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The Paramount series Marshals takes place a few years after the end of season five. Here, we see Kayce Dutton and his teenage son, Tate, living in East Camp after selling his family's Yellowstone Ranch to Broken Rock President Thomas Rainwater. Kayce and Beth, the only surviving children of John Dutton, didn't want the family legacy to fall into the wrong hands, so they decided to return the land to its rightful owners: the Native Americans. It's likely that after selling the land, Beth and her husband, Rip, left Montana, while Kayce, his wife, Monica, and their son, Tate, began a quiet life in East Camp, working as ranchers. Okay, I get it. You want to know what happened to Monica?

The first episode revealed that Monica died of cancer a few years ago, but the exact date of her death has not yet been revealed. A brief conversation between Kayce and Rainwater hinted that Monica had chosen a spot in East Camp where she wanted to be buried. I tried to find her death date on her tombstone, but no, there was nothing there. So, after her death, Kayce cut all ties with the outside world and began dedicating his days to the ranch and his son. The episode also suggested that Monica's death likely affected Kayce and Tate's relationship.

Creators: Spencer Hudnut, Taylor Sheridan
Stars: Luke Grimes, Logan Marshall-Green, Ash Santos

After losing Monica, Kayce didn't want to lose the ranch, as he wanted to leave something for his son. Or perhaps he began to see it as an escape from his grief. However, things worsened when Kayce began forcing Tate to live the way his family had lived for a hundred years. He made the ranch the center of his universe, but Tate didn't want to be a part of that life. He wanted to forge his own path and see the world, something Kayce didn't understand, which caused a rift in their relationship.

I suppose everyone remembers that Kayce was a former Navy SEAL. Well, the first episode gave us a glimpse into his nightmares to establish that backstory. At the beginning of the episode, Pete Calvin, Kayce's former SEAL buddy, visited him and brought some explosives he had requested. The important detail is that Calvin and his team—Andrea Cruz, Belle Skinner, and Miles Kittle—had moved to Montana three months prior to form the Marshals team, which reports directly to Presidential Designate Harry Gifford. Calvin wanted Kayce to join the team, but he didn't want to get his hands dirty again. He was content on the ranch. Even so, Calvin asked Kayce for help in capturing two federal fugitives, John King and Tyler White, who had hidden in the area. Kayce knew the area better than anyone, so he could be a valuable asset.

At first, Kayce refused, but as soon as he discovered that these two outsiders were preying on the women of the reservation, Kayce decided to join the team for one last adventure. And as you may already know, Kayce is a genius at his game. He may have given up his badge, but he's still the best shot. So, obviously, Kayce and Calvin's team caught the fugitives; however, as soon as Kayce learned of their next assignment, she asked Calvin if she could stay on for another day. Also, Andrea is definitely attracted to Kayce, and with Monica gone, I think she'll give in to his flirting.

From what I can see, Marshals will be a procedural drama where the titular team investigates a new case each week. The first episode was about a ruthless mining company dumping its toxic waste into the reserve's river, severely impacting the residents of Broken Rock. In recent years, there had been a sudden spike in the cancer rate, and Rainwater believed it was due to the contaminated water. He raised the concerns with the government, which is why the Home Secretary was going to visit the protest site to give her opinion on the mine locations. Harry Gifford had asked his team to keep an eye on the protesters and protect the Secretary if the situation escalated. Kayce knew Tate would be participating in the protest, as he had lost his mother to cancer, so he asked Calvin to bring him along so he could look after Tate. It's also possible that Monica's death is related to the mining operations, but we don't know much about it yet. At the protest site, Kayce spotted a suspicious individual in the distance, but before he could raise the alarm, someone detonated a homemade bomb that seriously injured Rainwater. Don't worry, he survived.

It turned out that Owen Kilborn, a high-ranking captain in the U.S. Army, was leading a survivalist group with his former army buddies. He was paid $250,000 from an overseas account to assassinate Thomas Rainwater because Rainwater had been outspoken about all the problems in American society. He was leading a campaign to reclaim Native American lands and return them to their rightful owners, and it's possible that some powerful person didn't want him to succeed. Furthermore, I don't rule out the possibility that it was the mining company that paid Owen Kilborn to kill Rainwater, since he had been making quite a stir in the area.

