FX’s acclaimed six-season modern Western Justified may have been a showcase for the laconic charm, easygoing charisma and action hero credentials of leading man Timothy Olyphant’s U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, but Walton Goggins’ Boyd Crowder was just as integral to the sprawling story.

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It’s gone down in television folklore that the infamous Kentucky outlaw was originally only supposed to be killed off in the pilot, but the actor ended up sticking around for the duration. The scenes between Olyphant and Goggins could always be relied on to generate sparks, and their chemistry was rightly regarded as one of Justified‘s strongest suits.

With that in mind, it’s completely understandable that fans have been demanding the criminal with the sh*t-eating grin return alongside his opposite number in the recently-announced limited series City Primeval, as you can see from the reactions below.

Whah?! Walton Goggins’d better be in.

— Still K.E.V. (@TheSenileAnimal) January 14, 2022

My head was like "Jeez, I hope they also got Walton Goggins" before I realised why they probably haven't 😅

— Matt West (@acdiploMatt) January 14, 2022

Seeing lots of stuff about a new "Justified" series. If it ain't got Walton Goggins, it ain't "Justified".

— Robert K Trobich (@RKTlaw) January 14, 2022

As long as Walton Goggins is back too then that’ll be perfect!!!👏👏

— KattsMeow(Kat Black) (@KattsMeow1) January 14, 2022

if there’s no walton goggins, we strike

— . (@MarisaKabas) January 14, 2022

I don't care how they do it, they've got to get Walton Goggins' character written into this. More dialogue between those two, please.

— Nick Hytrek (@SCJNickH) January 14, 2022

NEWS: Justified is coming back, and Raylan's in Detroit now
ME: *imagines a five-minute Walton Goggins monologue about the peculiarities of Detroit-style pizza*

— Derek InDesign (@TheOtherJeff) January 14, 2022

I’m demanding that Walton Goggins be included in this cast.

— Susan Cooper 💙🌊💙🇺🇸💙 (@BuzzEdition) January 14, 2022

The last time we saw Boyd, he was still very much alive, although he was in prison for the litany of crimes he’d committed across the years. Raylan even lied to him that Joelle Carter’s Ava had died in a car crash three years earlier to protect her safety, so there’s definitely plenty of meaty narrative ground left to cover.

Even if Goggins doesn’t return as a series regular, Justified: City Primeval would definitely be missing a trick if it didn’t at least rope him in for a cameo appearance of some description.