FX’s critically acclaimed dramatic series Justified will be coming to a close with the upcoming sixth and final season set to air in early 2015, and the network’s just announced Garret Dillahunt and Sam Elliott have signed on for recurring roles in the show’s last season. Timothy Olyphant returns as Deputy US Marshal Raylan Givens, along with Walton Goggins as Boyd Crowder, Nick Searcy as Chief Deputy Art Mullen, and Jacob Pitt as Deputy Marshal Tim Gutterson.
Erica Tazel is back as Deputy Marshal Rachel Brooks, Joelle Carter is Ava Crowder, and Jere Burns returns as Wynn Duffy.
According to FX, Sam Elliott will be playing Markham. Markham’s described as “a legendary Kentucky gangster who returns from exile with a private army and bags of cash (earned growing legal weed in Colorado), hell-bent on winning back his empire and the lost love of his life, Katherine Hale (Mary Steenburgen). He’ll find himself butting heads with Raylan and Boyd and even with Katherine herself, who secretly believes that Markham is the rat who brought down her husband.”
Dillahunt will play a character named Walker. Walker is a “spec ops veteran who’s spent much of the last decade deployed in combat zones, first as a soldier and most recently as a private contractor. He now handles security for a quasi-legal businessman, a job to which he brings all of the skills (as well as the demons) he acquired during his military career. Walker hides his simmering rage behind an exterior of cold professionalism — until the combined irritants of Raylan and Boyd wear away his veneer and bring the monster to the surface.”
