The BEST episodes of Justified
Every episode of Justified ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Justified!
At the explosive center of the action, Western-style, gun-slinging U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens confronts murder, drugs, bank heists, mobsters, crime families, corrupt politicians and even his own tumultuous past and never backs down. His ultimate adversary is the cunning, complex outlaw Boyd Crowder, but the real wild card is Ava Crowder, the mysterious woman torn between the two men and both sides of the law.
#1 - The Promise
Season 6 - Episode 13 - Aired 4/14/2015
Raylan, Boyd, and Ava fight one last, bloody battle to find out who leaves Harlan alive.
#2 - Bloody Harlan
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 5/4/2011
The Crowder and the Bennett clans go to war over control of Harlan, a move that leaves dead and dying on both sides.
#3 - Slaughterhouse
Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 4/10/2012
After the murder of his friend, Raylan is a man on fire as he goes after any- and everyone he holds responsible on the way to a bloody final showdown.
#4 - Bulletville
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 6/8/2010
In the season finale, things come to a head in Harlan when the worlds of Raylan, Boyd and Bo Crowder collide.
#5 - Decoy
Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 3/19/2013
Boyd and the gang from Detroit Mob use dirty tricks to keep Raylan and Drew Thompson alive.
#6 - Restitution
Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 4/8/2014
Raylan has one last shot at taking down Art's would-be assassin, while cartel killers have Boyd's back against the wall.
#7 - Ghosts
Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 4/2/2013
Raylan has a last, lethal showdown with the Detroit mob, while Boyd and Ava try to keep an incriminating secret dead and buried.
#8 - The Gunfighter
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/17/2012
The arrival of a Detroit mobster in Lexington puts Raylan on a collision course with a sadistic Dixie Mafia hit man. Raylan also has another altercation with Boyd.
#9 - The Toll
Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 3/25/2014
A shooting close to home forces Raylan and Boyd to decide which lines they're willing to cross.
#10 - Collateral
Season 6 - Episode 12 - Aired 4/7/2015
Raylan and Boyd’s paths cross as they search for Ava in the mountains. Markham recruits an unlikely ally to his cause.
#11 - Harlan Roulette
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/31/2012
Raylan faces off with a tyrannical Oxy dealer, putting him on a collision course with the new head of the Dixie Mafia. Meanwhile, Boyd fights to regain part of his family's empire, but his methods could rip his crew apart.
#12 - Coalition
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 4/3/2012
While Raylan closes in on an ever-more-unpredictable Quarles, Boyd enters into an unlikely alliance with Dickie Bennett in a last-ditch attempt to recover Mags's fortune.
#13 - Kin
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/5/2013
The search for Drew Thompson leads Raylan into the remote wilds of Kentucky hill country with unexpected and dangerous results.
#14 - Starvation
Season 5 - Episode 12 - Aired 4/1/2014
Raylan puts pressure on every criminal in town as a ploy to arrest Darryl Crowe Jr., while Boyd and Duffy enlist an unlikely ally to fight off cartel killers.
#15 - Guy Walks into a Bar
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/20/2012
Raylan struggles to keep Dickie Bennett in prison while contending with an increasingly violent and unpredictable Quarles.
#16 - Wrong Roads
Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/11/2014
Raylan partners with a maverick DEA agent whose bad behavior feels uncomfortably familiar, while Boyd makes a hard choice to protect Ava.
#17 - Shot All to Hell
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/4/2014
Raylan's secrets are at stake when a mob revenge plot descends upon Kentucky, and Boyd's recent successes are tempered by a crushing defeat.
#18 - Fugitive Number One
Season 6 - Episode 11 - Aired 3/31/2015
Raylan and the Marshals scramble to deal with a crisis that threatens all of their careers. Duffy, Mike, and Katherine question the meaning of loyalty.
#19 - Outlaw
Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/26/2013
Bodies start dropping and no one is safe as the search for Drew Thompson enters its home stretch.
#20 - Brother's Keeper
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 4/6/2011
Just as the bad blood between the Bennetts and the coal company threatens to boil over, Raylan must thwart one of Mags' sons.
#21 - Get Drew
Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/12/2013
Drew Thompson slips through the fingers of Raylan, Boyd, and the Detroit mob, and sets off a breakneck race to find him.
#22 - A Murder of Crowes
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/7/2014
In the swamplands of Florida, Raylan tangles with a deadly branch of the Crowe Family Tree, while Boyd goes into the dark heart of the collapsing Detroit Mob.
#23 - Raw Deal
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/25/2014
Boyd and the Crowes fly South for a crucial drug score, while Raylan pursues a small time grifter with big time enemies.
#24 - Cut Ties
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/24/2012
The murder of a fellow marshal throws Raylan together with a former female colleague, and Art leaves the office to track down another angle of the case. Meanwhile, Boyd engineers a showdown with Dickie Bennett, despite Raylan's effort to prevent it.
#25 - Reckoning
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 4/27/2011
A deadly home invasion hits Raylan personally, placing him in a race with Boyd and Arlo to find the killer. Mags is forced to make decisions about her involvement in the Bennett family's criminal activities and the fate of Dickie, who has a deadly plan to absolve himself of responsibility.