‘Justified’ season 6 teaser previews Timothy Olyphant, Walton Goggins showdown

FX’s Justified will return for a sixth and final season in January, and the additions of Sam Elliott and Garret Dillahunt to the cast as villains will give Timothy Olyphant’s Raylan Givens a hard time, the new teaser features his showdown against Boyd Crowder, played by Walton Goggins.

Entertainment Weekly released the FX clip, titled “Hat Trick” and showcases the tension between these two characters and the article summarizes where season five left off.

“Raylan was ready to leave Harlan (alive) until he decided to do one final thing—set Ava (Joelle Carter) up to rat on Boyd, presumably to help Vasquez (Rick Gomez) and Rachel (Erica Tazel) get to Boyd’s new business partner, Katherine Hale (Mary Steenburgen). The hat trick also insinuates that it’s been fun and games between Raylan and Boyd until now, even if said games involve Boyd taking a bullet from Raylan and not just his Stetson. In the final season, their standoff is serious.”

The EW article reflects on the fact that Boyd was only supposed to last one episode.

“I took a bullet to the heart, and I was done. We filmed the pilot in maybe May, and they had their edit, and [FX Networks CEO] John Landgraf and [exec producer] Graham Yost were showing it around, and they looked at it, and they thought, ‘Well, I don’t know, man. I don’t know if we can kill this guy.’ Partly because of the chemistry—I just so enjoy working with Tim, and I think he feels the same about me. But the other part is what having Boyd there does for Raylan,” Goggins said.

He then points to Elmore Leonard bringing the character back in the 2012 novel Raylan.

“I get to give that book to my son someday, and say, ‘He brought Boyd Crowder back because of the show and because he liked him,’ and that means more to me than pretty much any compliment you could give me.”