Paramount Network rolled out a new episode of 1923 on Sunday, which delivered the surprising origins of the now-infamous ‘train station’ fans saw on Yellowstone.
Early on in Yellowstone, fans learned that taking someone to the ‘train station’ ultimately meant that person’s death.
The ‘train station’ is actually a rural canyon area that sits in a county with no actual people, where the Dutton family have disposed of the bodies of their enemies for years.
Since it’s the Dutton family that uses this place as a legal loophole, most might have assumed that they discovered it, though it seems that theory is incorrect, which comes weeks after a shocking cliffhanger.
Sunday’s new episode of the Yellowstone prequel 1923 reveals that it’s actually businessman Donald Whitfield (Timothy Dalton) who discovers this area.
The scene came as Whitfield and Creighton were trying to figure out how to wrest the land they need for a ski resort from the Dutton family.
The scene in question happened towards the end of this week’s 1923 episode, Journey the Rivers of Iron.
Whitfield is visited by his right hand man, Banner Creighton (Jerome Flynn), who tells Whitfield that he has support from the sheepers for their plan to take the Dutton family land to use for a ski resort.
Banner asks how Whitfield wants him to do it, and Whitfield says he’s already done it, referring to his first attack on the Dutton family that was not successful.
Banner insists they need a ‘reason’ to go after the Duttons, as Whitfield says he’s already paid Dutton’s back taxes, and when he doesn’t pay him back, he’ll take the land.
Whitfield then says he wants to show Creighton something, pulling out a map of Montana and Wyoming counties, which highlights, ‘every privately-owned parcel of land.’
‘Look here at the border. Right there they’ve recorded a county with no township, no private land, all of this is still owned by the government. It’s a county with a population of zero,’ Whitfield says, but Banner doesn’t seem to understand.
‘There are no 12 jurors of your peers. There is no judge, there is no sheriff, which is to say, there is no crime. I don’t care where you kill them, you dump them here,’ Whitfield tells Creighton, who says he needs to ‘see this place for myself.’
They’re interrupted by one of Whitfield’s prostitutes, Lindy (Madison Elise Rodgers), who reveals the other one, Christy (Cailyn Rice) essentially was choked to death.
It seems that Christy was, in truth, the first person to be, ‘dropped off at the train station,’ when Whitfield asks Creighton, ‘When you go to the border, Banner, would you be so kind as to take this with you?’ motioning to Christy’s corpse.
‘What, just leave her there?’ Creighton asks, as Whitfield answers, ‘Consider it practice,’ as Banner lifts her body and leaves Whitfield’s home.
Whitfield won’t even let him take a blanket to cover her bare body, as Whitfield says, ‘I rather like that one,’ as Banner just takes her outside bare.
With four episodes left of 1923, perhaps fans will learn how the Dutton family first started making use of this ‘train station.’