Burned

Avery had quite a bit of a rollercoaster ride this week. One thorn removed, another one in.

The big mover this week was Loretta McCready, who we haven’t seen in some time. She swung around her home grown flag right in Avery’s face at his own party and he was none too pleased about it. Some not so subtle threats (hello new character Boon) only made her look into local defense possibilities. Loretta is confident she can boot Avery and his “city mouse” girlfriend out of Harlan County. I’m rooting for her, it’s great to see an old character come back with new and reinvigorated purpose.

Avery’s merc problem was successfully rubbed out by Hale. If Seabass knew who Hale was, he never would have let her get her handbag. She’s got an interesting phone book at hand, that kind of clean up service can’t be easy or cheap to find.

Duffy, you little rat! When it fits, it fits.

With that out of the way, Avery still had Boyd to tangle with. Always the opportunistic, Raylan successfully made Boyd fast forward his “steal the money” plan by two days with a well placed lie. This move gave the action but not the result Raylan was looking for. The detonation under the safe went off but it didn’t work. For some reason, I thought it would, as did Raylan, so we were both surprised.

Zachariah finally strikes! I’ve had my eye on him since his first plan didn’t work out and I’ve been wonder how he’d do it.  Chaining Boyd right under the blast was a good one, but with Carl saving the day, Zach better have made a contingency plan for Boyd coming at him.

Gotta say I wanted to Ava to really go pop off on Boyd after he went after her thinking she was scheming with Zachariah. Greed always clouded his judgement, he should have known better. That greed has completely taken over now. Not deterred by being nearly blown apart and buried at the same time, Boyd is committed to stealing the money as Avery moves it from the safe. Raylan, of course, knows Boyd is going to go after it since his plan didn’t work (not knowing the specifics of Zachariah’s wrath).

Boyd is so mad it’s going to be a real test for him to pull himself together. This heist wouldn’t be easy without Raylan shadowing him. Should be some wild action next week! Cops and robbers here we come.