Marshals (2026) s01e01 Episode Script

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Where's the rest of the team?
That's roner's pig barking.
We got to get him and beat feet.
Come on. On me, let's go.
Monica.
Monica?
Monica, where are you?
Monica? Monica!
Better get moving
or figure out how cruel this life is.
I'm late. Again.
Corral needs safeguarding.
You dial that in after school.
Corral's got to wait.
I'm sleeping over at
deebo's after the rez meeting.
What meeting?
For the protest
against the mine that'll
dump toxins onto broken rock.
Running this ranch is our fight.
I got to go.
What about your breakfast?
Tate, hold up.
Look, I know your mom
was better at all this.
You know this is rez land.
Technically, U.S. marshal
has no jurisdiction here.
Good, 'cause, technically,
what I'm doing for you
is illegal as hell.
I got shot, fragged
and nearly court-martialed 'cause of you.
Consider us even.
You gonna let him speak to his
old team leader like that, Tate?
Man's got a problem with authority.
Show him a good time, Cal. He needs it.
Two frogmen with enough explosives
to flatten the rockies?
Not even your old man can spoil that fun.
Looks like you got pigeon tossed.
Take some r&r, man.
No days off on the ranch.
From kicking doors to baling hay.
So much for "evolve or die."
It's hard to believe
you couldn't hold down
any of your marriages.
Still going for the jugular, I see.
Don't make me put
you in your place, sailor.
How much I owe you for these?
Compliments of the
meth head I took 'em off of.
But you mind sharing what
you're fixing to blow up?
This a wellness check?
All the shrapnel you've taken,
it's more like a "no man
left behind" kind of thing.
Okay, well, if you insist
on "swim buddying" me,
I'm gonna put you to work.
I moved here three months
ago to start this team,
and I-I still don't get this way of life.
Really, what do you do out here all day?
Work the land, tend the herd.
Ranching's in my blood.
All those years of door-kicking,
you never once mentioned that
you're some Montana rockefeller.
That was the best
part about being a seal.
Yeah, dutton didn't matter in the teams.
Better shot now than
when we were teammates.
Yeah, well, I need to be.
Marshal team's a
tactical Swiss army knife.
Yeah?
- Crushing a lot of skulls?
- Yeah. Gangs
and cartels, race warriors.
It may look like god's country,
but devil's running free out here.
That's why I'm at peace on this ranch.
Yeah. Frogman at peace, that's a notion.
Just tell me you don't see ghosts.
I guess my time after the teams
wasn't as smooth as yours, right?
Crushing pills and throwing hands.
I mean, I went full gong
show after the Navy, but
The marshals were my salvation.
And I'm guessing you've got
your own demons to conquer,
and I could sure use another door-kicker.
My life's been "kill or be
killed" for too long, man.
Okay. Fair enough.
You know, I could use a favor, though.
Got two fugitives,
they're holed up in the hills
just-just east of your family's
old ranch. I can't locate 'em.
Probably using an old sheeper cabin
up where I'd track
bighorns with my brothers.
But the wildlife and the
terrain make it a no-go
for tenderfoots like you.
Not lacking ways to die in Montana.
Explains a lot about you.
Sure would be nice to
bag these guys, though.
They're preying on rez women.
I'll drive.
Mr. Chairman,
the mine announcement
is set for tomorrow.
The secretary of the
interior will land at 9:30,
deliver her remarks at the mine location,
then head back to Washington at 11:00.
Well, plundering
and pillaging is more
efficient than it used to be.
Government gets cell phone magnets,
broken rock gets an
even higher cancer rate.
The rare earth mineral
site isn't on our land.
- We have no recourse.
- It's on our river,
where our forefathers
watered their horses.
America's policies have
long dumped a steady flow
of poisons on our people.
Using a literal river indicates
they're running lower on
imagination than cruelty.
Hell no. I'm not getting
on that beast, Cal.
You took down a Sinaloa kingpin,
but you're afraid of horses?
Well, this'll be fun.
Signed up to crush skulls,
not join the rodeo, boss.
Well, the only way to traverse this land
is on horseback. Kayce,
meet my marshals.
Andrea, miles, belle.
Now, listen up.
Federal warrants are
for John king, Tyler white,
and the route we're
taking, it is rife with grizzlies
and rattlesnakes and rock slides,
so kayce's in charge.
