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BONUS CLIP | 2:15

Branch Operates In Gray Areas
BONUS CLIP | 2:12

Walt and Vic Have Feelings For Each Other
BONUS CLIP | 2:22

The Cast Wonders What Might Have Been
BONUS CLIP | 3:02

Ferg Steps Up for Cady
BONUS CLIP | 2:44

Branch and Cady Want Each Other
BONUS CLIP | 2:01

Deputy Ferg Finds His Confidence
BONUS CLIP | 2:12

The Bond Between Henry and Longmire
BONUS CLIP | 2:21

Longmire Cast Debates the Sheriffs' Debate
BONUS CLIP | 2:02

Katee Sackoff on Getting Her Ass Kicked
BONUS CLIP | 3:01

Vic and Her Secret
BONUS CLIP | 2:10

Searching for the Truth with Cady Longmire
BONUS CLIP | 2:05

The Cast Introduces the New Season

Bad Medicine

Monday, August 26 10/9C

Walt and Branch team up when an apparent suicide is connected to Cady's accident. Meanwhile, Detective Fales (Charles Dutton) returns with warrants, forcing Walt and Henry to face what happened in Denver. Louanne Stephens and A. Martinez guest star.
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Walt and Vic are transporting a prisoner named Wayne Durrel, a serial killer who targeted Indians and sold their organs on the black market. On their way to hand him over to the FBI, they come across a white buffalo calf in the road. Wayne calls it a sign, but Walt refuses to acknowledge him.

They meet the FBI at a diner called Cowboy's Corner. Agent Brooks, an FBI criminal psychologist, has convinced Wayne to give up the location of the body of a boy he killed in return for a stay of execution. Walt remembers trying to find the boy, named Theo Halfmoon, when he went missing many years ago. They hand over the prisoner, and Walt and Vic head back home. As they drive, Vic finds a bobby pin in her sandwich, and the two realize that someone at the diner may have tried to help Wayne escape.

They return to the diner to find the prisoners gone, and several FBI agents and diner employees dead. Agent Brooks and the waitress, Helen, have been taken hostage. Walt and Vic head up the mountain to save them, in spite of the major snow storm that is moving in.

They encounter an inmate with a high powered machine gun, but manage to disarm him before anyone gets hurt. Unfortunately, Wayne has taken the other inmates and the hostages up the mountain in a huge off-road vehicle called a "Snowcat." Walt orders Vic to take the prisoner they caught back to the office and lock him up. Walt is going up the mountain after the hostages. Vic argues with him, but finally relents on the condition that he takes her cellphone.

Back at the office, Vic asks the prisoner what Wayne's plan is, but he has no idea. Wayne forced the prisoners to go with him. The FBI arrive and take over the investigation. Vic is her usual confrontational self, but Branch is willing to play ball with the agents. Henry arrives with food, then leaves shortly after learning there's been no word from Walt. Branch follows him, and finds that Henry has secured two horses. Branch demands to come with him up the mountain after Walt.

Walt, following the Snowcat tracks, spots two sets of footprints leading off into the woods. Henry appears by his side, and they discuss Walt's options. Walt refuses to turn back, deciding instead to follow the footprints, and Henry disappears as suddenly as he appeared.

Walt follows the trail to a cabin. He hears gunfire, so he rushes inside to find a wounded Omar, a dead prisoner, and Helen, the waitress. He asks her about Wayne, but doesn't buy her story. She reveals that she and Wayne are in love, and she helped him escape. She thinks he's coming back for her, but Walt doubts it. The next morning, Omar radios Vic at the Sheriff's office to tell her that he gave Walt supplies to continue his journey up the mountain. She's furious, but Omar tells her there's no way he could have convinced Walt to turn back.

Walt finds clips of ammo as he follows the Snowcat tracks and figures Agent Brooks must be leaving him a trail. Suddenly, Denver Detective Fales appears, and begins questioning Longmire. Is Walt really chasing a bad guy? Or is he running from something? Walt trudges on.

Vic confronts the FBI about their lack of action, and discovers that they have a tracking device on Agent Brooks. Furious at being kept out of the loop, she ends up punching one of the agents and being thrown out of the office. The Ferg returns and finds her sitting in the lobby. She tells him what happened, and Ferg loves it. Vic's eyes fill with tears of frustration as she tells Ferg to leave her alone. He leaves, hurt and confused. As soon as the door shuts behind him, Vic allows herself to cry.

Walt spots the Snowcat and hears shots being fired. He checks the scene with his binoculars and sees a prisoner on the ground, shot dead. Suddenly, bullets whiz past his head. He loses his balance and tumbles down the mountain into a freezing cold stream. He drags himself out and up to a cabin. The door opens to Cady, who takes him inside as he apologizes for lying to her about her mother's death. She tells him that she understands that he was just trying to protect her. Walt passes out, and Cady disappears. What once had seemed to be a cozy cabin is suddenly revealed to be an empty, abandoned shack.

The sound of a child's voice wakes Walt. He looks up and sees Theo Halfmoon. Walt tells him that he tried to find him, and Theo assures him that there was nothing else he could have done. Walt realizes his hallucinations are being brought on by hypothermia, and builds a fire.

Later, The Ferg rushes into the lobby and wakes Vic. Walt is on the phone! They try to talk to him, but the signal he managed to get on Vic's cellphone drops out. They may not know where he is, but at least they know he's alive.

Warmed up and dried out, Walt continues his search. He finds the empty Snowcat, and follows a trail of blood to an abandoned mineshaft. Inside, he finds a wounded Agent Brooks. She shows him the box of cash in the mine that Wayne was trying to recover. Suddenly, Wayne begins firing his machine gun into the mineshaft. The gun runs out of ammo, and Walt charges Wayne, firing his own gun.

