(banging) (groaning)

(car engine roaring)

- Bad day for him. (laughs)

Wrong place wrong time.

- I love Ryan Bingham, but Walker, not too much.

Rip's got something he needs to show you.

- Is it bad?

- Couldn't be much worse.

- That's a big shock to Kayce.

Walker promised he would leave and never come back.

- Finding out that Kayce let him go.

There's some disappointment there, as you can imagine.

- Yeah, I think Kayce realizes it,

and if anything goes wrong here that's on him.

Why don't you stick around, Rip.

- Let's just figure this all out right now.

- I think he's really worried in that moment,

trying to get them to fix this.

I'm trying to find a way out for you.

You gotta help me here.

So do you.

- One of the things that

Luke and I wanted to work on this year

and certainly Taylor wrote it for the most part this way is

that relationship.

I think that relationship, to Luke and I was very important.

- He's got to give us something as good as he knows.

- You're gonna have to prove yourself, Walker.

The only way to fix it is Walker taking his job back.

But not only that, doing some things to prove that

he's not gonna, you know, throw us under the bus.

- Far as I see it, that's the only other option right now.

Do you want something to hold over my head?

- You are holding stuff over our heads, you son of a bitch.

- We want something we can hold over your head, yes.

- You know, with the Walker scene,

I think you finally get to see

the respect between the two characters,

which is really important, I think for the audience.

- I ain't gonna offer it again.

- Ultimately, in the end, if something did happen to John,

this is what it is. It's Kayce and Rip.

- Willa Hayes comes to the Dutton family

to buy a portion of the land that they have.

I'm gonna make you an offer.

You'll never be priced out of anything,

ever again.

- Any sensible human being would take the money

but, of course, that's not who we are.

- It would bring in the airlines, It would bring in the jobs.

it would absolutely change the entire fabric

of that community, it could really lift them up.

But in order to undermine this transaction,

Beth starts to short the stock to mess up our ability

to be able to go through with the deal.

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- That's my desk.

- I put that down.

It's my desk now.

My computer, my office furniture.

My office.

- She really puts Beth in her place.

It felt like for the first time, Beth has an equal.

I just felt like her and I were gladiators.

- We end up going toe to toe in a conversation about

what exactly it is that we're going to do with the property

that the Duttons now own, but we wanna purchase.

We have big plans for this valley.

But I think that there is a real shift of perspective

that Taylor is trying to create.

Creating this story around what he knows to be true

and authentic.

That's all you ever want from an artist,

to bring their story to you

and to be able to be a part of interpreting that story

for an audience.

(soft music) (car engine roaring)

- Th' fuck happened?

- It's those dude string cowboys.

- Just as Teeter and Colby

are discovering this beautiful new thing in each other

and as they're sort of on this high,

then the lowest of low.

- We have this thing, we were together

and now this major traumatic event happens

to be the way that she was And face mangled and all this

and so you kind of get to all this physicality

but then this loving and nurturing side.

Teeter and I were able to kind of get closer together.

It was something as an actor, when you're reading it,

that's like this is all you look forward to.

- To be in that bunkhouse and for all of us

to be falling in love with Teeter a little bit,

for all of us to be seeing Colby, our friend,

in this whole new way,

and then for them to be attacked at that moment,

that idea of Western justice really surfaces immediately.

- Boy's are pretty hot.

- Yeah, I'm sure.

Feels a little too easy, doesn't it?

- So Wade is obviously an old friend

or an old worker, I should say, of Yellowstone.

- Wade left this, so he's a traitor.

He should have stayed gone.

You don't tread on somebody and turn on him

and then come back, and that's what he does.

He comes back and he goes to work for our enemies,

and rubs it in John Dutton's face.

- That's not an option when you ran it.

- So how's it going?

- We've been pushing pretty hard.

- Good. Keep pushing.

- They've actually been recruited.

- Wade is not above riding for any brand.

- You don't know John Dutton like I do.

- That's why the job pays so well.

- There's a loyalty when you ride for the brand, you,

supposedly, however the brand goes, even if it's illegal,

the Yellowstone, for instance, you ride for the brand.

You do what's said.

Wade, he was a person

that could have been playing his life out there,

the way Lloyd is.

But he's not, and he's now come back into the solar system

of the Yellowstone, and he's being used.

- Keep poking until that son of a bitch

does something he can't take back.

- John swears to find out what he's been doing,

and so he orders his hit.

- You don't send him off half cocked.

You be smart about this.

You figure out a plan that works.

You take that trash to the fucking train station.

- Yes, sir.

- That was another really big action scene.

We had probably 15 horses to start

running a very specific pattern.

You know, after the stunt guys roped one another

off the horse, we drug them up a hill

and then literally threw a rope over a tree and hung him

and then cut his heart out.

So, I mean, that's a long day.

- Walker.

- This is your last chance.

You prove yourself and you have our trust.

- To show the allegiance to,

not only Yellowstone but to the brand,

I make Walker slice his brand off of his chest.

If you're wearing that brand, you must be a bad man.

If these motherfuckers want it back, you must be even worse.

- He's starting to do some things where

he doesn't have any secrets against us,

he's a part of it now, he's having to really prove himself

and show his loyalty

through doing some things he probably does not wanna do.

- Karma comes in all shapes and sizes.

Looks like it's me today.

- That kind of brings Walker from the circle,

which I think is great for his character

and also, you know, for the future of him on the show.

And who knows, in the end, maybe

there is a mutual respect between the two.

- That's not something that this group walks away from,

you're different now, you've committed straight murder,

so you're different from that point on.

So that was certainly a turning point.

- Y'all wanted revenge, now you got it.

But there's a price to pay for revenge,

and now you gonna pay it.

It's a brotherhood that

some wanna be a part of and some don't.

- And people are gonna think I'm really crazy

for wanting to be branded, but oh well, this is my family.

- The build up to receiving it

and having proven himself so much,

the reward is so good that I don't believe he even flinched.

- Teeter.

- Shooting that whole sequence was amazing.

And to be able to play a character

that is such a shit talker and so guarded

in a very charming way, or not, but still fun.

And then to be able to go to the,

kind of peak of vulnerability, I'm so thankful.

- She's shown her colors, she's tough.

- For a long time she's been wild

but sort of aimless and working, obviously,

but that again, all she's ever really wanted

was somebody to kind of grab her by the scruff of her neck

and give her a tribe, and give her a group.

I remember while we were shooting it, loving it.

- I don't think Rip looks at anybody like woman, man, boy.

It's like you either can wear the brand

and I believe you can wear the brand

and that you're gonna represent friendship, honor, love,

and more importantly, respect for this ranch,

then you'll be branded.

- It certainly means that we're now brothers and sisters

for life.

I think we are going to now expose

the darkness of the bunkhouse,

we've seen a little bits and pieces

but I think we might see, as a result,

now that you got this, now you have to wear it

and you have to earn, and now you're really deep in.

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