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Sunday 8 July 2018

Longmire 6.8 "Cowboy Bill" Review

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Walt (Robert Taylor) speaks with Ferg (Adam Bartley) about the shooting even if it was a good kill and Ferg says he was holding a hostage.  Walt replies he might have wanted to question Eddie about his dealings and of course, Shane Muldoon and Malachi.  So he gives Ferg leave for a few days.  This leads him to call on Meg (Mary Wiseman) and her mother, Beverly (Marylouise Burke) tells him she's away.  She likes to go out on her own.  He looks for her around town and even sees her ex, Reggie (Joe Coots) who's fixing his car, or attempting to.  He was at a job interview at Cody and he used to work in a bank.  Ferg suggests Pagosa Springs and he replies that's far for a job.  Seeing as Meg showed him the photos when she and Ferg went there.  Ferg suspects Reggie could be Cowboy Bill cos he needs the money.

Walt asks Zach (Barry Sloane) to babysit Cady (Cassidy Freeman) well he hires him cos he may have stirred up a hornet's nest and his loved ones might be in danger.  He hires him to look after her, even if she's independent and wouldn't like it.  Walt shows him a photo of the back of Muldoon's head since no one has any pics of him. Cady returns to wok and finds the place vandalized, with Mandy (Tamara Duarte) trying to clean up.  There's graffiti on the wall telling her not to touch their children and also a scrawling of an upside down person, which Mandy says she doesn't know what it means.  But Henry (Lou Diamond Phillips) tells her sometimes it's a threat.  Zach also turns up and she knows she hasn't paid him.  He says he can help with the carpentry and Henry knows how to use a broom.  Mandy returns cos she can't get benefits unless Cady fires her, but when she sees Zach, she decides to stay.

Ferg tells Zach what he found and needs his advice about Reggie.  Zach says he needs more than just his instinct before he takes this to Walt. Nighthorse's (A Martinez) lawyer calls him and he is willing to tell him about Eddie, he doesn't know he's dead and Walt tells Vic (Katee Sackhoff) he wants to use that against him.  Would've thought his lawyer would be on the ball with that news, even though it may no be common knowledge yet.   Nighthorse tells him he knows someone who could tell him where Eddie is and that's Muldoon (Dylan Walsh).  He's been dealing with him since a week ago since he had a business arrangement with Barlow who used to put money into the casino.  Tucker was aware of that and now he's dead, he needed new input.  However he denies letting drugs onto the Res cos he wouldn't do that to his people.  Obviously Walt doesn't believe him.  Nighthorse gives him a way to contact Muldoon the way he does in exchange for remaining in solitary.

Walt tells Vic about this who thinks he's just messing with him.  Walt uses Henry's computer to send Muldoon a message saying, 'Sitting Bull.'  He also tells Henry that Eddie was Hector and he found the mask in his belongings.  Henry commenting that Hector dies again.    Henry was trying to find an out for Nighthorse to prove his innocence.  But he can see he won't need that now.  So what about the stolen Indian artefacts and is that going to be relevant for the last two eps, or just a red herring.  Vic also mentioning that Nighthorse doesn't know he incriminated himself.

Ferg heads to where there was another robbery at Pagosa Springs and he sees the policeman on TV talk of the attempted robbery as he checks in.  Officer Fields (Ryan Carlberg) tells him he wasn't in uniform and when he asked what was going on, Cowboy Billl fled.  Also there was a partial number plate with '24' in there, which Ferg says corresponds to Absaroka County.  As he checks this out, he asks the clerk if he' seen Reggie or the sketch of Cowboy Bill, as he finds the complete numberplate of the car in the motel's ledger. He heads to the owner, Gloria Dodd (Eve Gordon)and she finds the number plate on her car has been stolen.  Leading Ferg to arrest Reggie, who denies it all.  Wouldn't it have been easier to check out his alibi first, which he did, but I should say, he should've waited for a response from the bank where Reggie had the interview.

Meg finds out and loses her temper at Ferg.  Also adding he probably suspects her, but she was miles away trying to get a reverse mortgage on her mother's house, as Walt and Vic return.  Also throwing her watch at him, the one he gave her.  Walt doesn't think it's Reggie and he tells Ferg he made the same mistake as him and learned from him, he should've taught him better.  Cos what he did was follow his gut instead of going through the evidence before him.  Bob (John Bishop) also asks Walt what wood he wants for the kitchen, Walt leaving him to choose.

Vic gets a comment on the post with the words, 'extinction' and Walt takes that as a threat.  However in return for the bail, Nighthorse tells him it's a meeting place, where he takes Vic with him.  Getting there 12 hours ahead of time.  Walt tells her the Indians used to do that and sometimes they would get their days ahead.  Vic asks if there's something he wants to do before he dies. He doesn't really know and well, his answer would be 'get it on with her'!!  No really!  Ha.  The looks that passed between them.  He tells her he doesn't want to lose her and that's why he brought her here with him, to protect her...Walt bringing out his leather jacket again for the stakeout!

Muldoon turns up and Walt tells him about Eddie.  He makes a deal that if he gives him Malachi then he can go free.  He has until next day to decide.  Next day they don't hear back from him and Agent Decker (Raphael Sbarge) comes to see him telling him Muldoon turned himself in.  Of course he's on his payroll cos him turning up like that was too convenient, knew he was dodgy when he first arrived on the scene.  Walt asks Vic to check if Agent Townsend is still lead on the case.  As he and Ferg talk with Gloria again who tells them her son's in rehab.  They find more number plates were stolen from rehab and used in the robberies.  Giving Walt the clue that it was someone who had a family member at rehab.  Vic tells him that Townsend is still on the case and he tells her to mail the letters to the FBI detailing info about Muldoon.  As he checks out Bob's RV there's another robbery in progress in Cumberland County and his assistance is required.  He walks into the bank and brings Bob out.  Walt will cover the $10,00 for his son's last rehab, which is why he started robbing banks.

Not many loose ends to tie up now, except for Muldoon and Malachi and well I guess Vic and Walt too, it's that obvious.  In many ways, probably Cady and Zach, there's an attraction there, it seems.  Especially after he finds that the office was trashed from the inside and that someone let them in.  This being Mandy of course since she has to deal with those people who are her friends.  Cady writes her a letter telling her she's fired now!  Clearly she's distressed and of course Zach notices all this.  A bit late for Walt and Vic, as I said and to repeat myself, this was something that didn't really need to be delved into for the final remaining eps!  How will Ferg fare with Meg?

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