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Previously on "Yellowstone.."

Allow me the honor of introducing your next governor

John Dutton, and U.S. Senator Lynelle Perry.

Look at him. His father is the governor.

He'll be next.

This should be the happiest day of his life.

Why isn't he smiling?

Get Sarah Atwood out here.

It's time we took the gloves off.

Is this a good thing or a bad thing?

It's a good thing for the land but I don't see

how it's good for us.

Supreme Court Justice: Congratulations.

My God. Four years is a long time.

This is not where I want to spend it.

Hey. It's me.

Carter.

Jesus. It's been a while.

The cramps are getting worse.

- I'll send an ambulance out to meet you on the road, okay. - Okay.

You need to go to Billings.

I had a brother for an hour.

They named him John.

Mom?

Ah!

Mom?

No!

Mom! Mom!

Mama! Mama!

No! Stay there!

Find your phone, call an ambulance.

Now!

9-1-1. What's your emergency?

We had a wreck. My mother's having a baby.

We need an ambulance.

Is anyone hurt?

Everybody's hurt. We need an ambulance.

Do you know where you are?

We're on the road to Billings.

I don't know the road.

I can send you a pin.

I'll give you a number.

Let me know when you're ready...

I'm ready.

406-412-0911.

- I sent it. - Good.

What's your name?

Tate Dutton.

There is already an ambulance en route, Tate.

Mom!

Tell them to hurry!

Dad?

I'm coming, buddy.

She gonna be okay?

She's a strong woman, son.

That's not what I asked.

We're all gonna be okay.

It's just... gonna take time.

You lost a brother. I lost a son.

But she lost more.

He was a... part of her, so she lost a part of herself.

If that makes sense.

Yeah.

Are you gonna try again?

For another one?

I don't know.

I think you should.

I liked having a brother.

I want you to go saddle up Mister Dutton's horse.

Is he here?

No, but we need to keep him legged up.

Who's gonna ride him?

You are.

- I am? - That's right.

I don't have all fucking day, let's go.

Go grab him.

God didn't add extra daylight to Tuesday, Carter.

Now, let's go, man.

Go get his fucking saddle. Let's move this along.

I think this fucker tripped this morning and hit his head.

Let's go!

Fuck this, you can take care of this shit.

I'm not dealing with it anymore.

We'll catch up.

Don't do it fast, do it right, now.

Back cinch.

Right.

You know, kid, you only do this fifteen times a day.

I know, I just don't do it for myself.

Uh, right. What else?

Where's your rope?

What else?

Right, fuck hat.

Chaps if you got 'em.

All right.

Hell, I think those used to be mine.

All right, what else?

We ain't got time for what else.

Swing on up there, cowboy.

All right, now we play catch up. Come on.

This is unbelievable.

Why do I have all these damn meetings in one day?

Because tomorrow you're in Butte,

and then Thursday you speak in Missoula.

Why am I in Butte?

You're speaking at White Song Elementary

about your new education initiative.

What's my new education initiative?

Uh, it's uh...

"To further education with hands-on learning

through the Dalton-Wiggins Technical and Trade Academy."

Never heard of it.

It's a trade school.

Run by the state?

No, it's a private technical college.

Answer me this, Clara.

Who exactly is my Chief of Staff?

The party's nominating committee chose Jim Roberts.

Is Jim Roberts in the building?

He's in his office.

Could you bring him to me, please?

Mm-hm.

I forewarned you, if you don't pick 'em

- they will pick them for you. - Mm.

Governor, it's an honor.

Tell me, which one is your buddy, Dalton or Wiggins?

Uh...

The beneficiaries of the education initiative

that I'm unaware that I support.

The education initiative...

Jim, I'd like to introduce you to my daughter, Beth.

Pleasure to meet you.

She's my new Chief of Staff. Get out of my office.

Now, Jim. If I could just-

You can't. Get the fuck out of my office.

Dad, I, uh...

I don't have time to follow you around the state.

You got me into this, sweetheart,

you're going to get me through it, now.

Hand her that satchel.

The football. We call it the football.

All right, Clara. The football.

Now hand her the football.

Let's start with this schedule.

Um, well...

in 15 minutes you have a meeting

with the Montana Trade Alliance.

What's that?

Their focus is enhancing trade between foreign nations.

