* dramatic music *
"Progress" is a bad word around here.
-Clear the road! -There's a standoff between rez
and truckers trying to get to that new mine.
-[clamoring] -All y'all, out of here!
Family name doesn't carry water anymore,
so you got to hide behind a federal badge.
-[gunshots] -[panicked screaming]
These bullets are meant for us.
Shooters are the Clegg brothers, Carson and Wes.
[grunting]
Move and you're dead!
Life's become more dangerous for me
since becoming your brother.
[Kayce] I guess being close to me comes at a cost.
[knocking on door]
* tense music *
***
[slide racks]
Brought you gifts.
Did you take them from a fugitive again?
[Calvin] Okay, we got battery-operated cameras,
motion activated and night-vision enabled.
I'm my own security system.
And that crack system allowed somebody to walk up undetected,
drop a shell casing on your porch.
Hell, I been through worse than a bullet on my doormat.
Yeah, see, I've come to learn Montanans don't do theatrics.
You can't ignore this threat.
Well, I sent Tate to his grandpa's,
and it took you three days to find this stuff.
It took me a minute to special-order the right gear
for vengeful Cleggs.
Well, we upset a lot of people at the standoff.
Could be anybody.
Randall Clegg accosted you before you killed his son.
I mean, you-you can bet the field, but my money's on them.
Well, if my past has proved anything, whoever it is,
they'll come for me, some way, somehow.
Well, let's be ready.
* dramatic music *
["Less Honkin' More Tonkin'" by The Deslondes playing]
* Well, I was ridin' down that highway... *
Whoo! City slicker embarrassed you at your own sport.
-[chuckles] Beginner's luck. -[chuckling]
And in my sport, we don't use a rope.
-I'm a bulldogger. -A what now?
I jump off a horse and wrestle a 400-pound steer.
You make a living suplexing cows?
It's a fair fight.
He comes out of the chute when I do,
and then another cowboy called a hazer keeps him
on a path so I can get my angle.
So it sounds like the hazer does all the work,
and then you get the glory. [chuckles]
I get it.
I feel more like a hazer than a bulldogger as of late.
Get the fuzzy end of the lollipop at work?
For now.
But I keep delivering, making my bosses happy,
they'll send me back to civilization soon enough.
Okay. Beginner's luck, huh?
***
[lively chatter]
["All Around Cowboy" by Charley Crockett playing]
* Just a broken-down cowboy *
* All out on his luck *
* Been through the best of his friends... *
What will it be, Henry?
[Henry] Nose paint, neat, Mads.
* In an old pickup truck... *
You from around here?
You're barking up the wrong tree, hoss.
[chuckles] No. Sorry, I was just wondering
if you might know the Clegg family?
Nothing but trouble.
Really?
[chuckles] How much, exactly?
'Cause I might've kicked a hornet's nest there.
[sighs] Don't have much use for rules the rest of us follow.
They making threats?
You know.
Well, you can count on them to deliver.
* In the days of his first rodeo *
* But there's something about winning... *
What's with the face?
No way Henry was giving you a hard time,
even though you probably deserve one.
[scoffs] No, I was just trying to figure out
how much I got to watch one of my guy's backs.
You have that math down cold.
Team comes first, above everything else.
Always has, right?
["Working on a Mystery" by Brandon Santini playing]
[people whooping, clapping]
* When I first laid eyes... *
Miles?
Sabrina. Wow.
Been a while.
You mean since you ghosted me at our reunion?
Turning your back on the rez is kind of your thing.
[chuckles]
I'm messing with you, dude.
Like I'd dunk on your ambitions beyond Broken Rock.
College football, Marines, MMA.
I was always cheering you on from afar.
Ambitions and achievements are two different things.
So how are you?
Worried there are two of us at a cowboy bar.
I'm on a date.
What's your excuse?
-Here with my teammates. -Right.
Heard you're a marshal now.
How's it going?
