Stories from the Bunkhouse (Ep. 18) | Yellowstone | Paramount Network

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- Lloyd, I'm trying to choose my words.
- Shit, you shoulda been able
to write the fucking song by now.
- We need to have a jingle.
We'll talk.
♪ Three lonely bunkhouse boys ♪
♪ Alone together at a poker table ♪
♪ They love each other dearly ♪
♪ But they have no idea what an egg scramble is ♪
Yeah, that's all I got, guys.
I ran out.
- Gentlemen.
(upbeat bluesy rock music)
Come on!
- I'm getting married.
- Yeah, I been wondering what's up with you lately.
- I need a best man.
- What would Lloyd's bachelor party for Rip look like?
- I think he would be in the bunkhouse
just pinning up one ribbon.
Standing on a stool with the spikes in the mouth
and extra beer.
And just be so proud of himself.
- Yeah, and it would be the same bunkhouse, right?
- Nothing is different. - Everything is the same.
Just one little weird ribbon.
- And he's just, boo!
- And it's like a rein. - You know what I mean?
That would be it. - It's not
even actually ribbon.
They're reins from the horse
and then he just ties 'em up.
- Yeah, everyone walks in and he's like,
"You said you handled it." - I think that's
what it would be. - And he's like--
- Yeah, I did.
But Rip gets to sit on a saddle.
- To your life with her. - Cheers.
- Are we gonna see the wedding?
Is it gonna be a small intimate affair
or is it gonna be a giant party where the whole world is at?
- [Denim] I think we're not even gonna be there.
- I think we're catering.
- Gator's invited. - For sure.
- Gator? - Yeah.
- What the fuck is that?
- Grilled octopus.
- Pass me the potatoes.
- We have a whole crew that we're gonna go in--
- Just matching white shirts
with the cuffs. - Yeah,
with a little (muffled speaking) kind of thing.
- Yeah, no coat. - No coats.
- Just the cummerbund.
- And I noticed on Twitter trending lately,
the fans are getting #bep trending.
#Bep.
- How do you spell that?
- B-E-P.
#bep trending.
(seagulls crying)
#Bep.
#Bep.
The producers are telling me to try to get #bep trending?
#Bep.
They're holding up a sign that says, "#Bep."
Do you want me to use that? - No,
that actually says, "Stop."
- Oh, yeah sorry.
I'm not wearing my glasses, yeah.
Who is Beth's maid of honor?
Also Lloyd?
(all laughing)
- I don't have an friends,
but should I make one.
- She doesn't have any friends.
- Well, she connects,
towards the end of season two she sort of connects
with Monica a little.
They have that really moving scene in the story.
- Yeah, I think Monica would be it, right?
- You have a kind soul.
- Or Angela Blue Thunder.
- We find ourselves on the same side.
- Well, this could be interesting.
- See, I think Beth would choose something really weird
like Kayce to be her bro of honor.
- You having a barn dance or something?
- Maybe before then we'll see Teeter and Colby's wedding,
#Ceeter, #Tolby.
- I like Tolby better than--
- Tolby is killer.
Who's your best man?
Who's Colby's best man?
- Duh. - Dang.
Let's fucking go there.
- You could choose whoever you want.
Don't feel pressured to-- - For sure man.
- Well, yeah.
- Just some random dude that we've never--
- Yeah, I wouldn't even know because--
- Like you know my friend, Carl.
Like, never met him. - Yeah, because the question
wasn't really asked towards me--
- I don't know who that is. - So I don't really know
how to answer that question.
- But if you had to pick right now
and nobody's emotional well being
was hanging in the balance.
- Well, I didn't have a chance to look at the paper
and I don't know.
And that's kind of weird, right?
I don't know.
Maybe I'm not getting married, I don't know.
- Kinda weird. - Right?
It's kind of weird that I'm not getting married I mean?
- No.
- After that I feel pretty safe saying
that at Jimmy and Mia's wedding, #Mimmy, #Jia,
Ryan would be Jimmy's best man.
- Ah, get out of town.
Thank you for saying so, making a commitment to me.
