A Cheyenne girl is spotted by a hunter who shoots at her thinking she's a deer. They report it and Zachary (Barry Sloane) takes their statement, Ferg (Adam Bartley) doesn't appear to really take them seriously. May (Irene Bedard) asks Henry (Lou Diamond Phillips) for Cady's (Cassidy Freeman) details cos Gab (Julia Jones) has been attacked but she refuses to come in or make a statement. They take her to Walt (Robert Taylor) and he asks her questions. She doesn't talk much but May says she was at a party on the Res and so he doesn't have jurisdiction. However the hunters saw her away from there so he sends out Ferg and Zachary to investigate the area with the hunters to pinpoint their exact location. May tells Walt she took her to the Res clinic and that's hopeful cos then they might have evidence. Gabe also describes her attacker as having a beard.
At the clinic she was looked at by a casual and not a doctor or a nurse so he wasn't quite sure what to do, he even forget the biggest procedure whereby the victim stands on a white cloth so that any evidence such as hair or other trace can be collected. She also showered before she got there. Cady is despondent but says that they could get a Federal prosecutor involved if they had enough evidence. Walt asks Cady if Vic (Katee Sackhoff) can move in with her for a few days cos all the hotels are full with visitors to the casino. After he had to evict her. Vic thought she got the place after she and Sean were divorced. Cady asks why she can't move in with him. He replies she can't. Yeah that's right Cady shove him at her! Which many of us still don't want to see.
Ferg finds the blue, flowery material on the fence that came from Gab's dress and it's the same one the hunter saw. Wasn't it a little dark to see what she was wearing in such detail. Walt and Mathias (Zahn McClarnon) investigate the party site and Walt finds a casino chip. Mathias wonders why they didn't go to him. Also Walt suggest they deputize each other so they'll have jurisdiction in each other's, er, jurisdiction, but he says they'll have two weeks to investigate cos then he'll be out of a job. At the casino, Malachi (Graham Greene) tells them Nighthorse let them investigate and he's a softie. The surveillance footage shows Gab at the craps table with some men from the oil rig. Malachi agreed to help if Mathias dropped the charges against one of his men and gives them some print outs.
Walt arrives at Gab's house and her mother, Linda Langton (Stefany Mathias) is angry at May and Henry for making her see him. Well she was a sorry excuse for a mother, what was the point of having a baby if that's how you're going to treat her, like an object. Walt shows Gab the photo and she IDs two men. Who are arrested. Their boss,Walker Browning (Callum Keith Rennie) comes in and tells Walt that they just let off steam and he knows how it is. Hmm was thinking a bit of a harkback to when Rob used to work on an oil rig but I strongly doubt he'd be that loose a cannon and let his hair down in such a way! If they're guilty then he tells Walt to throw the book at them, oh joke, hey, considering Walt and his love for books.
Cady is determined to see this through and urges Federal Prosecutor Bradley (Christine Dunford) to reconsider the case and take it on even if there isn't much to go since they've arrested the men. She'd have to get a personal statement from Gab and it's not like she'll be willing to do that. A girl,Mandy (Tamara Duarte) turns up at Gab's saying she was looking for her and she didn't turn up at their meeting place.
Cady relents and lets Vic move in with her, also she tells Walt he should talk with Gab about the prosecutor cos he's good with her and he treats her like he treats Cady. She opened up to him. Her mother tells him to leave and after she comes in with a ransom note and now wants Walt's help, but she's heading to work, so much for her daughter. Mandy's also in the picture with another man and tells Walt she spent the whole night and part of the day with him at a unit he rents. Making Walt release the two men he arrested and gets Ferg and Zachary to follow them. Zachary loses his temper and videos the men. Ferg tells Walt he doesn't think he's right for the job and he tells Ferg that as senior deputy he should've stopped him, he doesn't want to file a complaint. On the video Zachary spots the man in the photo with Mandy and also the name of a storage unit, where Walt finds Gab, tied and beaten up.
Her mother tells Walt she doesn't want to press charges and there'll be no justice for her. Suddenly sporting a new phone and rent being paid on her house cos she was bribed to drop the charges. Which she thinks is more important, coming up with nonsense about how they've always been treated like this. I called it nonsense cos unless someone's willing to take the first step and make a change or a difference then there won't be any justice and they'll always be treated that way. Since no charges will be brought men will just be free to do the same all over the country on an Res and Vic has to drink, passing the bottle round to Walt and Cady. Gab's mother being relieved her daughter was lucky enough to be raped by a White man!
Gab takes part in the sweat where she's told to get back what she's lost. May is angry, she can't do this and tells Henry she's going to leave a note for Hector, putting him in the middle of it and a dilemma! Since 'Hector Lives' he'll have to get some form of justice against the men and how exactly he'll manage that will be problematic. It was apparent where this storyline was heading, rape is initself a difficult and emotive subject to approach let alone prosecute and find justice for the Vic, least which if the victim doesn't want to do anything then the situation will only continue.
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