Traded badges to finally police for my people,
but some of the elders think
being a marshal makes me a traitor.
Never were one for fitting in.
But I'm still cheering.
* I can't seem to understand... *
Don't be a stranger, Miles.
***
How in the hell do we have mayo
that's expired before this team's even stood up?
Sorry.
I-I swear I'm great at this.
She needs your bulldogger for inspiration.
-[laughs] -Bulldogger?
From "Get me out of Montana"
to rodeo bunny in the blink of an eye.
-[laughs] -You missed the action, Belle.
Yeah, I know.
Movie night with my kid took priority.
-[door opens] -[Calvin] Hey.
How are those cameras working out?
You ready to bring your boy home?
I'm gonna give it a little more time.
[Miles] So you'd rather hang out
where you were threatened than with us?
Just trying to keep you out of the line of fire.
[Andrea] Says the guy who's gotten us shot at
ever since he showed up. [chuckles]
[Calvin] Harry.
Did we know that you were coming?
Well, some news is best delivered in person.
DOJ got a complaint from Randall Clegg.
Claims you violated his son's civil rights
when you killed him.
I violated a lot of things. His rights wasn't one of them.
Well, Clegg claims that Carson dropped his weapon
before you fired, so Dutton's in a time-out.
And the rest of you, get ahead of whatever
the DOJ investigation will find.
Putting our teammate under the microscope is a waste of time.
[Gifford] Going shields up
for your friend is as admirable as it is unhelpful.
I need an impartial review. Deputy Cruz, you're in charge.
* tense music *
Fine. I'll get things started.
Perhaps Carson Clegg dropped his weapon and you missed it.
I mean, the woods are shadows, foliage, chaos.
I'm calmest in the chaos.
If he dropped it, I'd have seen it.
You got any proof?
I got my word.
[sighs]
Good luck with your investigation.
Hey, you know those claims don't have legs.
Don't need any with Gifford propping them up.
I'm not waiting around to learn my fate.
No, you're not. You're actually rolling out with me,
'cause the Forest Service needs bodies to help
with a search and rescue up at Bridger Range,
and I'm betting you know the area.
Yeah, it's a brutal group of steep peaks.
Well, you up for some man versus nature?
Safer than what I'm facing here.
* tense, dramatic music *
[Claudia] Helicopter carrying Tom Weaver
and his pilot called in an SOS after the wind kicked up.
We're still trying to locate it.
You don't have eyes from above?
The wind up there is a no go for air assets, even unmanned.
Leaves us with over a thousand square miles
to cover on foot and a shortage
of search-and-rescue-qualified Rangers.
You two will be handling section D4.
Sorry to interrupt.
Are there any updates on my father?
Elevation's over 8,500 feet up there.
Get ready for some climbing.
Please. I'm a damn mountain goat.
Just try and keep up, bro.
Be nice to get Dolly Weaver some answers about her dad.
Weather's only gonna get worse, so shove off.
[chuckles] We're armed, but thank you.
Your standard issue can't handle what's on that mountain.
* energetic, dramatic music *
[shotgun pumps]
-[indistinct chatter] -[Gifford] Is this what
you being hard at work on the investigation looks like?
Good food's in the good kitchen,
and we've worked up quite an appetite already.
Okay, so, Miles said he didn't see anything
because he was engaged with Wes Clegg,
and there are no red flags in Kayce's incident report.
Well, you trust a Dutton's word at your own peril.
Okay. It's not like Kayce is some dirty beat cop.
So why have you decided he's guilty?
It's not about guilt.
If he's here with his own personal agenda,
how effective can this team be?
And Dutton dragging this team down is gonna be
that much harder for you to get reassigned to D.C.
It's in your best interest
to be very thorough in this investigation.
Are you telling me
to manufacture evidence to support Clegg's claim?
I'm saying that even if there's no smoke behind this Clegg fire,
DOJ investigation's gonna find other Dutton skeletons
that can hurt this team.
