- I don't care if you live or die.
But should you live,
you tell them about me.
(air whooshing)
(dramatic music)
(crew murmuring)
- Set and action!
- Dear Lord, bless this food for our use.
And us for thy service, and please make us mindful
of the needs and feelings of others, amen.
- Nothing for your father?
- Margaret Dutton is the matriarch, I guess you would say,
to the Dutton family.
- Please help daddy find those horse-thieving cowards
and hang them from the nearest tree.
(child laughs) (bangs table)
- You think that's funny?
Taylor asked if I would wanna do it,
and I said, "In a heartbeat."
- You pray that your father
and the men riding with him,
make it home safe to us, that is the prayer.
- When you're waiting a loved one's arrival
to come, return home,
you're concerned and trying to be candid
and honest with your children.
You need things to appear to be as normal as possible,
but you know it isn't, there's a heaviness.
(crew murmuring)
(hoof beats thumping)
(gun shots)
- That was the very first scene that I shot.
I was completely hooked.
And your adrenaline's pumping like crazy.
Feeling completely and fully in the moment
while you're doing it,
it just doesn't get any better than that as an actor.
You have to make sure that they know
that you're a mean son of a bitch,
and this will not happen on your land.
- I think it's interesting to understand the past
and Taylor's dipping into that.
It shows a level of violence, how deadly it could be.
- Walking back up to the house,
seeing my beautiful wife in this cabin.
And then all of a sudden seeing the genuine, real concern,
all of a sudden it wasn't about Margaret and JD.
This is the way she would have reacted
had I walked up from anywhere.
- (laughing) You can't let me die out here.
- That made just for a very special moment.
- You know the lodge is where family belongs.
Didn't sound like a question, did it?
- John kind of springs on him, basically,
I would love for you guys to come up
and live with me.
I mean, you asking us to come live up there?
- That's what I'm asking.
John Dutton does want his family under the same roof.
It's important to him, he says as much.
- Is this enough room for you, baby?
What do you think?
- I have five shirts and a pair of boots, Beth.
Having to live with your boss
and also have a relationship with his daughter,
I think it's a little stressful for Rip and uncomfortable.
That idea of living in that mansion on a hill
has never been in his future.
(crew murmuring)
- It's kind of awkward on (voice fades).
- And action!
- This is a guy who's eaten by himself for 30 years.
- It looks formal, Rip, but it's not, it's just supper.
- I think it's a bit overwhelming.
- It's good for the prostate.
- Lots of things are good for the prostate,
we just don't talk about them at the dinner table.
- Do families have dysfunction?
They do.
Does this one have dramatic dysfunction?
It does.
- Every meal, just like this one.
- She can't stand how it makes her feel,
she can't stand the pretense of what we're not.
- What, do what?
What am I doing?
What the fuck am I doing?
You know what I'm doing?
I'm fucking leaving, that's what I'm doing.
- Beth just goes fucking bad shit nuts (chuckles).
(crew murmuring)
- And action!
- What kind of childhood bullshit
are you working out at the dinner table?
- Rip, kind of can pull her out of that,
spinning out of control.
There's a table right here,
why don't we eat right here, what do you say?
- We're finally at a dinner table
where Beth can enjoy and relax.
And it frees them all up.
- You ran up the wall like a damn spider
and hung from the rafter.
- It's not so serious when it comes to her,
getting into that kind of funk.
That's the way to her heart,
is to make a little bit of a ha-ha about it.
- Life is plenty hard,
you don't need to help it, you hear me?
- Are you saying that I make life harder?
- Everyday.
- So the audience they see the show,
they hear us saying these lines and in the scenes,
but they don't read the scripts.
And some of my favorite things in the scripts
are Taylor's stage directions.
And there's a scene where he says,
"The camera pulls back to this strange family
"a widow, two orphans, and his daughter."
that's when you get glimmers
of what would be Beth's happiness.
And I just find it so beautiful.
(Water burbling)
- Son, you can beat him. - How?
How can I beat him?
Christina I think taps into another part of him
that he may not know is there.
Am I a fool for even considering this?
- He's the fool, Jamie.
- He starts thinking of it in that way,
rather than power and those kinds of things.
I think Jamie starts to actually believe,
"Oh yeah, there's affect here too,
"I could have power in the sense of affect,
"not just power in the sense of people are afraid of me."
- Now, who's gonna vote for him?
The environmentalists?
The transplants from New York or LA?
- And that's what a great love of your life can do,
is bring out those, the potential in you.
- He's bluffing, Jamie.
Call him on it.
(gentle music)
- Kathryn and I were effectively the only cast in Texas.
We were sort of separate from the rest of the cast
that stayed in Montana to shoot.
And so it was amazing for us
to sort of have that opportunity
to build that world ourselves, just us.
- Hi.
He has this sort of innocence about him,
where he doesn't even know how to play games
if he wanted to.
So there is a shower in the bunkhouse,
when I said the wash rack, I was being coy.
- Coy?
- I was flirting.
- Well, that's good,
- So we're in this little cafe, which is so funny
'cause it is the only cafe around there.
- Got into a little bit of trouble
did a couple of turns in jail.
- All right, so we're telling the truth, the whole truth?
- (chuckles) Yes ma'am.
- I think that that's super refreshing
and she's super attracted to that.
(gentle music)
(car engine revving)
(protestors murmuring)
- The way that Beth and I kind of come together is,
Beth tells me about this airport
that they're trying to build.
And use eminent domain law to take land away from the ranch.
(dramatic music)
- Beth fights dirty.
This one takes effort, strategy, sacrifice.
She uses her manipulation in her favor.
- Although I was in the area doing protest,
to protest the building
when airport is a much bigger deal and much more dangerous.
And so I call in all the protesters that I can find.
(indistinct)
(protestors murmuring)
- I say we press charges for trespassing.
- Beth advises her, it's better to just remove the press.
- If we get the press out of there
we don't have to be careful anymore.
- So it looks like Caroline and Beth are gonna make a team.
But I think there's fireworks on the horizon.
Inform the press to vacate our property.
- It gets really violent and dangerous.
- Oh my, God! - Hey, whoa.
- And she sets Summer up for a very big fall.
- And the leader of Free Earth,
Summer Higgins, has been charged
with felony aggravated assault on a peace officer.
(air whooshing)
(couple kissing)
- Oh yeah, there was something else I forgot to mention.
- Yeah.
- Yeah, what was it?
Oh yeah, we did it again.
- What we do?
- Fucked like rabbits till I got pregnant.
- You're pregnant?
- I think he's absolutely thrilled,
at the prospect of having another kid
where they are when he hears that, in this new place,
he's in a good spot to get that news.
- It's a wonderful light that is brought into their lives.
- I'm sure there's a part of him that is saying,
"Okay, I'm bringing another human into this situation."
- It just makes her more of a target, unfortunately,
but I'll let her have her happy moment for now.
(dramatic music)