Despite their separation, she returns the sentiment as they join their respective outfits.

“Uncle Sam wants his pound of flesh,” he explains.

“And we don’t want to give it to him in land.”

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“You’re treating me like I’m a suspect,” Jamie cries.

“No, I wasn’t,” Dillard responds.

“But I will now.”

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Instead, they eat in the kitchen.

The detective tells Kayce that Jamie was acting terribly suspicious, but that doesn’t surprise the younger Dutton.

““He put himself there,” Kayce replies.

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It’s clear thatKayce has plans to deal with avenging his father’s murder.

“The police are circling Jamie,” he explains.

“This is all gonna come to a head real quick.”

Kevin Costner as John Dutton looking a person offscreen on the ‘Yellowstone’ Season 5 Part 1 poster.

Why didn’t Kevin Costner return?

Well, it’s complicated.

As Colby enters, he’ll distract the horse while Carter scrambles out.

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Well, it works, and Carter makes it out, only for the horse to stomp on Colby.

Things get violent fast as Colby is trampled, forcing Carter to have to shoot the horse dead.

Butit’s too little, too late, as Colby has been killed.

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“Its not your fault,” Rip tells him.

“If it’s anyone’s fault, it’s mine.”

When Ryan who was Colby’s best friend delivers the news, it doesn’t go well.

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Teeter cries out as that powerfulYellowstonescore booms.

“It was quick,” Ryan tells Teeter.

“He never saw it coming.”

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“He’s a cowboy, suffering’s the job,” she posits.

“I just wish he wouldve suffered a little longer, so I could say goodbye.”

In the old cowboy’s mind, Teeter will “need something to cling to.”

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As she mothers him,she explains that he has no reason to blame himself.

“Colby made a choice.

He saw you in trouble, and he chose to help you,” Beth notes.

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“And I’m sure glad he did.”

Beth tells her surrogate child that he shouldn’t wrestle with this without his family.

“I don’t got a family,” he tells her.

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“Sure you do,” she replies.

As Beth continues to make her rounds around the ranch, she finds her husband in the main house.

“All I ever need is time and you, Beth,” he admits.

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“It’s a dangerous job, and one day it’ll kill me too.

“What I’m doing isn’t best for the ranch,” Kayce tells her.

“It’s for you, it’s for us.

“I can see it now.

I know what to do.

Believe in me,” Kayce says.

“You have my word,” he replies.

We cut down to Texas, where Grant Horton is coaching his daughter’s soccer game.

But Kayce knows better.

“Do you know who I am?”

YellowstoneSeason 5 Part 2 airs Sundays on Paramount internet.

Previous seasons can be streamed on Peacock.

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A ranching family in Montana faces off against others encroaching on their land.