Yet,this episode pushes things to their absolute limit, and nobody will be the same afterward.
Yes, Pete is dead, and Father Renaud (Sebastian Roche) takes issue with it.
“Your path is a walkway to perdition, and I shall not walk it with you.”
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In a Bozeman speakeasy, Banner Creighton (Jerome Flynn) speaks with a few men about Spencer Dutton.
After hearing that he’s a war hero, Banner orders Spencer’s death.
Once he promises, he leaves with his men.
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He watches as Lindy seduces the woman but is interrupted by Banner’s arrival.
Banner tells him about Spencer, but Whitfield is unconcerned.
Although the sheriff is on the Duttons' side, Whitfield notes that the courts are on his.
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However, Whitfield replies that if Mabel’s mother were there, he would do the same to her.
She worries about Pete, knowing that something is wrong.
On the Dutton ranch,Jack decides it’s time for him to catch up with his great-uncle.
At the house, Liz sneaks up on Cara, who anxiously knits while she waits for Jacob.
It’s because of this that they are under constant threat.
But things only get worse when Zane walks in and tells Cara that Jack is gone.
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The trio plans their trip through Minnesota, South Dakota, and eventually Montana.
Paul calculates the distance, which is about 1,500 miles, will take around three days by car.
In Livingston, Jacob and his men arrive at the train station to find Sheriff McDowell already there.
The Duttons face a new set of challenges in the early 20th century, including the rise of Western expansion, Prohibition, and the Great Depression.
This female marshal was historical all along.
Meanwhile, Jack rides through the forest and hears something.
The men send the Dutton heir’s body back by way of horse.
Down in Texas, Runs His Horse and Teonna come uponthe bodies of Pete and Marshal Kent.
“But there are no trees here.”
In Wisconsin, Alex, Paul, and Hillary are on the road.
In Buffalo, they stop to fill up and put chains on the tires.
In Texas, Teonna grieves as Runs His Horse prepares a fire.
“We are Crow,” he says.
“If you don’t live, someday they won’t even remember we were here.”
From the brush, Father Renaud watches.
That evening, the priest sneaks up on them, but Runs His Horse wakes to see him.
Renaud comes closer, and he and Runs His Horse shoot one another.
Renaud confronts Teonna, claiming to be the light that has found her darkness.
He tries to get her to call out to God, but she refuses.
With her father now dead too, Teonna is left alone in the world.
In Wyoming, Alex shivers.
Hillary is used to freezing because they live in Chicago, but Alex struggles to keep warm.
“Quite the adventure,” he tells his wife, neither knowing what will come next.
Unfortunately, things don’t look good for them, and they soon get even worse.
They’re snowed in and completely out of fuel.
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