The audience is "embodying what the children are feeling in their gut but can’t see," explains Christina Voros of flashing back to the night that explained the fate of Kevin Costner's character, John Dutton.
Time caught up to itself in the latest episode of Yellowstone and, just as director Christina Voros and the cast have been promising, the drama that ensued was propulsive.
“Knowing that’s where we were going, it’s all made sense to me,” Voros tells The Hollywood Reporter of season 5B’s two timelines — the past and the present — merging with episode three, “Three Fifty-Three,” which aired Sunday. “Not knowing where it’s leading I think has left some people feeling like they don’t know where it’s leading — which is the point. You don’t understand the point until you get there.”
The point of arrival was 3:53 a.m., the precise time that John Dutton was murdered. The season 5B premiere had revealed what happened to the main character played by Kevin Costner, who departed the series between seasons 5A and 5B. John died by an apparent suicide, but his death was revealed to the audience to be the result of a murder-for-hire plot launched by the partner of his estranged, adopted son Jamie Dutton (Wes Bentley), fixer Sarah Atwood (Dawn Olivieri).
“Three Fifty-Three” flashed back to the night of the murder, showing in step-by-step detail how assassins broke into the Montana governor’s mansion and knocked him out in order to stage his death as a suicide.
