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Sunday, 29 May 2016

Longmire 4.9 "Shotgun" Review

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In the aftermath of Tyler's (Nick E Tarabay) shooting, Vic (Katee Sackhoff) and Walt (Robert Taylor) take him to hospital but he's in no condition to answer who shot him.  Everyone disperses and Laila (Alicia Urizar) vanishes too.  Henry (Lou Diamond Phillips) takes the gun and Gab (Julia Jones) as they flee the scene too.  As Tyler's operated on we get to see the contrast between him and Henry, as Henry has to pull the slug out himself, whereas a rapist and general all round bad guy has a doctor operate on him in the hospital.  Gab's unable to help Henry with the bullet so he does it himself in agony, I was about to say Henry caught with his pants down, ha!  Sorry.

Next day Walt gets everyone to work leads, Eamon (Josh Cooke) recalls the faces of the men at the Rez party and will track them down before he forgets, as does Vic with the women there.  They talk with Archer (Lew temple) who has nothing to say and leaves after adding that Trot (Aaron McPherson)  punched him cos Eamon locked him up in the same cell, well they really only have one cell.  Walt says they must call Mathias (Zahn McClarnon) and apologize cos they were on the Rez and didn't inform him.  Henry takes Gab to hide her and tells her she can't go back, guess it would've been easier if she had gone back, but where's the story in that.  Cady (Cassidy Freeman) passes Henry and Gab on the road as she's looking for a road for an appointment with a client and tells Henry she can help Gab pro bono if she needs help.  Henry making himself look obvious and suspicious in front of Cady again, after also having to dump his truck.   He also gets to dig himself in deeper as he takes Gab to a Crow medicine woman (Tantoo Cardinal) who's on a Rez which abhors the Cheyenne, but he doesn't see he has any choice.

Linda's (Stefany Mathias) gone missing as has Sam Poteet (Hank Cheyne) as Zachary (Barry Sloane) can't find him at the casino.  He thinks he's being paranoid when a car follows him and he stops to confront the driver, who backs away.  At the hospital, Vic spots Walt with doc Donna Sue (Ally Walker) and she's there with a patient who attempted suicide.  She cancels their date and he's glad she did it first cos he can't make it either.   Later she tells him the patient was suffering from transference, when the patient has feelings for the doctor and she asks if he's had any suspects do that, Walt replying, "I hope so."  Well he must've had some suspects he fancied then ha!  He also brings her a book, John Donne, on the second visit cos he figures she'll be there a long time and she says she read it in college, so he decides to take it back, but she holds onto it cos it's hers now.

They return to the campfire and find a trail of blood, again not good for Henry as Mathias will get it tested and Henry's in the system, or was it Walt getting it tested.  Anyway the slug ricocheted off the rock and hit him.  Ferg (Adam Bartley) says he can follow the trail and they also find the bullet that was used to shoot Tyler, from a snake slayer.  Mathias says it would've been helpful if he'd called him and he needs to release Trot cos Walker's (Callum Keith Rennie) been complaining and he was arrested on the Rez, Walt has no jurisdiction, as we know.  Walt shouts to Ferg to release Trot and then re-arrests him again cos he's in Absaroka county now.  Which won't last long.  They think perhaps the oil company's behind the shooting of Tyler too, but Walt thinks it's personal cos of the gun used.

They can't find Sam but he turns up at Linda's and says he was picking up his sister from a bar.  She has a gun, the same snake slayer that Gab used, which makes her a suspect.  Should've got another gun!  Sam has a bandage on his arm and Ferg confirms it was from Linda's bite and not a gunshot wound. Also Gab gets a car from Mandy (Tamara Duarte) threatening that if she doesn't give it to her she'll tell them there were three attackers involved.  They drive to the medicine woman's place and Henry's called by Walt who asks if he's seen Gab.  He replies he saw her yesterday and he also tells him about Tyler being shot but he doesn't know who did it.  He later asks Cady about Henry and she said she saw Gab but she doesn't know where she was headed, she was just on the Rez, as Cady gets her suspicions about Henry now too again, cos she thinks he's lied to her twice now, maybe.  Henry tosses the gun over the bridge and wouldn't it have bee better if Henry hadn't said anything about Gab knowing Cady's seen him with her and that sooner or later Walt would ask Cady, or they'd talk about it.

Vic gets hurt when she chases after Laila after locating her and she tells them she saw a man dressed in black, it was Hector and he wore a red ribbon round his neck.  Mathias tells Walt about the new Hector and the note he found calling for the execution of the two rapists.  Vic is picked up by Eamon at the hospital and she takes him back to Cady's place where she can't keep her hands off him. Clearly she's trying to move on from Walt in some possible way, though not sure that's possible, who could move on from him!  Tyler dies and Walker says he's not doing anything to help find who did this. Zachary sees a reflection from the hotel window and finds Monte (Stephen Louis Grush) inside.  He calls Zachary a psychopath and he's got photos of the entire sheriff's staff and him.  He takes some of them and then punches Monte threatening him if he doesn't stop it.  Monte takes a photo of his bloody nose.

Henry reaches the medicine woman's place and Gab thinks cos she kicked a rock from the medicine wheel she's been having bad luck ever since.  Henry tells her she's not to blame for what happened, as he's knocked out by the medicine woman.  Poor Henry he goes from one problem to the next and it's like he's the one having all the bad luck ever since he picked up Hector's mantle.  Somehow I don't think he'd have it any other way.  So as we head into the season 4 finale, it's a case of will Walt find Henry and Gab and figure out he's Hector and his part in the shooting.  Will Walt and the doc get together, which doesn't look like it with their schedules.  What's Cady going to do as she doesn't want to get Henry into trouble and she doesn't really know what's going on.  At least the show keeps us coming back from more instead of being stagnant and stuck in the moment or drawing out storylines far longer than they need to be.

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