For Yellowstone fans, Sunday night’s (Dec. 8) episode made it quite evident that the end is near, as the Duttons seem to be preparing to bid farewell to the ranch—or are they?
“Give the World Away,” the title of Yellowstone’s Season 5 Episode 13, begins with Rip (Cole Hauser) and Beth (Kelly Reilly) ostensibly preparing to do just that as they get ready to sell everything that isn’t nailed down on the ranch, including the machinery, horses, and cattle, at a huge auction to help solve their cash flow issue.
Without Travis Wheatley (Taylor Sheridan), who has an amazing talent for obtaining top price for horses but is also not one of Beth’s favorite people because of his conceit and misogyny, that cannot happen. Rip tells Beth he’ll try to make out with her when she goes to see him, but he doesn’t. Instead, he agrees to assist her at no cost after trying to see how far she will go in a game of strip poker.
We see a different side of the roguish rancher, who once took a pounding alongside Rip that he didn’t have to out of pure loyalty, when an irate Beth demands that Rip explain why he’s friends with such a man.
In other parts of the episode:
- Teeter (Jennifer Landon) returns to the Yellowstone to prepare for the end and grieve Colby’s (Denim Richards) death, and Beth comforts her in her own inimitable way, which involves both of them getting drunk at a bar and insulting tourists.
- Jamie (Wes Bentley) seeks out his former lover, Christina (Katherine Cunningham), the mother of his child. and she agrees to help him decide how to move forward, if only because his legacy and her son’s are intertwined. She advises him to launch investigations into both John Dutton (Kevin Costner) and Sarah Atwood’s (Dawn Olivieri) deaths, and to deny any involvement with Sarah over and over so that he can pin John’s death on her but first, he has to convince both authorities and the public.
- Jamie calls Beth and tells her that if she makes things more difficult for him, he will bring down the entire family, and she repeats her vow that the next time he sees her will be the last, adding, “Unlike you, I keep my promises.”
- Kayce (Luke Grimes) tells Monica (Kelsey Asbille) that he’s been trying to walk away from the ranch for his entire life, and it’s now time to do it.
- Rip tells the remaining Bunkhouse Boys and Teeter that they all need to look for work, as only Lloyd (Forrie J. Smith) and Carter (Finn Little) will be needed once all the equipment is sold. Lloyd thanks him, as the Yellowstone has been the only home he’s ever known.
- Chairman Rainwater (Gil Birmingham) tells Mo (Mo Brings Plenty) that the only ways to stop the project on the reservation are all illegal.
- Teeter gets to honor walk Colby’s horse with an empty saddle as the auctioneer pays touching tribute to him, John and everything that both of them stood for.
- There’s another touching scene between Beth and Carter, showing that she does have a maternal side, after all.
Beth claims that the slightly more than $30 million raised at the auction will sustain them for a year until they run out of money once more. However, the episode closes on a somewhat more hopeful one because Kayce seems to have come up with a complicated and risky method to save the Yellowstone.
“The only way to save this place,” he informs Monica about. “We’ve got to give it away.”
Many mysteries remain unsolved as we approach the season’s last episode and, eventually, the show Yellowstone. What will happen to Jamie in the end? Will he miraculously escape punishment for all of his crimes, or will Beth eventually confront him as she has often threatened?
Will Tate (Brecken Merrill) be taken by Kayce and Monica to live somewhere else? Or will the ranch actually be saved by him? What will happen to Carter, Beth, Rip, Lloyd, and the rest of the colorful family of characters we have grown to love over the course of five seasons?
Of course, the show’s main question remains: Who will ultimately be in charge of the Yellowstone Dutton Ranch?
Yellowstone airs on Paramount Network on Sundays at 8 p.m. ET.
Taste of Country’s senior writer and editor is Sterling Whitaker. He covers Yellowstone and related exhibits like 1883 and 1923, and he concentrates on once-lebrity real estate. Whitaker is renowned for his in-depth interviews with country giants such as Don Henley, Rodney Crowell, Trace Adkins, Ronnie Milsap, Ricky Skaggs, and others. He has also interviewed cast members such as Cole Hauser, Kelly Reilly, Sam Elliott, and Harrison Ford.
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