![]() When they meet criminals like them, they are forced to confront who they are, too. The conclusion is that both Raylan and Cruz are typical angry men who take out their rage at the criminals they chase. The idea of Raylan being the main character in a story that isn't even his is something that may feel weird for Justified fans, but his conversation with Raymond Cruz sheds some light on why it works. After finishing the story, Cruz states that he sleeps "just like a baby." One day, Freddy shows up at Cruz's house to have a drink, only to get shot as Cruz mistakes a bottle opener he had on his hand for a gun. He used to go after a criminal named Freddy Keck, who also had no rhyme or reason for most of his crimes, but kept provoking him to play a game of cat-and-mouse as if enjoying the whole thing. He helps her work out the case around Detroit and, although she's the one to make the arrest, he gets to bring Foley in after a true bloodbath that's just as funny as it is violent (which is typical Soderbergh).Īs the two lawmen talk, Cruz tells Raylan a story about a case he had that's similar to Raylan and Mansell. As she goes to Michigan after Foley, Sisco contacts a detective she knows in Detroit police, none other than Raymond Cruz himself - and played by Calderón, too. In Out of Sight, the plot wanders from California to Florida, until it eventually reaches Detroit, which is no accident. Marshal Karen Sisco, and the two keep running after each other until Foley attempts a last robbery that finally settles their score. The latter stars George Clooney as con man Jack Foley and Jennifer Lopez as U.S. Leonard has had plenty of his novels see their way to the movies, too, including Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown in 1997 and, more important here, Steven Soderbergh's Out of Sight in 1998. Justified is one of the best television series to come out in the 2010s, and it's known to also be one of the best works adapting an Elmore Leonard work, the novel Fire in the Hole. Eventually, the two of them agree on a duel to put an end to it, but even so, Mansell tries to shoot Cruz a few times even though they have agreed that it would all come down to their face-off. Mansell, on the other hand, never plays fair despite showing a certain respect for Cruz. Cruz is the lawman who has to play by the book even though he knows his adversary is evil and has eluded prison for a long time (in the novel, Mansell is never arrested as he is in the series). ![]() What's interesting about their beef is how diametrically opposed Cruz and Mansell really are, while being similar in terms of attitude and temper. In the novel, he finds his match in Cruz, and suddenly what starts as a murder investigation grows into an urban Western dispute between two angry men. The series does a great job of showing Mansell as an unhinged angry man, someone who enjoys killing and does bad things just because, and that's true for his novel counterpart, a sort of Joker-like character who thrives on chaos. While some of the lines and dialogue in the series are reproduced verbatim from the novel, Mansell and Cruz have a sort of special relationship. The premise is pretty much the same, with a few differences. Raymond Cruz is, in fact, the original protagonist of City Primeval: High Noon in Detroit, the Elmore Leonard novel that inspired the Justified revival. ![]()
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