After nine eventful episodes spent getting to know various residents of the scenic small town that is Ransom, Texas, we've come to the end — of Ransom Canyon season 1, that is.

Right now, Netflix hasn't officially announced a Ransom canyon season 2 pick-up, but there are eight novels in the Jodi Thomas book series on which the show is based, so there's plenty of source material that could be adapted into a sophomore season.

And given the shocking events of the Ransom Canyon season 1 ending, there are still plenty of questions we'd want answered. Will Quinn (Minka Kelly) actually head off to New York to play with the Philharmonic, leaving Staten (Josh Duhamel) behind after their romance only just started? What will happen between Yancy (Jack Schumacher) and Ellie (Marianly Tejada), especially after that arrival of a surprise spouse. And will Lucas (Garrett Wareing) stay in Ransom with high school love Lauren (Lizzy Greene) or leave it all behind for one of his prestigious Ivy League acceptances?

But before we get ahead of ourselves, here’s everything that went down in Ransom Canyon episode 10, entitled “Maybe It’s Time Yancy Grey Dies Too."

Justice served

The episode begins with a quick catch-up with some of the main characters. We see Lauren in a sling for her injured shoulder, effectively ending her cheerleading career. Blaming Lucas — who got Kit (Casey W. Johnson) to sign those emancipation papers, protecting him from being sent to foster care — for distracting her during the pep rally and causing her to fall, Lauren won't talk to him.

Lucas confronts her at the memorial for Cap (James Brolin) and promises her that no matter if there's no UT and no scholarship in her future, he's going to be there for her. Though Lauren worries that things are getting too serious between them, Lucas gets a push from Reid (Andrew Liner) of all people to declare his love for her, which he does from the dance-hall stage in front of a whole party of people. They reconcile and kiss to cheers.

Lauren also reconciles herself with the fact that her mother Margaret (Sarah Minnich) was the one who caused Randall's car crash, killing the teen boy. She tells her dad (Philip Winchester) they can't let Kit keep sitting in that cell for a crime he didn't commit. Taking that to heart, Sheriff Dan goes to Austin with back-up to arrest his wife Margaret, with tears in his eyes as he does it.

Returning home, Dan and his daughter mourn the arrest of Margaret, while a newly freed Kit joyfully reunites with Lucas at the trailer home. However, just moments prior, Lucas was looking through all of his college letters — is he not going to remain in Texas after all?

Plans made

At the dance hall, Quinn gets a concerning piece of mail from Austin Water & Power's lawyers — they're threatening legal action if they don't recoup the early-stage investment they gave her, which means she owes them a whopping $80,000. Staten offers to lend her the money, but she says she'll find a way to pay it herself.

Given that things are moving smoothly with Staten, Quinn finally sets a meet-up with Davis to break things off. He handles it surprisingly well — so much so that she wishes he'd be a jerk about it to make things easier. He tells her he's always known that her heart really lies with Staten. He wants her to be happy and asks if she's still planning on going to New York for the Philharmonic seat? She hasn't decided. Before he leaves, he asks if it was ever real between them — she tearfully assures him that it was.

After an uncomfortable conversation with Sam (Brett Cullen), Quinn realizes she'd rather see Gracie's close than keep playing Austin Water & Power's game. She tells Staten maybe it's time to move on, and comes clean about the NY Phil offer, which would be a six-month gig. Unsurprisingly, State is upset, thinking Quinn just wanted a little fling before she planned to leave him high and dry for the big city. She cuts the conversation short and says she just wants to go to bed.

However, later at the dance hall, Quinn tells Ellie she's going to go to New York and take the Philharmonic gig to get the money they need to keep Gracie's open. She also wants Ellie to officially come on as her business partner.

They throw a big dance party at the Gracie's that night to celebrate, with everybody in attendance, including both Davis and Staten. Still smarting over his dumping, Davis says harsh words about Staten's late wife, prompting the latter to punch him — which is just what Davis and Sam want, to use the physical altercation as proof that Staten is unfit to be the trustee of Double K ranch.

Quinn is furious that he would get violent in her bar — she says all she ever wanted was him, but all he ever wants is his own pain. He exits, leaving behind the straw bracelet that Quinn had given him.

The last we see of Quinn, she is contemplative at her piano, while Staten rides his horse alone above the canyon.

Promises broken

Ellie is very much in mourning following Cap's death. Meanwhile, Yancy has been preparing for the memorial that they're hosting in Cap's honor at the Fuller ranch, which he will be selling to Austin Water & Power like his grandfather wanted, though he plans to give every cent of the sale to Ellie and Ruth. However, at the memorial, Ellie reveals she doesn't want him to sell the land; she wants him to do the right thing.

After an emotional conversation with Staten at the memorial — during which Staten reveals to Yancy that Cap spent years looking for him and his mother and wanted to make things right between them all but never got the chance — Yancy tells Ellie he's not going to sell the place after all. Just like Cap, he's going to run the ranch until they bury him on it.

He also surprises her by proposing, having gotten Ruth's engagement ring to give to her. She's ambivalent because it's so soon in their relationship but he's asking her to take the leap — he has the chapel, the priest and the suit ready to go, she just has to meet him there that night.

At the dance hall, she tells a jealous Kai (Justin Johnson Cortez) she's going to marry Yancy. White gown in hand, she's planning to leave and meet Yancy at the chapel when she's stopped by a woman who is looking for him. Who is she, Ellie asks. Only Yancy's wife!

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We're officially at the penultimate edition of Ransom Canyon. It's certainly been a busy season thus far, with family secrets, romantic entanglements, business schemes and more — and it's looking like Ransom Canyon episode 9 ("About Forever") is no exception.

Yancy (Jack Schumacher) has to deal with the fallout of his identity reveal to Cap (James Brolin); Quinn (Minka Kelly) is faced with choosing between her feelings for Staten (Duhamel) and a tempting offer elsewhere; and the case against Kit (Casey W. Johnson) takes a shocking new turn.

Here’s everything that went down in Ransom Canyon episode 9.

All's fair in love

After last episode's cliffhanger, we quickly pick up with Quinn... who has again spent the evening with Staten. The two are basically in honeymoon mode, however Staten urges her to break up with Davis (Eoin Macken) so they can be together for real. She wants to be kind though, knowing they're doing a crappy thing being together behind Davis's back. Before they part, they both tie some straw around their wrists as a sort of promise bracelet.

Quinn does try to break things off with Davis, but when he unexpectedly shows up to their date with Reid (Andrew Liner) in tow, she couches it for later. However, Davis does take note of the odd bracelet around her wrist.

Later, Quinn gets an unexpected surprise at the dance hall: it's Katherine Bullock (Kate Burton) from the New York Philharmonic, dropping in to follow up on that piano audition. Quinn gets emotional taking about why she's returned to Ransom from New York — and how quickly she's fallen in love with Staten again — but Kate reminds her she needs to live for herself. Kate has Quinn perform the audition piece right there in the dance hall and tells her the orchestra seat is hers if she wants it.

