(energetic guitar music)
(loud sigh)
- What do you think the future holds for Colby?
(energetic rock music)
- I feel like now especially with Ryan
kind of getting into what he's getting into--
(loud explosion)
and I've obviously gotten very close to Jimmy--
- Colby's mom, that's a cougar?
(cougar scream) - and then obviously
there's old cowboy.
- We all cowboys.
- The hell you are.
- He's kind of now trying to figure out what all this is.
- What the fuck
does that mean? - The fuck does that mean?
- You know it's obviously the Yellowstone is
much more than wrangling cattle
and playing poker at night.
There's a whole other organizational thing
that's going on and it seems like everybody
knows about it except for Colby in a way
or everybody else has accepted it,
except for Colby.
- If you had a lick of sense,
you'd quit too.
- And I think that,
potentially going forward he's not going to be
in denial about it and he's really going to have
to come to terms
with what these situations look like,
I mean you have him going off and
doing what he's doing.
(loud explosion)
And then even old cowboys, like I'm leaving
and you start to put all these pieces together
of Ryan wanting to leave and it's like
all these people are kind of desperate
to get out or to be put up and I'm the only one
that's kind of like,
I'm cool where I'm at.
You know, what am I trying to do?
Clearly I know I'm not going to be in the office
working with Jamie.
(light chime)
(laughs)
I definitely think that it would be
amazing to take more of a physical role,
just to see a complete turn,
but at the same time,
trying to keep that purity of him.
- I would bet that Ryan is going to
start to stir the pot
and put a division
between different factions within the bunkhouse
and also maybe the outside world,
so he can start to pick a party that he
might be able to become the leader of later on.
I think he's tired of getting sort of beat on
by Cole and just treated like a child.
- You know how to shut the fuck up?
He asked if there was any questions in the rank.
- And he's putting things in position
to take over when the time is right,
so he's creating that mix
and then when it explodes,
he's going to pick up all the pieces
on one side or the other.
Yeah, I don't think he cares to be
honest in the end.
What about you,
where does Jimmy go after all this time?
Where does he end up?
- It's a really tricky question,
because I think at the end of the season,
Jimmy's the last tether that held Jimmy
to the world outside of the Yellowstone is gone.
His grandfather's dead,
so this is his only family,
it's his only sort of ship in a storm,
but I also think that he is just learning
what that life is,
he's seeing what Rip is capable of
and learning what he might be asked to do
and he's going to have to contend with
whether he's comfortable with that.
I think that he came on the ranch,
in part to escape a life of criminality.
- You're a thief.
- And to escape a dark path.
- Oh, what the fuck man?
- And he's now contending with the fact
that he's sort of--
- You start Monday.
- Out of the oven,
into the frying pan
or whatever that expression is.
- Yeah, there's nothing else out there.
- Yeah, he's on another dark path right.
If Rip is the future,
that's a dangerous path to walk down you know?
- Yeah.
- And I think that it looks like that's
sort of Jimmy's future,
Jimmy's future is following in Rip's footsteps.
And Rip's not a happy healthy person.
- Are you all right?
- No.
- So I think that Jimmy has to sort of
ask himself what he's willing to do,
how far he's willing to go
to serve this new family.
You know I think that's in part what the journey
of this second season is for Jimmy,
is like coming to understand
exactly what he's signed up for
and how wearing the brand puts a distance
between him and folks that aren't branded
and inextricably ties him to people
that wear the brand.
- Why would you do that?
- Why do you think?
- Ryan is definitely not physically branded.
He is mentally and emotionally well past that,
so the brand would be just--
- I'm already in this place so deep.
- And I think in terms of his operation,
he's accepted what it would mean to have that.
- You want in?
- And he's already doing that,
so it would be just,
oh you want to pay me,
want me to write a check for it,
sure, I'll do that.
- I know.
- But I think that's part of his plan
is to go through that.
- Colby's not branded and it is interesting,
because you take a position where you see
others that you're surrounded by,
being branded and so you kind of emotionally
check yourself as far as what that means,
because you see yourself doing
the same work as them,
but because there's certain things
that are happening after dark--
(gun bangs)
(flesh sizzles)
(loud explosion)
That you're not privy to,
that's kind of where
that separation really comes in.
Given the chance for Colby to be branded,
I think it's very interesting to see
what even that would like
as far as how he feels.
- Do you want it?
- I don't know if that's Colby's path,
I don't know what he's,
he's really paying attention more,
I think especially since Jimmy came to the ranch
and there's like this young
kind of vivacious person that
didn't really grow up here
and then seeing you kind of get thrust in being branded,
(man inhales sharply)
and then constantly contemplating
whether you want to be here
and what that looks like,
but then also seeing yourself trying to wrestle
with just submersing yourself.
- I don't think I'm cut out for this.
- Nobody is, Jimmy.
- You know with everything,
so wondering what that would be like,
having been on the ranch much longer,
what being a branded would even look like
and if that's something that he wasn't
trying to run away from in the first place.
- One word to describe (short beep)
this season. It's hard, but...
- Action.
(man yells painfully)
(man punches another man angrily)
(loud explosion)
- It's, I mean (snorts) yeah.
- Gut-wrenching.
- I'm going to say uncontrollable.
(bull roars)
Desperation.
- Escalation.
- Manipulation.
Are we just find things that rhyme?
- Yeah.
- Okay, that was-- (drowned out by speaker)
- Perspiration.
(laughs) - Just want to make sure
we're all on the same page.
- Condensation.
(bell dings) - Right.
- Amelioration.
- Levitation.
(laughs) Just to bring it back.
- That was a weird scene,
I won't be surprised if that gets cut.
(laughter)
- It doesn't vibe with everything (laughs).
(short beep)
- Finito?
- Yes.
- We did it?
- Shoot.
Team photo?
(bell rings)
(buzzer sounds twice)
- That is a wrap.
(camera clicking)