Marshals (2026) s02e05 Episode Script

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Previously on Marshals
[Belle] Dark room, unknown threats.
Worried you might spook
like you did in that basement.
I'm solid.
Our fugitive is now an active
domestic terror threat.
[Nick] But after we gave him the
blasting caps he asked for, he went AWOL!
- What happened to "by the book"?
- We got answers.
- So, is anything missing?
- Eight barrels of ANFO.
That is enough ordnance
to take out a city block.
I will not have any bombs
going off on my watch.
[grunting]
Move!
ominous music ♪
[Belle, muffled] Andrea.
Kayce.
[Mo, muffled] Andrea.
- [Andrea coughing]
- [Belle] Andrea!
- [breathing heavily]
- Good? You hurt?
- Huh? I'm good.
- [Miles] Guys
[Kayce coughing]
[coughing]
- [clearly] Thank God.
- [exhales]
Rudy Carpenter's a pile of suck.
- Done in by his own work.
- [Belle] Ex-wife
wasn't kidding, he wouldn't go quietly.
The fact that any of us are alive
just means that that bomb was
not made with that stolen ANFO.
So where the hell is it?
Let's fan out and search.
Come on.
[Miles on comms] Van's clear. No bomb.
Lids to eight ANFO barrels.
Mm-hmm, but no ANFO.
[Kayce] We got something over here.
Fresh tire tracks.
Serious weight pressing down on 'em.
[Cal] Huh.
So they assembled the bomb here
and then they drove it off.
I doubt Carpenter would
leave a WMD on wheels
parked somewhere and
return to his workshop.
This wasn't the end of everything.
He must have a partner.
[Cal] Someone's driving
this bomb around right now,
and we got no idea what the target is.
soaring, dynamic music ♪
Yeah, well, race to stop
this would be a lot easier
if our only source of info
hadn't just offed himself.
Well, he chose his end, not us.
All the more reason we
should've held outside.
Since when do you not want
us to run into the fire?
Look, Carpenter almost punched
both y'all's tickets today, so
you need to waive off, I get it.
Anybody's got a right
to waive off, it's you.
You are a chaos magnet, cowboy.
Warned you to keep your distance.
[scoffs] That blast is a lot easier
than other things I've survived.
melancholy music -Like what?
[sighs]
The one you should be
worried about is Cal,
because if this bomb turns
into the next Oklahoma City,
he will blame himself for
the rest of his life.
[phone vibrates]
suspenseful music ♪
Hey, you guys okay?
He did?
Uh, no, I have no idea where
Braxton would've seen him.
If he comes back,
I will send an armed unit.
Okay.
Look, Harry, our techs are looking into
all of Carpenter's known associates, okay?
All right, the man may be dead,
but his legacy's gonna live on
with whatever bad intentions
he had for that bomb.
Been up two days straight on this, okay?
- We are on it.
- Ah.
Sure you got the stamina for this?
[Miles] Techs pulled a second set of
prints that were all over the ANFO lids.
Guy named Derek McCoy.
Some small-time priors,
but he was classmates with Paul Daniels.
Wait, the guy we were staking out
when East Camp came under attack?
Okay.
Yeah, he could've introduced
Carpenter and McCoy.
McCoy's home is in Radersburg,
up between Bozeman and Helena.
That's farm country.
With any luck, he took that truck bomb
up there and not somewhere populated.
Yeah. Hey, Belle, got a new target to hit,
okay? Come on.
Got to get right back out.
Got you.
Okay, Derek McCoy lives
with his extended family.
Five others, including a kid.
Got to keep our rounds tight.
So we're gonna move hard on that house,
catch the family off guard, y'all.
Keeping in mind McCoy's learned
explosives from a master.
No telling what surprises
he's got wired up.
Hopefully, with family on target, he's
less likely to self-detonate if cornered.
Bomb like this could
be a history changer.
Come on. No time to lose.
tense, dramatic music ♪
- [Kayce] U.S. Marshals.
- [woman in distance] Hey!