And war, too

Back at Double K, Staten gets an unwelcome visit from his father Sam (Brett Cullen), who is angry that Davis is trying to poach their biggest buyers right from under their nose after Staten has raised the ranch's prices to go solar. It's a six-figure loss, but Staten argues his grandfather made him the trustee, not Sam, so it's his decision how the place operates. However, Sam warns him that a trustee can be unseated, and all of this can easily go to Austin Water & Power.

Staten heads over to the Collins ranch to confront Davis about taking his accounts. He also reminds his rival what he'll be losing if he sells all of his family's land to Austin Water & Power. They've made it too easy for the bureaucrats to pit their ranches against each other, he says, and instead of continuing their feud, he suggests they join forces. Both of their legacies benefit Reid, but he won't be able to carry that family tradition unless they lay down their swords. It's a convincing speech as Davis begrudgingly accepts.

However, Davis walks back on that kumbaya collaboration when he spots a straw bracelet around Staten's wrist, matching the one Quinn was wearing. In retaliation, he takes out Staten's biggest buyer Billy (Dan Reynolds, the lead singer of Imagine Dragons and the real-life partner of Minka Kelly) and tries to confirm a deal with him during that night's pep rally.

Except Staten catches wind of this and shows up to the pep rally for some cross-bargaining. Davis has a better offer, Billy claims, and Staten is about to announce the reality of Davis's financial situation — what Quinn has spilled about earlier — but he remembers the promise he made her. That doesn't stop him from declaring war against Davis.

Crack the case

The DA is ready to file charges against Kit, but Sheriff Dan (Philip Winchester) is worried Lucas was right, that the Russell boy is simply covering for someone else.

Speaking of Lucas, he has his own issues. For one, he gets into a fight with Lauren (Lizzy Greene) because she's still spiraling over the cheer clinic snafu, plus Child Protective Services are looking for him. However, he gets some help with the latter courtesy of Reid, who asks Davis to call in a favor and have emancipation papers drawn up for Lucas so he won't have to worry about being put in foster care if Kit does end up having to serve time. "It's what Randall would've done," Reid movingly tells him.

As for the business with Lauren, Lucas apologizes for being harsh to her about her situation and they make up. The young couple even gets the blessing of Lauren's dad, who also tells her that he pulled some strings with the UT reps to get her a second chance at auditioning. However, while performing during the pep rally, Lauren takes a hard fall off the human pyramid and badly injures her shoulder — is her cheerleading future officially over?

That's not the only shock for the Brigman family. The sheriff has a realization while going through Kit's case — he goes to talk to Lauren's mom Margaret (Sarah Minnich), who we find out had a romantic fling with Kit two years ago. He has a gut feeling she was with him the night that Randall died and tells her he needs to know what happened.

Via flashback, we see it was actually Margaret who was behind the wheel that night, and under the influence. She's shaken after the crash and Kit, after confirming that Randall has died in the accident, tells her he will take care of disposing of the evidence. Dan is left stunned, and Margaret is panicked about what he's gonna do.

Later, she shows up to the Brigman residence and begs him not to arrest her, but Lauren overhears. Is her dad going to send her mom to jail?

Pour one out

Since getting kicked out of Cap's, Yancy has been staying with Ellie (Marianly Tejada), giving her an envelope of cash to earn his keep. She assures him he can stay as long as he wants — she just doesn't want him to run away like he usually does. However, after a heated conversation with Davis, in which the latter suggests that Eillie would be much better off without him, Yancy hits the road.

He eventually returns, though, and while Ellie is pissed he was planning to take off without even leaving a note behind, he surprises her by telling her that he loves her. All is forgiven, but Ellie also surprises him with the news that Cap stood her up on their lunch date. Yancy gets worried when he hears that because Cap wouldn't do that to Ellie, so they take off in the car to find him.

Cap had gone out on horseback through the countryside, but when his horse returns that night sans rider, Yancy takes off for the hills to find his grandfather. Hours later, he finds Cap peacefully sitting beneath a tree — however Yancy tearfully realizes that the old man is dead. Proving that Cap did, in fact, care about him, the elder Fuller died clutching that photo booth strip of Yancy's parents. The younger Fuller sits with him and weeps. Rest well, Cap.

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The storm may have officially settled in Ransom, but there's still plenty of melodrama surging through Ransom Canyon episode 8.

In "The Bad Seed", a suspect finally gets carted off in handcuffs for the car accident that tragically killed Staten's (Josh Duhamel) son. There's also a healthy amount of family dysfunction on display — not only between Davis (Eoin Macken), Paula Jo (Meta Golding) and Reid (Andrew Liner), but also Yancy (Jack Schumacher) and his secret grandpa Cap (James Brolin) — as well as romantic to-dos between Staten and Quinn (Minka Kelly).

Here’s everything that went down in Ransom Canyon episode 8.

Doing time

Lucas (Garrett Wareing) has quite a rude wake-up call. After Reid's tip-off, the Ransom sheriff's department swarms into the trailer home to arrest Kit (Casey W. Johnson) for his involvement in Randall's car accident.

Lucas upset not only because Staten fired him due to the arrest — which will make it impossible for him to make bail for his brother — but also because Kit isn't putting up much of a fight in his own defense. (When the sheriff interrogates the older Russell about what happened that night, Kit agrees to a full confession to have his sentence decreased, but Sheriff Dan still feels like he's withholding key details from him.) Adding extra worry is the fact that Lucas, who is still a minor, will be put into the foster care system if Kit doesn't get out of jail.

Lucas proposes to Kit that he'll take the fall for him. He's younger, his record is clean; a jail sentence will be less of a life-ruining thing for him. But Kit wants Lucas to get out of that small town and make a life for himself.

Things slightly look up for Lucas when he gets more insights from Reid (Andrew Liner) into what happened with that blue Ford pick-up. He and Tim (Niko Guardado) got into some trouble over the summer when they bought molly off a guy in Bandera, who then tried to shake them down. Kit was there that night and got the boys out of the jam — they owed him a big one.

So when a couple of months had gone by and Kit called them to take a Ford truck out to Bandera to scrub the VIN and then dispose of it, that's what they did. Reid didn't know that was the truck until Sheriff Dan had told him later. He wishes things were different, he assures Lucas, who gives him a beer as an olive branch.

Daddy issues

Things have settled down post-storm for Yancy and Ellie (Marianly Tejada), but the latter still demands he tell Cap the truth about who he really is. If Cap doesn't accept him as family, at least he can walk away with his head high, knowing he did the right thing, Ellie says.

Yancy plans to tell Cap, even informing Davis he is prepared to reveal his true identity (though not Davis' involvement in the ranch scheme). However, when he tries to come clean to Cap when they're fishing by the creek, he chokes. He thought not having a home or family was the worst that could happen to him, but losing the family he has now is harder. Ellie assures him his grandfather is just like him: gruff on the outside and soft on the inside.

