Content Warning: The latest Marshals episode deals with sensitive topics like trafficking. Reader discretion is advised.
Yellowstone spin-off, Marshals, aired its fifth episode, “Lost Girls”, this Sunday. It was a relevant entry as the episode dealt with a trafficking storyline. The hit spin-off has managed to draw in viewers to its slotted time on CBS despite its rather divisive Rotten Tomatoes score. The latest episode was about Kayce tracking a trafficking victim.
Actor Mo Brings Plenty, who plays Mo in the spin-off, addressed this episode’s storyline when he was interviewed by ScreenRant’s interviewer and editor Grant Hermanns. Speaking about his experience while filming this episode, Plenty said:
“For me, knowing and experiencing it firsthand, especially with the murder of my nephew and the lack of a proper investigation into his murder and it being ruled out as no foul play is so absurd to me. It almost brings a distrust to law enforcement, which I try not to have. I’m always trying to believe in the judicial system, but it seems to fail me so many times, but I still try to keep a positive outlook. In filming those particular scenes, I always try to keep my emotions pushed to the back, and I never let my emotions get into the way of doing a performance or staying on track and telling a story because, again, I’ve dealt with it firsthand many times, and so have a lot of families. I try to keep everyone in mind. That’s the number one thing that I always try to do, but it’s needed. It’s definitely needed. We need to get the story out there and do it in a way that is digestible, because it is overwhelming, and I don’t want the audience to be overwhelmed. I want them to be educated, but not overwhelmed. Spencer and Mark [Semos] and the rest of the writing crew has done an amazing job in keeping it digestible.”
Marshals’ Mo Brings had his share of loss:
Marshals actor, Mo Brings Plenty’s 27-year-old nephew, Cole Brings Plenty, was declared dead in April 2024. A few days before Cole’s passing, he was named a suspect in a domestic violence case. But the police did not find any foul play, which disappointed his family. Mo Brings Plenty addressed his displeasure in a The Hollywood Reporter interview last Sunday.
When asked, Mo Brings Plenty wanted to pay tributes to his nephew, the Marshals actor said:
“Absolutely. He was our future. He knew our ceremonies. I was teaching him more and more, so was my brother, his father. He was my nephew, but he was like a son to me. And for his murder to go uninvestigated, and for it to be written off as “no foul play,” because they didn’t want to invest anything into it? It’s heartbreaking. Because we’re taxpaying people as well. So for them to not work for us, no different than how they work for anyone else is, is pretty sad. I hope that we continue on to talk about that in our storylines — that there are a lot of families such as mine that are going through this right now, and we still have a lot of unanswered questions. Because I saw his body, I saw the evidence that is there that someone caught him. So for them to say that there was nothing, I can’t believe that. I still can’t.”
As of now, five episodes of Marshals are available on the online CBS portal.
Edited by Ravikumar N