Who is that? What's going on?
- [Belle] Hands, hands, now!
- Get out of my house.
- Now!
- No, get out of my house.
- Mom, just listen to them.
- Don't think about moving.
[Kayce] Basement's clear.
Heading back up.
[Cal] Hands, hands! U.S. Marshals!
Where's Derek McCoy? Come here.
Hands, hands, hands, hands.
Derek where is he?
[grunts]
Johnny? Johnny?
Runner!
Moving to basement.
Hey.
[glass breaking]
Runner's coming out a basement window,
south side of the house.
[Kayce on comms] I got him.
[grunts]
I got the runner on the
other side of the compound.
Gonna bear down on him,
search some nearby structures.
[panting] Okay. Okay.
Looking for your brother
Derek. Seen him?
[both grunting]
[screams]
tense music ♪
Kayce, what's the status on the runner?
What happened down in the basement?
Oh, I got turned around.
Might've had my bell rung harder
by the blast than I thought.
Okay, look, we got Doreen,
we got Johnny,
Mike and Emma McCoy, and somehow,
not one of them knows about
Derek McCoy or what he's been up to.
This is typical government overreach.
[Doreen] Like when the
bank and the taxman
ripped all our acres from us.
Put my husband in the grave.
Came to the wrong house if
you're looking for bootlickers.
What about you, Johnny?
She speak for all of you?
[Belle] Emma?
Any idea where your
brother-in-law may be?
- No.
- [Miles] Rudy Carpenter.
Anyone familiar with that name?
- He's a damn hero.
- [Cal] Oh.
Yeah, killer of innocent people.
Mm-hmm. Yeah. Those boots
you'll lick, though, right?
[Andrea] I don't know. Maybe if we
get 'em in the box, might sweat 'em out.
They're never gonna talk
in front of each other.
There's a reason Kayce hasn't
brought his guy back here.
He knows how to get answers.
We are using carrots, not sticks.
[Doreen] You know, Derek did say
something last time we talked.
Told me to watch the six
o'clock news tonight.
[coughing]
foreboding music ♪
[panting]
- [man groans]
- Does anybody copy?
Hey, you alive?
My leg. You jacked it up.
[groans, pants]
Shouldn't have run.
Crew with guns storms your house,
what would you do?
Probably stick and fight for my family.
Which McCoy are you?
[grunts] Will.
What's Derek doing with
a truck full of ANFO?
Listen.
If you tell me where he is,
I'll fix up that leg.
I got no clue.
I'm Derek's punching bag, not his buddy.
You're like the black
sheep of the family?
My mom calls me the runt of the litter.
[pipe hissing]
Collapse cut a gas line.
You got to get us out. This is hell.
[electricity crackling]
- [Will groans]
- No.
Hell's gonna be when that gas
hits this severed power line.
[Emma] I mean, me and
Johnny barely talk to Derek.
I mean, we try to keep our distance,
for the sake of Mason, our-our son.
How old is Mason?
Ten.
He's at a friend's today.
Mm, that is a lot of people
living under one roof.
Tough crowd to marry into?
Yeah.
Met Johnny when we were kids.
Been stuck with these folks ever since.
Wow.
Well, probably think there's no way out.
- I know how that feels myself.
- [soft chuckle]
Start thinking about all the
choices I could have made.
You know. To not feel so trapped.
[chuckles softly]
Then I take one look
at my son, and I know
exactly why and how I
put up with all of it.
somber music ♪
If Derek succeeds,
Mason will spend the
rest of his days running
from the McCoy name.
I don't know anything.
I-I don't.
I swear.
That's some sad story you just told.
Well, you know, it's just
tactical improv.
Just trying to connect.
I've shared all my
damage with you lately.
You don't have to hide anything from me.
- [grunts]
- [boards creaking]
We're gonna have to work
together to get out of here.
[panting] There's no
chance I can even stand.
Yeah. It's the first
problem we're gonna solve.
[knife clicks]
[Will groans]
Figures I'm gonna die down here
for something Derek's done.
