Season 3 of Yellowstone finds the Dutton family trying to move on from their past
dramas and continue their simple life on the ranch. John Dutton steps down as
livestock commissioner to appease Governor Perry following the violence of season 2.
He’s enjoying a semi-retired life on the ranch and teaching his grandson, Tate, the ropes.
In John’s stead, Jamie becomes the new livestock commissioner, though his father
still doesn’t fully trust him. And when Jamie gets offered the Interim Attorney General job,
Kayce Dutton becomes the new livestock commissioner. And that’s on top of Kayce
being the foreman of the Yellowstone Dutton Ranch. Kayce’s strong work ethic and rancher
attitude eventually leads to support in him to consider running for governor.
Kayce’s wife Monica, meanwhile, begins reconnecting with her Native American
roots and even strikes up the beginnings of a partnership with Chief Thomas Rainwater,
a rival to John Dutton and his claims to the Yellowstone Ranch.
Jamie Dutton’s strained relationship with his sister Beth is revealed to be because of his
handling of a teenaged Beth’s abortion. When they were younger, Beth sought after Jamie’s assistance
in seeking an abortion, and Jamie decided to have her treated at a clinic which required
their patients to undergo historectomies. Upon this revelation in the present, John Dutton is
understandably upset with his son. This further fractures Jamie’s relationship with his family,
and upon discovering that he was adopted, he goes to meet his biological father,
Garrett Randall, who had murdered Jamie’s mother when he was a baby.
Beth Dutton’s work in finances with Schwartz & Meyer and her
familial ties to the Dutton Ranch puts her directly in opposition to Market Equities,
a firm which wants to buy up Yellowstone Ranch and surrounding properties to
build an airport and ski resort. A representative from Market Equities,
Roarke, is tasked with securing the deal by any means necessary and the Duttons are offered half
a billion dollars for their property or face a legal battle that would force them out anyway.
But it’s not all a struggle for Beth, as she’s back on again with her longtime love, Rip Wheeler,
and the two get engaged. Rip, meanwhile, continues to lead the ranch hands and hires
on Teeter to add a woman to the boys club. Teeter fits right in and forms a relationship with Colby.
Jimmy strikes up a relationship with barrel racer Mia, who encourages him to
follow his dreams of being a rodeo star. After suffering serious injuries in a rodeo event,
John Dutton agrees to pay for Jimmy’s medical bills in exchange for promising to give up rodeo
and focus on being a ranch hand. But with Mia’s encouragement, Jimmy gets back on the horse.
The last we see of Jimmy, he’s bucked off the horse and lays unconscious, his fate unknown.
Rip and the rest of the ranch hands eventually have to deal with Wade Morrow,
a neighboring rancher and old rival of John Dutton’s. Wade and his son Clint escalate
the rivalry throughout the season, eventually leading them to trample Colby and Teeter to near
death. It’s revealed that Wade and Clint have actually been working for Roarke all season,
hoping to bait the Duttons into taking illegal retaliations against the Morrows,
which would help Market Equities' case in buying the Dutton Ranch.
And the bait definitely works, as Rip and the boys round up the Morrows, killing father and son both.
As season three comes to a close, the battle between the Duttons and Market Equities comes
to a head. Market Equities CEO Willa Hays has Beth fired from her job at Schwartz & Meyer
and is able to convince Jamie and Governor Perry that the airport and ski resort was in
the best interest of the people in Montana. But that doesn’t mean victory for the firm,
as John Dutton is determined to fight for his land and even allies himself
with rival Thomas Rainwater to stop the development with a lawsuit. For Rainwater,
if an airport and resort were built on the land, he’d never be able to reclaim it for his people.
And so, an alliance between himself and John was in both of their best interests.
Not content to take the battle into a long, drawn out court case, Willa gives Roarke
the go ahead to do whatever it takes to close the development deal once and for all. And so,
as the season comes to a close, the members of the Dutton family are the targets of several
assassination attempts, with Kayce being attacked by armed gunmen in his office,
Beth having a bomb explode in her old office building,
and John being gunned down on the side of the road while helping a stranger change her tire.
Who will survive the assassination attempts made on their lives? Well, we gotta watch the
new season to find out. But let me know in the comments below what you think will happen. Will
anyone die? What kind of revenge will the Dutton family get on Market Equities and Roarke? I'm sure
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