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We start with Ruiz pronouncing sentence: Boyd and his crew will live, but they're forfeiting any claim to the shipment. Boyd contests this decision, offering to get the bodies across the border (covered with all the heroin, he declines to add) -- without Hot Rod's connection. Ruiz, after apparently consulting with Yoon, gives Boyd's idea the okay, so the plan is now to go to an old associate of Darryl's, "Flores," who just so happens to hold a grudge against him or so is the story the Crowes are telling. Darryl doesn't want to do it, but Danny pushes him, although this could be all part of the act. On the way to the border, Darryl assures Boyd that they're on his side, but they don't have a chance to get too much closer before wailing from the back about the unpleasantness of riding with the corpses forces an unscheduled pit stop. Later, the Mexican cops pull the caravan over, and Boyd and Company pose as missionaries, but the cops try to extort not only protection money from them but also the truck, which turns out to be the plan as Boyd and the boys took the drugs with them in their little car and left the corpses in the truck. Flores then shows up and seems to be willing to help them out, but Jimmy's fluency in Spanish reveals that Darryl and Flores are double-crossing them (which explains Darryl's trickery in shooting down Hot Rod's guys). Boyd, however, decides to play along at least until they get out of Mexico, which hopefully will happen more quickly than the time it's taking for Ava to get out of prison.
Kendal meets up with his Uncle Jack, who Wendy disbelievingly determines is a fracker and also thinks is just there to grab some money and break the kid's heart -- but when she goes to the bathroom, she comes back to find the two of them gone for Ohio. And things just get worse, as when Wendy walks into Audrey's, she finds a grizzled old dude "Michael" looking for "Jack Anderson" from North Dakota; as smart as she is, she puts the dude off enough to get outside, shoot out his tires and escape. Meanwhile, Jack confesses to Kendal that he beat up a guy who was about to rape a friend of his, and the guy is now after him -- but Kendal calls bullshit, adding that he knows Jack's actually his father and Wendy his mother. Jack confesses that's true and also that he's been skimming from a poker game, so the guy he stole from is after him. When Michael turns up, Jack bravely runs away, leaving Kendal in his power.
Raylan invites Allison to come to Florida with him, and even though they argue about her being so close to his ex-wife and infant daughter, she agrees -- only then he gets a call from Wendy about needing his help to rescue Kendal. She offers information on her brothers' movements in Mexico, and when Raylan gets a "What are you thinking, hesitating helping this kid" look from Allison, he accedes. On the way, Wendy lets Raylan know the truth about Kendal's parentage before Jack calls and tells her that the dude's got the kid, so the three of them meet up and plan to try to pay the guy off to retrieve Kendal safely. At the meeting, it comes out that Jack beat Michael's son's brains in with a brick and when the two get into it, Raylan takes them both into custody. Wendy then confirms the truth to Kendal about being his mother and asks how he'd like things to go, after which Raylan gives Kendal the bulk of his Caller Number Seven winnings and tells him to save it for the future. Wendy admits she doesn't know what her brothers are up to other than that they're in Mexico, but Raylan is at least happy they retrieved Kendal safely. I really think he likes the kid! Also, Allison dumps Raylan, because of reasons?
In prison, Penny dislocates Ava's shoulder as part of a plan to touch base with a nurse who might be willing to get the drugs into the prison, but the initial effort is unsuccessful, leading Judith to drip a whole lot of menace over Ava. However, the nurse later tells Ava she'll be her contact if A) she doesn't tell Judith her identity and B) Ava's "man on the outside" does her an unspecified favor. So Ava's got herself into a "someday I'll call upon you to do a service for me" situation, which I'm pretty sure always ends great?
Want more? The full recap starts right below!It's the morning in Mexico, and with the air of an insurance adjuster checking out the damage at the scene of an accident, Ruiz chats on the phone as Team Crowe-der sit on the ground nearby awaiting judgment. Jimmy lets us know that he speaks Spanish by informing the rest of them that Ruiz is "bitchin' about havin' to bury us," and if his translation is accurate, it's pretty funny that Boyd and his men are only going to survive because of laziness. When Ruiz disconnects, Boyd -- well-covered by a couple of Ruiz's men -- stands and says that while he infers from Ruiz's demeanor (keeping to himself the part where Jimmy understood him) that they're not going to be handed blindfolds and cigarettes just yet, it also appears that he's not just letting them go scot-free either, and Ruiz confirms that: "You forfeit the shipment and the cash. The business relationship is over."
