- Raylan helps Rachel find her brother in law, who has left a halfway house without permission to see his son on his birthday. He also begins investigating the oxy bus shooting and makes contact with the Dixie Mafia.
- When Rachel's brother-in-law makes a violent escape from a halfway house, Raylan is forced to hunt him down.—FX Publicity
- At a Bennett family picnic, Mags eats with Dickie, Doyle, Coover and even young Loretta McCready as Givens interrupts the fun with news of a task force being formed to look into recent deaths surrounding an oxy robbery. He then hands out trinkets to the kids: marshal coins that read "justice is coming." Doyle, who killed the oxy robbers to cover for his brothers, raises an eyebrow. Givens then asks if Mags knows anything about the oxy bus robbery where "a fella got killed a few days back," Givens explains. Turns out he was a foot soldier for the Dixie mafia. Givens then drops a bomb: one of the hijackers cell phone records show calls to Dickie. "I know what's going on," Givens tells Mags, who becomes indignant. She accuses Givens of harboring a grudge due to the unpleasant history between the Givens and Bennett clans. Apparently, that history is the reason Dickie walks with a limp. Givens patiently explains that he is concerned that, family history be damned, the Dixie mafia will come looking for blood.
Given then excuses himself from the picnic at which point Mags unloads on her dopey sons for trying to get away with something behind her back. "What I give a shit about is our bigger plans, which do not need a federal marshal snooping around!" rages Mags before storming away. Naturally, Dickie takes mom's words as an order to kill Givens. Coover agrees. Doyle is amazed at the stupidity of his brothers and orders them not to do ANYTHING without running it by someone who can think.
CUT to Boyd, who is having a friendly conversation with Ava when a pick-up truck approaches. Boyd calmly tells Ava to go inside and lock the door. The pick-up stops and Kyle emerges with two angry-looking friends. Boyd stands on the porch and with great sincerity apologizes for tossing Kyle from a moving vehicle. Kyle accepts the apology but also has a business proposition for Boyd.
CUT to a young black man named Clinton, who is called out by the manager at a halfway house for skipping his bathroom-cleaning shift. The man decides to revoke Clinton's day pass. Clinton, who had been wrapping a birthday present for somebody close to him, is INFURIATED. He SLAMS the boss down on a desk and BEATS him with a telephone. It's a bloody mess. Givens, meanwhile, enters a high-end office to talk to Arnett. "So you are legitimate now?" the marshal asks. "The Frankfort branch of the Dixie mafia has lost its best wheeler dealer?" Arnett denies any involvement with the Dixie mafia and suggests Givens speak with Wayne. Says Givens: "If you talk to him, and I'm going to assume you will, about that Oxy bus he lost in Harlen? He should just write that off." Otherwise, Givens warns, he'll be forced to make sure that the Dixie mafia minds its Ps and Qs.
Back at the office, Givens learns of the beating at the halfway house. Turns out that Clinton is Rachel's brother in law, who is likely heading to his son's birthday party. How bad is this Clinton? "He killed her sister," Art tells Givens in private. Uh oh.
CUT to Clinton, who meets up with an old friend named Flex. Clinton soon asks for $100, but Flex won't give it up. So, Clinton SHOOTS Flex in the hand, throws him out of the driver's seat and steals the car so he can make it to his son's 12th birthday in time. A wonderful father, to be sure. Later, Clinton drives into a school and finds Givens waiting. "I just came to give my boy a gift," says Clinton before SPEEDING off.
Givens then returns to the office to find Rachel looking after Clinton's son Nick. "You let Clinton get away," Rachel tells Givens. Art runs the plates on the stolen car and learns that it belongs to a drug dealer known as Flex. Rachel and Givens then head to Rachel's mother's home. On the way, Rachel then explains that her sister was killed because Clinton was driving while high. The pair arrives at the home to discover Rachel's mom hogtied on the floor of her pantry. Turns out Clinton showed up earlier and stole his former mother-in-law's gun. Oddly, mom isn't mad, urging Rachel not to shoot Clinton when she finds him. Turns out that Clinton was driving Rachel's sister to the hospital after an overdose when their car crashed. "He had problems, but he loved your sister," mom tells Rachel.
CUT to a pizza joint, where Clinton waits to share a pie with his boy. The halfway house manager, his face heavily bandaged, enters. "I'm here to help, asshole," he says. "I'm here to give you another chance." Clinton explains that he has already called the marshals' office looking to strike a deal.
Just then, Flex enters with a large revolver in his non-bandaged hand, bent on revenge for Clinton's destroying Flex's dream of becoming a professional magician. Clinton admits that he ditched Flex's car. "That's unfortunate," Flex explains, as he had a whole bunch of dope hidden behind the paneling. Just as Flex is about to shoot Clinton in the hand, the marshals BURST through the door. Rachel immediately and coolly puts two rounds in Flex. Clinton, meanwhile, puts his gun to the head of the halfway house manager. "Get back!" Clinton screams. "I need to see my son! I just wanted to give him my gift!" As Givens and Tim Gutterson cover the scene, Rachel asks if this is how Clinton wants Nick to remember his birthday. Crying, Clinton gives up.
Case closed, but not the episode. Rachel escorts Nick into the holding cell to see his father. He opens his present, a knockoff Furby that only speaks Chinese, which got shot in the pizza store confrontation. It's a heartfelt gift from a dad who has no idea what a twelve year old actually wants. It's sad. Later, Givens asks Rachel if she has any doubts about shooting Flex. "You did what had to be done," Givens tells his co-worker. After Givens exits, Rachel looks at a photograph of her sister and cries.
CUT to Boyd, who finishes another long shift in the mine. He is corralled by Kyle, who demands to know if Boyd is in on their criminal plan. "I am no longer in that line of work," Boyd calmly explains. "You're wasting your time." But Kyle is persuasive, talking of armored cars and pulling off a heist without getting caught. "What if there's a way you not only not get caught, but get treated like a hero like one of those miners down in Chili," he says. Boyd appears intrigued. Stay tuned
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