The Dutton children will survive their brush with death - all of them. Nothing in those last few minutes confirms the fate of the Duttons, but here's what we suspect. While season 3 comes nowhere near resolving the land war at the center of this violent conflict, we are certainly left to grapple with some casualties. The coordinated execution all goes off without a hitch. Beth receives a mysterious package containing a bomb, which her new assistant stupidly opens.
Kayce is attacked in similar fashion inside the office of the Bureau of Land Management, which he currently runs.
A van pulls up beside John as he's working on the tire, and guns him down in cold blood. We cut between John, Beth, and Kayce (Luke Grimes), as each one weathers an attack we should assume came directly from Morris. Here's a breakdown of everything that did happen, everything that didn't, and where we might be headed in Yellowstone season 4.
Yellowstone season 3 finale series#
The last five minutes of "The World is Purple" were some of the most eventful in Yellowstone history, and they've officially set the stage for the series to enter its next act. The final episode, entitled "The World is Purple," didn't offer any resolution to the boiling land dispute between John Dutton (Kevin Costner), Chairman Rainwater (Gil Birmingham), and Morris' firm, but it did escalate the conflict into a new, deadly phase, and it may have marked the end of the line for some of the series' most important characters. After watching that season 3 finale, this description rings with a certain prescience. She described Morris to Entertainment Weekly as the, "most formidable enemy" the Duttons have yet to face. This civilized Morris might have been intended to lull us into a false sense of security all along, because everything shifted in the back half of the season.Īctress Kelly Reilly, who plays Beth Dutton on the show, certainly thinks so. Though Holloway's Morris certainly made a splashy entrance, he remained mostly on the sidelines for the first seven episodes of season 3, calling in stock trades from his laptop and trying to plug a little fly fishing time into his busy calendar. Bozeman received a new big bad in the form of Roarke Morris ( Josh Holloway), whose financial firm makes Dan Jenkins' (Danny Huston) little real estate venture look like a mom-and-pop boutique. In many ways, season 3 of Yellowstone was a bit of a slow burn. Season 3 of Paramount Network's hit neo-Western has, alas, reached its conclusion with a grim finale that left fans to wring their hands and wait a year or more to learn about the fate of their favorite characters. Contains major spoilers for Yellowstone season 3