Now, if all of this is true, one of the biggest follow-up questions becomes “Why would Yellowstone brush such an important moment like that aside without making it clear what happened?”
In a similar vein, perhaps all involved thought it would have been one too many WTF moments for a single episode.
That’s not easy to answer without some insight from co-creator Taylor Sheridan or any of the cast, but there are a couple of factors that could clear things up.
For one, the creative team may have felt like there were already too many big shocks in those final minutes, and wanted to hold back on revealing even more so that viewers would be more worried about the core family rather than the ranch.