Sheriff Walt Joeberg

Walt Joeberg wears the badge in the oil-patch county where fortunes and bodies both turn up unannounced. He's the law that has to make sense of a boomtown's chaos — roughnecks, cartel money, corporate leverage — without illusions about who really runs things. Weathered, plainspoken, he does his job and expects trouble.

Mark Collie, a country musician by trade, brings an unforced Texas authenticity to the role that a trained actor might overplay. He underplays Joeberg's authority, letting the badge do less talking than the man, so the sheriff reads as someone who's genuinely from this world rather than visiting it for a season.