John express grave doubts about Jamie’s loyalty and competence to be Governor, and tells her that he may end up running for Governor himself. Senate, and that she is ready to endorse Jamie for Governor. John’s sometimes love interest in the Governor comes to visit him at the ranch to tell him that she is running for the U.S. Beth goes to her new office and discovers that the plans to renovate Yellowstone and its surrounding area are far more advanced than she ever suspected. Garrett asks Christina if she will help organize Jamie’s bid for Governor of the state.

Jamie, meanwhile, continues bonding with his new found son, his father Garrett, and his returned ex-girlfriend Christina. Kayce is still searching for the missing horses reported as stolen and which are still not located. Meanwhile, Beth confronts Jamie again telling him that he is still on her notice as to being a disloyal member of the family. Rip decides that Lloyd must have a final knock down fight with his bunkhouse rival with no holds barred. His victim is patched up and John tells Lloyd that he is on final notice for either staying or leaving the ranch forever. Lloyd continues to have troubles at the bunkhouse and stabs his rival in the side of the chest with his knife. He embraces Jamie and the two seem reconciled for the moment. His father tells him to shoot if he completely believes that John did not act in his own interest over-and-above Jamie’s interests when it came to protecting John’s ranch. Jamie returns to confront his own father about the assassination attempt against John by holding a loaded handgun in his biological father’s face. John’s invitation to the head protester to have a tour of the ranch turns into an overnight stay at the ranch, and Beth gets highly upset when she discovers that her father spent the night with a new love interest. When Jamie then goes to confront his father with his findings, he is surprised to find his ex-girlfriend Christina (from a previous season) walking up to him with a child, in front of Garrett, and she tells Jamie to meet his own son.

Jamie arranges for formal Immunity to Riggins in prison, and reduction of sentence to soft labor in prison if he gives information about his father Garrett Randall.

They are arrested though John’s attention is caught by the head protester and he bails her out while offering to show her a tour of the ranch. At the Livestock Commission, Kayce is surprised by a random protest from an animal rights group against what they see as neglect by local ranchers. She tells John that she is planning to leverage the offer from Market Equities and Schwatz & Meyers against both of them in an attempt to protect the ranch. John’s day gets off to a slow breakfast when he discovers that Beth has slept over at the house without telling anyone. As the episode ends, Jamie receives the prison file for Riggins and is visibly dismayed when he sees that one of Riggins’s previous cell-mates was an ex-convict named Garrett Randall, whose name Jamie recognizes as being that of his own biological father. After Kayce takes the file to Jamie, he gets Jamie to agree to order the prison files to be released. John instructs Kayce to take the file to Jamie and ask Jamie to open the prison file on Riggins for further data, and if Jamie balks or delays in anyway then John will assume that Jamie is selling out the family. The file identifies an imprisoned felon named Riggins. He gives Kayce the file given to him by Mo and Rainwater which identifies the apparent organizing Captain of the multiple hit squads hired to kill his family. John takes Kayce to his favorite place at the ranch and tells him that he must determine if Jamie is loyal or unfaithful to the family.

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