Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B+ | 4 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Slit For Splat
By Couch Baron | Season 4 | Episode 1 | Aired on 01.08.2013
Back in the present, Raylan has his eyes closed when Rachel (loooooove her) enters the office and points out that his phone is ringing. He replies, "Thank you, Donny," and when she doesn't get the reference, he IDs it for her as being from The Big Lebowski. "Netflix it -- you can be one of the cool kids." Being one myself, it's not how I'd describe people dextrous enough to quote that film from memory, but Raylan's customary bone-dry delivery lends the requisite irony to the statement. Raylan then finally answers his phone, and it's a woman who identifies herself as "Sharon Emmonds." The name is meaningless to Raylan, but the reminder that they met at a law-enforcement expo in Miami a few years back is not, if the ensuing mostly-naked flashback to a put-upon hotel room is any indication. After some flirting involving mini-bar macadamia nuts, which, like everything, is sexier in that accent than it reads on paper, Sharon tells Raylan that she's working in bail bonds in Knoxville, and seeing as how he's with the eastern district of Kentucky "now," she could use a little of his help. She asks if he's interested, so we can gather that this perhaps is a transaction not entirely sanctioned by law, and when he points out he hasn't yet hung up, she gives him the name of a "Jody Adair," 41 years old, charged with double homicide. He skipped town on $250,000 bail, and since she as the bondsperson is on the hook for some of that (although not nearly as much as you might think), she'll pay Raylan three grand if he manages to get eyes on Adair and tip off the local authorities, which just might happen, given that his ex-wife lives in Lexington. Raylan's been giving furtive looks in Rachel's direction this whole time, but, judging that her attention is elsewhere, he tells Sharon to send him the address and a photograph. After they disconnect, he tells Rachel he's got to go out for a bit, and it seems like she just might suspect he's up to no good, but surely you have to pick your battles when taking on a drawling charmer with a gun.
In a lower-rent part of town, Adair is knocking insistently on a door as Raylan, in his car, checks him out and confirms his face matches the picture Sharon sent him. Adair's ex-wife opens up for him, and he wants to see the kids, but she won't let him in; the details are superfluous, but he's left to trudge away, tossing aside a bag of fast food and attendant toys in the process. As he does, Raylan is on the phone with Sharon, and given that we're in the predawn hours, I hope she at least gave him permission to call day or night. Raylan then slides down his window and informs Adair he dropped something, but Adair tells him to pick it up if he likes before heading to his car. He hops in and grabs a gun out of the glove compartment as he makes it clear that his wife is not going to get off that easy, but suddenly, Raylan is at his window, the bag in his hand. Adair rolls his eyes and tells him he can have the burgers, but they've served their purpose at this point, so Raylan breaks the window with his elbow and then holds a gun on Adair, ordering him out of the car in that voice that will brook no shenanigans. Adair, however, isn't familiar enough with that tone, so he lets Raylan know that he's got him covered through the door. Adair, I hate to tell you this, but you've got that thing pointed at Raylan's junk, so even if you're the quicker draw, you're going to find yourself lynched by an angry mob of women like something out of The Handmaid's Tale. For his part, Raylan doesn't flinch, and the two of them measure their dicks for a while, and for Raylan at least, it might be his last chance. However, when Adair tells Raylan that, given who he's sure he's working for, he's not going to shoot him, Raylan sighs that he's right -- and puts one into the steering wheel, causing the airbag to inflate instantly. I don't know much about street cred, but I'd imagine that's not a story Adair's going to want to get out. Raylan gets Adair's barely conscious ass on the ground and quickly cuffs his hands behind his back, and then he gives Sharon a call and asks what the reward for just bringing Adair in is. We don't hear the reply, but if Sharon doesn't propose some sort of non-monetary bonus, she doesn't remember Miami like she should. Credits.