Of Carrots and Sticks and Big Ol' Snakes

By LuluBates

Everybody's favorite marshal decides to get rid of his girlfriend's MMA-style husband by strongly recommending that he head off to Florida. When that doesn't work, they promise to meet behind the bleachers after gym class to pummel each other.

Meanwhile, Boyd tries to bribe Preacher Billy's pesky church into leaving, but instead of going to Billy, Boyd heads straight to sister Cassie, thinking that she is the brains behind the operation. However she doesn't think Boyd's offering is nearly enough to get them to move. She's not opposed to moving, she just wants mo' money. So Boyd decides to try a different tact: Guns. Boyd sends Colton and some other dude to drive out the church with firepower. Instead Boyd's man goes down getting attacked by snake after snake until one gets him right in the face. Colton brings him back to Boyd's, black and blue and with half a snake embedded in his cheek. They decide a doctor might be in order.

Rachel is in trouble with her boss for single-handedly apprehending a violent fugitive, which she totally learned from Raylan. As she goes to Time Out, Art tells Raylan that Drew Thompson (a.k.a. the guy who was supposed to be dead after pancake-ing in Harlan County) was wanted on a sealed federal witness warrant before he died. Well, faked his death. Raylan and Tim are tasked with telling his widow that Drew's not actually dead.

Meanwhile Johnny is branching out on his own and trying to make a deal with Wynn Duffy. But Wynn's not looking for a partner and Johnny's not just interested in breaking into the Dixie Mafia heroin business. Turns out Johnny is holding a serious grudge against Boyd for putting him in a wheelchair all those years ago. So he offers to help Duffy kill Boyd. Needless to say, Duffy is intrigued. Also needless to say, Duffy's hair is Sun-In-alicious.

Raylan and Tim tell Drew's widow that Drew is still alive, but turns out she's a psychic who knows a thing or two and definitely knew that Drew was alive. Then she proves her psychic skills by outing Raylan's plan to fist fight with Lindsay's husband. Just as the marshals are starting to get somewhere with the widow, an FBI agent shows up, which causes the lovely widow to jump out a bathroom window. As she's running from the FBI, she gets nabbed by a man in a leather jacket who also has a ponytail and a tiny beard and is thus, clearly, a bad guy. The FBI guy follows the marshals back to their office in order to try and take over the case, using the fact that the psychic widow ran as evidence of their incompetence. Raylan thinks something is suspicious, though, and his misgivings (mis-Givens?) are proven true when the so-called FBI guy calls the kidnapper and it's clear they are working together. The kidnapper, who also has neck tattoo to prove he's up to no good, works over the widow in a motel room until she gives up Drew.

The doctor really wants to take Boyd's man to the hospital, but Boyd realizes that the guy has been alive so long, the snakes must have had their venom removed.

Raylan heads to the gym for his rendezvous with the MMA guy, only to find that he's cleaned out his locker and left. Raylan laughingly comes out of the gym, only to run into the FBI guy who just got a tip from the kidnapper that Drew was in there. Raylan puts the pieces together pretty quickly and realizes that the guy is in on the kidnapping. The FBI man knows the gig is up and after telling Raylan that his partners will kill him and his family if he turns on them, he tells Raylan where the woman is being held. Then he shoots himself in the head.

The marshals bust in just as the kidnapper is about to torture the widow some more. Art has joined the party and tells her that the kidnapper was part of a Detroit mob outfit. If she tells them what she knows about Drew, they will protect her. She claims that the only thing Drew told her was that for all intents and purposes he was dead. Art calls it bullshit, because he's Art and this is FX after 10 PM ET. She finally admits that she knows why Drew was in hiding: He witnessed a Detroit gangster kill a government informant. That's good enough for Art who promises to station two men outside her house for protection.

Boyd heads to church, where Preacher Billy calls him out for breaking and entering and getting bit by a bunch of snakes. But this time Boyd has a prop: a real live snake in a box, a snake that wasn't milked of its venom. Preacher Billy didn't know what his sister was doing, so she has no choice but to stop him before he gets bit. But Preacher Billy believes Jesus will protect him from the snake venom. So he grabs the snakes …and immediately gets bit and poisoned. Boyd leaves looking more than a little guilty.

Raylan finally realizes that Lindsay ran off with her husband. Line forms to the left to comfort him in his time of need.

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http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com:80/show/justified/truth-and-consequences-1.php
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2013-01-24
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