- Raylan tries to track down Randall, Lindsey, and his stolen money. Meanwhile, Ava has to figure out how to tie up loose ends with Ellen Mae.
- Raylan, his apartment above the bar tossed and the stash of moonlighting money missing, tries to put the place back together. Apparently everyone knew he had a baby fund stash. Raylan wonders if Lindsey might have absconded willingly with Randall. "I'm thinkin' you should have seen this coming," Rachel says, and asks how much is missing. "A goodly sum," he replies, pouring himself a drink. "You going to report it?" Raylan declines. Rachel wonders if Lindsey's overnight bag is missing, and Raylan reluctantly acknowledges that it is, adding "It don't mean that she ain't in trouble."
Still in partial denial, Raylan says "I just... kinda thought she liked me, is all." Rachel asks if he has any idea where they may have headed with his money. "Some... maybe," he says. Rachel tosses him the car keys and says, "Well then, let's find out."
Lindsey and Randall are, in fact, at Joe Hoppus' place, where a huge party is being thrown. They've brought Raylan's money to him as Randall's looking into financing his own "wrecking crew." Hoppus (Joshua Close) leads them into his bar-equipped inner office, accompanied by the silent and armed Rufus. Randall is offered a glass of $1100-a-bottle tequila and asks instead for a Mountain Dew. Hoppus tells them that he'd just had "some hippie chick feng shui the place to keep the undesirable energy out there with the (partying) animals." When Lindsey wonders why he lets "folks tear your house up this way," Hoppus tells her that if she's looking for work, he could "always use someone to clean up the place... among other things."
"Hey, man!" Randall says sharply, "you're talking to my wife!" He then explains that they were able to lay their hands on a wad of cash earlier than expected. "All you gotta do is deliver what you promised," Randall tells Hoppus, who agrees to make a call, but continues to make inappropriate remarks to Lindsey about Randall's sexual prowess until things get heated. It looks like there might be a physical confrontation as Rufus goes to draw his handgun. Randall tells him, staring at Hoppus, "Now you'd better be a fast draw back there, Cinderella. I get ahold of that little girl pistol, they'll be pulling it out of your ass with forceps." Hoppus, ignoring his own unseemly and provocative language, reminds Randall "You are in my home, man, why don't you sit down and act civil." After a further physical demonstration by Randall to hurry things along, Hoppus wants to know who they stole the money from. Randall says not to worry about it. As Hoppus makes a call about the meeting Randall wants to put their ill-gotten $20,000 to work, Randall tells Lindsey "See, baby, I told you this thing was meant to be."
Ellen May enters Johnny's bar. She tells Boyd she has no place to go. Boyd counters that she sacrificed her home with him. She's been traumatized by seeing Preacher Billy's gruesome demise. He tells her that it was the choices Billy made that led to his death, but says the decision about whether she can return is up to the lady of the house.
Ava arrives and the simple-minded whore says "I can work, Ava. I can start at the bottom and take the ones nobody else wants." Ava asks how her God would feel about that. "I don't know. I just want to come home... can I, can I, can I come home, please?" she pleads with a nervous smile.
Boyd and Ava have a private conversation, musing over whether Ellen May's got an ulterior motive. Boyd believes she's telling the truth -- she simply has nowhere else to go and she just needs a place to live. Ava's worried about the secrets Ellen May is privy to and has no idea what's in her head if she starts to unravel. Boyd wants to find out if Ellen May may have unburdened herself to anyone about anything, or could get the urge to come clean about Ava killing Delroy. Ava doesn't want to live waiting for the other shoe to drop, but killing Ellen May is the only other alternative she sees, and she isn't ready for that.
Boyd sends his men to find Cassie to learn if Ellen May confessed to anything. If Ellen May told Billy about Delroy, she'd know it, too. They'll start testing Ellen May there.
