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Friday, 13 May 2016

Longmire 4.7 "Highway Robbery" Review

                                                 Photo Credit: Lewis Jacob/Netflix
Walt (Robert Taylor) asks for his blue shirt, not the ones in the drawer, but the other one and he's told it's where it will be.  Okay any excuse to see Rob shirtless now, but almost weekly!!  He wakes and find he's dreaming.  At work he puts away some books and looks at the cover of the Poems of John Donne.  Knew that poem would feature eventually as it did at the end of the ep.  He also lies down in the jail cell too.  Travis (Derek Phillips) finds a bloodied man on the side of the road and he calls Walt.  When he arrives at the location, he leaves him a note and he drives up to him and another car. Travis is all bloody now too and he has the survivor of the robbery in his car.  The other man's, Peter's been shot in the head and he tells him that the Vic was stopped by two men in the car and was shot; as he tried to foil them.  They took Jerry's (David Dean Bottrell) crutches and Travis calls him a "cripple" which Walt tells him is wrong when he asks.

Walt has Vic (Katee Sackhoff) take Travis's statement and he also gives Walt the notes he made, as Walt takes Jerry back to his home.  Vic asks him where all the blood is from and he thinks he probably got it from one of the Vic's or both.  Ferg (Adam Bartley) must break the news of his son's death to he father, Thomas Hoyt (Max Gail).  For this, Walt gives him the keys to the charger cos he can't drive up in his Trans Am.  His father thinks more of Jerry than he does of his own son, cos he was in prison and he wouldn't have gotten through it if Jerry hadn't got him released, paroled early. Jerry was a family friend.

Henry (Lou Diamond Phillips) picks up the 'Hector Lives' sign and finds Mathias (Zahn McClarnon) at the place.  He tells him he thinks Henry's taken over Hector's job since he was the one who took it from him.  But Henry plays dumb.  He's here to leave a note and he reads it cos he doesn't believe him.  Suppose it's a note about Gab and her ordeal.  Mathias's job is made more difficult now and less people go to him, so he hopes Hector can get this one sorted out.  Henry wants to take boxing lessons and he warms up with Walt who asks him about dreams.  He wants to know traditional dream analysis like his grandmother used to do, and not Freudian.  Henry asking him questions like which spirit animal he's seeing but Walt isn't.  He thinks Walt needs a psychiatrist's help as Henry punches him on the nose.

Ferg asks him what happened and he says it started bleeding.  Walt ends ups seeing Donna Sue (Ally Walker) at her clinic and it's not an emergency as such but he gets in anyway.  Apologizing to her for jumping to conclusions about the drugs and that she was involved.  It's not much of an apology and she does accept it, saying he can leave now.  He didn't get up the courage to ask her out, as Ruby (Louanne Stephens) told him to, as he's been Googling her pics on the Net!   That's like having it bad! ha.  But Donna Sue called it like being at school, when he later sees her at the church and asks her to dinner.  She replies he wasn't apologizing back then, but he was sort of in the back of his mind.  She refuses dinner, cos she sees enough big men and having to tell them to handle their emotions and she doesn't want to do the same with him in her personal life.  Well that was embarrassing.

Walt stops in at the police station and finds the report on the shooting of a shop clerk Jerry. Pete shot was Jerry  Well as son as we heard that knew it was him behind the shooting all along and no wasn't buying his forgiveness act either.  I mean Pete took away everything from him when he shot him and the only reason he'd help him out of prison was for revenge.  He asks Walt if he'll take him to the shooting site so he can plant a cross there.  More like ulterior motive.

Mathias tells Walt about three other people who were attacked and robbed of their casino winnings and he needs his help cos they won't talk.  Walt visits Joe Lone Elk (Patrick Gallagher) with him who tells him he took out a loan at the casino and gambled, losing his money.  He should've paid it back straightaway cos he was robbed.  Travis takes out a loan at the casino as a confidential informant for Walt, off his own bat, and says the transaction took place in the men's room and he saw the man was wearing blue ostrich boots, he saw him at the craps table too, it was Darius (Joseph Daniel Avila).

Walt calls on him in the bar but he denies any loansharking going on at the casino, let alone in the bathroom which would be illegal and unhygienic.  So how's Travis going to pay his loan back then considering Vic can't keep anything to herself, giving him info on the case.  Walt is practically verbally abused by Travis's mother cos he didn't give him the job and he wants him to clarify his notes about the car.  As he recalls Jerry referred to their car and it wouldn't have happened if he had his own car, then Jerry wouldn't have to get a ride with him.

Cady (Cassidy Freeman) decides to help out at the Res and any cases she can offer her legal services cos she's tired of wasting her education and not doing anything worthwhile.  Mathias gives her the files and probably is expecting to see her smile on the other side of her face when she finds it all overwhelming and gives up.  Henry is now reading a book about tooth extraction and also buys a pair of fine pliers. A s wella sgettign the photos of the man who raped Gab from Cady.  He's got serious business in mind, as we know from last ep.

Walt finds Jerry digging at the site of the shooting and he knows he's not looking for a better place to put the cross.  He has his own car which he says he got out of the shop and Walt knows he killed Pete.  He didn't forgive him and he also digs up the gun and his wallet.  He was going to use the $3,000 for his medical bills.  Walt tells Ferg to pick up his car and the prisoner inside.  As he calls Ruby and tells her to send help in the form of Donna Sue.  He opens up about killing a man, namely Barlow but he's not happy about it.  He has regrets but he deserved it and unlike Jerry he can't forget about it.  She tells him if he deserved it, and Walt didn't do anything illegal then he did nothing wrong.  As Walt recalls John Donne and his, "all death diminishes me" line from 'o Man Is An Island. He doesn't feel that way and he has started to dream as well.  She drives away and then stops for him cos he doesn't have a car.  Oh someone would've come along eventually!

Guessing these women see Walt as high maintenance rather than a challenge, but that's what's so good about him, he's unpredictable, not your normal routine kinda guy, which is what's appealing about him.  He's experienced (no don't ask how much and what in!  Ha) and most of all, he's lived. That scene where he asked her out was so sweet and painful too!

Oh and Monte Ford (Stephen Louis Grush) turns up again at the casino, seems he's mounting a stake out of his own on the sheriff and most likely his department and way of doing things.  Ferg even lets in on how Walt is secretive and does things his own way.  So he's going to be the new thorn in his side and even more so since he finds out Zachary actually got the job.

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