Bastard cost me my job last week.
How'd he do that?
I wrench in an auto shop.
He rolls up with this truck one week,
busts my ass into working on its
suspension all day for free,
so I didn't get any of my actual
work done. It got me canned.
What kind of truck was it?
I I don't remember.
[Will groans]
Well, comes to you, mother knows best.
Even if I wanted to, I can't help.
There's a better chance
with your leg set.
Wait
Aah! [groans]
How you feeling?
[sighs]
I got stonewalled by Johnny. [chuckles]
Yeah. Well
I meant your head.
Said you got rocked
pretty hard by that blast.
Yeah, I was still clearing the cobwebs.
Is a bomb the reason you
spooked in the basement
at the town house we looked at?
pensive music -I'm solid.
But the team won't be
if we don't get answers.
Focus up, Belle.
I know what it's like to have the
government mess with your livelihood,
but it doesn't justify
supporting mass murder.
You want your family to survive this?
Start talking.
[chuckles]
I keep telling you.
I got nothing to say.
Chief.
[both grunting]
Hey!
Hey. I gave you a direct
order not to be physical.
- He came at me.
- Mm-hmm.
This is literally the
ticking time bomb scenario
that warrants enhanced interrogation.
You run roughshod over
this family, Miles,
and we are gonna be facing a far
worse punishment than desk duty.
You got it? Now get him off the deck.
Get him up.
[Mike grunting]
You good?
Yeah. What do you got?
Well, I started digging into the family,
and I found a link between
Johnny and the bomb plot:
his job.
He's a dispatcher at
Springland Trucking?
The one outfit licensed to deliver ANFO
to suppliers in the area,
including the lot
where Carpenter heisted his supply.
Wait, so Johnny could've tipped
off his brother and Carpenter
to the chance to steal it?
Enough to hang Johnny
if that bomb goes off.
Let's hit him with it.
Let's get him.
- [muffled thumping]
- Wait, wait.
Wait. You hear that?
Somebody's in the basement.
suspenseful music ♪
[muffled thump]
So this kid has been hiding
down there this whole time?
- What else did we miss? Hmm?
- Clearance was by the book.
Guess that doesn't always
get the best results.
Look, Mason came home from his friend's,
saw us outside,
went and crawled through
the window in the basement
- to his secret hideout.
- [Cal] Okay, well,
given Johnny's link to this ANFO theft,
he's our most likely accomplice.
Johnny's a brick wall.
- He will not cop to that.
- [Belle] Well,
kids see and hear more than we think.
dramatic music ♪
Let me talk to him.
- [Will coughing]
- [electricity crackling]
[Kayce] This beam right here.
If we both push, we can make a gap.
[winded] I can't.
Well, it's no wonder your
brothers pushed you around.
You got no fight in you.
Yeah, it's the way it's always been.
Look, man, I'm not dying
down here with you.
You're gonna get up or I'm
gonna break the other leg.
[coughing] I can't.
[pants, groans]
You remind me of my middle brother.
Never quite fit in, was always
on the bad end of a beatdown.
My sister made his life hell.
Picked on by his sister?
I'm not that pathetic.
She'd eat you for lunch.
Meaner than any of your brothers,
guaranteed.
Yeah, well, how'd your brother survive?
Fighting wasn't in his nature.
So he had to be smarter, more cunning.
And, uh, eventually, he broke from
the family, forged his own path.
Point is, it's never too late to
start standing up for yourself.
[grunts loudly]
Hey, Coyo. Radio check, over.
What the hell are you doing?
[Belle] You are a very brave boy, Mason.
I know how scary it can be having
strangers lurk around your home.
You know, my son
he actually has a tent in his bedroom
where he can go when
he needs to feel safe.
I go down to the basement
when I don't like it up here.
See, Mason,
I actually wish I could go
down to the basement, too.
Because someone is
trying to do something
very bad right now.
suspenseful music ♪
So I was wondering
have you noticed anything
different lately with your family?
You know, like, um, people arguing?
