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WHILE THE LATEST massive hit series from CBS, Marshals —the most-watched new TV series of 2026 so far—is technically a spin-off of the ever-expanding Yellowstone universe, it’s a crime procedural at its core. We follow Dutton son Kayce as he joins the U.S. Marshals of Montana, and are quickly thrown into a high-octane action environment, complete with explosions and shootouts and all. However thrilling it might be, the escalating body count and questionable ethics of Special Deputy U.S. Marshal Kayce Dutton ( Luke Grimes ) begs the question: What does a U.S. Marshal do, exactly?

To answer our nagging questions and fact-check some oddities in Marshals , we went straight to the source: retired Chief Deputy U.S. Marshal Larry Homenick, 77, who had an illustrious career in the Marshals Service—the country’s oldest federal law enforcement agency.…