The Violent Scene Between Beth & Jamie Dutton In ‘Yellowstone’ Finale Had An Extremely Ironic Code Name

One of the most insane scenes from the entire Yellowstone series. On Sunday, we watch the fan-favorite series Yellowstone come to an end, and it was fitting, and pretty predictable that, spoiler alert, the land that the gorgeous Dutton Ranch sat on finally returned to the native's who first lived there. In a recent interview with the The Hollywood Reporter, Yellowstone Executive producer Christina Voros, who directed four of the six episodes of season 5B, talked about the epic scene where Dutton kids Jamie and Beth have a nasty brawl, which ultimately ends with Beth stabbing him and killing him. Honestly, I figured she would somehow ending up killing her brother, because the show has also kind of been hinting at that the whole time since we figured out why Beth hated Jamie, though not many people knew exactly how their relationship would finally end in terms of how the final scripts were written. Voros said that many sections of the script were redacted, so each cast member would only know the lines for their scenes, and nothing more. She explained that they had to use code names for the scenes so spoilers wouldn't get leaked (though they did anyways), and they did a lot to try and protect the ending. John Dutton's death scene was called "Crosby’s arrival" in the script, and Jamie's death scene was called "Beth and Jamie play Scrabble," which is pretty funny because it's so lighthearted and the complete opposite of what actually happened, which I guess is the point: "Weirdly, Jamie Dutton’s death became 'Beth and Jamie play Scrabble.' I think it had to with putting pieces together, that might have been the origin of it. By that time in the season, some folks might have caught onto the 'arrival' code word [used in the scripts for previous death scenes for Kevin Costner, Dawn Olivieri and Denim Richards’ characters]. We wanted to add a layer of confusion around it because so many people had 'arrived' at that point. We didn’t want people to put it together, so that final fight sequence was, 'Beth and Jamie play Scrabble.'" Voros says she was on set for the highly emotional scene, though Sheridan was the one directing this episode, not her. She says everyone was "exhausted" by the end of it, because of how important the scene was for the entire series as a whole: "Everyone was exhausted. I think Taylor shot it all day. There were so many pieces, and it was the culmination. All of the hatred and violence of their relationship all culminated in this moment. So it was not like, 'Let’s set up four cameras and put the stunt doubles in and then call it a day.' Taylor had something very, very specific in mind for what this fight needed to be, and it needed to be ferocious and it needed to be the culmination of everything leading up until that point. And so Taylor took a lot of time making sure that it felt that way." It was super violent, obviously, and hard to watch at times, but it seems likely that we'll see more fallout from that in the forthcoming spinoff series that features Kelly Reilly (Beth Dutton) and Cole Hauser (Rip Wheeler), which has already been confirmed. Really, I was left wondering what would happen with the investigation into his death, how Kayce would react, and had tons  of other questions about this incident, which they left largely unanswered. I mean, Beth Dutton is just cold-blooded in every sense... https://www.instagram.com/p/DDoEqgguTdh/