How ‘Yellowstone’ Said a Disturbing Goodbye to Kevin Costner’s Character John Dutton

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William Earl administrator SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers for “Yellowstone” Season 5 Episode 9, “Desire Is All You Need.” Thank you for your service, John Dutton.

In the first episode of the second half of Season 5, it was revealed that the Dutton family patriarch, played by Kevin Costner, was killed after a fatal gunshot wound in the bathroom of the Montana governor’s mansion.

Although you see the bloodied body of an older man at the crime scene, Costner’s face isn’t seen. Dutton’s children Beth (Kelly Reilly) and Kayce (Luke Grimes) have raced over when John is late to the first day of his impeachment tribunal, which was instigated by his opportunistic son Jamie (Wes Bentley).

Beth immediately blames their father’s death on Jamie, but Kayce can’t fathom that he’d have anything to do with it. Meanwhile, Jamie, who had previously discussed having Beth killed by a hitman with his lover and fixer Sarah (Dawn Olivieri) on the most recent episode of “Yellowstone,” gets a mysterious call from someone who sounds like they’re confirming a successful hit on John using coded language.