Maybe keeping some secrets,
maybe planning something?
You sure?
'Cause you know, it's like that time.
Remember when Squidward
tried to destroy SpongeBob?
[laughs]
Remember?
Mason.
I feel like there's something
you want to tell me.
I'm not supposed to.
Says who?
My Uncle Derek.
Said it could cause a lot of pain.
Okay.
Hey, buddy.
You and I
we need to be really brave right now.
I need you to tell the truth
so I can help make sure no one's hurt.
Uncle Derek said he's going away,
but there's something I needed to know.
He told me he's my dad.
This baby daddy secret
makes Emma our weak link.
So who's gonna play our ace against her?
Belle made a connection earlier.
Felt real.
Andrea's our best interrogator.
She should do it.
Why the hesitation, Dre?
I've been off my game today.
Look, y'all, Emma might be our
last shot at answers here.
Okay? So we need to
fire our best bullet.
She got blasted off her feet a few
hours ago, and she's still standing.
Okay?
- You got this.
- pensive music ♪
[Cal] Go get 'em.
Oh, sorry.
I hate these things.
I know how uncomfortable they can be.
Thanks.
Emma, I don't have a lot of time,
so I'll just shoot straight, okay?
I know about you and Derek.
Know what?
That Derek is Mason's father.
Derek's telling people that,
he's a liar.
I would be mad, too, if I were you,
but imagine how pissed Johnny
would be if he heard that talk.
Derek's a scumbag.
It's why Johnny and I keep our distance.
Maybe you do, but Johnny doesn't.
He helped his brother with this bomb.
Used his job to hook Derek up
with the drums of explosive
he is driving around now.
Uh, Johnny wouldn't do that.
I need you to get Johnny
to tell us where Derek is.
If he can do that,
we can cut him a deal,
maybe keep your family
from getting torn apart.
Y-You're-you're wrong. About all of it.
There's nothing else to tell you.
[boards creaking]
Come on. [grunts]
Got to clear this path.
[grunting, panting]
Okay.
Hell yeah. [panting]
[coughs]
intriguing music ♪
[Will coughs]
All right, come on.
[grunting]
- Thanks.
- Yeah.
- Hey.
- Hey.
That, uh
that truck you worked on for Derek
what's the make and model?
I told you, I don't remember.
Come on, man, I
I'm forging my own path,
just like your brother.
One thing I forgot to
tell you about my brother.
He let the wrong people
determine his fate.
You still have a chance
to determine yours.
If this bomb goes off,
you and your husband will be accessory
to mass murder, Mason loses his dad,
Johnny loses thinking he has a son.
Oh, you're sick.
I am. From keeping a
secret like you are.
Concealing it from the people I care about,
lying, withholding.
I'm not strong enough to share my truth,
but I can tell Johnny yours.
No, please don't
mournful music ♪
I would do anything to prevent that.
I know you would.
And Derek knows that too. Doesn't he?
He used Mason as leverage against you.
Isn't that it?
[scoffs quietly]
Johnny's gonna hate getting
his world turned upside down.
Hey, stop.
Derek tortured me with the
mistake I made with him.
And he blackmailed you to do what?
I was the one who gave
Derek the ANFO information.
He made me log into
Johnny's dispatch account.
What else did Derek
tell you about his plot?
Johnny's a good father.
I tell you,
he and Mason can stay together?
Of course.
- [door opens]
- [Will groans]
[Kayce] Easy. Easy.
The hell you been, Coyo?
Hey, why have you not been
rogering up on comms, man?
[Kayce] A pit stop. Radio's busted.
Derek's driving a white GMC box truck.
I don't want to know how you
got that information, okay?
Just put him with the
rest of the family,
I'll get the word out.
Come on, talk to me.
Emma says Derek wants to "take out the
bastards that took their family's land."
Who's that?
Morris Bank & Trust in
Helena foreclosed on 'em.
That's 50 miles away,
and we are running out of time.
Yeah, I'll keep you posted, Governor.
- Thank you.
