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Tuesday 17 July 2018

Longmire 6.9 "Running Eagle Challenge" Review

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Continuing on from last ep, FBI Agent Vance (Jon Tenney) shows up with the letter that Walt (Robert Taylor) got Vic (Katee Sackhoff) to mail and asks why it took him so long to send it out, if he already knew about Shane Muldoon.  Walt tells him about Decker (Raphael Sbarge)and how he showed up after he already had the meeting with Muldoon, thus he must've been in league with Muldoon all the time.

Vic makes breakfast for Travis, only for Joe Mega (Robert Baker) to tell her that he's gone and left the trailerpark.  He doesn't know where he's gone.  She rushes back to the RV leaving brekkie behind and opens the letter with the paternity results, but then she decides to burn it without opening it.  Then accidentally sets fire to the hanging kitchen roll!  Thought she would've looked at the letter, okay she doesn't really need to know now, but she would want to know one day.  We want to know! That would in some ways also be closure.  She goes to counselling for people who have lost children and finds a woman still there, who lost her baby a year ago and still hasn't gotten over it.  It's not something that can be gotten over so quickly, everyone is different when it comes to grief.  She later tells Walt she went to grief counselling but she won't go again, cos it's too hard.  She can't think of just seeing baby owls and start bawling.  He tells her she's stronger than that and recommends she should take part in the Running Eagle Challenge.

Walt spoke with Henry (Lou Diamond Phillips) about Nighthorse (A Martinez) and about Muldoon, also about Decker being corrupt and Decker let Eddie know where they were when they were run over.  He tells Henry to get Vic enrolled in the competition even if it is for Native Americans only since she needs it.  Telling him about losing the baby and Henry asks who the father was, thinking it might be Walt.  Everyone would think that wouldn't they.  So Walt sees Vic in a different light now.  But she can't ride a horse or even paddle a canoe.  So he teaches her to ride, how to brush a horse and then take it slowly riding.  All rather touchy feely in many ways.

When she arrives home, she finds her father there.  He's here cos of the shooting and as they share cheese steaks, he tells her she's wasted here and should come home with him.  There's a programme in Philly which she'll be suited for and it'll give her a promotion, instead of being a deputy, putting herself in danger for Walt, who just keeps getting himself into trouble.

Cady (CAssidy Freeman) is visited by Nighthorse and tells her she can't have much more money cos he's in a tight spot and was over zealous with the budget.  She doesn't think anyone will come and see her anyway.  One of his bodyguards tells them about a man outside.  Cady knows it's Zach (Barry Sloane) and she takes him a Rainier.  He admits her father hired him and he knows she's independent and everything.  She's glad he's here, but he doesn't drink anymore.  She later tells him to come inside her house cos he's just sitting out there and she says she can't work cos she's not Cherokee and knows nothing of their history.  As they get it on together!!  That was obvious too from last ep.  She later tells Walt he should hire Zach cos he loves the job, is good at it and wants to help people.  Instead of Walt running himself into the ground with only two deputies.  One day one of them will leave, hitting the nail on the head as far as Walt is concerend with Vic.
Vic's father, Victor (John Doman) pays a call on Walt to and they talk of Vic and how she's wasted here.  Got shot over him and Walt explains she shouldn't have been there, but she was and she saved his life.  But he's not interested in that.  He tells Walt she'll be leaving with him. 

Henry and Walt come up with Johnny who works for Nighthorse at the casino cos one of them is an inside man and he needs to find him.  But he can't go to Mathias (Zahn McClarnon) cos he doesn't know if Muldoon might have someone on payroll in the Res police.  Telling Ferg (Adam Bartley) to get info on Johnny too.  Henry takes a delivery from the Red Pony to the casino and asks for Johnny, but his boss tells him he's the only one who signs for deliveries and Johnny isn't here.  He's probably at his uncle's workshop.  When he gets there with Mathias, they find he's gone.  And the work logs show Johnny was there at lunchtimes when his boss was away and so he signed for them.

Walt tells Vic to go to the competition when she doesn't want to.  She manages the running and the canoeing but the horse riding lets her down.  She falls off the horse and he runs away.  She almost gives up, but then the horse turns up again and she leads him back to the finish line.  Here's she's applauded by Walt and she tells him she's tired, almost lost his horse and she's leaving.  Nighthorse wants Henry's help in convincing the people that he's on their side.  He won't be able to pay them the casino profits now cos he needed $1 million for his bail.  Henry says he won't do that to them, to family.

Vic and Walt come up with a plan to lure Malachi out by using the drugs.  They speak on the radio and that's why he wanted Vic to scramble the police scanner.  They still have the drugs in lock up and plant a phone into the brick of drugs.  That phone had a long battery life!  The signal finally moves and they follow it to a warehouse and Ferg finds Decker hiding out.  The FBI arrest him but Walt can't question him cos he doesn't get permission from Vance's bosses.  He can give Walt the transcript of his answers though.  So Ruby (LouAnne Stephens) comes in with the mail and he decides to show Decker the pic of Muldoon, saying he can save Decker from Malachi.  Decker finally relents as the FBI take him away.
Hey that pic Walt had of Muldoon, that was doctored wasn't it, I mean he must've taken Muldoon's idea with Eddie and done the same to dupe Decker into helping him out with the whereabouts of Malachi.  Only nobody else thought that, obviously they didn't see the photo, but wonder if this is the case, cos Walt was all straight faced about it.

Vic wants to talk to Walt and he thinks this means goodbye, but she asks for a raise!!  Much to his relief. SO last ever ep to go and I know many have watched this last year. but I waited til we got it here, hoping it's going to be a goodun!  Know most have had  a year to have missed the show and move on from it, but this was one show you kinda wished went on forever, ha, no, for a little longer!  At least!  A detective/western which we haven't seen the likes of in a while, if at all!  Will miss everyone especially Rob Taylor who I've been watching for ever (almost!) in everything he's done!!

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