'Marshals' Finale Cliffhanger Fates Revealed; Season 2 Filming
Arielle Kebbel with Logan Marshall-Green in the finale of 'Marshals.'
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[This story contains major spoilers from the season one finale of Marshals, “Wolves at the Door.”]
The first season of Marshals ended with a literal bang that left the life of two characters hanging in the balance, while also placing star Kayce Dutton (Luke Grimes) and his son Tate (Brecken Merrill) in harm’s way heading into the already renewed second season of the Yellowstone spinoff.
Two members of Kayce’s elite marshals unit — Cal, played by Logan Marshall-Green, and Belle, played by Arielle Kebbel — are ambushed by gunmen working for the Weaver family in the final moments of the season one finale, titled “Wolves at the Door.” The surprise betrayal unveils rancher patriarch Tom Weaver (Chris Mulkey) as the mastermind behind the attacks on Broken Rock chairman Rainwater (Gil Birmingham) and introduces Weaver as a season two villain in a land dispute that the Dutton son isn’t even aware of yet. As Cal and Belle are being shot at, Kayce, who just turned down Tom’s offer to buy his East Camp ranch, is riding off into the sunset with his new love interest, Weaver’s daughter Dolly (Ellyn Jameson), and Kayce’s son Tate is heading off with Tom — neither aware of the threat lurking ahead.
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Marshall-Green and Kebbel spoke with The Hollywood Reporter as they begin filming season two to reveal that yes, they are each part of the forthcoming season. But even though Cal and Belle survive that cliffhanger ambush, that doesn’t mean anyone is out of harm’s way yet on Marshals. The drama brings forth showrunner Spencer Hudnut’s plan to create a multi-season hit series post-Yellowstone. Read our chat, combined from two separate interviews, below.
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Logan, can you confirm if Cal is alive after that finale?
LOGAN MARSHALL-GREEN I can confirm he is alive, but not necessarily unscathed. I think I can confirm that for everybody in the damn show, because everybody’s going through it by the end of this thing. I’m hours away of shooting [season two, episode one]. I can tell you that we’re all going through things — without giving anything away.
Same question for Belle — Arielle, can you confirm that she is also alive after that finale attack?
ARIELLE KEBBEL I am a part of season two, yes. We start filming [season two] with a pick up of that [finale] moment. My head is so deep into season two already.
Logan, when you signed onto the show, did you know Cal’s arc from the start, or were you getting episodes by episodes as you were shooting?
MARSHALL-GREEN I was getting the inner workings of scenes episode by episode, but I knew from the jump a lot of what Cal knew, and what Kayce knew, as you now know after the last episode. I also knew what none of the team knew, which is that I was in Montana not to be a marshal, but to be closer to my estranged daughter. I also knew something that nobody knew, which is that this pain in my neck that you see me playing throughout, which feels muscular, is a very rare form of cancer. And it’s prevalent in soldiers who have been around burn pits. Where we go with that story next is yet to be seen.
You didn’t know that a season two was confirmed when you filmed this cliffhanger ending. So when you each read the finale script, how did you react and what questions did you have for your showrunner, Spencer Hudnut, about if you survive?
KEBBEL After reading that big cliffhanger, I should have asked myself if Belle survives! But the truth is that I’m so used to Belle being in precarious situations almost every episode. And even though both Belle and Cal are there, it felt in that moment that, because Cal is in front, he’s the one in more in danger. I’m behind him, based on where we ended the episode. So when I read it, my head went to, “What’s going to happen to Cal?”
MARSHALL-GREEN “Are we going to have a season two? Are we going to finish this fucking story?” (Laughs.) Because the ball has certainly been placed on the tee. And we’re gonna smack the shit out of it in this first episode of season two.
KEBBEL We pick up immediately in season two where we left off, especially with the Weaver ranch and the looming ci