Marshals Trailer Shows Kayce Dutton’s Action-Packed Return In Yellowstone Spinoff

Luke Grimes is back in action in the first trailer for the new harrowing Yellowstone instalments, Y: Marshals. The upcoming series, created by Taylor Sheridan, David C. Glasser and Spencer Hudnut, picks up sometime after the events of the mainline show’s series finale, in which Grimes’ Kayce Dutton finds himself pondering what his purpose should be beyond the ranch.

This leads Kayce to join the US Marshals, mixing his skills as a ranch cowboy with those of being a Navy SEAL veteran to deal with various law enforcement issues across the state. Alongside Grimes, the Y: Marshals cast includes new and returning faces from the Yellowstone franchise, including Logan Marshall-Green, Arielle Kebbel, Ash Santos, Tatanka Means, Brecken Merrill as Tate, Gil Birmingham as Thomas Rainwater and Mo Brings Plenty as Mo.

With just over three months remaining until its March 1 premiere, CBS has released the official Y: Marshals trailer. The video offers a bigger tease of Kayce’s action-packed return as he meets his new team of US Marshal cohorts, as well as dealing with violent tension on the reservation, shootouts with gangs and the first looks at Brecken Merrill’s return as Kayce’s son, Tate, and Gil Birmingham’s return as Thomas Rainwater. Check out the trailer below:

Beyond just a push for more consistent action set pieces in comparison to its companion series, one of the main things the Y: Marshals trailer finally gives a better look at is just how it will carry on from the Yellowstone final series. For starters, the Broken Rock Indian Reservation looks to remain a key player in the spinoff’s storywith Kayce seen helping to manage some kind of conflict between reservation members and other ranchers.

This is further supported by the fact that Rainwater is set to be a series regular star across Y: Marshals‘ debut season. While it could be argued that Kayce’s continued living on the East Ranch makes it so the two will inadvertently interact, it would be sensible for Rainwater to come to Kayce more often in the hopes of working to keep the peace between the Reservation and those around themespecially now that they hold the biggest piece of land in the state.

One thing the trailer doesn’t make clear, however, is whether Kelsey Asbille’s Monica will be back for Y: Marshals. Considering Kayce looks to be in a somewhat distraught mental space near the start of the trailer, and Tate’s brief appearance is one of angry glaring, there is the possibility that the two have separated since the Yellowstone final. Considering how well-liked both the character and the relationship between her and Kayce was in the original series, it seems unlikely that the spinoff will explain her absence as stemming from Monica’s death.

Y: Marshals premieres on CBS on March 1.