SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers from the ninth episode of “Dutton Ranch,” “El Padrino,” which is now streaming on Paramount+.
The season finale of “Dutton Ranch” ends with a bang when Rob-Will (Jai Courtney) is gunned down at his front door. Although we didn’t see the trigger get pulled, it seems likely that the gunman was his adoptive brother Joaquin (Juan Pablo Raba), who was instructed by his father, Mariano (Raoul Max Trujillo), to undertake the killing to get the 10 Petal Ranch back under control.
The killing sends Rob-Will’s daughter Oreana (Natalie Alyn Lind) and his mother, 10 Petal matriarch Beulah (Annette Bening), into hysterics, and will obviously be a crucial chess piece as Rip (Cole Hauser) and Beth (Kelly Reilly) work to recover Carter (Finn Little) from the Mexican cartel.
But in a post-finale interview with Raba, the actor revealed that he’s not convinced Joaquin was the one who actually pulled the trigger.
“Let me ask you a question: Do you think Joaquin killed Rob-Will?” he asks during the interview. “I mean, here’s the deal, and I’m not being cheeky here. I don’t think he did it! I really don’t. If you follow the timeline of the scene, you can check it out again, but Rob-Will says ‘Bye’ to Oreana. 15 or 20 seconds later, you hear a gunshot and there’s no cut. So whoever did it, literally: Ding-dong, door opens, shoots the guy. Are you telling me that Joaquin did that? He’s not drunk. He’s not drugged. And why? Because a guy, his dad, that honestly he has to hate in so many ways, asked? I think there’s a lot of questions to be answered.”