Best we find them ourselves,
or get buried when someone else does.
You want to get out of this ditch
that your old team threw you in? Hmm?
You better get your hands dirty.
* tense music *
Didn't become a marshal to snoop on my teammates.
Feels especially wrong digging into a guy
who keeps pulling our asses out of the fire.
This investigation's a great way
for Gifford to destroy any trust that we've built with Kayce.
Clegg's fronting for sure, but Gifford's right about one thing.
The complaint will impact the rest of the team.
So, I called a friend at DOJ from law school--
You're a lawyer?
That's even less believable than you having a friend.
Okay, I said I went to law school.
I didn't say I finished.
My friend said Clegg had a local attorney file the complaint.
Um, an Andrew Schroeder.
Guy has a track record of filing
civil suits against law enforcement.
Huh. Well, DOJ finding against Kayce
would set up Clegg to sue him.
Unless we can prove that Carson Clegg was armed
when he was killed.
Sheriff's office finish processing the site?
Bullets fired from the Cleggs' positions came from two weapons.
So both men were armed. Case closed.
One gun was recovered from Wes. Haven't found Carson's.
The man fell down a damn ravine.
The gun's probably floating downriver.
They know that property better than anyone.
Maybe they got to it before law enforcement could.
No gun makes clearing Kayce even more complicated.
I know Schroeder.
Let me go remind him that his new client is an outlaw.
We should also sniff out
if he's got any evidence he's holding back.
We?
-* slow, mysterious music -[bird screeching]
So, is the, uh, quiet man act
'cause you're taking in the scenery,
or you plotting your revenge against Clegg?
I'm just glad he's coming after my badge and not my kid.
Well, Gifford's way out of line backing up a bogus claim, man.
He's just taking out some old beef with my dad on me.
So's Clegg.
Not the first time I've been punished
for doing what I thought was right.
When was that?
Pretty much since birth.
-You smell that? -Mm-hmm.
Aviation fuel.
Nothing brings me back to Afghanistan faster.
-[horse chuffs] -Come on.
***
Whoa.
I'm not sure Tom Weaver deserves us risking our lives for him.
Oh, I didn't realize that you knew him.
Of him. He's a transplant.
Bought a big chunk of land
and thinks that makes him king of the valley.
Oh, I see. You don't like him
'cause he's doing a bad impression of your dad, huh?
Or a good one. Flying around
in these conditions, knowing a storm's coming in?
These ranchers get obsessed with their brands,
start treating their people like livestock.
There's a sheen on the water.
-Bird went down upstream. -Mm-hmm.
* energetic, dramatic music *
[Andrea] So how do you know this fancy lawyer?
Your husband his dentist?
His wife queen of the PTA?
You do couple's Pilates together?
Don't embarrass me in front of him.
Oh, why? Because he'd spread the word at the country club?
-[country music playing] -[entry bells jingle]
[Schroeder] Look at that shine, Terry.
[chuckles] It's like a Yogo sapphire.
[Belle] Well, you do love reflective surfaces.
Andrew.
Belle. [chuckles]
I haven't seen you since your birdie on 18 cleaned me out.
Damn straight.
You here, uh, looking for a gift for Jared?
I'm looking out for you.
This is my colleague, Andrea Cruz.
Andrew, we hear you filed a civil rights complaint
against our teammate.
You've heard of privilege.
I can't talk about my clients.
Well, given our relationship,
I wanted to share that the Cleggs are facing investigations
on the local, state and federal level.
[Andrea] How would the club feel
about you being associated with such lowlifes?
Andrew, business can't be so bad
that you have to advocate for actual...
criminals.
Marshals should be more concerned about
the actual criminal carrying their badge.
* tense, dramatic music *
Kayce is a chip off the John Dutton block,
thinking he can play outside the lines.
This'll do double duty:
Carson's funeral and talking to the press.