He tackles the prisoner, and the two exhausted men begin pummeling each other. They fall to the ground. As they catch their breath, Wayne claims that the white buffalo calf was a sign for him. He knew when he saw it that he'd get away. Walt corrects Wayne. He tells him the calf was a sign of a better future for the Indian tribes Wayne has been murdering; a future without him in it. They continue to battle until they fall to the ground again, cold, tired, and completely spent. Walt leans against a tree stump, puts his hat over his eyes, and passes out. The last thing he sees is Theo Halfmoon, watching from the treeline.

Henry and Branch arrive at the mountaintop and pass Wayne's frozen corpse as they race to Walt's side. Branch asks if Walt is dead. Slowly, Walt's hat begins to stir. The Sheriff looks up and simply says, "Not yet."

Guest Stars:

Louis Herthum as Omar

Charles Dutton as Detective Fales

Dan Hildebrand as Wayne

Charles Parnell as Agent Stanley

Noam Jenkins as Agent Towson

Chad Brummett as Agent Hall

Brigid Brannagh as Agent Brooks

Nicki Aycox as Helen

Lawrence Gilliard, Jr. as Burke

Ares Limon as Theo Halfmoon

Production Notes:

In the season two premiere, Sheriff Walt Longmire takes an epic journey up a snow coated mountain, but Walt wasn't the only person freezing his buns off. The whole crew endured extreme cold through much of the shoot, which took place on the ski slopes of Red River, NM. Script Coordinator Emily Thomas talks about how the crew kept warm.

"Shooting LM 201 was a real challenge, but simultaneously very rewarding. The most significant challenges were related to the extreme weather and the hard-to-navigate terrain of the ski slope locations. Everyone maneuvered the terrain carefully and did their best to stay warm. For several of the locations, crew members had to ride a Snowcat or snowmobile up the mountain because the journey wasn't walkable. To stay warm, we all layered as much as possible - I personally had on four shirts, three pairs of pants, a fleece jacket, a puffy-vest, two pairs of socks, snow boots, two pairs of gloves, a hat and a scarf - not kidding!"

The crew keeps warm. Puffy pants. Puffy pants as far as the eye can see...

Wondering how they got the cast to look so chilly without sending anyone to the hospital? Special Makeup Effects Artist and Designer Steve LaPorte was kind enough to walk us through the process.

"For the 'Icy' look on Wayne and Walt, Dept. Hd. Makeup Artist, Blair Leonard and I used a water expanding powder to simulate frost and ice. This was applied using a sticky gel to the facial hair and skin. Redness was added to give a flush look and in one scene I added purple and red discoloration on Walt's hand for an early stage of frostbite."

Walt Longmire makeup effects. That is one chilly-looking lawman.

Poor Robert Taylor had to actually jump in some freezing cold mountain water in this episode. Costume Designer Daniela Moore tells us how they managed to make him look like he stayed positively frigid when he was actually nice and toasty warm. Well, relatively warm.

"When I read the script for Episode 201, I knew it was going to be a challenge to not only keep our actors warm in the cold temperatures, but especially to make Walt look as miserable as he had to be without killing Robert Taylor! To keep him warm we knew that just regular thermal underwear was not going to cut it, so we got him a Lavacore suit. It is a high tech wetsuit with maximum flexibility that protected him from the cold, wet and wind. When he and the stuntman went into the stream, they had wetsuits on underneath their clothes to protect them from the water as well."

Walt Longmire takes a dip. Anyone up for a bracing winter swim?

The costume department faced multiple challenges with Walt's signature coat. Moore continues:

"The real challenge was how to make his coat look like it had gotten wet, then frozen almost solid on his hike up the mountain. We knew that we wouldn't be able to do this without permanently ruining one of the six sheepskin coats that we owned. Also, how do we achieve the frozen look and maintain the continuity of the look during the week we were filming?"

"To get the look right, we took a scrap of sheepskin, soaked it in water and left it in the freezer. When it was frozen solid we knew what our 'look' needed to be. Then our Ager/Dyer Wynema Chavez took that sample and re-created it by painting a glossy gel on the coat and then heated it up to create an icy effect. It was then airbrushed with a dulling spray in areas and sanded to blend the edges. It was pretty nerve-wracking because we really only had one day to make it happen and one coat to use. The end result, though was pretty amazing. On the days we shot it, our Set Costumer John Deering added bits of fake snow and frost from the Special Effects department to even out the look and voila! Frozen Walt."

The process of making the coat look frozen. Wynema Chavez supplies the glossy gel, Robert Taylor supplies the miserably cold Sheriff.

Production Designer Dave Blass found the shoot to be a challenge as well.

"The first episode of season 2 was one of the most ambitious shoots I have ever been on. Flying in from sea level in LA to hit the ground running in New Mexico and heading right up to 11,000 ft. We knew this was going to be a big one. Day one found us trekking up the slopes in Red River trying to find the spots where the mine would be at the end of the episode. We found some great areas near a ski area, but quickly realized that we had to be more remote, so we went from the nice ski lift to huffing it up the slopes."

Shots from the set. Hello, snowy mountain hike.

If it wasn't the terrain, it was the weather. Luckily, Blass and company had some tricks up their sleeves.

"We knew that the weather may or may not work with us. When we came back in 3 weeks, would there still be snow? Or would we end up having to bring in our own? To hedge our bets, we kept going higher and deeper into the woods. When we're scouting for the right location, we sometimes have to use our 'Cinematic Immunity' and cross some boarders..."

Shots from the set. Come on, you know the old saying. "The show must go on!"