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Warning: SPOILERS for Marshals Season 1, Episode 12 - "The Devil at Home"Marshals season 2 won't miss a beat after season 1's finale, says star Logan Marshall-Green. The first sequel/spinoff of Taylor Sheridan's Yellowstone franchise, Marshals is the most-watched broadcast series and the most-watched series across broadcast and streaming. Marshals averages 26.5 million viewers each week on CBS and streaming on Paramount+.
Marshals season 1's penultimate episode set up huge potential changes for Kayce Dutton (Luke Grimes) and his team of U.S. Marshals based in Montana. Kayce considers selling his home, East Camp, which is his last link to the Dutton family's Yellowstone legacy. Meanwhile, Marshall-Green's Deputy Marshal Pete "Cal" Calvin finally reveals his grim medical diagnosis.
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🏠YellowstoneProtect the ranch
🐴1883The Oregon Trail
🌾1923Drought & dust
🔒KingstownPrison politics
🎼Tulsa KingMade man, new town
QUESTION 1 / 8YELLOWSTONE
01
The Dutton family has controlled the largest contiguous cattle ranch in the United States for over a century. In which state is the Yellowstone Dutton Ranch located?
✓ Correct! The Yellowstone Dutton Ranch sits near the border of Yellowstone National Park in Montana. The show is filmed primarily in Montana, with the real-life Chief Joseph Ranch in Darby serving as the Dutton homestead.
✗ Wrong trail, cowboy! The answer is Montana. The Dutton Ranch borders Yellowstone National Park in Big Sky Country. While the rugged landscape could pass for Wyoming or Idaho, the show is set — and largely filmed — in Montana.
QUESTION 2 / 8YELLOWSTONE
02
John Dutton is the iron-willed patriarch who will stop at nothing to protect his family’s land. Which Oscar-winning actor portrayed him for the first four seasons of Yellowstone?
✓ Correct! Kevin Costner brought gravitas and quiet intensity to John Dutton, anchoring Yellowstone as one of the most-watched shows on cable television. His departure ahead of Season 5B became one of the biggest stories in TV.
✗ Wrong trail, cowboy! The answer is Kevin Costner. While Sam Elliott did appear in 1883, Josh Brolin has his own Sheridan series (Outer Range isn’t Sheridan’s), and Kurt Russell hasn’t joined the Sheridan-verse. Costner defined John Dutton.
QUESTION 3 / 81883
03
In the prequel series 1883, a Civil War veteran leads his family on a brutal wagon-train journey from Texas to Montana to find a new home. What is the name of this original Dutton patriarch?
✓ Correct! James Dutton, played by Tim McGraw, is the Civil War veteran who leads his wife Margaret and their children on the perilous journey west. His daughter Elsa narrates the series, and the family’s arrival in Montana establishes the Yellowstone Ranch.
✗ Wrong trail, cowboy! The answer is James Dutton. Jacob Dutton is the character Harrison Ford plays in 1923 — James’s brother. John Dutton Sr. doesn’t appear until later generations, and Emmett Dutton doesn’t exist in the Sheridan-verse.
QUESTION 4 / 8YELLOWSTONE
04
On the Dutton Ranch, certain cowboys receive a permanent mark of loyalty — a hot-iron brand seared into their skin that signifies a blood oath to the ranch. What symbol is this feared brand?
✓ Correct! The branded “Y” is the Yellowstone Ranch’s livestock mark, but for ranch hands, wearing it on their chest means a lifelong oath of silence and loyalty. “Taking someone to the train station” is what happens to those who betray it.
✗ Wrong trail, cowboy! The answer is the letter “Y” — for Yellowstone. The brand is both a ranch identifier and a mark of absolute loyalty. Characters like Rip, Kayce, and Jimmy all bear the “Y” brand, signifying they’ve sworn their lives to the ranch.
QUESTION 5 / 81923
05
In 1923, the Dutton family battles drought, Prohibition, and encroaching modernity during the Great Depression era. Which legendary Hollywood actor plays patriarch Jacob Dutton?
✓ Correct! Harrison Ford stars as Jacob Dutton alongside Helen Mirren as his wife Cara. Ford’s casting marked his first major television role and brought massive star power to the expanding Sheridan-verse. The series is set during Prohibition and the early Depression.
✗ Wrong trail, cowboy! The answer is Harrison Ford. In his first major TV role, Ford plays Jacob Dutton, brother of James Dutton from 1883. Helen Mirren stars opposite him as Cara Dutton. Their star power helped make 1923 Paramount+’s biggest premiere.