It's gonna be a rough haul.
Biggest risk is your horse spooking.
You saying that thing might buck me?
If its ears work.
Just pull the reins to stop,
kick her in the belly to go.
Want a boost?
It'd be the last thing you do.
Cal never shared he was
buddies with kayce dutton.
Something special about him?
Honey, have you done any
research on your new hometown?
Montana is a detour, not a home.
Duttons owned the
biggest ranch in Montana
for generations.
Kayce sold it to my tribe last year.
His dad was the
governor who was killed,
brother Jamie's the attorney
general who went missing.
Does any of this ring a bell?
No, but I dig his hat.
Cabin's just beyond that ridge line.
Okay. That trigger finger getting itchy?
My days of running into fire are over.
Okay, y'all. Let's shake some trees.
Runner!
U.S. marshals!
Hyah!
We got to get ahead of him.
You shame me to
come out with your team,
then you drag me to a place like this.
Well, Cal only picked this spot
'cause the stockyards don't serve liquor.
Now, see, belle's taste
leans more five-star
than "dive bar."
You rode the hair off that horse.
Are you local? You got
a familiar way to you.
I get that a lot.
Belle used to be atf.
She joined us two months ago.
Undercover specialist,
so holds her cards close.
I'm okay.
My dad told me, "never trust a cop
who won't drink with you."
Same logic applies to cowboys.
Dad's a cop?
You join the marshals to
impress him or defy him?
Avenge him. Thank you for that glimpse
into your psych jacket.
Our trade craft is not meant
for hijacking jukeboxes.
You know, it's becoming clearer
every day why you got
kicked off your unit in D.C.
Honey, there's three things
you don't do in Montana.
Pet the buffalo, try
to out drink Canadians,
and mess with cowboys' music.
Think that's my cue to leave.
No. Hey, we all should,
'cause tomorrow's mine rally
could be a powder-keg, so
Broken rock will be out in force.
Locals, too. Could get salty.
My kid's gonna be there.
I can be extra eyes
and ears if you need 'em.
One-time deal.
I'll deputize you.
Here.
Welcome to the U.S. marshals.
Haven't been this outmanned
since that psd we pulled in j-bad.
I see you won't be outgunned.
Still licensed to carry that?
Gave up my badge, not being montanan.
So, what's with the pictures?
Cancer victims from
toxins dumped onto the rez.
Tate.
U.S. marshal?
What are you doing?
Just helping out Cal.
- You need to go home, buddy.
- What?
I need to be here.
This rally could get violent.
Since when are you concerned about me
being exposed to violence?
Since everything we've been through.
Go home.
After how much mom suffered?
You should be leading the charge here,
not waving the white flag.
Whoa, boss man's here.
I'm your boss, not gifford.
Well, only one of you is
a presidential appointee.
How long before he mentions that?
Harry, what brings
you down from Helena?
When there's a
member of the president's
cabinet in my state, you
bet your bottom dollar
I'm showing up.
You got all dolled up for the secretary.
Choke strap's out of
respect for the president.
The man did appoint me, after all.
Cal, I want you to meet,
secretary Clarkson's head of, security.
This is special agent Dan Glenn.
This is director Owen kilborn
from fish, game and parks.
Crowd's amped up.
Appreciate you marshals
running point on my turf.
Well, we're not gonna
step on your toes, so
No toes to step on.
I'm the only fish and game asset here.
That's why I formed this team.
Last line of defense in the region.
I hope we live up to the hype.
The hornet's nest is a-stirring.
Make sure nobody kicks it.
This country's latest form
of radioactive colonialism
might be worth it
if it allows me to see the
reclusive kayce dutton.
Thought you traded in your badge.
I'm just moonlighting.
I'm only here 'cause.
Tate's being a stubborn pain in my ass.
Dutton father and son
that don't see eye to eye?
Hard to believe.
How are things on east camp?
You know. I got 5,000 acres, 300 pair,
and a disobedient
teenager. I'm living the dream.
I don't think we've
seen you on broken rock
since Monica's burial.
Yeah, she, she picked
out her favorite spot
on east camp for me to visit her.
It isn't her grave
that keeps you connected to her spirit.
Secretary's on target. Eyes open.
Cal wants us patrolling together, dutton.
You'll like dust cloud.
He's one of our best cops,
when not on probation.