Making noise to the media will influence the DOJ's review
of the complaint against Kayce.
Everyone in Montana will cheer when a Dutton finally learns
a badge isn't a shield for their sins.
Okay, so you can prove that Carson was unarmed
when Kayce killed him?
Can you prove he wasn't?
Schroeder is gonna focus on Kayce's character
and make him out to look like a cowboy who ignores the rules.
Then we need to look into his Navy service,
his life in Montana,
find out who our teammate really is.
-* gentle music -Well, seems like a good time
to remind you that killing Clegg was justified.
"Justified" and "right" aren't always the same thing.
So, what? You're... you're a bad man for doing your job?
There's only one person ever believed me to be a good man.
She's gone.
Your teammates believe in you, Coyo.
Well, they're investigating me.
I know they have to, but when the people
you expect to have your back are trying to punish you,
-well, it tells you something. -So, what?
You're fine losing the badge, then?
Whatever happens happens.
It's kind of hard for your teammates
to get close to you, man,
if you always keep them at arm's length.
Just 'cause I won't go to the bar with them
doesn't mean I wouldn't jump into the fire for them.
Hey.
Eyes on the crash site.
[Calvin] Mm-hmm. That's it. Let's go.
-[clicks tongue] -[horse sputters]
* foreboding music *
[stammers] That's far enough.
Dismount and eat dirt.
I just need whatever supplies you have.
[thunder rumbling softly]
* tense, dramatic music *
Hey, you haven't, uh,
seen a crashed helo around here, have you?
That badge. The hell are Feds doing up here?
[Calvin] It's got nothing to do with you, okay?
You should really put that gun down
before you get yourself into some real trouble.
Hey, look at me.
No, no, no, come here, look at me.
Hey, you shoot one of us, man, the other one's gonna kill you.
You got it?
[gun cocks]
Picked the wrong wagon train to ambush.
All right. All right.
Wasn't gonna hurt anyone.
Okay?
[Calvin] What are you doing living all the way up here, huh?
[sighs] Got laid off.
Wife left, lost my house.
I live off the land, or I don't live at all.
Hmm. What you want to do with him?
We can zip-tie him to a tree
and just pick him up on the way down?
[Kayce] Oh.
Be a death sentence if the storm gets him before we do.
Yeah.
All right, look.
You're gonna head down to the ranger station,
and you're gonna turn yourself in.
Yes, sir.
Go!
You think he'll surrender?
I wouldn't.
* pensive music *
Come on.
[Calvin] It feels wrong letting that guy go.
[Kayce] He lives by the laws of nature now.
Survive or die.
Kind of envy the lack of gray area out here.
[Calvin] Mm.
False summit. Son of a bitch.
Going around takes time we don't have.
Only option's straight up.
Well, vertical climb means travel light, travel fast,
so essential gear only.
* lively, gentle music *
Come on.
All Kayce's deployments.
No court-martials, no captain's masts.
He's basically a model sailor.
With a Silver Star to prove it.
Good luck to Clegg trying to paint a war hero in a bad light.
Well, Cal's mentioned
that he and other special operators struggled
to turn off the switch when they got out.
[Andrea] "Cal's mentioned," huh?
Rather intimate personal history.
Yes, sweet Andrea, I am befriending my coworkers
'cause I don't have one foot out the door.
The point is, SEALs--
they don't have the best reputation,
so it could open Kayce up to be painted as a rogue warrior.
[sighs]
Few years back, the militia kidnapped his son.
Word on the rez was
Kayce took a bunch of ranch hands,
led an assault to get him back.
He took on a militia with his cowboy buddies?
Was it extrajudicial?
His dad was the livestock commissioner.
Kayce was his deputy.
Maybe they did it through their office.
That's called frontier justice.
So Clegg may have a point.
* tense music *
Cal, over here.
[grunting]
[wind whistling]
Please help her.
Weak pulse. She's barely breathing.
