Unfortunately this was another lackluster, basically filler episode tonight, the second in a row. Continuous set-up on the Boyd/Ava front and another "case of the week" plot for Raylan, albeit involving Wendy and Kendall. We pick up where we left off, with Boyd waiting around for Yoon's guys to decide what to do with the boatload of bodies the Crowes left him last week. He wants to end their business relationship but Boyd promises to make the bodies disappear across the border, which Yoon agrees to. But now they need another way to smuggle the drugs over, so Danny and Darryl conveniently name drop Darryl's associate in Texas, who they have a past connection with (having double-teamed his sister once). Darryl pretends to hesitate, but Boyd tells him to go for it, since it's his mess to clean up in the first place.
Kendall is walking down the street when he's approached by a guy in a car play acting at giving him candy but it turns out to be his Uncle Jack, who he called last week. He gets in the car with him and they pick up Wendy for lunch. She seems skeptical of Jack's being there and questions whether he needs money, but he claims he's in the fracking business now and just there to visit Kendall. She then goes to the bathroom and when Kendall tells Jack he hates it there, they take off, leaving Wendy to find an empty table when she gets back. She calls Jack on her way back to Audrey's and hears that he's taking him to an amusement park in Ohio, but runs into a scary looking old dude in the bar named Michael. He looks like an assassin and intimidates her, saying he's looking for Jack, which freaks her out as she dodges him to run out the back door and shoot his tires full of buckshot before driving off.
Raylan is at Alison's, giving her a bikini he bought and telling her he wants to take her to Florida with him on the money he won in the radio contest last week. Alison thinks it's weird for him to take his new girlfriend along to visit his ex-wife and kid (it is) but agrees to go when Raylan insists he's trying. Just then though, Wendy calls him and asks for his help getting Kendall back from Jack. Raylan doesn't want to get involved but Wendy offers to give him info on her brothers and get Alison her job back if he does, so he reluctantly agrees. Boyd and Darryl are now driving back in the truck from Mexico, having hidden the bodies under the heroin in the back, while Darryl suspiciously tries to wriggle up to Boyd, promising that he can trust the Crowes and soon they'll all be like family. Boyd reminds him he just executed his last remaining family member, and then they pull the truck over when the guys in the back start going stir crazy with the smell of the corpses. They fight each other while Darryl comes up with the idea of separate cars.
Meanwhile, Kendall's sitting in the car when Jack gets the call that someone's after him, and Kendall demands the truth from him. Jack then makes up a story about having stopped a rape by beating up a guy at a bar, who's now after him because he woke up from his coma. Kendall doesn't buy it but appears to go along with it for now, not wanting to go back home. At the prison, Ava and Penny go into the bathroom so that Penny can dislocate Ava's arm (ouch) to get her into the infirmary (something to do with getting the drugs in, I'm guessing). Raylan meets up with Wendy, having tracked Jack and Kendall to a point, but he has no information on the Michael guy. He wants Wendy to give up her family but she just banters with him, stalling over getting Kendall back first, while Raylan questions her giving him back to her brothers in the first place. At a parking lot, Jack now tries to get Kendall to help him steal a car, but Kendall's had enough, telling Jack he knows he's a liar, and also that Wendy and Jack are his parents. Ok, so that's kind of a surprising revelation but honestly I don't care enough about Kendall yet to be totally invested in this. Jack now admits to Kendall that he owes a guy money for skimming off a poker game and was on his way out of the country but came back for him when he called. Suddenly Michael shows up and the cowardly Jack just takes off, leaving Kendall behind. Michael shakes his head as he comes up to the kid, agreeing with me that Jack's kind of a pussy.
