Tanner Dodd

Tanner Dodd is an antagonist of Season Three of the TV show Justified. He is an associate of Robert Quarles who acts as a talent scout, recriuting criminals who are underutilized in their gangs. He was portrayed by Brendan McCarthy.

Biography
Dodd is first seen in "The Devil You Know", in which he is seen talking to Devil, a criminal working for Boyd Crowder who Dodd is attempting to recriut. He introduces Devil to Quarles and then departs, leaving Quarles to explain Dodd's role as a talent scout.

In the episode "Thick As Mud", Boyd and several associates track Dodd to a bar after discovering that Devil is working for Quarles, suspecting that Dodd recruited him. In order to make sure, Boyd calls the last number dialled on Devil's phone, and Dodd's phone rings, exposing him. Boyd tells Tanner that he killed Devil and to relay the information to Quarles, before having his cousin Johnny beat up Dodd as he leaves.

In "When The Guns Come Out", Dodd and another henchman go round to a clinic owned by Quarles to kill Doc Stern, a doctor selling oxycontin for Quarles who has started working for Boyd. They shoot and kill Rip Bell, an associate keeping guard, before entering the surgery, where they find Stern being seduced by Dodd's girlfriend Trixie. Dodd kills both of them and has the henchman take the oxy and leave. Soon after, US marshal Raylan Givens attempts to pull over the mobile oxy clinic where Dodd has set up shop. He manages to stop them, and informs Dodd that there was an eyewitness to the killings, who was hiding under a table when Dodd killed Stern. The driver then speeds away on Dodd's orders, with Raylan still inside. Raylan attacks Dodd, and during the struggle, Dodd's gun goes off and fatally shoots the driver, allowing Raylan to throw Dodd out, injuring him.

In "The Man Behind The Curtain", Dodd shows up at local crime boss Ellstin Limehouse's base, showing that he is in fact working for his deputy Errol Butler, who ordered the massacre, which Quarles in fact was not responsible for. As Errol ordered the massacre without Limehouse's permission, he has Dodd held down and threatens him with a power spray if he reveals he ordered it. Just then, Limehouse enters and orders Errol to release him. He then has Dodd go back to Quarles and tell him that he committed the massacre to get back at Boyd so that he won't kill him.

After returning to Quarles in "Watching The Detectives", Dodd uses this explanation, which convinces Quarles to let him live. He is later seen helping Tillman Napier fake an assassination attempt by Boyd via car bomb. After this succeeds, Dodd attempts to collect payment from Napier, who refuses on the grounds that Dodd blew the car up too soon and could have killed him, even though he's okay.

In his final appearance in "Loose Ends", Dodd and Errol go to Lemuel Becket's house in order to get him to return the money that Dodd payed him for the explosives to make up for Napier not paying him. While holding Becket at gunpoint, Dodd is tricked into stepping on a land mine, which Becket informs him will detonate if there is any change in wait such as Dodd stepping off, forcing him to stand there rather than be blown up. Becket then reveals that he knows how to disarm the mine, but Errol, uncaring about whether or not Dodd survives, shoots Becket dead and reveals his real purpose is to prevent Limehouse from being implicated. As Dodd can implicate him, Butler leaves him trapped on the mine.