Spoilers for the closing episodes of Yellowstone Season 5, and particularly Episode 13, are forward! In case you aren’t caught up, you’ll be able to watch the present on the Paramount Community and stream earlier seasons with a Peacock subscription.
To be actual, issues are wanting bleak for the Yellowstone. Following John Dutton’s demise and within the midst of a stand-off with Market Equities, Beth and Kayce bought all their horses and a bunch of kit within the newest episode to air on the 2024 TV schedule, and all indicators are pointing towards them dropping their land. Nonetheless, within the closing moments of Episode 13, Kayce proposed to Beth that they primarily give the ranch away, however he didn’t say who he’d give it to.
Now, whereas a reputation wasn’t specified, I believe the potential recipient of the ranch is fairly apparent. So, let’s break down my idea about why I believe Kayce is about to contain Thomas Rainwater in his plan.
The Plan Kayce Proposed To Beth
To Beth’s shock and mine, it might appear that Kayce Dutton is the person who got here up with the plan to avoid wasting the Yellowstone. Throughout a dialog between the 2, the youngest Dutton requested his sister a enterprise query, utilizing the hypothetical state of affairs of how a lot you’d pay in taxes when you purchased a automotive price $300,000 for $1, right here’s how what was stated:
Kayce: Okay, so, I purchase this automotive for one greenback, after which I take this $300,000 automotive that I purchased for $1, and I register it. What do I pay in gross sales tax? Is it primarily based off what I paid or the worth of the automotive?
Beth: What are you cookin’?
Kayce: Simply reply the query.
Beth: Tax is predicated on what you paid for it.
Kayce: That’s what I assumed.
After that dialogue, Kayce left his sister, and as she realized the plan he had cooking, she ran after him and requested who he had in thoughts for this deal. He stated he wanted a day to work it out. Then, he instructed Monica that this was:
The one technique to save this place; you gotta give it away.
This begs the query: Who’re they going to provide the ranch to? Nicely, I believe the reply is fairly apparent.
Why I Assume Kayce Is Going To Contain Rainwater In His Plan
Mark my phrases, they’re going to provide the land to Thomas Rainwater and the Damaged Rock Reservation.
Whereas Rip and Beth have been worrying in regards to the ranch and doing work in Texas, Kayce has been maintaining his plan near his vest and getting nearer and nearer to Rainwater and Mo. That alone implies that they have been who he was referring to when he instructed Beth he wanted a day to get this deal executed.
On high of that, Rainwater has lots of respect for John Dutton, and in the end, they each wish to shield the land and maintain it in its pure kind. As Gil Birmingham’s character stated to Beth in Episode 11:
What I would like is what your father needed, however I’m a realist. There’s no approach this place stays entire. However how a lot of it may stay like it’s, pristine, the way in which it was when my grandparents walked it?
Throughout that very same dialog, he stated he’d assist Beth flesh out options if she considered any. Nonetheless, she was stumped. However it might appear her little brother cracked the code, and in my thoughts (and doubtless his), the one individual they will belief even a little bit bit is Thomas Rainwater.
To not point out, in Yellowstone’s prequel sequence 1883, an Indigenous elder named Noticed Eagle instructed James Dutton that he might use the land they’d come to in Montana to bury his daughter and settle. Nonetheless, in seven generations, his individuals would take it again. Nicely, primarily based on the Dutton household tree, Kayce and Beth would mark the fifth or sixth technology of Duttons to dwell there.
So, despite the fact that we positively aren’t at seven but, it might make sense that this prophecy began to satisfy itself by Kayce and Beth promoting this land to Rainwater for a really small sum of money.
After all, in the meanwhile, that is only a idea. Nonetheless, we should always discover out who Kayce goes to make a cope with quickly, as a result of Yellowstone is sort of over. So, you should definitely tune in and discover out when the ultimate episode of Season 5 airs on Sunday, December 15 at 8 p.m. ET on the Paramount Community.