- Boyd steps up his battle with the new preacher in Harlan, the marshals run into trouble trying to interview fugitive Drew Thompson's "widow," and Raylan confronts Lindsey's ex husband and tells him to leave town.
- Cassie St. Cyr walks into the darkened Last Chance Holiness tent to find Boyd sitting alone in the congregation seats. "That's your brother's room, huh? The one you were sneaking out of in the dead of the night?" Boyd asks with a leering smirk. "That's all you doing in there? Tucking him in... and all his serpents?" Boyd tells Cassie that he knows she's the brains of the operation. He offers a bag of cash, but she rejects the "30 pieces of silver that High Priest Caiaphas took to Judas." However, she admits that she's open to a conversation... "a more expensive one." He's pleased to know that they "speak the same tongues." She asserts that Boyd keeps misjudging her and Billy because "we're not afraid of you. You want us gone, you're going to have to build us a place to go," says Cassie, demanding a permanent church in another town. Boyd responds in a stage whisper "In that case, ma'am, I think we've misjudged each other," and leaves.
Elsewhere, Raylan and Lindsey discuss the recent arrival of the bartender's husband, Randall Kusik, a semi-professional brawler. Turns out he's the jealous type and was recently released from prison. Just more one reason for Raylan to watch his back.
Later, Boyd, Colton and Jimmy return to the church with nefarious intentions. "Carrot didn't work," Boyd says. "That means it's time for the stick." Colton and Jimmy enter the unlit tent and soon hear hissing. Serpents litter the floor -- and Jimmy is bitten. He panics and thrashes about as shots are fired wildly. He falls to the ground, screaming only to confront a coiled serpent. The creature strikes and he is bitten on the cheek just as Colton fires and severs the head from the body. Jimmy's screams intensify.
Back at the bar, Colton carries the snake-bitten Jimmy in and dumps him on the pool table, still with the severed serpent's head with its fangs firmly embedded in his cheek. Colton says he'd tried to raise Johnny for his doctor contact but couldn't find him. Boyd orders Colten to locate and retrieve a doctor.
Raylan pays a visit to Randall (Robert Baker) in the locker room of the boxing gym and touches on the badger game he and Lindsey use to play until one too many "marks" put they hands on his wife and was savagely beaten for his lust. The husband went to prison, doing time for the both of them, he says.
They discuss which Florida prison Randall had done his time in. "Glades?" asks the marshal; "Oklaloosa" the ex-con replies. The marshal notes that the conditions of Randall's release from prison required him to stay in Florida. "Yet here you are," Raylan concludes. "I'm going to give you to, say, 6:00 o'clock," he'll send him back "in cuffs or a box." But Randall would rather not leave town. Instead, he tells Raylan he's going to "put a limp" in the marshal's Gary Cooper walk and "write my name all over that pretty face o'yours." He talks about the last man who laid hands on his wife... and how that man was "marked" by Randall by the way he limps and slurs his speech. Raylan smiles coolly and says, "Sounds like we have a date."
Raylan returns to Marshals' HQ where Art is chewing out Deputy Marshal Rachel Brooks for losing a suspect, Andre Devoe (LaMonica Garrett in a deleted scene), because she failed to call for backup. "But Raylan does it all the time!" she pleads. Art is unswayed because he's not in the market for more Raylans. "He's a lost cause," Art scolds her, "I still have some hope for you."
Art has discovered an outstanding Federal witness warrant, sealed so the reason is not known, for Drew Thompson. Raylan and Tim are sent to the Masterson Station home of Thompson's supposed widow to "see how she reacts to you breaking the news of Drew's undemise." As Raylan is leaving, Art asks him for his opinion on what's going on with Rachel. Raylan's exit line: "If I had one, I sure as hell wouldn't tell the boss."
Inside Wynn Duffy's trailer, Johnny has arrived to once again offer a partnership, noting that Boyd would kill him if he knew about it. Wynn worries that it was Boyd who sent Johnny, "I keep remembering our mutual pal Devil who assured myself and Mr. Quarles that he could count on your support in his move against your cousin. I keep thinking if that had worked out for him, we probably would have heard something by now." Johnny explains that it was Boyd who put him in his wheelchair. "I want to believe you," Wynn says, and elicits from Johnny his offer to help Wynn kill Boyd, almost as if has a recording device running.
At the bar with a badly suffering Jimmy sprawled on the pool table, Boyd, Colton and the very apprehensive Doctor Painter (Scot Zeller painfully remove the severed snake's head fangs from the young man's cheek.
As Raylan and Tim approach the home of the one time Mrs. Thompson, Tim relates that she has "seventeen fraud arrests, plus the LPD's been investigating a series of recent burglaries at the homes of her clients."
The woman, Eve Munro (Julia Campbell), greets them at her door and launches into some patter about "reading" why they have come and invites them in. Raylan deduces that "she's a psychic," and Tim clarifies, "Uh, a certified spiritualist." "Certified by who?" Raylan wonders as they follow her inside.
Eve gaves the marshals a little background on "psychometry, extra-sensory perception through physical contact," and when Raylan references a Stephen King movie from the '80s, she recogzizes that he's a "skeptic."
The marshals tell the one time Mrs. Drew Thompson that Drew might not be dead after all. She claims to have no idea. When Raylan tells her that "some bad people are looking for him and the first place they may come is here," she looks intently at the marshal and tells him that she sees "so much death around you, both of you."
