Although Kevin Costner’s departure from Yellowstone has taken the spotlight recently, what happens to Beth and Rip, John Dutton’s daughter and ranch hand respectively, is season 5’s most crucial story. Taylor Sheridan’s beyond-popular modern-day Western, which centers on a Montana ranching family, is set to end with Costner’s exit from the show. While Costner’s patriarch is a key figure, the now-married couple are the real heart of Yellowstone. Between Beth’s unfiltered approach to all things and Rip’s unwavering loyalty to the Duttons, the two make for great TV.
Despite the Yellowstone season 5, part 2 filming delay, the series’ final outing has plenty of compelling plot points in the works where Beth and Rip are concerned. In the season 5 premiere, John Dutton is sworn in as Governor of Montana and, later, appoints Beth as his chief of staff. Throughout the season, John’s only daughter gets into multiple brawls, tries to find an alternative to ranching, and learns a dark Dutton secret from her brother. Rip, meanwhile, has a brush with law enforcement over missing wolves and reflects on his promise to John. With tensions rising, part 2 will be one to remember.
Beth & Rip Have Become Yellowstone’s Best Characters & Key Story
Their Journey Is The One To Watch
Even with John staring down a potential impeachment, a deadly disease sweeping across Montana and endangering cattle, and outside forces looking to thwart the Duttons’ success, Beth and Rip are Yellowstone’s best and most interesting characters. As with its predecessors, season 5 centers on the Dutton family legacy, all while ramping up the battle for Yellowstone’s ownership. In reflecting on season 5, Kelly Reilly, who plays Beth, notes, “The war feels internal this year for her. [She’s] haunted by the past, afraid for the future, and fighting with all she has for the present moment” (via Town & Country).
…their enduring devotion to each other has weathered plenty before…
This doesn’t spell trouble for Beth and Rip as a couple, as their enduring devotion to each other has weathered plenty before. However, it’s clear that Beth’s long-standing feud with her brother, Jamie, will come to a head in Yellowstone’s final episodes. With the siblings poised to kill each other, Beth’s secret sets up a major Yellowstone season 5 feud between Rip and Jamie, the cause of Beth’s traumatic infertility. Aside from the brewing drama outside their marriage, Beth and Rip reconnect in season 5, episode 6, “Cigarettes, Whiskey, a Meadow and You,” which teases one potential outcome.
How Will Beth & Rip’s Yellowstone Story End?
Will They Get A Happily Ever After?
In “Cigarettes, Whiskey, a Meadow and You,” Rip shows Beth his dream location on the expanse of Yellowstone ranch land. Given this moment, it’s possible they might build their own home there before season 5 ends. Of course, that’s the most idyllic path forward.
There are plenty of stories that need resolving before Yellowstone ends, including Beth and Jamie’s sure-to-be fatal feud. At the same time, a fitting end to Rip’s story likely involves carrying on the ranch’s legacy in some way since he is so much a part of the family, even before his marriage to Beth. No matter the outcome, Beth and Rip are poised to be at the center of Yellowstone’s long-awaited series finale.
One New Beth & Rip Season 5 Preview Has Fans Excited
Fans Hope For A Spinoff
Though Yellowstone isn’t set to conclude its fifth season until November 2024, Paramount began te asing the events of the season as early as February. They did so by sharing throwback clips on their social media accounts. One features a conversation between Beth and Rip as she tells him he should stay, and he worries about being replaced in his work. The scene sets the stage for their bond.
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The clip, which is from the second season of Yellowstone, has fans focused fully on the pairing leading into the final episodes of season 5. While many of the comments on the released clip include hearts and clapping hands emojis for the couple, that’s not all.
Knowing that there are spinoffs in development for Yellowstone even though the flagship series is coming to an end, plenty of fans are hoping that this clip as a throwback for the new season might mean the characters will get their own spinoff show. Comments on Instagram include remarks like, “Now give us our Beth and Rip spinoff please and thank you,” and, “BETH AND RIP NEED A SPINOFF… ASAP!!” It’s clear that fans would be more than ready for Beth and Rip to get more screentime in their own story.
What Kelly Reilly Has Said About Yellowstone’s Finale
Reilly Thinks Secrets Might Ruin Their Relationship
While fans might be eager to see Beth and Rip get their own series, Kelly Reilly has said that she’s not entirely sure the two can make it beyond the secrets Beth has been keeping from her husband. Reilly spoke to interviewers for behind-the-scenes content for the season 5 DVDs, and she feels like Beth and Rip might be heading for a dark chapter of their relationship.
Reilly remarked in the behind-the-scenes videos:
Beth is haunted by her past. She has a lot of regrets and she has a lot of secrets that he doesn’t know. So there is something that is under the surface that will one day, I’m sure, come, and she’s probably certain that she will lose him.
Beth is keeping her secrets so that she can hold on to what she and her husband have, but that could just as easily backfire on her in the final stretch of episodes.
Fans will remember that Beth is unable to have children, a secret she has been carrying ever since her brother allowed her to be sterilized without telling her as a teenager, and it’s a secret she hasn’t yet shared with her husband. That leaves a dark cloud hanging over their relationship, since Yellowstone and the Dutton family have relied heavily on the legacy built by subsequent generations. Reilly further remarked:
He doesn’t know any of that, and she’s protecting him. So there’s a weighted burden in her heart that she cannot share with him. He’s trying to reassure her and love her, but he doesn’t know the truth.
At the time, this was all speculation on Reilly’s part as they hadn’t filmed the final stretch of episodes yet, but it does float the idea that Beth and Rip might not actually make it to the end of the series together, meaning that spinoff that fans are so interested in might not be on the way for Yellowstone after all.