The Post Yellowstone Season 5 Episode 3 Recap – What Will Happen To Beth? It first appeared in Ready Steady Cut.
This recap of Yellowstone Season 5, Episode 3, “A Long Drink of Water,” contains spoilers.
Wolves have become an unlikely unifying theme this season Yellowstone. Right now, we’re talking about the four-legged kind, but give it time. The reason I say this is because they are the subject of both an early flashback in which a young John Dutton (Josh Lucas) weighs in on the inappropriate introduction of predators into Montana’s natural ecosystem, and then, of course, the issue of the current protected coyotes that Ryan and Colby accidentally released Episode 2.
Yellowstone season 5, episode 3 recap
We knew this was going to come back to be an issue for Yellowstone, and here in “The Long Drink of Water” when two US Fish and Wildlife Service agents come to the ranch to ask Rip some embarrassing questions about why the GPS collars were found In the land of Dutton. Rip doesn’t take kindly to being confused, but that’s clearly not going away anytime soon.
On the subject, the loss of Monica and Case’s son also continues to prompt big changes. Some of it seems to be based on Kayce’s visions of sweating as well, but the omens are harbingers, I guess. Either way, Monica’s grief is beginning to manifest as outright instability, and to be there for her and Tate, Case just doesn’t feel like he can be a steward of cattle anymore. Rainwater’s boss suggests he become a government investigator, which shouldn’t be particularly difficult given the connections the rest of the family has, but it remains to be seen what kind of implications that might have.
Meanwhile, Market Equities files for breach of binding contract after John halts all of their developments, but Jimmy, finally in a bargaining position for some power, knows the court action is going nowhere. Sarah Atwood took him in right away, so it’ll be interesting to see how that develops (he’s such a sucker).
Jimmy at least handles his responsibilities better than John, who spends most of this episode staring down his ground while trying to avoid hearing about Beth’s first threesome. He’s in a position where he doesn’t want others to want him, while Rainwater is in a position where he does, all of a sudden, not be his ideal candidate anymore. He’s facing political opposition from Martin Kills Many (Christian Wasana) and personal opposition from Angela Blue Thunder, and whichever way you slice it, he’s probably not having a good season.
Beth might not be, but at least she has a good episode to go through. She manages to sell her controlling interest in Schwartz and Meyer to Rob (Aaron Lazar) and put all of her real estate into a custody easement which means they are untouchable. Caroline is enraged by this development, and even more so when she is called back to New York, with the stock market believing this is checkmate. For the time being, Sarah Atwood is their only hope.
So, Beth wants to celebrate. And since it’s Lloyd’s birthday, she spies a chance to take the whole little house to a local pub. Rip isn’t keen on the idea and tries to say no, but you know what Beth is. Despite this, Rip turns out to be right. It’s never a good idea to combine a lot of fake cowboys with a lot of real cowboys and a lot of beer, and it turns out that it’s never a good idea for a pretty lady to hit on Rip while Beth watches.
So, Beth bottles the young woman off, a huge fight breaks out, and the new sheriff arrives on the scene to prove a point by whisking Beth away to jail, despite knowing who she is. I’m sure she’ll be fine, but someone will likely be forced to answer all of this in the near future.
You can watch Yellowstone season 5, episode 3, “A Long Drink of Water” exclusively on Paramount Network.
Additional reading:
- Yellowstone Season 5, Episode 4 preview.
- Yellowstone Season 5, Episode 4 recap. (You will go live once the episode has aired.)
Summary of Yellowstone Season 5 Episode 3 – What Will Happen to Beth? It first appeared in Ready Steady Cut.
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