Spoiler Alert for 1883 and Yellowstone season 5, part 2
IfYellowstoneseason 5’s finale is the end of the series, several things must happen to conclude Taylor Sheridan’s neo-Western TV series.Yellowstoneseason 5, part 2 experienced significant production delays, and, due to reported disputes, the series returned without Kevin Costner as John Dutton III. Without John, the otherYellowstoneseason 5 charactershave delivered an exciting outing, though Sheridan has left countless events to conclude in the finale.Hopefully,Yellowstoneseason 5’s ending will pay off its best stories.
It’s been a mixed season for the Dutton family, with some wins but primarily losses. In thepenultimate episode ofYellowstoneseason 5, Kelly Reilly’s Beth Dutton holds an auction to liquidate the estate’s assets and cover the ranch’s mortgage. The mortgage for the Dutton Ranch helps pay the massive inheritance tax, which has halted life as usual as Luke Grimes' Kayce works with his sister to determine their options. InYellowstoneseason 5, episode 13, Kayce suggests they give the ranch away. Based on that,a few things need to happen forYellowstone’s finale to wrap up the series satisfyingly.
7Kayce Sells The Ranch To The Broken Rock Tribe
Yellowstone Episode 13 Hints At The Ending
InYellowstone’s season 5 finale, Kayce selling the ranch to the Confederated Tribes of Broken Rock would be an inspiring ending. TheDutton siblings' discussion at the end of episode 13 foreshadows that Kayce and Beth will give the ranch away,as does the episode title, “Give it All Away.” Kayce asks his sister a business question, posing a hypothetical sales situation to her, looking for answers. Kayce asks Beth what the sales tax would be if she sold her $300,000 car to him for $1. When Beth asks what her brother is cooking, he doesn’t say.
1 Dutton Scene Is Confirmed To Happen In The Yellowstone Season 5 Finale
Yellowstone’s season 5 finale will contain enormous moments for Taylor Sheridan’s neo-Western, including one scene that is vital to the show’s ending.
Kayce is formulating a plan to sell the ranch, and we know Beth is down for it since she kisses his cheek when she figures it out before parting ways. Beth has one question: Who?Kayce has been establishing a close relationship with Thomas Rainwater(Gil Birmingham) and Mo (Moses Brings Plenty), leaning into their customs and traditions as he navigates the balance of protecting the ranch, Tate (Brecken Merrill), and Monica (Kelsey Asbille). Kayce is determined to prioritize his family over maintaining theDutton’s family treelegacy in season 5, leaving an obvious solution.
Generations of Duttons have died protecting the ranch, and Kayce’s visions inYellowstoneseason 4 suggest that he needs to choose the ranch or his family.
Generations of Duttons have died protecting their ranch, andKayce’s visions inYellowstoneseason 4suggest that he needs to choose the ranch or his family. Therefore, Kayce’s allegiance to his family signals that he’s willing to walk away from the ranch. While it would be impossible for the Duttons to find a buyer for all their land at a fair price, Kayce has discovered the best solution.In1883,aYellowstoneprophecy suggests that the Native people of Montana will rise and take their land back from the Dutton family,to which Kayce’s great-great-grandfather says they can have it.
Yellowstone Season 5, Episode 13 Features A Heartbreaking 1883 Reference (What It Means For Its Ending)
Yellowstone season 5, episode 13 features a heartbreaking 1883 reference that foreshadows the end of the Dutton Ranch as Beth sells its vital parts.
Kayce giving the ranch to the Broken Rock Tribe would enable the ranch to stay whole, which John Dutton III and his father wanted. Beth’s plan for the ranch included selling parts of it off to companies interested in maintaining open spaces. The solution would break up the family’s estate and contribute to the settlement of Montana. Thus, Kayce’s teased solution to give the ranch to the Broken Rock Tribe fulfills aYellowstone 1883prophecyand meets each modern character’s needs. For instance,Beth has always wanted to sell the ranch, and Kayce has always tried to leave it behind.
6Kayce, Tate, & Monica Resettle In Their Home
Kayce’s Family Settled At East Camp
In the season finale ofYellowstoneseason 5, part 1, John Dutton tells Monica about an area of the Dutton Ranch next to the Broken Rock reservation called East Camp. John Dutton tells his daughter-in-law there’s an old house and that it’s her family’s if they will take it. He asks Monica’s family to move into it so that Kayce can keep an eye on the ranch since, at that time, Rip (Cole Hauser) and some other cowboys are heading to Texas to look after the cattle after brucellosis threatens the herd, and he needs to govern from Helena.
