Season 2
Episode: Bloody Harlan
Quote: "Doyle, I need you and your boys to put your guns down." The Bennetts are a force to be reckoned with throughout season 2 and give Raylan plenty of hassle along the way. He tried to protect Loretta, a young girl taken in by the matriarch of the Bennett clan Mags but ends up getting strung up to a tree and beaten for his troubles. After escaping this predicament he takes one of Mags' sons Dickie as a hostage to try and get to Loretta before it's too late. Here we see the outright bravery of the man as Raylan faces down all of the Bennett's hired guns to save a little girl he hardly knows. He acts calmly in the face of almost certain death and if not for the fortuitous timing and arrival of the Marshall Service that would have indeed been the outcome. Season 2 has many moments worthy of sharing and some great performances, most notably Margo Martindale who is exquisitely chilling as Mags Bennet. This sequence is the one that stays with me though for the sheer audacity of Raylan's plan, there was no way he could have know he was going to walk out of there with his life, but he had made a promise to Loretta and he is a man of his word.