Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Over the Mountain - Justified

Justified
Episode 5-04
"Over the Mountain"

Written by showrunner Graham Yost

Directed by Gwyneth Horder-Payton who direct a few of the final episodes of The Shield

Very Deadwood-esque dialouge between Boyd and Raylan.  Hard to believe Walter Googins wasn't some interloper who came through Deadwood challenging the authority of Bullock.  Should have cast him as one of the Earps, but maybe he was busy being Shane Vendrell aka Cletus Van Damme.

Danny Strong plays the prison guard.  You may remember him from other short person roles such as the hack copywriter at SCDP.  He's also penned Game Change and Recount for HBO, as well as Mockingjay Parts I & II.

Culling of the herd of established characters continues with Messer

Raylan is just looking for a fight going to Audrey's alone to take Kendall into state custody.

The thing about Dewey is that above all else he is impressionable, even if he is not able to fully process what those impressions mean.  Think back to Boyd's cult in the woods.  "You strike at the shepherd so the sheep may scatter."  Every cult member was able to remember this, except for Dewey, in hilarious manner.

The show always takes care to ensure the Eastern Kentucky office's cases actually fall under federal and specifically marshal purview.

Raylan finds Messer even though Messer is dead.  Win-win for Raylan.

Raylan's unwillingness to give Boyd credence as a crime boss is kind of like when a sports team has a rival, or wanna be rival, who they have consistently beat, and they do not want to acknowledge them.

Ultimately, I think Raylan's in on the Crowes demise will be via the Haitian.  Or maybe the girl.

As suspected, Picker is going to link Raylan to the incident on the tarmac.


Monday, February 3, 2014

Justified Season Five - Through Episode Four

Boyd
  1. Boyd is frustrated with efforts to get Eva out of prison
  2. Boyd’s supplier tries to double cross him so he heads to Detroit to confront them
  3. Turns out the supplier (Sammy Tonin) operation is in disarray. Tonin is double crossed/murdered by Picker. Boyd gets picker to take him and Duffy to the Canadian wholesalers
  4. Canadians offer one final shipment to Boyd. Picker to make introduction to new Mexican wholesaler for Boyd
  5. Boyd visits Paxter for help with Evan, becomes enraged by him. Does the murder to him. Wife sees but they are like let’s exchange cash for a NDB here.
  6. Sheriff Mooney tries to pin Paxton's beating on Boyd but Paxton's wife, Mara, purposefully does not identify Boyd as the culprit and tries to strike a deal with Boyd
  7.  Still no progress on getting Ava out of prison, as the judge is not buyable or threatenable
  8. Boyd quells a minor uprising by his dealers by offering free drinks and a timetable for fresh drugs, after Duffy's attempt to do so fails
  9.  Sheriff Mooney tracks Mara down to threaten her into identifying Boyd
  10. Boyd's shipment gets hijacked and all his people get dead. 
  11. Boyd gets angry at Duffy, accusing him of stealing the shipment 
  12. Paxton instructs Mooney to kill Boyd
  13. Boyd and Ava have a falling out of sorts during his visit, where he's more concerned with what information Ava can provide him about the drug caravan robbery than about how they are going to get her out of prison .  She's mad he's not even giving her a "hey holding up okay?" and more or less blaming her (rightfully, but he doesn't need to say it) for the whole situation
  14. Boyd and Mara get the drop on Mooney and get him to report to Paxton he killed Boyd
  15. Which leads to an upset Boyd and Mara having tattoo touching time.  A reminder of Boyd's Aryan beliefs, which I'm sure he still holds but doesn't practice actively.
  16. Paxton apparently goes for the fake Boyd hand as proof Boyd is dead but will still proceed against Eva
  17. Eva is under female guard protection at prison
  18. Boyd, who is aware Messer is a CI, gives Raylan the phone number to track him
Crowe

