By Couch Baron
Raylan is not thrilled that Lindsey and his twenty (!) grand in cash are gone (this possibly is in ascending order of chagrin), and Rachel offers to help him in his pursuit of Lindsey and her ex. Turns out Randall the MMA ex-husband and Lindsey have headed over to that Matthew McConaughey fight promoter "Joe"'s place, and Randall and Lindsey are planning to put up Raylan's money to for Randall to manage…gamecocks? The viability of this career aside, Randall has some serious anger-management issues with which Lindsey is most decidedly not on board and which prompt her to call Raylan from the road. When Raylan and Rachel arrive at Joe's party house, it looks like Jonestown, but conscious is Theresa from The O.C., who leads Raylan and Rachel to Joe. Raylan uses his special brand of charming intimidation to get Joe to point him in the right direction; Rachel eventually has to leave him to go to work, but not without arming him with a sawed-off shotgun. Raylan catches up with the couple and promptly blasts Randall in the gut with a beanbag bullet; however, he underestimates the healing power of Randall's rage, and soon the big guy has tackled him and they're in a fight that Raylan doesn't look very likely to win. But Lindsey settles the matter by shooting them both, and then makes her choice by knocking Randall out with the butt of the gun. However, she takes off before Raylan can recover, leaving Raylan to turn Randall over to the authorities and discover that his money has turned into so many clucking chickens. And they're not even eatin' chickens! Raylan's philosophical about the dual loss, not least because Lindsey's departure means he can finally get some much-needed sleep.
It seems Billy actually died from last week's snakebite, which is rather an unexpected choice on the show's part, and this sends Ellen May crawling back to Ava and Boyd. Not knowing whether Ellen May has blabbed about the murder to anyone, Ava is wary of the return, so Boyd has Shelby bring Cassie in to try to learn if she knows anything. If Cassie is privy to any information, she does a good job of hiding it, but Ava still thinks Ellen May might be too much of a liability for them, so Boyd suggests she send her away to work for some family of his in Alabama. Ellen May actually figures out why Ava's sending her away, and promises not to say anything, but Ava's unmoved, and even orders Colton to kill Ellen May while he's taking her to the bus station. Even as hard a man as Colton can't bring himself to kill simple old Ellen May in cold blood, but after he heads into a gas-station bathroom to steel himself with some nasal refreshment, he emerges to find her gone. The fact that she started pumping the gas before disappearing suggests that someone came along and removed her from the scene. My money's on Cassie, as I'm betting she figured out the purpose of Shelby's game, but the beauty of this show is that it could credibly have been just about anyone.