Ozark, Season 2

Marty Byrde:
Jacob.

Jacob Snell:
Excuse me if I don't shake your hand.

Marty Byrde:
I'm fine skipping pleasantries. Let's make this overture brief.

Jacob Snell:
The Almighty himself could not convince us to lift our blockade.

Marty Byrde:
What about the federal government? You know who I spent the morning with? Your friends over at the power company. I wanted to know how it was that they were able to get your ancestors off of their land so quickly back in 1929.

Jacob Snell:
No mystery there. Lies, theft, intimidation.

Marty Byrde:
Well, they got an assist from a little thing called riparian rights.

Jacob Snell:
Pardon me?

Marty Byrde:
Riparian rights are the laws that say who owns the land under a body of water. It's kind of crazy, right? I mean, who ever stops to consider the land under a lake? Or, in this case, the Missouri River. Which last time I checked was a federal waterway. What this means, Jacob, is that the instant you flooded your land and connected it to the Missouri, you ceded all of that flooded land to the US government.

Helen Pierce:
Which is how I managed to obtain this written order guaranteeing our workers access to the boat. Now, if you defy this order, we can have the US Marshals escort them.

Jacob Snell:
And the land that you need for access roads and parking lots to get the people to your precious boat. We own all of it. What's to stop us from parking guards all around the water's edge?

Marty Byrde:
Eminent domain. The feds are gonna give all the surrounding land to our business partners to build shopping malls and hotels and, yes, access roads. Because it's in their financial interest. The tax revenue from said development is gonna be massive, just like it was in 1929. They own it all. Above, around and below.

Jacob Snell:
There is a sermon to be had here, but I don't feel much like praying.

Marty Byrde:
If you try to fight this, it will cost you a lot more than a bullet in the shoulder.

Jacob Snell:
Which is why you asked to meet me alone. You were afraid Darlene wouldn't be quite so receptive. I'll need assurances...if we're expected to stand down, that you will never, ever try and hit me or my wife ever again.

Marty Byrde:
You have them, so long as you keep Darlene in line. Jacob...tell Darlene that the casino profits are gonna make you richer than you ever imagined. That you can use them to buy twice the land that you have now.

Jacob Snell:
She's the same woman now as when I married her. Same woman that slipped into this booth 45 years ago, took my beating heart in both her hands and took off quicker than a mare. Same woman I've been chasing ever since.

Marty Byrde:
They'll kill you, Jacob.

Jacob Snell:
What do you do, Martin, when the bride who took your breath away becomes the wife who makes you hold your breath in terror?