[Calvin] Hey, are you Tom Weaver?
[Weaver] Yeah.
Well, we are U.S. Marshals, and we're here to help you, okay?
You got a sitrep?
We get her off this thing, her guts stay with it.
All right, let's find a spot to cut it from the tree.
We'll just move it with her.
Service Base, we have the downed helo,
and we got two survivors in section D4.
We're gonna need an immediate CASEVAC.
Repeat, an immediate CASEVAC.
[Claudia] Negative. All flights are grounded.
Weather conditions are worsening.
Anything we have to cut her off is with the horses.
I'll be back in ten mikes.
I'm sensing you boys were military?
Navy.
My pilot, Helen, she's a vet, too.
Go. I'm-a stabilize Helen, okay?
-[branches rustling] -[animal breathing heavily]
[roaring]
-[roaring] -Easy.
* tense music *
[roaring]
I didn't survive the war on terror to be killed by a bear.
Shotgun we left on the horse would've helped.
[growling]
Pistols are just gonna piss it off.
-[roaring] -[helicopter thudding]
[groans]
Well, this is no good for the pilot.
[roaring]
-[yelling] -[rapid gunshots]
[roaring]
[thunder rumbling]
Bear bugged out, for now.
It didn't help, though, that it was shaking the damn thing.
[Weaver] Helen's dead.
Why'd you make her fly in these conditions?
Extreme winds weren't on any weather report.
I'm on the clock purchasing land over in Springhill.
I needed to assess the rock cover.
Yeah? Did you get a good look at it from the back seat?
[Weaver] Helen thought if we rebalanced the weight,
it would help the chopper get under control
-when the winds kicked up. -Well, she saved your life,
even though you valued your ranch more than hers.
[Calvin] Hey, look, we got to cut him loose.
Okay?
Yeah.
Rotary saw or a Broco torch here would be nice.
If we knock out this seat, we can probably pull him free,
but we might break his leg in the process.
Go ahead. I'm sensing you'll enjoy it.
Yeah, well, the extraction strap
is not gonna work with a broken femur.
And I can't bust you up any more
without a plan down this mountain.
You have to take Helen down, too.
Rescue mission takes priority.
Recovery team will get her later, okay?
Can you grab her wedding ring?
Prefer her husband gets it from me than a stranger.
[thunder rumbling]
[Calvin] Hey, suggestion box is open, Coyo.
Well, since we're already taking the seat out,
we can use that to stabilize his leg while we belay down.
One of us tandems, the other one uses the horse
to handle the extra weight.
Horse-assisted tandem belay.
Okay. Missed that day in BUD/S.
Wait. A cowboy, a SEAL and a U.S. Marshal?
[Calvin] He's also a member of the first family
of Montana ranchers.
Wait. You're a Dutton?
Yeah. Bite down on this.
-[grunts] -[Calvin] Ready?
One, two, three.
[pained groaning]
So, what has my crack team learned?
Well, it's a "he said, he said" about whether or not
Carson Clegg was armed when Kayce shot him.
That's precisely why I tasked you
with finding Kayce's skeletons.
Deputy Cruz, what's in his closet?
Circumstances surrounding his son's kidnapping recovery are...
sketchy.
Sketchy?
How?
It may be a case of frontier justice.
John Dutton was livestock commissioner,
and he resigned a few weeks after.
Giving up power is close as a confession
as a Dutton's capable of.
I mean, could this be more frontier justice?
Did Kayce have a reason to kill Clegg?
Other than defending his own life?
Well, maybe he thought Carson had something to do
with his father's death or his brother's disappearance.
Randall Clegg was a pain in the ass for John Dutton
when he was livestock commissioner,
but that's a weak motive.
He left a trail of bodies
after his buddy Chairman Rainwater
was almost killed, didn't he?
All justified.
* slow, mysterious music *
Did... Kayce have a connection
to the Broken Rock man the Cleggs shot?