Raylan removes he hand from his and tells her "Ma'am, we don't have time for this," but she persists. "You're doing something later today, something you know you shouldn't but you're going to do it anyway." Tim notes that he does "somethng stupid everyday" and asks her to be a little more specific.
"You're meeting someone, someone bad," she tells him and he is still dismissive until she says "This is personal... a weightlifter? A fighter?" Now she has Raylan's full attention as he frowns and asks, "How'd you do that?"
In a brief exchange with an inquiring Tim, Raylan reveals that he's meeting Lindsey's ex-husband at "that boxing gym over on the East side... showtime's at 6:00 pm. Are we all done here?"
Tim notices a car parked outside. "Gotta room in this house without windows? Go there," Raylan tells Eve. The marshals go outside as she hides in a half-bath with a window. They direct the intruder to move very slowly as he pulls out his credentials. "Don't shoot him unless it seems appropriate," Raylan says to Tim. The man is FBI agent Alex Barnes (Josh Stamberg). When Eve hears that, she crawls out the window to escape... and is quickly sucker punched by a young thug with long hair, Mason Goines (Michael Graziadei) who carts her off. Soon enough, the marshals and the FBI agent realize Ms. Monroe is missing.
Back at the marshals' office, Agent Barnes announces that his organization will be taking over the Thompson case. "The best thing you fellas can do is stay out of my way," he finishes with a smile before exiting the office. "I'm telling you, something ain't right," Raylan says to Art and Tim.
Barnes then enters the elevator and calls the long haired punk who abducted Ms. Monroe to see if it all went as planned. It did. The punk promises him that Barnes' family, at least, will die quickly if things go south. No such assurance for Barnes.
Goines then takes Ms. Monroe to a ratty motel room and ties her to a chair. He smacks her viciously and pulls the gag from Eve's mouth. "Where's Drew?" he asks before pushing her chair over backwards to the floor. He threatens to "piss on that sock before I put it back." He doesn't believe her when Eve says she just found out that her former husband was still alive, and tells the terrified woman "You don't worry about how long you gonna live. Worry about how slow you gonna die."
Johnny returns to the bar to find Boyd, Ava and Colton waiting for him, wanting to know where he's been. The still nervous Doctor Painter wants to take Jimmy to a hospital, explaining that even if half the bites are "dry, the amount of time it took him to get treatment, he should have been dead hours ago." Boyd digests this information.
Raylan goes back to the gym for his six o'clock showdown with Randall, but the janitor (Richard Augustine) tells him that the brawler has packed up and gone. Outside the gym Givens runs into Barnes who pretends to have gotten a tip about Thompson being there. Raylan doesn't buy it, noting that the only people who knew he'd be at the gym were Art and Eve Monroe.
So how did the FBI agent find him? When Raylan threatens to check out Barnes' cell' 'phone records, the dirty agent slowly raises his service weapon. "The only way to help yourself now is to tell us who your partners are before they kill her," Raylan says. Barnes has no intention of going to prison, or risking the wrath of his mystery employers. Raylan says they can get him protection and put his family in witness security. "You don't know these people," Barnes replies and tells Raylan where he can find Eve -- Hillview Motel -- before putting his gun to his head and pulling the trigger.
At the motel, Goines is getting rougher with Ms. Monroe, who still claims not to know where her ex-husband might be. He pulls a knife and makes it clear that he's going to kill her slowly and painfully anyhow. The door bursts open and Tim and Raylan enter accompanied by a number of local law enforcement, guns drawn. Ms. Monroe is saved. Later Art arrives to explain that Goines was working for Theo Tonin (the late Robert Quarles crime boss in Detroit). He then threatens not to provide Eve with further police protection unless she cooperates. Art continues to interrogate her until she finally decides to spill the beans, explaining how her husband told her he was going to fake his death because "Drew saw Theo Tonin murder a government informant."
As Eve is leaving, Raylan asks her how she knew where to send the late Agent Barnes because he never mentioned exactly which gym his "six o'clock appointment" was at. "I told you," Eve replies matter-of-factly, "I have a gift."
Reverend Billy is preaching to the congregation, including Ellen May, when Boyd enters. Boyd carries with him a long metal tool box. Inside is a "canebreak rattler snake pulled this very day from a rock crevice alongside the Cumberland River." Boyd knows that since Jimmy didn't die, Billy's "poisonous snakes" have been rendered non-lethal. Boyd invites Billy to handle the snake he has brought as a gift. Just as Billy is about to do it, Cassie intervenes and tries to dissuade her brother, admitting her deception as the congregation stirs uneasily at the idea of being hoodwinked.
Boyd realizes that Billy is a true believer who didn't know that sister Cassie was milking the snakes. Shamed before his flock, he decides to save face by handling Boyd's snake. Boyd warns the young preacher not to push his luck, but an embarrassed Billy won't listen. He pulls the snake from the container and holds it over his head. "Praise Jesus!" Billy cries triumphantly... then the snake bites him on the arm. Billy takes several steps forward and collapses to the ground. "Somebody call an ambulance!" Cassie screams. Boyd exits, a flicker of conscience in his eyes over bringing down a genuine man of faith and causing his death.
At the bar, Raylan finds Rachel. He has a drink with his colleague, who was recently berated by Art for being reckless. Is Raylan's behavior contagious? He then notices that Lindsey isn't around. Raylan goes upstairs to find that his apartment has been tossed and his baby money stash is missing.
"I guess she got tired of waiting," Rachel observes as Raylan smiles ruefully and nods in agreement.
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