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Saturday 4 June 2016

Longmire 4.10 "What Happens on the Rez" Review

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Henry (Lou Diamond Phillips) wakes at the Crow Medicine Woman's (Tantoo Cardinal) cabin and she tells him he should've told her about Gab (Julia Jones) first.  He's in pain after being shot as he tells her and she gives him some ibuprofen which is good for pain.  She gives Gab a false passport and driving licence, matching her likeness to the photos and she tells Henry never to come back here anymore.  He needs to go back and take the car back, or Mandy (Tamara Duarte) will tell the sheriff, as well as his own truck which he left behind with blood.  More's the pity as we know exactly what will happen to Henry and exactly where he's heading again.  Cady's (Cassidy Freeman) no help either as she's already put her foot in it and landed him in it too when she lies to Walt (Robert Taylor) telling him she saw Gab walking but she was alone.  Of course Henry didn't listen to his messages either when he returned and called Walt to report his truck as missing.  Still at least his phone still had battery!

Cady finds Eamon (Josh Cooke) at her place and she has work to do but she covers for Vic (Katee Sackhoff) when Walt comes by and asks her about Gab again and still she doesn't say anything. When Henry returns the car he's seen by Mnady's boyfriend  and Walker Browning (Callum Keith Rennie) who beat him up and want him to admit he knows where Gab is.  He refuses and Ruby (Louanne Stephens) calls in Walt.  When they arrive, they find Henry still on the ground and Mandy's boyfriend tells him what Gab said about reporting him for rape as well if she didn't give her the car.  Walt tells Walker he can't arrest Henry cos this is the Rez and it's out of his jurisdiction.  Which Walker isn't happy about but then he and his men think they can get away with anything including murder and rape right there on the Rez.  Walt asks Henry if he wants him to take him to the tribal police or if he wants Walker to do it.  Of course Walker will pin the other murder onto Gab as well since he can.  He later turns up at the office again telling them to release Trot (Aaron McPherson) cos they have no evidence to hold him for murder.  Or he threatens Walt with a lawsuit for corruption and abuse of power and he doesn't need that right now.  Henry doesn't tell him anything about Gab but says that he saw her yesterday as he was walking with her and Cady can confirm this. Oops caught in a lie!

Walt doesn't need that cos Zach (Barry Sloane) wants to tell him what happened with Monte (Stephen Louis Grush) before he can and watches out for Walt, but he's too late as Monte already gets to him, telling him he wants to file a formal complaint and Ferg (Adam Bartley) will take down the details. Zach tries to explain what he did and why he did it, but Walt doesn't want to hear it cos he didn't have probable cause to just barge in there and what he saw is illegally obtained.  He tells Zach he's already gotten into a fight at the oil field when he arrived and now this.  Zach once told him he wanted to prevent trouble before it happens and so that's what Walt's doing now as he asks for his badge and gun.  Ferg tells Walt he's done the wrong thing later and says he didn't give Zach a fair go when he arrived but he's good at his job.

Walt apologizes to Monte who accepts but he asks what's in it for him if he drops the charges against Zach.  Walt replies nothing which means Monte can't add bribery to the lawsuit against him.  Walt is being sued by Barlow Connolly, which is  kinda silly, okay he's dead but guess the lawsuit is in the name of his estate.  Walt tells Vic about this as a man thinks he's found Henry's truck.  He's not worried cos the FBI cleared him for Barlow but it'll just take a lot of time.  She says that's not easy when they're down in staff and then mentions she and Eamon are in a relationship and sleeping together, so he can't really hire him.  He doesn't say anything and she expected him to respond and ask questions.  But we know Walt isn't a man of questions or answers, but he's really not interested in her.  So she doesn't give up pursuing him and makes a point of embarrassing herself in the process too, not that she sees it that way.  I mean really, she's practically throwing herself at him!  She then asks how long he's been seeing the psychiatrist, Doc Donna Sue (Ally Walker) and he replies that's none of her business either and he does refer to it as a relationship.  She tells him not to walk away from her and he says he's walking away from the truck cos it's not Henry's.

