Warning! SPOILERS For Yellowstone Season 5, Episode 14, "Life Is A Promise"

Kayce Dutton’s (Luke Grimes) CBS spinoff explains one of the most disliked elements of Yellowstone season 5, part 2, unfold without him.

Yellowstone season 5's flashbacks showed Kayce, Beth (Kelly Reilly), and the Dutton Ranch hands before John’s death. A common piece of was that the flashbacks wasted previous time in the series’ final chapter, homing in on trivial moments when there were more serious matters at hand for the Yellowstone season 5 characters’ past.

Yellowstone Season 5’s Divisive Flashbacks Set Up Kayce’s Spinoff

The Flashbacks In Yellowstone's Final Installment Were Confusing

After watching Yellowstone season 5, episode 10, "The Apocalpse of Change,"I distinctly thinking that Taylor Sheridan had just set up continuations for both Kayce and Beth, independent of one another. In the chapter, Kayce settles into East Camp with his family, redoing the floors, cabinets, and roof of the Dutton family lodge with Tate (Brecken Merrill) and Monica (Kelsey Asbille). While I agree the flashbacks in “The Apocalypse of Change” felt trivial, I also understood showing Kayce and Beth’s lives before their father died, since season 5 would have shown how John’s kids’ lives were developing independent of him.

The flashbacks help us understand how their lives were developing outside John’s death, contextualizing Kayce and Beth’s Yellowstone continuations.

Kayce and Beths stories would continue after John Dutton’s death, so it made sense to me to have Yellowstone moments that weren’t about John. Since losing the Duttons' patriarch was paramount to his family once it happened, I assumed flashing back was to show us simpler times. Ahead of Yellowstone season 5's finale, Taylor Sheridan announced a Beth and Rip Yellowstone spinoff starring Kelly Reilly and Cole Ha. Then, ahead of 1923 season 2’s finale, Kayce’s Yellowstone continuation was announced. Therefore, the flashbacks help us understand how their lives were developing outside John’s death, contextualizing Kayce and Beth’s Yellowstone continuations.

What Kayce Dutton’s Yellowstone CBS Procedural Could Be About

Yellowstone Gives Us A Big Hint About Kayce's CBS Show

Kayce Dutton’s story in Yellowstone season 5 also gives us hints about what his continuation will be about. Kayce’s Yellowstone spinoff will reportedly be a CBS procedural. Therefore, it will revolve around some aspect of investigation or law enforcement. Kayce’s spinoff could follow him as the Livestock Commissioner for Montana. Kayce solved compelling crimes while working in the position, and that could translate into a procedural. That said, Kayce threw away his Livestock Agent badge in Yellowstone season 5’s finale, saying he was free from the position that was traditionally used to protect the Dutton Ranch.

I also believe that Kayce’s present timeline in Yellowstone season 5, part 1, set up his continuation. In Yellowstone season 5, episode 3, “A Tall Drink of Water,” Kayce talks to Thomas Rainwater (Gil Birmingham) and Mo Brings Plenty on his porch. He tells them he wants to trade his livestock job for a policing gig for the Broken Rock Reservation, and Mo answers by saying Kayce could be appointed the investigator for the Montana Department of Justice. Yellowstone season 5 never follows up on the development, but Taylor Sheridan could be saving Kayce’s new job for his procedural.