However, before Yancy can tell Cap the truth, a scheming Davis does it for him. When Yancy returns to the Fuller ranch that evening, Cap is waiting for him with a gun and some harsh words — he says he'd rather sell the place to Austin Water & Power than to a liar like him. "You mean nothing to me," he growls. Yancy leaves heartbroken.

Good cheer

While Lucas is busy dealing with all of Kit's legal troubles, his girlfriend Lauren (Lizzy Greene) is trying to figure out a way to get to that UT cheer clinic. After getting injured in the storm last episode, Sheriff Dan refuses to sign her permission slip for the tryouts. However, even with a bum ankle, she manages to get to Austin to audition with her cheer buddies.

However, when it's her turn, she ends up royally messing up her flip. She's already upset when her estranged mother Margaret (Sarah Minnich) surprisingly shows up to the clinic — turns out it was Margaret who signed Lauren's permission slip.

Though mom assures Lauren she's recently gotten a job at a dress shop and is steadfastly attending AA meetings, her appearance just serves as a reminder that Lauren's audition failure just means she'll be stuck in small-town Texas like her mom was.

All too well

Good news for Lucas: after Jake (Tatanka Means) convinces Staten he shouldn't have fired the boy for what his brother did, Staten rehires the young Russell, who has some good ideas about bringing in solar power to modernize the ranch.

While they're out planning in the fields, they catch sight of Austin Water & Power reps checking the salinity of Staten's wells. And just like Paula Jo (Meta Golding) plotted, the water samples come back brackish. When Staten is informed about the grandfathered well clause that's on the agenda for the upcoming town meeting, he realizes his water has been spiked and Paula Jo is trying to force him into selling the place. Lucas, however, has an idea.

Back at the Collins residence, Paula Jo is popping bottles of champagne in celebration that her plan worked, when Reid comes in asking about why the Collins and Kirkland clans hate each other so much. It's a generational feud, she explains, with each side thinking they're the hero of the story. He's heard the men's hero stories, she tells him — it's time he's heard hers.

Later, at the town meeting, Paula Jo, Davis and the rest are ready to vote on the well clause. However, Reid interrupts saying he wants to make a statement — during which he plays a taped confession of his mother admitting to spiking the salinity of the Double K wells, a double-crossing set up by Lucas. Paula Jo is left humiliated, and Davis is furious at his son: "You just let a damn Kirkland work you over." But Staten is proud of his nephew and tells him it was the right thing to do.

Back at home, Paula Jo is weeping in the shower. Davis comes in to comfort her and, after a moment's hesitation about his relationship with Quinn, gives into his ex.

Getting real

Speaking of Quinn, she's had a lot of distractions lately — in the form of Staten and Davis — which has led her to drop the ball work-wise. Ellie has been hiring staff, doing repairs and dealing with storm insurance without her. hen Quinn criticizes her for overstepping, Ellie snaps that if Quinn didn't want her to step up post-tornado, she should have been there herself. Quinn tearfully apologizes and Ellie tells her to take the day off to get her head straight.

But these damn cowboys won't let her. When Staten wants to talk about what happened between them, Quinn immediately rushes to the conclusion he regrets sleeping with her; she says it was just a blip for the both of them. He, however, proclaims she knows exactly how he feels about her, and she can keep pretending all she wants, but they did happen.

When Davis drops by the dance hall, he acknowledges she's been standoffish the past few days, thinking it's because of Paula Jo's pipeline plan and her threatening the Gracie's liquor license. He assures her he's had no hand in Paula Jo's schemes, but Quinn still says she needs some time and space to think.

After all that thinking, the final moments of the episode sees Quinn grab her keys and drive to... where exactly? We see a door being opened and her offering the owner a loving greeting, but who is she visiting?

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A dangerous tornado whirls into town in Ransom Canyon episode 7, “By the Grace of God” — and there’s plenty of drama and surprises blowing in alongside the stormy weather.

With the residents of Ransom forced to shelter in place during the emergency, we see several unexpected tornado twosomes forming… including some much-anticipated movement in the will-they-won’t-they connection between Staten (Josh Duhamel) and Quinn (Minka Kelly). We also get some shocking new details about Randall’s car accident — and who else might’ve been out there that night.

Here’s everything that went down in Ransom Canyon episode 7.

Reid’s regrets

We kick off the episode with Reid (Andrew Liner) swimming at home, intercut with flashbacks of that Ford pick-up being rescued from the bottom of a lake. As the sheriff told Staten, the truck matches the fender piece found at the crash site earlier in the season. The VIN was scrubbed in what looks like a pro job before the vehicle got dumped, but it’s under the Bandera jurisdiction now.

When Reid comes inside, Davis (Eoin Macken) asks him why the sheriff requested an off-the-record conversation with the two of them that afternoon? Reid doesn’t have an answer for him and, frankly, Davis probably doesn’t want to really know.

The Collins men head to meet with Sheriff Dan (Philip Winchester). Davis tries to paint the conversation as if they’re merely there to admonish Reid for underage drinking, but the sheriff questions where Reid was the night his cousin died. Davis is angry he's interrogating them about such a painful time for their family, but Reid starts talking.

That night, he and Tim (Niko Guardado) were shooting bottles out in the countryside and waiting on Randall to join them. When it was clear Randall wasn’t coming, he says the boys went home and played video games until they got the call about the crash.

Sheriff Dan asks why Reid initially told him he was with Lauren that night, but Davis stops things before his son can respond. He wants Paula Jo, who's a lawyer, involved. The sheriff agrees that’s a good idea since he has security footage of Reid leaving a truck the exact make and model as the one they just pulled out of the lake.

They’re interrupted by emergency alerts, but we get more of Reid’s haunting flashbacks as the episode goes. We see him getting a call from an unknown caller and telling Tim, “Change of plans” before they race off in the truck. Reid later takes the blue Ford truck from a garage and tells Tim they have to dump it. It’s clear these memories are paining the teen, as Lucas (Garrett Wareing) clocks and tells Reid that the reason he's so upset is because ultimately he's a good person.

Yancy's redemption

At the dance hall, Ellie (Marianly Tejada) is being cold to Yancy (Jack Schumacher) — he asks her why she stood him up for dinner the night before and she unloads all of the intel she got from Freddie. She knows that Yancy stole from a farm he previously worked at in Tennessee, which landed him in jail for three years; she also knows that Cap (James Brolin) is his grandfather and he's trying to pull a job on grandpa.

Furious and heartbroken, Ellie says she's done with him, and she'll tell Cap everything she found out unless Yancy walks out the door once the storm passes and never returns. Panicked, Yancy tells Davis that Ellie knows the truth about him — however, she still doesn't know about Davis's involvement, much to his relief. Davis tells him to do exactly as Ellie said, to disappear once the weather calms.