I think the Crowe family is working along the lines of a classic bad guy group, albeit with some combined roles. 
  • Darryl: The Big Bad 
  • The Haitian: Unsure if this character will continue with the move to Kentucky, but could be The Dragon. The person Darryl directs his idiots to in order to deal with their problem.  Completely unrattled by the marshals.  Advises Darryl on their next cash cow.
  • Danny: Could be The Dragon if The Haitian stays in Florida, but most likely The Brute.  If he did take on Dragon responsibilities, I get the sense he'd fail at them.  Does the dirty work taking out Dylan.  Preoccupied for much of his scenes with firecrackers.
  • Wendy: The Dark Chick.  A city mouse while the rest of the family are country/swamp mice.  Resourceful (causing the car crash) and able to act like a person in order to speak to the marshals.  This is low bar, but it is relative to the rest of the swamp people
  • This is Justified/Elmore Leonard so there isn't a clear Evil Genius, but it appears most of the brain power is supplied by a team effort between Darryl and Wendy (per their conversation they shooed Dylan away from)
  1. Dewey: Given a settlement for being operating on and punched in the face a bunch of times
  2. Dilly & associate: Kill Coast Guard Officer
  3. Darryl & sister: Makes deal with marshals to end his parole and hand over the CubanSister: drives Cuban to the marshals until he takes her hostage, but causes a car accident and escapes
  4. Cuban: Tries to escape, but caught up by the marshals and shot and killed 
  5. Darryl's parole is lifted due to his cooperation.  Advised by Haitian to get a hand into Dewey's $300k
  6. Darryl & Co. surprise Dewey by showing up in Harlan, with a reminder of Dewey's Aryan beliefs
  7. Darryl eggs Dewey on to get a rebate from Boyd for Audrey's
  8. Boyd turns Dewey right back at Daryl telling him to stand up for himself
  9. Darryl is amused and impressed by Dewey's newfound confidence.  He side steps it though and shows Dewey he's sussed out Messer's skimming and eggs Dewey on to kill him
  10. This attempt goes badly and Dewey has to hunt Messer down in the woods
  11. Dewey is picked up by some hikers
  12. Darryl gets Dewey and takes him to finish the job, but Messer has died and his body is found by the police 
  13. The littlest Crowe is taken by Raylan to put pressure on them to leave Harlan
Raylan
  1. Goes to Florida to track down Dilly and the Cuba (and can see his kid in the process).  Casually mentions Dewey's windfall in earshot of The Haitian
  2. Makes a deal with Darryl to find the Cuban
  3. Talks with Sutter about how Sutter would find reasons to avoid his family so he wouldn't have to leave his family at the end the weekend (Raylan then avoids seeing his kid)
  4. Goes to meet the Cuban, shoots Cuban when he tries to escape
  5. Fails to mention he was in town when Skyping with Winona and the baby 
  6. Art asks him about why Sammy Tonin would contact him and secretyly investigates into Sammy
  7. Raylan is called to jail by Loretta and also meets her social worker.  Doesn't get Loretta out of jail.  Decides to "have a talk" with her boyfriend, Derrick
  8. Raylan moves into the seized house of a Detroit money launderer
  9. Raylan tries to bang the social worker
  10. Raylan talks to Derrick but ultimately has to rescue him and Loretta from drug dealers
  11. Raylan eggs on the money launderer, flaunting that he's living in his house and drinking his wine
  12. Rachel and Raylan flip the bangmaid and get her to rile up the money launderer by telling him his gold is stolen, directing his ire at Wynn Duffy (installer of the safe which housed said gold)
  13. Raylan offers protection to Duffy as he is a target, even though Raylan engineered the whole situation as a ploy to draw out the money launderer
  14. Money launderer tries to kill Duffy, is shot by Mike
  15. Ultimately, Tonin being dead severs the direct connection between Raylan and Nicky Augustine's death, but perhaps someone like Picker could link them and create a world of trouble for Raylan.
  16. Vasquez and Art inform Raylan Messer, who is a CI, is missing, and Raylan has to track him down
  17. Raylan runs across the Crowes  and Boyd in his investigation, including a 14 year old bartender at Audrey's
  18. Boyd connects Raylan to Messer's phone, which has a GPS
  19. Raylan connects the buzzards to Messer's body
  20. Raylan's new gal pal mentions a child she had to seize
  21. Raylan goes back to Audrey's to take the littlest Crowe into state custody
  22. Art speaks with one of the Canadian heroin suppliers who tells him Sammy Tonin used to brag about having a "Kentucky lawman in his pocket" and directs him to Picker who is hanging with Wynn Duffy as of late

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

The Locked Room - True Detective


First, the good news. 

