If you're anything like me, you're Jeff White. (laughs)

I've never ridden an elevator before.

I'm from Iowa.

Chilli-lime cashews, chilli-lime cashews.

(trumpet trills)

(grunts)

Hey, come on, come on.

(grunts)

Chilly-lime cashews, chilly-lime cashews,

chilly-lime cashews.

You know what I mean?

That's pretty cool, that's great.

(energetic rock music)

Welcome to the Yellowstone, episode four.

We're gonna talk about Yellowstone 104,

The Long Black Train, my personal favorite

episode and not just because it's got a lot of Jimmy stuff,

and the producers are signaling to me

that we only have five minutes.

Guys, come on, please?

Six minutes? - No.

- I'm getting a no.

- [Breia] You can do this.

You're going to get better each episode,

and by episode nine, you're gonna have this under control.

- Yeah, I'll do a less in depth reading of each episode.

Is that your goal? - Stop.

- Is that what you want?

If you want shallow dramaturgy, you got the wrong guy.

Five minutes here we go.

The very first thing that happens is that the tribal police

on the Broken Rock Reservation have uncovered the bodies

of the kidnappers that Kayce Dutton killed in 103.

So once again, Kayce Dutton's crimes coming back

to haunt him.

He might be in trouble.

Then the cows that were on the Broken Rock Reservation,

which set off the whole chaos of this season,

are back on the Yellowstone

and they're all the fuck over the place.

So the wranglers are working on wrangling them,

they're cowboying them to get them back where they need

to be to take care of them.

Gotta protect those cows.

Number one cowboy expert right here.

And while they're out there trying to wrangle those cows up,

Jimmy fuck it all up Hurdstrom manages to fall off his horse

and get effectively left behind,

but he's not the only one left behind.

There's also this little baby calf,

and Jimmy has this real gut check moment

where he has to decide if he's gonna just say fuck it

and head back and abandon this calf

or if he's gonna do some real cowboy shit

and bring that calf home back to its mama.

We don't know yet.

Dot, dot, dot, to be continued.

Don't forget that little thing.

And then, very tragically,

Kayce and Monica are still dealing with the aftermath

of Samantha Long's suicide.

So they're taking care of her kids,

their nieces and nephews,

and they're trying to figure out how they're gonna move forward,

and they're asking themselves some larger questions

like what's in their best interest

and their family's best interest whether it's responsible

to leave Tate in these conditions,

these very difficult conditions that they are living in

on the Res or if it makes more sense to take Tate

and go live at the Dutton Ranch,

which is basically like a giant cowboy-themed theme park

for a kid, right?

It's an amazing place for a kid to grow up,

and so they're asking themselves deep, ethical, horny,

horny?

(laughing)

Thorny, just a completely different meaning.

They're asking themselves some deep, ethical,

thorny questions about what makes the most sense

in terms of where they should be raising Tate.

Okay, and then, as they're contending with that stuff,

Rainwater comes by the house to see Kayce

and to put some pressure on Kayce a little bit.

So Kayce and Monica are, again, caught in the middle

of this conflict between the Duttons

and the Brocken Rock Reservation.

They're trying to figure out where they stand

and where their most important loyalties lie

which is an ongoing theme for them.

To get Tate out of the house so he doesn't have to be

around the aftermath of this tragedy,

they give Tate over to JD, John Dutton,

ask John Dutton to take care of him,

and within exactly 5 minutes, Tate falls in a river,

and John Dutton has to jump in to get him out,

and Tate bumps his head and almost gets hypothermia.

Yeah, not great, John Dutton,

but good for them to spend this quality time together.

So, Jimmy, as we mentioned before, has grabbed this calf,

brings it back to the ranch,

impresses everyone except for Fred,

who has a special enmity for Jimmy, fucking hates him,

and so after Jimmy brings this calf back, Fred bullies Jimmy

and deliberately picks a fight with him,

Jimmy, being tough and plucky but not super smart,

gets in a fight with Fred

and basically just gets his ass kicked

until Rip and Lloyd show up and kick the shit out of Fred,

and basically, for the first time,

show us what it means to wear the brand

and show us what it means to be a branded man

on the Yellowstone.

So we learn very importantly that to fuck with a branded man

is ill-advised and Rip says to Jimmy, "These other guys,

"these other wranglers, they come and go,

"but we're family.

"We belong to this place."

So we're starting to fill out what it means

to wear the brand, and Jimmy's starting to understand,

for the first time, exactly what he's signed up for.

So at the same time that all this crazy shit's going on,

the tribal police are putting pressure on Kayce.

