- While Raylan has to track down a fugitive for a second time, Boyd and Ava go to an exclusive party hoping to track down Drew Thompson.
- Six days earlier, immediately following "Hole in the Wall (2013):"
Out on the interstate, Raylan turns wanted multiple murderer Jody Adair (Chris Chalk) over to his old one-night stand, Knoxville bail bondswoman Sharon Edmunds (Aja Evans) for a little extra cash. Jody overhears Raylan tell her where he's currently living, above the High Note Bar. Sharon thanks him and drives off with her partner Mitch (Kevin Daniels) in the passenger seat and the captured fugitive in the back of her van.
Some miles down a back road, the van blows a rear tire. Sharon takes the opportunity to go into the woods to relieve herself. Almost immediately, Kenneth Blanks (Michael Gladis) claiming to be a "good Samaritan" pulls up and asks if the bail enforcers need help. Mitch warns him off and then opens the back door to check on Jody, who jumps Mitch and strangles him with cuffed hands. Kenneth, who Jody calls "Kennet," mildly protests, saying he agreed to blow out the tire, not to be part of any murder. Jody goes into the woods and exchanges shots with Sharon... she hits him with a through-and-through in the shoulder while taking his round in the neck. She goes down holding her wound and dies, gurgling. Jody curses. This is more trouble than he anticipated.
At the U.S. Marshals office in the present:
Art expresses his doubts about the quality of the investigative work done by Raylan so far to find Drew Thompson, and mentions that he hasn't seen FBI Special Agent Barkley for several days. He suggests maybe seeing psychic (Thompson's "widow" Eve Munro) and, more practically, having a long conversation with Arlo. That's the very last thing Raylan wants to do, so Art suggests that he still go to Tramble but start with incarcerated former sheriff Hunter Mosley... then see Arlo.
As he leaves the office, Raylan wishes a surprised fellow deputy marshal Nelson Dunlop (Mel Fair) a happy birthday, which delights Tim Gutterson.
In his trailer, Johnny cuddles with his whore/sweetie Teri, and presses her about who really gave her the beating. She's reluctant to talk about it, and Johnny quickly and correctly figures out that it was Colton. "He said he'd cut out my damn tongue!" says Teri, "he was tweaking, pissed off, asking about Ellen May." This alerts Johnny to the fact that Ellen May is still alive and Colton's been lying.
Raylan is riding toward Tramble eating an ice cream cone when he gets a call from Campbell County Deputy Sheriff Loren Hunkis (Ted Mattison) who, having found the bodies of Sharon and Mitch in their van in Norris Lake that morning, is backtracking recent calls made from her cell' 'phone. "I think I know the man you're looking for," Raylan says. This trumps his trip to Tramble, as Raylan tosses his cone out the window and goes fugitive hunting.
Jody is hanging out and tending his wound in Kenneth's apartment. When the latter gets a call from Deputy Sheriff Hunkis, he freaks out and the two decide to cut Jody's convalescent confinement short.
The pair drive to Jody's ex-wife's house to break in and look for the robbery money that Jody has stashed there. They see Raylan arrive to interview house-sitter (ex-wife Katrina is on vacation at Dollywood with the kids) Jackie Nevada (Shelley Hennig), a comely young University of Kentucky graduate student and Katrina's sorority sister. Jody is at once both steamed at the marshal's intrusion into his plans and delighted to see his recent adversary, telling Kenneth he's determined to put Raylan in the ground. But when they spot the local police arriving they sneak away, careful not to let the marshal see them.
Raylan explains his mission there to an LPD Officer (Nick Hoffa), and turns the scene over to him. He also notices Kenneth's car parked in the street with a Romney/Ryan bumper sticker on one side, McCain/Palin on the other and a vanity plate: "KY FLIXXX."
