Knowing that he'll never ask John for her hand, she asks instead, and with her father's blessing, she asks Rip to marry her.
John understands the risk, he believes his daughter, but he also made a promise to his dying father all those years ago, and makes it clear that he would "rather lose it than break it."īeth and Rip ( Cole Hauser) are finally fully committed after he saved her from the Becks' assassins in Season 2 and told her he loved her. The family literally cannot afford to sustain the land, and with exceptionally well-funded corporations and investors coming for it at every angle, eventually, it will be whittled away until there's nothing left to support the family or their legacy. She takes the massive deal to her father and explains in explicit detail why he should take it. Rourke tells her point blank, "That land is not your family's legacy, it is a relic that will continue to appreciate until you can no longer afford it," and surprisingly, Beth agrees. Previous seasons made it clear that though the Duttons' land grants them tremendous capital and local power, it also leaves them fairly cash poor. After the execution, Rip tells them "Y'all wanted revenge, there's a price to pay for revenge," and several of the Bunkhouse crew, including Teeter and Colby, take the brand that night.Īt a certain point in waging war with Market Equities, Beth comes to terms with the fact that her family's land is unsustainable in its current ownership state. In order to win back the family's trust, Walker cuts the brand right off Morrow's chest before they hang him. Turns out one of the men, Wade Morrow ( Boots Southerland) bears the signature Dutton brand and clearly betrayed John at some point. In response to the attack, John tells Rip to take 'em to the train station (Dutton-speak for killing someone) and the Bunkhousers set a trap to get the deed done. At the same time, Rip and Lloyd ( Forrie Smith) happen upon Walker ( Ryan Bingham) in a bar - an unwelcome surprise since Kayce was supposed to kill him in Season 2 - and drag him back to the ranch. Rourke hires a pair of men to provoke John Dutton, leading to an attack on two new employees on the ranch, Teeter ( Jennifer Landon) and Colby ( Denim Richards). Speaking of violence bringing people closer together, we get another major piece in the puzzle that is the Dutton legacy of branding their most loyal Bunkhouse crew.
As Rourke explains, "Why dream about building golf courses when you can be building cities?" That puts him, and the company, into battle with Beth ( Kelly Reilly), who shorts their stock and costs their investors billions, but also ends up costing her job when Market Equities buys out Schwartz & Meyer and fires her.Īnd Market Equities is bigger, badder, and way more ambitious than Jenkins ever was: they don't just want the land, they want to build an airport and transform it altogether. Market Equities buys out Jenkins' estate, and put Rourke ( Josh Holloway) in charge of making a deal with the Duttons - or pushing them out, whichever comes first. And they do, in a hurry.Įnter Market Equities, the new big-money shady operation to set their sights on the Dutton's land. Dan Jenkins ( Danny Huston), California investor and former Dutton rival turned reluctant ally, was killed in the Season 2 finale, leaving a power vacuum for new enemies to step into. The Duttons may have won the battle against the Beck Brothers without any major casualties, but not everyone got off so easily. Initially, Jamie ( Wes Bentley) takes over as the new Livestock Commissioner, but when he's promoted to interim Attorney General for the state, Kayce reluctantly agrees to take on the job and, to his surprise, discovers he genuinely likes it. However, those consequences turn out to be pretty minimal since the position easily stays in the Dutton family. With six dead and an obvious personal conflict given that it was his grandson's abduction, John has to step down as Livestock Commissioner lest Tate's rescue look like a "gross abuse of power" without consequences. The quality time with his grandfather night only helps Tate recover from his trauma but gives Kayce and Monica time to reconnect and revive their estranged marriage.Īs for the politics, John bears the brunt of the fallout from the high-casualty confrontation that brought Tate home. Now that they're living on the ranch again Monica hopes that spending more time keeping busy with John ( Kevin Costner) will help him heal. At the beginning of Season 3, Kayce ( Luke Grimes) and Monica's ( Kelsey Asbille) son Tate ( Brecken Merrill) is suffering from nightmares after his kidnapping.
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