-[Miles] Ernie Cano? -[Gifford] Yeah.
I'm not a human LinkedIn for the rez, you know.
[sighs]
Let's you and I take a drive.
[wind whistling]
-I'll solo down, prep the horse. -[Calvin] Yeah.
Altitude's getting to me, man.
I think it's gonna be safer if you tandem with Weaver.
The only guy who never puked
in the Hindu Kush can't handle Montana?
I'm gonna find some branches, stabilize his leg.
You just tend to his wounds, all right?
[Weaver exhales softly]
Sorry about your father.
I got to Montana too late to meet him,
but from the stories, it seems like
he could've taught me a thing or two about ranching.
Wasn't much for teaching.
You had to learn the hard way with him.
Yeah. My old man was a hard-ass, too,
only on Wall Street.
Working for him made me rich,
but I was never too fond of his shadow.
[inhales sharply]
Part of coming out here was to escape it.
Good luck.
Trying to escape my dad's shadow just led me into more darkness.
Yeah, we don't get to pick our fathers.
No, but you wanting to tell her husband yourself reminded me
of a good thing mine once did.
Well, I don't think
I'll remind you of him as a rancher.
It's a hard living.
You got to be all in to have a hope of success.
I cut my teeth on my grandparents' ranch
in Wyoming as a kid.
-[thunder rumbling] -Thought I'd...
try and build something of my own,
leave my family something more than a stock portfolio.
* slow, gentle music *
Hearing a crackerjack like you
quit the cattle game giving me pause, though.
I'm not all out. Still got 300 pairs.
How do you have time for that?
[Calvin] Hey. Storm's getting close,
so let's build this and boogie.
* tense, dramatic music *
These are my neighbors.
I have to be able to face them when I go home.
Is this Ernie Cano's room?
Miles, wh-what's going on?
Excuse me, Auntie.
Marshal Gifford here would like to speak with Ernie.
Ernie's down in PT for his leg.
Sorry to disturb you. We tried.
In my experience,
a wife knows more about her husband's business than he does.
Any idea if Ernie has a relationship
with Kayce Dutton?
Everyone knows the white man
who used to break horses on the rez.
That all? Nothing more personal?
I never met him, but his wife taught at Ernie's school.
-Mm-hmm? -He was quite fond of her.
We both were.
You don't say, ma'am.
Do tell more.
[thunder rumbling]
Lightning strikes are getting close.
[wind whistling]
[horse chuffs]
* tense music *
Okay, come on.
Come on. Back, back.
Come on.
[Kayce] Steady.
How you doing?
Don't focus on me.
Come on.
[rope creaking]
Come on.
[chuffs, neighs softly]
* dramatic music *
[rifle cocks]
[neighing]
[both grunting]
[Kayce] You good?
-Throw us a line. -Yeah!
[wind howling]
Our collar just used our shotgun against us
and beat feet into the woods.
I'm-a pursue.
And leave two men behind this time?
* tense, contemplative music *
[grunts]
Come on.
-[groaning] -Sorry, sorry.
[thunder rumbling]
[Calvin] All right, you get him down the hill.
I'm-a pursue that recluse.
One is none, right? Mission's not over.
[Weaver] Please.
I'm responsible for a high enough body count today.
-[Weaver groaning] -* slow, somber music *
[Calvin] All right, man, let's get off this mountain
before it throws anything else at us.
-Come on. One, two, three. -[screams]
How was your field trip?
It was enlightening.
We learned that Dutton killed the man
who had tried to kill someone important to his late wife.
Meaning what, exactly?
Well, Ernie and Monica Dutton worked together.
They grew so close that he and his wife used to have
Monica and her son over for dinner when Kayce was deployed.
[Miles] We don't know if Kayce
knew any of their history.
[Gifford] Clegg just needs to whisper that to the press,
and they will have a field day exploiting the Dutton name.
