As one of the most highly-anticipated Yellowstone spin-offs, Marshals is set to be something special. CBS just dropped the new trailer for the neo-Western drama, which reveals some pretty tough things about Kayce Dutton’s (Luke Grimes) life post-Dutton Ranch. Perhaps the most shocking revelation further connects this sequel series to the original Taylor Sheridan drama: The Train Station. It’s true that you can’t always outrun your past, and in the case of Kayce Dutton, that may become a reality sooner than later.
‘Marshals’ May Force Kayce To Uncover the Truth Behind the Train Station
When the trailer drops the connection to the cleverly-named “Zone of Death,” a spot of land that exists just over the Wyoming border, anyone who has spent any time with Yellowstone knows that this is the same place where the Dutton’s notorious Train Station stands. With many comments made throughout the trailer about how Kayce can’t “outrun his past,” it seems that Marshals is doing what Yellowstone always failed to do, which is diving into the legal repercussions of his family’s infamous dumping ground. No doubt, this will most certainly come back to bite Kayce in the midst of his newfound career path, but, as those who know anything about the real-life “Zone of Death” likely already know, it is a legal loophole that could easily be swept under the rug. Or, could it?
Admittedly, we still know very little about the plot of Marshals. We know that the show will follow Kayce as he moves forward with his life after Yellowstone. We know that he will be joining an elite group of U.S. Marshals to protect his home state. What we don’t yet know is whether the Duttons’ ill-deeds will be exposed in an official capacity. While Yellowstone once flirted with the idea that the Duttons would face legal repercussions for their impulsive and violent actions, Marshals may be the show to finally see that through. No doubt, Kayce will be put in an uncomfortable position (to say the least) regarding the Train Station the moment it’s exposed (with all those bodies buried at the bottom of the gorge). We can also be confident that he’ll find some way out of it, as the Duttons have always done. Maybe they’ll just blame the whole thing on Jamie (Wes Bentley).
‘Yellowstone’s Happy Ending Won’t Fully Translate to ‘Marshals’
When Yellowstone finally ended, it seemed as if Kayce had finally gotten everything he wanted at the beginning of the series. He was no longer under the boot of his father, John Dutton (Kevin Costner), nor was he tied to the Broken Rock Indian Reservation. Instead, he lived on a new slice of land between the Rez and America’s First National Park with his wife and son, hoping to pass the days away on their own piece of paradise. But the Marshals trailer also reveals that Monica Dutton (Kelsey Asbille) is dead — or, at least, she appears to be. From what we see in the trailers, not only is Kayce now sleeping alone, but we watch as a nurse covers a dead body in her home, seemingly having suffered some sort of illness. After about a year of speculation as to how Monica would factor into the first Yellowstone sequel spin-off, it seems as if we’ve finally been given an answer.
Knowing that Monica will be absent from the show, sending Kayce to the U.S. Marshals to reinvent himself, and that the Duttons’ past is about to be dug back up, Marshals is going to be a serious departure from what we’ve been used to with Kayce on Yellowstone. But maybe that’s a good thing. Maybe part of the reason that Kayce’s arc on the series has often felt stale is that Taylor Sheridan wanted to get him to a certain place in life without actually knowing how to get him there. Now that he’s unhampered by his family, maybe now Kayce Dutton can finally grow into the cowboy hero that he has always been meant to be. As was teased at the end of the flagship Paramount drama’s fifth and final season, Kayce is at his best when he is on the job, working to investigate the cases that no one else in Big Sky Country cares a lick about. As long as Marshals continues to lean into that, he’ll be on the right side of things — even if the Train Station is exposed.
