Yellowstone Season 2, Episode 7, “Resurrection Day,” reveals just how far the Beck brothers are willing to go to claim the Yellowstone Ranch and the gauntlet is thrown down in an explosively violent episode. Season 2 of Yellowstone Sees a new main antagonist for John Dutton (Kevin Costner) and his family to go up against in the form of the Beck brothers, two of the greatest villains to ever appear on a Taylor Sheridan show. All season, Malcolm (Neal McDonough) and Teal (Terry Serpico) Beck have been making increasingly sinister overtures to the Duttons.
They even made an effort to turn Thomas Rainwater (Gil Birmingham) to their side in the previous episode, “Blood the Boy”. In the same episode, Jamie (Wes Bentley) got into trouble by talking to a reporter, telling her the worst secrets of his family. When she threatens to expose them, Jamie brutally kills her and hides the body, bringing the rest of the ranch into his crime. Season 2, Episode 7, “Resurrection Day” sees Jamie contending with his actions And Beth (Kelly Reilly) suffers the consequences of the heightened war between the Duttons and the Bucks.
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Malcolm Beck’s Men Attack Bet
Rip comes to the rescue just in time
At the beginning of “Resurrection Day”, Malcolm arrives at Beth’s office, and the pair verbally spar, making open threats to one another in attempts to intimidate the other party. Beth gets the better of the exchange, so much so that an angry Malcolm hints he will end her tough talk. His attempt to do so occurs at the end of the episode in one of the darkest moments in Yellowstone. Two masked men arrive at Beth’s office, where she and Jason (David Cleveland Brown) are working late.
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They violently attack Beth and Jason, quickly knocking Jason out, but Beth manages to stab one of the assailants with a letter opener before she too is incapacitated. Beth and Jason wake up to find themselves tied up. The man Beth stabbed is bleeding out, but the other has a gun pointed at Jason. He tells Beth they were sent to scare her. When Beth tells him, “Good luck“, the man pulls the trigger and kills Jason right in front of her. He threatens to do the same to Beth. When this still elicits no fear, he prepares to sexually assault her.
However, just before she was tied up, Beth manages to send a text to Rip (Cole Houser), who suddenly arrives. Earlier in the episode, Rip and Beth had a pseudo-date on the roof of the barn, drinking whiskey and looking at the stars. Rip tried to tell Beth that he loved herBut she stopped him. Now he calls in, pulls a bullet and puts down the standing mask, where Beth finishes him off with a heavy crystal statue to the face. The man, who is bleeding from his letter-opening wounds, is shot.
Rip grabs Beth and tells her he loves her as she falls into his arms crying.
Rip grabs Beth and tells her he loves her as she falls into his arms crying. After John and Kayce (Luke Grimes) take Rip to a doctor, Kayce retaliates off-screen. The next morning, Malcolm wakes up and goes to his window to drink coffee. When he opens the blinds, he is shocked to see the two masked men hanging outside his home, covered in blood, and with a note attached to them that says “return to sender”.
John convinces Jamie not to take his own life
Jamie is ashamed of his actions from the previous episode
After the events of the previous episode, Jamie is beside himself, struggling to come to terms with the fact that he killed the reporter. Although Beth and Jamie never got along, her words to him are particularly cruel, and she suggests he take his own life. When John notices a gun missing from the armory, he already knows what’s going on and races to find Jamie. He does find his son, brandishing a gun, and John slowly approaches him. Never the most loquacious or sympathetic, John can get to JamieTell him they will work on the “new” Jamie together.
When John later tells Beth what happened, Beth remains speechless, telling John that Jamie will be the death of their family.
When John later tells Beth what happened, Beth remains speechless, telling John that Jamie will be the death of their family. John disagrees and reaffirms his love for all his children. Jamie, at Rip’s suggestion, moves into the bunkhouse and begins learning how to be one of the cowboys. He learns quickly, and in a decidedly “Un-Jimmy”-like act, he folds a winning hand of cards while playing poker, realizing the findings he would earn are not worth the victory.
Dad gets a horse
John and Kayce agree to help Dad become a cowboy
In a much lighter storyline in Yellowstone Season 2, Episode 7 Tate (Brecken Merrill), after spending the day with Rip, tells John and Kayce that he’s going to be a cowboy when he grows up. He asks his grandfather to let him get a horse, saying that he will dare and do whatever it takes to show that he is responsible. John promises that he will pay for it if Tate’s father, Keys, agrees to let him have it, a higher order. Kayce finally relents after Dad makes a detailed checklist of things he needs to do.
However, the stipulation is that Kayce takes care of the horses on weekdays while Dad stays with Monica, but Dad can see him on weekends. Upset, Dad loudly wishes he could stay at the ranch full-time, which Kayce quickly puts a stop to, worried that talking will upset Monica. After things work out with Monica, John and Kayce make good on their promise and buy Dad a horseWhat he names Lucky, and everyone agrees that it’s a good name.
Case and Monica get back together
Monica moves back to Yellowstone
After spending most of season 2 apart, only together for a few tense moments, Kayce and Monica finally get together. When Tate starts to say that he wants to stay in Yellowstone, Case is surprised to learn that Monica is not afraid, as she has decided that she cannot live without Case, and the two hug, finally reunited.
This is another example of what Monica and Kayce have the best relationship in Yellowstone And Dad’s horror at watching his parents kiss only makes the scene sweeter. When the family returns to Yellowstone, John insists Monica and Kayce take the master bedroom, and He is almost happy to give it to the couple.
Thomas Rainwater receives a rude message
The Beck’s let Rainwater a warning
After the events of the previous episode between the Becks and Rainwater, something was bound to happen to drive a wedge between the men. Rainwater was called by the Reservation Police to the scene of a murder. There, they find that a man involved in Rainwater’s casino has been brutally murdered.
The severed hand of the victim is found outside with a knife sticking out of it. Rainwater acknowledges that the message has been received. It would have been the most shocking moment of Yellowstone Season 2, episode 7, the extent of Beck’s bloodlust didn’t reach new heights with Beth.