Luke Grimes Reveals “Crazy” Truth About ONE Of Yellowstone’s Strangest Ongoing Mysteries
Well, we finally have some answers! In an exclusive interview with Radio Times, Grimes revealed that higher-ups pushed back against the storyline, which meant that it ended up being abandoned entirely.
When asked if he knew what the plan was for the dinosaur bones, Grimes said: “Absolutely. I got a script where that whole thing came back around. It was the season 2 finale. There was a completely different finale.
“But, it’s basically the politics of the way that television shows work, when you have all these different producers, and you have a network and studio. There were a lot of notes about the original season 2 finale. It was finessed, and the dinosaur bones didn’t make the cut, unfortunately.”
Grimes was visibly excited as he recalled this lost storyline, and proceeded to share even more information about what that alternate season 2 finale would have entailed.
“I could probably tell you, because it doesn’t matter at this point… Basically, Kayce goes on this mission, he just kind of goes off on his own and starts hopping trains, and then he meets a guy who had stolen the bones,” he explained.
“It was crazy. It was out of this world. But I think [studio bosses] thought, maybe, it took the story a little too far from the ranch. But I was excited to do it.”
The idea of Kayce hunting down the fossil thief in some kind of Indiana Jones-style subplot does sound tantalising. While we’ll never get to see that play out now, at least we can finally rest easy knowing why the storyline wasn’t taken any further.
