- Raylan tries to make sure that Dickie Bennett isn't released from prison, while Boyd works to fix the election and get rid of sheriff Napier and Robert Quarles for good.
- Raylan struggles to keep Dickie Bennett in prison while contending with an increasingly violent and unpredictable Quarles.—FX Publicity
- Deputy Sheriffs Nick Mooney (William Gregory Lee) and Ethan Bishop (Potsch Boyd) stealthily approach Shelby's truck in the middle of the night and are in the process of planting a large plastic jar of pills under the front seat when Shelby emerges from his house with a shotgun. Shelby tells the deputies to remove the package and leave. They try to impress the man with the fact that he's holding officers of the law at gunpoint, and that things could go badly for him. He said he admires their loyalty to Sheriff Napier and hopes that they will treat him as kindly when he wins the election for Sheriff -- not that he'd ask such a task. "Everybody knows you're in Boyd Crowder's pocket," retorts Mooney. Shelby then explains that he is dying of cancer and only wants to make something of his life before his time on Earth is done. The two Deputies buy into the notion that Shelby has nothing to lose, so they grab their jar of pills and depart.
Shelby then heads to relate the previous evening's confrontation to Boyd who is impressed that his candidate held off two men with guns. Shelby admits the cancer story was a lie to convince the deputies that he didn't fear death. Boyd wants to hit back and takes Johnny's suggestion to track down Napier's sister. He heads to Limehouse to get the name and location of said sister. When that's settled, Boyd looks for a little insurance in the upcoming election for Sheriff. Harvey Jones (Ezra Buzzington), who is supposedly working for Quarles and Napier, enters.
Givens pays a visit to Judge Mike Reardon (Stephen Root). Turns out that Dickie Bennett is on the verge of being released. Givens asks Reardon to push the case back, but Reardon insists that his hands are tied.
Boyd pays a visit to Sheriff Napier's sister Hanna (Bonnie Burroughs). "You're running that man against my brother for Sheriff," says Hanna before explaining that she hasn't talked to her brother in a long time after he refused to take care of her medical bills. "I've come to offer you a job," Boyd says. Hanna appears intrigued.
Later, Givens tries to convince Assistant U.S. Attorney David Vasquez (Rick Gomez) to keep Dickie in jail, suggesting they cut Wade Messer a deal if he nails Dickie. Vasquez explains that Dickie is only in jail because of Messer's testimony that Dickie had the Deputy Marshal hung upside down in a tree so he could beat Raylan with a bat. Cut one free and the other goes free, too. Givens swears. It appears that Dickie might just get those charges dropped, after all.
At Johnny's bar, Boyd and Shelby are awaiting election returns. Ava enters and explains that she has arranged for the prostitutes she has "inherited" from Delroy to provide sexual favors in return for votes. Boyd then gets a call that Dickie might be getting out of jail soon. Johnny wonders if Dickie is stupid enough to return to Harlan. "Yes, I think he is that stupid," Boyd says with a wan smile.
At the Marshal's office, Givens welcomes Jed Berwind (Richard Speight Jr.), who has been brought in from federal prison. Givens explains that Jed initially said he saw Dickie pull the trigger in killing his step-mother Helen (Full Commitment (2011)) before recanting his story. "I need you to change it back," Givens explains. "All I'm asking you to do is tell the truth." Jed explains that, years ago, his family had a conflict with the Bennett clan and his granny brokered a truce with Bennett matriarch Mags. So Jed's family owes the Bennetts. Jed then says that he'll only talk if his granny gives her approval.
Now Givens has to go visit Granny in a nursing home, who can't speak after suffering a stroke, explains a nurse (Karly Rothenberg). The old woman can only point at letters. "This debt you feel you owe the Bennetts is no reason for your grandson to rot in prison," Givens explains. The old woman then requests two milkshakes, and when Givens returns with the goods, spills one in his lap. She smiles as she takes a long sip from the remaining shake.
Back at Johnny's bar, Boyd gets a call. "Napier won," he says. The assembled crowd of Shelby supporters groans.
