1. Fire in the Hole

After some bad publicity involving a shooting, Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens' boss transfers Raylan from Miami to Lexington, Kentucky. Under Chief Deputy Art Mullen, an old friend from the academy, Raylan takes on the case of the murder of a young white supremacist who is linked to a church bombing. The chief suspect is Boyd Crowder, a childhood friend of Raylan's. In order to catch him, Raylan returns to his hometown of Harlan. Boyd gives Raylan an ultimatum: leave Harlan within twenty-four hours or be killed. After a tense confrontation at an old acquaintance's house, Raylan gets the drop on Boyd and shoots him in the chest, though he survives and is hospitalized.

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Complete story — includes the ending

Deputy U.S. marshal Raylan Givens is removed from his post in Miami and reassigned to Lexington after killing cartel associate Tommy Bucks when he pulls a gun. Chief deputy marshal and his former FLETC associate Art Mullen asks him to go to his home county of Harlan to look into white supremacist Boyd Crowder, who Raylan worked in a coal mine with when they were young. Boyd's brother Bowman is killed by his abused wife Ava, and Raylan protects her from Boyd's man Dewey Crowe. Boyd holds her hostage, forcing her to call Raylan for help. As they face off, Ava pulls a gun on Boyd and Raylan shoots him while he is distracted. He visits his court reporter ex-wife Winona Hawkins and wonders if he would've shot Bucks no matter what, remarking that he never thought of himself as angry. She claims he is "the angriest man I've ever known."

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