However, that plan changes when the men run into Cap, who's been trying to get a hold of his wife Ruth at the assisted care facility. He's dead-set on driving out himself to rescue her, a stubbornness that prompts Davis to question why the old guy doesn't just sell his land and whisk Ruth off to Florida for retirement, where it's warm and not tornado-y. Cap proclaims that Davis is not a real rancher — Fuller will work on his ranch until the day he dies. When he's gone, the courts can decide what becomes of the land. Yes, to the fellas' shock, Cap doesn't have a will, which means his ranch will automatically go to his next of kin, i.e. Yancy.

Later, when Ellie is looking for Cap, they realize he and his truck are missing — he went to go get Ruth. Yancy is ready to set out into the storm after him, though Davis tries to argue there's no point getting himself killed out there after the old man. But as Cap is driving down the road near the facility, he sees a truck trying to get his attention — it's Yancy there to rescue him.

The next morning, when the storm is over, Ellie rushes down to High Plains Regional, where residents from the assisted living facility were transferred during the tornado. She finds both Cap and Ruth safe and well, thanks to Yancy, who she pulls into a big hug.

Quinn's realization

Before the storm touches down, Quinn desperately searches for her dog, Biscuit, when Staten pulls up with her — he found her out near the highway. He helps Quinn secure the rest of her animals and then the two are forced to take shelter at the house as the tornado gets closer.

She gets a call from Davis, who isn't all that jazzed to hear she and Staten are alone together. The latter also gets in some jibes at Davis's sake, prompting Quinn to get real about what's been going on between them. She calls Staten out for declaring his feelings to her at the rodeo and then sleeping with Paula Jo the very same night. He says his heart was broken, but she proclaims he has broken hers a hundred times over the years. He knows she's only pretending things are right with Davis; he doesn't make her laugh, he declares.

Later, the power goes out, but Quinn lights candles and Staten scrounges up some batteries for the radio. "Tonight, Tonight" by The Smashing Pumpkins starts playing, which brings them both back to high school. Via flashback, we see a young Staten go over to Quinn and his future bride Amalah (played by Reese Witherspoon's daughter Ava Phillippe) — he's there to ask Quinn to dance but Amalah thinks he's asking her, so she pulls him out onto the dancefloor.

Back in present-day, a loud thunderclap prompts Quinn to seek comfort in Staten's arms. Dancing slowly, he reveals he meant to ask her to dance all those years ago. After a season's worth of tension, the two characters finally kiss and get intimate.

Lauren's rescue

Prior to the tornado, Lauren (Lizzy Greene) has been at the dance hall getting new waitressing gig there. However, when Lucas rushes from his trailer home to find her at the height of the storm, he realizes they're two ships passing and she's now stuck at his house with his older brother Kit (Casey W. Johnson).

Though Lauren and Kit have a lot of animosity between them — he still doesn't approve of her relationship with his brother — she manages to convince him they should head to the high school to take shelter. But when he rushes to go help a pregnant neighbor into her car, a tree crashes through the window of Lauren's vehicle and injures her leg. Left without a mode of transportation, Kit pulls her out of the car, and they instead hunker down together back in the trailer.

Kit cares for Lauren's wounds, a skill he later reveals is a product of the domestic abuse he suffered at the hands of his father. He didn't tell anybody because he didn't want to risk him and Lucas getting put into the system. He's grateful that his old man never laid a hand on his younger brother thanks to Kit's interventions. The surprising duo shares a moment, bonding over their trauma and abandonment from their respective parents.

The next morning, they — and thankfully all of the characters — have managed to weather the storm and emerge safely. Lucas rushes over to help Lauren with her injuries and give an update to her father.

But that's not the last we see of Kit. As the episode ends, we see Reid finally realize he needs to come clean with Sheriff Dan about what happened on the night of Randall's death. We flash back to the accident and see that the mysterious figure at the wreck wasn't Reid after all, but Kit. He phones Reid and proclaims: "Time to make good on that favor." Surprise!

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We are officially past the halfway mark for Ransom Canyon, the Netflix adaptation of Jodi Thomas's romantic Western novel series.

And Ransom Canyon episode 6, entitled "We Need to Talk About Reid", is certainly keeping the drama moving with romantic snafus, run-ins with law enforcements and reveals about what really happened during the car accident that shockingly claimed Randall Kirkland's (Hubert Smielecki) life.

Here's everything that went down in Ransom Canyon episode 6.

Red flags

Fresh off his rodeo win, Yancy (Jack Schumacher) wants to use his $20,000 cash prize to buy a new tractor for Cap (James Brolin), a thoughtful move that charms new girlfriend Ellie (Marianly Tejada). (As you might remember from the last episode, he didn't have to fork over the money to Freddie & Co. because they were arrested last-minute for cattle-stealing.)

Ellie is less charmed, however, during a drive when she unexpectedly sees Yancy arriving at the care facility where Ruth Fuller lives. She finds out from Kai (Justin Johnson Cortez) that a young man has been spending a lot of time with Ruth there, and that the guy is allegedly Ruth and Cap's grandson.

Believing Yancy is up to no good, Kai decides to run a background check on him, while Ellie takes the opportunity to poke around the ranch for clues. Yancy nearly catches her going through the bags and boxes in his room, but she plays it cool, and they hook up instead.

She does, however, call him out about the nursing-home sighting. "You make it really hard to trust you," she tells him. He lies and tells her he's been going to see Ruth because he felt bad that Cap doesn't visit her anymore, saying she reminds him of his own grandmother. He apologies but she can't shake the nagging feeling there's a lot he's not telling her. He asks her to have dinner with him tomorrow — he'll be an open book for her, he promises.

However, she cancels on him after that background check comes back, revealing that Yancy's criminal record has mysteriously been sealed. She knows he's not a good guy, she just needs to get some answers — which she'll seemingly get from Freddie (Kenneth Miller), who she goes to visit in jail.

Green envy

Much to the annoyance of Quinn (Minka Kelly) and the awkwardness of Staten (Josh Duhamel) — who drunkenly slept with Davis's ex the episode prior — Paula Jo (Meta Golding) is still sticking around town. Even worse, she wants to use Quinn's dance hall to conduct some pipeline business. In the process of setting up the meeting, Paula Jo spills about her vehicular rendezvous with Staten at the rodeo the night before.

In an excellent coincidence, both Staten and Davis (Eoin Macken) show up to the dance hall at the same time, with Paula Jo pulling them into a conversation about Reid (Andrew Liner) — he can't keep staying at Staten's, she argues. Things get snippy between the men until Davis lands a particularly low blow, saying Staten taking in his nephew isn't going to bring his dead son back. That causes Staten to storm out.

The next we see of Staten, he's being bailed out of jail by Quinn — he was seemingly all fired up from his argument with Davis and assaulted some guy for no reason. As she's dropping Staten off home, they discuss Reid and Randall, and their conversation grows wistful. "Maybe somethings are best left in the past, no matter how beautiful they are," she tells him.

Davis is upset that, out of all the people he knows, Staten called Quinn to bail him out; he admits he's jealous of their connection. In turn, Quinn admits to some jealousy over Paula Jo, not only because she spent the night with Staten but because she bullied her into hosting a pipeline meeting at the dance hall.

