All through Yellowstone’s five-season run (forward of regardless of the Rip and Beth spinoff will likely be known as), almost each character who crossed paths with the Dutton household and their branded brood was in peril of being taken to the prepare station. All through that very same period of time, followers have been interested in when the border-hugging no man’s land first grew to become a clandestine graveyard for characters like Jamie’s father Garrett within the Season 4 finale and extra.
Because it seems, using that location for corporeal refuse wasn’t even a Dutton-originated maneuver, as confirmed by the newest episode of 1923 to hit the 2025 TV schedule, “Journey the Rivers of Iron.” Whereas I used to be certainly one in all many who couldn’t wait to find out how issues took place, I now understand how foolishly naive such an goal was in Taylor Sheridan’s darkish and dour universe. And now I simply wish to take a shower after that bit of training.
Donald Whitfield Is Accountable For Discovering The As-But-Unnamed Location
There I used to be, making an attempt to maintain each bit of religion in humanity intact after the primary three of 1923’s second outing, and that effort ceased to be as quickly as Alex was crushed mindless in an precise prepare station. (She fortunately survived together with her satisfaction intact, even when lacking her worldly gadgets.) After which the episode introduced issues again round to this present’s core villain, Timothy Dalton’s greed-mongering Donald Whitfield, who’s now transferring full-steam forward with plans to take the land from the Duttons to put it to use for business functions like tourist-friendly resorts.
The tycoon tyrant is so assured, the truth is, that Whitfield brings in Jerome Flynn’s Banner Creighton particularly to alert the sheepherder to a plot of unseemly land that doesn’t have an entire lot of authorized rigamarole tied to it. The best way Dalton’s character described it made it unattainable to imagine he was speaking about something however what finally grew to become Yellowstone’s not-exactly-a-burial-ground. In his phrases:
This can be a county map of Montana and Wyoming. It highlights each privately owned parcel of land. Look right here, on the border. Proper there, they’ve recorded a county with no township, no non-public land. All of that is nonetheless owned by the federal government. It’s a county with a inhabitants of zero. . . . So there are not any 12 jurors of your friends. There isn’t a decide, there isn’t any sheriff, which is to say, there isn’t any crime. I don’t care the place you kill them, you dump them right here.
Popping out of anybody else’s mouth, these phrases may not have been dripping with fairly as a lot privileged evil, however Whitfield has no motive to say any of those phrases outdoors of his never-ending objective of snatching the Dutton’s land again from beneath their ft. If it was all to provide again to the indigenous tribes who had been pushed away, it would be on factor. However he is nowhere close to so benevolent.
I Simply Really feel Grossed Out By The First Physique In The ‘Practice Station’
To make certain, I can not consider anybody who could possibly be left for lifeless in that space that would not gross me out, particularly after they have been overlooked within the solar for a number of weeks. However in a present filled with characters who should get eaten alive wild predators, it was the anti-cherry on the cake to have Creighton’s “observe” run at dumping our bodies contain the unlucky younger girl Christy (portrayed by Caitlyn Rice).
Current inside Whitfield’s circle of affect is little question a depressing life, and it is disturbingly heartbreaking to see that Madison Elise Rogers’ fetishist Lindy displays simply as a lot compassion and empathy as he does. She let the lady die as a result of she forgot to loosen her restraints. And so this meaningless loss of life will doubtlessly be the primary physique to hit the bottom almost a century earlier than Yellowstone followers first heard the time period used. And it appeared extra…thrilling with out Whitfield and his salacious cohorts concerned.
Keep in mind that level within the episode when Jake and Cara joked round with one another a bit? That was lovely and heat and nice, and didn’t make me wish to disinfect every little thing I personal the best way Whitfield does.
Let’s have a look at what else that amoral shitstain can wreck subsequent when 1923 streams its subsequent episode for everybody with a Paramount+ subscription.