'Justified' - 'Harlan Roulette' Recap
As the episode opens, Ava is out talking to Limehouse, the new crime lord we met at the end of the last episode. She seems to have a history with him, as he mentions her late husband and the business they'd conducted. She is there on behalf of Boyd, and arranges a meeting between the two of them.
Boyd and Limehouse meet on the bridge outside of town to discuss the money left behind by Mags Bennett. Lime house doesn't really want to talk about the money, but instead flips the conversation to the weed Boyd was trying to get rid of. Boyd does agree to that, and as he tells Arlo that he's refraining due to his age, he beats the hell out of Devil for not burning the weed like Boyd had told him to.
Raylan gets a call that Wade Messer has been involved with some robberies. This the Wade Messer that set Raylan up at the end of last season that held to our marshal getting string up in a try for Dickie to go to town on with a baseball bat. Raylan and the state police set up a road block, spot Messer, but he gets away. His accomplice is arrested, but bail is posted quickly, so Raylan investigates that too.
The accomplice, JT, arrives back at the pawn shop being used as home base for this episode's criminals. Wade is already there, along with Wally and Glen Fogle, the mastermind behind the other three. Wade and JT, we find out, are Oxy addicts, and JT wants some pills. Fogle tells him if makes it past a round of Russian roulette, he can have a pill. JT pulls the trigger, no bullet. Fogle tells him to pull it again, that this is Harlan roulette. No bullet. JT turns the gun on Fogle and realizes there's no bullets in the gun.
Fogle takes the gun back, puts one bullet into it, spins the chamber, and pulls the trigger until a bullet finally does come out and he shoots JT right between the eyes.
Elsewhere, Quarles is talking to Wynn Duffy about his plans for Harlan. He tells him they're going to flood the town with pills, but control it so people are always coming back for more, and also selling the same half-filled bottles of pills to Detroit for ten times as much.
At the same time, Raylan enters the pawn shop, telling Fogle than an employee of his had posted the bail for JT. Fogle keeps up the act that no one works for him. Raylan, not buying it for a second, leaves. Fogle gets his employer, Duffy, on the phone. Quarles tells Duffy to tell Fogle to kill Raylan. Quarles tells Duffy it's a win-win for them: either Raylan dies or a loose end is taken care of. Fogle puts Wade on it as a way to make up for losing the truck.
Wade calls Raylan to tell him he ants to turn himself in, so naturally, Raylan is skeptical. Raylan is waiting at Wade's when he gets there, already having Wade's gun in possession. Raylan grabs Wade and throws him in the car, and tells Wade to call Fogle to tell him that he actually succeeded.
Fogle and Wally arrive at Wade's, and Rayland confronts Fogle again, but this time Fogle has a gun. Raylan tells him he'll be dead before he can even lift his gun, and tells Fogle to tell Wally to come out from behind the house because he knows Wally is there. Raylan offers Fogle a solution: surrender or get shot. Fogle offers to give up the people he works for, specifically Wynn Duffy. Wally feels left out, and begins to rat out Fogle for killing JT in hopes of striking a deal as well. Fogle turns in gun on Wally, and they both shoot each other.
Raylan got what he needed from Fogle, though, and there's a knock on the trailer that Duffy's been operating out of. Raylan walks in, gun raised, and tells Quarles to turn around and put his hands up and he he moves, he'll have a hole in his back.
Duffy's on the ground, bloodied by a punch from Raylan, then punched again. Raylan empties the chamber and tells Duffy that the next one is going to be coming a lot faster. Quarles turns around and asks Raylan, "How fast do you think those bullets will be when they're coming back at you?" Raylan raises his phone to take a picture of Quarles, and he's grinning like an idiot. Protagonist, meet your opposite.