[Warning: The following contains MAJOR spoilers for Yellowstone Season 5 Part 2.]
Yellowstone has nearly killed off one character per episode in what’s presumed to be its ultimate season. Out of 4 episodes launched thus far (and simply two extra to go), three have featured a significant character loss of life. The primary was John Dutton’s, led to by Kevin Costner’s surprising exit from the sequence. Viewers assumed the Dutton patriarch could be killed off to clarify Costner’s absence from Season 5 Half 2. However the subsequent deaths have been extra surprising.
Sarah Atwood’s (Daybreak Olivieri) homicide made sense for the story, given the hit she ordered on John didn’t go as deliberate within the aftermath. However the loss of life of Denim Richards‘ Colby in Episode 12 was completely pointless, should you ask us. Not solely as a result of the story didn’t want it, but in addition as a result of it took time away from addressing the burning questions we nonetheless want answered earlier than the present closes up store (if Season 5 actually is the tip — the present is actually conserving viewers on their toes).
Right here, we lay out the remaining burning questions we’d like answered earlier than Yellowstone Season 5 Half 2 involves a detailed, in no specific order. The most important one is the one we’ve already addressed: When will Rip (Cole Hauser) discover out what Jamie (Wes Bentley) did to Beth (Kelly Reilly), and can Kayce (Luke Grimes) discover out? We lay out these potentialities right here, however under, discover our different lingering questions.
1. The place is Jamie’s son?
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The final viewers heard about Jamie’s son was in Season 5 Half 1, when Jamie was driving Beth house from her in a single day jail stint. Beth lashed out in rage on the sight of the automobile seat within the backseat, which revealed that Jamie was a dad or mum. Studying that the kid is a boy named after him made Beth much more indignant. She threatened to take Jamie’s son from him like he took her potential to have youngsters. The menace didn’t appear to be towards the infant’s life, however fairly that she would take his son and kill Jamie.
The legal professional has had greater points to deal with this season up to now, like making an attempt to resume the airport lease his father canceled, launch a marketing campaign to be elected governor within the particular election prompted by John’s loss of life, and naturally cope with the fallout of Sarah being killed by the hitmen company she employed to take out John (an investigation during which he’s now a main suspect). However nonetheless, the place is his son? Viewers have heard nary a peep in regards to the child in Half 2. Will Episode 13 carry him again into the plot, alongside together with his mom, Christine (Katherine Cunningham)? Maybe a part of Beth’s revenge on Jamie over his involvement in John’s loss of life will entail discovering the boy. That will be one strategy to get Jamie again beneath her thumb.
2. Will Beth kill Jamie as an alternative of Rip?
Beth has lengthy threatened that Rip would kill Jamie as soon as he finds out that he had Beth forcibly sterilized as a teen. As a lot as Rip coming in to kill an enemy has made for a number of the present’s extra memorable moments (just like the snake within the cooler), it does really feel just a little too apparent at this level to simply have Rip concerned in Jamie’s potential demise. It might be extra intriguing and cathartic to see Beth do it herself or with Rip’s assist — she’s actually extra emboldened to take the reins since she’s been satisfied that Jamie deliberate their father’s homicide (he didn’t, however it was his concept and he or she’ll by no means imagine he isn’t accountable).
Beth is without doubt one of the few members of her household who hasn’t dedicated homicide on Yellowstone. And actually, she’s one of many solely ones who’s appalled by the custom of taking enemies “to the prepare station” (she was saved at the hours of darkness about this till the Season 5 Half 1 finale). Beth would save her first kill for Jamie. However at this level, given the extreme deaths we’ve seen this season, we may additionally see the sequence going for the tragic shock worth of flipping the swap on Beth and having her killed by Jamie in the long run. That does appear much less possible, as Yellowstone nearly at all times solely kills its villains. And Jamie has lengthy been painted as a villain, however one with the potential to be redeemed. There’s hardly any time left for a redemption arc, although.
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3. Will Jamie take the autumn for John’s loss of life?
We’d be OK with Jamie and Beth each ending the sequence alive, however provided that Jamie is in jail. He’s been on such a downward spiral and rejecting each alternative to do the correct factor for thus lengthy, turning into the autumn man for his dad’s murder could be a twisted poetic justice. With Sarah useless too, he and the hitmen are the one individuals who could possibly be held legally accountable for the homicide. Whereas Kayce has bodily threatened Jamie in current episodes, he’s clearly scuffling with conflicting emotions of affection for his huge brother. What if the season ends with Kayce stopping Beth from killing Jamie, however serving to her put him in jail for all times to avenge John?
