'Yellowstone' Season 5 Episode 10 Recap: "The Apocalypse of Change" (2024)

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It’s Beth and Kayce versus Jamie as Paramount Network’s Yellowstone season five continues with episode 10, “The Apocalypse of Change.” But before getting to any of that, episode 10 steps back to before John Dutton was found dead.

First up, a check-in with the cowboys stuck watching over the cattle in Texas. Everyone’s up and at breakfast except for Teeter (Jen Landon), and when Rip (Cole Hauser) checks in on her, she looks terrified. She whispers, “Rattlesnake.”

Rip lifts her bedroll and the snake is inside, curled up on her chest. He grabs it before it bites and then yells at Teeter for leaving her tent flap open. That’s just inviting trouble. Teeter reluctantly pokes around inside her tent, searching for more, and of course, there are. They’ve basically camped on top of a rattlesnake den.

There are snakes everywhere, so the cowboys hightail into the truck bed. Rip confirms there are even snakes down by the horses. Everyone packs up to move to a new camp, and Teeter carefully looks around their new site for holes. Fortunately, she doesn’t find any.

Beth (Kelly Reilly) gets pulled over speeding down the highway and quickly pushes up her breasts. Unfortunately, the cop’s a female and isn’t impressed. However, the cop is impressed that Beth’s heading to meet her hubby on the 6666 Ranch and lets her off with a warning to keep it under 80.

Rip and Ryan (Ian Bohen) are busy injecting the horses with snakebite antidote when Beth comes racing up. Her visit’s a surprise and it turns out she found him by putting an air tag in his wallet. She wants Rip to leave and go to a hotel suite with her and doesn’t care if it looks bad. Beth makes a deal with the guys, saying she’ll take Rip away for two days. In exchange, next weekend she’ll fly out their lovers and set them up in the same hotel. Plus, drinks will be on her.

Back at the ranch, Kayce (Luke Grimes), Monica (Kelsey Asbille), and Tate (Brecken Merrill) fix up their new home, sanding floors, fixing the roof, and putting up cabinets. Once finished, Monica’s ecstatic they’re in their first home that they actually own.

Meanwhile, Beth and Rip relax naked in bed. Rip reveals it’s the first time he’s ever been outside Montana, and Beth’s surprised. Beth wants to imagine what they could do if they weren’t tied to the ranch, and Rip reminds her he chose to be tied to it.

They head downstairs to a speakeasy where the bartender informs them all the drinks are true to the speakeasy era. They look around, and Beth points out there aren’t any tourists in the speakeasy. Rip can tell she’s up to something and Beth admits she’s not even sure what she’s got planned.

25 minutes in, and the action moves forward to after John’s murder disguised as a suicide. Rip and Lloyd (Forrie J. Smith) have a private chat and both agree John didn’t kill himself. Rip doesn’t want anyone to go to prison, but they need to figure out who they’re up against. Lloyd’s concerned they’ll have to look for new jobs. Rip can’t guarantee anything.

Beth gets dressed and is shocked to see Summer (Piper Perabo) in the living room. Summer thinks she can’t leave and doesn’t know what to do, and Beth shows her a form that indicates she’s been released and free to go the entire time. She was never officially on house arrest; that was just something John said. Beth informs her that she needs to leave right now and even offers her a ride to the barn. From there, she can ask a cowboy for a ride.

Beth wishes her the best. After exchanging a few insults, Beth puts Summer in the rearview mirror.

Carter (Finn Little) is taking John’s death really hard. He thinks John quit him, like everyone else in his life. Rip assures him he’ll always have a place with them. He urges Carter to cowboy up and get to work. Carter says he wanted to be just like John. If Carter manages that, Rip says he’ll be the first of many who’ve tried.

Summer asks Rip for a ride to the airport.

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Kayce returns home, and Monica rushes to hug him. Monica says Tate knows what the news said, and Kayce explains he needs to stay at the lodge for now. Monica assures him that she and Tate will pack up and join him.

Kayce and Tate take a walk, and Kayce wonders what Tate wants to be when he grows up. (He’s never asked this before.) Tate just assumed he’d be working at the ranch. Without coming out and saying what John wanted, Kayce asks if Tate ever thought about running the ranch. Tate says running the ranch got John killed, and he’d rather just work it.

Kayce confesses he can’t tell Tate everything now. Tate tears up when he says he doesn’t understand why John is dead. “Just know this, you can remember the way he lived or you can remember the way he died. Your heart can’t focus on both. You’re gonna have to choose to miss him or to be mad at him,” says Kayce.

“I’ll miss him then,” replies Tate.

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Jamie receives condolences at work and then hears four words that strike terror in him: “Your sister is waiting.” She’s sitting at his desk when he walks in, and he wisely decides to leave the door open. Beth walks up to her brother and slaps him in the face. When he looks away, she slaps him again and again. He still refuses to look at her and she suggests they both know why.

“Last chance, Jamie,” says Beth as she walks to the door. He doesn’t move or reply, so she walks up behind him and warns him that seeing her will be the last thing he’ll ever do alive. “I will be the last thing on this planet your rotten f**king eyes will ever see, and I will be smiling,” says Beth.

Sarah (Dawn Olivieri) and Ellis Steele (John Emmet Tracy) from Market Equities are outside the door, and Beth taunts Sarah that this is going to be fun. Beth slams into her and holds her against the wall as Sarah chuckles.

Beth walks off, now 100% certain Jamie and Sarah had her father murdered. She calls Kayce and tells him that she met with Jamie and he couldn’t look her in the eyes. He didn’t even deny that he was responsible for their father’s death. Kayce seems to accept this as Beth adds that Sarah (the viper) could look in her eyes.

Kayce immediately calls an old military friend and asks if he’s still in black work. The friend sends him an app for Kayce to use to communicate, and Kayce tells him his dad supposedly died from suicide. The friend isn’t sure what company would handle a hit that big; it would have been a $40 million hit. He suggests that Kayce should be careful sniffing around and promises to get back to him.

Ellis tells Jamie he’s sorry for his loss but that it presents new opportunities. Jamie insists the family won’t be able to afford the ranch and that it would be best if Market Equities put it to good use. Jamie promises to reinstate the lease that his father had no right to negate. He’ll also start work on negating the land trust restrictions. First, he’ll need to subpoena John Dutton’s will, but he doesn’t think the estate can afford to contest it for long. It should be about a year before construction can start, but the lease can be reinstated by the end of the week.

Ellis promises Market Equities will support him if he runs for governor. After Ellis leaves, Jamie tells Sarah that Beth knows what they did. Sarah thinks Beth would blame anything that happens on Jamie and that they shouldn’t be worried. Sarah reminds him that he won and that kings feast, not wallow.

Jamie removes Sarah’s dress and the two most despicable characters on Yellowstone have sex.

Rip drives Summer to the airport and she wonders if he knows cowboys will cease to exist in two generations. Rip believes they’ll all adapt to any changes. Summer admits she’ll miss seeing them work, and Rip says he’ll miss doing it at some point.

Speaking of cowboys, episode 10 ends with the team in Texas saddling up and getting to work.

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