10 Petal’s Secrets Finally Exposed In ‘Dutton Ranch’ Episode 8 Twist

He has some pent up anger still, and takes it out on Azul and Rip before riding away.

Back at Dutton Ranch, Rip tells him that if any other ranch hand acted the way he did, they’d be fired. Carter challenged him to do it. Rip tries to teach him to learn from his mistakes and pain, rather than wallow in it.

“We don’t get to choose the pain, but we get to choose how we build from it,” he tells Carter.

Carter lashes out at Rip and attempts to leave the ranch, but Beth stops him. In more or less words, he said he feels that Beth and Rip still treat him like a child, even though he’s technically an adult at 19 years old.

“You didn’t ask for us, I know. But you and I, we were given to one another and I’m sure as hell glad that we were. You held my hand as I said goodbye to my dad, and I was in the room when you said goodbye to yours. None of it is fair, but perhaps some of it is meant.”

This was an incredibly emotional scene, as Carter was in tears working through so much pain that he never really dealt with as a child on the Yellowstone ranch. He came into the Yellowstone world with so much anger about his situation, and now finally, after five or so years, he is ready to actually grieve his parents’ deaths.

He responds, “Meant or not, I need to be alone,” and drives away.

Later, find out where Carter needed alone time: Dwight’s ranch to visit Xena, the leopard. Sheriff Wade approaches and they exchange some tense words. Carter clearly is at a crossroads, because he even asks the sheriff for a job.

Beulah

Oreana and Everett are in the hospital waiting room when Joaquin arrives, even though he had left the party in anger for being overlooked to take over the 10 Petal Ranch.

Rob-Will finally comes to the waiting room to tell his family and Everett that Beulah had a heart attack, but she will be okay. Beulah asks her sons to make nice with each other, because they both need one another to run the 10 Petal, no matter who is at the helm.

Rob-Will expresses his interest in wanting to fire Beth and Rip, but Beulah makes it known that they are assets to the company. Shortly after her sons leave, Beth pays Beulah a visit, and lets her know that she made a mistake appointing Rob-Will as her successor, even calling him “a liability.”

The viewers know that Beulah knows this, but still made him the heir to protect Joaquin!

After the family leaves, Everett asks her what made her choose Rob-Will over Joaquin when “Kino” was the obvious (and correct) choice.

“Kino may be my son, but he’s not my flesh and blood, not like Rob-Will,” she says. Viewers will know that in her original speech appointing Joaquin, she said she feels as though he is her flesh and blood.

Everett professes his love for Beulah and tells her he’s finally ready to be together. She jokes, “If having a heart attack made you realize that, I would have had one sooner!”

They sneak out of the hospital in a comical scene that had them running away from the doctors.

The Last Few Minutes Were Intense

Joaquin arrives at Sheriff Wade’s office with Rob-Will’s gun to try to turn him in for Wes Ayers’ murder. Since he doesn’t know where the body is, so the sheriff tells him to leave.

Joaquin’s anger is apparent and it will be interesting what his plan is to oust Rob-Will from the 10 Petal. We see that in the last few seconds of the episode.

Austin arrives at the bar to find Zachariah and asks if he can trust him and Rip. Zachariah responds, “With your life.”

Zachariah brings Austin to Beth and Rip’s house and the ranch hand reveals what he knows about the 10 Petal: that they smuggle in cattle from Mexico illegally with forged paperwork to Border Patrol and paying off cattle brokers.

Now, it’s confirmed that the Foot and Mouth Disease that ran rampant through Beth and Rip’s herd was because of the Jacksons. Obviously we know that Beth and Rip are working at the 10 Petal to make some money and to take them down for what they’ve done, and it looks like now they know exactly what to do.

The looks they exchange at the table are enough to give every Beth and Rip fan solace knowing that these two are back on the warpath and now have the means to take the Jacksons down.

In the final moments of the episode, Joaquin screams out of anger in English, and an even worse phrase in Spanish. Then, after much contemplation, he pulls a flip phone out of a compartment in his car and dials.

He says, “Hola Papá, necesito tu ayuda.”

For those who don’t speak Spanish, he called his father, who we know from the Episode 7 flashback, is Mariano, a former 10 Petal ranch hand. In present day, Beulah tells people that Joaquin’s parents didn’t have the means to raise him, so she did.

Joaquin tells him, “I need your help.”

We haven’t yet met present day Mariano, but we can only assume he is bad news for Beulah, seeing as her threatened her in Episode 3 to run to ranch correctly. Some viewers have a theory that Mariano is running things in Mexico, while Buelah heads operations in Texas.