SPOILER ALERT:

Do not read if you have not watched the finale of 1883 streaming now on Paramount Plus.

After the penultimate episode, fans of 1883 feared that the end was near for Isabel May’s Elsa Dutton, and unfortunately, they were right.

Following an arrow wound to her liver, Isabel died in her dad’s (Tim McGraw) arms after an emotional goodbye to both him and her mother, Margaret (Faith Hill).

The episode took the audience on a wrenching journey. McGraw and Hill, who are married with three daughters, opened up about how they’d take turns reading scripts aloud to each other all season. That was, until the scripts for Episodes 9 and 10 arrived and they found out about Elsa’s fate.

“When we got the final two, we literally couldn’t read them to each other because we were crying so much — I mean, ugly, boohoo crying,” says McGraw. “I was a blubbering idiot. It was just so well-written, so devastating and heartbreaking, but at the same time, so on point and poignant for what Yellowstone turned out to be. It just gives you all the reasons in the world why they fight so hard for that land and why their family fights so hard for to keep what they have. It just made perfect sense.”