Beth, Rip, & Carter Plant Seeds For Yellowstone’s Spinoff
Beth And Rip Have A Yellowstone Spinoff

Just days before Yellowstone season 5’s finale, Deadline reported a confirmed Yellowstone spinoff starring Beth and Rip. On the one hand, the announcement spoiled the end of Beth and Jamie’s war in Yellowstone since 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 future as the franchise gears up for their story.

Yellowstone teased 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 in Yellowstone season 5, episode 10 previews 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. The Yellowstone finale must set up Beth and Rip’s next chapter, including how Carter (Finn Little) fits into it.

Thomas Rainwater & Mo Stop The Pipeline
The Broken Rock Members Are At War

In Yellowstone season 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.

While Thomas and Mo’s story progresses subtly in Yellowstone season 5, the finale will change that as Yellowstone sets 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. A confirmed Yellowstone season 5 scene shows Mo and others taking charge on horseback into the night, likely related to the pipeline, the biggest threat to Paradise Valley yet.

John Dutton III’s Funeral
John’s Body Will Finally Return

John Dutton’s funeral will likely happen in the Yellowstone season 5 finale, and we hope it does so that the other characters can pay tribute to the man they loved and respected. Yellowstone has 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 to John Dutton III’s fate in the Yellowstone season 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.

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 of Lee Dutton in Yellowstone season 1. Lee’s funeral marks the Yellowstone premiere, so John’s funeral closing the show is a fitting end.Beth Kills Jamie
Beth’s Death Threat Is Impending

The most significant drawn-out plot in season 5, part 2, is the war between Beth and Jamie in Yellowstone. 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 guilty when 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 the Yellowstone trailer showing someone going to the train station (so Jamie might have a one-way ticket). While Yellowstone season 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.

Jamie’s son returns in Yellowstone season 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 followed Beth and Jamie’s sibling rivalry since 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 for Yellowstone season 5, part 2, suggests otherwise.