Yeah, he'll remind you of the
mustangs you used to break.
Don't be a stranger, kayce.
Solitude can be dangerous.
So can being a dutton.
Could've been a seal, too.
The corps suited me better.
I'm more blunt force
weapon than scalpel.
Place is a sniper's dream. Eyes peeled.
This mine will help us bridge the gap
with our competitors, making us safer,
richer and less dependent
I got eyes on a possible trigger man.
Say again, possible trigger man.
Black bag, in front of the dais.
Avalanche. Avalanche. Avalanche.
Madam, I need you down
now. I need you down
is he conscious?
Check him up top for blood.
Come on, stay with me.
Is rainwater gonna be okay?
I need to help Cal find whoever did this.
Let's get you home safe, first.
Avoided disaster today,
thanks to my team's quick thinking.
What's the broken
rock chairman's status?
He has a fighting chance,
thanks to some Navy medicine.
Secretary is already wheels up for D.C.
Marshals have lead,
but let's keep the
communication lines open.
White house is gonna clean my plow,
we don't track down this bomber.
Lack of leads is frustrating.
We're in the sticks, not
Times Square, okay?
There's no surveillance, no
manpower to question witnesses
or identify suspects.
Time to sink or swim, frogman.
Get me that bomber.
Please tell me you have something.
Strands from the backpack
covered in explosive residue.
Pressure cooker lid.
We're looking at a homemade bomb.
By whom? This a lone wolf
or part of a, you know,
larger conspiracy?
Did cowboy give you a
description on the trigger man?
Nah, he was too far for anything useful.
Okay, belle, use your contacts
at atf, you start digging into that bomb.
Miles, I want you running
point on collecting video footage.
We're talking local news,
social media. You know what to do.
Best witnesses were near the blast.
I'll canvass Bozeman general.
Think your Bronx charm is
gonna get people to open up?
Kayce really wants to help.
That blast radius had a lot
of broken rock residents in it.
They-they will talk to him, okay.
Let's go man hunting. Come on.
Thank you.
How's it work around here?
Rez folks trust you
since you gave them land
the size of Rhode Island?
My wife is broken rock.
Raised our son there for a while.
Sun rarely shines on the rez, but this
is one of our darkest days.
- How's rainwater?
- Still in surgery.
He's a fighter.
Picked a hell of a day to leave the ranch.
Violence has a way
of finding the duttons.
Explosive powder used
tracks to Montana department of energy.
Can you pinpoint where it's from?
Any one of hundreds of job sites.
But I was able to track the serial number
used on the pressure cooker lid to
a buckners's hardware near broken rock.
Near broken rock?
A locally built bomb
likely means local bomber.
Did you ID the buyer?
Paid in cash, no security footage.
Well, I'd say that's
a nail in the reservation's coffin.
You have means, motive,
- opportunity.
- Maybe get some evidence
before you go starting
the next wounded knee.
Look, investigation goes
where the clues lead us, miles.
Check this out.
Man in the hat wearing the backpack,
moving through the crowd.
Disappears near the blast zone.
Do you have him
dropping the bag, though?
There's nothing at the barrier yet,
and the explosion's
less than a minute later.
Facial recognition get a hit?
It's Jim Kane, member of broken rock.
He's married with a daughter.
Works at a state-run oil rig.
Gives him access to explosives.
His brother died of cancer last year,
likely caused by toxins on the rez.
Could be motive.
Jim's tough, but a family man.
Whatever he is, the
bomb went off way too soon
for him to be the trigger man.
Explosion was right
after the bag was placed.
Good chance he was fragged.
Hey.
- Excuse me.
- Yeah.
Have you seen this man?
Looks like a John Doe we triaged.
He's in recovery.
Jim Kane?
Deputy U.S. marshal Andrea Cruz.
You're a person of
interest in today's bombing.
I'll tell Cal we have Kane.
Sorry. I didn't know he had company.
John Decker, 40.
Army vet, 10th mountain division,
currently resides up north
- in Conrad.
- 10th mountain's gonna
give him explosives
training. Okay, what's his
- connection to Kane?
- Worked together last year,
same oil rig.
So old work buddies reunited
to take out the secretary?
Yeah, well, Kane had
access to the explosives,
Decker knew how to
make the bomb, and
Sounds like a conspiracy to me.
