Warning: This text accommodates main spoilers for the Yellowstone season 5, half 2 finale.
Since 2018, and throughout 5 seasons of the flagship Yellowstone sequence and a number of prequel exhibits, followers have embraced the Dutton household saga created by Taylor Sheridan and John Linson. However as a lot as viewers love the Duttons, they’re not all good folks. This household has been prepared to kill to guard their secrets and techniques and their land, in addition to brutally pursuing vengeance out facet of the regulation. That’s the way it went down once more within the Yellowstone sequence finale. Earlier than the ultimate credit rolled, the present revealed what occurred to many of the main characters, and what would possibly come subsequent.
The destiny of the Yellowstone ranch
As teased within the penultimate episode, Kayce Dutton (Luke Grimes) had a plan to avoid wasting the Yellowstone ranch. It simply wouldn’t be potential for the Duttons to reserve it themselves. The household didn’t have the cash to pay the inheritance tax on the land, and somewhat than promote a few of the land to cowl these bills, Kayce determined to basically give the land to Thomas Rainwater (Gil Birmingham) and the Confederated Tribes of Damaged Rock for pennies on the greenback. Rainwater and the tribes couldn’t afford to pay market charges, and the one ones who may would have redeveloped the land and turned it into one thing unrecognizable.
Kayce’s situations for the sale included a carve out for the small 5,000 acre residence that he constructed for himself and his household on the land, in addition to ensures to by no means promote or develop the land. He additionally requested that Rainwater take care of the generations of Duttons who had been buried on the land, which was nearly instantly betrayed by the younger kids of the tribes who began pushing down the Dutton household’s grave markers. Rainwater’s right-hand man, Mo (Moses Brings Lots), caught the youngsters within the act and chided them earlier than shouting a reminder that the Duttons protected the land and died for it. And the primary headstone Mo put again upright belonged to Elsa Dutton (Isabel Might), the tragic heroine from the prequel sequence 1883.
Might made a vocal visitor look as Elsa narrated the top of this chapter and famous that the destiny of the Yellowstone ranch was foreshadowed in 1883 when the tribes stated they’d reclaim the land in seven generations. Virtually like clockwork, that’s precisely what occurred.
The funeral of John Dutton
Kevin Costner didn’t seem within the second half of Yellowstone season 5 over a really public falling out with Sheridan and Paramount Community. His character, John Dutton, was killed off within the midseason premiere, and he was lastly laid to relaxation within the finale. The choice was made to bury John subsequent to his late spouse within the graveyard on the Yellowstone property. It was an emotional gathering, particularly for the Duttons and their prolonged household of ranch arms. Kayce took the chance to inform his late father that he forgave him, whereas his former enemy, Rainwater, vowed to guard the land.
Rip Wheeler (Cole Hauser) took it upon himself to bury John’s coffin and promise to maintain loving his spouse — and John’s daughter — Beth Dutton (Kelly Reilly). Beth had a unique promise for John, as she vowed to avenge his dying… after which took off proper after the funeral to do exactly that.
Beth vs. Jamie: The ultimate battle
Jamie Dutton (Wes Bentley), the black sheep of the household, wasn’t stored within the loop about John’s funeral partly as a result of everybody else within the household knew he had a job in John’s dying. To maintain the press and the general public off of his path, Jamie practiced and delivered a speech the place he denied that he was sleeping with Sarah Atwood (Daybreak Olivieri) and vowed to pursue his father’s murderers from his workplace because the Lawyer Common of Montana. Jamie in all probability even thought that the speech would possibly land him within the governor’s mansion sometime.
First, Jamie needed to endure a vicious assault from his sister, Beth, and a face filled with bear mace that briefly left him blinded. Regardless, Jamie turned the tables on Beth and almost beat her to dying till he realized that he may use her assault to border her for John’s homicide. He was solely stopped in his tracks when Beth revealed that the household had already bought the ranch to the tribes, and Jamie’s goals of incomes riches from the redevelopment died a tough dying. Earlier than Beth may comply with these goals into the afterlife, Rip arrived and bought in a couple of pictures at Jamie earlier than Beth took the killing blow for herself.
Beth’s plan appeared to hinge upon Rip’s later arrival, though she almost bought herself murdered within the course of. Whereas Rip disposed of Jamie’s physique and automotive, Beth referred to as the police and informed the arrival officers that Jamie had overwhelmed her after she accused him of being concerned with killing their father. She additionally offered sufficient ammunition for the police to start investigating Jamie as a fugitive somewhat than the sufferer of homicide himself. By the top of the episode, a warrant is out for Jamie’s arrest, however his physique could by no means be discovered.
Justice for John Dutton?
Jamie’s dying closes the ebook on Beth’s quest for revenge, however the males who attacked her father and staged his dying as a suicide seemingly escape seize and justice. The present doesn’t even appear to be all that occupied with figuring out who the assassins had been, because it spends a great deal of time with the characters saying goodbye to the ranch and to the Duttons. After all, this finale wouldn’t be full with out yet another look by Sheridan’s character, Travis Wheatley, which performs like an out-of-control ego journey. Travis actually comes off like an actual jerk when one in every of Yellowstone’s ranch arms, Teeter (Jennifer Landon), approaches him for work and he berates her command of the English language as “hillbilly” and orders her to take heed to a ebook on tape about tips on how to converse English.
However, many of the characters get their comfortable endings as Kayce and his household put collectively their very own model of cattle, whereas Rip and Beth put down roots in a a lot smaller ranch.
How does the Yellowstone season 5, half 2 finale arrange the spinoff exhibits?
It type of doesn’t. There’s nothing on this episode that factors to The Madison, which is able to star Michelle Pfeiffer, Kurt Russell, Patrick J. Adams, and Beau Garrett. None of these actors seem on this episode. The one direct hyperlink to the subsequent spinoff sequence is thru Rip and Beth, since each Cole Hauser and Kelly Reilly not too long ago signed on for a wholly totally different Yellowstone sequel sequence.
The irony of any potential spinoff for Beth and Rip is that they appear comfortable of their new residence, and there doesn’t seem like a lot drama of their relationship or the city close to their ranch. So there’s no apparent hook for the subsequent sequence, until Sheridan goes to spring some recent issues on the couple when the brand new present inevitably premieres a while sooner or later.
Peacock will ultimately stream Yellowstone season 5, half 2, however hasn’t presently set a date for when the episodes will likely be obtainable.
