- Raylan hunts an escaped prisoner who is determined to reunite with his ex-wife...and his stashed fortune.
- Givens strolls into the Federal Detention Center to find Boyd Crowder wrapped in gauze. "Somebody shot me in the chest the other day," Crowder says. "I was hoping you'd stop by." He asks if Givens missed his heart on purpose. Negative, pardner. Crowder then declares that he believes Givens shooting him was an "act of God." "I have faith that will be illuminated before me," Crowder drawls. "I am born again in the eyes of the Lord."
Well, Amen, brother -- but we have business to attend to elsewhere. And that business: escort Dewey from prison to home. Givens lets Dewey drive (generous) and the little white supremacist gabs on and on about his pappy, who has never left Kentucky. We imagine the conversation reminds Givens of his own daddy. Dewey then makes the mistake of trying to hit Givens when his guard is down. Only problem: Givens' guard is never down. Seconds later, the car is stopped and Dewey's already broken nose spitting blood. Givens handcuffs the criminal's wrist to the wheel -- and makes him drive anyway.
Was Givens justified? Damn right he was. The title card says so.
Later, a pair of officers escorts a batch of prisoners to a fancy rich-person party. Turns out the inmates are part of a performing band called the "Big House Boys." The drummer, Price (Myk Watford), asks to use the restroom -- and, once alone with the guard, bashes him in the face with what looks to be a shovel. So Givens gets a call from Mullen, who explains that Price and bass player Cooper (Chris Ellis) made a break for it. Givens pulls over at the first gas station he sees. Sure enough, Price is behind the counter pretending to be the attendant. Givens is about to draw when Coop appears holding shotgun. "Set your weapon down on the ground, please" the polite escaped con says. Coop then points his shotgun at Price, telling the drummer to get the hell out -- and fast.
So now it's just Givens and Coop. The con looks at Givens' badge and recognizes the last name. Turns out Coop knows Arlo Givens -- our hero's father. Coop takes Givens' gun, badge and hat before locking the Deputy U.S. Marshall in the store and leaving. "Well, shit," Givens says to no one in particular. The next day, Mullen ribs Givens for letting the escapee go. Luckily, Givens' hat and car were found. "You starting to regret me coming here?" Givens asks. So the search is on for Coop, who broke out of prison despite the fact that he only had three months left to serve. On the way out of the station, Winona appears to chew out Givens for breaking into her house and scaring Gary. "I won't show up unannounced anymore," Givens promises. We're not sure he really means it, though.
Givens and Tim then head out to interview Shirley Kelso (Kristin Bauer), Coop's ex-wife. "If he turns up, you'll be the first person I call," she claims. Of course, moments after the Marshalls leave, Coop shows up to confront his ex and her "cousin" Dupree (Johnny Sneed, who is likely her boyfriend). Turns out the two had been tearing up houses searching for a large amount of cash that Coop hid before going to prison. The escapee admits that he hid the money in a house that was under construction years ago. Shirley and Dupree beg to be part of the team. Coop agrees -- but only because Dupree is familiar with new-fangled alarms.
Later, Givens shows up at his hotel to find Ava on his bed. "I can't sleep with you, Ava," he says. "I can't be getting amorous with a witness in a shooting I was involved in." They share a drink -- and Ava coyly agrees to sleep on the floor. Cut to Coop, Shirley and Dupree, who drive past the house where Coop hid the money years ago. They quickly break into the house, which is luckily unoccupied. Much drilling and tearing up the floorboards later, the money appears to be gone. "Let me get this straight," Dupree asks. "After all this time, you have no idea where the money is?" Coop admits that he doesn't -- so Dupree shoots the escaped convict in the chest. Shirley apologizes (and seems genuine), but the related lovers leave the old man to die in the empty house.
Givens, meanwhile, reads an article about floorboards being torn up in the Riverbrook housing complex (the handiwork of Shirley and Dupree, who have been randomly looking for Coop's stash for months). He quickly leaves Ava asleep in the bed (turns out Givens took the floor) and drives with Rachel to Riverbrook. "Oh, shit!" Givens exclaims. There in the street is Coop, bleeding profusely from his stomach. Coop explains that he couldn't find the money -- and was shot for it. "I thought I broke out because of the money, but then I saw Shirley...." the old man trails off.
So how did Dupree know where the money is? Turns out Coop based his directions to the stash on the location of a nearby school. Rachel points out that a second school was built years ago. Coop was going off the wrong school! Cut to the house, where Shirley and Dupree have taped the upper-class couple to back-to-back chairs. The couple bickers back and forth. "I told you we shouldn't have taken the money!" the woman says. We soon figure out that the two found the cash while doing some plumbing. "Where was your second guessing when you got your new boobs?!" the man responds. He then explains that the money is all gone -- spent on plastic surgery, a boat and TVs. Upon hearing that the man is wearing $700 shoes, Dupree shoots him in the foot.
Outside, officers have surrounded the place and get ready to go inside. The gunshot hurries them along a bit. Givens decides to enter the house with his firearm holstered. "If you move too fast from where you're standing, you're dead," the marshal patiently explains. Asks Dupree: "Do you really think you can draw and fire before one of us pulls the trigger?" Dumb question, of course. Yet this time Givens lets someone else do the killing. When Dupree makes a move, he is shot dead through the window by Tim, who was a sniper in Afghanistan. A frightened Shirley immediately puts down her weapon. She didn't like Dupree much anyway -- especially after he shot her husband.
Speaking of Coop, we find the convict heading back to prison. Givens explains that the couple in the house found the money. Coop shrugs -- and tries to defend his wife. "Maybe we'll get out about the same time," he tells Givens. "Man, she looked good."
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