TEXT: [PREVIOUSLY_ON] Boyd: Vault's something called an Excelsior 5200. Earl: What's that mean? Boyd: That I'm gonna need you to get me a hell of a lot more emulex. Raylan: Safe to assume the names herein are landowners? This room ain't bugged. Won't nobody know we spoke. Tim: These landowners are in the ledger 'cause Avery Markham has designs on buying? Calhoun: Or has already bought. Raylan: The negotiation has ended. I told you you can't have my land. I'm adding hers to the list. Katherine: Albert Fekus. The one who said you stabbed him. How fortunate that he came clean the way he did. Ava: Katherine Hale asked me about me Albert Fekus, the guard! Raylan: She's just testing you. Ava: Christ, I have to get out of here! Boyd: The more I think about it, the better it sounds. The bluegrass state has some of the most lonely soil in the union. Weed used to grow so big here, old timers called it "Christmas tree dope." Hell, before it all got legalized, our people were growing hemp for the whole country. You remember those stories? Ava: This morning we were fixin' to leave. Now you want to be a farmer. Boyd: Not a farmer, an entrepreneur. Cultivating something near and dear to our hearts as coal once was. Ava: You said Harlan was dying, that we had no future here. Boyd: Well, this new enterprise might be just what she needs to make her way off life support. And all we got to do is get ahead of Avery Markham! Ava: Are you sure about this, Boyd? About staying, I mean? 'Cause it seems to me, with that kind of cash, we could be the king and queen wherever we want. Boyd: Oh, baby. Wasn't more than a few days ago you had your heart set on staying in Harlan. Now you can't wait to leave? Ava: [exhales]
SUMMARY:
After Ava's scare in the previous episode, Tim and Rachel speak to Albert Fekus and make sure he keeps his story straight. They observe a man watching his house. Wynn Duffy had put a lookout there specifically to watch for law enforcement, which would indicate Ava is an informant. The marshalls call Fekus to meet at a motel where they've set up surveillance. Wynn and Mikey arrive to get the truth out of Fekus, who claims he's there to meet a prostitute. Under duress of a cattle-prod, Fekus says that he recanted because he loved Ava, and Wynn believes him. Raylan calls Ava for another face-to-face meeting but she is so stressed that she tosses her phone out her truck window. Ava goes to Nobles Hollow and asks Limehouse for help going on the run; lacking enough cash to pay, she offers to show Errol a big score in town in exchange for a car. Raylan enlists Constable Bob Sweeney to track her down without raising any flags, and Bob separates Ava from Errol with a taser. Raylan questions Ava's state of mind, running without a plan, endangering her future and his case. Raylan promises when it's over to find Ava a safe place in Witness Protection where she can start over and be happy. Ty becomes worried when land sales fail to go through, Boyd's crew having threatened owners against selling. Avery is concerned there's a leak in Ty's operation and pressures him to plug it, demanding results. Ty sends Sean and Choo-Choo to Calhoun late that evening and after Sean does his best to intimidate Calhoun with a story of prolonged impact torture Choo-Choo lays him out with one hit, killing him. Boyd hatches a plan to extend a 40-year-old mineshaft and tunnel out the vault, calling on expert miner Zachariah Randolph, Ava's uncle who has been at odds with the Crowder's over how Bowman treated her. After staring down a shotgun, Boyd pays Zachariah $10k to hear him out on the job, and they start by cutting into a ventilation shaft, triggering an ominous methane explosion.