At this rate will have impossible to match expectations for Season Two.  I can already hear the complaining.

Then the bad news.


1992
Rust spends a lot of time going through microfilm on the hunch this guy has satan-killed people before, they just haven't noticed.  So he finds one with the same markings, and him and Marty run down the lead and the connections lead to a suspect who lives in a boondock-ish area, even for this show.

Marty pees on his lawn after Rust mows it.

2012
I like how Rust's general mood is dictated by how many beers he's had so far.  He's a little more rambly and a little more ranty now that he's finished all his Lone Star.  Not able to sit still, he's now fashioning the cans into little beer can figurines.  If I recall correctly, Rust's interview takes place a few days before Rust's interview, so the detectives have Rust's version coloring how they speak with Marty.  It may be purposeful that they spoke with Rust first, wanting to tailor their questioning of Marty for a specific reason

Questions answered/partially answered
  • What does the "throwdown in the woods" refer to?  
    • Apparently the marshals, troopers and Rust and Marty heading down to this meth lab of Reggie Ladue.  Nothing like a Walter White whitey tightey gas mask get up to set the scene
  • Does "DB" refer to "dead body"? (more a technical question than literary)
    • Tried Googling this but no dice  
  • Rust is set up to have a lot of demons, obviously, but what are we going to learn about Marty? 
    • Well, he has a mistress for one.  And hates his in-laws.  Him and his wife fight and it's not clear she is still in the picture come 2012.  Walter White's "for the good of the family" may be the new euphemism for "exactly opposite of that"
    • A jealous streak.  Stating "I'm not a psycho" when all evidence at that moment points toward the contrary
    • Marty, very conspicuously, looks at his wedding-ring-less hand after one account
  • Will the show stick with this format, telling the story entirely through interviews with Marty and Rust?
    • So far, but if we wrap up the old case next week I wouldn't be surprised if there's a shift afterwards.
  • Rust is set up to have a lot of demons, obviously, but what are we going to learn about Marty?
  • When will they reveal to us the 1992 murderer? 
    • It could be next week, it could be the finale, the way this is set up
    • Unless there's some interesting timeline adjustments, Episode Four is a big week
  • Oh, also, who is doing the murdering?  Both in 1992 and 2012?
    • Reggie Ladue?
 New Questions
  • Is Reggie the guy?  
  • Did he do the painting too?
  • What's the revival minster's involvement with the task force?
  • Where is all this nonsense with Marty's daughter coming from?
  • Where is Marty's wife in 2012?


Thoughts
A lot has been made so far on the show about whether the job makes Rust the way he is, or if the way he is makes him suited for the job.  It seems like he is predisposed to the job which then exacerbates his tendencies.  Reading about synesthesia is particularly interesting, and wholly appropriate for a guy who absorbs an investigation the way he does. 

You are a stranger to yourself. The world is a veil. The face you wear is not your own.

Camilla: You, sir, should unmask.
Stranger: Indeed?
Cassilda: Indeed, it's time. We have all laid aside disguise but you.
Stranger: I wear no mask.

Round up
  • I wasn't sure how to put this last week, but apparently the world stopped turning on its axis for a few minutes for everyone else as well.  
  • This week's Homicide allusion was referring to the interrogation room as The Box, the setting for so many great scenes from that show.  Marty praises Rust's skill in this particular area.  Rust, to the detectives, describes this in the same somewhat blase manner of his hallucinations.  He gets into the box.  He figures it out.  That's how you do it.  You do it by doing it and it's not a skill, it's the natural state of things.  Frank Pembleton would love this.
  • I think for the first time Rust was driving and Marty was in the passenger seat

