Major spoilers for everyone who hasn’t yet seen Yellowstone ’s Season 5B premiere, so be warned! Holy shit, y’all. We’ve been waiting nearly two years for Yellowstone ’s final Season 5 episodes, and I’m pretty sure every imaginable hypothesis has been considered concerning how the western would explain Kevin Costner ’s John Dutton either being absent or suddenly returning after all the behind-the-scenes issues.

After months of speculation, we now know the fate of the Dutton patriarch—and it's even more dramatic than expected.