When Darryl protests, Ruiz points out that they shed blood after agreeing not to, but Boyd offers to get the four corpses across the border without anyone being the wiser. He prevails on Ruiz to confer with Yoon once more, and when Ruiz steps away to make another call, Dewey wonders what would happen if they got pulled over with the corpses in the car, whereupon Darryl tells him it won't be a problem since they'll be hidden "underneath all that heroin." Your Honor, may I ask a follow-up? No, because Ruiz comes back and says that if they succeed, all will be well (since they already have their lives, it seems like this means the business relationship will stay intact), but as the two groups separate, Jimmy asks how they're supposed to get the junk across the border without Hot Rod's connection. Boyd hasn't quite gotten that far yet, but Danny pipes up that they've smuggled stuff across the border before. Darryl, with what will later seem highly likely is faux-reluctance, wonders if he's talking about using "Flores," who "hates my ass," although since Flores's grievance against Darryl has to do with Darryl and Danny tag-teaming his sister, there are probably other parts of Darryl he hates even more. Danny and Darryl continue the "argument," but Danny "wins" when he says that Flores loves "green gringo cash" more than "his ugly sister," and will use a shrimp-boat to get them out. Boyd reminds Darryl that he's responsible for getting the heroin across now, given that he and Danny shot their first option, and if you're looking for it, there's a tiny bit of "thanks for okaying my evil plan" in Darryl's "Okay."
Kendal's walking down a road by some train tracks, schoolbag on his shoulder and earbuds in, when a dude in a black Mustang (or its ilk) drives up, "Back In Black" blaring on the radio, and offers, "Hey, little boy. Want a lollipop?" This would be AMBER Alert territory even without the unfortunate particular choice of candy, but Kendal's smile betrays that all's well, relatively speaking, even before he gets in the car, because this is the Uncle Jack he phoned last episode. Uncle Jack looks like a once-good-looking hustler who's past his prime, right down to the on-point detail of him wearing Wayfarers with one end piece missing, and when we cut to him and Kendal eating in a diner, he reveals that he's into fracking, just to let us know how grey to color his hat. Wendy, who's joined them, asks if he's saying he's into "the shale oil hydraulic fracturing business," and lady may not have finished that law degree but she certainly continues to impress with her practical knowledge.
Turns out, though, that Jack has simply been following the fracking circuit in order to run Hold 'Em games for roughnecks, who do well in their business and thus often have money to burn. Kendal asks if he can get another cocoa -- he seems to be as into the stuff as Terry on Brooklyn Nine-Nine likes yogurt -- and Jack overrules Wendy in saying yes, to her annoyance. Not that he couldn't be called "Uncle" for other reasons, but even here it does appear a bit weird for him actually to be Kendal's blood uncle; he doesn't seem like a blood relation to the Crowes, not to mention the fact that he seems far too young to be credibly a sibling of either of the Crowe parents. Plus, there's the fact that, when Kendal's gone, Jack asks how it is that Wendy got even prettier. Before you have time to channel Ed Rooney from Ferris Bueller's Day Off in noting how it is in their family, Wendy impatiently guesses that he's just going to get the kid's hopes up and she's going to look like the bad guy, as always. She wonders why he's there, but he informs her Kendal called him -- on more than one occasion -- and Wendy supposes that "he probably just thought it was best you visit while his brothers are gone."
After establishing that Danny still wants to separate Jack's dick from the rest of his body -- sounds like an interesting variation on the twenty-one-foot rule -- Wendy asks if he's really just there for a visit, and Jack non-answers by inquiring if that's so inconceivable before asking the returning Kendal if he'd like to go to Cedar Point in Ohio that weekend to ride the roller coasters. Kendal's down, but Wendy's wide-eyed glare suggests this is a split decision, so Jack amends the idea to them going on Kendal's holiday break. This plan, however, doesn't have the benefit of getting Kendal away from Danny nearly as soon, so it's accordingly met with much less enthusiasm from the boy before Wendy tells Kendal to finish up so she can get him back to school and then heads into the bathroom. She looks more fragile than usual as she regards herself in the mirror, while outside, Jack asks Kendal if he likes it in Harlan. Kendal replies that he hates it, so sure enough, when Wendy emerges she finds the boys gone. They probably dashed, too, so she's going to have to settle the check before she can chase them.