During said meeting with a city councilman and Texas water development board member, Paula Jo puts a plan into place to order salination tests on Staten's wells. When the results come back brackish — and they will, she promises — the council will call for a vote to end grandfathered wells in the county, meaning Staten will be forced to spend millions retrofitting every single well, which will fundamentally force him to take the pipeline deal.

Quinn, who overheard Paula Jo's dealing, confronts her about messing with Staten's business. She threatens to tell Staten about the plan, but Paula Jo says the city council is going to rezone the town square next month and she'll make sure the dance hall loses its liquor license in the process.

Staten shows up to Davis' house to drop off Reid's things. Davis surprises him by inviting him in for a drink and apologizes for what he said at the dance hall, even more so when he admits that Staten hooking up with Paula Jo bugs him. ("Good!" Staten jokes.) Staten tells his brother-in-law it's time to make peace with Reid — he doesn't want him to regret not mending their relationship, like Staten does with Randall.

Blue trucks

In the first moments of the episode, we see a flashback to the night that Randall died — a mysterious figure checks on the boy in his badly mangled car, then rushes back to their own truck and rush off. Is it Reid?

Speaking of, Lauren (Lizzy Greene) tells Lucas (Garrett Wareing) that she hasn't spoken to Reid since she broke up with him last episode; things aren't going smoothly between Lucas and Reid, either, who basically start fighting every time they see each other.

But at least things are finally good between the young couple — Lucas tells her that, instead of Yale, Brown or Vassar, he wants to attend the University of Texas next year to be close to her. His older brother Kit (Casey W. Johnson) warns Lizzie, though, that things won't pan out for the two of them. The longer their relationship goes on, the worse things will be for Lucas, he says.

Later, the couple is spending time down by the lake with a bunch of other teens. They peel off for a private moment and are set to go skinny-dipping together — as Lauren is getting undressed though, Lucas goes swimming first and realizes that something is down there in the water. It's a truck.

When law enforcement arrives, Lucas tells Sheriff Dan (Philip Winchester) the pick-up he saw beneath the water's surface was blue. Staten arrives to the scene and realizes the vehicle is missing a bit of its fender, just like the piece he had found earlier in the season.

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Set in the Texas Hill Country, it was only a matter of time before fans got a good rodeo episode from Ransom Canyon. And it's arrived with Ransom Canyon episode 5, entitled "I Love a Good Secret," which sees Yancy (Jack Schumacher) training for the big tri-county rodeo tournament to win the $20,000 that will get Freddie (Kenneth Miller) and his cronies off his back and out of Ransom.

Along with that adrenaline-pumping cowboy action, there's even more excitement coming to town when an old face from Davis' (Eoin Macken) romantic past pops up to complicate his burgeoning romance with Quinn (Minka Kelly). (As if that love triangle with Josh Duhamel's Staten wasn't complicated enough.) Add to that some concerning snooping by Sheriff Dan (Philip Winchester) into the whereabouts of Reid (Andrew Liner) and Tim (Niko Guardado) on the night of Randall's death, and you've got a pretty packed episode.

Here's everything that went down in Ransom Canyon episode 5.

Wrangling the ex

Things are going smoothly for Quinn and Davis after their night together. He wants to take her on a romantic trip to New York, during which she can audition for that Philharmonic gig, but she wants to leave that part of her life behind her. From the dance hall to her soap line, things are going well for her now, she explains, and he's a part of that.

However, Quinn gets a rude awakening the next morning when Davis' fiery ex-wife, Paula Jo (Meta Golding), arrives. She's there to check up on what's going on with her son Reid — and insult Quinn in the process.

Though Quinn is initially worried about Paula Joe's reappearance, it seems the latter is in town on business, not pleasure: Austin Water & Power has apparently given her a seat on their board, she tells Davis. Since control isn't exactly her ex's strong suit, she says she's taking the pipeline negotiations into her own hands to secure Reid's financial future.

That means sidling up to Staten in the hopes he'll agree to the pipeline deal. She shows up at his house with tequila to thank him for taking in and supporting Reid — and makes suggestive nods to their own romantic past — before bringing up the issue of Quinn and Davis new relationship. Staten lies and says he doesn't really care about their relationship, though it's quite clear he does.

Odd couple

After bonding during the cattle drive last episode, Reid and Lucas (Garrett Wareing) are practically bosom buddies, watching old rodeo clips together and hanging out at school.

That does not go unnoticed by Lauren (Lizzy Greene), who complains to Lucas that it's weird for her to see the two of them acting chummy. He, on the other hand, is still upset she wants to hide their relationship from everyone and use Reid as a ruse. "He's a good guy who doesn't deserve this, and neither do I," he tells her.

For his part, Reid is busy fielding panicked texts from Tim that Sheriff Dan — who now believes someone ran Randall off the road that tragic night — asking questions about the car accident. When they run into the sheriff later, both boys offer up alibis for that evening: Tim was at home and Reid was with Lauren, they say.

Later, at the rodeo, Tim shows up (well, hobbles up — he's still on crutches) to confront Reid and plan what they're going to do about the sheriffs. Lucas overhears Tim and Reid talking but pretends not to. Lauren makes things worse by picking then and there to tell Reid that she's officially breaking it off between them. When he asks if the split is because of Lucas, she admits it is, which leads him to immediately storm over and punch his new buddy Lucas in the face.

One wild ride

Yancy has elected to compete in the All-Around, a particularly brutal competition that has Ellie (Marianly Tejada) worried. "Three days is not a lot of time" to train, she warns him. Adding to the stress of it all is Freddie breathing down his back about the money Yancy owes him. If he doesn't fork up the $20,000, "everybody in there is gonna find out who you really are," the criminal tells him.

The first round is a rough ride, with Ellie and Cap (James Brolin) watching worriedly from the stands, but Yancy does well and is right behind the score leader. Giving the cowboy an extra dose of good luck, Ellie gives him a big kiss between sets, which Kai spots — he tells her he has had suspicions about Yancy ever since Sheriff Dan picked him up from the side of the road. She says she was skeptical, too, but she was wrong, and so is he.

Yancy does well in round two, until Freddie tells him that he'll actually make more than $20,000 if he bets against him and Yancy purposefully gets bucked off the bull. Yancy doesn't want to throw the competition but if he doesn't, Freddie threatens that he'll kidnap Ellie next.

In the last run, he chooses not to throw the tournament and ends up winning the All-Around, getting the $20,000. However, right when Freddie comes up angry that he lost out on all of the money he could have made, Kai and the other sheriffs come and arrest Freddie — Cap identifies Freddie as the Angus dealer who sold him Staten's cattle, and he's taken away in handcuffs.

While being hauled off, though, Freddie tells Ellie that she fell for a con man and that she doesn't even know Yancy's real name. Uh-oh.

Elsewhere at the rodeo, Davis assures Quinn that whatever happened with Paula Jo in the past is in the past. "That ended before you and me, and that's how it's going to stay," he promises her.