Rachel and Raylan visit Joe's place in the morning to sort through the party dregs at Hoppus', looking for Randall. Everybody is extremely hung over, but they get some information out of the most alert of the revelers (Jeffery A. Baker). Then fighter/bartender Gina (Navi Rawat) offers to wrestle Raylan for access to Hoppus. She says she's joking but tells them that Hoppus won't talk to Rachel because he doesn't like blacks or cops. She agrees to take the marshals into the house to meet Hoppus, who is having sex with two female guests. Raylan interrupts Joe in the act and asks nicely for the whereabouts of Randall and Lindsey. He tells Raylan that Randall and Lindsey bounced. Rachel wants to know where they went and Hoppus asks for a warrant. Raylan threatens to bring the weight of the law down on him and Joe reaches for a phone to call his lawyer, but Raylan grabs him by the scruff of the neck and straightens him out. He tells Hoppus they're scam artists and that he can help them. Hoppus tells the girls to leave and tells Raylan that anybody who didn't see "grafter Barbie" coming deserved to be ripped off. Raylan tells him he knows that Randall wants to manage fighters and asks him to tell him what's up. It turns out the money Randall and Lindsey stole from Raylan was a down payment on managing a cock-fighting ring. Raylan's got a couple of hours to get to Versailles, Kentucky to stop the deal.
Cassie is soon brought in by Sheriff Shelby, who warns the woman that Boyd's men are looking for her. "He will kill you quick as look at you twice," the sheriff says. Cassie, still in mourning for her brother, weeps and accuses Boyd of killing him. The sheriff tells her no crime was committed but she should be warned, saying that Boyd is unfettered by a conscience. He tells her that if anyone has confessed anything to her, her life could be in danger. The Sheriff asks her to tell him some of the dirt so that he can move on Boyd. She tells him he's a drug pusher and a pimp and he says to tell him something he didn't know. She says Boyd will get his eventually from the good Lord above, but, offering no new revelalations about Boyd or Ava, the Sheriff wishes her the best and she shoves off. After Cassie leaves, it's revealed that Boyd has been listening in via Shelby's speaker phone. The Sheriff tells Boyd that he's got what he needed, and abruptly hangs up on him.
At a gas station/convenience store Lindsey flirts with the clerk, Alvin (David Dean Bottrell) while Randall enters, steals beer and exits. Later, the two share a drink and a laugh. Lindsey gets turned on hearing Randall talk about the "Bruce Lee of chickens" they've just acquired with Raylan's money, and climbs on top of Randall and starts making out with him. Randall asks her if she liked leading the counter man on while he stole from the store. She tells him to keep his eyes on the prize. Randall can't erase the thought of her having enjoyed talking about "tasteful boudoir shots" with Alvin, even if she was deliberately distracting the man so a crime could be committed. Randall drives back to the gas station and beats up Alvin. While Randall is engaged, Lindsey makes a call on a pay phone but must hang up quickly when Randall reappears. She tells him that she was calling 911 so the clerk wouldn't die.
Ava is satisfied by the overheard conversation between Cassie and Sheriff Shelby, but she still thinks Ellen May's too unpredictable -- firing guns at clients and taking too much Oxy. Boyd has another idea: they could send her to stay with his cousin Lonny in Alabama who owns a no-tell motel, "the kind that has HBO and no ice," and has a ministry out back. Lonny found God after he lost his leg in a drunk-driving accident, so he'd see Ellen May's "crazy bullsh-t" as a challenge; and if she didn't like the job or what he was preaching, there are other churches and whorehouses there.
But Ellen May is not receptive to the idea of leaving Harlan even after all she's seen. Harlan is her home. She always thought she'd meet a boy and buy a little house, even get pregnant if he wanted her to. Ava tries to tell her she's been looking for a way out, and this is it. It's a chance to start over. She gives Ellen May $1,000 in cash and tells her to make something out of herself that she can be proud of: "Tell it all to Whoopi Goldberg one day on 'The View (1997).' Your rise from humble beginnings." This is incredibly decent of Ava and Boyd -- better job placement than most colleges probably have these days. Ellen May says she feels like she's being sent away, and she's not sure why. Ava tells her to just look at it as freedom. "The next time you give a blow job, it's because you want to. If you even want to. No more being afraid, or getting kicked around. It ain't never gonna be that way around here for you," Ava said.