Outside, Kendal finally calls back a crazed Wendy, who's just returning to Audrey's, and she has him put an unconcerned Jack on, whom she tells to turn his car around this instant. As she gets off, though, her furious march is halted abruptly when, after a close-up of some dominoes ominously falling, she spies a guy sitting there waiting, and it's not Jonathan Banks, but he's got a very grizzled, no-bullshit Mike Ehrmantraut vibe going. Without preamble and in an ominously deliberate voice, he asks who she was talking to, but she deflects the question by saying she's a silent partner, and if he's looking for action the girls won't be in until later. Maybe not the best move for her to emphasize that she's alone, but it probably wouldn't matter; in any case, he asks again who was on the phone, and Wendy replies, "You keep askin' me that like it's somehow your business." I think her instinct that showing him fear is the wrong move is solid; it's more impressive that she can execute it. He stands and apologizes before introducing himself as "Michael" -- SEE -- and saying he's looking for Jack Anderson, whom he heard might be found here. I was going to say it's a good thing he showed up when the brothers aren't around, only I realized if they let him live long enough to hear his errand they'd probably give him a helping hand.
Wendy, however, denies any knowledge of Jack (also getting the information that Michael has tracked him from North Dakota) before going back behind the bar and offering him a drink; when he declines, she asks if he's a cop. He asks if he looks like one, but she rightly is like kind of before bending down and grabbing that shotgun Darryl and Danny put behind the bar for Kendal -- and smoothly hiding it in a trash bag, offering that someone's been asleep on the job. Her move is deft enough to leave his suspicions unaroused, and he even consents to that drink, which she says she'll get when she comes back. No spoilers, but I think he might need it before then. Outside, Wendy pulls the weapon out and, after we get a shot of the license plate confirming the guy's come from North Dakota, she blows out two of his tires (the minimum necessary to ground him, taking the spare into account), hops in her own vehicle and gets the hell out of there. So much for her not breaking the law, but this was a fairly dire situation and she didn't have anyone else to do it for her. Also, that's a long pre-credits sequence!
To pay her back for the drinks Allison picked up when his card got hack-attacked, Raylan gives her a bathing suit before revealing that he won a bunch of money in a radio contest -- he was caller Number Seven. Allison takes this at face value (when someone who knows Raylan might raise an eyebrow at the idea of him even attempting to call in to one of those things), but the thing Raylan says isn't so easy to take in stride -- he's planning to go down to Florida to see the ex and daughter, and he'd like Allison to come with. She wonders if the bathing suit is for Winona's benefit, but he wasn't thinking the two of them would necessarily even meet -- he just thought with her suspended they could go have some fun. She doesn't seem entirely uninterested -- if she were, I'd think serious psychiatric counseling before returning to the job would be warranted -- but she still thinks the scenario will be weird, and he admits as much, "but I'm tryin'."
After a pause, she agrees to come, but when Raylan's phone rings for the third time this scene, she tells him to get it, as it's obviously important. When he accedes, Wendy tells him she needs his help, as Kendal's been abducted. Raylan correctly guesses that's more a matter for the police and takes great pleasure in adding that he's on vacation, but Wendy offers information on her brothers -- they're in Mexico "and you'll get the rest later." She also offers to have Allison's suspension rescinded, but Raylan smiles that she's enjoying her paid leave. The mention, however, prompts Allison to ask who it is, and when Raylan tells her Kendal's run off with an uncle who has a bad man on his tail, Allison's like, and you're seriously not out the door already? Well, I don't entirely disagree, Allison, but at least let him negotiate some more, as long as we don't use Wendy's definition of the term. Raylan, however, doesn't see any jokes in his girl's look: "Where are ya?"
