(bird crowing)
- Did you think that everybody was going to make it out?
- I looked at it, and I was like, okay, four people, four people are down.
If anyone's dead, is it going to be a Dutton?
(laughing)
- Or is it going to be this.
(upbeat music)
- Episode 401 where we begin, John,
Dutton's lying on the side of the highway,
full of bullet holes.
Can anything save him?
If anything can save him.
It's going to be Rip.
- John don't you die on me now.
Not like this.
- Yeah, just the magic magic wand.
- 1 800 Call Rip.
- Kayce's in his office. Hidden behind a table.
- Yeah. Mid action leads, changing magazines,
grabbing new guns.
- Yes.
- Immediately picked up.
- Beth just endured this explosion.
Beth has been scarred.
- She's got tinnitus.
She's walking through,
stumbling out of the office building.
That's where we start the season.
- But has enough self-awareness to ask for a cigarette.
- Ya, first thing.
- Beth goes for the cigarette. What are you going for?
You survived the explosion. What's your first priority.
- As I'm stumbling out.
I'm looking for the first happy hour bar sign
and I'm going to have a martini
and I'm going to sit there smoldering.
- I think I go directly to a payphone and I, and I, I say,
sorry, sorry for whatever I did.
Please don't blow me up again.
I've.
- Denim what would you do?
- The first thing that I would probably do, I'll probably,
I probably asked for a cigar.
- See everybody goes to a vice.
- Give me this. Give me a Cuban.
- How bad is he?
- I mean, I'm an hour from the hospital.
He ain't got a fucking hour Kayce.
- Fuck! Send me your location. I'll send a care flight.
- One of my favorite things about that opening sequence
is finally seeing Kayce like switch.
We we've sort of seen these flashes of him,
of his past for the last three seasons.
And in that moment for the first time,
he sort of takes off any filter and just like brings the war
to Montana.
- Kayce you can't do this.
Too many goddamn people.
- He didn't need to think about anything.
It's just reacting.
The only way you survive is if you just go to what you know.
- I see it a little,
just a freckle differently where the first three seasons,
when we see him click over,
it's the animal and the emotion comes out almost from a
place of fear and survival.
It's emotional.
And it's a trigger as he seems like he's gotten sharper
when I saw him in this sequence.
He did the same thing,
but it was unemotional.
- And I feel like that's what it would be like
when he was in a war. Right.
You can't be in war, be emotional.
- Right. Okay.
He's learned. But the first few seasons,
cause he's dealing with all the control.
- Control that.
- It seems like he's healed in a weird way
and he can actually do these things.
And then also turn it right back off.
(automatic weapon sound)
- What they did to John Dutton.
Hasn't been done since they did it to us.
- You know,
you're watching the episode and you're seeing the aftermath
you still,
I still don't know exactly who's the mastermind.
- The Duttons have a lot of enemies.
And especially at the end of season three,
over the course of three seasons,
they've made a lot of enemies.
- Yeah an some of them have kind of just disappeared
for a time.
- Exactly. My
First thought
it was like the simultaneous organized attack.
- Where they all know where they are at the same time.
Yeah. Very coordinated.
- The Duttons by this point have a lot of bodies on their
hands.
So in season two,
the Duttons effectively executed the Beck brothers.
We don't know who that pissed off.
- Well, how do you know where all of the
family members are at the same time.
- There was a simultaneous full-scale assault on the ranch.
- That was our first day.
I want to say.
- It was.
- The sort of slo-mo ethereal sequence
of all of the mayhem.
You and I got tasked with carrying a 200 pound man
about 80 yards, sure, for about 26 takes from,
from the bunkhouse into the arena.
And then you very briefly see him hoisted up,
if you will, that's a nice good way of putting it,
but it's literally like a war zone.
You're like, who do I shoot at?
- We have Lloyd's up on the thing.
Jimmy's taking a nap in the middle of the arena.
- Just having a little snooze.
- Monica comes out of the barn.
And her first question is, oh, that guy's oh, cares.
Who cares?
Where's Jimmy, what's up with Jimmy?
That's what Monica wants to know.
- Jimmy?
- What happened to him.
- Twice in season three,
Jimmy falls off a horse and an episode ends with Jimmy
crumbled up on the ground.
Jimmy falling off the horse in 310,
hugely important for me. In the grand scheme of things,
not the most important thing that happens.
- How did it feel then when you read it and you knew that
you survived.
- It felt great,
but it was always a sort of mixed blessing because,
because I worried about Jimmy.
Cause my first thought,
I'm like oh, great, John, Dutton's alive.
Love that. Oh, Beth's alive.
What a treat. Oh, Kayce's alive.
Was never that worried about Kayce.
Nothing's taking Kayce down short of a nuclear explosion,
Jimmy. I was like damn,
because I'm in the hospital.
Maybe paralyzed
Jimmy, when he got back on that horse,
he defied John Dutton.
- Was he doing that in defiance of John Dutton?
- Gotta make me a promise.
No more rodeo.
- Or was he doing it to prove to Mia
that I'm a stand-alone man
and that I can kind of think for myself,
both of those things could possibly play.
- I don't think he was doing it in,
I think he was doing it for himself.
And he's always getting buffeted around by these powerful
other forces.
- If she hadn't been there to influence him.
- When I saw you rodeo. I saw a really happy man.
I saw a man who risked his life to do what he loved.
- Without her. I think I think he wouldn't have.
- Yeah.
- It's the first time in his life that he's felt proud.
His whole life he's been a fuck-up. On the rodeo.
Like in the arena.
Nobody thinks about that twice.