What does that have to do with me?

It's politics, John.

You're going to shake a lot of hands,

you're gonna take a lot of photos.

It amounts to absolutely nothing,

but it does maintain the good will

with the people that elected you.

I'm not seeking good will.

I'm seeking the end of the airport on my land.

Well, as Governor, you can cancel funding

and tax rebates for the build.

They'll file an emergency injunction to block the order.

A judge will uphold your decision,

and Market Equities will just go get a loan

from Blackstone or Goldmans, and continue to keep on building.

Then cancel the lease.

You can't cancel the lease.

They will sue you and win.

The lease has progress thresholds.

That build site cannot lay dormant.

They have a one year grace built into the lease.

I'm not waiting a year.

Revoke the funding.

Order an environmental review and cancel the lease.

They will sue you. And I mean you.

Halting the build will create real damages.

And canceling the lease, that's how they end up with your ranch.

He's right, John.

That land is zoned agricultural, right?

Yeah.

So how are they building an airport and condos

on land that is agricultural?

The application has already been submitted.

It's a formality.

The Commissioners are gonna sit on it as long

as they get free dinners and campaign contributions.

Right, so, it's not yet approved.

Not yet.

Surely there is some law that prevents the state

from funding projects that are not, you know, properly zoned?

Yes, Beth, there is,

and that statute is waived by this office all the time.

Well, not this time.

Clara, will you set a drink for the Governor and myself,

and the Park County Commissioners?

- Just Ronnie and Kyle. - For what day?

Today.

The Governor has a dinner tonight with

the Montana Clean River Alliance...

For fuck's sakes, Clara,

if it has the word "alliance" in the name, cancel it.

6:00 P.M. Deerfield Club.

And Clara, you're going to want to pack a bag.

We're going to take this party south.

I think our work is done here.

Not yet.

I want it on my desk in an hour.

Can we talk about this, just you and me?

Just you and him?

How many one-on-one conversations

do you want me having?

Just go do your fucking job.

- Okay. - Good.

See you in a bit.

Clara, can I take a peek at his schedule?

Okay, I'll absorb as many of these as I can.

John, the Governor's office is a game of favors.

You start by giving them, then you can ask for them.

When the State committee finds out that

you are not in this for the long haul,

everyone that supported you will be looking for a parachute.

Market Equities will not just go away.

This will be a fight. A big one.

When they realize that all they have to do

is wait four years, then they'll just wait.

You need to change laws if you want them to never come back.

To change laws, you need favors.

You should've never let them in, Lynelle.

I didn't grant them the lease, John.

Jamie did, and he was really wise to do so.

The land Board is made up of five officers:

the Governor, the Attorney General,

the Secretary of State, the Auditor,

and the public interests Superintendent.

Now who do you think funded the campaigns for the other three?

If it had gone before the land committee,

the state would own your land.

That's their next move

when you cancel the lease, by the way.

You could be a really good leader, John,

but you're a shitty politician

because you won't play the game.

But if you don't play the game, the game plays you.

I'm here for another month.

Use me.

That's a refreshing thought.

It's not what I meant.

Hey.

Hey!

That's how you slam a door, Jamie.

Never contradict him again.

When he says jump you don't ask how high,

you just start fucking hopping.

I am trying to protect him and the ranch.

This isn't some sleazy developer from Beverly Hills,

this is a multinational firm that has invested

billions of dollars,

and leveraged billions more on the back of this development.

They will fight you. They will fight you dirty.

Is there any other way?

I want to believe that you're advising

what's best for the family, I do.

But then I remember: this isn't your family.

And he's not your father.

And we both know how you treated your own father.

Just stop thinking that you have a chance

to earn redemption, Jamie. You don't.

Just do as you're fucking told

until these fuckers tuck tail back to New York.

Then I will just quietly put you out to pasture.

Your political career was over

the moment you chose your father over mine.

You're in my prison now.

And if you ever forget it...

I'll put you in a real one.

I, uh, heard you sold your ranch.

I want you home at the weekends.

Where I can keep an eye on ya.

Say "Yes, ma'am."

Yes, ma'am.

Good boy.

What are you doing here?

Just here. In case you need something.

We need to have a funeral.

Just us.

I don't need fifty people to tell me how sorry they are.