Think anyone in this unit will have a career after that?
Now, I'm informing the Office of Professional Responsibility
-of the connection. -You're feeding Kayce
to the wolves based off a theory.
I'm keeping this team away from his blast radius.
You can file that under "if you want a job done right."
* slow, somber music *
You can't pull a badge over dots that may not connect.
Government's the windshield, rest of us are bugs.
[sighs]
Okay. You were on Kayce's six during the incident.
So, walk us through it again, from the start.
We all pursued the Cleggs to their hunting grounds.
Kayce and I broke off from the team to outflank them,
pushed up the hill.
Took fire from two positions?
[sighs] First, we got separated by the I.E.D.
[Andrea] Wait. A decorated Navy SEAL
missed a trip wire?
There's no chance.
[Belle] Maybe it was detonated
remotely?
Wes and Carson were behind cover.
They didn't have eyes on us yet.
[Dolly] Avoided my worst nightmare
thanks to you two.
Lost track of how many times you saved me today.
Wish we could've saved everyone, sir.
* slow, somber music *
Yeah.
That's some U-turn you just pulled on that transplant.
Yeah, I might've pegged him wrong.
Yeah. Let's get back, man, 'cause I want to dig into
that guy who almost mudsucked us.
Rather face off with that bear than see Gifford.
Yeah, I get it, but... I ain't got no worries.
You gonna be good on that front.
-It's the law of nature, right? -[siren wailing]
[Gifford] Look, I'm sorry, Cal.
Looks like Dutton's goose is cooked.
[Calvin] Oh, so you can prove that Clegg
-was unarmed then, huh? -Well, not exactly.
But this office needs to project a proactive stance
against abuse of the badge.
OPR has cleared the way for you to fire Dutton
before they finish their review.
I warned you hiring him was a mistake.
Now you can correct that.
You know, the last time I ended a teammate's career,
cost them everything, so...
you want his badge so bad, do it yourself.
Check this out.
We had the sheriff search the scene again,
looking for ways the Cleggs might've had eyes
on Kayce and Miles while engaged in a gunfight.
They found trail cams from a grad student in Missoula
studying gray-crowned rosy finches.
Did the sheriff miss the trail cams in the initial processing?
They're under-resourced and looking for a missing gun.
[Andrea] There was a node on one of the cams.
The Cleggs were piggybacking off of it for hunting.
[key clicks]
* tense, somber music *
-[gunfire over video] -[Miles] That's Carson Clegg.
[Andrea] Weapon firmly in hand.
[key clicks]
-How's that for thorough? -[Calvin] "Abuse of the badge"
looks pretty damn heroic to me, Harry. Hmm?
Glad you cleared this up.
I'll tell OPR to shove it.
Good work.
Hey.
It's true I'd rather be back in D.C. than here.
But not so much that it turns me into a rat.
Don't ever play me like that again.
[quiet chatter]
[laughs softly]
Everybody, meet the man who saved my life.
Kayce Dutton.
[applause]
Figured a rancher needs his hat.
Oh, this thing is filthy and this room is sterile.
That, uh, land out in Springhill you were assaying?
Belongs to the Quinns?
It does.
They went bust overgrazing their pastures.
It's gonna take at least two seasons
before it's fit for cattle again.
You saved my life and my pocketbook today.
I'm in your debt.
Yeah. We all are.
-Enjoy your family, sir. -[Weaver] Now, hold-hold on.
[sighs]
I need you out there protecting Montanans
without having to worry about your ranch.
Let me lend you some hands.
Aw, I can't accept that.
[Dolly] Hmm. When my father makes you an offer,
you don't have a choice.
[Weaver] You had my back today, Kayce.
It's only right I say thank you.
* gentle music *
[grunts]
You let Kayce know he's in the clear, right?
Mm-hmm. I left him a message, but haven't heard back.
I'm sure he doesn't think our pack protected him today.
