Big Sky

Jensen will appear as a regular in the third season of the ABC drama "Big Sky". Jensen will play Beau Arlen, described as “a confident and charming good ol’ boy from Texas", who will act as temporary Sheriff while Sheriff Tubb recuperates from being shot. Jensen first appeared in the Season 2 finale which aired on Thursday May 19. Big Sky is based on the Highway series of books by C.J. Box and created for TV by David E Kelley who has created many successful TV shows including Chicago Hope, Ally McBeal, Boston Legal and Big Little Lies. Set in Montana, the series follows Jenny Hoyt (Katheryn Winnick), an ex-cop struggling with staying sober, who occasionally works for the private detective agency run by her ex-husband Cody Hoyt (Ryan Phillipe) and Cassie Dewell (Kylie Bunbury). The first season follows the disappearances of young women in the area, while in the second season the main focus is a cartel running drugs and guns in the area.

The Story So Far

Season 1

Cassie Dewell and Cody Hoyt run a private detective agency together in Helena, Montana. Cody's estranged wife, ex-cop Jenny Hoyt, occasionally does work for them. As the season starts Jenny finds out that Cassie and Hoyt have been fucking. Although the women fight - like bar brawl fight - Jenny really blames Cody for telling Cassie the marriage was over. Then Cody and Jenny fuck. So we get the picture that Jenny and Cassie are friends, and Cody is a bit of a dick. That night Jenny and Cody's teenaged son Justin calls to say that his girlfriend Danielle and younger sister Grace have gone missing, kicking off the main story for the first season.
Cody heads out to the area where the girls were last seen to investigate where state trooper Rick Legarski tells him that several other young women have disappeared. Cody speculates that a long haul trucker may be involved. At this point Rick shoots him, because a long haul trucker called Ronald Pergman is indeed involved, and is working for Rick who is involved in trafficking kidnapped girls. When Cody seemingly vanishes, Cassie and Cody team up to find him, as well as the missing girls.
Ronald is holding Danielle and Grace captive in a shipping container, along with a trans woman called Jerrie. Together they try various ways to manipulate and overpower Ronald, and each escape has you on the edge of your seat with the tension! In the process the three women form a close bond. Eventually Rick turns up to move them
Jenny and Cassie become increasingly suspicious of Rick, and eventually track his SUV to the property where the girls are being held. When they turn up with Sheriff Tubband find Rick there, he accuses them of stalking. Jenny takes the blame and is arrested. When Rick moves the women to a truck stop, Cassie tracks them down. Following a confrontation with Rick, she shoots him and saves the women! They also eventually find Cody's body which Rick buried in his truck. Unfortunately, Ronald escapes.
Three months later Jenny has joined Cassie at the agency, where Jerrie is working as the receptionist. They continue to try and hunt down Ronald and we occasionally get glimpses of what he is up to. A Deputy U.S. Marshal Mark Lindor arrives in town, who is also searching for Ronald. Jenny gets a call from a guy - Blake Kleinsasser - she used to date. He's in jail is for assault and it looks like he's been framed by the rest of his powerful and very dysfunctional family. Turns out they roofied Blake and Rosie the woman he is accused of assaulting. Plus have done other very dodgy things in the past, allowing the dumping of toxic waste on their land and killing people. They've been paying off the local cops, which Jenny starts to suspect. When a woman working at the police station visits Jenny to talk to her, a truck crashes into the motel room nearly killing them.
Meanwhile, Ronald is living with a woman called Scarlet and her daughter Phoebe. However, her sister starts to suspect Ronald's true identity and he kills her. Eventually, Marshall Mark with help from Jerrie catches and arrests Ronald but no before he can tell Scarlet to make a call, and find a hard drive he has hidden. Scarlet seems remarkably ok with him being a murdering psycho.
The Season finale sees Jenny and Cassie confronting both the terrible Kleinsasser clan and the corrupt cops, and the bodies getting arrested. While transporting Ronald, they are intercepted by masked gunman who rescue Ronald. While protecting Cassie, Jenny is shot!

Season 2

The Season picks up with Cassie and Jerrie still trying to find Ronald. Jenny tells Sheriff Tubbs she wants to be a cop again and he hands her a badge, underlining the poor hiring practices of law enforcement. Drugs and money have been stolen from local drug syndicate and when the drivers of the truck are shot by (more) corrupt cops (#defundthepolice) and the truck crashes, four teens take off with the drugs and money. Havoc ensures as the teens fight amongst themselves, and the cartel try to find who robbed them. Cartel members kidnap a local waitress whose boyfriend was involved in the initial theft. Oh and she also happens to be a babysitter for Cassie's son Kai. Jenny is investigating the crash when she hooks up with an old boyfriend who is working undercover with a local drug ring. So everyone has got stakes in this now! Oh and don;t worry about Cassie not getting any action - she and Marshall Mark gotta thing going on! Around this time Jerri goes to visit her sick mother aka filming Queer as Folk.
Meanwhile, totally believably Ronald and Scarlet have been taken prisoner by Rick Legarski's twin brother Wolf who wants to reform Ronald, with the help of some negative reinforcement therapy aka an electroshock collar. Jerri had tracked down Wolf, and so Mark pays him a visit. He is suspicious of Wolf but finds no evidence of Ronald and Scarlet. With Scarlet's help Ronald escapes and rescues Phoebe Dewell & Hoyt after hours, where he runs into Cassie’s father Joseph fixing the radiator and murders him.

Jenny's son Justin - he of the kidnapped girlfriend - has gone to college and is never mentioned again. He find out Cassie also has a son,

Season 3

Jensen will appear as a regular in the third season of the ABC drama "Big Sky". Jensen will play Beau Arlen, described as “a confident and charming good ol’ boy from Texas", who will act as temporary Sheriff while Sheriff Tubb recuperates from being shot. Jensen first appeared in the Season 2 finale which aired on Thursday May 19.

On 8 July 2022, Jensen started filming Season Three. This photo was posted by co-star Dedee Pfeiffer who played Kate Milligan - mother of Adam Milligan - the Winchesters' half-brother.

• Trailer for Season 3 featuring Jensen as Sheriff Beau Arlen which premieres on Wednesday Sept 21 on ABC, and will stream on Hulu.
• Sneak peek at the Premiere of Season 3].

• Updates from the Television Critics Association's (TCA) panel on 14 September 2022.
  • from TVGuide
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