<strong>Justified</strong> <strong>Episode</strong> <strong>Guide</strong> RACES away from the house. Back inside the church, Doyle gets a call. He shakes his head. The assassinations weren’t entirely successful. Boyd immediately picks up on the signal. ”I take it that’s bad news,” Boyd says to Mags, adding, ”I think we understand each other.” Boyd and Arlo leave. Givens, meanwhile, gets a call: Loretta has gone missing. Turns out she has taken her foster’s father gun along with $300. CUT to Loretta, who is at a gas station with Wade, a friend of her father’s friends, who agreed to whisk her away back to Harlan. The two soon part ways – and Wade warns Loretta to stay away from the Bennetts. ”I’ve come this far, I will see this through,” Loretta says. ”I owe daddy that much.” Later, Winona asks Givens to ”leave it alone” and let the authorities find Loretta. Givens is incredulous. ”Go to Harlan,” she says. ”I can’t promise you I’ll be here when you get back.” Boyd, in the meantime, races home to find Ava bleeding on the couch. Devil tells a distraught Boyd that Dickie did it. Boyd makes a call: a high price is now on Dickie’s head. Givens then pays a visit to Wade, who admits to giving Loretta a ride. Givens is about to cuff Wade when he is BASHED on the head from behind by Dickie. ”No one’s gonna tell me that wasn’t no base hit!” a fired-up Dickie exclaims. Sometime later, Givens finds himself hanging upside down from a tree ... with Dickie laughing and holding a baseball bat. Dickie SWINGS and makes contact with Givens’ torso. Another SWING catches Givens in the shoulder. ”This ain’t no three-strike game,” Dickie tells his old nemesis. ”I get as many swings as I want.” Just then, Boyd emerges, pointing a gun at Dickie. The Bennett boy drops his weapons and cuts down Givens on Boyd’s order. Boyd explains that Dickie shot Ava. Givens understands Boyd’s need for revenge, but insists that he needs Dickie to find Loretta. ”You asking me or you telling me?” Boyd asks. Says a stone-faced Givens: ”If it makes you feel better, you can tell people I asked.” CUT to Loretta walking along the side of the highway. She soon shows up at the Bennett homestead. ”I’ve come to see Mags,” she tells a pair of armed men at the gate. Mags happily welcomes Mags into her home again. ”You came at a difficult time, but I’m glad you came,” Mags tells the teenager, who refuses a drink of water. ”I didn’t come for refreshments,” says a crying Loretta, who pulls out her gun. Mags then tries to blame Coover for killing Loretta’s father, claiming her only crime was protecting her son. Outside, Givens arrives. He holds a gun to Dickie’s head and demands to see Loretta. Doyle refuses to accommodate the marshal. Inside, Loretta panics and SHOOTS Mags in the leg. The sound of gunfire spooks the armed goons, who also open fire. Givens is SHOT in the leg. He falls to the ground – and finds Doyle hovering above him with gun in hand. ”This bullet’s been on its way for 20 years,” growls Doyle. Just when it appears that Givens is finished, a SHOT rings out. Doyle falls forward, a gaping hole in his forehead. Government agents burst from the nearby brush. Turns out Art, Tim and Rachel have decided to lend his employee a hand, after all. Givens thanks his boss and then heads inside the house to find Loretta still holding a gun on Mags. ”I’m tired of people telling me as much truth as they see fit,” she mutters. Says a pained Mags: ”It wasn’t Coover who did it. It was me.” Givens warns that if Loretta pulls the trigger, he life will change – and ”not for the better.” Loretta reluctantly lowers the gun. She is escorted out the house by the agents. Givens then tells Mags that Doyle is dead and Dickie is under arrest. Mags then offers Givens a drink of her apple-pie moonshine. They both drink. ”Good as I ever remember,” Givens says. Mags then offers Givens her hand as a peace offering – and clutches it hard. ”Mags, what did you do?” Givens asks. But Mags didn’t poison Givens. She poisoned her own glass. ”This is the hard part,” the old woman says while shaking violently. ”I get to see my boys again,” she whispers before closing her eyes. Mags collapses – dead. Givens stares at her. So much death. 68
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