(somber music)
- Look how angry you are.
- You're God damn right, I'm angry.
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- Well, Jack is young.
- Passionate, hotheaded, but at the same time, a great heart
and an utter commitment to the wellbeing of the family.
- Can't win without a leader.
- I can lead 'em.
- They won't follow you.
Not yet.
He has no lack of love or respect for Jack.
It's simply that he's not yet mature enough
to be able to take the responsibility
or to understand the complexity of the circumstances.
Spencer is several years older,
a different kind of personality, perhaps one that seems,
to Jacob, to be more useful in this kind of conflict.
(Cara sighs)
- She goes to the post office every day
and just hoping for a telegram to have arrived from Spencer
and there never is.
- If one comes, I'll send Stephen with it.
At least spare you the carriage ride.
- The carriage allows me to remove hope early
so I can get on with my day.
One of my favorite scenes I shot,
I was just driving in my little buggy down a beautiful path.
I had two outriders, the character of Jack and Zane,
and we were way up in the hills.
And they had a drone, so there was no one around.
There was no camera or crew and it was amazing.
It was like absolutely being there.
I really had a moment of utter reality.
It was brilliant.
I had no lines to say as well,
which was an advantage. (laughs)
I've sent for the doctor.
- What for?
- For you.
- I think at this point, Emma has just given up.
She just doesn't feel like she has a purpose.
She doesn't see a future.
And I think she feels almost a sense of betrayal
that John has left her and she just wants the pain
to be over and she just wants to be with him.
Tragically, Emma ends her own life.
- It's within reach, psychologically.
A very truthful thing that happened
out of incredible depression.
- This isn't what you promised.
You haven't lost anything that I haven't lost.
I'm an orphan too, now.
And all we have is each other and I don't even have that.
Of course, Jack went through a huge loss, as did Elizabeth.
And people choose to grieve in completely different ways.
I don't believe Elizabeth ever had the intention
of stepping away from their love,
but I think it was a wake-up call for Jack.
- He needs to step up, and he does.
We don't need a wedding to get married.
We're standing in front of God right now.
- Elizabeth has chosen Jack time and time again
throughout the series.
This is the first moment
that we really see Jack choose Elizabeth.
- It was a nice scene to film.
Beautiful, scenic view of the mountains behind us.
- Just the feeling in the air,
the vistas that you're looking at, just like that,
they're just standing alone in the middle of nowhere.
- No more log-and-sod for you.
(keys jingling)
It's yours.
- Banner Creighton ends up being bribed
and is given a mansion.
Fortunately, we were able to come into town
and find this mansion
that was one of the Copper King's mansions.
So we built fabulous draperies and furnishings
and had a lot of fun with it.
- It's incredible.
- Whitfield's a shark and he's thinking of the future.
- His marching orders really are to clear
as many ranches as possible by any means possible
because that's where the minerals are.
- He wants to buy it all up
and strangle the Dutton properties.
The valley's changing.
There are opportunities beyond cattle,
which isn't much of a business these days.
More of a dream, really, and not a good one.
- Well, it's our dream.
- It was very cold, fucking freezing.
And (chuckles) she's a wonderful, fine actress.
I remember meeting her when I was 17 years old
and we were both in Britain's Royal National Youth Theater.
One of the best Cleopatras I've ever seen.
(suspenseful music)
- Teonna is traveling through the Badlands,
trying to get back home.
For a 16-year-old who hasn't been outside
behind a mile radius in five years, it's terrifying.
(Teonna screams)
Teonna gets down and dirty with a wolf.
In actuality, it was so freaking cute.
(gentle music)
(Hank speaks in native language)
(Teonna speaks in native language)
- Meeting Hank, he vows to protect her
and bring her to a safe space.
I think in that moment when he says,
"You're Runs His Horse's daughter,"
and it's so special for her 'cause she's like,
"Oh, this is actually happening, I did it."
This is giving her that energy to move forward.
- I need to book passage to America.
- America, how do you expect to do that?
- It's really this grand journey.
These two people that care so deeply for each other
and they're trying to make it back to Montana.
Did you send a wire?
- Shooting at an actual port in Africa
with 20 period boats and cars and 200 background,
it's just a blessing, as an actor,
to have that ability to just fully immerse yourself.
And everywhere you look, it is what your character's doing,
you are what your character is.
And the wardrobe is great.
- The fishermen, they wore kikoi cloths.
That was very important for us to find the proper cloths
from the period 100 years ago.
Part of my crew traveled up to Kenya
to buy the proper cloths.
That was such an adventure.
And I have what's called a distressing team.
And they are masters of what's called
the breakdown and the aging.
I love distressing
because it's kind of like painting the costume.
(triumphant music)
- This is it.
- This is what?
- Our ship.
- What is it?
Alex and Spencer find a very spooky-looking tugboat.
(Julia chuckles)
That's their only option.
- Come on board.
- They hop on with this strange, wacky man.
Peter Stormare who plays Lucca
is so incredible as the captain.
And pretty immediately face a lot of challenges.
(boat squeaking)
They are suddenly having to pilot the ship on their own
and Lucca's dying and coughing up blood.
And pretty quickly, they get hit by a ghost ship.
They are fighting for their lives, once again.
- Three, two, one, action.
- I'm a bit of a nutter, so I just like doing everything.
I like getting dirty and getting tossed around.
Everything's gone off without a hitch
and they've got your back and you're safe.
And they've evaluated everything to the end of the earth
and they're there cheering you on
and you wanna make those guys proud.
I've thoroughly enjoyed it.
- Cable came this morning.
- Finally, one day,
just as things are really getting to their breaking point,
she receives a telegram saying that he's on his way.
Of course, being on his way,
that's quite a long way back from Africa
and anything can happen in between.
(foreboding music)
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(triumphant music)