All that matters is those is the seconds he's on that horse.
Jimmy's trying so hard to even just have hope
that moment he sees John Dutton
the world outside of that physical therapy
room comes crashing back into the picture.
- This yours?
- There's one thing you can say for Roarke,
And that is that he died doing what he loves.
- At least if you're going to do it,
you might as well do it.
- You might as well die fly fishing.
That's the most you could hope for.
- Is it?
- I hope that I die playing X-Box.
Rip shows up in the river
where Roarke is fly fishing.
Comes at him with that cooler.
Roarke has been,
he's been orchestrating the violence,
but he's kept a safe distance from it.
- Pardon the way I'm dressed.
Just finished my yoga.
- And this time the violence comes to him.
- Yeah. We don't believe that he was the mastermind.
We just know that he's bad and evil and he's wanted,
we don't put this on him as his final judgment.
We just,
we're just tired of his shit.
- I just don't think that they care.
- I just think it's an interesting way to kill someone.
- A little present from the Yellowstone.
(snake hiss)
(Grunt)
- Absolutely.
- What else could have been in that cooler?
- When did you know what was coming out of the cooler?
When you opened up that cooler,
what else could have been in.
- Capri Sun? Maybe?
- Have a drink. Let's talk this out.
Like a chess board that's already set to play.
It's like, all right, let's settle this the old way.
- Or we could do a bullet round
- A mirror.
Think about what you did.
- If you get bit by a snake, knowing that you're going to,
then it's coursing through you.
That is an atrocious way to kill someone.
- Good riddance.
- We've had the opportunity to talk about a lot of things.
So,
- Oh, dang.
- Would you rather,
we'll start with you.
Would you rather wear the Yellowstone brand and have a bunkhouse
job for life
or be free to work elsewhere?
- Jimmy I'm going to give you two choices.
- You've asked an incredibly difficult question.
You've asked a question that Jimmy himself is wrestling
with.
- Exactly.
- Over the course of seasons three and four
He's sort of weighing these two things.
Cause the commitment to the bunkhouse is starting to feel a
little heavy.
Well also,
Jimmy's already made the decision Jimmy's wearing the brand.
So that's it. The decision
- has been made for you
- I'm wearing the brand.
- Do you know what a brand means?
- It means I'm a part of something.
- What about you?
- My answer would be for me, I would like to be free,
but I don't know.
As we've seen, if it's possible,
you can be asked to leave.
You can be made to come back.
You can be told, you know, so I'm gonna,
I'm gonna ride the wave.
- I'd like to be more like an independent contractor.
- Just a little mercenary.
- Yeah.
- Would you rather get dragged by Mo's horse
or be bit by Rip's rattlesnake?
- I would rather get the drug by a horse.
I haven't nearly deathly fear of snakes
and I feel like I can deal with the horse thing.
Mo is a,
he's like a sensei of practical application of anything.
- And what about you?
- Yah, I'm choosing
Mo would take care of you.
It'd be like lying on a bed of wool.
- Okay, I'd rather just be bit by a rattlesnake.
- Your joking?
- Be done with it.
- That's it? That is done.
- That's the point.
I'm over it.
- Oh my God.
- That's how I'm interpreting the question.
- We gotta unpack that.
- I just feel like.
- No
- He just, you know,
he takes you for like a little run.
- It does seem like an amusement park.
Okay.
Would you rather beat John Dutton in poker or lose to John
Dutton in poker?
- Any of you dipshits feel like losing a week's wages
to the boss.
- Lose.
- Win, take all his money.
- I'd much rather win.
- My whole strategy is acknowledging that I am
worse than them in every respect.
And then sort of trying to attach myself to them like a
barnacle.
- How's that work working out?
- I'm here.
I'm incredibly lucky, you know,
but if you don't compete for status.
I would much rather win.
- Damn.
- Just take every, like every,
and have it cursed,
I would want to send them to the ATM machine
and have him come back.
- Why lose?
So that you aren't perceived as a threat.
My whole career is built on.
- What are you going to do, kill me?
- Flattening myself like a tick.
So as to go unnoticed.
- Like a bedbug.
Exactly.
- Okay.
- Those guys are pernicious they stick around.
- Two different strategies.
- very different strategies.
- That's okay.
- I slide in low status.
- I can live with those consequences.
That's the end of a,
would you rather.
- Thank you for protecting this place.
And protecting my family.
I'll never forget it.
- What's that like having John Dutton in the bunkhouse?
- He poked his head in once or twice,
but this was the first,
and you know, you're always like,
what?
He sat down.
He was a different dude.
He was shooting the shit.
Right?
- Cause we played cards.
- We played cards and we, and not only that,
he was like, he was like, if you guys can shit talk on me,
give it your best shot.
And then you're like,
let me roll my sleeves up.
- Just wanna let you know when we play cards
We like to talk a lot of trash. So don't get your feelings hurt.
- If one of your boys think you can insult me
- Give it your best shot.
- And it was,
it was delightful and fun.
- Every time a boss comes in, like every time Rip comes in,
like all the fun goes away.
- What the fuck?
- In the bunkhouse,
Like our cares are pretty simple.
You know,
we don't really ask for a lot of things.
So just getting appreciation kind of goes a long way.
- Looks like you boys could use some beer hmm.
- And it's more than just a thank you.
It's I'm here.
It's just a subtle difference that made everybody feel good.
And plus it was, it was fun and we ad-libbed and yeah,
it was good.
That was early on too.
But it was fun.
- Are we paying holdem now?
- We can play anything you Want to lose your money to.