Yellowstone

Previously on Yellowstone...

That boy lived a perfect life, Monica.

And all he knew was you loved him.

John, this isn't the place, but we do need to talk.

I think you should meet me on the reservation.

Show the people you care enough to visit.

I can do that.

Park Rangers came.. talked to me about some wolves

that held up at the ranch here.

I tried to outsmart 'em. I guess it didn't work out.

Where are the wolves now?

They're in a place that nobody will every find 'em.

I'm feeling a little irresponsible.

Not her real name.

I see you survived. Thank you.

And to think of all the hard work I did to put you in prison.

Everything before now. That's what I'm sorry for.

I was terrible.

You did put me through hell though.

We're gonna trot out to Mount Chisholm,

set camp there...

then drive them down to Lewis Creek.

Them old dries are gonna want to double back on you.

Just keep moving south,

then we'll hold 'em up in the meadow and...

then push 'em down into the river.

Look who came to see me off.

We'll be back in like a week.

Good to know.

One for the road?

You stupid enough to ask for that in front of my father?

Yeah, well, you're worth the risk.

Be careful.

Careful don't factor too much into this.

Be careful anyway.

See you when you get back.

Let's go.

I ain't hard to find.

Course, none of us cowboys are.

I didn't mean to wake you, honey.

I was trying to be quiet. Sorry.

You didn't wake me. Memories woke me.

Well, I hope they were good ones.

Good ones don't wake people.

I think they do the opposite.

Do you ever think about us?

Well...

Us is all I think about.

When we were kids.

You ever think about that?

I think about now.

I think about tomorrow.

But I don't give much thought to yesterday.

Yesterday is what eats me.

Baby, yesterday is what eats everybody.

That's why I don't think about it.

Hm.

Good morning.

Good morning.

I'll be late.

I'll be right here.

Oh boy.

It's early for a fire.

Gonna be a dry year, sir.

It's already a dry year.

Our calves big enough for branding?

I'd like 'em a little bit bigger

but seems like the whole valley is shorthanded.

Just helped the Mitchells and I'm getting calls every day now.

We got to brand ours first before we help anybody else.

It's tough saying no with you as Governor now.

Me being Governor's thrown a wrench

in about everything it could.

Well, I'd brand the whole state

if we can get that airport land back, sir.

It'd be worth it.

Yes, it would.

So here's what I'm figuring.

I'll pull them out of the back country,

push 'em through the valley

and then we'll do the branding here and I'll run two crews.

Get one branding and the other one pushing 'em

to the airport pasture.

There ain't no wolves there.

How many day workers you figure we'll need?

Maybe fifteen.

I'll split up our crew and marry 'em with the day workers.

Where you gonna house 'em?

Well, I was thinking the loft.

Oh, no. I don't need some drunk day worker

falling down the stairs and suing me.

Bring out the tents.

Everybody sleeps outside. And I mean everybody.

I don't need that bunkhouse

turning into a honky tonk either.

Mm-hmm.

Nobody knows what the hell we do anymore.

And it's time we remind 'em.

Have Gator pull out the wagon.

I'm gonna invite the whole damn county.

That's a lot of number two team ropers in a pen.

Only ranch cowboys drag.

Sir? You coming?

You're damn right I'm coming.

Can I have a word?

Gimme a minute.

Just one word?

Is this about Summer?

When you say Summer, are you referring to the season

or that hairy hippie giving syphilis to our sofa?

Give me a minute.

We're gonna work out of here for a few days.

This schedule is pretty full, sir.

Clara, that...

That wasn't a question.

Working from the ranch for a few days.

Understood.

Would you be opposed to moving some meetings here?

Yeah.

So you're saying you.. No more meetings.

You mean like no meetings.

I don't mean "like" anything.

I mean cancel the meetings that are scheduled

and don't schedule any more.

Sound like a plan?

It sounds like the opposite of a plan

but you're the Governor so that's what we'll do.

I want to make a big party of it.

Invite a news crew out to the ranch.

Show the world who we are and what we do.

We call those MEPPs.

MEPPs?

Manufactured Events for, uh, Political Purposes.

Can I put together a guest list?

Eh...

You could get through two weeks’ worth

of meetings in one afternoon.

Load me up.

Your turn. Hit me.

Thinking about it.

I'm gonna need a drink for this.

So I just want to...

want to make sure I'm understanding

the situation correctly, okay?

You gave your girlfriend clemency?

She is not my girlfriend

and I did not give her clemency.

I commuted her sentence.

She finishes out under house arrest.

Your house.

Well, she doesn't have a house in Montana.

And I need her.

That hippie, she must be able to suck

a marble through a soda straw. God.

This fucking state is so tied up in lawsuits

over wolf hunting and bison leaving the park

and sage grouse that can't figure out

if they can cross the road.

And I don't understand any of it.

I don't understand any of the reasoning behind it.

But Summer does because she...

she thinks like the people who run these groups.

Because she is the people that run these groups.

She is not going to help you, Dad.

You have invited your worst enemy to sleep in your bed,

and if you think that she was fucking you last night,

give her three months.. the real fucking is coming.

And I'll give you the reasoning: the reasoning is you.

The wolf is their weapon.

So is the bison.

So is anything that gets your cattle

out of the national forest,

and off the BLM land, and ultimately off your land.

It's no different than Dan Jenkins

wanting a private club or.. or

Market Equities wanting their fucking airport.

They want the land, Dad.

That is all you need to understand.

Can I help you?

Just checking out my new prison.

What's on fire?

The forest.

Happens every year.

Some years worse than others.

How do they start?

Lightning.

Is anybody gonna put it out?

I mean, they'll try.

Only thing that can put it out is God.

God puts out the fire?

God brings rain. Rain puts out the fire.

Nature puts out the fire, kid.

That's what I said.

We'll gather 'em and hold 'em in the valley,

and then we'll push them here in the morning.