Where they are not is Mexico, but the truck carrying Team Crowe-der is, and in the cab, Darryl tells Boyd he knows what he's thinking. Boyd demurs fairly strongly, but when Darryl guesses he's wondering if he can trust "these dusty-ass Crowe boys," Boyd admits that it's the case. He doesn't remark that this is a lot of talk about Darryl's ass for only the second act, but that's what I'm here for. Darryl tells Boyd he'll come to realize he can make a lot more money with the Crowes than without, but Boyd is a discriminating buyer: "Needin' you and trustin' you are two altogether different things." In fairness, Darryl, he's been witness to both sides of a lot of double-crosses. Darryl presses on, saying that he hopes Boyd will someday think of him as family, but Boyd is like sure – but remember that I "just executed the last blood relative that I had." I'd kind of love to see Darryl one-up him by mentioning feeding his brother's corpse to an alligator, but just then they hear a ruckus coming from the back, so Boyd pulls over. The shouting sounds like it might result in blood, but when Boyd and Darryl open up the back, they learn the other four are freaking out because it's crazy hot and -- you might not believe this -- the corpses aren't smelling their best as a result. Too bad you killed Lee, Boyd; he would have come in handy in such a situation. The high temperatures and high tempers cause Carl and Danny to come to blows -- despite their cover story of a couple episodes ago, not the good kind -- and we leave the scene with no clear solution but a little Dewey comic relief, which has yet to become a bad thing.
With Kendal half-asleep in the front seat, Jack, outside the car, is on the phone arguing about his credit card having been rejected, so at least he and Raylan will have a potential bonding subject. He then apparently hears about Michael having tracked him, and when he hangs up, he agitatedly tells Kendal he was at a motel the couple nights before and the manager was hassling him about some charges he didn't make. I hope this isn't reflective of his poker skills, because I don't think he'd be a less convincing liar if he were on meth. Jack then starts to pitch some cockamamie idea about going all the way to Six Flags Over Texas, but Kendal informs him he's not a kid anymore. "Are you in trouble?" Jack, with only marginally more authority, tells Kendal a story about saving his buddy's sister from getting raped in a bar; he put the guy in a coma, but now he's awake and is after him. It seems fairly obvious that if his position were as righteous as he describes, he would have other recourse than to flee across the country, but Kendal seems taken in as he guesses Jack can handle the guy ("again," he doesn't add). Jack, however, still thinks Kendal should go, but Kendal replies, "Where?" Kids today, always so practical!
Ava and Penny head into the bathroom, and without further ado, Penny tells Ava, "Hold on tight." I'm probably not adding much to the conversation by saying that that can't be good, but it can't! Ava grabs the metal sink fixture and bites down on a roll of toilet paper before Penny cradles her arm and then flips her over, dislocating her shoulder and falling on top of Ava with the effort. AUGH. I think I'd rather have a broken bone; those at least heal and you can get on with your life. Penny calls in the guards, and Ava's in too much pain to tell them to hurry up, but if you could read her thoughts that one would probably deafen you.
Raylan is waiting for Wendy at, I think, the spot where the last scene with Kendal and Jack took place; when she arrives, he tells her that cell-phone location data indicates they were there, but aren't anymore. They then have a charged conversation that's initially a little too antagonistic to be flirty, but evolves into Raylan telling Wendy that he thinks of her family like cancer, and he's just working on a cure. I know it seems odd that that sentiment is both given and received more amiably, but I just work here. Wendy goes back to agitated when she says she just wants Kendal home safely, but Raylan points out that even so, she's the one who took him out of "a good Christian foster home and threw him back to those wolves." Wendy suggests that they defer their three-parts-fighting-one-part-flirting in favor of finding Kendal, and it's not that I didn't enjoy the scene but it's frankly probably gone on too long already.
Jack tries to get Kendal's help to steal a different car, and instead of pointing out that it might be wiser to do it at a venue other than a strip mall with dozens of people milling about, he goes for the more macro point of asking Jack exactly how much trouble he's in. He goes on that Jack lies about everything and always has, and when Jack challenges him to name an example, Kendal replies, "You're my dad and Wendy's my mom." Jeez, Kendal, save that one for Final Jeopardy. Jack's too stunned to deny it, but after a few moments he asks how long Kendal's known, and Kendal replies that it's been a long time and he figured it out on his own. Rather than speak as a son to his father, he reverses the dynamic by telling Jack to cut the shit and come clean already. Jack tells him he was, as he said, traveling with that poker game when he got the idea to buy into a fracking operation (and he hilariously has to pause when an old dude obliviously barrels through to drive off the car Jack was trying to steal), so he started skimming from his regular game and one whale in particular; the guy found out and is after him for the cash he's carrying, to the tune of thirty-five grand. Kendal's touched that Jack turned around and came back for him when he was on his way to Mexico, but he's less impressed when Michael pulls up and Jack turns tail and runs. Catching up to Kendal, Michael growls "What a pussy," and no arguments here, Michael, but since you bring it up, wouldn't the studlier thing to do be to chase Jack down rather than hold his fourteen-year-old "nephew" hostage?
