- Do you think you get a raise when you take the brand?

- Well, I think they can negotiate it.

(laughs)

Right before the brand touches your skin,

that's the moment to kind of renegotiate,

but the nos and the yeses are pretty finite.

- Yeah, definitely.

- They're definitely open to it.

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- I'm gonna kill you, you son of a bitch.

Before I do, I'm gonna take something back.

- Wade, we find out when he's up against a tree

and he's exposed, that he's branded.

- And it makes sense what they were talking about,

"Come and get it."

- You have something that belongs to me.

- Come and get it.

- Obviously, you're mind is itemizing,

what is the thing?

- Yeah, what could it be?

- Of course, we got tricked.

- I never thought

that for one second - 'Course we got tricked.

- That it was a brand.

- Yeah. - I never thought that.

- And as soon as you put that together,

you're like, "Oh, shit.

- All of it makes sense.

- "He's going to cut it off of him

and do full 'Silence of the Lambs.'"

Okay, cool cool.

- What did you think about that when you saw it,

when we saw him in the tree?

- It was brutal.

I mean, the prosthetic was incredible.

The pizza, the slice of pizza, which is what it looked like,

came off in the hand, would drip.

And it was like, good (gags).

- I don't know if doing it for real

would look that much different

than what that filet... Ugh.

What did you think about it?

- Jimmy loves Colby, loves Teeter, is angry,

is fucking pissed, wants revenge, that can all be true,

but it's still really hard for Jimmy

to stand there and watch that shit happen.

That's not the language that Jimmy speaks.

- Isn't that funny?

And yet you got the brand straightaway,

it's everything is reversed

and we're wanting it so bad, ready to-

- Take it.

- Pick me, I'll cut his hand off or whatever.

Everything is upside down and that's why it's so interesting

'cause we think you got it,

I know the shell is under the-

- It has to be.

- It's not there, it's over here-

- It has to be.

- Every time.

- It's these highs and lows, right?

Jimmy, this is when he's most in love with Mia

and he's seeing the sort of darkest side

of what it means to wear the brand.

And he's seeing Wade, a branded man who defied the brand,

getting fucking strung up in a tree and tortured.

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

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- Walker, of all people, is the one to do it.

So many interesting things are happening.

- Well, he had to do it.

Otherwise, he still has a death sentence.

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

- And having Walker cut the brand off,

is that another subtle way,

well, not so subtle way for Rip to also say

this is what it would look like

if you were ever to do something?

Because he wore the brand and left.

- That would dissuade me from leaving twice.

Having watched that event, I would be handing in my card

and I'd be like, "Okay-

- Right? So it feels like-

- "You own me."

- Yeah.

- This is right when you guys are signing up

to wear the brand, so you're seeing

the darkest consequence of taking the brand.

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

But there's a price to pay for revenge.

- It seems like we've built an army of-

- And that's what it feels like.

- And been corralled and now you're all pawns.

- Got a whole army now, I see.

- You always got an army, don't you, John?

- And there's a reason behind the building up of a force

'cause it needs to go somewhere, be kinetic.

- And John, obviously, that's something that

he would sign off on.

He's like, "We can't just run around branding people."

So that's something John himself feels like

hey, there's value in bringing in these men

into this circle.

He knows, I need all hands on deck, literally,

to handle what's to come in the future.

- Evil wants what it wants and won't stop

until it's won or you kill it.

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- Speaking of coming back,

welcome welcome. - Guys!

- What do you want for Teeter moving forward?

What would you like to see her get into to do?

- It was so above and beyond anything

that I could have hoped for

that anything that I think about

would just pale in comparison

to what he could possibly come up with in his big old brain.

What I felt, at least, that there was

a real army that was now being formed

and I'm really looking...

I mean, what I would love is

to have physically intense scenes

where I feel like I'm kind of a soldier.

Kinda odd to say this in front of people,

but I feel like a weird sex scene would be really fun.

'Cause I mean, we're not really having sex,

and I just feel like it would be-

- Yes, audience, we're not really having sex.

- We're not really having sex,

but I feel like it would be a...

