Written and directed by Taylor Sheridan, Yellowstone Season 5, Episode 14, titled “Life Is A Promise,” wraps up the saga of the Dutton ranch in Paradise Valley as we know it. The series finale begins with Mo Brings Plenty (Mo Brings Plenty) leading a group of his people to steal and hide the pipes for the pipeline being built on the Broken Rock. Back at the Yellowstone, Travis Wheatley (Taylor Sheridan) and the ranch hands share one last night together in the bunkhouse, swapping stories and determining their next moves. Teeter (Jen Landon) asks Travis for a job. He is open to the possibility but tells her to ask Jimmy (Jefferson White) what it’s like before deciding to head down to the Bosque Ranch. “Is he fair?” asks Teeter. “He’s not gonna chew your ass for no reason, but he’s really good at finding reasons,” says Jimmy bluntly. “That’s fair,” replies Teeter.

While Teeter is Texas bound, Walker (Ryan Bingham) plans to follow his barrel racer Laramie (Hassie Harrison) on the rodeo circuit. Ethan (Ethan Lee) and Jake (Jake Ream) find work at the nearby Bar M Ranch (also a real-life ranch whose cowboys appeared earlier in Season 5). Ryan (Ian Bohen) remains mysterious about his plans, stating he’s “gonna stop wasting time.” With no job at the Dutton ranch anymore, Lloyd (Forrie J. Smith) plans to “pull that loose string out of West Yellowstone [and] see if [he] can talk any sense into these city folk.” “If I can’t cowboy here, I’d rather not do it at all,” Lloyd tells Rip plainly.

After Beth (Kelly Reilly) figured out Kayce’s (Luke Grimes) plan to give the ranch away, she moves quickly and buys a ranch for her and Rip to foster and live on 40 miles outside Dillon, Montana. The next morning, she receives word from the funeral home that her father is ready to be buried. Rip and the boys get to work digging a grave in the family plot.

Kayce calls Thomas Rainwater (Gil Birmingham) and Mo for a meeting at East Camp with Monica (Kelsey Asbillie) and Tate (Breckin Merrill). East Camp does not connect to the Yellowstone except through the BLM (Bureau of Land Management) lease. Rainwater expresses his wish to buy the Dutton land but laments his lack of funds and the business development hell that awaits Paradise Valley. Kayce then makes Rainwater his offer. “When my ancestors came here, land sold for a $1.25 an acre, back when it was your land,” says Kayce. “That’s what it sold for when they took it, and that’s the price I offer you.” Stunned, Rainwater listens intently to Kayce’s two conditions. “East Camp I keep for my family, and you can never develop the Yellowstone and you can never sell it.” Now that’s an offer Rainwater can’t refuse.

While Jamie (Wes Bentley) prepares and delivers a stirring speech to save his future, Beth angrily and sadly attends their father’s funeral. Beth lays a rose on John’s coffin and whispers, “I will avenge you.” After everyone says their goodbyes, Beth takes off towards town with a can of bear spray and a knife. Rip soon realizes that she’s headed to Jamie’s house and races off after her.

As Jamie is making himself a drink, Beth sneaks up on him and attacks him with a crowbar. Jamie fights back, and the two unleash years of fury on each other. After Jamie punches Beth to the ground, he gloats about his plans to frame her for the murders of John and Sarah Atwood (Dawn Olivieri) and reveals his plans to turn their home into the “most desirable recreation destination in America.”

Beaten and covered in blood, Beth gleefully tells him they have sold the Yellowstone to the Broken Rock. Insane with rage, Jamie starts to strangle Beth, but Rip saves her. She grabs her knife and stabs Jamie to death. Rip and Lloyd dispose of his body and his car while Beth stays put. She claims self-defense to Detective Dillard (Rory Cochrane) and tells him how to prove that Jamie and Atwood were responsible for John’s murder.

