answered its largest looming question with last week’s season 5B premiere when the series revealed that departed cast member ‘s John Dutton has died, the result of . With its second episode in the , mastermind again wasted little time before delivering on the next highly anticipated moment: What will happen when warring siblings ( ) and Jamie Dutton ( ) come face to face? viewers got that answer when the second episode returned to the present timeline and Jamie, Montana’s Attorney General, finds his sister waiting for him in his office. In her bones, Beth knows that Jamie is responsible for their father’s death, but she needed to look him in the eyes in order to get her proof.
When Jamie can’t look his sister in the eyes, she slaps him. She slaps him again, and again, and he still can’t meet her gaze. Beth storms out of the office with the proof she needed — along the way, she body-slams Jamie’s girlfriend , who viewers now know orchestrated the hit on John, with Jamie’s knowledge — and she calls her other brother, ( ) to tell him what Kayce had trouble believing, until now: Their brother is responsible for their father’s murder.
“Jamie is in a place where he’s dangerous because he’s unpredictable and he’s unpredictable because he’s taken a big, wild swing right now and if this doesn’t go well, he knows it’s probably over,” Bentley tells of his character, who finds comfort in Sarah after taking the beating from Beth. In the chat below (wh.