Luke Grimes’ Kayce Seeks Revenge for John Dutton’s Homicide

Warning: This publish incorporates spoilers for season 5, episode 12 of Yellowstone.

The Dutton household will cease at nothing to avenge the dying of patriarch John Dutton.

On the Dec. 1 episode of the hit present Yellowstone, Kayce, performed by Luke Grimes, goes to probably the most excessive size seen from the character to uncover the reality behind his father’s homicide.

Within the earlier episode, viewers realized that John’s dying wasn’t a suicide. John (Kevin Costner) was killed in his residence when a gaggle of masked males dragged him from mattress into the toilet the place he was injected with a drug in between his toes that left him unconscious.

The boys made it seem as a suicide by taking pictures John, putting a bottle of Oxycodone close to his physique and leaving the gun in John’s hand.

Audiences realized that Sarah Atwood (Daybreak Olivieri) was chargeable for hiring the hitmen to kill John, and after having a brawl with Jamie (Wes Bentley) in final week’s episode, she drives away and is shot within the head.

The present picks up in episode 12 with Kayce and his sister Beth (Kelly Reilly) studying that their adopted brother Jamie (Wes Bentley) is being investigated after detectives arrive at Jamie’s home inquiring about Sarah’s dying.

As Kayce and Beth work on a option to cease their brother from speaking to authorities and subsequently revealing their father’s secrets and techniques, one other dying takes place on the ranch.

Simply hours after confessing his like to Teeter, ranch hand Colby (Denim Richards) involves the rescue of Carter, a teen taken in by the Dutton ranch, when Carter is trapped and cornered in a stall by a troubled horse. As Colby permits Carter to flee, the horse kicks Colby straight within the chest, killing him. Carter shoots the horse however there is not any saving Colby.

Colby appeared in seasons 1 and a couple of earlier than changing into a daily in season 3.

On the finish of the episode, the drama returns to John’s dying as Kayce packs up and leaves for the night time to do “what’s greatest for the ranch.”

After discovering the identification of the person linked to the shadow group that staged John’s suicide through an outdated navy contact, Kayce tracks down the murderous man to his daughter’s soccer sport.

As the person and his daughter are about to drive away after the sport, Kayce jumps into their automobile and holds the daughter at gunpoint, demanding the person drive. He threatens the assassin saying he is aware of the place his household works and lives and hits the person over the top together with his gun as he says in a menacing voice to the lady, “It’s best to cry.”

Kayce threatens to kill each of them if they appear again as he jumps out of their automobile.

There are two episodes left of the hit collection, which is ending after 5 seasons. Followers waited almost two years for the reason that midseason finale for the Duttons to come back again on screens. However this summer time they realized that Costner wouldn’t be persevering with in his position.

“Him not coming again felt like, ‘Okay, we’ll must land this airplane now for actual,'” Grimes instructed PEOPLE of Costner’s exit. “I believe the patriarch leaving was at all times going to be a part of the story. That is at all times the place it was headed is like, what do these youngsters do? What does this household do when their rock is gone?”

Though he acknowledges the “drama” that predated Yellowstone‘s return to filming — together with scheduling conflicts between Costner’s Horizon: An American Saga and Yellowstone that led to the Academy Award winner bowing out of his position on the present in June — Grimes provides that he felt as if “it was at all times going to go that means.”

“Regardless of the circumstances could also be, [it] undoubtedly felt like, ‘Okay, we’re coming in for a touchdown,'” he says of Costner’s absence. “It undoubtedly felt totally different.”

New episodes of Yellowstone air Sundays at 8 p.m. ET/PT on Paramount Community.