TheYellowstoneflashbacks show Kayce’s family settling at East Camp, perfectly blending their two worlds between the ranch and the reservation.
InYellowstoneseason 5, episode 9, “Desire Is All You Need,” Kayce shows his family the house, and Tate and Monica fall in love with it. No one has occupied the distant house for years, and the place needs a little work. Still, its isolation draws Kayce and Monica to the house, and they work alongside their son to renovate it in a flashback inYellowstoneseason 5, episode 10, “The Apocalypse of Change.” TheYellowstoneflashbacks show Kayce’s family settling at East Camp, perfectly blending their two worlds between the ranch and the reservation.
Yellowstoneseason 5, part 2 concludes with episode 14, “Life Is A Promise,” on Paramount Network at 8 pm ET on Sunday, August 14, 2025.
However, duty calls Kayce back to the ranch when John Dutton III dies, and Monica and Tate leave their newly formed home behind to follow Kayce. Still,Kayce’s family can return to their slice of Paradise Valley. If Kayce gives the ranch to the Confederated Tribes of Broken Rock, he and his family can return to their home since it will be part of the reservation. Kayce prefers living with his Native American wife and son on the reservation when the series kicks off, but Monica’s grandfather, Felix (Rudy Ramos), urges him to leave when the range war breaks out.
5Lloyd & Yellowstone’s Cowboys Find New Jobs
What Will Happen To Lloyd Now?
While the Duttons contend with their futures,the Dutton Ranch cowboys must begin writing their next chapter.The future afterYellowstoneseason 5 is uncertain for ranch hands like Ryan (Ian Bohen), Walker (Ryan Bingham), and Teeter (Jennifer Landon). Beth liquidates the ranch’s assets inYellowstoneseason 5, episode 13, officially leaving the ranch hands without their jobs, prompting the cowboys to discuss what comes next. While the cowboys tease what’s next for them in the penultimate episode, we hope each Yellowstone ranch hand gets screentime in the finale to give a more conclusive answer about their future.
Walker could appear in Taylor Sheridan’s Texas-centeredYellowstonespinoff,6666,which will occur at the Four Sixes Ranch in Texas.
Walker teases that his next venture is in Texas. We need confirmation on that front, including if his girlfriend Laramie (Hassie Harrison) will join him. We also need answers about the future ofForrie J. Smith’s Lloyd BridgerYellowstonecharacter, especially after Rip promised to keep him as a ranch hand despite its operations ending. If there’s no ranch to work on after the finale, we need an idea of where Lloyd will land. Sadly, Colby’s tragic death compromised a happy ending for Teeter, but hopefully, she and Ryan find a way to start anew.
4Beth, Rip, & Carter Plant Seeds For Yellowstone’s Spinoff
Beth And Rip Have A Yellowstone Spinoff
Just days beforeYellowstoneseason 5’s finale,Deadlinereported a confirmedYellowstonespinoff starring Beth and Rip. On the one hand, the announcement spoiled the end of Beth and Jamie’s war inYellowstonesince we know Beth will live to see another day. Still, Beth wouldn’t likely lose to Jamie, as she had been one step ahead of him the entire series. Thus, rather than answering whether Beth will live or die while she dukes it out with her brother,Yellowstone’s season finale can forecast Beth and Rip’s futureas the franchise gears up for their story.
Yellowstone Already Told You What Beth & Rip’s Spinoff Will Be About
Yellowstone will officially continue with a spinoff starring Kelly Reilly’s Beth and Cole Hauser’s Rip Wheeler, and the show already hinted at it.
Yellowstoneteased what Beth and Rip’s spinoff will be about when Beth travels south to Texas to visit her husband in a flashback. Their romantic interlude inYellowstoneseason 5, episode 10previews Rip and Beth’s ending if John didn’t die. The story shows how Beth and Rip fit perfectly into the landscape of the Lone Star state. If the Duttons sell the ranch, Beth and Rip are no longer obligated to stay in Montana, leaving the doors open for their story.TheYellowstonefinale must set up Beth and Rip’s next chapter, including how Carter (Finn Little) fits into it.
