- Raylan hunts a killer; Carolyn takes on a former client; Willa makes a new friend.
- "The Oklahoma Wildman," opens with a flashback to 2017, when Sweety and Mansell were partners in the so-called Wrecking Crew. They rob Sweety's weed-dealer buddies, and Mansell (the titular wild man) shoots the dealers and his own henchman, to Sweety's complete shock. One of the dealers survives and Mansell is arrested days later. Sweety hires Carolyn to be Mansell's defense attorney.
In present-day Detroit, Raylan and Robinson head to Sandy and Mansell's penthouse looking for the homeowner, Dell Weams. They got a tip that Dell's car was spotted near the crime scene last night (Mansell was driving it when he T-boned Judge Guy). Robinson recognizes Sandy's name: She was with Mansell when he was arrested back in 2017. She plays like Dell is out of town and claims she hasn't seen Mansell in years.
Raylan and Robinson take a sample from Dell's smashed-up car, and have a look at Mansell's case file. Carolyn miraculously had the 2017 quadruple homicide charges against him dropped, and he's left a trail of bodies "from Oklahoma to Detroit" since. They figure out pretty quickly that Mansell is likely the guy they're looking for. Meanwhile, Mansell instructs Sandy to throw his pistol (the one he shot the judge and Rose with) in the river, and Raylan and Robinson follow her. She decides to stash the gun in the bathroom ceiling at Sweety's instead.
Carolyn invites Raylan to her office, where Mansell, her client, is lounging on the couch. She warns Raylan to back off Mansell unless he has hard proof he was involved in Judge Guy and Rose's murders. "Only two kinds of guys out in the street chasing bad guys at your age," Mansell taunts Raylan. "Ones who got passed over for the big chair, and the ones that just love it so much, they're gonna have to be dragged off. Only question is will they be breathing when it happens?"
Raylan and Robinson head to Sweety's, sure that Sandy stashed Mansell's murder weapon there. But the bar owner, who was a star bass player until he was arrested for drug possession years ago, keeps mum. He calls in Carolyn, who tells Raylan and Robinson to beat it until they can get a search warrant. Meanwhile, Mansell calls up to Raylan's hotel room for Willa, pretending to be a law enforcement officer sent to protect her.
Raylan returns to the hotel room to find a note from Willa. She's sitting at a restaurant with Mansell, under the impression he's an old friend of Raylan's. Mansell tells Raylan he heard a story about the cowboy marshal who shot a man on a Miami rooftop. It's a reference to the opening scene of the original Justified, when Raylan killed the fugitive Tommy Bucks in a quick-draw and was transferred to Kentucky as a result. Raylan drags Mansell outside and beats him senseless, which was obviously Mansell's goal. "I see you near my daughter again, and I'll f****** kill you," Raylan tells him. (It's the first time Raylan's dropped an F-bomb onscreen.) Raylan sees Willa crying inside the restaurant, having witnessed the whole thing.
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