- Loretta calls on Raylan when she and her boyfriend get trouble with drug dealers, Boyd tries to keep Mara Paxton silent and wait for his new shipment, and Dewey Crowe gets a visit from his cousin from Florida.
- As Boyd's (Walton Goggins) plan to keep Ava (Joelle Carter) from being tried threatens to unravel, an unexpected reunion with Loretta McCready (Kaitlin Dever) pits Raylan (Timothy Olyphant) against two hit men working for a ruthless Memphis drug lord.—Anonymous
- Drug thugs and brothers Jay (Wood Harris) and Roscoe (Steve Harris) are in a large pot-drying barn, wrecking physical havoc on a hapless dealer who seems to have come up short of some of "Hot Rod" Dunham's product. The dealer tries to talk his way out of his predicament and thinks he's pleaded his case successfully. When Dunham leaves, the brothers decide to "SEAL Team Six it... tightest group wins," and use the dealer for target practice.
In the critical care ward where a heavily-bandaged Lee Paxton is hooked up to life support, Sheriff Mooney (William Gregory Lee) is questioning the victim's wife Mara about what happened. She tells him she saw the assailant, and Mooney realizes that she's identified Boyd Crowder. He tells her he can keep her safe from Boyd, and makes an obvious and clumsy moved on her.
Raylan and fellow Deputy U.S. Marshals Tim Gutterson (Jacob Pitts)... delighted that the place has its own bowling alley... and Rachel Brooks (Erica Tazel) are explaining the facts of his present life to Monroe (Xander Berkeley), an obnoxious well-to-do money-launderer for the Tonin gang. His house and property have been seized by the U.S. Marshals' Service. He and his "maid" [wink wink] Gloria (Gabrielle Dennis) and housekeeper Manuela (Livia Treviño) who "sautees up a mean iguana," are in flex cuffs as Raylan gets an irate 'phone call from the a Lexington Police Lieutenant and has to go see him. Since the three Marshals arrived in Raylan's vehicle, he gives Rachel his keys so she and Tim can do the prisoner transport, and "borrows" Monroe's snazzy Mercedes hardtop.
In the visiting room of the jail, Boyd explains to Ava what happened when he made his nocturnal visit to the Paxton resident, and she realizes that his actions have not advanced her prospects of freedom. She becomes distraught but Boyd tries to reassure her.
Later at his bar, Boyd learns from Jimmy that his $900,000 drug shipment from "the Canadians" is set to arrive in another two days. Sheriff Mooney and a Deputy arrive with Mara Paxton to ID him for the assult on her husband. Boyd in in a very tight spot, but buffs it out as he and Mara stand face-to-face. She tells Mooney that Boyd is not the one. He knows she's lying, but cannot budge her. They leave, Mooney disgusted and frustrated.
An irate and curt Lieutenant Will Judkins (Boo Arnold) escorts Raynan into talk with an incarcerated Loretta McCready (Kaitlyn Dever) who he says sold his son the pot he was discovered smoking it in his basement. He tells Raylan that he's extending him a courtesy, since Loretta had said that Raylan was like a step-father to her.
Raylan tells Loretta that, given her family history, he's not surprised to learn that she's "slinging weed," only that she was selling it to a cop's son. They have a discussion and since Raylan realizes that she's trying to play him, he tells her he's not going to get her released. She's angry that her ploy has failed.
On the way out of the police station, Raylan is intercepted by her drug cohort Derrick Waters (Riley Bodenstab) whose aggressive and impudent attitude cuts poorly with the Deputy Marshal, but also confirms that Loretta was counting on Raylan getting her out of jail.
Along comes Allison (Amy Smart) who starts an flirtatious conversation with Raylon, explaining that she's Loretta's Social Worker, expresses a very low opinion of Derrick, and allows how she recognizes Raylon from his "picture in the paper," although he looked "taller in the photo."
At Audry's, Carl is hassling bartender Wade for Boyd's cut when Dewey interrupts them. The two men quickly convince the proprietor that they weren't talking about what they were talking about, so it's clear that Dewey is, as usual, clueless.
Raylan rolls up to Derrick's place to continue his interrupted conversation with the young doper dealer, and finds the brothers beating on the young man. There is brief, mostly one-sided colloquy during which the brothers learn they are dealing with an armed Federal Marshal. They disengage and exit.
Derrick, seemingly unaware that Rayan has just extricated him from a messy situation, resume being obnoxious to the man, but is told quite directly the he is to very gently break up with Loretta.
Leaving Derrick's, Raylan places a call to Allison and leaves a message inviting him to meet him for a drink later, ostensibly to discuss Loretta.
At the hospital, Jimmy uses a ruse to send Mara to a surprise clandestine meeting with Boyd, who wants to understand why she didn't give him up when Mooney brought her to the bar. She explains that she realizes that her husband is never going to be the same again, that's she's disillusioned with her life in America, and she wants to return to Latvia... except that there's this little matter of a pre-nuptial agreement which at this point would send her home with nothing. She wants the $300,000 that Boyd had offered her husband to help with Ava's case. Boyd agrees, but says he doesn't have that much cash on hand right then.
At the bar, an assemblage of Boyd's drug distributors are growing restless awaiting his arrival, so Wynn Duffy starts the meeting attempting to reassure them that the new shipment will "arrive soon." The lack of specifics isn't satisfactory to many of the crew, and led by Cyrus (Bill Tangradi), attempt to press the non-plussed Wynn. Boyd arrives just in time, and using the gift of gab which Wynn doesn't possess, calms the situation with a specific delivery date and by an offer of "drinks for everyone on the house."
