Rachel talked with Raylan about this in the elevator.
Rachel: “Why didn’t she call the cops?”
Raylan: Guessin’ is 'cause she was worried they’d give her a field test."
Rachel: "Alcohol?
Raylan: (shakes head)
Rachel: “Weed?”
Raylan: (shrugs)
Rachel: “Well, she just keeps getting better.”
Bunch of BIG, mean racist bastards. Probably aren’t overburdened with too many thoughts.
He’s an old man, apparently without family. He took in the woman and child as a kindness, then the mean bastards with the guns and big knives and vicious dog move in. He wasn’t in much of position to stop them. Didn’t seem broke up when Raylan showed them on their way.
I LOVED the Crows and Boyd joining up. It’s a lot more entertaining than them just going straight at each other. Boyd’s had a manpower issue since a lot of his people end up dead or betraying him.
“We never did settle on a safe word, did we?”
“Yeah. We share some thangs in common.”
Soooo. . .Art didn’t care for Raylan’s revelation. No surprise there. I wonder how this will carry over. Might not have further legal ramifications, but Art’s not going to look at Raylan the same as before.
I’m not sure I see how this season is going yet, and I kind of like that. Lots of players. Lots of bad guys. I loved the way Tim had no problem asking about the altercation between Raylan and Art.
Art knew, though. He was pretty chilly toward Raylan for a few episodes, blew up at him once or twice, and was trying to get him transferred back to Miami. Raylan was prepared to admit something had happened, if I’m remembering, to sort of clear the air between him and Art, but Art wasn’t particularly interested in air-clearing.
I’m not sure how long it lasted, but they eventually got chummy again.
I think that, since the money was returned, Art took a “no harm/no foul” attitude.
I looked up Nick Searcy on Wiki to see if he’d ever served in the military, and was mildly surprised to find out that he had not; he has the kind of demeanor that would lead me to believe he has.
Art has, as a kind of “Commanding Officer,” the sort of leeway military officers have in what they officially “notice,” and what they can safely turn a blind eye to. Since the missing money was returned, he could officially look the other way and write the whole thing off as a clerical error.
Even if he knew some kind of Raylan/Winona shenanigans had transpired. Art even lampshaded this afterwards (paraphrasing from memory):
Art (to Raylan): “You know that thing, that never happened, that we didn’t talk about? Well, we’re not going to talk about it. Do you know what this means?”
Raylan: “No.”
Art: “That means I’m stuck with you.”
I was sceptical about this season for the first few episodes, but I’m starting to really get into it. After I finish watching the show I can’t wait for the next episode to see what happens next–and that’s the real measure of whether a show is working.
No kidding. I laughed out loud when Boyd turned Daryl loose on that skinhead, laughing through the entire beating. The moment it stopped I rewound that scene to watch it again, but dammit I started laughing out loud through the whole pummeling again. Greatest scene ever.
How many of you predicted that Ava wanted the knife only to cut off her own hair? I hope she gets out of jail soon. They’re going to find the guard that caused it and he’s going to be sorry. Meanwhile it seems like the list of people that Boyd has to kill is getting longer and longer. I wonder if he and his cousin are going to find a way to make up. Boyd clearly doesn’t have a problem doing business with people he’d otherwise kill if he didn’t find another use for them.
Yeah - I was assuming she was going to shank the aryan cousin who jumped her.
They’ve spent a few ep’s laying out a bunch of moving parts - now we have to see how they all come together.
Art and Raylan’s relationship - I keep waiting for Art to say “I can’t quit you, man!” Art wants Raylan to be the dangerous gunslinger but also to play by the rules. That has to play out in the big tie-together that all the moving parts better be moving towards.
My biggest issue is that I believe they are planning/hoping for Justified to go one more season - I don’t want Raylan and Art to be fighting each other at the end of this season!
I’m more worried that Art isn’t going to survive the season. They keep mentioning how close he is to retirement, which is normally a death sentence. I hope they are planning to subvert that particular trope.
All the double-crosses are making my head spin. Would it hurt the writers to show us a little bit more of the planning that goes into these confrontations?
I’m totally lost. When did Boyd get the money to buy drugs from Yun? Or did he have drugs and Yun’s giving him money? What the hell is going on? Where did Johnny get money?
Also, the stuff with the phone freak – how did he know where Kemp was?
And no way there was a radio contest running that day for Raylan to win. Was that a joke? Did phone guy just give him back his money?
Boyd always has money on-hand to re-invest in his business.
“Phreaking” is with a “p.” It means to hack into the phone system. Who is Kemp?
Raylan was joking. He said he was going to take his vacation days effectively immediately and go see his kid in Florida. When Art asks incredulously “On your own dime?” Raylan replies with the smart-ass “Yeah, I won a radio contest.”
Raylan isn’t spending any money to get to Florida because he’s not going to Florida, as we see in the later scene in the bar when the redhead asks why he isn’t with his kid.
But Art didn’t know anything about the phreak having offered to teach Raylan how to win radio contests, did he? So the ‘joke’ would have fallen rather flat (unless we’re meant to assume that Art had been told about the offer).
Anyway, as WordMan said up there, the writers have laid out a lot of moving parts. It will certainly be interesting to see how they all come together.
Art wasn’t told. It wasn’t a joke for Art, it was a joke for Raylan’s own personal amusement. Part of the fun for Raylan is that Art won’t understand it.
Keep in mind it was all bullshit. Raylan isn’t going to Florida. So the context of that exchange is:
I’m taking my vacation days, and will be spending that time doing this bullshit lie you won’t believe anyway.
You’re too cheap to pay for that bullshit trip we both know you aren’t taking.
Here’s a bullshit source of income I’m using to pay for the bullshit trip that isn’t happening.
Art wants Raylan to be the dangerous gunslinger but also to play by the rules. That has to play out in the big tie-together that all the moving parts better be moving towards.