I turn my back on you for two seconds.
How's the arm?
I've had worse.
So, who's the dead guy?
Former coworker of Kane's.
It seems they were in this together.
Does anything prove that?
I looked into Kane's eyes.
That that man's not a killer.
Dead guy's phone has nothing.
- He was disciplined.
- Thank you.
Except for the part
where he tried to kill you.
What's this video game app?
Coming through.
One second, fellas.
During the war on terror,
the enemy used game
chat rooms to communicate.
Hey.
Know them?
Jim Kane's wife and daughter.
You want to explain why a dead man
has your wife and kid on his phone?
Were you leveraged into the bombing?
Is your family in danger?
There's no greater violation
than having your child taken.
I've lived that horror,
so I know that sometimes
good men have to do bad things.
I'll crawl through hell
to find your family, but I need your help.
Jim, I trust kayce
with the lives of the people I love.
You should, too.
They were gonna kill my family.
I didn't want to hurt anyone.
I
Where are your wife
and daughter being held?
I don't know.
We were apart.
You got to get tiva and Lucy back.
I can't face this world without 'em.
Who else was Decker working with?
I was only with him.
They used those
videos to keep me in line.
Did he say why he was
targeting the secretary?
The secretary?
Decker wanted rainwater dead.
So the secretary wasn't the target,
the broken rock chief was?
Broken rock chairman.
Tough spot for Kane.
Kill rainwater or your family dies.
Social media links Decker
to a survivalist group,
the trail keepers.
Anti-government, anti-globalism
- and anti-land back movement.
- Rainwater's campaign
to recover our land put
him in the crosshairs.
But why go through the
trouble of making Kane a patsy
and the chairman seem
like collateral damage?
Because "angry native killer"
wouldn't raise as many questions,
especially from law enforcement.
Guilty as charged, deputy marshal.
Okay, so, the trail keepers
are gonna be our best lead.
- Where do they camp?
- I'm working on it.
- Okay, thank you.
- Instead of tracking
the militia, maybe I can track tiva.
Lots of parents have
started putting trackers
on their kids since so many go missing.
Kane never mentioned anything
to Andrea or kayce about a tracker.
Come on. Your wife tell you all the ways
she tried to keep your daughter safe?
Only when she left with her for good.
Look, dust cloud, get on the trackers,
okay? 'Cause at some point,
these trail keepers, they're gonna realize.
Decker's not coming back
and we're in their playbook.
Deputy marshal Calvin, a word?
You want to tell me why there's a dutton
dropping bodies for this unit?
Kayce's my former teammate,
one man force-multiplier.
You couldn't find one of
them menendez brothers
or some kin of El chapo instead?
He's a war hero. What's the issue?
The issue is we marshals uphold the law,
the duttons bend it.
Is there something between
you and kayce's family
that I should know about?
Just 40 years of personal history.
Duttons are born with
dysfunction in their blood.
Kayce's my brother, so
You want him out of
here, you do it yourself.
You weren't kidding about
your whole life being kill or be killed.
Look, we threw you into the fire today,
so there's no shame if
you need to stand down.
Told Kane I'd see it through.
Got it.
Tiva has a tracker.
It's pinging in glacier park.
Okay, Andrea, you're
gonna quarterback from here
just in case anything pops off locally.
The rest of you On me.
Target's at least a few
hundred miles away.
How we gonna close the gap?
Not on horseback.
Might not want to high port that rifle
with our rotor above us.
Okay.
Back on the crazy train.
Only law enforcement
near the trail keepers
is one of kilborn's game
wardens, 30 miles away.
How did Decker know to
grab Kane's family three days
before the secretary's
trip was made public?
The trail keepers got inside information
from someone. Good catch.
All right, dig into who had
advance word of the secretary's trip.
Cross-reference everyone
with Decker and the trail keepers.
It's quiet.
Maybe they bailed.
Tracker's still pinging on the inside.
Should we do a call out?
No, we got the element of surprise.
Slow is smooth and
smooth is fast. Let's go.
Found a link to Decker.
His army commanding officer
is the fish, game and
parks director, Owen kilborn.
I just told him the target we're hitting.
- One, this is knife.
- Take cover!
Abort. Say again, abort.
Lucy and tiva don't got time for this.
Getting shot up out here.
I'm gonna go right, draw 'em out.