So how did Owen get this job? It seems that Owen and his companions took their time planning the operation, as they didn't want to leave any loose ends. A year earlier, Owen sent one of his men, John Decker, an army veteran, to work on a state-owned oil rig on the reservation to befriend a local man. There he met Jim Kane, a member of the Broken Rock tribe, who lived there with his wife and daughter. Owen's men kidnapped Kane's wife and daughter to blackmail him into blowing up Rainwater. They believed that an enraged Native American killing one of their own wouldn't raise suspicion, but unfortunately, their plan backfired.

Rainwater survived the attack, and Kayce caught Decker trying to kill Kane to cover his tracks. On Decker's phone, she found a gaming app that featured a video of Kane's family being held captive. If you recall, in Yellowstone's fifth season, one of Kayce's former colleagues used a similar app to find information about his father's killer. Kayce and her team connected the dots and concluded that the Trail Keepers had used Kane as a scapegoat, while the real culprit had been hiding in plain sight all along. Andrea pointed out that Decker had kidnapped Kane's family even before the secretary's visit became public, meaning someone on the inside had leaked the information. This led them directly to Owen Kilborn.

During the investigation, Miles Kittle discovered that Kane's daughter, Tiva, had a tracking device that revealed her location in Glacier Park. Calvin, Kayce, and the rest of the team quickly armed themselves to rescue the family; however, it turned out that Owen was already aware of their impending arrival and had set a trap for them. Unfortunately, he was unaware that there was a man named Dutton on his team. Moments before Gifford tried to abort the mission, Kayce opened fire on the armed men inside the building.

This sequence of gunfire reminded me of the climactic scene in 1923, where Spencer coldly gunned down Donald Whitfield's men. In any case, Kayce and Calvin's team killed the men and rescued Kane's wife, Lucy, but his daughter was still missing. Owen had taken the girl to Cracker Lake to use her as a human shield and escape, but Kayce and Calvin tracked him down, and Kayce shot and killed him. Well, I guess Mo was right. Violence always finds the Duttons. Also, the episode revealed that Calvin's boss, Gifford, also holds a grudge against the Duttons, something I think will be explored further in upcoming episodes.

I think it's true that each of us has our own way of dealing with loss and violence. Kayce left the SEALs because he didn't want to go around killing people without a clear reason. But the tragedy is that the people he's killed will haunt him forever. He had found some solace in Monica, but without her, those nightmares have returned. He didn't have a clear purpose in life, so he slowly sank deeper into his obsession with keeping the ranch running, making things worse, not only for himself but also for his son. Coincidentally, Calvin went through the same confusion and dilemma after leaving the Navy SEALs.

He found his escape in pills and throwing punches, so he wondered: Was that the kind of person he wanted to be for his daughter? He told Kayce that the Marshals had become his salvation, and Kayce realized that he might be hurting his son in the same way by not having a clear path in life. Becoming a Marshal for a day and saving innocent lives helped Kayce decide what he wanted to do. Mo and Rainwater emphasized this further, telling Kayce that he wasn't a killer, but a protector, but that sometimes, to protect your own, you have to take up arms. There were many vicious wolves roaming the land, and the reservation needed a sheepdog more than ever. So yes, Kayce is no longer a rancher, nor is he going to force Tate to become one. He decided to change course and let Tate forge his own.

We know Kayce's new job will be overwhelming because of the violence involved. We already saw Calvin popping pills after the surgery and crying in the locker room looking at his daughter's picture. It's a tough job for everyone on the team, but with Kayce around, I think they'll be able to look out for each other.

If you recall, during Yellowstone, Kayce perceived the wolf sighting as a bad omen, which obviously influenced his decision. He feared that if he didn't give up the ranch, he could lose his wife and son, but Monica died anyway, right? Even at the beginning of the episode, when Kayce saw the wolf, he assumed something bad was going to happen to his son, and I think that was why he wanted to be at the protest: to protect Tate from any unforeseen tragedy. However, when Mo told him the reservation needed a sheepdog to protect them from wolves, Kayce understood the meaning of her words.

In Yellowstone, it was Mo who told Kayce that omens like these could mean whatever he wanted them to. If he believed something bad was going to happen, it would, because that was what he wanted. But Kayce didn't want fear to dictate his life. It was the fear of losing his loved ones that had taken everything he held dear. He had lost his wife, and now it was driving his son away from him. But not anymore. Kayce was no longer afraid of the creature. He wanted to be the sheepdog his people longed for, the savior they needed, so he took the gun and shot the gray wolf before him.

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