- [first lines]
- Carrie McLaughlin: Time?
- Moe the Deli Owner: Six minutes flat.
- Carrie McLaughlin: Yes! Yes!
- Carrie McLaughlin: [tugs at tattoo shirt] Don't worry, they're not real.
- Hank McLaughlin: That's a relief.
- Carrie McLaughlin: I think something died in my room, it reeks.
- Hank McLaughlin: Wind shifted. Puts you downwind to the barn, see. That's why my room is on the other side of the house.
- Hank McLaughlin: You can use my computer all that you want, as long as it doesn't have to be connected to the Internet.
- Carrie McLaughlin: What? You don't have the Internet?
- [Hank shakes his head no]
- Carrie McLaughlin: How do you even exist?
- Hank McLaughlin: The same way people on The Great Plains have for over one-hundred years, you'll get used to it.
- Toby: Morning, boss. I see you're enjoying life as a family man.
- Hank McLaughlin: Yeah, I guess you could say we got off on the wrong foot.
- Toby: She reminds me of my oldest daughter, she was a feisty little thing. Still is.
- Hank McLaughlin: She calls me Hank!
- Toby: What do you expect? You haven't seen her since she was in diapers.
- [Talking to Flicka in the box stalls]
- Carrie McLaughlin: I'm with you. If it makes you feel any better, I was forced on him, too.
- Toby: What's on your mind, boss?
- Hank McLaughlin: Carrie's been riding Flicka on the sly.
- Toby: Oh... yeah.
- Hank McLaughlin: How long have you known about that?
- Toby: Sorry, my friend. I just didn't have the heart to tell you. If it makes you feel any better, she rides that little mare pretty good.
- Hank McLaughlin: Well, I don't feel better. I feel like an idiot. I'm the last one to know what's going on, she won't talk to me, she keeps everything to herself.
- Toby: Who does that sound like?
- Hank McLaughlin: Go on.
- Toby: Like father, like daughter.
- Hank McLaughlin: Horses sure are easier.
- Toby: Maybe you oughta loosen the reins a little.
- Hank McLaughlin: Alright, I suppose this is the part where I give you a curfew.
- Carrie McLaughlin: We will be home by 11.
- Hank McLaughlin: 10.
- Carrie McLaughlin: Come on, 11 is a perfectly appropriate hour for my age category.
- Hank McLaughlin: 10:30, final.
- Carrie McLaughlin: Sold. Good deal.
- [At the bonfire]
- Carrie McLaughlin: It's really beautiful here.
- Jake: Yeah. Wyoming isn't so bad. It could become a part of you, if you let it.
- Carrie McLaughlin: That's not gonna happen. I'm not a sentimental type of girl.
- Jake: Why is that?
- Carrie McLaughlin: 'Cause everything I care about gets taken away.
- Carrie McLaughlin: Hey, you wanna go for a ride later after the horse sale?
- Jake: This hick has work to do.
- Carrie McLaughlin: Fine, be a flip-flop.
- Jake: Whatever that means.
- Carrie McLaughlin: [to Jake] Why don't you just go back to not talking to me again?
- Toby: Shake it off, Cowboy. I've still got some anti-venom left if you need it.
- HD Walker: Girl runs off in the middle of a storm. Can't you control that daughter of yours?
- Hank McLaughlin: We're still working that part out.
- [Walker finds Flicka's stall empty]
- HD Walker: Oh, well now, look at this. Well, I'll tell you what I'm gonna work out: I'm gonna call the sheriff and report that daughter of yours as a horse thief. Maybe a little time in juvie oughta straighten her out.
- Hank McLaughlin: Alright, now wait a minute. Just wait a minute. You were gonna put that horse down, it has no value to you.
- HD Walker: That horse was my property and she stole it. Now, I've got the right to press charges and that is exactly what I'm gonna do.
- Hank McLaughlin: Just stop it right there! My daughter's out in that storm and the only call you better be making is to ask your men to help me find her.
- Hank McLaughlin: I know how you feel. Sometimes, life breaks your heart. Like when your mother left with you. I couldn't provide any kind of life for you, but uh, that didn't make it hurt any less.
- Carrie McLaughlin: [voice breaking] I thought that you never wanted us... me.
- Hank McLaughlin: Did you ever ask yourself why the name of my ranch is KC? Katherine Carrie - KC Ranch. I always told your mother that I'd get my own place and that we'd have a real life. But that all ended up taking a bit longer than I'd expected but it was the idea of it that kept me working all these years. I always wanted you, Carrie. But I can't keep you here if you don't wanna stay, just like Flicka can't be kept in that stable if she doesn't wanna be kept.
- [last lines]
- Hank McLaughlin: You see her?
- Carrie McLaughlin: There she is. She has a foal, Dad. Isn't she beautiful? If she wants to come home, we'll let her, won't we?
- Hank McLaughlin: Flicka's a member of the family. If she wants to come back, she's welcome.
- [Carries goes to see Flicka and her foal]
- Carrie McLaughlin: Welcome home, girl. Welcome home.
- [Driving through ranch land]
- Carrie McLaughlin: Where's the concrete?
- Hank McLaughlin: Welcome to Wyoming.
- Hank McLaughlin: Carrie! Why don't you come back here and eat your breakfast? I didn't say you were excused.
- Carrie McLaughlin: Excused? You're kidding, right? You can't tell me what to do.
- Hank McLaughlin: I am your father.