- tense, dramatic music ♪
The sheriff has taken over
the scene at the McCoys.
Your marshals are en route to Helena.
All right, did you get the
BOLO on the vehicle out?
A white GMC box truck
most popular on the road.
Ah, well, at least we know the target.
Local and state police
are combing the area.
Bank's been notified.
They're evacuating the building.
[sirens wailing]
You vanish for an hour and return
with intel and a busted-up suspect.
Told you what happened.
You fell down a damn hole
in a collapsing barn?
I mean, some-something like that
could only happen to you, Coyo.
[indistinct chatter]
Hey, Coyo, Dre, I want you to
get in that parking structure,
search it. We're gonna
canvass the perimeter.
North.
Hey, get 'em back, to the side, please.
[Cal on comms] Roadside perimeter set.
[Andrea] We got something down here.
Copy that.
What are you doing?
Can't really hide from
a 2,000-pound bomb.
No sign of the driver?
Could have a trigger or a timer.
- [Andrea] Possible triggerman.
- Take him.
- [Andrea] Drop the phone.
- Whoa!
[grunts[
It's not our truck.
It's a dry hole down here.
Yeah, we got no luck on our end, either.
This building's been evacuated.
Get out of here.
Area's crawling with unis,
- and nobody's seen anything.
- Yeah, this is the bank
that took the McCoy's farm.
It's got to be the target.
People coming after
your land's personal.
Targeting a building doesn't
feel personal.
[Andrea] We need to find where the
bankers who foreclosed evacuated to.
Give me a sec.
[Miles] Feels like we're
just throwing darts here.
Think the McCoys are hunting
the bankers themselves?
Someone comes after someone's
home and livelihood,
people want to put a face to justice.
Y'all, bankers who
foreclosed on these McCoys
they are, right now, at a banquet for
leading regional lenders at Wexler Hotel.
A hotel full of predatory lenders?
Prime target for McCoy.
But that's a mile from here.
Yeah. We're in the wrong place. Come on.
- [honking]
- propulsive music ♪
You sure it's smart
splitting the team like this?
Taking separate routes ups our odds
of spotting McCoy's truck.
Hey, Kayce, keep moving
parallel with us.
Copy. Not much moving in this traffic.
[Andrea] Yeah, hotel's being evacuated,
but it's gonna take some time.
No way everyone can get out of
the blast radius for a bomb this size.
[Belle] Three o'clock.
White box truck.
Okay, we've got a possible
target vehicle here, but I can't
can't get an angle on the driver.
It's-it's just past the
building y'all are next to.
- There, I've got it.
- We can't see the driver either
but everything fits. What's the play?
We got to stop the truck
without him realizing it.
Yeah.
What if he stays stuck in traffic?
If the lights stay red
we can cover a
maneuver team from here.
Yeah, call the compound, okay? Tell 'em
to have traffic control turn off the
lights right here at this intersection.
Hey, Coyo, you move out on foot,
you think you can get to
him without being spotted?
'Cause look, look, if he makes you,
okay, he's gonna clack off,
blow up this entire city block.
He's only got side mirrors,
can't see directly behind his vehicle.
Yeah, if he stays put, we can
get there by being in his blind spot.
They're on it.
Okay, send it.
And, hey, y'all,
whoever takes the shot at McCoy,
it's one shot for the rest
of all our lives, okay?
Let's move.
[Cal] We got McCoy boxed in.
Keep moving.
Take the wheel.
Okay. I'll get his attention,
you move in hard.
Miles.
As soon as I move,
you swing wide, cover Andrea.
Check. Ready on you.
Move.
Show me your hands. Hands!
Get out, McCoy.
Don't do it. Hey.
[woman screams]
Target secure.
Let's get a bomb disposal unit ASAP.
thoughtful music ♪
No telling how many
Montanans you saved today.
[chuckles softly] Easy day.
I know
I've been riding you pretty hard.
But you handled your business, Cal.
Just like you will when
it comes to this cancer.
So are you picking Andrea or my guy
to run the team in my absence?
