'Yellowstone' Season 3: Will dinosaur bones save the Dutton land? Fans believe John and Thomas will work it out
Spoilers for 'Yellowstone' Season 3 Episode 8 titled 'I Killed a Man Today'
Last week, after a relentless battle with Willa Hayes (Karen Pittman), Beth Dutton (Kelly Reilly) finds herself lost. She eventually brings her father, John Dutton (Kevin Costner), a lucrative offer that she thinks is too good for him to pass on. But no one can change John's mind when it comes to the land that has been in his family for over seven generations.
Over the course of his life, and the two seasons that the Paramount Network has given us, John has fiercely protected the land and promises to continue doing so till his last breath - adamant that he won't break the promise he had once made to his father. But as Season 3 is drawing to a close, the Dutton family is now more desperate than ever to keep their land from being taken over by Market Equities and being converted into an airport and resort. Beth had just spent the entire day making that possible with an intense battle with Willa.
However, Season 3 is unlike the seasons we have seen before. There is no one main antagonist that John is pitted against. This time, he is surrounded by wolves (not the voyeuristic Wolf that shows up every time Monica and Kayce are busy in their natural lovemaking). And these predators are not going to stop at anything.
Fans of the show have been as concerned as John - is it finally time that the cowboy gives up? Is it time for him to settle into retirement by raking in millions and still keeping the ranch to himself? Because God only knows just how difficult it is going to prove to maintain that massive vast land for generations to come. As Beth had pointed out, if they give up on this opportunity, they won't get the chance again to make the money that the land is worth. So now just as John is looking for his best options, fans are too. On Reddit, a fan has come up with what we think is a very plausible theory - one that ties the show in a full circle.
"Market equities are aggressively going after the ranch with intent to turn it into a ski resort/airport. All hope to save the property seems to be going up in smoke with every passing episode," a fan began their theory. "The thing that will ultimately save the ranch goes all the way back to the dinosaur bones found in the beginning of the show. Not sure how this will play out but I have always thought this was a strange thing to drop on us at the beginning of S1E1. Full circle. Dinosaur bones will somehow come back to make an appearance."
Remember the dinosaur bones that John had discovered with his grandson Tate (Brecken Merrill) early on in Season 1? For the longest time, fans had wondered why the show had suddenly abandoned the bones? They couldn't help but wonder what relevance the bones had to the Duttons and the land? Because it is not every day that you find the remains of an extinct creature in your backyard. Now although the bones were technically found on the Indian reservation, some fans are convinced that somehow John and Thomas Rainwater (Gil Birmingham) will work it out.
Is this going to be the case at all? Do you think this can help the ranch at all?
'Yellowstone' airs on Sundays at 9 pm ET/ PT on Paramount Network.