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'Yellowstone' returned on Sunday night and quickly revealed the fate of Kevin Costner's character John Dutton, following the actor's exit from the show. We're breaking down just what happened during the premiere and how producers kept the big secret.  WARNING! Major Yellowstone spoilers ahead.

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00:00Yellowstone returned Sunday night and quickly revealed the fate of Kevin Costner's character

00:04John Dutton following the actor's exit from the show. We're breaking down just what happened

00:09during the premiere and how producers kept the big secret. Warning, major Yellowstone spoilers

00:15ahead. Right out of the gate, Sunday's premiere revealed that John Dutton has indeed died,

00:20and it initially appears that he has taken his own life. However, it turns out Sarah Atwood,

00:25the fixer-girlfriend of estranged Dutton brother Jamie, put a hit out on John following the

00:29explosive mid-season finale, and instructed her murder for hire to make John's death appear to

00:35be a suicide. Sunday's episode ended with Beth vowing once again to kill Jamie. Executive producer

00:40Christina Voros, who directed The Hour, told The Hollywood Reporter how the show kept the big

00:45reveal a secret. We didn't talk about it as a death. Anytime there is a death or some sort of event,

00:50we called it an arrival, and we gave John's character a pseudonym. We called him Crosby.

00:55We were calling the opening scene, Beth discovers that Crosby has arrived. It was on the call sheets,

01:00and the crew were like, who is Crosby, and where's he coming from? As for the origin of the pseudonym,

01:05she said, I did some random research. John Schuyler Crosby was the last governor of Montana before

01:11Montana was turned into a state in the 1800s. It was a very random, obscure, esoteric reference by

01:16Taylor Sheridan. Ahead of the big reveal, the cast spoke to THR at their red carpet premiere for part

01:22two of season five, about how they thought the show's audience might react to John Dutton's fate.

01:26I think, like the rest of us, they're going to be bummed. You know, that's a big presence.

01:31That's Kevin Costner. He's an icon. He's John Dutton. He's the rock, the patriarch of the family.

01:38And it's hard to imagine the show without him. But that was always where the show was headed. It was,

01:43can these kids do it without him? You know? So we all knew it was going to get there. We just didn't

01:48know how or when. And clearly, it was different than we thought. But what it did do was ramp the

01:54show up to a 10. And now, you know, everything starts to unravel. You know, it's going to be

02:00difficult. I think a lot, you know, a lot like for Jamie, who's his whole focus in the world was

02:05on John Dutton. And I think at times, the show feels like that. And, you know, we definitely,

02:10we miss him. He's a huge part of the show. And he's a great guy to have around and wonderful to

02:15work with. And so, you know, I wish him all luck in the world. But we definitely miss him.

02:19As for what viewers can expect from next week's episode, Voros said,

02:22I think there's a lot to unravel. There's a map that has to be drawn as to how to move forward.

02:27And I think the next episode begins to outline the way that map is drawn.

02:30For much more on this story, go to THR.com. This is The Hollywood Reporter News.

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