- That land is mine.
- Say that as much as you can.
That land is mine.
Get it all out of your system.
- There's a difference in Jamie after all of this.
He's always doing it not for his job,
but for his heart.
He was protecting them
and the things they wanted.
And those people have been terrible to him,
and now he doesn't have to do that anymore.
I'm not your son.
I don't have to.
Everyone makes their play for the ranch.
And already the impact is felt.
You know, Beth's run into troubles with filings.
- I have power of attorney over the estate.
- If the estate were in Utah.
Business is not law.
In fact, they're very contradictory.
The state of Montana does not recognize
power of attorney issued by other states.
- Then you see it start to fall away.
You start to see the sweat.
- That many moving parts,
that many people in a room with,
and that much power in the room.
And different perspectives.
The governor, Roarke and Willa.
- There are a lot of different people coming in now,
a lot of chess pieces.
It doesn't stay calm for long.
- There were moments in that scene with him
where you know it's gonna get juicy.
- Thomas Rainwater is there as well.
This is the moment.
- Of course Jamie is sitting with a lot
of new information about his family.
And of course none of us know that.
But it's very weighted for him in a way,
and he's responding to everybody in the room
in a kind of a different way.
- It was Willa and Angela
and Beth and myself all in the room.
And I loved it.
And it just felt right,
and felt fun and strong.
And I think that the women are watching,
viewers watching, are going to respond to that as well.
- So that is a tricky scene,
a chess match.
- Willa sits across from Beth,
with the full knowledge that she has put her down.
And then of course Rainwater is behind us.
- Can I see the environmental impact report?
- They're there to represent their interests,
which I think we know about it.
We don't know that they're gonna
put a curve ball in the room.
- All the gang will be there.
- When we go into this meeting
thinking, you know, we have this sewn up.
We've got everything in place, piece of cake,
let's just get this done.
And then the cards start to drop on the table
so then it becomes a beautiful poker match.
- I need to step out for a moment.
- It started out a certain way,
and it took a left,
and it's going somewhere really fiery
and interesting.
You can just see it in the moments in those scenes.
- The state has to move ahead
with eminent domain if you don't take the offer.
Everything happens.
The state says they're gonna make their play.
As attorney general, I try to make my play
for keeping the ranch for John.
And then Rainwater comes in
and makes the final sort of push.
- That's your angle too, John.
How does this impact your land?
- Native Americans and the cowboys
are coming together to fight the bigger giant.
It's in the history books, isn't it?
I mean history just repeats itself.
- Beth is just,
she's out there.
She doesn't hold anything back.
- Well I'm all fucking ears.
- Just seeing the contrast culturally speaking
because everything's so big in the Dutton family.
I mean we're more grounded,
we're anchored.
You're seeing some of the same dynamic
just from different points of view.
- You have an opportunity to free that land of him.
She's kind of playing two sides.
So while she is partnering up
beyond just helping the Dutton family
keep their land,
she wants the land back for her people
because this is actually their ancestral territory,
this is their land.
She also has her own agenda.
There's always something below the surface
that's there.
Kill him, and give us our land back.
- You don't know what to expect
because we've got so many personalities and individuals.
- So we have to up the stakes.
- We're hanging off a cliff there.
- Don't feel much like a land deal in Montana, does it?
- No, it feels like an oil deal in Yemen.
And from now on that's how we treat it.
- People are starting to take sides.
Some people are just screaming for blood.
Once they get enough of it in Yellowstone they want more.
- To now have an audience who are with you in the trenches.
- We work really hard on this,
and we all love it.
- It becomes an event every week.
- We hate Beth's office.
A lot of things happen in Beth's office.
Last season we busted it up a little bit.
This season we'll really do it.
So this is the special effects department.
This is our fabrication shop.
Because of that location there's no pyro.
We did it all with air.
He initiates the button,
the valve opens up.
The more you walk a scene like that through
with the director,
it'll change as it goes,
and it'll get more precise.
They understand action.
- Initially it's like God man,
this is like kind of creepy and weird, but beautiful.
They have to understand this guy doesn't have any money.
And whatever money he has, you know,
he gives it to the grave digger.
He wants to give her a ring
so he takes it,
and, you know, his mom's obviously
somebody that he loved and respected.
And I think that by giving Beth that ring
it brings potentially, in his mind,
you know, them closer together.
I mean there's a ton
of colors in it.
I don't really ever question Taylor.
I think he likes to push me in certain areas
and see how I react to certain stuff on camera,
which I love.
In the end it's a beautiful moment.
- Who'd you kill?
- Don't ask me that, Beth.
There's no secret to what Rip does.
She knows what Rip does.
She knows who he is.
She knows why he does what he does
for her father.
There's no great secret.
He has this great ability
to be able to compartmentalize in reality,
and being able to draw a line in the sand,
and this needs to be done.
And I think that's what makes him special to John.
That train only runs in one direction.
He's this guy who goes out
and gets rid of problems,
but at the same time too
is also a son of his.
Let me know if you need anything.
- To see Teeter, Colby,
all those characters so caught up
in that violence
and that anger
and that sense of Western justice,
to be so thoroughly blood thirsty
I think is really complicated for Jimmy.
- I think it's one of the more interesting
parts about me and Laramie coming in there
is that I don't really think
that they have an idea
of the severity of what happens in that family
and on that ranch.
- Laramie's mind's eye trying to take in
what exactly is going on here?
- She knows there's something going on,
but I think all she can really do
is just sort of guess at this point.
- Laramie's a little turned on by the whole thing.
I think she's excited by it.
She likes a little danger.
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- She starts to let her mind wander a little bit.
She lets her imagination go.
Do you know what a brand means?
- Jimmy is sort of questioning his decision
to take the brand.
And he's imaging this other life with Mia.
And Mia is pushing him in that direction.
She's pushing him, I think it's really beautiful actually.
She's not pushing him to do what she wants,
she's pushing him to do what he wants.
- I do think that she knows there's something
really dire going on,
and that it's not as sort of happy go lucky
as she might have thought.
- She's saying don't just keep living this life
because Rip wants you to.
Don't keep living this life
because Loyd wants you to
or John Dutton wants you to,
or Kayce wants you to.
What do you want?
He loves Mia,
but he also loves rodeo.
And I don't think he loves violence.
She just gives him the freedom
to do what he wants to do.
And what he wants to do
is get back up on that horse.
And as soon as he gets back on that horse
he's back on the ground.
- Think it could go so many ways,
I have no idea.
I just am excited to find out.
- I've ever seen a cliffhanger in a show,
it's about as good as it gets.
You're about to find out that John
is obviously been shot up.
Jimmy, I told him to stay off the fucking horse,
he doesn't listen ever.
Beth has been blown up,
and is in a building.
- I was incredibly surprised by these last two episodes
in season three, especially the last episode.
- I think everybody will be on the edge of the seats.
And then we have obviously year four,
and let's see what Taylor comes up with.
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