Tonight's Justified was kind of like Raising Arizona only less funny and more white trash.
Raylan got back to the business of doing US Marshal work tonight. Charged with transporting a pregnant inmate to her OB/GYN appointment, Raylan looks to have a pretty uneventful day. Yeah right.
The moment they enter the Doctor's office Raylan and everyone watching knows the dirty fella waiting for his wife to show up is going to be a problem. And off we go, fugitive hunting time. The dirty criminal, who we now know as Jess, and his former EMT accomplice take the pregnant fugitive, Cassie to a cabin where they plan to deliver the baby. Unbeknown est to Cassie, Jess has no intentions of letting her go once they get the baby.
Meanwhile, Raylan and his partner Deputy Marshal Gutterson are hard at work trying to figure out who the real father and likely architect to this escape really is. It doesn't take them long to figure out it's an inside job.
Jess's partner Van it turns out isn't all that keen on killing a woman minutes after she gives birth and even less keen on letting Jess cut her baby out while she's still alive. By the time Raylan and Gutterson arrive on the scene Jess has killed Van in a struggle and has a gun on Cassie's unborn child. From here we learn two things, if you shoot a man in the part of the brain Raylan calls the apricot, it's lights out. He has no chance of getting his own shot off. We also learn that Gutterson is a damn fine shot.
So that was the episodic portion of tonight's episode but what about the serial story lines. We get just a glimpse of the Bennetts tonight to remind us who this season's bad guys are. Mags drinks some cider and tries to get close with Loretta. I have to admit Mag's cider looks tasty and I damn sure want to try her apple pie. We also learn there is some history between the Bennetts and Givens.
Raylan and Winona continue to grow closer though neither seems to trust the other completely. I knew there was something I liked about Winona though, Natalie Zea born in Harris County, Texas. I'm all in pulling for the hometown girl. Looks like her latest ex, Gary, has every intention of stealing her from Raylan again though. I don't know how he did it in the first place but if there's one guy I don't want to have to compete with for the affections of a woman, it's Raylan Givens. The dude is witty, smooth and wears the best hat on television.
Boyd continues to claim he's given up his life of crime but as Raylan says "the more you say that the less I believe you." And of course, Ava and Boyd are shacked up together. Ava seems exactly like the type of girl who would hook up with her dead husband's brother. The same brother who recently made several attempts on her life. I guess that's just life in the back woods of Kentucky.
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