Justified: Fugitive Number One
April 1, 2015 12:00 PM - Season 6, Episode 11 - Subscribe

Raylan and the Marshals scramble to deal with a crisis that threatens all of their careers. Duffy, Mike, and Katherine question the meaning of loyalty. Boyd plays cop. Raylan gives Avery some bad news.
posted by Thorzdad (16 comments total) 2 users marked this as a favorite
 
Well...I certainly wasn't expecting that to happen to Katherine. At least, not in that way, and not yet. I'm kind of confused as to what Mikey thought she was going to do when he offered-up Duffy on a platter. Play a friendly game of checkers?

They keep building this tension between Raylan and Boon, like this is going to be the big boss fight to end the series. It would really be in character for the show, though, to short-circuit that and just have Boon casually killed out of nowhere. And, I want Loretta to do it.

I guess Raylan has officially gone off the reservation?
posted by Thorzdad at 12:16 PM on April 1, 2015 [1 favorite]


I took read that scene more that Mikey had second thoughts once the full weight of what was about to happen happened. It goes back to Wynn telling him to grow up, he doesn't/didn't fully appreciate the consequences of his actions until the moment arrived. Criminals (all people?) have no room for that sort of moral inflexibility.

And holy shit, I didn't expect Catherine to go like that either. And we had her endearing declaration of love at Avery's suggestion for a wedding present. The way they broke the news to Markam as well.

And Earl! They captured the dawning horror of his comprehending his Brothers death. I honestly did not expect Boyd shooting Carl. I guess I've been buying Boyd's bullshit all along, and Ava's actions seem far more rational.

I called the ADA trying to stick charges to Raylan. I still think sending Raylan to jail would be a perfect tragic ending to this story.

I have no good guesses of how they're going to deal with Boon. My instinct is to agree that Loretta will take him out as some side thing and in a understated and unexpected way.

One last comment- Tim! I'm going to miss him the most when this is all over.
posted by [insert clever name here] at 3:06 PM on April 1, 2015 [2 favorites]


As an aside- I'm enjoying the series as much as I ever did, but I don't feel the sense of urgency and tension other seasons have had me feeling in the final episodes. This should be the final show down, but I feel rather ambivalent about how it's going to end. This is a dramatic departure for me from previous seasons. But I can't put my finger on why.
posted by [insert clever name here] at 3:08 PM on April 1, 2015 [1 favorite]


Upon reflection, I suppose another explanation for Mikey's reaction could be that he didn't believe Catherine was that ruthless because lady parts. He thought he was running to Mommy to tell on Daddy and ignored or dismissed her stated intentions. But she was that ruthless, and it was only overconfidence and a bit of dumb luck that got her killed (but not without Mikey losing his own life).
posted by [insert clever name here] at 3:25 PM on April 1, 2015 [1 favorite]


Not a good week to be a henchman.

Has anyone ever sat down and crunched the numbers to figure out the ratio of Crowder gang members who died by Boyd's hand versus Crowder gang members laid low by the hand of another? Carl, man, you really should have known better.

I cried for Mike. Not much, mind you, and they were manly tears ("Strong men also cry!"), but I did cry a little. I know that anyone leaving Harlan alive runs counter to the premise of the show, but I let myself believe that he might get the happy ending that he deserved. Watching Katherine Hale unknowingly dig herself deeper and deeper into a hole talking to Wynn about loyalty and avenging the ones you love hurt, because I knew that there was no way it was going to end well for Mike. Earlier in the season, I had predicted that Ava would be the one to kill Hale, with Markham as my second choice; Mike wasn't someone that I would have considered at all.

Did I miss how Ava found her uncle? Last I heard, she was told he was probably dead or lost in a mine shaft; even if he wasn't, you'd have to assume that he'd be in hiding and wouldn't want to let the fiancé of the man he was hiding from know where he was. It seems like an unusually sloppy thing for the show to overlook, but if they addressed it, I missed it.
posted by Parasite Unseen at 3:29 PM on April 1, 2015 [2 favorites]


One last comment- Tim! I'm going to miss him the most when this is all over.

"I've been to Mordor but not through the mines."

