Instead, it appears Jamie (Wes Bentley) orchestrated his father’s demise. After thinking about putting a hit on John an episode prior, it seems the ambitious attorney general followed through with a little help from his girlfriend/fixer, Sarah (Dawn Olivieri). They talked about it, she acted on it, and now John is dead, just like that. Sarah instructed her hatchet man to make the great cattle man’s death look like a suicide, and that’s exactly what the authorities believe happened.