Beth dutton corporate espionage1/8/2024 ![]() ![]() He has a few different hallucinations during the episode, including of his late brother, Lee, who turns violently angry when Kayce refuses to let him into the circle. ![]() There is also not much to really take away from Kayce’s vision quest. But then John revisits Mitch in his office and convinces him to shorten the sentence, so she’ll probably be out in under a year. It’s a bleak moment, a brutal exit for a character we’ve come to know, if not love. John puts pressure on the judge to be merciful, but he wants to make an example of her, excoriating her in court for eroding the rule of law. Instead, the bulk of his screen time during the finale deals with Summer, who is facing life in prison. John certainly doesn’t seem busy with campaigning. And what does this all mean for the gubernatorial race? ![]() Isn’t Jamie the one with the power to some extent? Hasn’t he been covering up the ranch’s crimes even while estranged from John? I would think he could still do a lot of damage if he wanted. It’s a predictable reversion, and I’m not quite sure it works. You’d think that wouldn’t be enough leverage considering it implicates everyone at the ranch, but Beth reports back to John that he’s back to having Jamie in his pocket. She makes sure to snap a photo of Jamie disposing of the body on the same cliff where the Duttons have tossed countless bodies before. Maybe that helps with making his decision to do what Beth says and kill the man once and for all, shooting Randall in the head right after exchanging “I love you”s. Jamie has known that all along too, deep down. Or if he does, it’s in service of his real pursuits: land and power. (It’s never going to be a good day when Beth shows up.) She confronts him about Riggins, and Jamie tells the truth: He didn’t know Randall was involved until he held a gun to his head, but he still couldn’t kill him.īeth points out what we’ve known all along: Randall doesn’t care about Jamie. That choice is hastened by the arrival of Beth at Jamie’s office. It’s always been clear that Jamie would have to choose between fathers and that he’d probably choose the dad he has known longer, even if John doesn’t offer the validation and affection that Garrett Randall does. Jamie’s story has been heading in an obvious direction all season, even if it hasn’t gotten the screen time it deserves. They’ve become the most stable part of the show. It’s a lovely, romantic scene, and I continue to appreciate how the show resists contriving some reason to break Rip and Beth apart. Knowing what she needs to do now, she kidnaps a priest and brings him to the ranch to spontaneously marry her and Rip. He probably saves his own ass by pointing out that he was just the middleman, redirecting Beth’s rage to Jamie (the easiest target). That threat addressed, Beth schemes her way into a conjugal cell meeting with Terrell Riggins to finally get the truth about his involvement in the Dutton hits. But Beth doesn’t feel particularly concerned about Warner’s threats, and neither do I. Beth started at Market Equities to get revenge on her last employer, and now Market Equities wants revenge on her. It’s fun to see Jacki Weaver deliver such a vengeful monologue, but it makes Warner look naïve, doesn’t it? She’s correct to point out that Beth was always totally up-front with her about her motives for taking the job, so I’m not exactly sure what took her by surprise here. ![]() Before the five-minute mark, they’ve completely made up, and what seemed like a potential source of real human drama last week is treated like a silly one-off spat.Īt least that frees Beth up to take care of some business, including popping into work to get fired and chewed out by Caroline Warner for committing corporate espionage. After a warning from Rip that she’ll never be able to undo it if she leaves him, she apologizes to John for what she did to Summer, then asks to stay. In the finale, he doesn’t appear until 55 minutes in.Īs has been the case for a while now, Beth is the main plot-driver of the episode. In many ways, Jamie’s corner of the show is the most main plot–like there’s inherent drama built into the story of a weak man torn between his adoptive father and his biological father, the former of whom is the protagonist, and the latter of whom tried to murder most of the main characters.īut Yellowstone routinely seems to forget about Jamie, treating his story line like a matter of little urgency. What story was Yellowstone season four trying to tell? “Grass on the Streets and Weeds on the Rooftops” offers little clarification. That’s partly because, besides the supersize run time, the episode doesn’t feel like much of a finale. It’s hard to have much of a reaction to this season finale of Yellowstone. ![]()
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