Ruby gets hold of Walt on the radio this time, did she know he'd be in the truck and doesn't call Vic one her phone.  Anyway Donna Sue's truck has been burnt out and he thinks it might be her patient. She refuses to name her patient cos she hasn't seen him for days so doesn't know what sort of a place he's in.  Vic finds that absurd and points it out.  She takes Eamon for that home cooked meal she never made him and tells him about refusing the job on his behalf cos they wouldn't be able to see each other.  He tells her they're not in a relationship and he might lose his job over his unethical boss who he found out about and she shouldn't have done that for him.  Bringing up Walt not wanting him around cos he was jealous and she needs to figure out where she is first before they can have any sort of a relationship.

Cady has a new client, Calvin Blackwolf (Geno Segers) who was fired from his job at the casino, well wrongfully dismissed and she  meets with Knighthorse (A Martinez) to discuss it with him.  He says Malachi fired him cos he replaced him at the table when there were high tippers playing and he could've used the tips.  Knighthorse finds it amazing that Cady is using elegant words but has the same attitude and intentions as Walt.  Next time they meet he says he wants her to represent the Cheyenne nation and the people who can't and don't know the law.  He wanted this casino cos he could give something back to the people, build schools and hospitals and he wants to begin a legal aid centre which he'll fund and he wants her to run it.  She thinks he's bribing her cos of the case but he says Calvin can have his job back, he shouldn't have been fired and she accepts his offer later, giving her $750,000.

Knighthorse also calls on Henry asking for his help in finding where Malachi (Graham Greene) is laundering money.  They can put him in prison and he won't be able to keep the Red Pony, so he'll get his business back and he'll help him keep the casino in the process.  Walker wants to know where Gab is and beats up Mandy who goes to Walt to warn him.  Henry tells him where Gab is and he follows his map.  He finds her in the medicine wheel and he tells her maybe the ancestors found a way of helping her through Henry and Walt is her protector.  Showing her the map Henry drew him.  As they leave, Walker and his men stop them and he plans on shooting Walt if he doesn't hand over Gab. Walt gets help from Henry of course and he shoots one of the men, allowing Walt to wound Walker and Gab runs away.  The medicine woman tells Walt that Gab's not here since she turned into a hawk, she was always a hawk.  He asks if she shot the man and then he says he can't find Gab cos she's a hawk so he has no jurisdiction.

As Henry goes back, he's stopped by Mathias (Zahn McClarnon) who is in his truck.  Henry asks how he can replay him and he replies "in blood."  He arrests Henry and will take him to the Rez.  But as he told Walker earlier, there's not much he can do since he can only deal with misdemeanours and trivial crimes.  And Gab did shoot him on the Rez and Henry isn't guilty of shooting him either, even if he did help Gab.  No to mention he just saved Walt.

Ferg tells Zach he's sorry he was fired and Zach just wanted to help people.  He's gone back to drinking again.  Ferg says he saw what he found on him and Monte took the statement he made about Walt out of context, which was apparent and later Zach turns up missing as Ferg tries to call him. Walt sees Donna Sue and they share a beer as she asks him to play the piano.  They finally get together, being shortlived no doubt, since we see the burnt out truck and Walker's missing from the hospital, they have a shortage of staff so no one was there keeping an eye on him.  Heck he probably wasn't even handcuffed to the bed.  As Walt's door is burst open.  Couldn't even enjoy his moment!

So several scenarios set up for season 5 and we know Netflix have a season 5 of the show, which is always good to hear.  Is that Walker gunning for Walt or the doc's jealous patient.  What's going to happen to Henry and how much can Cady do, sure Walt will have plenty to say about the matter. Hopefully things won't be awkward between him and Vic cos she's said her piece and we get to put it behind us now.  Also he's got the lawsuit to contend with.  I liked how Cady backed herself out of a corner by saying that she and Henry didn't dissolve their relationship as lawyer/client and so still have privilege, telling him what Henry said or of she saw him would lead to her being disbarred.  At least   she got out of that.  Always expect a lot from this show and it always delivers and never fails to disappoint.  A great scene where Mathias calls Henry "Hector."  And Henry caught with his pants down again ha! Well, almost!

An appropriate title too since everything did happen on the Rez and there's not much Mathias can do about it, which he spells out to Walker as well.  What happens on the Rez, stays on the Rez and he should've known that with his men getting away with all sorts of serious crimes.

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