However, there's still Staten to deal with. Seeing Quinn with Davis clearly hasn't been easy on him. During a private moment at the rodeo, he finally comes clean about his feelings for the dance hall owner. He knows he's broken and still grieving, "but if someday I'm not, it'll be because of you," he tells her, saying that she should be with him instead of Davis. In tears, she tells him it's too late and rushes off.

Soothing his sorrows with drink later, Staten later encounters a tempting Paula Jo — and the episode ends with the two of them getting intimate in a car in the rodeo parking lot. Double uh-oh.

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Shocking secrets are revealed, surprising bonds are formed and romantic feelings are acted upon in Ransom Canyon episode 4. But first, there are cows to deal.

Things kick off with some mysterious men with wire clippers freeing some cattle from their pens in the dark of night. The next morning, one said cow makes its way into Quinn's (Minka Kelly) barn — she notices based on the branding that it's one of Staten's (Josh Duhamel).

After Staten comes to collect Reba (the cow, not the country music icon), he immediately rushes to the Collins ranch thinking that Davis (Eoin Macken) was being petty by cutting his fences and freeing his animals. But no, it wasn't Davis, he assures. So who was it?

When one of the Kirkland ranch hands alerts Staten there's a few dozen cows missing up in the canyon, he puts together a bit of a rescue team, including Lucas (Garrett Wareing) and, to Lucas's annoyance, Reid (Andrew Liner). The inclusion of Reid is as much about having him start earning his keep as it is about getting the teenage tornado out of Staten's house — his stuff is everywhere, he ate all of the lasagna and he keeps blasting "the worst music you've ever heard," Kirkland gripes.

Here's everything that went down in Ransom Canyon episode 4, entitled "That Boy is My Whole Heart."

Romance on the ranch

Davis has been having a rough few days, what with the father-son drama between him and Reid, as well as the Austin Water & Power folks breathing down his back about wanting to break ground and needing him to get Staten and Cap (James Brolin) to finally sign off on the pipeline deal.

When Quinn tries to give him some advice about the Reid situation — she thinks him kicking the teen boy out was a bit harsh, given that he's still clearly mourning the loss of his cousin Randall — Davis gets defensive and snaps at her. He later turns up at her door with an apology pizza, expressing regret over how he talked to her as well as about the whole jealousy fiasco with Staten.

They have a heart-to-heart that night: Davis comes clean about the ranch being in dire financial straits — that's why he's been acting so weird lately — and Quinn reveals the New York Philharmonic offer she received and how she seriously had been considering it. However, now she's wondering if she returned to Ransom because she was running from something or running toward something else.

At the moment, it seems the latter, with Quinn kissing Davis and inviting him to spend the night with her.

Roped into a rodeo

The simmering flirtation between Yancy (Jack Schumacher) and Ellie (Marianly Tejada) also seems like it's about to boil over this episode. After Yancy apologizes for missing the dance hall's opening party, Ellie makes it known she wants to get to know Yancy beyond his whole mystery man act.

While checking his stitches, he tells her about his troubled childhood spent in foster care and juvenile detention centers and his days as a rodeo performer. However, their intimate moment is interrupted by Cap, who wants to celebrate the purchase of cattle from some friends of Yancy's, he says.

Yancy realizes it was Freddie (Kenneth Miller) and his criminal crony behind the release and resale of Staten's stolen cows. They had told him they want a piece of whatever scheme he's in town cooking up, but he has heretofore refused, telling them he simply wants to keep his head down and work on Cap's ranch.

He offers them $20,000 to get out of Ransom for good. Where will he get the money? He'll win it at the rodeo, he tells them, having spotted a competition flyer in the men's bathroom at the dance hall.

Till the cows come home

Speaking of wrangling cattle and riding horses, Reid is having a hard time living the old rancher's life with the guys while trying to get all of Staten's cows back. When the men realize one calf is still missing, Reid wants to prove himself and offers to look for it, but Staten forces Lucas to join him. The boys spend much of their time together griping about Lauren (Lizzy Greene), until they hear the young animal lowing from a ditch, where it's stuck in some mud.

Staten tells the boys to leave the cow, he'll send someone out to rescue it, but Reid is insistent they can't leave the animal behind. However, before they can free the calf, the teens end up getting into a physical fight in the mud, until the realize how ridiculous they're being. Covered in mud, they eventually make amends over beers and bond over the unreasonable expectations their fathers set for them.

Eventually, they are able to free the calf from the muddy ditch, which leaves Staten impressed. When Reid returns to Staten's house for the night, he finds his bags are packed — but instead of asking Reid to leave, he tells him that he's moving him from the office couch to Randall's old room.

Sheriff's on the case

When Sheriff Dan (Philip Winchester) comes to Staten's ranch to check in about the cow burglary, Staten reminds him about the chop shop lead and the piece of a blue Ford truck fender that he found out near Randall's crash site.

The sheriff heads down to the Bandera shop to ask questions about the Ford truck, but the mechanic isn't all that helpful — until Sheriff Dan spots the building's security cameras and demands to see the footage. Going through clips from a year ago, the sheriff spots something shocking: Reid coming out of a blue Ford pick-up. Was he out on the road the night Randall died?

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After that shocking revelation from Yancy Grey (Jack Schumacher) in the final moments of episode 2, Ransom Canyon episode 3 — entitled "Trouble Can Be Fun Sometimes" — quickly catches us up on the fact that, yes, the deceitful ranch hand was actually telling the truth. He is the grandson of Cup Fuller (James Brolin).

In a flashback to a prison yard, we see Yancy serving time and dealing with a jailhouse bully named Freddie (Kenneth Miller). After getting the crap kicked out of him by Freddie, Yancy is told by a guard that he has a visitor — it's Davis Collins (Eoin Macken), with whom he's been corresponding by mail.

We see how their scheme took shape: Davis would put in a good word to his buddy on the parole board for Yancy and, in return, Yancy would ensure that Grandpa Cap sells to Austin Water & Power. If Cap refuses to sell, Yancy will take the ranch from him, he threatens.

Making amends?

Back in the present, at Gracie's Dance Hall, Ellie (Marianly Tejada) is setting up for the big reopening party she and Quinn (Minka Kelly) are throwing that night. The abundance of Christmas lights looks great, Quinn assures her, but she's less thrilled to see that Ellie called in Staten Kirkland (Josh Duhamel) to help fix the busted beer cooler.

It's still awkward between the friends, though Staten tries to smooth things over with Quinn. She even jokes that him helping with the party set-up for the "enemy" makes him complicit. Things get a bit flirty, with Quinn fishing to see whether Staten will attend the party, but they're interrupted by the arrival of Sam Kirkland (Brett Cullen).

Less successful on the forgiveness front is Lauren (Lizzy Greene) and Lucas (Garrett Wareing). Lauren's ex Reid (Andrew Liner) tells Lauren that Davis is making him do a news interview about what happened at the ghost house. Reid doesn't want to disappoint his father, so he asks Lauren if she could make sure that Lucas doesn't spill about the actual events of that night.

