This may come as a major shock to anyone who has been following the Yellowstone Universe post-Taylor Sheridan‘s Season 5 swan song, but Marshals is bringing back a fan-favorite character for its second season who will likely help rope in a larger audience. No, Kevin Costner isn’t returning for John Dutton flashbacks — but wouldn’t that be wild? Rather, Jefferson White is slated to return to the easternmost portion of the former Yellowstone Dutton Ranch as Jimmy Hurdstrom. Talk about an unanticipated twist!
Jimmy Hurdstrom Is Joining Forces With Kayce Dutton Once Again on ‘Marshals’
At this point, we know very little about how Jimmy will factor into Marshals‘ upcoming second season. All we’ve seen thus far is that he’s back in his cowboy garb — though not his 6666 uniform — and under the clear, blue Big Sky. Since it’s likely that Kayce Dutton (Luke Grimes) will wind up heading down to Texas to save his son after Tom Weaver’s (Chris Mulkey) villainous betrayal, perhaps he’ll enlist the help of Jimmy, still sporting that “Y” brand, in retrieving his son, Tate (Brecken Merrill). After all, once someone is branded with that famed Yellowstone “Y,” they’re bound to come to the aid of the Duttons whenever they call. When we last left Jimmy, he was still working at the Four Sixes down south alongside his wife, Emily (Kathryn Kelly). Whether he’ll travel north for a short tenure or a long-term move has yet to be seen, but considering the sweet deal he made for him down in Texas, we can only hope for the former.
Collider Exclusive · Taylor Sheridan Universe Quiz Which Taylor Sheridan Show Do You Belong In? Yellowstone · Landman · Tulsa King · Mayor of Kingstown
Four worlds. All of them brutal, complicated, and built on power, loyalty, and the price of survival. Taylor Sheridan doesn’t write heroes — he writes people who do what they have to do and live with the cost. Ten questions will reveal which one of his worlds you were made for.
🤠Yellowstone
🛢️Landman
👑Tulsa King
⚖️Mayor of Kingstown
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Where does your power come from? In Sheridan’s world, everyone has leverage. The question is what kind.
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Who do you put first, no matter what? Loyalty in Sheridan’s universe is always absolute — and always costly.
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Someone crosses a line. How do you respond? Every Sheridan protagonist has a line. What matters is what happens after it’s crossed.
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Where do you feel most in your element? Sheridan’s worlds are as much about place as they are about people.
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How do you feel about operating in the grey? Nobody in a Sheridan show has clean hands. The question is how they carry the dirt.
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What are you actually fighting to hold onto? Every Sheridan character is fighting a war. The real question is what they’re defending.
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How do you lead? Authority in Sheridan’s world is never given — it’s established, maintained, and constantly tested.
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Someone new arrives and tries to change how things work. Your reaction? Every Sheridan show has an outsider disrupting an established order. Sometimes that outsider is you.
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What has your position cost you? Nobody gets to where these characters are without paying for it. The bill is always personal.
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When it’s over, what do you want people to say? Sheridan’s characters all know the ending is coming. The question is what they leave behind.
Sheridan Has Spoken You Belong In…
The show that claimed the most of your answers is the world you were built for. If two tied, both are shown — you’re complicated enough to straddle two Sheridan universes.
🤠 Yellowstone
🛢️ Landman
👑 Tulsa King
⚖️ Mayor of Kingstown
You are a Dutton — or you might as well be. You understand that some things are worth protecting at any cost, and that the modern world’s indifference to history, to land, to legacy, is not something you’re willing to accept quietly. You lead from the front, you carry your family’s weight without complaint, and when someone threatens what’s yours, you don’t escalate — you finish it. You’re not cruel. But you are absolute. In Yellowstone’s world, that combination of ferocity and loyalty doesn’t make you a villain. It makes you the only thing standing between everything that matters and everyone who wants to take it.
You thrive in the chaos of high-stakes negotiation, where the money is enormous, the margins are thin, and the wrong word in the wrong room can cost everyone everything. You’re a fixer — the person called when a situation is already on fire and needs someone with the nerve to walk into it. West Texas oil country rewards exactly what you are: sharp, adaptable, unsentimental, and absolutely clear-eyed about what people want and what they’ll do to get it. You’re not naive enough to think this world is fair. You’re smart enough to be the one deciding who it’s fair to.
You are a Dwight Manfredi — someone who has served their time, paid their dues, and arrived somewhere unexpected with nothing but their reputation and their wits. You adapt without losing yourself. You build loyalty through respect rather than fear, though you’re not above reminding people that the two aren’t mutually exclusive. Tulsa King is for people who are still standing when everyone assumed they’d be finished — who find, in an unfamiliar place, that they’re more capable than the world gave them credit for. You don’t need a throne. You build one, wherever you happen to land.
You carry the weight of a system that is broken by design, and you do it anyway — because someone has to, and because you’re the only one positioned to do it without the whole thing collapsing. Mike McLusky’s world is for people who are comfortable operating where there are no good options, only less catastrophic ones. You speak every language: law enforcement, criminal, political, human. That fluency makes you invaluable and it makes you a target. You’ve made your peace with both. Mayor of Kingstown belongs to people who understand that keeping the peace is not the same as being at peace — and who do the job regardless.
It seems as if Marshals aims to further pull in Yellowstone fans for Season 2 after the first season received some criticism for its lack of continuity with the original program. Despite characters like Thomas Rainwater (Gil Birmingham) and Mo (Mo Brings Plenty) returning for the CBS procedural, they were rarely given much to do on-screen, despite so much of Kayce’s time being spent on Broken Rock. While Dutton Ranch has managed to largely maintain the same high quality as Sheridan’s previous entry (without the breathtaking Montana setting), Marshals has struggled to live up to its potential. While Grimes hasn’t been able to confirm that Beth (Kelly Reilly) will make an appearance, Jimmy is perhaps the next best Lone Star-sized thing, even if it does come as a little bit of a shock.
‘Marshals’ Has Swooped In To Nab Jimmy After Some Devastating Franchise News
Of course, this news also comes off the heels of the relatively recent news that 6666 — the proposed Texas-based Yellowstone spin-off that was theorized to have followed Jimmy after migrating down south — is no longer going forward. According to Taylor Sheridan himself, it would have been too invasive for a series to film on the actual, historic Four Sixes Ranch (which he owns), and would force him to generate so much artificial drama that it wouldn’t be worth it. For the Yellowstone co-creator, Jimmy’s Season 4 arc down in Texas — which bled into Season 5 as well — is enough of a spotlight on the Four Sixes. That said, we can understand why 6666 didn’t go through, and why Jimmy’s return will bring him back to Montana.
All this said, we can only hope that Jimmy’s stint on Marshals — be it short or long-term — won’t undo any of his character development from the previous series. The reaction to Monica’s (Kelsey Asbille) untimely, off-screen death prior to the events of Marshals didn’t sit well with Yellowstone fans satisfied by her happy ending with Kayce and Tate in the series finale “Life Is a Promise.” Naturally, nobody wants Jimmy to be a widower or to be let go from the sweet piece of cowboy heaven he’s carved for himself on the Four Sixes. However it plays out, we can only hope that Marshals will keep in mind the past before riding into the future.
