Dutton Ranch continued to prove that it isn’t safe for anyone by having a main character potentially die from a heart attack.
During the Friday, June 19, episode of the Paramount+ series, Beulah (Annette Bening) tried to host a gathering for the town that took a turn. Her speech about handing over the business became her delivering the bad news to Joaquin (Juan Pablo Raba) that he is next in level.
The night kept escalating and eventually Beulah suffered a medical emergency. Raba, 49, broke his silence about the shocking on screen moment.
“There’s so much story to tell right here,” he teased exclusively to Us Weekly. “But with that being said, I know the same thing you do.”
Yellowstone initially introduced viewers to the Dutton family in 2018. The Paramount Network show came to an end in 2024, expanding its universe with Luke Grimes‘ CBS show Marshals and Dutton Ranch, which premiered in May.
Earlier this month, cast member Marc Menchaca weighed in on whether the deadly twists on the show had him worried about his character Zachariah’s fate, telling Us, “It’s always a possibility — and I have a pretty good track record of saying bye bye on a show.”
Menchaca, 50, poked fun at his bad luck on screen.
“My wife [Lena Headey] made a death reel for me for my birthday this last year. It was about 10 minutes and it didn’t even have all my deaths,” he quipped. “So I was a little bit [worried].”
He continued: “I was like, ‘They may take me out so I better get on everybody’s good side.’ Hopefully it won’t happen but the way things are now, you get these scripts just a little bit before. Then you start going through and you’re like, ‘Is it gonna happen next scene?’ Thankfully it has not [yet].”
Raba, meanwhile, recalled the moment he was worried about his future on the show.
“When I got episode 6 and I opened the page and I see Chet walking to me with a gun, my first thought was, ‘Well, it was nice while it lasted,'” he quipped to Us. “I was like ‘God, it was so short. But why didn’t they call me? That’s rude.'”
He continued: “You hope for the best and you hope it’s going to be a long run. But you really don’t know. I really hope we can really work this for many seasons because I think there’s so much story to tell.”
Dutton Ranch airs Fridays on Paramount+.