- This is a betrayal and I don't think I--
- That's legally binding. - That is.
- Wanna be here.
- Just got pacts.
- Dang, this is what the betrayal feels like.
- Oh yeah, dude, you're never gonna trust again.
- That's okay, that's fine.
- [Lloyd] He's supposed to be dead.
- Every time we have a wonderful thing happen,
like we're gonna get married, let's go celebrate,
of course then we open the door for something horrible
to happen. - Of course.
- So we get the benefit of getting Mr. Bingham back
on our show,
but then we have to deal with Rip seeing him
and drudge up everything that happened from the last season.
And we have to remember what he did
that gave him his death sentence,
which was what specifically do you think?
Was it his dalliance with Beth
or his refusal to follow orders?
Why was he sentenced to death?
- I think it's his refusal to follow orders
exacerbated by his dalliance with Beth.
- The new hand's a real horse whisperer, hm?
- Yeah, he is something.
- Over and over again, Rip gives him an ultimatum
and over and over again Walker steps over that line.
- You're gonna live up to the brand
or I'm gonna fucking take it back, do you hear me?
- Rip I think is actually by Rip standards
shown Walker tremendous mercy and patience.
There were so many times that Cole Hauser wanted
to kill Walker.
- Take your fucking heart out through your throat, Walker.
I'll shove that little fucking knife up your ass.
- That Cole Hauser be like, you know what,
fuck, I think I would kill him.
- Right.
- Keep your whiny mouth shut.
- And it was so fascinating to see him having
to then navigate giving him one more chance,
until finally I think those violations sort of piled up.
- You dead?
You're about to be.
- I agree with you.
I think a lot of it is not only does he not follow orders,
but on top of all that,
he touched somebody that you're not allowed to touch
in Rip's eyes.
- I got a fondness for the farmer's daughter.
- And I think that was obviously the straw
that broke the camel's back.
(metal cutting)
(Walker grunting)
- We've been talking all season about this idea
of Western justice.
This sort of black and white, yes or no way
of problem solving.
Walker wears the brand.
- I ain't gonna break the law for you, Rip.
- You shoulda thought of that before you took the brand.
- As soon as he refuses Rip once--
- With that brand on him. - That's it.
You get one chance with that brand.
We saw what happened to Fred, right?
Fred hit a branded man.
He's gone. - That was it.
(gun firing)
- When it comes to that brand--
- That's all he cares about. - That is absolute for him.
- That's the line.
So would you say that you're team Rip or team Walker?
- This goes down we gotta pick sides.
Definitely team Rip for Ryan.
- I really admire Kayce's stance on the whole thing.
It seems like over and over again Kayce's also--
- Mm, Kayce.
- Kind of wrestling with that idea of Western justice.
Kayce has committed terrible violence.
Kayce has killed people.
But he says in season three, he says,
"But I'm not a murderer."
- I'm always in a position where I need to kill
or be killed.
- And he sort of steps in to try to advocate for reason
in a context where reason has sort of gone out the window.
For JD and for Rip, justice is absolute and it's final
and there's no gray room.
And Kayce is trying to run the Dutton ranch
in a different way.
- I'm just trying to do things a little different,
that's all.
- Yeah, me too.
- So you're saying that you're team Rip.
- Yeah.
- Based off of that and you're team Kayce.
- Team Kayce.
Team moderation, all things in moderation.
- I gotta do it my way.
- I'm definitely not team Walker
because I don't even know where he falls
in the line of all this.
I definitely think doing nothing is not the answer.
- Hell give me something to do, Rip.
I'll do it.
- I appreciate what Kayce's trying to do,
but I think that the way that things are escalated,
you don't have time while all these things
are happening to then sit back
and try to find the gray area.
I don't always agree with Rip's way of doing things,
but at least things get done.
- I'm gonna show you how to get rid of problems
so they don't become new problems.
(soft folk music)
- Why don't you just go ahead
and get the fuck off our ranch?
- Oh, it's your ranch now, is it?
- I obviously wasn't there.
What was that?
I've only heard about the tank and you were freezing
and you were in the water.