When Lauren catches up with Lucas after class, he's pissed — at her, yes, but also at his brother Kit, who has gone missing after they had a fight. He promises he won't say anything about Reid but it's clear Lauren and Reid spending time together is upsetting him.

Old acquaintances

While at the hardware store to pick something up for Ellie, Yancy overhears a conversation between two criminals — one of whom he correctly clocks as his old prison pal Freddie. Freddie doesn't catch sight of Yancy, but the latter tails the convict to see where he's staying.

He later tells Davis about the dangerous sighting and warns that if he knows that Yancy is in Ransom, "he'll do damage, probably squeeze us for a cut, blow my cover." They can't have that. Davis tells him to watch the license plates on Freddie's truck and then call in the car to the cops. Other than a little hand injury (which former nurse Ellie sweetly stiches up for him), Yancy's plate swap works — that is until Freddie finds Yancy later in the episode, just as he's about to leave for the reopening party.

And speaking of blasts from the past, Quinn also has one, though far less menacing. All throughout the party set-up, Quinn has been getting calls from Katherine Bullock, the director of the New York Philharmonic, who wants Quinn to audition as a pianist for the orchestra. She lets it go to voicemail — will she move back across the country to outrun her feelings for Staten?

Katherine comes to find out herself at the opening bash, having been in Austin for a conference. She tells Quinn her talent is wasted there: "You're meant for more than this, Quinn. We both know it." Auditions are in six weeks, so she has time to think about it.

Sibling support

Not only do we get to meet Quinn's big sister Angie (Lauren Glazier) — who shows up to race horses and give her sis grief about her love life — but we also see the return of Lucas's older brother Kit (Casey W. Johnson).

When he returns home from school, Lucas spots Kit's truck in the driveway and confronts him about where he's been. Kit was doing a little side hustle, he explains, to get the brothers' heads above water. Lucas doesn't like the sound of that and worries about what his bro has gotten them into.

It's party time

Finally, the big party. After some convincing from Sam, Staten decides to attend the dance, much to the annoyance of Davis, who turned up with flowers in hand for Quinn. Things get even more awkward between the men when Davis gets to bragging about Reid's recent appearance on the news, when Staten knows that it was he, not the boy, who actually rescued the teens that night.

During a slow number by the night's musical act, Staten asks for a dance with Quinn, and they share a tender moment. That is quickly ruined when Davis demands to cut in. When he starts throwing digs at Staten's honor, Kirkland throws it right back in his face, bringing up Reid and the ghost house lie. Davis pulls Reid over, who confesses that his heroics was all a fallacy. Quinn is upset that Staten made Reid look foolish and also that she realized he only attended her party because of Sam's prodding.

And it's not the event's only fight: Lauren attends the party with her father Sheriff Dan (Philip Winchester), who isn't all too pleased to see that Lucas and Kit are also in attendance, nor about people's questions about where his wife is. Soon, Dan's drunken anger boils over into a fistfight with Kit and he has to be taken home by his own deputy.

Lauren is teary outside in the parking lot because Dan blamed her for the whole thing. She also reveals to Lucas that it was her dad that made her end things with him. She wants them to still be together, but her dad can't know. He doesn't want to keep on lying to everyone, but at the last minute, he changes his mind and runs after her while she's driving away. They have a big kiss in the street.

Back at Staten's, he's nursing his frustrations with some whiskey when he hears a knock at his door. He thinks it's Sam, who he refused to let stay there that night after confronting him about Quinn. But no, it's Reid, who has been kicked out by Davis and has nowhere to stay. Looks like someone has a new roommate.

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Ransom Canyon episode 1 laid quite a lot of ground.

Ransom Canyon episode 2, "Sure as the Day is Long," expands things even further with some surprising business dealings that do not sit well with our lead rancher Staten Kirkland (Josh Duhamel). There's also a potential lead on that accident that tragically killed his son a year earlier.

Read on to find out what went down in episod 2.

Romance is rough

After rebuffing her declaration of love last episode, you can't blame Quinn O'Grady (Minka Kelly) from giving Staten the cold shoulder when he tries to smooth things over with her. Later, Staten gets cowboy-wasted at the dance hall; embarrassingly crooning Hootie & the Blowfish certainly doesn't help things.

Similarly, Lucas Russell (Garrett Wareing) is getting ghosted by Lauren Brigman (Lizzy Greene) after her dad refused to let her go to the UT cheer clinic if she kept seeing the boy.

Staten and Lucas — the latter of whom has picked up a gig at the Kirkland Ranch to make extra money — commiserate about their respective losses: Staten, the deaths of his wife and son, and Lucas, the abandonment of his father. "Hard getting left behind, isn't it," Lucas says. It's clear he's not just talking about his dad.

Money to burn

Ellie (Marianly Tejada) tells Quinn she wants to become business partners with her and she has ideas to help with the dance hall. Quinn isn't opposed but is realistic: "What we need is money, Ellie. Lots of money."

Enter Yancy Grey (Jack Schumacher), who just so happens to be doing a lot of chin-wagging about that Austin Water & Power pipeline in the dance hall. The company is throwing around a lot of money trying to win people over, Yancy tells her. Why not see if they'll throw some her way?

You also can't blame Quinn from being swayed by the kind words of Davis Collins (Eoin Macken), who tells her she "deserves someone who sees you for all that you are and all that you want to be."

Daddy issues

After his humiliating Hootie performance, Staten wakes up to think Quinn — who got him home safely the night before — is still in his house. But no, it's his senator dad Sam (Brett Cullen), who is in town to host a fundraiser for his reelection campaign.

Things are clearly frosty between father and son, with the water pipeline plans adding to the chill. But Sam knows all the animosity is born out of grief. "Lashing out at me isn't going to bring them back son, no matter how hard you try," he tells Staten.

In the Brigman house, Lauren is still dealing with her own problems with dear old dad. Keeping with her father's request, she is taking Reid Collins (Andrew Liner) instead of Lucas to the big fundraiser. When her mother questions her on it, Lauren gets angry when she sees that her mom is worryingly drinking alcohol, after promising her daughter that she would remain on the straight and narrow. "How about, instead of trying to fix my life, you fix your own," Lauren tells her.

When Lauren arrives at the fundraiser, Lucas — who is working the event as a waiter — spots her and follows her outside, demanding to know why she's gone radio-silent on him. They make up but she rushes off when she hears somebody nearby. When she returns home, Lauren finds a note from her mother, saying she's leaving her husband and daughter behind.

Missing parts

Staten and his buddy Deputy Kai Flores (Justin Johnson Cortez) bring that piece of a car's fender Staten found last episode to a mechanic to identify it. It's part of a Ford pick-up — but that doesn't narrow things down in truck-loving Texas, where seemingly everyone and their mother owns an F-Series.

Kai later informs Staten he knows a guy who knows a guy at a chop shop in Bandera, who says they scrubbed a blue F-Series a year ago, which is when Randall's accident was. Staten wants to go investigate, but Kai warns that the guys at the shop are not to be messed with.

