Who died in Marshals? Every death so far, from a Yellowstone character killed off-screen to the season 2 premiere crash
Marshals has only been on the air for eight months, and its body count starts before the first scene.
Marshals premiered on CBS on March 1, 2026, as the first sequel series to Yellowstone. Luke Grimes's Kayce Dutton joins a team of U.S. Marshals in Montana with Pete "Cal" Calvin (Logan Marshall-Green), Belle Skinner (Arielle Kebbel), Andrea Cruz (Ash Santos) and Miles Kittle (Tatanka Means), while raising his son Tate (Brecken Merrill) on East Camp. The showrunner is Spencer Hudnut. Season 2 premiered on October 4, 2026, and has aired five episodes. Spoilers for all of them follow.
Before episode one: Monica Dutton
The Yellowstone character in the headline is Monica (Kelsey Asbille), Kayce's wife. She was with him from the first episode of Yellowstone to its last, and Marshals opens with her already gone. She died of cancer in the year between the two shows, and the premiere links her illness to toxins on the Broken Rock reservation. Episode 1 ends with Kayce at her grave on East Camp.
Hudnut told Parade that killing Monica "was a decision that wasn't really in my hands." He pointed to the community's "very high cancer rate" and added:
"We didn't want to exploit this loss in a way that felt too cheap."
For a lot of Yellowstone fans, an off-screen death was exactly that.
Season 1 deaths
Season 1 is a procedural, so most weeks end with a fugitive, mercenary or gunman down. These are the deaths that matter to the story.
- Helen, the helicopter pilot (episode 4) — Tom Weaver's (Chris Mulkey) helicopter goes down in the Montana wilderness, and the pilot is killed in the crash. At the crash site, Kayce and Cal run into a fugitive bomb-maker named Rudy Carpenter (Braxton Hale), who gets away.
- Roner (episode 11) — Killed in Afghanistan years before the show starts. A flashback reveals the truth: Garrett mistakenly reported him dead, which led Cal to give the fallback order that left him behind.
- Neil Lamb (episode 11) — A fugitive trapped in a blizzard with Kayce and Cal. Cal falls through lake ice, then kills Neil when he tries to run.
- Garrett "Double G" Garvey (episode 11) — Kayce and Cal's old SEAL teammate, played by country singer Riley Green, who had started seeing Andrea. He survives the barn fire at East Camp with second-degree burns and smoke inhalation and seems to be recovering. Then the team comes back to an empty hospital bed. "The strain of it all was too much on his heart," they're told.
- Cody Raynor (episode 12) — A fugitive murdered in custody.
- Sabrina (episode 12) — Miles's childhood friend, dead of a fentanyl overdose. Miles goes rogue, and Kayce has to stop him from killing a suspect.
- Nathan Irons (episode 13) — A Broken Rock council member found dead against his vehicle. It's staged as suicide, but there's no gunpowder on his hands, and he has defensive wounds.
The finale ends in an attack on East Camp. A tribal officer is shot at the gate, a ranch hand is killed inside, and Cal counts "10 men down outside." Kayce kills two of the attackers and Mo kills one in a knife fight. One more breaks through Tate's bedroom door, and Tate kills him.
Season 2 spends a good part of its run dealing with what that night did to a kid.
Season 2 deaths so far
The season 1 finale ends with Tom Weaver kidnapping Tate to force Kayce to give up East Camp. The premiere, "All Hat No Cattle," picks up right there.
- Dolly Weaver (episode 1) — Tom's daughter (Ellyn Jameson), who had become the closest thing Kayce had to a new romance. In the final standoff, she sides with Kayce. Kayce signs East Camp over, but Tom still tries to escape with Dolly in the car, loses control and rolls it down a mountainside. Tom survives and Dolly doesn't. Kayce has the chance to kill him and passes: "Living with Dolly's death is the punishment you deserve." Later in the episode, Andrea gets one more thing out of Tom: "His ranch hands started the barn fire." That's the fire that killed Garrett.
- Wayne Plummer (episode 2) — An ex-SWAT officer hunting police. The episode opens with a sniper killing at Butte Reservoir, and a police officer dies in an attack on the coroner's office. Cal and Belle kill Wayne after his son surrenders.
- Jacob Green (episode 3) — Found dead during the investigation into a military drone shot down over Broken Rock. The evidence first points to the Nash brothers, and the truth is messier than the military's version.
- Rudy Carpenter (episode 4) — The bomb-maker from season 1, now one of the Marshals' top 15 fugitives. When Kayce and Andrea close in, he triggers a remote detonator and blows up the building. The cliffhanger leaves both Marshals in the blast. Episode 5 confirms they survived and he didn't.
- Derek McCoy (episode 5) — Carpenter's bigger bomb was already on the move. The Marshals shoot McCoy before he can set it off in Helena.
Tom Weaver ends the premiere in custody and alive. Two of the people closest to Kayce are not, and Weaver is behind both deaths. The next episode, "Roughstock," airs November 15.
For the record: Rudy Carpenter's first scene, back in season 1, was at the wreck of Tom Weaver's helicopter, the crash that killed its pilot. Weaver survived that one too.
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