I should've been here.

I should've driven you myself.

We're not gonna do that.

No "should've."

I could "should" myself to death.

But I won't. And I won't let you do it either.

I'd like to bury him at the ranch.

That way we can always visit him.

Ask your father.

His answer will be yes. You know that.

Ask anyway.

I'll do it.

When you said you saw the end of us...

is this what you saw?

No, baby.

I never saw this coming.

And this won't be the end of us.

What will?

I would have to choose the end of us.

And I will never choose that.

Tate said he wants us to try again.

Said he wants a brother.

I really wanted him to have one.

Hey, come here.

Hey!

Hey!

Lloyd!

Shit. Wolves.

Yep.

It's odd they'd go after the mama, though.

She was probably protecting her calf.

I don't think wolves killed it.

You got wolf tracks all around.

Ate the stomach and the ass out.

That's what wolves do.

Not saying they didn't eat it,

I'm saying they didn't kill it.

No bites on the hocks.

Wolves found her down...

Don't matter, they got the taste of beef.

Can you get us depredation tags?

Let me call Kayce, let's get a state hunter out here.

We ain't going to Kayce

with all the shit he's dealing with.

And we don't need state hunters out here three days

into Mister Dutton's term.

Just gets us tags and we'll deal with it ourselves.

Lloyd, let's start moving this herd back toward the barn.

Hey, got a stray over here, boys.

Get that calf back to the barn!

Boys, I want you to get after those fucking wolves.

Hey, little fella. You get lost?

How you doing?

Got the legs.

You from here?

Nobody's from here.

Is there an event this weekend?

Just another Tuesday.

Press conference starts at three o'clock.

I can put it on the TVs down here.

We don't want him on TVs down here.

Ah. Great.

You're aware of the press conference?

Going to watch it now.

Great. We'll watch with you.

Right this way.

If you're gonna look, be man enough to stare.

Not there yet, I guess.

I don't mind, really.

Is this a test?

It's an opportunity. You missed it.

- It's through here? - Uhh, yes.

Yes, ma'am.

Ah, just in time.

Dutton called a press conference.

He's going to pull our funding.

That's been announced?

It was his campaign slogan.

Let me see.

Good.

As the State's attorney, I must inform you

that by signing this order

you are signing a declaration of war.

Really?

As we speak, they are raping the land

our family has bled into for over a century.

We're already at war.

Good afternoon.

Freedom.

Been thinking a lot about that lately.

The word, what it means.

The dictionary thinks that it means

"The power or right to think, speak, or act

as one wants without hindrance or restraint."

As Governor of this State, I am sworn to protect that right.

Building a city in the middle of our most pristine wilderness

strips you of that freedom.

It eliminates your freedom to breathe clean air

and drink clean water.

It strains the ability of our schools,

our hospitals and our police.

That requires an increase in our taxes

which in turns strains our families,

forcing you to decide if you can even afford

to live in a place that you call home.

That's not progress in my mind.

That's an invasion.

And the invasion is over.

Today, I am signing an Executive order

that ceases all state funding for

the Paradise Valley development project,

the Airport development project,

and the paradise Valley Ski Resort.

All state permits are revoked.

Thank you for your time today.

Enjoy the rest of it.

There'll be no questions today.

And we're right back where we started.

We're gonna have to watch out for that one.

Chairman, you can't ever stop watching that one.

Let's get a cease and desist

before a judge by end of day tomorrow.

File suit against the state for breach of contract,

and negotiating in bad faith,

and anything else you can think of.

Who is that?

That's Jamie Dutton. Attorney General.

That's the Governor's son?

Mm-hmm.

This is like doing business in Utah.

In Utah, they want to do business.

Here...

Here, they want the business to go away.

Son doesn't look up to this fight.

Think I'm gonna start with him.

I love it when she gets really mad.

It means I'm going to make a lot of money.

Good afternoon, Miss Dutton.

Mrs. I'm an honest woman now.

- Beautiful car. - Doesn't suck.

Bet the payments are steep.

You know, I've learned that the lease payments have

an inverse relationship to the length of my skirt.

I don't know what that means.

It means the payments aren't that steep, buddy.

Sh-sh-sh-sh...

Getting the crash course in cowboy today, kid.

Yeah. Hope I get another one tomorrow.