Fundraisers ain't fun

Everyone who's anyone is at Sam Kirkland's fundraiser — and, unfortunately for Staten, that includes both Quinn and Davis, who show up together. Things get even worse for the Kirkland lad when his dad begins introducing folks like Quinn and Cap Fuller (James Brolin) to an Austin Water & Power executive.

Speaking of Cap, Yancy is chatting his ear off to get personal info on the old rancher. He finds out that Cap's soldier son died in Afghanistan and his wife, Ruth, is living with dementia at a nearby care facility.

During her sit-down with the Austin Water & Power rep, Quinn is wary of agreeing to the deal. "What's the catch?" she worries. However, when she's assured that there's no strings attached, she decides to take the deal and accepts the capital to help the dance hall's finances.

The executive publicly announces the investment into local business like Quinn's dance hall during dinner, which unsurprisingly gets a heated reaction from Staten. "You're gonna kill this town," he yells. Upset, Quinn chugs the rest of her wine, tells him that not everything is about him and storms out.

In the last minutes of the episode, we see Yancy visiting a care facility — yes, the same one where Ruth Fuller lives. Sitting down with Cap's wife, he shockingly tells her that he's her grandson, the child of her late son Lincoln. Do we believe him?

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If you're a fan of Yellowstone, Friday Night Lights, Virgin River or all of the above, this one's for you. Yee-hawing its way onto Netflix is Ransom Canyon, a romantic Western drama based on the Jodi Thomas book series of the same name.

The Texas-set series is led by Josh Duhamel as stoic rancher Staten Kirkland, who is trying to keep himself afloat after heartbreaking loss. A pillar of support for him is Quinn O’Grady (Friday Night Lights' Minka Kelly), a close family friend and owner of the local dancehall who's long-harbored feelings for the cowboy. But there's more than just a will-they-won't-they romance at the center of this series.

So let's saddle up and get into it all. Here's what went down in the Ransom Canyon episode 1, "Don't Let Me Fall."

Cowboys cry, too

We first meet Staten Kirkland on his son Randall's (Hubert Smielecki) birthday — Staten's wife tragically died a few years prior, and the teen was supposed to meet his dear old dad for a birthday horseback ride out on the cliffs, but he's seemingly still grieving and doesn't show.

Things get even rockier during Randall's party later that evening, where his Uncle Davis (Eoin Macken) — who owns a rival ranch — surprises his nephew with a splashy car. Upset about the over-the-top gesture, Staten tells Randall he has to return the car the next morning, which prompts a fight between the two. "I wish it was you that died," Randall yells before racing off in his new present.

Later, Staten gets a middle-of-the-night phone call. We see flashes of a car wreck and horrifically realize at the same time Staten does that his son is gone.

A year after Randall's death, Staten visits the sight of the crash, where he finds a piece of metal in the dust. He believes it's proof there was another car out on the road that night with Randall, but the sheriff's office doesn't believe him.

Old rivalries die hard

One year later, we pick up with Quinn O’Grady (and her dog Biscuit). She may proclaim to her coworker/friend Ellie (Marianly Tejada) that her relationship with Staten is merely platonic — she was close to his late wife — but it's clear she's sweet on him, inviting him to join her at the high-school football game and reintroduce the widower back into society.

But Staten's got competition in the form of Davis Collins (Eoin Macken), and not just over Quinn's heart. Davis' ranch is financially struggling (he's already taken out a second mortgage on his house) and he wants to capitalize on a lucrative offer by Austin Water & Power to run a pipeline underneath the ranchlands to the aquifer, but he needs Staten and fellow ranch owner Cap Fuller (James Brolin) on board, or the deal is off.

Staten previously refused the idea because the aquifer feeds the crops and cattle, he argues. But Davis warns him that the town already gave their permission, and he'll find a way with or without him.

Three's company

Theirs isn't the only love triangle in town. The sheriff's daughter and popular cheerleader Lauren Brigman (Lizzy Greene) recently broke up with Davis's son Reid Collins (Andrew Liner) — though he clearly hasn't processed that fact yet — and has been secretly dating Lucas Russell (Garrett Wareing), a wannabe rancher whose dad left him and his brother to fend for themselves.

During the aforementioned football game, a scout from the University of Texas was there to check out prospective cheerleaders for the college, and Lauren's name came up. The rep wants her and a friend to come to Austin for a cheer clinic, but she's worried her dad (Philip Winchester) won't let her go. When Lucas consoles her one day at school, Reid spots them and is left fuming.

A tumbleweed blows in

The sheriff spots a mysterious drifter strolling through Ransom Canyon. His name is Yancy Grey (Jack Schumacher) and he's heading to Cap Fuller's ranch to work, he tells the sheriff.

Cap is a gruff old guy who doesn't even give Yancy a handshake before pointing him to the stables, but Ellie — whose dad was close with Cap and still checks in on him to make sure he's taking his blood-pressure medication — gets more answers out of the newcomer. After inviting him to the dance hall for welcome drinks, she sneaks a peek at his poetry books, where she finds newspaper clippings about Fuller Ranch tucked inside.

When Ellie confronts him later at the dance hall, he says he simply was doing research about the ranch so he could help, but something definitely isn't right with the guy, especially with the pointed way he was listening in on Staten and Cap's discussions about the Austin Water & Power business.

A bonfire goes badly

At a teen bonfire that evening, Reid confronts Lucas about his relationship with Lauren. However, the argument is interrupted when the cops come busting the youths for underage drinking. While everyone else scurries off in their trucks, a ride-less Lucas, Lauren, Reid and his friend Tim (Niko Guardado) are left stranded and have to escape from the law enforcement on foot.

The group decides to take cover in an old and sufficiently spooky abandoned house. While Reid is jokingly bouncing around about the dilapidated floorboards, Tim falls through and badly injures his leg. Staten, who luckily had been driving down the road at the right time and spotted the kids, come to the rescue, pulling the teens out and getting Tim medical assistance. However, when the cops come, Reid takes credit for saving them all.

Arriving at the scene, Sheriff Brigman tells Lauren he'll let her go to the UT cheer clinic on one condition: she can't see Lucas anymore.

Outside the hospital, Staten encounters Quinn, who is there to check in on her nephew Tim. Upset about seeing her out and about with Davis, he makes a poorly timed joke, which sets her off: "You've had a piece of my heart for as long as I can remember," she tells him, adding she buried her feelings when he and Amalah started dating and even moved all the way to New York to avoid him. "I've waited. I've waited for you to heal, to choose me. But you're never gonna do that, are you?"

Still not ready to take that step, Staten walks away from her, but he's clearly mad at himself doing so.

Guess who?

Yancy is waiting to meet someone late at night — and who's in the driver's seat when the car pulls up but Davis Collins himself.

They're in cahoots about the whole pipeline situation, with Yancy reporting that "all is going to plan" with Cap. "Once you go through with it, there's no going back," Davis ominously warns.

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