I'm totally on board for a "Tim from Justified" spinoff series now. Please tell me that's the reason for Rachel's undeserved demotion and the return of Art to the office. They can just continue the show without Raylan and Boyd and we'll find out what Lexington has to deal with when they aren't cleaning up messes in Harlan County.
posted by Gary at 5:47 PM on April 1, 2015 [7 favorites]


U.S. Marshall: Lexington can be the first of a franchise in the vein of Law & Order.
posted by Mick at 7:15 PM on April 1, 2015 [3 favorites]


I really liked how they played Mikey & Wynn. I think the writers deftly handled the multilayer relationship of those two partners in crime. Not to mention the actors performances.

And Nelson shows up to embody the word 'hapless'.
posted by Monochrome at 8:28 PM on April 1, 2015


This season has been so unpredictable but I can't help but see Boon coming to a thoroughly unexpected end and probably a humiliating one at that. Katherine and Mikey did not go down the way I thought it would but if anyone is a cockroach bent on surviving this series it's Wynn Duffy.

I would so watch a series of US Marshall Tim.
posted by Ber at 8:43 PM on April 1, 2015 [4 favorites]


I'm all-in on a Tim/Rachel 'shipping spin-off.

Now I kinda wish they had introduced Boon earlier. Bad family history. Adopted cowboy persona. Gun slinger. He's Raylan viewed through a dark mirror.
posted by Cool Papa Bell at 10:02 PM on April 1, 2015 [1 favorite]


"As an aside- I'm enjoying the series as much as I ever did, but I don't feel the sense of urgency and tension other seasons have had me feeling in the final episodes."

Really? For me it's the opposite. I was on the edge of my seat for this entire episode because I really have almost no idea what's going to happen next. I don't think Raylan will get killed, but other than that I feel like anything's possible.

"I cried for Mike. Not much, mind you, and they were manly tears ('Strong men also cry!'), but I did cry a little."

Me, too. I teared-up and found this the most affecting moment of the show. I thought it was brilliantly written and acted and so very true to the characters. Even while chained up, Wynn couldn't help but condescend to Mike. But, even so, he cared about him, and vice-versa. It was sad.

"Did I miss how Ava found her uncle?"

No, I think that was weird. I have the same problem with it that you do.

"One last comment- Tim! I'm going to miss him the most when this is all over."

I was thinking the exact same thing in that scene with Raylan and Tim -- that Tim is a fascinating character and a joy to watch and I'm going to miss him more than anyone on the show. We never got to see enough of him -- they hinted at but never examined a drinking problem that he seemed to have.
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich at 11:28 PM on April 1, 2015 [1 favorite]


On one level, Justified is a show about people from broken families trying to make connections.
posted by mecran01 at 9:15 PM on April 2, 2015 [1 favorite]


Sounds like Tim was lucky to have survived this episode.
posted by sardonyx at 2:38 PM on April 3, 2015 [1 favorite]


Did I miss how Ava found her uncle? Last I heard, she was told he was probably dead or lost in a mine shaft; even if he wasn't, you'd have to assume that he'd be in hiding and wouldn't want to let the fiancé of the man he was hiding from know where he was. It seems like an unusually sloppy thing for the show to overlook, but if they addressed it, I missed it.

I just rewatched the "Previously on Justified" bit from the beginning of this episode, and they showed the key part of that scene with Ava and Carl. Carl says something like "if he wasn't killed by the falling rocks, he probably got turned around in the dark," to which Ava replies (incredulously) "Zachariah turned around?"

This makes me think that she didn't for a second think he was killed, and her Uncle's attempts on Boyd's life were done with her full knowledge. My thinking is that Boyd, Ava and Raylan will all end up at Grubes' (with Zachariah or not, I don't know) or near it in the next episode, and Ava will make it clear that she has wanted away from Boyd for a while.
posted by axiom at 5:02 PM on April 3, 2015


Sounds like Tim was lucky to have survived this episode.

Oh wow. I would have been so upset. Really hope they don't consider it for the next two eps.
posted by [insert clever name here] at 8:51 PM on April 3, 2015


Sounds like Tim was lucky to have survived this episode.

I'm glad they didn't do that, but I do like their reasoning. If Tim and Boyd have a showdown, someone is getting very hurt at least. They weren't going to leave Tim tricked because he got a cup of coffee.

The interview asks if they considered stunt casting Grubes instead of having him be dead. I wish they would have gone the Parks and Rec route and stunt casted the corpse. The same actor would have been perfect, in fact.
posted by Gary at 12:05 AM on April 4, 2015


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