A director from the Yellowstone spinoff Marshals is defending the show's decision not to explain Monica's shocking offscreen death. "This is why it didn't strike me as a pilot. There was no exposition about Monica's death in the pilot," Greg Yaitanes, who directed the series premiere, recently told Collider about the introduction to the CBS show. The plan was to not get into detail about what happened to Monica (Kelsey Asbille). "It was exactly what it would be like a year or two after the death of the character," he continued. "You would be talking about the circumstances around it vs.