- Carrie McLaughlin: I don't even know you!
- [She walks off]
- Hank McLaughlin: Well, fine. If you don't eat it, Speedy will!
- Pete: Better watch your step, little lady. You ain't in the city anymore.
- Carrie McLaughlin: Oh yeah? Well, let's see you survive one day in Pittsburgh.
- Pete: I don't know why you keep that mustang. Nobody can ride her. It's not worth the weight in feed.
- Hank McLaughlin: Flicka was my niece's horse. When my brother sold his ranch, I promised to take care of her.
- Toby: Means he's stuck with her.
- Pete: Yeah, well, that's family for you. Waste your time and your money, won't so much as even thank you for the privilege.
- Hank McLaughlin: Well, ain't that the truth.
- [after Flicka saves Carrie from the snake]
- Toby: Maybe Flicka's good for something after all.
- Carrie McLaughlin: Flicka?
- Toby: Means 'beautiful girl'. Your cousin Katy named her.
- Carrie McLaughlin: You've gotta make it, Flicka. But don't go thinking I'm attached or anything. It's just, you saved me, so... I'm saving you back.
- [Everybody's watching Carrie and Flicka sleeping]
- Hank McLaughlin: So I guess nobody's working today?
- Carrie McLaughlin: [to Flicka about Hank] Don't listen to him. All he cares about is his stupid horse sale, but I got your back.
- Carrie McLaughlin: Do you have any skate parks around here? Half-pipes, bowls?
- [No answer]
- Carrie McLaughlin: How about just concrete or asphalt?
- Jake: Well, there's the Highway 9, but it's full of semis.
- [Describing the town nearby]
- Jake: There's a movie on the weekends.
- Carrie McLaughlin: Only one?
- Jake: Don't blame me, I just live here.
- Carrie McLaughlin: [to Flicka] I wish I could ride you. I'd ride you all the way back to Pittsburgh.
- Jake: [Offers to teach Carrie how to ride a horse] If you want, I could teach you.
- Carrie McLaughlin: What'll it cost me?
- Jake: That iPod should do it.
- Carrie McLaughlin: I'd rather die.
- Jake: Relax. I just wanted to listen to some of your music, that's all.
- [Flipping through the channels on TV]
- Carrie McLaughlin: I used to complain back in Pittsburgh that there was nothing on, but seriously, there is NOTHING on.
- Hank McLaughlin: Well, as long as we can get the weather report, that's all I need.
- [Flips to lawnmower racing]
- Carrie McLaughlin: Are those lawnmowers? Okay, that's just stupid. Who would watch this?
- HD Walker: Hank McLaughlin. Hope that mutt horse mustang of yours hasn't found its way onto my property again.
- Hank McLaughlin: It's nothing like that, HD. All of your fences are still standing.
- Jake: Well, my first piece of advice would be to start out on a nice, calm horse. Not a wild mustang.
- Carrie McLaughlin: No, I wanna ride Flicka. She hates being cooped up here as much as I do.
- Jake: Fine, don't listen to me, then. I'm just the one who's been living here my entire life.
- [Toby sees Carrie carrying an umbrella and a basket to collect eggs]
- Toby: Looks like rain in the chicken coop.
- [about Carrie]
- Hank McLaughlin: If you give a filly too much praise before you break 'em, you end up with a half-broke horse.
- Toby: You know, I don't know if you've noticed, but she ain't no filly, she's a girl.
- Carrie McLaughlin: I already know how to ride. Jake's been teaching me.
- Hank McLaughlin: Let me guess: on Flicka?
- Carrie McLaughlin: Please don't blame Jake, it was my idea. Flicka's really good with me. Please don't be mad?
- Hank McLaughlin: I'm not mad.
- Carrie McLaughlin: You sound like it.
- Hank McLaughlin: Carrie, I'm not the enemy. Why do you feel like you have to sneak around and hide things from me?
- Carrie McLaughlin: Sorry.
- Hank McLaughlin: Me too. It's just that as your father, I would've liked to have, uh... it's just another thing I didn't get a chance at.
- Jake: You do know what this means now, don't you?
- Carrie McLaughlin: No?
- Jake: Well, if you're really gonna ride, you're gonna need a hat.
- [puts one on Carrie]
- Jake: Pretty cute.
- Carrie McLaughlin: I'm so glad my peeps in Pittsburgh will never see this.
- Jake: [about Hank] He's a good boss.
- Carrie McLaughlin: He's good at bossing.
- Jake: Well, that's just what dads do.
- Carrie McLaughlin: I wouldn't know.
- Carrie McLaughlin: No. Really? You like living on a giant patch of dirt with herds of stinky animals?
- Jake: Horses aren't stinky.
- Carrie McLaughlin: Okay. Cows are though.
- Jake: Okay, well, where would you like to live?
- Carrie McLaughlin: The city.
- Jake: You'd rather live on a slab of concrete with a bunch of loud, stinky, metal things?
- Carrie McLaughlin: Yes, actually, I would.
- [Jake laughs]
- Carrie McLaughlin: [to Flicka] You know, sometimes I think you're the only one around here that gets me.
- Carrie McLaughlin: [about Hank and the horse sale] He raises these things and just sells 'em off. I thought the city was pretty heartless.
- Hank McLaughlin: Well, Toby, we did it. We may not be rich, but we'll make it through another season.
- Toby: Be sure to let me know when we do get rich.