Marshals Season 2 reaches episode 13 on CBS on Sunday, May 24, bringing the Yellowstone spinoff’s first run to a close on broadcast television. The series follows Kayce Dutton, played by Luke Grimes, after he joins an elite unit of U.S. Marshals and brings range justice to Montana.
The finale matters because CBS is carrying the episode at the same time it continues to sit inside Paramount Plus, giving viewers more than one way to watch the closing hour. Paramount Plus Premium customers can stream it live through their local CBS station, while Paramount Plus Essential customers will have to wait until Monday to watch it on demand.
That split matters because the two tiers serve very different audiences. Essential is the ad-supported option and Premium is the ad-free plan, and a price increase in early 2026 pushed Essential to $9 per month or $90 per year and Premium to $14 per month or $140 per year. For viewers trying to catch the finale without cable, YouTube TV, Hulu Plus Live TV and the DirecTV MyNews skinny bundle also carry CBS.
Marshals was formerly known as Y: Marshals, and it has been positioned as part of the broader Yellowstone universe. Gil Birmingham appears as Thomas Rainwater, Mo Brings Plenty plays Mo and Brecken Merrill plays Tate, with Spencer Hudnut serving as showrunner and Taylor Sheridan among the executive producers. Paramount Plus also carries the Yellowstone spinoffs 1883 and 1923, along with the sequel Dutton Ranch.
The key tension is not in whether the episode will air — it will — but in how many viewers will see it live versus later, and which platform they will use to do it. For a series that began on CBS and lives across streaming tiers and live-TV bundles, the finale is also a reminder that the modern TV audience is now split across several gates, and the fastest one is not always the cheapest one.
For Marshals, Sunday’s episode 13 is the finish line for the current run, and the real story now is which version of the audience shows up first: the live CBS crowd, the Premium streamers or the on-demand viewers who wait until Monday.
