‘Yellowstone’: Beth & Jamie Confrontation Changes Kayce Forever (RECAP)
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[Warning: The following contains MAJOR spoilers for Yellowstone Season 5 Episode 10, “The Apocalypse of Change.”]
Luke Grimes told TV Insider ahead of the premiere of Yellowstone‘s final season that John Dutton’s (Kevin Costner) fate forces Kayce to pick a side in the civil war between his siblings. The second episode of Season 5 Part 2 showed just that. Now, Kayce is more devastated than before, leaving the military veteran in a headspace that has Monica (Kelsey Asbille) and Tate (Brecken Merrill) on high alert.
Before his father’s death, Kayce never saw Jamie (Wes Bentley) as an evil force like Beth (Kelly Reilly) always has. This perception was completely shattered after Beth confronted Jamie about their father’s demise in the November 17 episode. Jamie couldn’t look Beth in the eye when she demanded answers in his office, and he wouldn’t deny Beth’s accusation that he had a hand in their father’s death.
Beth never believed for a second that it was really a suicide, and Jamie was incapable of proving otherwise. A cowardly silence was all he could muster. This, paired with Sarah’s (Dawn Olivieri) sinister reaction that made Beth throw her to the floor, was all the confirmation Beth needed to know that Sarah and Jamie killed John. Jamie didn’t reveal the truth that he was kept in the dark about Sarah’s hitman plot. It could be out of deep guilt that while he didn’t order the hit himself, it was his idea.
Kayce was the first person Beth called after this brief but violent encounter. Jamie’s refusal to deny his involvement sent Kayce into a dark spiral; he bit his lip so hard in response, he drew blood. Accepting the grim reality, Kayce replied that Jamie couldn’t have acted alone. That’s when Beth told him about the “viper” Sarah.
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The former Navy SEAL smartly guessed that Sarah must’ve hired a hitman to do the dirty work. He called up a fellow veteran (played by Will Trent‘s Jake McLaughlin) on a secure line to ask about American murder-for-hire companies. Monica and Tate followed in the car behind Kayce, concerned for his wellbeing. In grim advice to her son, Monica hinted that Kayce may be triggered and prone to self-harm.
“When your father gets quiet, that’s when you talk to him. When he’s alone, that’s when you force him to be with you. We can’t let this take him from us, Tate,” she warned.
Earlier in the episode, Kayce promised that he would take John’s place as head of the ranch if Tate wanted to do the same in the future. He wouldn’t hesitate to preserve the ranch if that’s what his son wanted. A flashback showed the family of three renovating their cabin on the family’s land and feeling at home for the first time. In the Texas timeline, Rip (Cole Hauser) revealed that he had never left Montana before this, and Beth regretted that they were so tightly bound to the ranch. With this, the series may be setting up a series finale that would see Beth and Rip leave Montana and Kayce and Monica stepping into John’s place as the ranch’s caretakers. But this revelation about Jamie could prove to be heavy obstacle for Kayce.
Jamie, meanwhile, has completely resigned himself to Sarah’s side despite the clear despair he feels over where their actions have led. Now, all he can think to do is finish what he started that his father thwarted. Jamie is planning to undo John’s cancellation of the airport lease, and Market Equities is going to support his bid for governor in the upcoming special election. But Beth and Kayce aren’t going to let him win without a fight.
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I think the show is a piece of crap now. Taylor Sheridan is a prick. He writes Costner out out of revenge. His ego is big as Mount Everest is tall.
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I agree Taylor Sheridan is a first class prick. I have had it with him and Yellowstone. Plus moving the series to Philo. Good bye
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The the 1883 Prequel , the Indigenous people said the Duttons would have the land for a certain number of generations and then it would revert back to the tribe . Tate is part of that tribe through his mother . I have always thought that Tate will inherit and give it back . We can watch and see . Because Tate is the heir.
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11 generations, I believe.
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Five generations. I'm so glad someone else remembered.
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It was 7 generations...Monica's baby will be 7 generations...
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Me too. Or hope so.
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Tate won't need to "give it back"... he is Indigenous by way of Monica!
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It was 7 generations…..
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Yes, it was 7 generations...
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The timeline seems to be off?
Beth calling Rip yelling him to come home due to John's death then the next scene she's driving to Texas?
Or Kaycee and family fixing up new place on ranch to then deal with John's death? I dunno seems out of order
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They’re going back & forth to things that happened before John died and what’s happening since he died. I don’t like it.
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Well why would we don't want to know? Since Kevin isn't on anymore it had to be done on the first episode. So going back it fills in things. Unlike when everyone got shot and blowed .
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Ya… it was a bit confusing at times, but I figured out what they were doing and understood what was happening.
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It’s a flash back before John dies. Watch the show!
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It didn't look like a flashback! It could have been done better!
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That's called flashbacks. I thought the same thing, but blasted shows love to do that.
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In season 2, Dan Jenkins told Beth that he understood the Duttons better being out on the ranch. Beth replied that she understood herself less the more time she spent at the ranch. She returned to the ranch only because John called her. So, yeah, if the ranch is saved, I can see Beth leaving again.
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This all happened in the last 20 minutes of the episode. The first 40 minutes made no sense to me
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Nothing seemed to make sense in that episode
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In 1883, the Native Americans said the original Duttons could stay on the land, but it would go back to the Native peoples in 5 generations. Tate is the 5th generation. Hopefully Sheridan remembers he wrote that!
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7 generations
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Well maybe that's setting up the storyline.. Isn't Casey's son part native American?
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I couldn't figure out the timeline. When Beth drove to camp and told the ranch hands they could go to a hotel was that before John was dead? No one seemed sad. Then Casey returning home and wife and son being sad? When did that happen in relation to Beth and Rip at the campsite. Something was off? Wasn't a smooth transition.
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I think Beth driving to camp was a dream she had
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No… they were bouncing back-and-forth, between events in the show.
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I was messaging my friend during the episode, they were flip flopping to before and after John died obviously.
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I think Kevin Costner did not do this right by leaving. He should have stayed to the end. He placed the show in a situation that should not have been. He could have existed in another way. Also he could have left and made special appearance on occasions. Not cool!. Jamie is so clueless
Beth is going to get Jamie. He doesn't realize how much he is being used by that women. I like that it's continuing without John. The 2nd episode was a little crazy and off could have been done better. I want to see Beth get Jamie and the so called girlfriend.
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I thought Beth told John that he owns Jamie, because she got pictures of him dumping his father at the train station. Remember she pulled up in front of him with her headlights on and took pictures of him with the body bag.
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She did tell John that, but Jamie picked the train station on purpose knowing that it's the place people end up who go against his family. So if Beth turns in Jamie, she turns in John and the other cowboys who have cleaned up their mess!
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Good point. It should be interesting to see how it turns out!
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LIke Chekov's gun, that mean, black horse is gonna play a role in the story and I can't wait to see the indigenous riders decked out in war paint.
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The show has lost its punch and has been reduced to a daytime soap. Really mediocre
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Good to see Kacey finally stepping up to take on his families’s legacy and the ranch. He has been running away from this, finding himself and his place far too long.
Good to see that Jamie is finally not getting free range at the ranch or the Governor’s office. His days are doomed as far as the family is concerned. He is going to find some other evil manipulation scheme alongside of Sarah. He may get himself killed by Sarah since he knows too much, or killed by powerful men that want to force new development on Yellowstone land and or on the reservation land.