- You know what? Let me call the girls.
- No!
We can put something aside
for you under the radar,
maybe open a little shop in town
or get a place in Tahoe.
You don't have any kids, you could just
start over where nobody knows you.
It's not too late.
I mean, you're beautiful.
The ranch, it's been in my
family for four generations.
Stella, ranching
is dirty business.
If JT couldn't save it,
how are you gonna do
it all by yourself?
Sometimes it's better to
just let go of something,
then get dragged down with it.
Sorry, ma'am,
I went to stop them,
but they had all their
paperwork in order.
They're gonna
want this one, too.
Ma'am, uh, give me a second.
Do you know what this is?
Um...
Looks like a bullet.
My great-grandfather
used a knife and hot water
to dig it out of
his wife's back.
She got shot when a gang
of civil war deserters
tried to take this ranch.
The two of them,
just the two of them,
came across this country,
they fought Indians, fires,
and the railroads
to build this place.
My great-grandmother
lost two children
by the time she was 23.
One to a fire and
the other to typhus.
But she didn't quit, she didn't,
she never gave up, she did
everything she had to do
to keep this land,
but I'm just gonna lose it all
to the bank without
even a fight!
Well, okay,
I hear ya, take it easy.
Take it easy?
That's all I've ever done,
it's what's gotten me here!
We are all gonna be in deep,
deep sh*t if I don't
figure something out.
Well, I know that.
Okay, you know the
day-to-day of this ranch
better than anybody else.
I need to know everything about my
husband's business, it's my business.
I need to know what he did
right, what he did wrong
and what around here
is worth saving!
- Now?
- Right now.
We lease this back pasture
to a dairy farm for grazing,
it brings in a little.
Most of the workers
have found jobs elsewhere,
a handful have
stayed loyal to you.
They do general upkeep, mending
fences, painting, et cetera.
Looks like they're
You got five doing
the work of 20,
you're lucky they
haven't walked, too.
A handful of people
It's good for some floating
cash, but that's about it.
Then there's this fella.
Mr. JT used to get
25,000 to breed him
on account of
the stakes winning.
He comes from a long
line of breeders
and derby cup winners.
It's a damn shame.
Why isn't anyone
breeding to him now?
Ma'am, they're waiting
for you to go under,
so they can buy
monarch outright.
The ranchers, they had their eyes
on this place for a while now.
made some bad decisions,
but this sure
wasn't one of them.
Saddle him up.
I wanna take a ride
around the property.
That's not a good idea, ma'am.
Don't want to take a
chance of injuring him.
- Then saddle up Robbie.
- Yes, ma'am.
Hello, miss Stella.
Bratt, there's a
break in the fence,
I think there's some wild
horses on the property.
- All right, where are you?
- Near the old ranch.
Okay, don't go near the horses
and don't fix the fence.
With any luck, they'll
go out the way they came.
I'll be right there.
We need to get
them off property.
We have to... what?
No, look at them,
they need food, water.
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