[Warning: The following contains MAJOR spoilers for Yellowstone Season 5 Episode 11, “Three Fifty-Three.”]
One other Yellowstone main participant was simply taken to the prepare station.
The aim of the Texas and Montana flashbacks with their complicated timelines was revealed in Season 5 Half 2’s third episode, which aired Sunday, November 24 on Paramount Community. They had been to point out the place Beth (Kelly Reilly), Rip (Cole Hauser), Kayce (Luke Grimes), and Monica (Kelsey Asbille) had been when John Dutton (Kevin Costner) was killed.
Beth was on an extended in a single day drive from Texas to Montana when she suspected one thing was instantly very unsuitable. Kayce felt one thing comparable, with a nightmare waking him up seconds earlier than getting the decision about his father’s dying. Shockingly, John’s homicide was really proven, however inventive staging made it so his physique however not his face was seen. This confirmed with out query that John’s dying was a murder, not a suicide, and Kayce helped show that the investigation into his dying wanted to be reopened.
Due to that, the brand new interim governor is making Jamie (Wes Bentley) recuse himself from all issues linked to his father’s dying. This led to Jamie and Sarah (Daybreak Olivieri) exchanging bodily blows in Jamie’s house as Sarah panicked in regards to the reality popping out and Jamie seethed with anger over what she did. A significant dying got here within the episode’s closing moments, establishing a giant cliffhanger on the halfway level of the ultimate season. With that, the episode started and ended with murders, the second a really fast karmic swing.
How did John Dutton die?
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Flashbacks to the night time of John’s dying present the beforehand talked about energy outage that reduce out the safety cameras on the governor’s mansion in the midst of the night time. Three armed males wearing all black and with their faces coated entered the mansion and made it into John’s bed room with out impediment. Viewers took the POV of the hitmen because the mansion and John had been proven via night time imaginative and prescient know-how (pictured above).
One wrapped their arm round John’s neck, reducing off his air provide, whereas the others held again his arms and his legs. John struggled up till the purpose the place they drugged him via an injection between his toes. Then they dragged him to the toilet, the place they pressured the passed-out John to shoot himself within the head. They planted a bottle of oxycodone within the medication cupboard as properly. The shot was heard instantly, and the cop defending the home exterior (who had been questioning the ability outage) reported the noise and ran inside to seek out John useless. He was the primary to report the dying as a suicide.
Within the present-day timeline, Kayce demanded a brand new inspection of his father’s physique. He used his navy coaching to point out how they carried out “snatches” just like the one he suspected was carried out on his dad. Bruises on John’s physique matched the markings that will be current after a bodily battle. This reopened the investigation and made the authorized reason behind dying swap from suicide to undetermined. The weapon used on John was a gun he gifted Kayce up to now, which was in some way acquired by the killers.
Does Kayce imagine that Jamie killed John?
Kayce’s subsequent steps had been to name Beth after which confront Jamie. He pulled his assistant into Jamie’s workplace so she couldn’t run for assist, after which he slammed Jamie down onto his desk with the intent to beat him up extra. Kayce believed Jamie when he stated he may by no means kill their father, partly as a result of he loves his brother and will by no means damage him. This was, in fact, paired with Jamie saying that Beth is a poison that may’t be trusted. He didn’t kill John, however he isn’t fully harmless both — ordering the hit was his concept, in any case, and it was carried out by his girlfriend.
Jamie additionally raised suspicions with Lynelle (Wendy Moniz) and John’s government assistant, Clara (Lilli Kay), after a dialog with the interim governor in regards to the Dutton land. Clara rejected the supply to develop into the governor’s chief of workers out of loyalty to John. Lynelle inspired her to make use of her newfound unemployment to talk to the press about Jamie with out concern of authorized punishment.
What occurred to Sarah Atwood?
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Sarah thought she fastened all of her and Market Equities’ issues by ordering this profitable hit in opposition to John, however panic set in when she noticed the press convention in regards to the new murder investigation. She purchased a burner cellphone and tried to name the one quantity the hitmen offered, however the quantity was not in service. She was consuming the stress away when Jamie arrived house and blamed her for his recusal. When she insulted John and his dying, Jamie punched her within the face. She hit him again, stormed out, and drove away.
He shortly known as her to apologize, and Sarah’s emotions for Jamie began to really feel actual. That’s when strangers rolled up within the lane subsequent to her automotive. A person and a lady had been inside asking for instructions, after which the person requested, “Are you Sarah Atwood?” Earlier than she may end replying, “How may you understand that,” he shot her within the head and a number of instances within the chest. Jamie heard all of it occur.
May this be retribution from the hitmen as a result of the John fallout didn’t go easily? They did trace within the premiere that this was a risk if shoppers messed issues up. Or maybe it was Beth who employed them. Earlier within the episode, she advised Kayce to go away Jamie to her. Whoever did it, Jamie is now linked to Sarah’s closing moments via the decision on their private telephones and the glass of vodka together with her DNA within the kitchen. The burner cellphone coated in her fingerprints can be nonetheless within the trash can.
Their sexual relationship was a secret up to now (who is aware of how properly it was really saved), however Sarah’s dying is undoubtedly going to trigger suspicions. As Kayce left the detective’s workplace earlier within the episode, the officer anxious that the hitmen would kill whoever employed them earlier than they could possibly be found. Kayce stated that even when they had been killed, that will at the least give them their reply. And now there may be bodily proof immediately connecting Jamie to all of it.
Yellowstone‘s closing season is midway achieved. With this newest improvement, do you suppose there’s any means Jamie walks free or bodily unscathed from this nightmare? Tell us within the feedback beneath.
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