Ransom Canyon ending explained: Who ends up with who (and what really happened to Staten’s son)?

Ransom Canyon brought the drama in its 10-episode debut season, positing itself as Netflix’s answer to the high drama of Yellowstone.

April Blair’s series centers around feuding ranchers in its namesake town, as well as their various romantic entanglements. At the forefront is Josh Duhamel’s Staten Kirkland, who’s spent the last year grieving the loss of his wife and son. When the series begins, he starts developing feelings for old friend Quinn O’Grady (Minka Kelly). But she’s dating Davis Collins (Eoin Macken), who is also Staten’s brother-in-law — and he has his eyes on Staten’s land.

“It has been a dark couple of years for this dude. It really has,” Duhamel said in an interview with Entertainment Weekly. “One of the big reasons I wanted to do this was because this guy was so broken and desperately wanted to enter back into the real world, but didn’t know how to do it. He wasn’t sure if he was even ready.”

Ready or not, the real world collapsed on Staten’s shoulders in the series’ tense and cathartic finale, which clarified things about the death of his son while complicating the many blooming romances. “Nobody has an easy time in Ransom,” Blair told us in a season 1 postmortem. “What fun would that be?” 

Read on as we unpack the ending of Ransom Canyon season 1, including many characters’ relationship statuses.

Who’s with who at the end of Ransom Canyon season 1?

Lauren and Lucas

The series’ other love triangle involves teenagers Lauren (Lizzy Greene), Lucas (Garrett Wareing), and Reid (Andrew Liner). Lauren and Reid, the cheerleader and the football star, have been together for ages, but Lauren finds herself drawn to the enigmatic Lucas, a soulful kid living on the wrong side of the tracks.

Despite their romance rippling with emotion, Lauren breaks things off with Lucas in the finale. “I just don’t think I’m ready for something this serious,” she says.

Lucas is rallied by Reid, of all people. Reid, who seems to grasp that Lauren and Lucas are meant for each other, tells him, “If you don’t go after her, I will.”

So Lucas gets onstage at Gracie’s and makes a grand declaration to Lauren (and her injured arm). “You got a bum arm and a broken heart, and I can only fix one of those,” he says. “But I promise you I will fix it if you let me.”

Lauren is swayed, and the pair proclaim their love for each other on the dance floor.