'Justified' - 'Thick as Mud' Recap

We open this week with Limehouse talking to his employee (the one who helped him kill the men in Mags' store last week) about Dickie's money, which Limehouse does still have. All of it. Limehouse's greedy associate questions about killing Dickie and keeping the money, but Limehouse says that's not the deal he made with Mags. And who said criminals don't have an honor code?

Boyd and Arlo dig a grave for Devil, and when Arlo tries to take the money out of Devil's wallet, Boyd stops him. When Boyd takes the cell phone of the dead traitor, Arlo questions that, but Boyd assures him it's worthwhile. Meanwhile, Raylan returns home very late to find Winona not angry at him, which he's very confused about.

Lance wakes up Dewey, who is lying in a bloodied bathtub, supposedly having his kidneys forcibly removed to be sold on the black market. Lance tells Dewey what will happen to his body without the kidneys counteracting everything, and that he only has hours before his body will eat away at itself from the inside. He gives Dewey a choice: sit there and die or come up with $20,000 to buy his kidneys back. He goes with the latter.

This episode was a little different from all the other ones, in that Raylan hasn't really played cat-and-mouse with anyone throughout an episode yet, albeit with possibly one of the dumbest mice he's ever had to catch. Most of the episode actually follows Dewey as he knocks off various establishments in an attempt to get the money, then Raylan and Rachel following closely behind and asking the people Dewey had robbed questions about him.

After Dewey had thought to rob a strip club at ten in the morning, one of the strippers told Raylan about Dewey's scars. This prompted Raylan to go visit Ash, the guard that he ran over with his car, twice, in the last episode. With some coercing (taking Ash's morphine drip and sitting on his broken leg), Ash lets slip that Lance's plan all along was to strip Dewey and Dickie for parts after they had got Mags' money. Raylan is shooed away by a nurse (played by Psych's Maggie Lawson), but not before he asks her some questions about organ transplant.

At Johnny's bar, Boyd has a sit down with Dr. Stern, the doctor who had helped Ava after she was shot by Dickie last season. Bod explains this isn't about Ava, though, but about the deal he struck with Quarles and his people. Boyd knows the doctor has been writing the scripts for Oxy, and he wants Stern to keep doing it, but Boyd wants all the money. He subtly threatens Stern's mother until he gives up who he working with.

Dewey makes his next stop in a convenience store and pulls his gun on the clerk. He keeps using the Lord's name in vain, and the clerk isn't a fan of that. He actually does warn Dewey after the second instance, but then after the third, he fires a shot from the shotgun he had cocked under the counter. Dewey seeks refuge in the storage room and that's where Raylan finds him when the Marshal arrives.

Raylan talks Dewey down and gets him out of the storage room by convincing him that if he can urinate, he still has his kidneys. Dewey successfully pees, and asks Raylan if that means he has four kidneys. Wow, this guy is not smart. As Dewey is being loaded into the ambulance, Rachel informs Raylan that Ash has died from a stroke.

Boyd and Johnny enter a bar, not their own, and Boyd pulls out Devil's phone. He dials the last number Devil had called, and Tanner's phone starts to ring. Boyd sits down, and tells Tanner to give his boss a message:. Tanner doesn't answer, so Johnny beats him to the ground. As Tanner rolls in pain on the ground, Boyd tells him to tell his boss to stop on by Johnny's bar.

Raylan goes back to the hospital and inquires about the nurse, Layla, that he had talked to earlier. No one else seems to know who she is. Later that night, Raylan finds himself on her doorstep. Turns out, she also works at the organ transplant center, and had just started at the hospital, right around when Lance had checked in. Raylan, semi-speaking in hypotheticals, says, "A person with a suspicious mind might think you had something to do with something." Just as he finished his thought, Lance is behind him with a needle, knocking out Raylan.

As Raylan lies on the floor, Layla and Lance argue over what to do with him. Lance thinks they should cut him up and sell his parts like he was going to do with Dewey. Lance drags Raylan to the bathroom and puts him in the tub, and as he stands back up, Layla shoots him, killing him. Lance falls into the tub onto of Raylan, who is now beginning to wake up. Layla is about to shoot Raylan, but it appears she's been shot first. Raylan grabbed the gun out of the back of Lance's jeans, shot through Lance and hit Layla right in the chest.

Back in Harlan, Quarles struts in Johnny's bar without a care in the world. After he orders a drink, he tells Boyd that they'll both make a lot more money if they're partners as opposed to enemies. Boyd counters with a whole schtick about how carpetbaggers have been trying to come into Harlan for some time now, and failed. They exchange intellectual quotes as Quarles leaves, Quarles impressed at the knowledge coming from Boyd.

Limehouse meets with Trixie, Tanner's girlfriend, who seems to be in his employ. He gives her a wad of money after she tells him what happened with Tanner and tells her to keep up the good work. Meanwhile, Raylan returns home at a very late hour yet again, but this time, Winona isn't there to greet him. Instead, he finds a note in the kitchen, and hangs his head at what's obviously not good news.