Ava, still seemingly in a lot of pain, comes in to see the doctor? Nurse? She tells her the injury happened once before, apparently while participating in high-school sports, and the woman gingerly rotates the affected shoulder until Ava tells her it feels better. She warns Ava that it'll be sore again later and offers some aspirin, but Ava's like, I hear maybe you might be able to bring in some more powerful painkillers, and I'd imagine she'd elbow the woman to drive home the very subtle point were it not for the injury that brought her here in the first place. The woman, however, isn't trying to hear that, adding that if Ava dislocated her own shoulder just to try to make this happen she's an idiot and spinning on her heel: "Get your aspirin from the dispensary." Wait, it's that easy?
Riding in his car, Raylan asks if Wendy doesn't see how trouble follows her family, and she snaps, "The men, mostly." Well, that's not a "no." He asks what they're up to in Mexico, but Wendy chooses to answer a different question: "Kendal's not my brother. He's my son." She adds that Jack is Kendal's father, and Raylan's response is priceless: "Good Lord, why?" Hee. Wendy, just as hilariously, bites out that she doesn't know; she then softens a bit as she says she was only twenty-two when she met him, and she knew he was a scumbag but for some reason she found him "intoxicatin'." She goes on that he proved his worthlessness by abandoning her when she got pregnant, but Raylan's like, bored now. Can we talk about Darryl and how I can put him away? It's pretty hard-assed of Raylan not even to devote a few seconds to commenting on the Kendal revelation, but I suppose he really wants to get back to that vacation. Wendy's like, talk to me when you get Kendal, and then Jack calls and babbles at her about being smart and scaring up one of her brothers and how he screwed up baaaad before admitting, "He's got Kendal." He doesn't elaborate, which is just as well, because if Wendy kills him with her bare hands it's probably not going to help.
As they drive again, Raylan is speculating on how Michael could have caught up to Jack -- he might have had a second car, had a crony keeping tabs on the situation, etc. Wendy is like, I thought marshals were supposed to be better at tracking people down than your average thug, but Raylan suggests that they should perhaps live in the now and focus on getting Kendal back? Seconded!
On the cafeteria line, Judith sidles up to Ava, and Ava answers her unspoken question with "It's comin'." Ava, lying to Judith doesn't seem very smart, and it has nothing to do with her religious position. On that last point, though, Judith wonders if Ava went to church as a girl, and Ava replies that she did, so Judith points out that obviously it didn't take before offering that the same was true for her. They sit down -- and the way the two women nearest them clear out at a casual glance from Judith says a lot -- before Judith explains that what her group has going on is prayer. She adds that pretty much all her girls are in prison because of a man, and when she asks Ava if she's any different, Ava's wordless look is enough to confirm that she's not. Judith speculates that Ava was a cheerleader, went out with the Harlan quarterback, got married and had it good for a while before things got ugly and she got a divorce. Ava looks uncomfortable with Judith obviously hitting close to home, but does correct her that she ended her marriage to a running back by shooting her husband, and Judith's amused: "Good for you, sister!" Heh. Emboldened, Ava asks whom Judith prays to, but Judith tells her God, of course; she prays for guidance and strength, as no man is coming to save them. It's not what Ava wants to hear, but Boyd's pretty far away. Judith brings it back around to tell Ava that bringing the drugs into the prison is her responsibility, not God's, and she lets her face turn ugly for a moment before walking away, and not that she needs it but it's a testament to Dale Dickey because Judith suddenly looks terrifying.
Jack, Wendy and Raylan have convened, and Jack takes a call from Michael and sets a meeting place to exchange Kendal for the money. Raylan and Wendy then have a contest to see who's less impressed with Jack (hung jury on that one), and Jack only adds fuel to that fire by admitting that he's merely got twenty of the thirty-five grand Michael's expecting, as the other fifteen went to the car he's now abandoned. Wendy and Jack then bicker about Kendal, with Jack taking the position that Wendy and her family of psychos drove Kendal away and Wendy countering that Jack is, essentially, an irresponsible scumbag, and Raylan is like, I will turn this rescue around if you don't shut up before instructing Jack to explain that all he's got is twenty; Raylan will mediate to make sure the deal goes through. Jack can't believe Raylan is going to let Michael walk and gets in his face about not caring about Kendal's fate and whether he's "bonging" Wendy, and Raylan, his patience far less strained than I would expect, explains that he's only after the information that Wendy will supply. I have to admit the scenes in this subplot are starting to drag; the dialogue is snappy as always but we're seeing so much minutiae that it's dragging down the pacing, not to mention the part where A) Jack is completely uninteresting as a pathological liar who obviously doesn't care two shits about his kid, and B) it's somewhat straining credulity that Raylan wouldn't have found a way to shut Jack up already.
