‘Ransom Canyon’ stars Josh Duhamel and Minka Kelly tease Staten and Quinn’s end game
Warning: This post contains spoilers for Season One of “Random Canyon.”
It’s been will they or won’t they for Staten Kirkland and Quinn O’Grady in the first season of “Ransom Canyon.”
The new Netflix Western romantic drama stars Josh Duhamel and Minka Kelly as star-crossed lovers in Texas Hill Country. Following the death of Staten’s wife, and Quinn’s best friend, the rancher faces another tragic event with the death of his son, Randall.
Angry with the world, he seeks vengeance but finds hope in Quinn, who happens to start dating Staten’s ex-brother-in-law, Davis Collins (Eoin Macken).
Davis, along with Staten, and Cap Fuller (James Brolin) are heads of the three ranching family dynasties battling for control of their land and legacies.
“Ransom Canyon” is based on a series of books by Jodi Thomas.
The end of the series showed Staten and Quinn’s relationship in question, as well as more complications for the folks of Ransom Canyon.
Read on to know what happened at the end of “Ransom Canyon” Season 1, and what Duhamel and Kelly told TODAY.com about what’s next for their characters.
Staten and Quinn’s relationship is up in the air
In the finale episode, Quinn and Davis break up. Despite knowing that their relationship had come to an end before Quinn confirms it, Davis asks her if their relationship was “real.”
“Yeah, it was,” Quinn replies.
Quinn, on her end, is at a crossroad with the potential closure of her music hall, Gracie’s, and accepting a position with the New York Philharmonic for six months. When she tells Staten about the offer, he gets upset. Viewers see him seemingly call things off at the end of the episode.
Additionally, to save her business, Quinn accepts the gig in New York to get some extra income.
“I love how much everyone wants to know,” Kelly tells TODAY.com about Quinn and Staten’s future. “That’s a good thing.”
“On one hand, it’s like, you want them to be together, but I’m not saying that,” Duhamel tells TODAY.com. “But I also like the idea that they can’t figure it (out). There’s so many complications there that I feel like I don’t deserve her.”
Duhamel adds that Quinn has it “way more figured out” than Staten.
“And in order to do that, he needs to do a little work,” he says. “I feel like there’s a lot left to do, there’s a lot more to figure out, maybe, between these two.”
Kelly says it would be fun to see how Quinn’s journey continues and she comes into her own.
“Towards the end, she’s really coming into her power and finding her self esteem and learning that it’s OK to just choose and focus on herself and what she wants to do with her life,” Kelly says. “And it’ll be interesting to see how that manifests in another season.”
Cap Fuller dies and Yancy takes over the ranch
“Ransom Canyon.” Courtesy of Netflix / Courtesy of Netflix
Viewers discovered that Yancy Grey (Jack Schumacher) was actually Cap Fuller’s grandson. When Cap found this out, he told Yancy that he would never accept him as his family member — but that was because Yancy and Davis had been planning to take his land.
When Cap’s son and Yancy’s father died, Cap tried to look for Yancy and his mother, but couldn’t find them. Staten tells this to Yancy, who decides that he wants to save his grandfather’s ranch from the company that wants the land.
During an April 15 appearance on TODAY, Brolin said he was “enamored” with his character’s “bad luck and how angry he was.”
“Which is not me,” he said. “I’m a total optimist. My mother was the sweetest thing in the world and I never learned to negotiate or argue. So it’s great to play a guy that’s hurting bad.”
Yancy proposes to Ellie — then his ‘wife’ arrives in Ransom Canyon
Yancy proposes to Ellie (Marianly Tejada) and asks her to marry him that same night.
Ellie, who is head over heels for Yancy, decides that she does want to spend the rest of her life with him. However, just as she prepares to leave for their intimate ceremony, a woman comes into Gracie’s and claims that she is Yancy’s wife.
Davis and Sam Kirkland go behind Staten’s back
Staten’s father, Senator Samuel “Sam” Kirkland (Brett Cullen), tells him that he will kick him off as the sole trustee of their Double K ranch. His excuse: He’s not in his right mind.
Staten accuses his father of being jealous that Sam’s father didn’t leave him the ranch.
At the end of the episode, Staten confronts Davis about stealing his clients. Davis, in turn, insults him and Staten punches Davis. This turns out to be a plan that Davis and Sam conjured to make Staten seem unfit to continue being in charge of the ranch.
Sheriff Dan Brigman arrests his wife for the death of Staten’s son
After discovering who was involved in Staten’s son’s death, Sheriff Dan Brigman (Philip Winchester) is seen arresting his wife, Margaret.
Margaret previously confessed to being with Kit Russell (Casey W. Johnson) — a young man who is known to cause trouble, yet cares for his younger brother — the night that Randall died in a car crash.
