Justified Revival's Perfect Villain Is A Missing Season 3 Character
The Justified revival presents the opportunity to revisit several characters, but the show’s perfect villain is a missing season 3 character. Based on the Elmore Leonard novella “Fire in the Hole”, the Emmy-winning crime drama ran from 2010-2015 on FX. Original star Timothy Olyphant is returning for a Justified limited series which will adapt another Leonard book, meaning the survival of a season 3 villain can finally be confirmed onscreen.
Olyphant stars as Raylan Givens, a trigger-happy US Marshal whose Wild West style of justice repeatedly lands him in trouble. Following the public shooting of a criminal in Miami, he is forced to relocate to his native Kentucky. Justified sees Raylan reunite with the many people he left behind while facing off against local gangsters and newcomers trying to muscle in on Kentucky's drugs operation.
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The Justified finale ended with Raylan escaping Kentucky and moving back to Florida to co-parent his young daughter. The limited series, titled Justified: City Primeval, will continue Raylan’s story several years later when a chance encounter sends him to Detroit. This provides the perfect return for Justified season 3’s main villain, Robert Quarles (Neal McDonough). According to Justified showrunner Graham Yost’s 2015 interview with Uproxx, Quarles is still alive, and an appearance in the revival could revisit his season 3 threat to kill Raylan.
It's unclear which characters will return for the Justified revival, although Raylan's ex-wife, Winona Hawkins (Natalie Zea), is a strong contender. It's tempting to have Boyd Crowder (Walton Goggins) make an appearance, but he remains in a Kentucky prison, while the revival’s main
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