- Raylan's surveillance job on a fugitive is interrupted when he is forced to deal with his troubled father, who is causing mischief for a drug dealer who is renting from him.
- Raylan must pick sides when his estranged father goes to war with a drug runner.—FX Publicity
- Givens, Mullen and Rachel sit inside a van during day three of a stakeout. They're watching the home of the ex-wife of a fugitive.
"One more day and that's it!" says Mullen, who thinks the department is wasting precious time. Givens decides to get a closer look. He exits the van and knocks on the door of the small house, pretending to be an out-of-work landscaper looking for work. The ex-wife tells Givens to "do what you want, but I ain't paying you." So now Givens has yard work to do.
Cut to an old man twirling a baseball bat. It's the dead of night and the old dude breaks into a ramshackle house and starts destroying the decor. Sometime later, a cop wakes the old man, who has fallen asleep on the couch. Turns the old guy is none other than Arlo Givens, who actually owns the place. He rents it out and smashed up the stuff belonging to Perkins, an occupant late in paying rent. Later, the cop takes Arlo away and Perkins rushes to the bedroom, removing a panel from a closet. Whatever was behind that panel is now gone. Perkins appears quite concerned.
Later that night, Givens explains the case to Ava, who is more interested in giving the Deputy Marshal a backrub. They are soon rolling around naked in bed -- when Ava's cell phone suddenly begins to ring. She ignores it. After the love making is finished, however, Givens checks the call: His father is in jail. Again.
Givens meets Helen, Arlo's girlfriend, at a local diner. She teases Givens about knowing to call Ava to reach him -- and then asks the boy to bail out his father. Givens isn't pleased, but heads to the jail anyway. Later, Perkins bursts through the front door of Arlo's house to find Helen. "Arlo took something of mine and I want it back," he says. "I had something valuable. I put it there -- and now it's not there anymore." Helen grabs a knife and takes a swing at Perkins' hulking "nephews," but misses. They violently throw her to floor.
Father and son, meanwhile, drive home. "How many men you shot?" dad asks. "All the shit I pulled over the years, I never shot anyone. Not a one."
They arrive home to find the door busted. Inside, Helen is cleaning up shattered plates. Arlo becomes furious -- and starts searching for his baseball bat. "Arlo is up to something," Givens tells Helen. For right now, however, Arlo has revenge on his mind. He heads to the diner, where the two hulking nephews sit and eat. Using a ruse of paying them, Arlo pulls out his baseball bat and starts swinging. After getting in some vicious licks, he collapses into a booth, clutching his chest. Uh oh.
Later, Givens does yard work for the ex-wife of the fugitive, but still hasn't been invited inside. He decides to up the ante by asking to use the restroom. Inside, he spots the fugitive and pulls the man aside. "I didn't want to make a scene in front of your kids," Givens says. "I'm a Deputy U.S. Marshal and I'm here to arrest you on a outstanding warrant." The fugitive makes a move to run and Givens tackles the man, cuffing him. "Let him go!" the ex-wife screams. She is holding a large shotgun. Givens talks her down, promising leniency for the mother of two. Case closed. But not the episode.
Givens heads to the local police department and learns that Perkins has recently finished a six-year prison term for illegally selling pharmaceuticals. Interesting.
Givens then heads to the hospital, where Arlo is busy flirting with nurses. Arlo then tells Givens that he once rebelled against his own father, a preacher. Givens doesn't appear too interested -- and warns his father not to underestimate Perkins.
Later, Givens visits bar owner Johnny, Boyd's cousin. Givens wants information on Perkins, but Johnny proposes Givens work for it. The two used to play ball together, apparently, so Johnny throws Givens three pitches in the ally. After making Givens bail-out on the first pitch, Givens hits the final pitch hard, making Johnny duck. Johnny explains that Perkins is once again moving prescription drugs.
So Givens visits Perkins -- and explains that the rented house used to belong to Helen. Givens would escape to the place as a kid when Arlo was raging. "Want to know my favorite hiding spot?" Givens asks. "Come here. I'll show you." Givens then picks up his father's baseball bat and herds Perkins toward the bedroom closet. He removes the panel and discover a bags of drugs. Perkins tries to run, but Givens hits the man in the shins with the bat. Like father, like son. Perkins claims he had no idea that there were drugs in the closet. "The last time I looked in there, it was empty," he cries. So what was in there? Perkins explains he had $75,000 in drugs behind the panel... until Arlo broke in.
So Givens heads back to the hospital and commands "Helen, go outside and have a Menthol."
Arlo says. "You think I got stolen drugs? Get a warrant. Search the house."
Says Givens: "I know the OxyContin is gone and I know the money you got from it is probably buried underneath the ground... but what you didn't think about is what I'd do when I found out about you. I got you out of jail. At the very least, I'll get you back in."
Givens then accuses Helen of planning that bag of drugs in Perkins' closet.
She protests -- too much. Givens storms away. Nothing like family to ruin a cowboy's weekend.
He visits the family plot next to his father's house where his mother is buried. He looks at his own tombstone, and turns away, confident that he knows where his father has stashed his ill-gotten cash.
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