- Ain't about his respect son.
It's about everyone else's.
- Whatcha call little man work Jimmy.
- I mean Walker's a piece of shit in my mind
but he doesn't understand what the brand really means.
He's gotta hold his weight for wearing the brand
and also, being a wrangler on the ranch.
- He's heard of the Yellowstone Ranch before
and what it stands for an what it's all about.
I don't think he really knew the inner dealings
of what was going on there
but he's the kind of guy
who's looking for some new opportunities
and goes wherever the wind blows.
- But then he insults Beth and myself
and says something that's direspectful.
- Well I reckon I got a fondness for the farmer's daughter.
Guess we got that in common, don't we?
He's not afraid to play with fire a little bit, so to speak.
- And so I ended up breaking a wire,
which hits him in the face and he pulls a knife
and then he tries to stab me with it,
which is a bit of a joke.
It's just Ryan Bingham.
I love his music.
We're actually really good friends off camera.
- It's hard for me not to laugh and take him so seriously
when we're in those scenes.
But he's such a great actor.
When he comes in the door and he's giving you that look,
it's like, it's on from the get go.
And it's inspiring to work around such great actors,
especially 'cause I haven't done a lot of this stuff before.
- Wherever you go Walker, I'll find you.
(dramatic music)
- This oppurtunity is what you make of it Monica.
And you should look into faculty housing.
- There's housing?
Monica, she is a provider.
So she kind of learns how to take care of herself.
- We're moving? - You like it?
She does that through getting the job at the university.
I'll teach you what happened to my people and to yours.
Especially because she is really a history teacher
for all purposes.
She wants to change the ending.
It feels right for Tate and for me.
She wants a different life for her son
and she doesn't want him to fall into the Dutton trap.
- I missed.
- What happened?
- You happened dad.
Then everything happened.
You get the sense that his family is everything.
When that peg is pulled out from under him,
he just has nothing to stand on.
If he's ever gonna get them back,
he's got a lot of work to do.
- Kayce needs to learn how to run this place.
- Kayce is the golden son.
And he wants him to be the figure head of the ranch,
the continuation.
- He needs to learn how to lead these men
and he can't do that while he's living with them.
So John doesn't have, what you'd call,
a great bedside manner.
I'm gonna ask you to step down
and Kayce's gonna run the bunkhouse.
I know this is a bitter pill.
I get that.
- Rip has been demoted.
One of the most beautiful relationships in the show
is between Rip and John.
That friendship and that, sort of, how they communicate,
I love.
- [John] You understand what I'm asking.
- He wants his son to be apart of the family business
and I take a second seat to that.
- He needs to see if Kayce can do it.
The reality is Kayce is not gonna run the bunkhouse
the rest of his life.
So Rip is gonna have that position again.
Because you're who you've been to me,
you're really important.
But John doesn't have the bedside manner.
- He realizes he can't stay in the bunkhouse
because he's not gonna have the respect
that he needs to be able to run things.
And so he has him take Rip's house.
- There's beer in the fridge.
- I don't drink.
- [Rip] Figures.
- That's where you can see him start to grow,
because you don't want things to happen too fast.
But people have a way of just talking.
Look I need you to step down, I need you to do this.
And there's not this big second place trophy
that you give them to try to make them feel good about it.
But I also have to see how people behave
when it doesn't always go their way.
In this instance, it doesn't look like it's going Rip's way.
- Rip, you and Mortar ride and drag.
- That's where you get measured in that moment.
Are you gonna pout or you gonna go back to work?
And Rip goes back to work.
Rip has a place there but it has to do with,
where John's concerned, is how is he gonna behave
with this right now?
- So what he comes up with is,
I'll chase Walker, almost kill him,
in front of Kayce, and he'll defend him,
like I know he will.
And then we'll get in a fight.
- [Kayce] Hey.
What the fuck are you doing?
- You needed an excuse, now you got one.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
We do it in front of everybody Kayce.
I ain't gonna take it easy on your either.
- Ultimately leads to them having to have
this public display of changing of the guard
and everyone there needs to know who the boss is now
and John wants it to be Kayce.
They have to duke it out in this old fashioned way,
which is a very long fight scene,
which took a long time to do.
It was very hard on my body.
You can have a fight just for fight's sake,
but this fight tells a story in and of itself.
If you pay attention, there's a lot going on in there.
(men grunting) (punches landing)
- You want us to get in there? - No.
This needs to happen.
- A lot of history and backstory all within just people
getting after it.
(men grunting)
- [Man] Cut.
- Wade Allen's great.
I mean, he's great fight scenes.
Anything, he's really good at,
I think I said this last year,
but he's really good with me,
where he pushes me right to the edge.
And then what you find out through the end of the fight
is that Rip basically did it for John Dutton
and sacrificed himself and his honor for his family.
- Where you meeting tomorrow night?
Thank you.
The sacrifice is ego and it's a big one.
Ego's really important
and if you don't manage, he goes you're missing the point.
- And I think, if you look at that,
it's really, I don't know if there's a more,
beautiful, honorable thing you can do for somebody.
(dramatic music)
- I know there's a lot of warmth
between those two characters
but when Kayce comes back, it's almost like Rip.
So Beth takes that personally because Beth loves Rip.
And she feels incredibly loyal to Rip
and is disgusted and outraged,
the fact that he's been edged out
because golden son is back.
Such devotion.
You were so jealous.
And the way he'd look at you,
I was worried that he'd love you more some day.
When she says, I was jealous that he would love you more,
meaning John would love Rip more than her,
she's very honest about that.
But he doesn't.
But equally she's honest when she says but he didn't,
meaning he will never love you the way he loves me or Kayce
and that's a hard thing to say to someone you care about,
especially the person you're saying, please don't leave.
Don't leave.
- She knows why I did it.
She doesn't like that I did it.
This is my family,
whether y'all think of me that way or not.
I think that kind of surprises her and pisses her off.
- She's torn.
She doesn't want him to leave for her
but at the same time, go find somewhere else.
You start to see the inner workings of Beth in this season,
which we got a hint of last year.
That's when I really attracted to the character.
And that's just the writing.
The writing's exquisite.
- There's a bigger goal
and you'll see as the show progresses.
Rip is smart enough to know that.
This is just one sacrifice but the endgame is different.
It's gonna prove to John that not only do you need me
but I might be the best guy for the job.
(dramatic music)