With the long-awaited return of Yellowstone on Sunday, fans have been delving into a theory that could prove prophetic for the series finale.
Yellowstone has been a huge hit for the Paramount Network, and even spawned two spin-offs, 1883 and 1923.
The first spin-off, 1883, follows the Dutton family as they discover what would be the beginning of their sprawling ranch in Montana.
The end of the spin-off includes a scene in which John Dutton’s (Kevin Costner) great-great-grandfather, James Dillard Dutton (Tim McGraw), has a fateful talk with a Crow tribe elder named Spotted Eagle (Graham Greene).
Many believe this brief conversation serves as a harbinger of what is to come when Yellowstone comes to an end.
With the long-awaited return of Yellowstone on Sunday, fans have been delving into a theory that could prove prophetic for the series finale.
The end of the spin-off includes a scene in which John Dutton’s (Kevin Costner) great-great-grandfather, James Dillard Dutton (Tim McGraw), has a fateful talk with a Crow tribe elder named Spotted Eagle (Graham Greene).
1883 followed James Dillard Dutton, his wife Margaret (Faith Hill), and their children Elsa (Isabel May) and John Sr. (Audie Rick) as they set out west from Tennessee after the Civil War.
Elsa was injured when she was hit by an arrow in the penultimate episode, and in the end, her father James realizes that she is going to die.
Without a doctor to help her, James decides to travel with his teenage daughter, saying, “where she dies is where we stay.”
Spotted Eagle makes a suggestion and says, ‘I know a place for you. You go through that pass and follow the river south. I used to hunt in that valley when I was a boy. The winters are cruel, but the summers are rich and a man who plans can prosper. And you seem like a man who plans.
When James asks what the name of the valley is, Spotted Eagle tells him that he doesn’t know the English word but says, “When you die, you go there.”
James suggests, ‘Heaven’, but Spotted Eagle says that’s not it, as James adds, ‘Paradise’, which Spotted Eagle claims…before the prophetic warning.
“But know this: that within seven generations, my people will rise up and take it from you,” says Spotted Eagle.
James Dutton responds, “In seven generations, you can have it,” before setting off with Elsa and stopping at the land that would become the sprawling Yellowstone Dutton Ranch.
Elsa was injured when she was hit by an arrow in the penultimate episode, and in the finale, her father James realizes that she is going to die.
James suggests, ‘Heaven’, but Spotted Eagle says that’s not it, as James adds, ‘Paradise’, which Spotted Eagle claims…before the prophetic warning.
“But you know this: that within seven generations, my people will rise up and take it from you,” says Spotted Eagle.
James Dutton replies, “In seven generations, you can have it,” before setting off with Elsa and stopping at the land that would become the sprawling Yellowstone Dutton Ranch.
There have been multiple mentions of the Yellowstone Dutton Ranch surviving for seven generations in Yellowstone.
If this prophecy is true, then it could mean the end of the Dutton family’s legacy on that huge plot of land.
Interestingly, Kayce Dutton’s (Luke Grimes) son Tate (Brecken Merrill) is half-Indian on his mother Monica’s (Kelsey Asbile) side, so perhaps he could be integral to this theory.
Fans will know for sure when the second half of Season 5 returns with the first of six new episodes airing Sunday, November 13 on the Paramount Network.