I think that it would maybe turn some-

- Some things more-

- Some roles on their head.

- Yeah.

- Don't that sound nice?

(laughing)

But in terms of this storyline,

there's more depth there that we will get into,

but without it making the relationship boring in any way.

- It's just like-

- We shared a trauma.

- Yeah, we shared a trauma,

which I think is so interesting,

but very, very destructive all at the same time.

You don't have to come.

- No, I wouldn't miss this for the fucking world.

- Now that she's got the brand,

is she capable of switching into violence,

becoming one of the underbelly part of the ranch?

- I figured Teeter was always capable of violence.

That is fun.

I just remember thinking,

when I was looking into Cole Hauser's eyes

as Teeter, I was like, "Bring it."

I really felt like, "Bring it."

My big thing from when I came on the show,

'cause I didn't know I was gonna be

in more than one episode even,

and my dream was like, "I just wanna get branded,

I just wanna get..."

That's all I've wanted, was to get branded.

And so episode nine?

- Yeah.

- And I'm reading the script, I see that I get branded,

and this is so embarrassing, I literally burst into tears,

like full Miss Universe ugly cry,

just like, "No way, you guys," and it was this huge moment.

What I think could be interesting

is that the loyalty to the brand might come second

to the loyalty I have to you.

And I think that could be an interesting kind of thing.

While being branded is a bonding experience,

I think it's a secondary bonding experience

to near death, which is what we kinda have.

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- I definitely thought I was dead, I mean, for sure,

when we were reading that for the first time.

- Oh yeah. (Denim laughs)

So about that, I should say that it was Sunday morning,

I don't know if you guys know this, and Taylor calls me up,

and he's like, "You don't die."

And I'm like, "What?"

He's like, "The next script that's coming out,

you're gonna think you die, you don't die."

And then basically, it was like, "Oh, and tell Denim."

(laughing)

- So I've already read the script,

and by the time I get a text message from you,

I'm freaking out.

I'm running around my house in a manic state.

Like, "Oh my God, what had happened?"

And then you sent that, I was like, "Okay, all right."

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The night was a big night, when we finally kiss.

- That wasn't so bad was it?

I had harassed every other part of your body though by-

- Well, yeah. By that time, I was completely violated.

I had nothing else left.

- Which, by the way, I just wanna make clear,

I did check in with him.

Did I not? I did-

- Oh, no, 100%. I have always felt safe and comfortable.

- I had to check in.

I'm pretty sure I was like,

"Is it okay if I lick your face on this take?" (laughing)

- If that's how you feel.

- You want a back rub?

- I don't. Thanks.

What did you think?

And then how did it feel for you

on the day when it actually-

- I've been meaning to tell you, Denim.

- Oh, okay.

- No, I'm kidding.

- I was gonna say, naturally it sucked.

- How did you feel?

- I mean, I was just mainly concerned

with how you were feeling the entire time.

- Yes, because I basically had like a nude Band-Aid.

They're like, "Here's some Band-Aids."

- Yeah, two or three Band-Aids, yeah.

- You're not acting at a certain point

'cause you're really out there in the elements.

Is it bad?

I don't know.

You guys were just the greatest group to come into.

And you're just all such gentlemen.

- She's reading that off this card. (laughs)

- That's what it says right here.

- That's scripted.

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- It's gonna be your last lesson, son,

how to be meaner than evil

and still love your family and still enjoy a sunrise.

- Kayce's journey this season is fascinating.

He's a guy who his whole life has been steeped in violence.

He's served in the military.

- You'll never meet a man who's killed more men than me,

but I ain't never murdered one.

- He's sort of, his entire life, come face-to-face

with this idea of absolutes, of Western justice.

He is following in his father's footsteps,

but he's trying so hard to do it his way.

- That shooting was justified.

- My office won't question it.

- Oh, you should probably question it.

I'm just letting you know what you're gonna find out.

- Also, as an example for Tate, right?

- We shouldn't be eating dinner.

We should be down and dealing with-

- Kayce.

- Dealing with what?

- Come on, Tate. Let's go.

- In the first two seasons,

Kayce was over and over again just a tool of John's will.