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Originally Posted by Buehler445
You guys are missing a major point of contention in the relationship that happened at the end of S3. Jamie actually LEASED part of the land to the investment firm. He actually did it as a power of attorney for the ranch.
That's why John shut him out, that's why Beth went from to ****ing nuclear.
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Beth thinks Jamie was behind the assassination attempts.
Beth has always treated him badly but she turned that shit to 11 after he leased part of the ranch for the airport.
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But didn't she also acknowledge to John early in the season (or maybe it was Kaycee) that the Lease was a 'best of bad options' scenario? I think where she got so upset with Jamie was that he ghosted the family after the hit. And in so doing he seems to have given her the impression that he was more involved in it than he was. I don't think the lease really did much for her. And I think John had already started to box Jamie out even before he leased the property - hence his shock when Jamie pulled the trigger. He thought he'd transferred that POA to Beth but he'd done it in the wrong state, IIRC.
John continued to try to convince Beth that Jamie wasn't responsible for the hit before he just laid it out there. And at that point she kinda pivoted to the prisoner guy...until she found out that he talked to Jamie. Then she was right back to pissed at Jamie because she'd
re-convinced herself that he was part of it.
She's just kinda been on the warpath after the attack. And since she got blown up a bit, that seems understandable. Boy the working for market equities side-trip sure was wasted energy, though. That felt, just as much of the season did, like filler. Was it all just to show the depth of her temper? She'd go through all of that just to fire Bob after he wasn't really even directly responsible for her fall in Season 3?