Ava and an uncomfortable Boyd are getting dressed for the swingers' party as he expresses his concerns about their participation in the swap meet. She tells him, "we just pull those old horndogs off the women, we find their history in Harlan, and we see which one of them could be Drew. If it comes down to it... what's a few handjobs, give or take?" Boyd notes that they're not even married yet, and she's proposing "an open relationship?" Ava doesn't hesitate. "Baby," she says, trying to keep a straight face, "you give as many handjobs as you need tonight."
As Raylan prepares to give Jackie a ride back to her place, she asks if he has history with Jody. He explains that he'd been with the people Jody had killed a week ago, and while he didn't know the man, he'd slept with the woman "a year or two ago." They talk about the origins of her name which, to Raylan, sounds like something out of a Steve McQueen movie. Turns out she's a bit of a poker player. The two converse and flirt as they drive away.
Ava and Boyd show up for a "rich person's sex party" where they are quickly confronted by an obnoxious guest (Clayton Rohner) who ogles Ava and makes an extremely rude comment about "the dung heaps of Harlan." Instead of physically responding, Boyd finesses the situation in a way that's unaccustomed to him.
Making they way though a crowded room with Ava, Boyd is given a very hard stare by one of the guests, a bald man with a beard.
Boyd and Ava thank ex-sheriff Tillman Napier (David Andrews) for their invitation, but he tells them he didn't have much choice in the matter, it was Judge Executive Arnold's doing. He tells the man who funded his opponent's winning election campaign, "You're about as welcome as a case of the clap." But the Harlan couple are introduced to hostess Deborah Jane (Robin Riker) who takes Ava on a tour of the premises. The two women socialize a bit as Deborah Jane explains the ground rules of the event: "You don't have to do anythind you don't want to," she says, "and 'No!' means 'No!'"
Boyd, surveying the room, is spotted by two older men who detach themselves from other company (including Judge Executive Arnold) and approach the newcomer, introducing themselves as funeral home owner Lee Paxton (Sam Anderson) and automobile dealer Gerald Johns (Ned Bellamy), both of whom know exactly who Boyd is. As the three men repair to palaver, the bald, bearded man gives them another hard look.
Elsewhere, Ava mingles and is hit on by an inebriated guest, Sam (Grainger Hines), who remembers Ava as a little girl. She politely excuses herself from his company and wanders off.
The bald and bearded man interupts the casual confab between Boyd, Lee and Gerald... he is mine owner Frank Browning (Rocky McMurray) who has had too much to drink. He is also, as he reminds the group, still out of sorts with Boyd for tanking Harlan's Black Pike oil deal ("Reckoning (2011)"). He's also not too happy with the others, and as he takes his leave, tells them "to go to hell."
Boyd openly deduces that there's something going on that the others in the group want him to be involved with.
Raylan gives Jackie a ride to her apartment complex and the two flirt the entire way. She tries to invite him into her place for a beer or whatever but he declines.
Jackie enters her apartment only to be confronted by Jody, who demands the security code to the newly installed alarm system at his ex-wife's house, putting a kitchen knife to her throat.
A block away, Raylan spots a sedan with the vanity plate that he'd seen earlier outside Katrina's house, and quickly reverses his tracks as Kenneth scrunches down in the driver's seat before carefully following the marshal's vehicle.
In her apartment, the feisty Jackie is explaining the complex security code sequence when Raylan enters, pistol drawn. She jams her heel into the criminal's foot but Jody makes a break for it, going out the second story window to belly-flop onto the top of Kenneth's car. It speeds away into the night with Jody desperately hanging on as Raylan cautiously holds his fire.
At the swingers party, Ava wanders from room to dimly lit room looking for Boyd. She is corralled by an aggressive Sam who doesn't want to take no for an answer. Another, Abel (Bradley Snedeker), cuts off her escape and becomes very physical. Boyd appears and twists the man's arm behind his back and slams his head against the stairwell. Deborah Jane arrives and takes control of the scene. Boyd then explains to Ava that Harlan's power players want him to strong-arm another rich man. Boyd figures he can make a little extra money while searching for Drew. Ava doesn't like the idea, but Boyd dismisses her concerns.