[Calvin] Well, I get a sense that he's used to others
failing to stand up for him.
Yeah, after digging into his past,
seems trouble's been hunting Kayce his whole life.
Yet he's still standing.
Yeah, but it comes at a hell of a price.
-[Calvin] Look who it is. -Oh.
You beg me to come out just so I can watch y'all
-cry in your beers? -[soft laughter]
You saved my ass with the Cleggs.
I had no idea.
Well, I had your back just like you had mine.
[Belle] Well, the upside is,
pretty sure we got Gifford off your ass.
Doubt that's the last time I'll deal with him.
-Or the Cleggs. -[Calvin] Hey, check this out.
I think we let one of America's Most Wanted go.
Specifically, Rudy Carpenter.
Come on. Does that not look like the eyes of the guy
-who shot at us? -"Serial bomber
on the lam for three years" Rudy Carpenter?
Yeah, it would explain why he was gunning for us.
We can't just ignore this, right?
[Kayce sighs]
Oh, uh... [clears throat]
Everybody, this is Dolly Weaver.
[Dolly] Hi. I don't mean to crash the party,
but my father insisted
on buying drinks for the people who saved the job
-of the man who saved his life. -[Andrea] I'll drink to that.
[Belle] Hell yeah.
Yes, thank you.
Kayce.
-[Dolly] Thank you. -Thank you.
Thanks to you.
-Cheers. -[Belle] Yeah. All right.
To your father.
[Dolly] Thank you. Seriously.
[country music playing]
You know, for what it's worth,
I hated turning your world upside down.
Nothing my dad despised more than internal affairs.
-We're all good. -Oh, good day for you.
You kept your badge and you made a new friend.
She's just grateful we saved her dad.
Oh, I know what grateful looks like,
and that is not how she's eyeing you.
Saddle up, cowboy.
[chuckles]
Okay, look, I have questions
about how you two arrived here together,
but I'm just happy, man, that you're here at all.
Well, the fact that we can keep that family's world
from falling apart... justified and right.
Yeah.
Well, maybe the badge is a... a path to penance.
* slow, contemplative music *
["Getting Out of My Mind" by Channing Wilson playing]
* Well, baby packed her stuff up *
* She didn't even say goodbye *
* I never seen her leaving, coming till she was... *
Upset Dolly robbed you of a chance to buy another round
from your favorite bartender?
[chuckles softly]
Yeah.
She seemed so scared not knowing if her dad was dead or alive.
[Belle] Well, she's lucky to have
that kind of relationship with him.
* Get this old heartache out of my head... *
He's lucky. Yeah.
* I'm going back to getting *
-* Out of my mind... * -[Belle] Hmm.
Bartender's my kid.
* Back to getting stoned to the bone *
* Doing wrong and doing it right... *
Maddie.
Been out of her life, uh,
over 20 years.
She's your daughter?
I took this posting to move closer to her, but...
It's becoming clear that, you know,
she'd rather have me out of her life than in her bar.
-Cal. -* King of honky-tonkin' *
* Long before you came around... *
Give it time.
* And now that pretty little "put on" smile *
* Tamed me for a little while... *
Time.
* At laying low *
* And doing it right *
Right.
* Yeah, no more, no fun, I'm-a done *
* Walking the line *
* I'm going back *
* I'm going back to getting out of my mind *
* Yeah... *
[grunts]
All the skills my dad says you have,
it seems like life of the party's not one of them.
[Kayce chuckles]
I'm definitely more comfortable driving cattle
than being jammed in like one.
Hmm.
Well, your teammates seem nice.
Glad you all are out here keeping people safe.
Makes Montana less scary.
Montana's not scary.
Just have to get to know it.
Hmm.
Oh, well, wish I knew a local
that could give me a crash course in all things Big Sky.
* Going back to getting out of my mind... *
Wait, you were born and raised here.
What do you say?
* To getting out of my mind... *
Maybe.
* dramatic music *