Here, she’s an attorney, taking a break from the law while being pregnant with their third child. In the Box mysteries, Marybeth is a librarian who often does research to help in Joe’s investigations. When Pickett starts digging into what Ote knew, Vern and others will stop at nothing, even threatening Marybeth and the girls. But those who don’t understand Pickett tend to underestimate him.

Vern thinks he has everyone who might kill the deal under control, including Pickett. He convinces a wealthy and ruthless local family, the Scarletts, to buy up plots of land in eastern Wyoming, the next logical place for the pipeline. Vern learns that an oil pipeline has little chance to succeed since its path would go through sacred native lands. Thinking Pickett would be easy to control, Vern recommended him for the game warden position. Mustafa Speaks as Nate Romanowski and Michael Dorman as Joe Pickett Flashbacks to Pickett’s childhood are often hard to watch but provide a window into how his sense of right and wrong, along with fighting for the powerless, whether human or animal, came out of his early experiences. Pickett is no stranger to violence having grown up with a father who took out his rage on his wife and two sons.

He’s been shot with a poisoned arrow and Nate Romanowski (Mustafa Speaks), a survivalist who raises hawks and hunts with a bow, becomes the prime suspect. The situation becomes even more dire when that hunter, Ote Keeley (Benjamin Hollingsworth), winds up dead on top of a wood pile on Pickett’s property. But before all the boxes are unpacked, Joe finds himself mired in controversy when he attempts to ticket a hunter for an illegal kill and ends up having his gun taken away and turned on him. Pickett and Marybeth, along with their daughters, Sheridan and Lucy, arrive in Saddlestring, taking up residence in the modest cabin provided to the county’s game warden by the U.S. Julianna Guill as Marybeth and Michael Dorman as Joe Pickett

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