Raylan tangles with a ruthless Harlan County crime family while hunting for a fugitive sex offender.

play is based on the 2001 novel written by Elmore, Leonard, " Fire In The Hole, adaptation, about the U.S. federal marshals Raylan the Givens ( Timothy Olyphant play ) using traditional methods to solve the story of modern cases . " Justified " have a certain religious meaning , in theology, means " God freed from the punishment connected with the heinous crimes " . Raylan is a strong sense of cowboy police, always wearing a Stetson hat , wearing a pair of cowboy boots , ass leather holster stuck a spare pistol . Less than a last resort , when he will not use the pistol - because as soon as he pulled out the gun to the opponent must be bleeding . He believes that this is the role of the pistol : either do not use on one hit kill . Raylan was born in rural Kentucky and grew up in the town of Harlan . There, he spent the green era . Play, chasing girls , coal mining , which once was his whole life . A nine years old, he decided to become a Federal Police , so decided to leave home . A few years later , he got his wish . While he was prepared on the occasion of the grand plans , but because a hotel in Miami shooting of armed bandits " accident " stricken boss dissatisfaction . As his punishment , the boss will be transferred back to his vow never to go back home - of Kentucky . Nick to Searcy in the play Kentucky, Lexington Federal Police Deputy Sheriff Art Mullen, ; Jacob Pitts, play Raylan colleagues Tim Gutterson ; played by Erica Tazel Raylan 's colleague Rachel Brooks . Tracking fugitives, witness protection , transportation of prisoners is their " basic work" . Raylan had to return home to face that he did not want to see : friends with coal mining Boyd, Crowder, ( Walton Goggins ) , now is the bank robbery of a wanted criminal ; crush on his high school cheerleader Ava Crowder, ( Joelle Carter) , Boyd's sister ; his ex-wife , Winona, (Natalie Zea ) . The Raylan most reluctant to the views of his man to the crime for a living father , Arlo ( Raymond Barry) .