This ep once again featured a murder and this time of a young woman found by the side of the road. But this ep was more about family: fathers and daughters and the way in which Walt's (Robert Taylor) relationship differed to that of Ephraim (Timothy V Murphy) the dead girl, Hannah's father. Religious aspects aside, the family are Mennonites, her father was so detached and didn't even react or flinch when told of the news of her death, she was lost years ago to him, begging the question of why have children to begin with. He wasn't overly concerned with what she did at Rumspringa or in the outside world.
Compare that to Walt who was interested in Cady (Cassidy Freeman) and more importantly who she was dating, especially when he saw the shoddy workmanship on the lock on the door. So it didn't come as a any big reveal or surprise that it was Branch (Bailey Chase). It had to be, adding more conflict particularly when Walt finds out, which won't be until the end of the season most likely. Conflict in that Walt doesn't really have much respect for branch, let me rephrase, he has respect for him as a deputy in some ways but not as a man and definitely not as his rival for the post of Sheriff.
I find Cassidy Freeman to be rather aloof as Cady and I don't think she quite fits into this role. I've seen her in Smallville, as Tess, so dubious in character there, as well as guest roles in CSI:NY etc but I haven't found her to be that interesting in her portrayal of these roles. Nothing personal.
Vic (Katee Sackhoff) gathers money from the scene and places them into an evidence bag. A note was found in her pocket which Walt knows isn't German, he's conversed in that (snap me too) as he tells Vic, "Ich glaub est nicht." (I don't think so.) Turns out the note is written in Pennsylvanian Dutch. Walt spots glitter on her DB and he covers her exposed midriff with her shirt. He deduces she's a stripper cos of the money and the glitter, also I'm adding cos there aren't many jobs for women around which will lead them to carrying so much money on their person. As Branch concludes, she must have worked in Oden, a nearby, 'richer' town. He's given the task of finding her prints at the DMV.
Walt takes Vic with him to the strip club and she comments on being able to dance but he's more interested in whether she knows who Cady is seeing. Why would she know, doesn't seem like they're friends at all and not likely to share such things. But Vic tells him you don't have to date someone to be more intimate with them. Walt sees a photo on the board at the strip club of the DB, named Hannah (Bree Bond) and flashing her pic around, that's all, ha. Er, one of the strippers takes his hat and it's a way of talking to him without anyone else overhearing. She tells her about her work and where she lives and that car, a 'puce' coloured car she saw when she dropped Hannah off. Though it's a bit difficult to imagine Walt would leave his jacket behind, especially since it is usually cold in them there parts! The country that is! Also since he doesn't really remove his jacket/coat if at all whilst he's on a case, out in the field.
Finding the car turns up her brother, Samuel (Brian Norris). He gives himself away now, for the purposes at the end, since he asks if she's having trouble with her waitressing job, when in actual fact, he knows she's a stripper. Vic returns to the club and offers to pick up Walt's coat, since it's got the evidence in it, the note. Also Walt informs her father, Ephraim but he's just not bothered about it. He doesn't even let his wife, Rachel (Rebecca Wisocky) talk to him and that was sad to see. How she can't be told about the death of her only daughter.
As Walt takes prints from the steering wheel of the puce, there's a flashback with Walt being stitched by an Indian woman with Henry (Lou Diamond Phillips) there too, which we gather had something to do with his wife's death and the repercussions surrounding it. Always a good way to keep the mystery going and the viewers intrigued, though another shirtless scene from Walt won't go amiss either! Ha. Henry brings him lunch and doesn't want to talk about grief when Henry mentions how different cultures react to grief differently. Walt prefers to ask him about Cady and her date.
So the strip joint has more info than is necessary and Vic has to go there to find out who the man in the pic is with Hannah. And Branch is there too. To find out said info on man in pic, info she strips, at least to her tank top and not to her underwear even, as some might be hoping for. Having a bet with Branch that she can get the info quickly. The man's name is Davis (James Herbert). The car is registered to Cyrus (Maury Sterling) and he translates the note for him. It's a passage from the Book of Matthew, which Walt finds is a code for a secret meeting between Hannah and someone at the Dark Road, thus named since it's travelled by the people who leave to go into the world and it's also a secret meeting place between parents and their children. No surprises then that the note had to be written by her mother, who is the only one who'd meet in secret. She saw leaving here as a way for her daughter to escape the life she has and not be subjected to the same.
Davis was actually in love with Hannah and they were saving to leave and get their own place. Walt waits at the road for 12.30 and Rachel arrives. Walt finally must be the one to break the news of Hannah to her. Walt questions Cyrus as to why he didn't tell him who gave him the note to pass on, but he didn't know it was that note since it was given to him in an envelope. Walt then asks Davis if he recognizes Cyrus, but he doesn't. He shows him the photo and he does recognize someone. The killer, who turned out to be her own brother and even if it was an accident, it was all about him and his selfishness of wanting to take her back home with him and it being the only way he could return home. A bit of a giveaway since the photo in the car also had her brother in it.
Walt has another flash to that scene and making Henry promise not to tell Cady about it. He then calls her. We get to see Cady is dating Branch, dating or just casually seeing him and she's caught off guard when Walt calls her. Having being questioned straight out before, she say who she's seeing, aside from dating "a vampire." Henry too failed in his attempt at getting some truth from her, which backfires when she asks him if her father asked him to question her. Walt decides he will wait to meet her boyfriend when she's ready to introduce him, but at least the viewers got to see him first! So at least we don't have to wait around for that reveal.
Funny part where Vic teases Walt about forgetting his coat at the strip club and he later calls her out on what she did at said strip club!
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