After the revelation about Arlo at the end of last season, how does Raylan deal with that heading into this season?

That’s a good question. How does Raylan deal with it? Raylan’s not really dealing with it. You know, I think that Raylan does his best to try not to deal with those kind of things, that’s what makes him Raylan.

You’re an executive producer on Justified now. What does that actually mean to you and how involved are you in the plotting and the planning from season to season?

Well, first of all it means a great deal to me. I am very thankful for the opportunity and it’s made the job just thoroughly enjoyable and thoroughly challenging and it really has been a pleasure to be able to have permission to work with the writers and the directors in that capacity. How involved I am? You know, in my mind I’m doing everything and but in reality I’m doing very, very little.

The writers on this show are amazing and they sit down in front of a blank page and the fact that they come up with what they come up with week in and week out is quite some kind of miracle. And my job basically is to, you know, just keep poking at it and keep asking questions. I had the luxury of not having my name on the page and I think that gives me a certain amount of freedom just to, you know, shoot out ideas of any kind. And, I don’t know, I think because I’m not a writer it gives me a certain vantage point that sometimes can be helpful when I engage with the writers and collaborate with them in that way.