You get one every day.

Now get around that pair and push 'em up.

Holy shit!

Damn it, kid. You all right?

What happened?

How's your arm?

- It's nothing. - Raise it, then.

Then it ain't nothing.

What happened?

Horse fell, I think he stepped in a hole. I think.

I'm sorry. I didn't see the hole.

You need to keep one eye on the cow

and the other one on the ground.

Is the horse gonna be okay?

No, he ain't.

Easy.

You're gonna shoot him?

That leg'll never heal.

I don't need him suffering.

Go on, get back to work. Get back to work.

I'm sorry.

I bet you are.

I'm sorry, too.

Now take that bridle and that saddle,

and walk it back to the barn.

Lloyd, help him out.

One, two, three.

- Hey, Glade? - Yeah.

Would you get me another?

Yeah.

There you go.

God bless you.

- Can I get a beer? - What do you want?

Let me get a Trout Slayer.

Coming up.

Care for a Trout Slayer?

That what you been doing, slayin' trout?

Mountain biking, actually.

I'm not much of a fisherman.

You ride bikes?

Not since I was seven.

Didn't expect to see a dress like that in Montana.

Yeah, well, I'm working.

- Really? - Mm-hmm.

What kind of work?

Buddy, this is your one chance to leave me alone

with your self esteem intact.

Give me your best shot.

You're a professor. Somewhere fancy.

Northwestern.

You've got a couple of grown kids,

and once they left the house your wife divorced you

so fast she left fucking skid marks,

but how nice for you, huh?

Let me guess: world went a little wacko,

no longer cool to boink the co-eds,

so you decided fuck this city.

Got a nice little place in Bozeman,

'cause it's your favorite place to ski.

Now you teach classes on Zoom from the living room

of your creekside cabin

And you lecture about inequity and the concentration of wealth

that how it's decimating the middle class

all while you draw your six figure salary

and finance your dream home with a loan from the university

that's 275 basis points below the loans that your students

need to take out to listen to this bullshit.

And my guess, if I had to guess

is that you paid over asking price

for it because it's fucking monopoly money to you, isn't it?

So you run up house prices here

and you fuck the middle classes in two states.

Bravo, you fucking hypocrite.

Fuck you.

Not for all the tea in China, pencil dick.

Fuckin' love this bar.

Your guests have arrived.

Thanks, Glade.

Back to work.

They're right behind you.

John, what the hell was that press conference?

Governor Perry and your son pushed this thing

down our throat and now you shut it down?

Well, you really want 30,000 people from the Bay Area

running up and down highway 89, Ronnie?

Putting up a Starbucks where your fly shop is?

We're well past want, John.

Do you understand the tax revenue

that you just took from this county?

The hotel tax alone is a hundred million.

Not to mention the airport tax, the car rental tax.

Where are you going to spend all that money, Kyle?

Hm? You're going to have to double the size

of the Sheriff's department, emergency services.

Where do you treat the sewage six thousand homes create?

Is there a treatment plant in the valley

that I don't know about?

I will increase your tax revenue

without adding one structure to this valley, all right?

Without one new road.

Doubling property tax on non-residents?

It'll never work. They'll just become residents.

No, they won't.

If they could've become residents,

they would have by now.

New York and California, they do not give up

16 percent that easy.

You didn't need our permission to issue an executive order.

But you do need something.

Deny their request to rezone.

Without the state's support, there's no reason to give it.

A lot of people in this valley support that airport, John.

A lot of people from out of state support it.

People with no vote.

They may not have a vote, but they have money.

And they give it to the people who support their agendas.

Take a drive down Main Street in Bozeman, Kyle.

That's what they'll do to this place and worse.

Our terms are up in two years, John.

This wound will still be fresh in two years.

Hell, the state will still be in litigation in two years.

There will be no litigation, Ronnie.

And you'll both still be in office.

When's the last time a governor gave you his word?

Never.

Well, you have mine.

Andy will vote to approve, no matter what we do.

That's why Andy is not sitting here.

I only need two votes.

Do I have them?

Once you deny their re-zoning request,

I'm revoking their lease on our land.

I'm placing the ranch in a conservation easement.

There'll be nothing to litigate.

Should've just told me that from the beginning.

We'll issue the denial tomorrow.

Dad...

