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Elsa reminds us time and again how the Duttons live to suffer.
For Duttons, the scope of a man is the size of his fight.
This applies to the Dutton women, too.
The subtext is clear: Time moves relentlessly forward.
Even when it feels like it should stop entirely, the minutes tick or pulse, or drip by.
She wrings her husbands spilled blood into a rusty bucket.
Even when it feels like time should stop entirely, a womans work never ceases.
Dont tell the sheriff in pursuit of justice, and dont send a posse in pursuit of revenge.
Recall Spencer from the bush, though that may take months or even a year.
Also, crucially, there is no corpse.
Jacob remains on deaths door, but he has yet to pass through it.
He spends the hour bedridden in fits of restless sleep.
Zane doubts hell make it, but Cara remains true.
Shes a cradle Catholic, raised on potatoes and Hail Marys.
She catches herself talking to God when she doesnt know what else to do.
Emma, on the other hand, has no hope left.
Her husband is barely dead before she picks up a spade to dig the grave herself.
Chores, again, in the face of despair.
These women dont know a life without keeping busy, and now theyll teach that gospel to Elizabeth.
Like a good Taylor Sheridan heroine, she chooses frontier freedom.
That said, Jakes not top dog either.
That distinction belongs to Big Sky Countrys gold miners.
Killing a king doesnt make you a king, Mr. Moneybags tells Banner.
It makes you an assassin.
A grueling and un-lucrative line of work in which he has so far found himself incredibly unhappy?
We already know it doesnt have any grass.
He has shaken hands with a bad man.
Ranchers and even shepherds work the land.
This is Taylor Sheridan morality, and I am here for it.
Jacob didnt whisper a plan for what happens when the war wont wait for the good sons return.
Bad news travels at a gallop around here, which means Cara a woman!
is forced to talk her trigger-happy nephew down from urgent revenge.
Luckily, Jake gains consciousness just in time to double-check a woman doesntreallyhave to take the reins.
He tells her to let the stolen cattle go; its human lives they cant afford to lose now.
Not until Spencer gets here.
Spencer, who has survived a world war and the big five game.
Spencer, on whom the Yellowstones fate depends.
Spencer, who steals from the rich and gives to the poor.
Spencer, the caped crusader.
Spencer, man of steel.
From now on, all time will be split in two.
The shift between these epochs is expected to occur roughly a year from now.
will be running the show.
By the time Spencer makes his way home, there will be no need for vigilante justice.
Cattle ranchers will all be cops.
Whatever God saved Jacob Duttons life is not alive at the missionary school.
Teonna again becomes violently rebellious, which is again punished with more violence until something unexpected happens.
Its both what I would have personally done ASAP and something I never thought Id see from Teonna.
Teonna, of course, does not really want to be saved.
She just wants her enemies to sleep soundly in their underestimation of her.
Then, Teonna brands Marys cold, dead cheek with a hot ruler, for style points.
Even if she gets caught on the run from this crime, shell have one last gulp of freedom.
The second his aunts letter reaches him is the moment Spencers bliss ends.
And yet I was distracted entirely with worry for Alex.
Sunblock is still 15 years from existence.
Their whole world is the two of them now.
They make love, they rest, they talk, they make love.
Some of it is fanciful, the half-serious what-ifs of new romance: Where should we live?
Will my parents like you?
Why do you carry a stack of unopened letters that bear another womans name?
He hasnt since long before the war ended.
Now, though, he neglects them out of guilt.
The man they were written to the Spencer who left the ranch to serve his country no longer exists.
Cara writes beautiful accounts of personal tragedies and hilarious accounts of Jacks pratfalls.
Earlier in the episode, Alexandra asks Spencer to vow that life will always be an adventure.
He doesnt quite manage it, though.
All those inevitable events that1923has been teasing still dont quite land on War and the Turquoise Side.
Jack and Elizabeth reaffirm their intent to marry but dont do it.
Teonna is on the verge of escape, but we never glimpse her beyond the schoolhouse.
The war is coming and coming and coming.
And my guess is that hell never have to.
Home on the range is so far enchanting as it is exacting, but its never ever dull.