In a needed tonal shift, Ian heads down to Texas to attend his ex-girlfriend Abby’s (country superstar Lainey Wilson) concert and to win her back, which he does. Kayce and Beth say goodbye to their family’s home as they prepare to build their own legacies. Sometime later, the people of the Broken Rock begin to occupy the Yellowstone. “You finally did it,” says Martin Kills Many (Christian Wassana) to Rainwater. “I didn’t do anything, Creator did it,” says Rainwater, making good on his pledge to remove any evidence of the Duttons.

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Beth kept her vow to end Jamie’s life with her own hands. “When I make a promise, I fucking keep it,” Beth tells Jamie as she beats him with a crowbar. After Jamie nearly kills her , Beth gets the upper hand when Rip comes to her rescue. She stabs Jamie with her knife and forces him to look at her as he dies. “I’m gonna be the last thing you ever fucking see,” says Beth, echoing her own words in Season 5, Episode 10 where she famously told him, “Seeing me will be the last thing you ever do alive and I will be smiling.”

The other promise kept is the one Rainwater made to Dutton at the beginning of the series. When Rainwater sits with Kayce after accepting his offer to purchase the Yellowstone for $1.25 an acre, he takes a moment to reflect. He explains: “I made a promise to your father once that I would one day have this land and I would return it to the state that man found it. I would remove any evidence that he had been here.” Rainwater goes on: “I’m sure he took it as a threat and at the time, that’s how I meant it.” However, Rainwater acknowledges that the land is “sacred” because both his people and the Duttons are buried on it. “And that’s how we will treat it,” promises Rainwater firmly. Later in the episode, we see that Rainwater has kept his promise, taking down the Yellowstone ranch buildings, brick by brick, plank by plank.

At his meeting with Rainwater and Mo, Kayce explains his vision in full: “My vision told me of two paths. On one, my family. On the other, the ranch. I could only save one.” Kayce continues: “I used to think that meant only one could be saved. Then I realized it only meant that I couldn’t save the ranch, but you can.” After Kayce makes the deal with Rainwater, he, Monica, and Mo see a wolf out in the field making a den. “Building a home,” observes Mo. “Guess he likes it here too.” When Monica laments the loss of her future chicken coop, Mo comforts her. “You won’t have any problems with that wolf, that one ain’t real.” After Monica wonders how they can see it, Mo replies: “Guess it’s our vision too now.”

Another vision came to fruition as well. Viewers of 1883 no doubt remember Spotted Eagle’s (Graham Greene) gift of Paradise Valley to James Dutton (Tim McGraw) as he searched for a place to bury his daughter, Elsa (Isabel May). “In 7 generations, my people will rise up and take it back from you,” warned Spotted Eagle. In a full circle moment, Elsa’s narration, a beaytifully written monlogue, plays over the final montage of the Yellowstone and the land it was built on: “Raw land, wild land, free land can never be owned, but some men pay dearly for its stewardship. They will suffer and sacrifice to live off it and live with it and hopefully teach the next generation to do the same.”

Part of Kayce’s deal with Rainwater was that he would keep East Camp and build something for himself, Monica, and Tate. When Rip offers Kayce the signage for the Yellowstone Dutton Ranch, Kayce refuses. “I’m gonna start my own brand,” says Kayce. When he mentions his plans to have around “300 pairs of cattle,” Rip says, “that’s a lot of work for a man and a boy” and offers his help anytime it’s needed. The next scene has Kayce and Tate attending a cattle auction. Later, Kayce, Monica, and Tate sit on horseback and watch their cattle unloaded on their land where Kayce promises “3 men can move 300.” “This is how I always thought it would be, in my dreams,” says Monica happily.

Beth also plans to stay in the ranching business with Rip and Carter (Finn Little). She finds a place with a “little house, big barn” sitting on top of “7,000 acres deeded, another 20 in a BLM lease,” 40 miles west of Dillon, Montana where no tourists or developers lurk. While Rip agrees he could make “something like this work,” he says “not gonna get rich, but you can pay the bills.” “You let me worry about the rich part,” replies Beth. With Beth observing the businesses of the 6666 and Bosque Ranch, we have no doubt she will quickly build a new dynasty for her, Rip and Carter to oversee.