[s1e2] - Kill The Messenger

Rip Wheeler is dispatched to silence a drug-addicted medical examiner. After an intense confrontation, Rip stages the coroner's office to look like a suicide by oxygen explosion. Family Dynamics:

John Dutton and his team exhume Lee's body and cremate it in a specialized horse-cremation chamber to prevent an autopsy from proving a third shooter was involved. [S1E2] Kill the Messenger

In a brutal rite of passage, Jimmy is duct-taped to a bucking bronco to "make him a cowboy". Rip Wheeler is dispatched to silence a drug-addicted

and Rip go on their "official" first date, where they drink whiskey and watch wolves kill an elk. In a brutal rite of passage, Jimmy is

struggles with his actions, eventually taking part in a Native American sweat lodge ceremony with Thomas Rainwater.

meets with Governor Perry to perform damage control regarding the medical examiner's report.