Fugitive Number One

That #1 would be Lady Ava Crowder. Her shoot and run last episode put her mug shot on the top of the list and a whole lotta people mad at her. Vasquez is furious that she turned as in convinced that Raylan had been scheming with her the whole time. He’s putting the squeeze on everyone to get Raylan back under heel, but Raylan managed to stay out. He’s got a lot riding on this one and is really the only one who can catch her.

Avery continued to try and make things work and just about all of it came crashing down on him. Boon runs off to harass Loretta again, I find it hard to believe he (and Avery) think they are going to make any headway with her at all.  Avery also made up with Hale (maybe a truce) and tells her he’s going to handle all their problems. He goes after Carl and Earl, Boyd’s crew in lockup, to force them to get info about where Ava is and then kill him. Pays of some crooked cops to help him. As history has already proven, Avery is great at picking terrible people to work do his dirty work.

Much of this episode showed off a lot of misdirection. A lot of people thought they knew what was going on and no one actually did. Just about every decision made things worse.

Boyd, seriously wounded and in custody manages to get out of the hospital thanks to Avery. He’s after Ava along with just about every cop in a three state radius. Raylan is hot on the trail, after getting info from Boyd about Ava possibly running with her uncle Zachariah. That idea turned out to be true as he’s the only one she could turn to and needs help just physically moving that amount of cash. Their best bet is to traverse the mountain trails, completely off the grid, but the plan hits a brick wall when they find their guide dead in his cabin. He died alone, quite some time ago. The walls are closing in on Ava, she’s running out of options.

Two major highlights this week. The Hale and Duffy encounter that happened due to Mike turned out to be absolutely bonkers. I didn’t see it coming and I’ll leave it at that.

The second highlight was the Boon and Raylan encounter in front of Avery. Raylan is in a rush to bring this insanity to a close and Boon is all over him like a puppy. Boon is just raring to go, it’s hilarious. And then that little news bomb that Hale disobeyed his orders…

We’re getting down to the wire, it’s going to be interesting to see who makes it to the end. It’s all about Ava now and she is screwed. She can’t get caught by anyone, it’ll be death or a fate worse than death for her. I figure her best bet is to leave most of the money behind. It’s just slowing her down too much. She could probably carry a few hundred thousand comfortably and that’s more than enough to get by. When your back is to the wall like hers is, you gotta cut the greed nonsense and make some real choices to get away. I have no idea how she thinks she can even spend $10 million in cash anyway. It’s pretty silly the police choppers don’t have infrared cameras on them, so they would have been found on that fly by. I’ll ignore it for the sake of good TV though.