Turns out Lindsey was trying to call Raylan while Randall was hurting Alvin. The marshal traces the call back to the gas station where the battered clerk IDs the couple and says they were heading for a nearby farm. He tells Raylan he thinks the blonde set him up to take a beating and Raylan sympathizes.
Raylan and Rachel drive to the fighting chicken ranch belonging to breeder Patterson Gaines (Paul Rae), where he describes his operation and shows off his killer crop of feral fowl and what Lindsey and Randall have purchased. He also gets whacked by a telescoping police baton wielded by Rachel when, ignoring an earlier warning, he gets too close to her face with one of the sharpened spurs his fighting birds wear.
Reluctant to part ways with her fellow deputy marshal, Rachel decides that she really should put in an appearance at work, but gives her colleague a parting gift: her pistol-gripped, nickel-plated Mossberg 500 shotgun "to even the odds a little." Raylan is much obliged.
Heading off after Randall and Lindsey, Raylan rolls up on them stopped along the way. Randall asks her what the hell. Raylan gets out with the shotgun. Randall is surprised he came alone and tells Raylan that for the record he's unarmed. Raylan tells him there is no record. A tense stand-off ensues while the two men discuss matters. Randall wants to know how he found him and Raylan says Lindsey called him. Randall tells him he did a number on the clerk for coming on to Lindsey, and says imagine what he's going to do to him since he slept with his wife. Raylan says Randall couldn't stand the idea that Lindsey actually enjoyed spinnin' those boys up, and Randall asked if it ever occurred to Raylan that Lindsey gets off on him coming in to "bat clean up."
They banter back and forth for a bit before Raylan fires the shotgun into Randall's gut. It's loaded with less-than-lethal bean-bag rounds and it knocks Randall down. Raylan then wonders if Lindsey called him because she wanted to see the two men in her life beat the living hell out of each other. And when Randall suddenly leaps to his feet, the much-anticipated, bare-knuckle brawl erupts, with Raylan, barely, holding his own. When the marshal closes in to follow-up a particularly effective overhand right, Lindsey picks up the shotgun and shoots Raylan. As Randall exults that he knew he could count on her, she shoots Randall twice. She tells Raylan that his money is in the nearby van. "I knew you liked me," he says, smiling through gritted teeth.
After she leaves in Raylan's fleet vehicle, Raylan cuffs Randall as he asks him how many times his ex-wife shot him. Raylan tells him that she shot him a few more times than he was shot. He cuffs him to the back of his van and tells him that he's going to call the law on him for his outstanding Florida warrant for skipping probation. Randall and Raylan await the state troopers, both out of luck regarding Lindsey.
Back at Johnny's bar, Ellen May continues to tell Ava she doesn't want to leave and that she would never tell anybody about "what we've done." Ava tells her that Colton will drive her to the bus station.
On the ride there, Colton gets a call. "You sure?" Colton says into the phone. "All right. All right." And just like that, Ellen May's fate is decided.
At the bar Boyd tells Ava that it will be quick and she'll never know -- she'll be here one minute and gone the next. Ava's got tears in her eyes.
Colton stops at a gas station, tells Ellen May to pump $10 and he'll go in and pay. He enters the men's room, confirms that his pistol is loaded and a round chambered... and does a couple of lines of heroin off of his hand. There is a pounding on the door. He yells "just a minute" and then steps out of the men's room, pistol in hand, and sees that Ellen May is gone, the pump hose still in the neck of the fill pipe of his vehicle.
"Sh-t," Colton mutters. "Sh-t! Ellen May?"
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