[chuckles softly]
This is your team.
Makes it your call.
- [Miles] Get that, get it!
- [Belle] I can't.
Hey, got an announcement, y'all.
Ooh!
So, uh,
when I go on leave for this surgery,
Gifford wants me to assign
a temporary team leader.
And, uh
Dre, you're gonna take the conn.
What? I, um
Have to start calling you boss.
And she needs to work on her "y'alls."
Follow you to hell, girl.
[quietly] Just as long
as there's no basements.
Got some big shoes to fill.
Hey.
She can handle this job, right?
Yeah.
Yeah,
you got time to coach her up.
Hey.
She'll be fine.
[footsteps approaching]
[man chuckles]
Trying to prove to me you can find me
as easy as I find you?
Not impressed.
You spooked my kid.
That makes Britt fair game.
[sharp inhale]
Yeah.
I know about your daughter.
I hit her with a
parole violation
she goes away
for a very long time.
I'll get you the money when I have it.
Until then, family
is off-limits.
["Dark Horse" by Vincent
Neil Emerson playing]
Way you're nursing that makes
me think today wasn't an easy day.
[chuckles]
Well, my daughter spouting SEAL lingo
certainly makes it a little bit better.
News said bomb plot
was foiled in Helena.
Guess I've always been that way ♪
Sounds like a victory.
Yeah.
Wins come with asterisks when
it was my own damn
fault to begin with.
She went like the devil and
gave all she had to give ♪
That why he's over there?
It was a long day. Hey.
Tell me about your day.
- [laughs] Oh.
- Come on.
Gonna need to make it
exciting to keep you awake.
I mean, that wouldn't hurt. Please.
Well, our supplier raised prices
on our cocktail napkins.
- Stop it.
- [stifled laugh]
- Whitebear.
- How are you?
[grunts softly] Great.
Thank you.
I still don't know how you got Rainwater
on board for the pot grow.
"On board" is a stretch.
He only gave his approval,
no financial support.
But, you know, new jobs, new income stream,
do a lot of good for our people.
I'd love to get your support.
Support?
As a marshal, I'm not sure I
can go sell gummies for you.
- [chuckles softly]
- Besides,
won't do me any good putting
thorns in Rainwater's side.
Or what?
Stops using you as a prop
for his political career?
You deserve the truth,
not platitudes from a chairman
who takes your loyalty,
gives nothing back.
Flat broke down in Fort Worth ♪
Maybe staying inside the lines does
slow down progress a bit. But
I'm still not sure
what help I can give you.
I sang my tune for the people ♪
You could introduce
everyone to a candidate
with bold new ideas
for the rez's future.
You're gonna run against
Rainwater for chairman?
It's time for a change, Miles.
And an endorsement from the man
who brought our missing girls home,
who foiled the cartel on our land,
carries a lot of weight.
[sighs]
[footsteps approaching]
[knocking]
Hey.
I'm sorry to just show up.
Well, it's not the worst
ambush I've encountered.
Come on in.
- [door closes]
- You nearly got killed
cleaning up my mess after
I let Will get away.
It's part of the job I signed up for.
I have been chasing
down fugitives with you
because it's it's
better than not sleeping,
because sleep, when it happens
mournful music ♪
it's much worse.
You having nightmares?
Sometimes when I'm awake, too.
That's why I froze in
that basement today.
Ghosts from the job?
The stuff with the Cleggs
got its claws in me deeper than I knew.
[breathing sharply] It's gotten
so bad that I've turned to just
looking into my dad's murder
as a way to put my mind at ease.
Mm.
Been so worried about the
battle Cal's fighting,
I missed you're fighting your own.
I've been trying like hell to hide it,
even from myself, but I can't.
And now you're taking
over when Cal steps back.
Worried?
I'm hoping it helps.
Quiet is the enemy.
Well, you came to the
right place for chaos.
If you're not gonna sleep tonight,
can I make you some tea or something?
Sure.
Thank you.
You want chamomile or apple spice?
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