- Well, we shot most of it in the actual creek itself,
where our camp was.
That creek that was right there.
We were in there the entire time.
And then we shot the pick ups in the tank.
The actual stomping on,
but we actually had to be in the water
and the horses came in.
And they stomped all around our bodies
while we were holding our breath under water.
Then we had to at the end be like,
okay, and then when you feel the water get still
just stay there and then float down the creek a little bit
and then we can cut.
And so then you're sitting there going,
"This is a lot to take in,"
because the water's super cold
and you're going and your adrenaline's pumping.
So you just get into this crazy action sequence
and then it's all done and you're just holding your breath,
floating down the creek.
But again, like you said,
if you're willing to go after ranch hands to prove a point,
what is it that you're not willing to do?
- I feel like when you have somebody like a Teeter--
- This ain't no free titty show.
- That comes into the show
and never has any real mean bone in her body.
Just somebody that's just having fun
and enjoying themselves.
- You wanna go skinny dipping?
- Skinny dipping?
- Then they're able to just take their horses,
kick her down into the ground and stomp her to death,
I would think that the audience should go,
yeah, they're worthy of whatever comes to them.
(horses whinnying)
(men yelling)
- They will condemn this land
and what remains of the ranch will be taken from you
until the ranch is whittled down
to its least valuable parts.
Then you'll die.
- The lineage now, where are we going as a family
in terms of everything we're enduring to keep the ranch.
All of a sudden, Tate becomes the only, the one.
How far are we willing to take this at this point?
'Cause we could lose it all.
And have it all to give to nothing.
- There will be no way for Kayce and certainly not Tate
to make a living from it.
- Beth got into it and she was like,
"Listen dude, sell, we're out.
"You're done, we're gonna lose."
And still John is like, "You don't get it."
- I can't sell it.
- Yeah, I'm like, man, you're betting big.
- Really up against it.
- There's this sort of, a line that stuck with me
in season two when the reporter says,
"Hey, this isn't a kingdom.
"Your dad's not a king."
'Cause I think this also begs the question what is family?
Right?
Rip in season two, John Dutton says that Rip is his son.
- He called me his son.
- Yes, Tate is the only blood descendant
of this line of emperors,
but I think Lloyd would die to protect the ranch.
Doesn't that mean he's family?
I think that these guys have put their lives
on the line time and again to protect the ranch.
Doesn't that mean that they're family?
- Doesn't that count for something?
When Tate does get kidnapped,
if something happened to him it's kind of like
well, then where do you turn to next?
- I think it reinforces how important the bloodline is.
It doesn't matter who, even Rip, even Lloyd.
If you are not of that flesh specifically,
that's really the only thing that counts.
- You're the only person that doesn't benefit
when I'm gone.
You do it for me.
- Yes sir.
And I always will.
- But you look at these other figures.
Like Rainwater isn't fighting for his immediate family,
right?
For his nuclear family.
He's fighting for his tribal family.
There's a different sense of identity.
John Dutton, it is a sort of monarchic lineage, right?
It's John Dutton's dad to John Dutton,
to Kayce, to Tate.
There's so many other ways of organizing a family
and there's so many other ways
of organizing a sense of identity.
And I think that's one of the fascinating collisions
on the show.
- Our grandfathers camped right here
for 10,000 years.
Then John Dutton's grandfather built the house on it,
called it theirs.
- [Beth] What are they doing?
- I think they call that coveting in the Bible.
- John Dutton is saying, "This is for my kid,"
and Rainwater is saying, "This is for my people."
- And I love that 'cause it makes your whole,
all of your decisions are so different because of that.
You take the same situation and you just say,
okay, but your scenario is for the tribe
and for all of these other families that make up.
And one is for just your family.
- Yeah.
- We want the same thing for very different reasons.
- This is what the show's about.
This is what we're doing today, this is what they're doing.
We're gonna continue doing it.
Be aware.
And I think the audience knows that too.
- Please don't let pride factor into this decision.
It's just too big.
- No pride, honey.
It's just I made a promise.
I'd rather lose it than break it.