Okay, move, move!
I'm moving on target.
Kayce, we're gonna make
entry in three seconds.
Clear.
Got your strike plate.
You're good. You're good.
No sign of the girl.
Probably using the girl as a shield.
Hey, hey, listen. We're
U.S. marshals, okay?
We're here to help you.
Here's the tracker.
They lured us in.
My-my baby, they took her.
Do you know where they're headed?
No.
They-they can't have gone far.
Please.
Where are they taking the girl?
Detailed op like this has an exfil plan.
- What is it?
- I don't know.
I have a lot more ways of hurting you
than you have of resisting me.
Cracker lake.
Kilborn and the other
guy are taking her there.
Hey, marshal badge
means we got to fight clean.
You can fight clean.
I'll fight to win.
- Come on, kid!
- Leave me alone.
No, no!
Hey!
Okay, let her go, kilborn.
Drop it! Or she's dead.
- Just take it easy.
- Drop it!
Hey, let's talk this over.
You've stopped nothing.
It's okay, all right? You're okay now.
You're okay.
Come on. You're okay. Come on.
Is that some sort of native healing balm?
I'm rather particular about
what I put on my body.
Passed down from the elders.
My grandmother used it on
me, her grandmother on her.
Vaseline.
Hey, glad you came home
with a full headcount today.
You kept your promise to Kane.
My word's about all I have left.
More than kilborn can say.
Morally bankrupt traitor.
Though not financially.
I discovered he had $250,000
wired to him from an offshore account.
Bombing was a mercenary job.
Would've been an easy payday
if Kane had died in the blast.
Let's take the win, y'all.
My modern day posse
came up big today.
Does it get easier?
What's that?
The killing.
I was kicked out of the
corps before I was deployed.
No.
'Cause it's the one thing
in life you can't undo.
Want a drink?
Come on, drink.
- Show us what you got.
- Isabel turek,
right? Family bred cutting horses.
Appreciate that's what
you remember them from.
Look, team knows me as Skinner.
I'd like to keep it that way.
Sure.
Yeah, family secrets are an old pastime.
- That's on you.
- Excuse me,
I need to go stick a cork in these two.
You realize this is the antidote.
- For what?
- All the violence we've endured
and inflicted.
But helping others, finding new purpose,
being a part of the pack again, that's
That's how you wash
the stains of war away.
Some stains are permanent.
We owe it to the people that we lost
to make our lives mean something, so
But what we did today mattered.
Hey. Hey, hey, hey.
Here I was, assuming
my issues went away
with the dutton ranch.
I sense that extends to east camp.
You know, I was choosing
the best path for my family.
No matter where I go, I end up
on the wrong side of the fence.
Well, if you don't like the path you're on,
you have the power to change course.
Did a lot of good with the marshals.
And gave the Kane family piya wiconi.
Piya wiconi?
New beginning.
They are possible.
It was nice to kill for
someone rather than
Something.
Duttons are all born
with the killer instinct.
But you're not a killer, kayce.
You're a protector.
All the wolves out there,
we need sheepdogs
more than ever, kayce.
Where you going?
Got to get the herd out.
Herd can wait.
Come sit.
Sorry for disobeying you at the rally.
Don't you ever apologize for
standing up for your mother.
I'm the one who should apologize.
I fought so hard to get out
from under the weight
of the yellow stone,
and here I am, forcing you to live
like my family's lived for a hundred years.
But everything changed when mom died.
Yeah.
The only thing more
cruel than losing a parent
is losing the wrong one.
The only reason I'm
gripping this place so tight
is 'cause it's the only thing
I have to offer you, son.
But what if I'm not sure I want it?
What's so funny?
Your grandfather, he
warned me about this.
He said one day you'd test me.
Force me to make a decision
that not only affects your future,
but my place in it.
I want you to forge your own path.
East camp is your
home, it's not your destiny.
You won't hate me for that?
I've lost my teammates, my parents,
my brothers, and even my
wife and I'm still standing.
But ending up on the wrong side of you?
That'd be the end of me, son.
I miss you, baby.
Miss my wife My best friend.
My only friend.
Been so lost.
The best part of me died with you.
You always told me to
fight for the life I want.
But I had the life I
wanted. It was with you.
I'm changing paths.
Gonna try to find a new
beginning for me and Tate.
I love you, baby.