It's night, and Boyd and Darryl are back in the cab of the truck with a small sedan now trailing them. We then hear and see a couple police cars behind the pair, and Darryl cocks his gun, but Boyd cautions him not to do it unless he has to. "If you have to, you make every shot count." I'm not worried about Darryl, but you might want to find a way to get that message to Danny. Team Crowe-der exits their vehicles with their hands in view as the leader of the Mexican cops yells at them in Spanish; Boyd has Jimmy speak on his behalf until the cop comments, "Better I speak English, no?" I have the feeling Jimmy sounds redneck in Spanish as well as English. Boyd tells the cop they're carrying Bibles, as they're "missionaries here to spread the Word to the far-flung citizenry," and Darryl gets in on the act: "Have you accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and personal savior?" I don't know -- if this heroin thing doesn't work out Boyd and Darryl might have a future together in door-to-door grifting. They've got the one-two punch down.
The cop has his guys stand at ease but informs the clueless gringos that the country is eighty percent Catholic already, but Boyd and Darryl keep up the God-ery in stereo, so the cop switches gears to how the road is so dangerous to travel at night, and "who will protect you lambs in your journey? Who but us?" Boyd asks if he's attempting to extort servants of the Lord, but the cop is like, look -- white people come to Mexico for two reasons, margaritas and drugs, and you don't seem drunk, get what I'm saying? I do like the parallel of the prison church group being drug suppliers; it's a good reminder that this subplot will affect that one. Boyd, for his part, decides that his missionary persona has now put up a sufficient fight as he asks how much, and the cop genially quotes him a thousand. Darryl's mouth feels like it's a good idea to ask if that's pesos, which results in the price being doubled to two thousand U.S. dollars, but Boyd calmly pulls out his wallet and hands over that cash and more. The cop is then like, oh by the way we'll take the truck too, and that causes protest in the ranks that prompts the cop to redraw his gun, but when everyone shuts up, Boyd deliberately says the truck isn't for sale. The cop, however, informs Boyd that everything's for sale in Mexico, and his tone makes me glad I haven't been privy to all the "transactions" he's witnessed, I can tell you that. Boyd reluctantly hands over the keys, whereupon his crew complains about the injustice of it all before rushing out to Los Angeles to accept their Oscars. Also, I wonder if they got this little car to help obscure their actual plan, but fitting six people in it seems like it would be a chore even if Darryl weren't a swamp giant.
Raylan goes to talk to Kendal -- and it didn't occur to me before but it makes sense that he'd have a soft spot for a boy growing up around such bad influences -- and basically gives him an It Gets Better speech about his eighteenth birthday, and then he totally both blows up my joke and cuts the saccharine with self-aware mocking by actually saying "It gets better." Damn you, Raylan; also, hee. Kendal, familiar with the language, says he's not gay, but Raylan tells him the same principle applies and I see what he's saying but perhaps his follow-up advice to "keep your head down" could have been phrased differently. Kendal asks what the hell Raylan knows about any of this, so Raylan makes my observation textual when he says he grew up with "the asshole king of 'em all." Rest In Some Peace, Arlo.
