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It Is The End Of An Era *Spoiler Warning*

It’s finally time. Here’s everything that happened during the final episode of the beloved Yellowstone.

The episode opens by showing the Native American tribe on horseback, destroying the pipeline. They moved it from their land, dropped it in the water, and watched it sink.

After that intense opening, The scene shifts to show Taylor Sheridan as his character, Travis, and the crew of Yellowstone and 6666 Ranch all together drinking beers and laughing. They share tales like old friends and celebrate the success of the horse sale from the last episode.

After this heartwarming scene, you see Teeter, who earlier in the season lost her love Colby in a freak accident, asking Travis if he has any space for her to work for him at the 6666 Ranch.

When Travis asks Teeter why she wants to work for him, she shares that there are just too many memories at Yellowstone. This scene is interesting because it suggests the potential for that to be a pivotal storyline in the Beth and Rip spinoff, which was just confirmed by the Deadline.

John Dutton’s Funeral

John Dutton’s funeral is intimate, featuring only his family and ranch hands.

All the audience can see is the red casket adorned with white roses. Before the funeral begins, the casket sits in the barn, and Beth has a private moment with her father where no one can see her. She says, “We won.” Tears fill her eyes as she continues, “It breaks my heart that I had to lose you to do it. I’ll let you rest now, Daddy. You go be with Mama.”

She steps back, and the ranch hands carry the casket to his final resting place, which is right next to his late wife. Carter grabs Beth’s hand and walks her to the funeral, where the priest stands at the head of the casket and hands everyone a white rose to lay on the casket and say goodbye.

Beth begins and says the iconic line, “I will avenge you.” She then leaves on the warpath. Next is Kayce, who simply says, “I forgive him.”

Then Chief Thomas Rainwater says, “I will protect this for you and our relations.”

The rest of the ranch hands lay white roses on the grave and leave in tears, leaving only Rip and the priest.

Rip dismisses the priest and picks up a shovel. Rip does John Dutton’s dirty work for the last time by lowering the casket and covering it with dirt.

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Beth And Jaime

In the season finale, Beth and Jamie confront their long-standing feud. Immediately after the funeral of her father, John Dutton, Beth gets into the car and drives straight to Jamie’s house.

She has a crowbar and pepper spray and plans to use them.

When she arrives at Jamie’s house, she surprises him and hits him over the head with the crowbar multiple times. She then sprays him in the face with her pepper spray and continues to beat him until he fights back.

He gets in a few good punches, and while Beth sits on the floor, unable to get up, he begins to strangle her. He says: “You know what you are about to become? Another one of this family’s secrets.”

While it looks like Beth is not going to be able to get out of the situation, Rip barges through the house and throws Jamie off her. Rip begins to beat Jamie for almost killing Beth.

Beth stops him and then shoves a knife through his heart.

Jamie is dead and with him, the end of their lifelong feud.

A Prophecy Fulfilled

In 1883, which serves as the prequel to Yellowstone, a prophecy is given to the Dutton family, and it is fulfilled in the season finale. The series follows James Dutton and Margaret Dutton, played by Tim McGraw and his wife, Faith Hill. They lead their family, including their daughter and son, on a journey across America with the goal of settling in Oregon.

Before they can get there, their daughter, Elsa Dutton, who’s played by Isabel May, gets shot in the liver by an arrow. She has about a week to live. The parents decide that they will not leave their daughter, and wherever she passes, that is where their family will stay.

Elsa, a fiery character reminiscent of Beth Dutton, decides to choose where she will spend her final days. As they journey, Elsa selects what is now known as Yellowstone. The family receives the land from the Indian chief of that time. In granting them the land, the chief shares a prophecy that the family would return the land to the Native Americans in seven generations.

James Dutton, Tim McGraw’s character, says: “In seven generations, you can have it.”

That is exactly what happened.

As Beth and Kayce are unable to pay the enormous taxes on the Yellowstone ranch, they sell the land back to Chief Thomas Rainwater for the exact price that it would have initially been sold to them when their family inherited it. In today’s currency, it is pennies on the dollar.

Kayce has only two criteria for returning the land to the Native American tribe: He said they can never sell and never develop it.

By doing so, Kayce and Beth are able to leave the Yellowstone ranch while still honoring their father’s wishes that the land would never be developed.

The Native American tribes smartly declared Yellowstone a wilderness area, making it so that going forward, it will never be able to be developed.

Kayce leaves the signing over of the Yellowstone land and says, “I’m free.”

The season finale ends with Beth and Rip on their new land, Casey and his family on theirs, and the ranch hands all off on their new paths.

Watch some of the best Yellowstone moments below.

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