Justified plot
The modern cowboy Raylan Givens has a clumsy tendency to shoot the criminals he hunts remarkably often. After yet another fatal incident, he is much annoyed in the first episode sent back to his hometown of Harlan, a shabby mining town in the southern state of Kentucky. There, in collaboration with the other US Marshals (a division of the US Federal Police), he must solve cases that all too often bring him into contact with his own past. His main rival is Boyd Crowder, with whom he used to be good friends, but who has made radically different life choices and now leads a small drug ring.