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Justified Episode Guide
– and then pokes him in what looks to be a gunshot wound. ”You should do something about
that before it gets infected,” Mr. Duke taunts.
Later, Givens visits the office, handing Ava over to Rachel for safekeeping. ”Just what part
of ’being under investigation’ confuses you?” Art sarcastically asks. ”You shot somebody else –
at her house!?” The boss is angry that Givens slept with a woman so closely involved in the
investigation into the recent actions of the modern-day cowboy. Givens, for his part, can hardly
protest. Perhaps sleeping with Ava wasn’t justified. Later, Winona introduces herself to Ava. ”I’m
Raylan’s ex wife,” she said. ”You ever been tangled up with a law enforcement officer?” Ava isn’t
sure what to say.
Cut to prison, where Givens meets Boyd. ”You don’t know anything about somebody taking a
shot at Ava?” Givens asks. Boyd claims to know nothing about the matter. Givens then suggest
that perhaps Boyd’s father, who is also locked up, had something to do with it. Instead of answering,
Boyd begins to preach – which is the very last thing Givens wants to hear. He springs
across the table, to choke Boyd against the wall. Guards quickly break up the scuffle. ”I’m so
very disappointed in you,” says an eerily calm Boyd.
Cut back to the dingy house, where Red is feeling much better. Mr. Duke, meanwhile, is still
angry. ”You were to spot – that’s it!” Mr. Duke says. ”You see, there’s rules to being a hit man.”
So we’re dealing with a hit man and his ”apprentice.” But who hired them?
Later, a calmer Givens once again sits down with Boyd. ”Anyway, you were saying?” Givens
says. Boyd tells the marshal that his father swore not to hurt Ava – for now. Instead, Boyd
theorizes that perhaps the mysterious hit man wasn’t after Ava at all. Perhaps the shotgunwielding
assailant was there to ”off” Givens himself. The cowboy is shocked – mostly because it
makes perfect sense (Givens certainly has made enemies). Then Boyd drops another potential
bomb: ”How well do you know Sheriff Hunter?”
Sure enough, we cut to Hunter meeting with Mr. Duke and his young apprentice. Red. The
talk soon turns to Givens. ”We can set him up so you can put him down at a distance,” Hunter
tells Mr. Duke, who claims to have been given ”very specific orders.” In other words, the men from
Miami who ordered the hit on Givens want it up close and personal. Suddenly, Hunter pulls his
gun and shoots the Mr. Duke d-e-a-d where he sits. ”Jesus Christ!” Red screams. Hunter then
explains that the cartel isn’t going to like the fact their hired gun is dead, so ”We have to give
them what they want... Raylan Givens.”
Hunter then calls Givens, who is on to the sheriff thanks to Boyd. ”You know I got Ava?”
Hunter asks. ”Pay careful attention now – or she dies.” So Givens meets Hunter on a rural road.
Givens demands proof of life. Sure enough, Ava has been bound and gagged in Red’s van. Givens
drops (supposedly) all his weapons and gets into the driver’s seat of Hunter’s police cruiser.
Hunter calls the U.S. Marshals and threatens to shoot Givens ”in the back of the head” if he
sees any officers approaching as the cruiser and the van attempt to escape. Hunter then explains
that the cartel approached him with an offer: they’d deliver Henry Crowder if Hunter did them a
”favor.”
Meanwhile, Ava has worked out of her bonds – and attacks Red in the driver’s seat of the
van. It swerves – and then crashes to the side of the road. Givens takes advantage of the distraction
and promptly reaches back to disarm Hunter, breaking his wrist in the process. He has
Hunter cuff himself before approaching the van to find Ava is alright. Red, in the meantime, is
unconscious at the wheel. Case closed, but not the episode.
Cut to the prison, where some inmates surround Boyd and confront him about talking to
Givens. They accuse him of being a ”snitch” brandish an edged weapon and start beating him
viciously.
Suddenly, a big man roughly intervenes, telling the accusers that they are not to touch a
”man of God.” Boyd smiles. ”It’s good to see you, Daddy,” he says.
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