QUESTION 6 / 8YELLOWSTONE
06
Beth Dutton’s volatile love story with a tough ranch foreman is one of Yellowstone’s most beloved storylines. The two eventually marry in a surprise ceremony. Who is Beth’s husband?
✓ Correct! Rip Wheeler, played by Cole Hauser, is John Dutton’s most loyal enforcer and Beth’s husband. Taken in by John as a teenager after a traumatic past, Rip would do anything for the Dutton family — and his fierce devotion to Beth became a fan-favorite romance.
✗ Wrong trail, cowboy! The answer is Rip Wheeler. Lloyd Pierce is the bunkhouse elder, Walker is a ranch hand and musician, and Jimmy Hurdstrom is the hapless cowboy who eventually gets sent to the 6666 Ranch in Texas. Only Rip won Beth’s wild heart.
QUESTION 7 / 8MAYOR OF KINGSTOWN
07
In Mayor of Kingstown, a family serves as power brokers in a Michigan town where the prison industry is the only business. Which family navigates this dark world of incarceration and corruption?
✓ Correct! The McLusky family, led by Mike McLusky (Jeremy Renner), acts as unofficial mediators between prisoners, gangs, police, and politicians in Kingstown, Michigan. The show is one of Sheridan’s grittiest explorations of the American justice system.
✗ Wrong trail, cowboy! The answer is the McLusky family. Jeremy Renner stars as Mike McLusky, who inherits the role of “mayor” — an unofficial power broker between inmates, gangs, and law enforcement. The Duttons are Yellowstone’s dynasty, not Kingstown’s.
QUESTION 8 / 8YELLOWSTONE
08
One Dutton sibling is an adopted son and ambitious lawyer who frequently clashes with his family — sometimes even conspiring against them. His complex loyalty drives much of the show’s drama. Who is he?
✓ Correct! Jamie Dutton, played by Wes Bentley, is the adopted son and Harvard-educated lawyer whose desperate need for his father’s approval and political ambition create some of Yellowstone’s most dramatic betrayals. His rivalry with Beth is legendary.
✗ Wrong trail, cowboy! The answer is Jamie Dutton. Kayce is John’s biological youngest son (a former Navy SEAL), Lee is the eldest son who dies in Season 1, and Tate is Kayce’s young son. Only Jamie is the adopted lawyer who conspires against the family.
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Speaking to TV Insider, Logan Marshall-Green offered an encouraging update about Marshals season 2, which begins production this week. Marshall-Green reveals that Marshals season 2 "picks up right where we left off," hinting that season 1's finale ends on a cliffhanger with a twist he never saw coming. Read Logan's quote below:
He says that Marshals Season 2 goes into production this week, and “we’re dogging, right out of the gate, about seven, eight pages a day.” The Marshals cast previously teased a big cliffhanger ending, but he says that Season 2 will “pick up right where we left off, literally and figuratively. No rest for the wicked.” As for the finale’s ending, Marshall-Green says he never saw the twist coming.
It's great news that Marshals season 2 is wasting no time mounting production. CBS's fall 2026 schedule, announced during the network's upfronts presentation, placed Marshals back at its Sunday, 8 pm, timeslot, pairing it with another hit, Tracker.
As a network procedural, Marshals films faster than a streaming series like Dutton Ranch, Paramount+'s newest Yellowstone spinoff. "Seven, eight pages a day" is an aggressive production schedule, and Marshall-Green isn't kidding when he quips that's "no rest for the wicked."
As Logan Marshall-Green teased, Cal's future is up in the air. Cal revealed to his teammate, Belle Skinner (Arielle Kebbel), that he had been diagnosed with a pancoast tumor in his lung. Cal, coping with a potentially fatal illness that often afflicts soldiers, is a story that Marshals showrunner Spencer Hudnut "wanted to tell," says Marshall-Green.
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Marshals season 2 could potentially include a crossover with Dutton Ranch. A reunion between Kayce Dutton, his sister Beth (Kelly Reilly), and her husband Rip Wheeler (Cole Hauser), has already been teased by Hudnut and Reilly. Hauser has already said he'd prefer to return to Montana, where Marshals is set, rather than Kayce coming to Dutton Ranch's Texas locale.
As for if and how Pete Calvin will survive his tumor, viewers will have to tune into Marshals season 2 to find out, but it's hard to imagine that Cal won't be leading Kayce and their U.S. Marshals team for season 2 and more seasons to come.
Marshals season 1 finale, "Wolves at the Door," premieres Sunday, May 24, 8/7c, on CBS and streams the next day on Paramount+
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