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Cartel Chief:
“You think you’re talking to some gangbanger in a pickup truck, Tommy? Some coyote smuggling dope across the river? That ain’t what we are. We don’t just run drugs. We run states. Same ones the oil companies do.”
Tommy Norris (Billy Bob Thornton):
“Yeah? Last I checked, oil was legal. Cartel business ain’t.”
Cartel Chief:
“That’s where you’re wrong. Money’s legal. Influence is legal. You don’t think the same congressmen signing oil leases ain’t signing deals with us? You don’t think those judges, sheriffs, and governors down in Texas, Oklahoma, the Dakotas—hell, up to Montana—ain’t bought and paid for twice over? Oil keeps the lights on, sure. But we keep the politicians scared.”
Tommy Norris:
“Scared of what?”