Silver City Page #4

If you were to take

leadership on the issue...

throw the full force of

your office behind it...

If you can get it on a referendum.

I honestly don't think

it would pass...

not in the secular climate

we live in.

But when Moses found

the children of Israel...

prostrate before the golden calf,

did he call for a referendum?

No, he did not.

Excuse me, Reverend Tubbs.

- We need him.

- We're discussing the children of Israel.

We must obey

the 11 th Commandment:

"Thou shalt not keep

the press waiting."

With a planned community,

you know what you're getting.

People own their houses,

they own shares in the amenities...

but the corporation

calls the shots.

This whole section here

will be assisted living.

The lake is a nice attraction.

The lake is the key.

Half these people,

they don't fish, they don't boat...

they can't climb a flight of stairs,

much less a mountain...

but knowing it's there

just around the bend...

- Live in the Rockies.

- We're selling a dream.

Now, of course,

a few regulations need to be...

The Development Association

would be happy...

Which I pay into.

The association has to concentrate

on some general legislation right now.

Any individual cases would be...

- You talk to Chuck Raven.

- On a daily basis, yeah.

After all, he's the brains

behind our future governor.

You need examples,

specific instances...

for your general

legislation, right?

Silver City would be

a perfect model.

That wouldn't be fair to

the other members of the association.

Showing favoritism would

compromise my position.

But if you were to retain my services...

as a lobbyist on an individual case...

there's no reason I couldn't honestly

serve both clients equally...

during my talks with

the future governor and his staff.

Retaining.

So much of my cash is tied up with

the acquisition of the land.

I could probably work

on a commission basis.

You mean, like,

a piece of the action?

Mort, the regulatory legislation

that the governor is going to bat for?

I'm writing it.

What, do you think the association

pays me to suck up to these people?

We're only that far from qualifying for

an economic initiative subsidy.

Timberline County

is on the ropes.

And if the State was to relax

the soil standards just a fraction...

There's no reason we couldn't...

raise the river and lower the bridge

at the same time.

How big a piece of the action

would this be?

In the case of capital offenses...

I am absolutely in favor

of the death penalty.

You hear stories

about frontier justice.

You can bet that the wrongdoers...

the folks who couldn't

play by the rules...

they had some respect

for that.

And there was no...

Taxpayers didn't pay any...

If they had had

taxpayers back then...

Those were the good old days,

I suppose.

All you needed

was a good, strong rope...

and a tree to hang it from.

So you support mandatory sentencing?

My message to the criminals is this:

You straighten up or get out.

There's no place for you

in our state.

You do the crime and, by God...

you're gonna have to

face your lumps.

But the majority of those serving time

for drug possession are...

You want to change a behavior?

Stiffen the consequences.

There have been reports, Mr. Pilager...

that before you entered politics,

you had considerable experience...

Look, if you're up

in a helicopter, airplane...

you know,

something that flies...

you don't want your pilot

intoxicated with drugs, do you?

It's that way

with our schoolchildren.

Junior can't read

if he's high on crack.

Yeah, the air is

thin enough up here. Yes.

The question

you have to ask yourself is...

do you want your county to be

thought of as one big Superfund site?

We've got Carbonville.

Or one big migrant labor camp?

No offense intended.

Or do you want Silver City...

emerging like a shining phoenix

from the ashes?

The land.

Bentel Corporation

had no further use for it.

And, of course, it's been classified

as a degraded habitat.

Meaning?

Meaning the environmental folks

won't be breathing down our necks...

once we get

this project rolling.

But the soil is still full of

heavy metals. If you dig a well...

We're not digging any wells.

We've got some folks downstate...

I'm pretty sure will be happy

to sell us their water rights.

Why would they do that?

Let's say you grow your crop

out on an arid plain.

Gotta irrigate the hell

out of the land.

Gotta rely on federal price supports.

Now, you pull that price support

out of the equation...

well, there's a bunch of farmers who'd

be thrilled to cash in their chips...

for a healthy,

onetime water settlement.

- How do you know that's gonna happen?

- The price support is a line item...

pushed into the federal budget

every year by our senator, Jud Pilager.

He told you that...

Chuck. Hot on the campaign trail.

- How's it going?

- Good, good.

- You know our man here?

- Governor.

Don't jump the gun.

You're 15 up in the polls.

Hey, I'd like to introduce you...

to some of your supporters

out in the trenches.

This is the Timberline

County Commission.

Please, don't stand up.

This is Phil, Ellie,

Freddy Mondragn.

It's such a pleasure.

Hey, where's your electric train?

This is Silver City.

Really.

I owned a patch of land

out where that used to be.

Pretty near lost my sh...

Mort is spearheading

the development...

of some of the property

in that part of the state.

Nice to see private sector

taking a little initiative.

- Thank you.

- Right.

You folks in Timberline could use

a shot in the arm, and he...

Mort.

Mort is the fella

that could do it for you.

- Have a nice lunch.

- Thank you. You too.

Terrific guy, Dickie.

He'll make a hell of a governor.

Still writing in restaurants?

Hi. Sorry.

So this is where

all the politicians hang out.

And the humble reporters

who cover them.

How's... Debbie?

She moved out...

from where she was living, with me.

- Oh. Sorry.

- Took the furniture.

I should have been suspicious when

she bought all those boxes from Staples.

- So you were having problems.

- Apparently.

We weren't...

Maybe she wanted

somebody more predictable.

You're totally predictable, Danny.

You get involved in something positive,

then find a way to f*** it up.

And you're...

I'm... fine.

Fine. They have me assigned

to the governor's race, so...

- Listen, there's a work thing.

- Are you still a private eye?

- Investigator, yeah.

- Yeah.

Your friend who worked in health care

with the migrants?

- Rebecca Zeller.

- Zeller. Right.

- She still in town?

- In the phone book.

- Sorry I'm late.

- Hey.

Just greasing the rusty wheels

of government. Hi.

Chan, this is Danny, who I told you

about. Danny, Chandler Tyson.

- Danny... Ex-boyfriend from hell Danny?

- Yes!

Hi.

I know you.

Really? I don't think so.

Yeah, on TV.

That was a while ago.

The public statements I was making...

on behalf of the industry.

- You're a tobacco lobbyist.

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