3Thomas Rainwater & Mo Stop The Pipeline
The Broken Rock Members Are At War
InYellowstoneseason 5, episode 7, Senator Lynelle Perry (Wendy Moinz) calls Thomas Rainwater into her office to report that the Department of Interior approved a pipeline that will run under the Native American reservation’s water reservoir. The development comes just days after the President of the United States visits Broken Rock, proving Thomas' intuition is correct. As season 5 progresses, the chief is determined to fight the pipeline’s development.Thomas tells Mo the pipeline is the hill they die on, and he suggests the government can’t build a pipeline if someone takes their pipe.
Rainwater foreshadowed the pipeline’s development when he told Angela Blue Thunder (Q’orianka Kilcher) to be cautious when trusting the federal government at the event she put on, saying,“Obama visited Standing Rock two years before he tried to run a pipeline through it.”
While Thomas and Mo’s story progresses subtly inYellowstoneseason 5, the finale will change that asYellowstonesets up a resolution for the pipeline’s development. Hopefully, it ends with Rainwater and Mo successfully stopping the development because, as Rainwater pointed out, it could pollute their drinking water and poison their entire Indigenous community. However,Rainwater’s comments suggest fatal danger, so we hope everyone makes it out unscathed. AconfirmedYellowstoneseason 5 sceneshows Mo and others taking charge on horseback into the night, likely related to the pipeline, the biggest threat to Paradise Valley yet.
2John Dutton III’s Funeral
John’s Body Will Finally Return
John Dutton’s funeral will likely happen in theYellowstoneseason 5 finale, and we hope it does so that the other characters can pay tribute to the man they loved and respected.Yellowstonehas had its fair share of deaths throughout its five seasons, but John’s is doubtlessly the most significant since the series centered on Costner’s Dutton patriarch for most of its run. Due toJohn Dutton III’s fate in theYellowstoneseason 5, part 2 premiere, Beth and Kayce never got to say goodbye to their father, and the season 5 finale can provide some much-needed closure.
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The Yellowstone season 5, part 2 premiere is devastating, but it fixes one of the biggest problems for the Dutton family heading into the finale.
Beth all but confirmed her father’s funeral for the finale, telling her husband in episode 13 that she wanted to bring his body back to the Yellowstone Dutton Ranch and host a private ceremony to honor his passing. Beth’s comments suggest that John Dutton’s funeral will be a family affair, although some cowboys may participate since they are like family.Laying John to rest is a proper way to cap the series, which started with the death ofLee Dutton inYellowstoneseason 1. Lee’s funeral marks theYellowstonepremiere, so John’s funeral closing the show is a fitting end.
1Beth Kills Jamie
Beth’s Death Threat Is Impending
The most significant drawn-out plot in season 5, part 2, is thewar between Beth and Jamie inYellowstone. After their father dies, Beth suspects her brother Jamie (Wes Bentley) is responsible. While Sarah Atwood (Dawn Olivieri) is directly to blame,Beth knows Jamie is guiltywhen he can’t look her in the eyes. Confident of her brother’s involvement, Beth vows that she will kill Jamie, finally holding him accountable for the pain he caused their family. While it’s an extreme way to end a sibling rivalry, the neo-Western thrives in its extremities, and its deaths define the show.
Whatever happens, we hope Beth and Jamie’s war builds to a satisfying conclusion since we have followed Beth and Jamie’s sibling rivalry since day one.
Taylor Sheridan is saving the war’s end for the season finale, with scenes from theYellowstonetrailer showing someone going to the train station (so Jamie might have a one-way ticket). WhileYellowstoneseason 5, part 2, has not progressed much in the sibling war, Jamie’s sister isn’t one to forgive a grudge, and Beth will likely follow through with her threat. The only questions remaining are how it will happen and how far Beth will go to make Jamie suffer. When Beth learns that Jamie has a child, she threatens to take his son away, which is a chilling threat.
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Jamie’s son returns inYellowstoneseason 5, episode 13, when Jamie consults his child’s mother about his political future, which could foreshadow a gruesome future for Jamie’s whole family. Whatever happens, we hope Beth and Jamie’s war builds to a satisfying conclusion since we have followedBeth and Jamie’s sibling rivalrysince day one. There’s a chance that Beth will show her brother some mercy, choosing to move on. However, the ominous scene of Rip burning a car in one of the trailers forYellowstoneseason 5, part 2, suggests otherwise.
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Yellowstone follows the Dutton family, led by patriarch John Dutton, as they defend their expansive ranch against external threats from land developers, an Indian reservation, and America’s first national park. Released on August 23, 2025, this series examines the complex dynamics and violent conflicts surrounding the largest contiguous ranch in the United States.
