They commiserate about what’s always been expected of them - “We’re supposed to learn to be white and live in cities.” - and they vow to use all the resources they have to “build lives they can’t take away.” But even this failure fires up the chief, who tells Monica that he needs her to use her connections and position at the university to help with a council he’s forming, and to raise awareness about his plans to protect their land. It’s a true community operation, and indicative of the kind of strength and compassion Kayce can bring to this job.Īlas, the search doesn’t come to a good end. (“We ain’t enforcing no laws today,” he says.) Second, he gets Monica to bring along everyone she can contact on the rez. First, he calls in every available livestock agent, and tells them to leave their weapons behind.
Chief Rainwater asks Kayce for help with the search, and Kayce does two smart and sensitive things. “All for Nothing” begins with a family on the reservation realizing their eldest daughter Sila is missing. Kayce also has a dramatic role to play in this episode’s main subplot. Kayce nods at that, but warns, “You’re gonna hate the way I do it.” ( Everybody sing: “Sweet home Alabama/ Play that dead band’s song …”) Still, the old coot does keep refusing to keep his buffalo from roaming close to the Yellowstone ranch, saying that according to the law it’s the Duttons’ and the livestock agents’ job to keep them out. It’s Kayce who finally gets the cranky, Dutton-hating, buffalo-herding bastard to produce the papers he refused to show in the previous episode: the ones that show his cattle don’t have brucellosis. (Which raises the question: Why did the show’s creator/writer Taylor Sheridan keep Kayce away from the job in the first place? Did we need three episodes with Jamie as commish? But I digress …) Let’s start with Kayce, who’s been coming back into the storyline in a major way ever since he was named Livestock Commissioner. Because like most of this season so far, this week’s episode “All for Nothing” is a pretty mixed bag, with the same characters as always (Kayce, Rip, Chief Rainwater, Roarke, and Beth) dominating the best scenes, and the same characters as always (John, Jamie, and Beth again) dominating the worst ones. Look, sometimes with Yellowstone you have to take your pleasures wherever you find them. For those of us who don’t have a lot of experience with riding the range or tending to cattle, likely our only previous encounter with the disease sometimes known as “undulant fever” comes from Zevon’s song “Play It All Night Long.” And now here are some real cowboys, tossing around the term “brucellosis” so casually that I keep waiting for these leathery ranch hands to slip into one of the song’s other memorable lines: “There ain’t much to country living/ Sweat, piss, jizz, and blood.”
John sits down at the negotiating table with former friends and foes as the battle for the future of the Yellowstone ranch heats up, nothing will ever be the same.“The cattle all have brucellosis/ We’ll get through somehow.” -Warren Zevonįor Warren Zevon fans like myself, these past two weeks of Yellowstone have been pretty damned delightful, because not once but twice someone has asked a shifty old buffalo-herder whether or not his stock has brucellosis. Jamie confronts his past Rip approaches Kayce about an old problem the bunkhouse crew looks to defend two of its own. Kayce searches for answers following a theft on the ranch, Jamie learns a shocking family secret, John issues a warning, and Beth takes matters into her own hands.īeth continues her battle with Willa Hayes, and brings John a lucrative offer.
Rip and the boys get into a confrontation with two men from John's past.īeth reveals a secret to her father John confronts two cowboys about old feuds a search gets underway on the reservation. Kayce bends the rules to help a family in need. The reason for Beth and Jamie's toxic relationship is revealed. Jamie plays cover-up and damage control with Hendon Governor Perry hears a $6 billion pitch for a development right on the Yellowstone, and later makes some political maneuvers Jimmy competes in a rodeo competition.īeth shares a personal secret with Rip John and the boys deal with some hostile trespassers from out of state Rainwater reaches out to a powerful woman to help secure the future of Broken Rock. Jamie starts a new job Beth comes to a realization about Market Equities and visits Roarke Rip searches for another ranch hand: A livestock agent goes too far. In the aftermath of the fight with the Beck Brothers, John reshuffles the political decks Beth finds a trespasser on the ranch and learns that he may have big ambitions for the surrounding land John helps Tate deal with his nightmares.
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