Monday, January 27, 2014

Justified Season Five Through Episode Three

Boyd
  1. Boyd is frustrated with efforts to get Eva out of prison
  2. Boyd’s supplier tries to double cross him so he heads to Detroit to confront them
  3. Turns out the supplier (Sammy Tonin) operation is in disarray. Tonin is double crossed/murdered by Picker. Boyd gets picker to take him and Duffy to the Canadian wholesalers
  4. Canadians offer one final shipment to Boyd. Picker to make introduction to new Mexican wholesaler for Boyd
  5. Boyd visits Paxter for help with Evan, becomes enraged by him. Does the murder to him. Wife sees but they are like let’s exchange cash for a NDB here.
  6. Sheriff Mooney tries to pin Paxton's beating on Boyd but Paxton's wife, Mara, purposefully does not identify Boyd as the culprit and tries to strike a deal with Boyd
  7.  Still no progress on getting Ava out of prison, as the judge is not buyable or threatenable
  8. Boyd quells a minor uprising by his dealers by offering free drinks and a timetable for fresh drugs, after Duffy's attempt to do so fails
  9.  Sheriff Mooney tracks Mara down to threaten her into identifying Boyd
  10. Boyd's shipment gets hijacked and all his people get dead. 
  11. Boyd gets angry at Duffy, accusing him of stealing the shipment
  12. Boyd and Ava have a falling out of sorts during his visit, where he's more concerned with what information Ava can provide him about the drug caravan robbery than about how they are going to get her out of prison .  She's mad he's not even giving her a "hey holding up okay?" and more or less blaming her (rightfully, but he doesn't need to say it) for the whole situation
  13. Which leads to an upset Boyd and Mara having tattoo touching time.  A reminder of Boyd's Aryan beliefs, which I'm sure he still holds but doesn't practice actively.
Crowe

I think the Crowe family is working along the lines of a classic bad guy group, albeit with some combined roles. 
  • Darryl: The Big Bad 
  • The Haitian: Unsure if this character will continue with the move to Kentucky, but could be The Dragon. The person Darryl directs his idiots to in order to deal with their problem.  Completely unrattled by the marshals.  Advises Darryl on their next cash cow.
  • Danny: Could be The Dragon if The Haitian stays in Florida, but most likely The Brute.  If he did take on Dragon responsibilities, I get the sense he'd fail at them.  Does the dirty work taking out Dylan.  Preoccupied for much of his scenes with firecrackers.
  • Wendy: The Dark Chick.  A city mouse while the rest of the family are country/swamp mice.  Resourceful (causing the car crash) and able to act like a person in order to speak to the marshals.  This is low bar, but it is relative to the rest of the swamp people
  • This is Justified/Elmore Leonard so there isn't a clear Evil Genius, but it appears most of the brain power is supplied by a team effort between Darryl and Wendy (per their conversation they shooed Dylan away from)
  1. Dewey: Given a settlement for being operating on and punched in the face a bunch of times
  2. Dilly & associate: Kill Coast Guard Officer
  3. Darryl & sister: Makes deal with marshals to end his parole and hand over the CubanSister: drives Cuban to the marshals until he takes her hostage, but causes a car accident and escapes
  4. Cuban: Tries to escape, but caught up by the marshals and shot and killed 
  5. Darryl's parole is lifted due to his cooperation.  Advised by Haitian to get a hand into Dewey's $300k
  6. Darryl & Co. surprise Dewey by showing up in Harlan, with a reminder of Dewey's Aryan beliefs
  7. Darryl eggs Dewey on to get a rebate from Boyd for Audrey's
  8. Boyd turns Dewey right back at Daryl telling him to stand up for himself
  9. Darryl is amused and impressed by Dewey's newfound confidence.  He side steps it though and shows Dewey he's sussed out Messer's skimming and eggs Dewey on to kill him
Raylan
  1. Goes to Florida to track down Dilly and the Cuba (and can see his kid in the process).  Casually mentions Dewey's windfall in earshot of The Haitian
  2. Makes a deal with Darryl to find the Cuban
  3. Talks with Sutter about how Sutter would find reasons to avoid his family so he wouldn't have to leave his family at the end the weekend (Raylan then avoids seeing his kid)
  4. Goes to meet the Cuban, shoots Cuban when he tries to escape
  5. Fails to mention he was in town when Skyping with Winona and the baby 
  6. Art asks him about why Sammy Tonin would contact him
  7. Art investigates into Sammy
  8. Raylan is called to jail by Loretta and also meets her social worker.  Doesn't get Loretta out of jail.  Decides to "have a talk" with her boyfriend, Derrick
  9. Raylan moves into the seized house of a Detroit money launderer
  10. Raylan tries to bang the social worker
  11. Raylan talks to Derrick but ultimately has to rescue him and Loretta from drug dealers
  12. Raylan eggs on the money launderer, flaunting that he's living in his house and drinking his wine
  13. Rachel and Raylan flip the bangmaid and get her to rile up the money launderer by telling him his gold is stolen, directing his ire at Wynn Duffy (installer of the safe which housed said gold)
  14. Raylan offers protection to Duffy as he is a target, even though Raylan engineered the whole situation as a ploy to draw out the money launderer
  15. Money launderer tries to kill Duffy, is shot by Mike