With Jackie waiting in his car, Raylan and several of his armed colleagues pay a visit to Kenneth's where he's doing lines of coke off the bathroom sink and entertaining a young blonde (Mel McComb). When the deputies take the door, aspiring filmmaker Kenny tells him that there's a video that Jody wants Raylan to see. It's the fugitive murderer warning the marshal that he doesn't have long to live. Raylan has never responded well to being threatened.
Raylan, with passenger Jackie telling him she has a big crush on him, heads to the High Note Bar as the marshal knows that Jody knows where he lives. Telling Jackie to remain in the car, Raylan enters, surveys the crowded room, and casually pulls the fire alarm. When proprietor Kent Chilobeck (Joe Stevens) calmly asks if it's a drill, Raylan tells him it isn't. Kent clears everyone from the room and sure enough, there's Jody sitting in the corner. Raylan and Jody face each other. "You ain't gonna shoot," Jody mutters, apparently thinking of other times he's been under the marshal's muzzle, and reaches for his gun. Raylan does shoot, bam-bam, bam, bam and Jody falls dead to the floor. Jackie quietly enters through the front door and wordlessly exchanges looks with Raylan as he takes out his cell' 'phone to call it in.
Colton and Johnny are at the latter's bar when Boyd's cousin lets the man tasked with Ellen May's disposal, know that he knows the whore is still alive.
The elite Clover Hillers, including Arnold and Sam, condescendingly explain their plan to Boyd. It involves ruining one of Frank's own ponds so that the rest can get even richer off the federal government's EPA Superfund. "You want me to twist his arm?" Boyd asks. "We prefer if you kill him," Gerald replies levelly. "Crowders do what we say," says Lee, explaining that the hesitant Boyd only has what he has because these rich men allow him to have it. They want the lower class lowlanders "placated." Boyd interrupts to correct Lee's diction, telling him that the word he was looking for is "pacified." Lee tells him that they've looked the other way as Boyd's daddy, who "knew his place," and now Boyd, ran drugs and prostitutes. Gerald tells him: "And to be crystal Gawdamned clear, kill Frank Browning, or we'll destroy you." Boyd just looks at the men.
Raylan escorts Jackie to a hotel room (which he tells her is being paid for by the Marshals Service) where he tells her he's figured out that she has the money Jody had been looking for. He tells her to give it to Jody's ex and kids, and he won't turn it in. As the grad student strips down to take a shower, he takes a 'phone call from Art to tie up some loose ends. Art cagily deduces that Jackie is there with him. "She fall in love with you yet," Art asks? Raylan tells his boss not to worry because "it's not coming out of your budget." They hang up as a weary Raylan sits and reflects on the day's events.
The next morning Raylan has finally made his way to Tramble where he visits with Arlo. Instead of following Art's script and pretending he has a file folder full of evidence to leverage Arlo into revealing Drew Thompson's whereabouts, he drops all pretense. "I'm going to cut you a deal right now," son says to father. "For once in our lives, let's work together." If Arlo gives up Thompson, Raylan will give up his insistence that Arlo spend his remaining days in maximum security. Raylan explains that Theo Tonin knows hompson is alive and has hired Boyd, "the son you never had," to find him. If Boyd finds Thompson first, then Arlo gets nothing. But if Arlo gives up Thompson right now, Raylan can guarantee that dear ol' dad lives out his days in a "country club prison." Arlo refuses to play along... "I've considered it," he says. "Eat sh-t!" but the news that Raylan is now going to offer the same deal to former deputy sheriff Hunter Mosley gives the old man pause, and his son reads his "granite face" correctly. Whenever Arlo gets bad news, says Raylan, he has a face like a statue. "Can't help I'm good-lookin'," Arlo says, trying to make a good show of his bad situation. Raylan tells his father that he's going to die there, "and not in the distant future... tomorrow, or maybe Sunday after chow," and says he'll be glad when he gets the news.
Arlo heads off to open discussions with Mosley as an expressionless Arlo trudges back to his cell.
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