At the infirmary, Ava tries to tell the nurse she wants to get drugs in (apparently she's the connection Penny mentioned), but the nurse blows her off, scoffing at her for dislocating her own shoulder just for that. Back in Raylan's car, he and Wendy are still bickering over her telling him about the Crowes, but she blurts out that Kendall's her kid and Jack's his dad. Raylan doesn't really care and says so, but then Jack calls Wendy, telling her he needs her help because Michael has Kendall. Wendy is panicked about how he got to them before Raylan did, but Raylan calms her down, telling her the focus is getting the kid back safe so she can spill the beans on Darryl. Ava is approached by the weird preacher lady (whose name is Judith, we find out in this episode), who pretty much calls Ava's life story, saying practically every woman in there is there because of a man. She also says she prays to God for strength because there's no men in there to help any of them, and that includes Ava, who needs to get those drugs herself. She is impressed though, when Ava says she didn't divorce her husband, but shot him instead.
Raylan, Jack and Wendy meet up and set up a meeting with Michael to hand over his money in exchange for Kendall. Jack and Wendy fight and trade barbs over who's a worse parent but Raylan's fed up with both of them, telling them it'll be easy to handle just one guy, even if Jack doesn't have all the money he's asking for. I'm totally bored by this story though- the only mildly interesting revelation was the Wendy/Kendall thing but now that it's out there, I really, really don't care about Jack and Wendy's past relationship. Back in the desert, Boyd is pulled over by the Mexican police, who demand that Boyd pay them for leaving them alone. Boyd and Darryl try claiming to be Bible salesmen, but the cops aren't having it, knowing they've got drugs. Boyd ends up forking over the cash, and eventually the truck too, as the cops drive off in it, leaving the guys alone. And If you called that they put the heroin in the other car and left the cops the bodies, congratulations, that's exactly what happened. Slightly predictable there.
Michael pulls up to the meeting spot with Kendall and hands him over. He would rather beat up Jack then take the money though, which he tries to do as Raylan breaks it up, saying he's changed his mind and is arresting them both. Turns out Jack put Michael's son in a coma after cheating him out of his money, but whatever, I'm over this Jack thing already. The cops get there and take the crooks away while Wendy comforts Kendall, admitting she's his mom and that she knows he probably suspected it. Kendall is mopey and keeps sulking, while Wendy tells him at least he only has half Crowe DNA. In the showers at the prison, Ava is cornered by the nurse, who yells at her for coming to her in the infirmary, but says she will help her, as long as her man on the outside (Boyd) is willing to do something in return. She won't say what it is, but Ava promises that he will, setting herself up for all kinds of shit if Boyd can't deliver. She sure is taking a risk on this- has she even talked to Boyd since she's been in here?
Raylan goes up to Kendall and tries to give him some advice, telling him that things can get better and he came from a bad family too but got himself out of it. Snarky Kendall is not optimistic and Raylan decides to give him his radio prize money, telling him it's for the future. He then approaches Wendy for the info she promised him, but it turns out that Wendy's got nothing except that her brothers are in Mexico, doing god knows what. Raylan is annoyed (me too) and takes off, while Ava goes up to Judith in the prison to tell her the dope's coming, but not where it's coming from. She still doesn't trust her or her God story.
The Crowes and Boyd are now having shots while they celebrate having fooled the cops (told ya) and are now waiting for Darryl's man to show. He does and while Boyd and Darryl talk to him, Boyd drops the sister story Darryl told him to see what the dude's reaction is. It's oddly subdued and Boyd is suspicious. While Darryl gets in the car, excited about going home, the Spanish-speaking Jimmy overhears the guy tell his pal that Darryl called him a few days back. Boyd and Jimmy subtly discuss this and see that Darryl had this whole thing planned out, but for now Boyd just says they'll go home first. Finally, Raylan shows up at Alison's, telling her Kendall's safe and he's still ready to go to Florida, even if they'd have to accommodate since he gave his prize money away, but Alison gently shoots him down, telling him she's breaking up with him. Raylan looks bummed, and then the credits roll. So that was it guys- a bummer episode ends on a suitably bummer note. I don't know even know what to say about this one, except that I hope next week's better, as the action will finally start picking up again. I'm kind of glad Alison's gone (she was fairly lame, as all Raylan's girlfriends are), but I am really annoyed that Ava's prison stint is apparently going to last this entire season. Let's hope it starts to go somewhere and soon. See you next week
