Taylor Sheridan’s Yellowstone is in its last leg, and the shocking ending of episode 11 paved the events for season 12. The characters are still reeling from the aftermath of Sarah Atwood's death, and facing another tragedy when a ranch member dies in an accident.
Yellowstone Season 5 Episode 12, titled Counting Coup sees the Duttons getting heaped up in tragedy as the family desperately tries to save the things they have built over the years. With episode 11 ending with Sarah getting shot in the head presumably by the same people she hired to kill John Dutton III, kept fans on the hook regarding the happenings of episode 12 and the storyline, despite being tragic, has delivered what it promised.
Let us now explore the ending of Yellowstone Season 5 Episode 12 in detail and what happens to the characters like Colby, Rip, and Carter.
The following article contains spoilers.
Colby dies in Yellowstone Season 5 Episode 12
While John Dutton’s death has definitely been the biggest one in the Yellowstone universe, Colby’s death stands out as one of the saddest ones. Colby died unfortunately in an accident while trying to save Carter from a horse gone wild.
While he successfully saves Carter, he dies by a fatal kick from the horse. Colby’s death comes as a shock to his girlfriend Teeter and best friend Ryan who start a journey back to Yellowstone.
Colby’s death also sees a tender moment between Beth and Carter who consoles him and asks him to spend the night with them while also opening up about her first pregnancy with Rip, which she had aborted and got sterilized by Jamie in the process.
John Dutton’s murder investigation remains in process in Yellowstone Season 5 Episode 12
The investigation regarding John Dutton’s death is shown to be continuing in Yellowstone Season 5 Episode 12. Detective Dillard interviews Jamie in Bozeman after Sarah Atwood is murdered in episode 11.
The detective asks Jamie if he thought Sarah was being targeted and once he asks if he could search through some of Sarah’s belongings. Jamie gets defensive, saying he’s unnecessarily being treated as a suspect.
At this, the detective told him that while he wasn’t considering him as a suspect, now he will. This leads to him acquiring a search warrant for Jamie’s house, which makes Jamie panic and shred legal documents that were in Sarah’s bag. Those documents could prove that he had some conflict of interest with the airport project of Market Equities.
Kayce also gets a call from the detective and informs him how Jamie was behaving in an extremely suspicious way. Kayce does not seem to be surprised at the news and he tells Detective Dillard that he thinks Jamie might be involved in both Sarah and John’s murder.
It is clear from Dillard and Kayce’s conversation that Jamie is completely under the suspicion of police and he has put himself in that position. Kayce then makes a call to Cade McPherson and takes Grant Horton's address from him. His actions make it clear that he has plans to avenge the death of his father.
He also shows Beth a news article talking about Sarah’s death and tells her,
“The police are circling Jamie. This is all gonna come to a head real quick.”
However, Beth tells him that Jamie will not hesitate to drown the family’s name to save himself. She also asks Kayce to leave Jamie for her.
Travis tells Jimmy about John’s death in Yellowstone Season 5 Episode 12
In Yellowstone season 5, episode 12, Rip finally acts upon his plan to sell off the livestock. For this purpose, he calls Travis Wheatley (Taylor Sheridan), who is Jimmy Hurdstrom’s teacher for horse training.
Informing Travis about John’s death, Rip asks him to move some Yellowstone horses that are kept in Texas. Travis agrees to this and also asks Rip if he would like to let Jimmy know of John’s demise.
However, Rip refuses to do so because he simply does not have the heart to do it and therefore, after hanging up the phone, Travis gives Jimmy the news. Upon learning that John is no more, Jimmy is devastated and shocked but refuses to take a week off as suggested by Travis.
Jimmy tells Travis that John would not have wanted him to miss his work no matter what and so, despite being clearly shaken, Jimmy gets back on his horse in episode 12 of Yellowstone Season 5.
Yellowstone can be streamed on Peacock.
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