He goes on that he had many friends who grew up in criminal surroundings and failed to break free, with the result that very few of them are alive today, although I suppose if Kendal wants to hear how it's done right he could go to Boyd. He's got a connection there now. Kendal doesn't seem to have much use for Raylan's sincere advice, but he does take notice when Raylan hands over the cash he won thanks to Fleming (he told Allison earlier he had two grand), although his first question is to ask if Raylan is "some kind of pervert." Not when it comes to you, kid, but more generally I'd bet there are a lot of people who hope so. Raylan amusedly says he doesn't want anything from Kendal other than that he save the money for his future, and Kendal calls after Raylan that he'd rather buy an ATV or a gun (and a lot of cocoa!), but it seems like his way of thanking Raylan. Speaking of which, Wendy wonders if this is where she's supposed to be grateful, but Raylan -- remaining on point until the end -- asks her about her brothers' activities in Mexico. Unfortunately, Wendy was bluffing about that part, and Raylan is pissed enough that he actually sputters for a second before asking if she even knows where in Mexico they are. She tells him no before echoing a line we've heard before: "Isn't that what you marshals do? Find people?" He sighs and looks skyward as he reminds himself he could be in Florida right now, but then kind of works through it as he continues that at least he rescued the kid, and Wendy sounds sincere as she tells him thanks again. Raylan: "That was your first 'thank you'." Well, Wendy, you can't begrudge him that, especially since it's true.
Ava comes to Judith and tells her the drugs are coming, although she's not saying how. Judith looks askance at that last bit, but Ava explains that she still doesn't know Judith regardless of her story, so what's to stop Judith from cutting her out? Judith asks if Ava doesn't trust her, and Ava's like, not only that but I don't understand you -- "your whole God story, it don't add up." Judith goes back to her book as she allows that she's disappointed, but I can't tell if it's "disappointed, not angry" or "so disappointed I'm going to chop off the rest of your hair."
At a small outdoor cantina, Team Crowe-der is celebrating the success of their plan -- as it turns out, they crammed all the drugs into the little car and left the bodies in the truck. I'd imagine that's going to mean the end of their relationship with Yoon at the very least, but I don't suppose they had much choice. I doubt Yoon's organization will leave it at that, though. Darryl lays it on thick about what a great team he and Boyd make, but Boyd points out that they haven't succeeded yet. He adds that Flores was supposed to be there already, but Darryl assures him he'll come (interesting how much surer he seems of Flores now), and sure enough, a car presently appears. When Flores and his two guys get out, Darryl quickly -- and far too easily, it seems -- strikes a deal to give Flores one of their fifty (!) bricks of heroin, plus the car, in payment for border passage, but Boyd once again is a discriminating buyer of bullshit and as such brings up the story about Darryl and Danny going to town on Flores's sister. Since this show is good, it's not clear whether this is the first Flores is hearing about it or not, but it certainly seems likely as Darryl stalls long enough for Flores to take in what's going on and then make up an excuse about white guys sleeping with his sister being a dime a dozen.
Boyd smiles big and hands over the keys to the small car, but as Flores and his guys head for it (Team Crowe-der is going to take the Suburban-esque vehicle in which Flores arrived), Boyd watches them with deadly earnestness. When they think it's safe, two of Flores's guys start whispering in Spanish -- but Jimmy overhears them and calls Boyd over, asking if he's got any money so he can get a roadie. When Boyd's close, Jimmy tells him one of the guys was just talking about Darryl having called Flores on Tuesday, so obviously, Darryl had all this planned all along, which as I mentioned in the recaplet explains why he shot Hot Rod's men in the first place. For now, though, Boyd acts like there's nothing wrong as he jauntily heads back to the car, calling shotgun on the way. Darryl, I'd suggest you take that as a warning in addition to a claim on the passenger seat.
Raylan turns up to Allison's, and although she seems happy that he succeeded in rescuing Kendal, even he can tell something might be off. She initially denies it, though, so he goes to grab a beer as he tells her Wendy's going to get her reinstated as promised. He then brings up Florida, saying he's ready but they might want to go a bit more budge than they planned given that he gave away the contest money. She points out that now she's got to go back to work, so he suggests they do it another time and plan it out right, and she looks at him with appreciation -- but tells him they're not going. "I'm breakin' it off." I mean, I always knew she had some doubts about him, but there's no one thing he's done recently that made this move apparent, so I'm with Raylan when he replies "How 'bout that" without sarcasm. Maybe it was you not wearing a hat at any point this episode? See you week!
John Ramos is a writer and film producer living in Los Angeles. His new film, a documentary on online privacy and the exploitation of personal data called Terms And Conditions May Apply, a New York Times Critics' Pick, is now on iTunes here. You can get news on it from the film's Twitter accountor website, or check out trackoff.us to learn how to protect your privacy. Also, you can email John at couchbaron@gmail.com, follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/couchbaron, or check out his blog, "Pull Up A Chair," which he'd just love for you to stop by.