Yeah?

If you put the land in a conservation easement,

we have no moves.

We can't sell off a piece to cover losses or taxes.

We can't ever develop it, and neither can anyone else.

Exactly.

Dad, we could lose the whole thing.

But it'll be whole, honey. It'll be whole.

And that matters more than any name on a deed.

We'll worry about who runs things when...

when that's a worry.

Wasn't expecting you.

I wish you would have called,

I would have had supper prepared.

Yeah. I'll get by with a sandwich.

How's the herd?

Wolves got into the pairs in pasture nine.

So I moved 'em to the barn.

Got Ryan and Colby out there hunting them now.

You need depredation tags.

Yeah, we got 'em.

Um, the boy, he got in an accident.

It was on your horse.

Is the boy okay?

Broke his arm. He'll survive.

But... the horse wasn't as lucky.

He stepped in a badger hole and shattered his leg,

so... I had to put him down.

I'm sorry, sir, it's my fault.

Riding is what the horse is for, Rip.

Could've stepped in a badger hole turned out just as easy.

Thought y'all were in Helena.

I manipulated the wheels of government so I could see you.

How long you here for?

We leave in the morning.

Gotta fill a week's worth of loving into eight hours.

Hope you weren't planning on sleeping.

Got 'em.

Fire on three, two, one.

Three, two, one.

Safe.

Oh, fuck.

Uh, these wolves are from the park.

Fuck!

What do we do?

If those radio collars are motionless for twelve hours

they send out a distress signal,

then there's 15 Game Wardens standing in this field

in the morning and you and I

are on the fucking news tomorrow night.

So what do we do?

We gotta get these collars off

and keep them moving until I figure this out.

So what you wanna do is jog them around in a fucking circle?

These wolves have fucking Facebook pages.

People walk around in t-shirts with their pictures on them.

People find out that we killed them,

on the Governor's ranch?

We have tags. It's legal.

Son of a bitch.

It's over here, sir.

There's another dead elk over there somewhere, too.

There's something in the water.

Let's go.

Come on, Lloyd!

Put me down.

What the hell do you think you're doing?

What are you spraying it with?

- Paraquat for the weeds. - What?

Some kind of pyrethroid for mosquitos.

That's my ranch down there.

Whatever you're spraying it with it's in the creek now

and it's killing my cattle.

It's killing everything.

I'm licensed to spray it. These are EPA approved.

I don't give a shit who approved it.

It's killing my cattle.

Take it up with the EPA.

Phone company says put in a cell tower, that's what we do...

I can't get a bulldozer up here.

It's the top of a mountain.

This is the only way to clear it.

EPA says it's harmless.

It's killing my cattle.

Take it up with the phone company.

You're cattle aren't my problem.

Got a card?

Why am I not surprised?

Hey.

All right, let's go.

Woo!

What the fuck?

Hello?

Hey!

Fuck.

You still awake?

Yeah.

You should be plum wore out.

Mm. Just thinking.

Good thoughts?

No, not really.

Yeah?

Why in the hell did you shoot the ones with the collars?

We were using thermal. We couldn't see the collars.

Is that right?

Well, start taking the collars off.

We're taking them with us.

These things record every step these wolves make,

So we're gonna have to move like a wolf pack.

I want you to take one and put it in your saddle bag

and I want you to take the other and put it in front of you

while you ride. Where we going?

Back in the park.

That's good.

No, no, no, Ryan. Not that tight.

They need to come off somewhere.

That's good.

Listen up, you don't tell a fucking soul. Ever.

This never happened.

Who am I gonna tell?

That could put me in jail for a fucking decade.

Ryan, next time don't shoot the ones

with the GPS beacons on them.

- Morning. - Morning.

I've never seen anything like it.

Well, there isn't anything like it.

Where does it end?

Well...

Well, you can't...

You can't see that from here.

Can't imagine what it takes to maintain this place.

Takes everything, Clara.

It takes everything we've got.

Come on.

Next time on an all-new Yellowstone.

Find a way to ruin this family.

Turn her loose.

My vision told me I'd have to choose, so I'm choosing.

This ain't easy, Kayce.

We have no choice but to fight.

We can remove him.

You mean we can martyr him?

I'm going to teach you the master rules

and that lesson will not be pleasant.