"Yeah well at least you got to shoot your dad." Tim
The good thing about this week's episode is that if you're running short on time, you can watch the first ten minutes and the last ten minutes without missing much of anything. In the opening ten minutes they continue teasing us like Catholic school girl about the history between the Bennetts and the Givens clans. We find out that Dickie's limp has something to do with the beef between the families We may not know what happened yet but we know it's going to come into play at some point very soon. We also know that Dickie and Coover really have hardons to get rid of Raylan for good. A desire only magnified when Raylan informs Mags of Dickie's dealings with the Dixie Mafia. As much as Mags tries to keep her cool Raylan just has a way of getting under a person's skin.
The meeting with the Bennetts leads Raylay to pay a visit to Emmett, a friend, partner or associate of the Dixie Mafia. Regardless his relationship, Raylan believes he has enough influence to prevent an all out war over the oxy run robbery. As much as the shootouts and action is on Justified it's moments like this and his meeting in Art's office when Raylan is at his best. Raylan possesses a ton of "I'm the smartest guy in this room" arrogance and placed against the often backwoods ignorance of the villains, it plays exceptionally well.
In the final ten minutes of the episode the Death Star of crime has its tractor beam fixed directly on Boyd. I've enjoyed watching Boyd's struggle with staying on the righteous path Ava has demanded of him. Walter Goggins has delivered a stunningly understated performance as Boyd this season to this point. However, as Raylan's arch nemesis it was only a matter of time before his natural inclinations brought him back into the life. Will this mean the end of his relationship with Ava? I guess we'll soon find out.
In between we got a good long look into Rachel's character when her brother in law breaks out of a halfway house and the Marshal service is called in to bring him back in. Along the way to bringing Clinton (Larenz Tate) we find out Rachel's life may not have been as "Cosby Show" as she or we had assumed. Even though we are led to believe Clinton had killed Rachel's sister, what we find out is she died in an accident in which Clinton was the driver. The rub is that he was driving her to the ER to be treated for a drug overdose. Maybe Clinton isn't the villain Rachel makes him out to be. Maybe he's just an ex-con trying to find a way to see his son. I liked Larenz Tate and getting know more about Rachel in the process. I'm not sure I believe the beat down he put on the very large operator of the halfway house though. Too bad Clinton had to ruin Flex's dream of becoming a magician by shooting him in the hand. He could have been the next David Blaine. Now he's just a dead drug dealer Rachel had to shoot to protect Clinton and the other Marshals. If you're going to shoot someone, there's no one with more experience of how to get past it than Raylan.
The final scene with the Marshals sitting around in Art's office swapping stories about family, vendettas and the life was a brilliant piece of writing. We learned as much about Tim in those few minutes as we did about Rachel in the previous forty. Tim and his no nonsense, dry personality is becoming one of my favorite characters.
Looks like next week Boyd gets back to what he does best, blowing shit up. I'm hoping the Bennetts v. Dixie Mafia feud starts gaining steam. I know we still have ten episodes in the season but I need more Mags and Dickie with a little Arlo sprinkled in.
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