Malcolm Beck is a Yellowstone character played by Neal McDonough. He and his brother Teal are businessmen that are displeased with the competition of Thomas Rainwater, head of the Broken Rock Indian Reservation and Dan Jenkins, real estate developer of Paradise Valley, as those two plan to collaborate on the building of a casino in the valley.
Biography[]
Malcolm was the head of the Montana Liquor Board and a powerful player in the real estate fight alongside his brother, Teal. He has connections with the Montana Free Militia from the Crazies and a Skinhead group in Whitefish, Montana. With his position on the Liquor board, he could revoke licenses whenever he chose to, as for personal enemies and anyone he saw as a threat, he would enlist mercenaries for wetwork.
After Malcolm and his brother went too far in their dealings with the Dutton family by having a white supremacist militia kidnap Tate, John Dutton decided to end things once and for all. Once Kayce tortured Malcom's location out of his brother Teal, by shooting him once in the stomach while he was sitting on the toilet, and once in the leg before shootting one more time in the chest to kill him, John finally took the fight to Malcom. They cleared the house of militia members by killing or arresting them, but John noticed Malcom outside in the field and the two exchanged shots back and forth. Malcom's aim was no match for John who shot Malcolm in the stomach and wrist when the latter reached for his fallen pistol. John sat with Malcolm as he lay dying and demanded to know where Tate was being kept. Malcolm kept silent for a while as John explained that this was his last chance to "make it into heaven" by doing one last good deed, giving his word he would send for his chopper to take Malcolm to a hospital. Eventually, a dying Malcolm relents and tells John where to find his kidnapped grandson. John offers his chopper but Malcolm refuses, knowing he wouldn't make it since the chopper was 20 minutes out. John asked him if he wanted company or to die alone and Malcolm chose to die alone. As John started walking away, Malcolm gasped out a few last words back to him. He said "I wish I had never met you" and John responded with "I bet you do" before leaving him to die.