Raylan interrupts a meeting between ADA David Vasquez and Art Mullen to let them know that he's finished the paperwork on the Monroe case. They are aware that Raylan has appropriated Monroe's Mercedes, and Vasquez suggests that Raylan could even move into the money-launderer's mansion "to keep an eye on things. Art approves... as long as nothing comes back to bite him in the butt.
After Vasquez leaves Art tells Raylan that when his Deputy had been in Florida, Sammy Tonin had tried calling him "not 24 hours before he turned up dead. Why would he do that?" Art asks, but Raylan truthfully pleads ignorance.
Loretta shows up demanding to know what Raylan had done regarding Derrick. The Deputy Marshal thinks that she referencing the surly young man suddenly breaking up with her, but she pleads ignorance of that and says Derrick's gone missing without a word. They look at one another for a moment before Raylan tells her, "You want to find him, you'd best tell me what's going on!"
What's going on is that Jay and Roscoe have Derrick at gun point digging a hole to retrieve the drugs he and Loretta had buried there two days earlier... but there's no drugs! The brothers become exasperated and decide "the bitch moved it on him." Jay tells Derrick "it might not be no consolation to you, but you was gonna be in this hole either way."
By now the smart-mouth young man has no attitude left and pleads for his life just as Raylan shows up and knocks Roscoe silly with a shovel. As Jay makes to pull on him, Raylan beats him to the draw and asks, "You going to make be do the paperwork?" Jay reconsiders.
After a brief confab, Raylan realizes that the brothers work for Durham "out of Memphis," and that Loretta is behind the whole deal.
In the middle of the night on a deserted road, Sheriff Mooney pulls Mara over, yanks her roughly out onto the payment, and threatens her. He's not quite sure what's going on, only that she'd embarrassed him by not identifying Boyd as her husband's assailant, and had met with Boyd at the hospital the day before. With his pistol's muzzle on her lips, he tells her than she's better rethink things and come into the station house the next day and make a new statement. He sends her on her way.
Still late at night, with Roscoe and Jay immobilized in flex cuffs, Raylan, Loretta and Derrick await the arrival of Dunham and his crew. When the Memphis crew arrives, Raylan asks conversationally, "I don't suppose you boys are unarmed?" Hot Rod replied that when he gets a call from "a Givens at this late hour, I get nervous."
There follows some pointed palaver between Raylan and Hot Rod, who'd done some business with Arlo Givens in the old days which ends up with Raylan telling the Memphis drug boss that he shouldn't be surprised if things go bad when he goes into business with teenagers. He offers Dunham terms that "whatever happened between you and those kids gets squashed... no vendetta, no debt. You tell me it's over and it stays this way... this ends here tonight. Secondly, no one in your organization sets foot in Kentucky again... you keep in Memphis and you leave me and mine out of it."
Dunham attempts to explain his side of it, but Raylan allows that he's ready for trouble, that he's a dead shot who will kill four of them before then can get their weapons out, and it'll all be legal because of his badge.
The Memphis delegation must have accepted Raylan's terms because Raylan is driving a sullen Loretta and Derrick away from the meeting. He drops a disbelieving Derrick at a bus stop and orders him out of the car. He expects Loretta to accompany him, but she quietly stays put and drives off with Raylan.
The next day as he drops her off at her house, he tells her he knows that she played him to get her out of the bad situation with Dunham. "I didn't play you, Raylan," she says as she exits the Mercedes. "You are who you are."
Elsewhere in town, one of Boyd's dealers (Gregoer Boru) is having some fun with a strung-out Crackpot (Cascy Beddow), running the boy down the sidewalk and shooting and hitting him with an air rifle when Teri (Cathy Baron), Johnny Crowder's whore/squeeze from Audry's, approaches the group to score some heroin. He tells her he's all out, but in response to her offer of a particular kinky sexual favor, he tells the girl that he has a fresh shipment of dope coming in that very night.
At the brothel, Dewey's about to get into a threesome with his two swimming pool employees Mina and Teena when Wade knocks on his bedroom door and insists that it's about something important. He takes a reluctant Dewy out to the barroom where Daryl is enjoying himself with beer and female companionship. Daryl jumps up and comes over to give his apprehensive cousin an embrace. That this is an unwelcomed arrival is written all over Dewey's face.
At the Marshal's HQ Art receives a returned call from his counterpart in Michigan, Chief Deputy U.S. Marshal Ed Kirkland (Shashawnee Hall). Art hopes Kirkland has some information about Sammy Tonin's whereabouts on the night that Nicky Augustine was killed at the airport in Lexington.
At Raylan's borrowed mansion, he is entertaining Allison with several bottles of Monroe's better wines, briefing her on the resolution to Loretta's most recent difficulty. They talk openly about how Raylan is hoping to seduce her, and she tells him that it's not going to happen that hight, at least. After a brief pause, he tries a different tack. "Do you like to bowl?" he asks.
At the hospital Mara is at Lee's bedside when he comes out of his coma just enough to croak her name.
Boyd, Jimmy and Carl are out on a deserted road to meet the incoming drug shipment and come upon a very distressing scene. The drug vehicle is literally shot to pieces and its accompanying car has crashed as well. Bodies are strewn about. "Who the hell could have done all this?" Jimmy wonders. Boyd cooly surveys the scene, then issues his orders: "Clean it up... the cars, the bodies... all of it."
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