4. Will Kayce turn into his father?
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On this context, that wouldn’t be a very good factor. We’ve seen Kayce slowly descend right into a darker psychological state within the episodes since John’s homicide. Each revelation in regards to the loss of life makes Kayce an increasing number of deadly. In Episode 12, he held a baby at gunpoint to threaten Grant Horton (Matt Gerald), the person who runs the company that carried out the hit on John.
Costner’s character may justify absolutely anything to defend his household’s legacy and possession of the ranch; he spent many years killing foes in secret to assist on this entrance. The lengths to which John would go to guard the ranch used to make Kayce and Monica (Kelsey Asbille) insurgent towards the household; it was solely lately that this relationship was mended and Kayce and Monica felt snug associating themselves with them once more. That consolation has remodeled into full-blown assist, and Kayce’s in a darkish mindset as he makes an attempt to avenge his father.
How does the veteran come again from holding a baby at gunpoint? Is he turning into the violent man who can defend any detestable motion that he as soon as feared? And furthermore, how will Monica react if/when she finds out that Kayce threatened to kill a child? We will’t think about that she could be OK with that, however she’s additionally proven nice concern for Kayce’s psychological well-being in Season 5 Half 2. She could take the menace towards that youngster and her father as an indication for her to step in and produce Kayce again from the sting.
5. Will the Duttons lose the ranch, or a minimum of a part of it?
Beth and Rip had been promoting off the horses and cattle in Episode 12 in an try to boost the cash wanted to maintain the ranch’s land as an alternative of promoting off a chunk of it. Beth revealed in talks with Thomas Rainwater (Gil Birmingham) that she has resigned herself to dropping a minimum of a number of the household’s acreage that they’ve owned for a century. Whereas the plan to undo John’s actions as governor that protected the land and canceled Market Equities’ airport lease doesn’t appear more likely to succeed — particularly not with Senator Lynelle Perry (Wendy Moniz) and Clara (Lilli Kay) decided to thwart Jamie’s efforts — the partitions nonetheless are closing in on the Duttons. The present has stated that promoting a number of the land is inevitable, however hopefully no matter they find yourself promoting (in the event that they promote) is given to Rainwater and the reservation or maybe made right into a nationwide park.
6. What’s up with Rainwater?
Talking of Rainwater, why does he have so little to do that season? He appears primed to compromise with the Duttons after a complete sequence of preventing to get the land that when belonged to his individuals again. That leads us to our subsequent and ultimate query…
7. Will Tate inherit the ranch, as doubtlessly foreshadowed in 1883?
In 1883, Noticed Eagle (Graham Greene) informed James Dutton (Tim McGraw) that his individuals would stand up and regain management of the Yellowstone ranch’s land in seven generations. Earlier on Yellowstone, Kayce stated he noticed “the tip of us” in a imaginative and prescient and, in Season 5 Half 2, added that that “finish” will probably be a selection. Kayce informed Tate (Brecken Merrill) that if it’s his dream to run the ranch someday, he would make the ranch his life to protect it for his son. However Tate extra so envisions residing a less complicated life on the household’s land whereas another person runs it, though he nonetheless desires to maintain the land within the household.
Each Yellowstone spinoff has questioned if the Duttons can keep management of the ranch’s land. If Noticed Eagle’s prophecy wasn’t meant to be a real foreshadowing for the Dutton’s destiny and Yellowstone‘s ending, then it will simply be a pointless throwaway line. The 1883 prophecy and Kayce’s imaginative and prescient would simply mix by having Tate inherit the ranch. Kayce is aware of that his son doesn’t totally need operating the household enterprise himself, and maybe figuring out that however having him inherit the ranch anyway is the selection the imaginative and prescient foresaw.
Our superb Yellowstone ending is the indigenous individuals getting their land again. Maybe Tate will inherit it after which give it to his group on the reservation whereas nonetheless residing on the grounds, bringing every little thing full circle. This might open issues as much as maintain the present ranchers employed for some time longer as properly (their fates are additionally nonetheless up within the air as management of the ranch hangs within the steadiness).
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