After he tried to pull off a robbery, he told the cop that picked him up that Beth was his guardian.
Roarke ran into the woods, but it was futile; the venom worked fast and Roarke collapsed and then expired with Rip standing over him, with a boot on his chest.
To complicate matters, one of the groups working against the Duttons are the fictional Broken Rock tribe of Native Americans, whose reservation abuts the Dutton ranch.