Sunday, January 26, 2014

Good Intentions - Justified

Justifed Episode 5-03 "Good Intentions"

Written by Benjamin Cavell, has his name on a lot of Justified episodes, like last season's "Ghosts"

Directed by Dean Parisot, of the Season Three finale "Slaughterhouse".  He does comedy too and directed the Curb Your Enthusiasm episode "Shaq", which involves Larry David and a Lakers game.

Was wrong about Raylan and TCW, though interrupted by the car alarm, which was helped along by a guy on his was to the batting cages.  We've heard this song before where a meathead is not particularly please with Raylan in some way related to the blonde he is seeing at the moment.  About this time last season, the MMA guy was trying to put a hitch in his Gary Cooper walk.

The bang maid shows up to collect some gold coins at the house Raylan and Rachel are marshal-sitting.  Unfortunately, the bang maid has a pretty bad day overall.  After being caught by Rachel and Raylan, she's almost murdered like four times in various ways by Xander Berkely and it is funny in that dark sick Justified humor that calls to mind Breaking Bad and an ATM falling on someone's head.

 
Time to ratchet up the body count again.  
  • Boyd's drug caravan.  We'll call it six guys for now. 
After a bloody first episode, Justified has continued the blood but hasn't gone all the way for a while.  Paxton is beaten half to death.  Then Wade Messer's head is stuffed in a dryer and Daryl is going to peer pressure Dewey into killing him.  Then you have Xander Berkely who may not actually be dead by the quick draw of Mike.  So lot's of people almost getting dead, but just not willing to commit.

When Xander Berkely is shot by Mike, Duffy explains he keeps Mike around because Mike is a stone killer, but I think we all thought it was his employee with benefits.  Turns out he has a quick draw and maybe a gunfighter who can go toe to toe with Raylan, whose been outdrawing folks since he and Wild Bill Hickock took down a ruffian in the early Deadwood days.

So, Dewey Crowe is a hilarious character and probably has the single best line of the entire series.  But you have to feel for the guy.  I don't think he actually has an evil bone in his body, despite allegiances to certain groups.  But he's just a simple minded guy who is easily co-opted and taken advantage of.  He'll fall into whatever group is filling a vaccum.  In another life, he may just as easily wind up with a cult.  With Boyd having taken advantage of him in the sale of Audrey's (of course he did) Dewey is forced to confront him about it as a proxy for Daryl.  Both Boyd and Daryl here are pumping Dewey up full of confidence to deal with his problems, while not exactly equipping him with the right tools and back up to do so.  Unfortunately, even though Dewey knows in his pea brain that nothing anyone is telling him is for his own good, or even a good idea, he still goes back and forth between the two guys, who I'm sure will inevitably clash by season's end, each trying to establish dominance in the holler.

As an aside though, as opportunistic as he is, Daryl is getting money for Dewey that Dewey would not otherwise have.  He is working on Boyd refunding $100k, and while he's taking half, that's $50k mroe that Dewey will have than he did a week ago.  Also, Daryl does seem to have some underworld business sense in that he sussed out Messer's skimming and gave him what for.  So while the pie is split more ways now, it's a bigger pie.  So...maybe it is in Dewey's interest after all to work with this guy?


Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Seeing Things - True Detective

True Detective Episode 01-02 "Seeing Things"

1992
Marty and Rust are being pressured to make way in the case or make way for the political response to the case.  The political response is a made up task force sent by gubernatorial edict to look into the anti Christian crimes on the basis of linking a few animal cruelty cases to the Dora Lang case.  They get until the end of the month. 

2012
Rust is sussing more and more out of the detectives interviewing him, while Marty seems to be taking things at face value.  He also spends a significant amount of time rationalizing his past behavior.  While Marty has the dark suit and coffee compared to Rust's worn clothes and six pack, Rust seems to be much more at peace with himself.  He works.  He drinks.  He doesn't hallucinate anymore.  That seems to be all he needs.  Marty's not reticent to discuss the case, but he's not as engaging as Rust and is slightly more defensive, which may indicate there are some things not yet uncovered that he wishes to leave un-discussed. He's ready to skip to the end and be done with it. Contrast with Rust2012 who admits "Yeah, I hallucinated, what about it?"

Some answers and partial answers previously sought:
  • Will Marty and Rust have differing accounts? 
    • So far they are covering different ground it seems, rather than giving accounts from different perspectives on the same particular events.
  • What drove Rust from Texas?
    • The split from his wife coupled with his custom tailored job has him moving around the country doing different kinds of police work.
  • How did Rust's daughter die?
    • I'm thinking this may be a similar thing to Jesse's rehab group leader in Breaking Bad
    • Rust gives different details to different people, but they all seem to be true and part of the whole story.  So far there's a tricycle and a car accident, but it's unclear if Rust ran her over himself (he seems to have avoided prosecution if so) or if it was a third party
  • What happened with Rust to put him where he is now?
    • See above.  Also ingesting drugs, chemicals via his undercover and narco work.
  • Rust is set up to have a lot of demons, obviously, but what are we going to learn about Marty? 
    • Well, he has a mistress for one.  And hates his in-laws.  Him and his wife fight and it's not clear she is still in the picture come 2012.  Walter White's "for the good of the family" may be the new euphemism for "exactly opposite of that".
New Questions
  • What does the "throwdown in the woods" refer to? 
  • Does "DB" refer to "dead body"? (more a technical question than literary)'
  • Is there a cover up that Marty and Rust are complicit in?
The King in Yellow
Thinking the ravings of Dora's diary may have some literary significance, I scribbled down a reference to "Yellow King" and "Carcosa" to look up later.  Sure enough, both appear right away on TVTropes.org which will never ever let me know.  Maybe it's my nature due to Lost to run down the rabbit hole of any literary reference in a television show, but I had to find out.  Here's what I have:

From Wikipedia on "Carcosa":

Fictional, ancient, mysterious.  Viewed only in hindsight (after its destruction) by a character who once lived there. Originally from Ambrose Bierce (full text) * in "An Inhabitant of Carcosa" (Wiki entry) where a man becomes aware he is dead after a sort of lucid dream state.

Rust mentions that he always knows his hallucinations are hallucinations.  He says even when he is hallucinating he knows the difference between what is real and what is not.

* This takes a hot second to read.  It has a feel to Gallapagos by Kurt Vonnegut

It's featured again in The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers as the name of a play that ties together the short stories of the titular book.

From TV Tropes
The King in Yellow "the reading of which either drives people mad or leads them to a dark fate."  Sounds like it could be Rust and Marty, either one taking the madness or darkness.

Because we live in the future, I've read "An Inhabitant of Carcosa" online and downloaded The King in Yellow to my Kindle already in about five seconds.

Round up
  • References to a "whodunnit" and "in the red" both evoke Homicide.  Must be a police thing more than a Baltimore thing
    • FYI the opposite of a "whodunnit" is a "dunker"
  • Rust raising his hand was hilarious.  Maybe the only joke so far, but marvelously done.
  • An oddly feminist-ish rant from the girl in charge of the bunny ranch
  • Marty doesn't want to bring his work home, which is how he rationalizes his liaisons.  But even so, it's still creeping in...with his daughters setting up a homicide scene with dolls.
  • Rust's thoughts on humans politely causing their own extinction from the first episode is touched upon again when he speaks about the hubris it takes to "yank a soul out of non-existence"
  • Just as Marty canvassed and Rust profiled last week, Marty wants to find johns and Rust wants to learn more about this tent revival thing, their conventional and unconventional approaches.

