Riley Green’s run on Marshals ended in the May 10 episode, when Garrett died after a fire at Kayce Dutton’s ranch left him with burns and smoke inhalation. The 11th episode of Season 1 also made one thing plain to viewers of the Kayce Dutton-led spinoff: no character is safe.
By the time the nurse gave Kayce, Cal and Andrea the news, Garrett had been in the hospital recovering for hours, but the injuries were too severe to overcome. She said he died a couple of hours after Kayce last saw him, closing out Green’s four-episode arc on the series.
That leaves only two episodes in Season 1 after the May 10 installment, with the show already renewed for Season 2. Production on the next season is set to begin in May, and the new run could reach viewers as soon as this fall. For a show that has kept its central world moving fast, the timing matters: the finale stretch is now paired with the promise of another season arriving soon after.
Green’s exit was not a surprise to the people around the production. Ash Santos said he joked about staying on longer, but the schedule made that unlikely. “He joked, he was like, ‘Damn, I was really hoping I’d stick around longer,’ and we were like, ‘With your schedule? You’re always at some concert,’” Santos said. Green had already said that filming while on tour wore him out, and he has described booking two flights a week to Utah so he could keep up with both the show and his music career.
His Marshals arc was always meant to be brief, but it landed at a moment when the series was still trying to define its stakes. Garrett’s death did more than clear the way for the final two episodes of Season 1. It told the audience that the spinoff is willing to cut loose a character even after introducing him as someone worth following, and it did so just as the show heads into another production cycle in May.
For Green, the role added to a growing stretch of television work that has run alongside his country career. He is also part of the conversation around country music’s broader spotlight, including attention tied to Riley Green and Ella Langley ahead of the ACM Awards, and his recent TV profile has included a voice coach announcement for Season 30. But on Marshals, the story turned on something simpler and harsher: Garrett was only ever there for a limited run, and the show made sure the audience felt the loss when it ended.
With two episodes left in Season 1 and filming on Season 2 starting in May, the question for the series is no longer whether it will come back. It will. The bigger test is whether it can keep its edge after proving, in plain view, that even a short arc can end in the hospital hallway with a death notice and a room full of stunned characters.