Quarles sits in Napier's office, sharing a drink with the newly re-elected Sheriff. Quarles "suggests" that Napier give him an office in the building. "I have to keep my eyes on things if we are going to make this work," Quarles tells the debious official. Just then, Harvey enters with Shelby and explains that he just realized that Hanna Napier is on his payroll. Nepotism laws being what they are, Napier is no longer eligible to be Sheriff. By law, the office will go to Shelby until another election can be held. "You know I ain't seen Hanna since she stole from momma!" Napier yells. Harvey explains that the law is the law.
Furious, Quarles exits the building to find the Crowder cousins sitting outside. "You know what you are?" Boyd asks. "You are a conquistador, but we are not your savages. And now you get to leave with your life... I hope you enjoyed your stay and you never forget who packed your bags." Quarles face tightens in a rage before relaxing into a broad smile. He's not likely to be leaving.
Back in Wynn Duffy's trailer Quarles is openly popping Oxy pills. "How long have you been taking those?" a worried and wary Wynn asks. Quarles doesn't answer.
There is a knock on the trailer door. A teenager, Donovan (Marshall Allman), enters with a gun. He points it at Quarles and it soon becomes clear that the young man believes Quarles is responsible for his street hustler friend, Brady Hughes, going missing and likely having been killed. Quarles talks the boy down, explaining that his own father was a heroin addict who pimped him out to other men. When Detroit crime boss Theo Tonin caught wind of this horror, he offered Quarles the chance to kill his old man. The 14-year-old Quarles did just that. So, Quarles explained, he understood Brady only too well and wanted only to "set him free." The story makes Wynn increasingly uncomfortable, but it moves Donovan. Wynn watches aghast as Quarles, crying and shaking, moves in and gently pushes the muzzle of Donovan's gun away and embraces the confused teen.
At the bar the Marshall is drinking and flirting with Lindsey Salazar (Jenn Lyon) who is trying to help him with his testimony for the next morning. Quarles, way past buzzed at this point, and Wynn show up. The gangster threatens to kill his father Arlo, and when the Marshal just shrugs, he brazenly tells Givens that hes going to kill him sometime soon. "Maybe not tonight, maybe not tomorrow, but someday you'll walking down the street and I'm going to put a bullet in the back of your skull." He turns to leave, but the Marshal pulls his service pistol and fires a round into the ceiling, getting everyone's attention. He orders the patrons to leave, then tells Quarles with a grin, "Why wait?"
There is a frozen moment when the shoot-out is about to go down but Lindsey pulls a shotgun on Quarles from behind the bar. "Get out," she orders. "This is my bar." Quarles flashes his trademark dazzling smile and exits with Wynn. Moments later, Givens finds himself upstairs and headed to bed with the woman as a spoke of light from the barroom below streams through the bullet hole in the floor.
The next morning, following another romp with Lindsey, Givens arrives at the courthouse for Dickie's hearing before Judge Reardon. "I've changed, your honor," Dickie (Jeremy Davies) says. "I have changed. Believe me." No one believes him, of course. Givens takes the stand after asking to make a statement. "We all know what's going to happen if Dickie Bennett is released," Givens said. "More blood will be spilled. Either his or someone else's." Givens then calls Dickie a "thug" before changing course and telling Judge Reardon to go ahead and release the last Bennett son. "Maybe Dickie leads us to that Bennett money," Givens tells Vasquez and Art after Dickie goes free.
News travels fast. Errol (Demetrius Grosse) tells Limehouse that Dickie will soon be released. "Dickie sniffs around long enough, he's going to figure out where his mama's money is," Errol warns. Says Limehouse: "When he shows up, you bring him to me." Limehouse then selects a pig for the slaughter.
In his hotel room Quarles is still binging, snorting lines of ground Oxy. He is mentally unraveling as he delivers a pep talk to himself, "to regroup and refocus his goals," be determined not to "lose." Fastidiously arranging his clothing as he strips to the buff, he enters a bathroom where Donovan is chained to the toilet in much the same way that his friend Brady, in his underwear, had earlier been seen bound and tied to Quarles' bed (When the Guns Come Out (2012)).
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