‘Yellowstone’ Final Season: Stars Spill Series Finale Secrets & Address Spin-off Rumors (Exclusive)
Yellowstone fans finally have their answer, and they’re not happy about it.
The fate of John Dutton III, the character played by Kevin Costner was revealed when the show’s final run of episodes premiered Nov. 11.
While viewers knew that Costner—who led the hit Paramount+ series for four and a half seasons and exited the show halfway through season five—would no longer appear on Yellowstone, it was unclear how the series would handle his absence.
And the show didn’t waste any time uncovering John’s fate during its first new episode in two years.
At the top of the episode, Costner’s character is found dead of a gunshot wound. John’s children find his body, and it’s initially believed that he died by suicide. By the end of the episode, though, it’s revealed that Sarah Atwood (played by Dawn Olivieri)—the girlfriend of John’s estranged son Jamie (played by Wes Bentley)—orchestrated a murder plot against him and hired someone to kill him.
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