Saturday, January 18, 2014

Justified Season Five - Through Episode 2

Boyd
  1. Boyd is frustrated with efforts to get Eva out of priso
  2. Boyd’s supplier tries to double cross him so he heads to Detroit to confront them
  3. Turns out the supplier (Sammy Tonin) operation is in disarray. Tonin is double crossed/murdered by Picker. Boyd gets picker to take him and Duffy to the Canadian wholesalers
  4. Canadians offer one final shipment to Boyd. Picker to make introduction to new Mexican wholesaler for Boyd
  5. Boyd visits Paxter for help with Evan, becomes enraged by him. Does the murder to him. Wife sees but they are like let’s exchange cash for a NDB here.
  6. Sheriff Mooney tries to pin Paxton's beating on Boyd but Paxton's wife, Mara, purposefully does not identify Boyd as the culprit and tries to strike a deal with Boyd
  7. Boyd quells a minor uprising by his dealers by offering free drinks and a timetable for fresh drugs, after Duffy's attempt to do so fails
  8.  Sheriff Mooney tracks Mara down to threaten her into identifying Boyd
  9. Boyd's shipment gets hijacked and all his people get dead.
Crowe

I think the Crowe family is working along the lines of a classic bad guy group, albeit with some combined roles. 
  • Darryl: The Big Bad 
  • The Haitian: Unsure if this character will continue with the move to Kentucky, but could be The Dragon. The person Darryl directs his idiots to in order to deal with their problem.  Completely unrattled by the marshals.  Advises Darryl on their next cash cow.
  • Danny: Could be The Dragon if The Haitian stays in Florida, but most likely The Brute.  If he did take on Dragon responsibilities, I get the sense he'd fail at them.  Does the dirty work taking out Dylan.  Preoccupied for much of his scenes with firecrackers.
  • Wendy: The Dark Chick.  A city mouse while the rest of the family are country/swamp mice.  Resourceful (causing the car crash) and able to act like a person in order to speak to the marshals.  This is low bar, but it is relative to the rest of the swamp people
  • This is Justified/Elmore Leonard so there isn't a clear Evil Genius, but it appears most of the brain power is supplied by a team effort between Darryl and Wendy (per their conversation they shooed Dylan away from)
  1. Dewey: Given a settlement for being operating on and punched in the face a bunch of times
  2. Dilly & associate: Kill Coast Guard Officer
  3. Darryl & sister: Makes deal with marshals to end his parole and hand over the CubanSister: drives Cuban to the marshals until he takes her hostage, but causes a car accident and escapes
  4. Cuban: Tries to escape, but caught up by the marshals and shot and killed 
  5. Darryl's parole is lifted due to his cooperation.  Advised by Haitian to get a hand into Dewey's $300k
  6. Darryl & Co. surprise Dewey by showing up in Harlan
Raylan
  1. Goes to Florida to track down Dilly and the Cuba (and can see his kid in the process).  Casually mentions Dewey's windfall in earshot of The Haitian
  2. Makes a deal with Darryl to find the Cuban
  3. Talks with Sutter about how Sutter would find reasons to avoid his family so he wouldn't have to leave his family at the end the weekend (Raylan then avoids seeing his kid)
  4. Goes to meet the Cuban, shoots Cuban when he tries to escape
  5. Fails to mention he was in town when Skyping with Winona and the baby 
  6. Art asks him about why Sammy Tonin would contact him
  7. Art investigates into Sammy
  8. Raylan is called to jail by Loretta and also meets her social worker.  Doesn't get Loretta out of jail.  Decides to "have a talk" with her boyfriend, Derrick
  9. Raylan tries to bang the social worker
  10. Raylan talks to Derrick but ultimately has to rescue him and Loretta from drug dealers