There's a lot of stuff going on there.

Beth is still on her mission

to absolutely destroy Dan Jenkins

like a fucking, heat-seeking missile,

just blow up his whole life.

So she continues to basically invade has space

to go and seduce him in a kind

of strange psychosexual status game,

and she brings him to this bar where a very cool band,

Whiskey Myers, is playing.

Great band, I was really excited to get to know them

through the show, they rock, big fan.

Beth brings Dan Jenkins to this bar--

(phone chimes)

- [Breia] You were close.

- We are pretty close.

We're getting better.

So just take that sound out in post,

and then do it in a few seconds

when it's more convenient for us.

So Beth takes Dan Jenkins to this bar, basically

into cowboy ground zero,

where he gets the shit kicked out of him.

He gets punched by two guys consecutively

and eventually has to leave, and then Rip shows up

and Beth and Rip dance.

It's really sweet.

So their relationship is getting deeper and deeper,

and at the same time that that sweet moment is happening,

Fred, who has effectively quit his job

because he refuses to do low-man work,

gets taken and gets a ride from Lloyd to the train station

which we learned means he's killed.

To ride the long black train is to get killed.

Dang, that's a hard lesson.

A lesson that Fred learns the hard way,

and then at the very end of the episode,

sort of huge cliffhanger, Kayce gets arrested,

and we don't know exactly for what.

Kayce gets picked up by the cops.

What's going on?

He's got a number of bodies on him

so it's hard to say why he's been arrested,

but will find out soon enough.

Yeah, that's a recap of the whole episode.

That's all the major plot points.

So let's go through some important bits.

Episode MVP,

(air whooshing) episode MVP, Rip Wheeler.

This is a big Rip episode.

Rip comes to Jimmy's rescue,

has this beautiful speech about what it means

to wear the brand, and then also,

we get to see Rip and Beth deepening their relationship

at this bar, big Rip Wheeler episode.

My grandma's favorite line of the episode,

(air whooshing)

my grandma's favorite line of the episode,

"Gee, I fucking wonder, Jimmy," says Rip.

My grandma likes all the swearing on the show.

She keeps saying, "Hey, could you get them to swear more?"

Easter eggs,

(bell chimes) Couple fun Easter eggs

in this episode.

First appearance by Gator,

our craft services guy Who appears on the show.

he's in five episodes of the show.

He's an amazing chef.

In the opening montage of the episode,

there's this early-morning montage.

Gator is serving some food, and also,

you see you get an early peek at Tom Foran

whose an incredible, real-life horse trainer,

who you see for a brief moment in that early montage,

and then when Jimmy falls off the horse

and Jimmy's trying to get his horse back,

there was this whole sequence,

and at one point while they were trying

to figure out what the sequence was,

this horse actually got away, just kind of wandered off,

jogged away, and Forrie J. Smith really roped it

in real life, and that happened,

and they just happened to be rolling.

So then they blocked the scene around that happening

because Forrie J. Smith really did that shit in real life,

and they were like, "Oh, that was cool.

"Let's do that."

So that's a good Easter egg is

that Forrie J. Smith really roped that horse.

That was Easter eggs. (air whooshing)

Okay, here's another one.

Jefferson's favorite guest stars.

(bell chimes)

This episode has another amazing performance.

This isn't his first episode, it's his second,

by Buck Taylor, who's an amazing classic cowboy

and actor and incredible, real-life, Western artist.

He's an amazing artist and actor

and I think it's an episode for a special shout out

to Luke Peckinpah who plays Fred,

who is the nicest guy in the world

effectively playing a real asshole.

He's remarkable.

Luke, miss you, buddy

and just that also seamlessly ties

into our little in memoriam. (bell chimes)

In this episode, we lost Fred.

Pour one out for Fred.

Sorry, Fred.

That's not how Jimmy would've wanted it to go.

You know?

So, bummer on that.

Fred, miss you everyday, Luke.

What do you think, maybe do some questions from Instagram?

- [Breia] Let's do it.

- Hell yeah.

- [Breia] I'm not sure how to pronounce this one.

@wmwettengel, what's the best thing about living in Iowa?

- About living in Iowa?

Iowa's beautiful.

I grew up there so I was living in Iowa until I was 22,

and I didn't know it was beautiful until I left,

and now, every time I go back, it's so gorgeous.

In every direction, corn and soybeans and barns

and it's really cool.

There is also a thriving art scene in Iowa City

and around the state,

incredible filmmakers in Des Moines

and incredible musicians in Iowa.