Vic (Katee Sackhoff) sleeps on Walt's (Robert Taylor) couch and he has to prepare for court again. She says she wishes there was something she could do for him and he is worried as he reminds her she saw him burying his money. Seems like there's only one way his trial could go, obviously with him losing everything. As he arrives for court and sees Tucker (Brett Rice) Walt has a murderous look on his face, at least that's how Milgrom (Patch Durragh) describes it and tells him he shouldn't show that expression. But Walt can't help it, as Tucker begins his opening arguments to the jury. Maintaining how most people will be loyal to Walt but also that they don't need someone who is basically corrupt and looking after his own interests. As he brings in Sheriff Jim Wilkins (Tom Wopat) to testify and he talks of how Walt shot him after he accused him of rape and handcuffed him to his hospital bed. Wilkins telling them how he knew Walker was innocent and let him go. Cady (Cassidy Freeman) also attends court, as does Henry (Lou Diamond Phillips) and Lucien (Peter Weller) who walks in last minute and asks what he's missed. With his usual wry comments about the sort of people who will hang him out to dry. Well okay, not in so many words!
Walt is livid and goes to the Red Pony to wallow and get drunk, though he has every right, it's not really his character as we've seen so far. He gives his keys to Henry and doesn't want a Rainier beer but whiskey and he keeps on ordering it from the barkeep. I wondered where Henry vanished to since he wasn't around to stop the drinks. But Walt did manage to find himself on Henry's bed and and heads home nursing a hangover and finds Vic gone with her RV the next morning.
Vic gave her statement to Marshall Hammond (Josh Stamberg) and asks him to inform the press that she shot and killed Chance not Walt. But he can't do that cos Walt asked him not to and says she should talk to him. He also hands her back her gun.
Mathias (Zahn McClarnon) calls Walt at home and asks him down to the Res where he finds Tucker's DB. He was shot and left there and it's not his CS. This automatically makes Walt his prime suspect and Vic too. But Walt is adamant he didn't kill him. He tells Milgrom what happened and Mayor Sawyer Crane (Eric Ladin) wants to see him, using Milgrom's phone to call Vic and leave her messages. The Mayor has prepared Walt's resignation in a few words, briefly, as Walt is a man of very few words, which is also what Tucker said about him in court. Walt gets out of the car and screws up the resignation letter, throwing it on the ground. Ah Walt you just littered! Ha.
He finds Mathias speaking to Ferg (Adam Bartley) and he says it's not his jurisdiction and he's more than capable of dealing with this. It's not the first time they've 'invaded' each other's jurisdictions and he takes Ferg to Tucker's house. He tells him to search the house and finds the chair with the bullet hole but it's not a through and through and he puts his fingers in the hole trying to retrieve the slug, but it's not there. He then tells Ferg to take pics with his phone as they hear a car approaching. He hides the phone under his pant leg. It's Wilkins and he's come to arrest them both for tampering with evidence and Walt can't investigate as Wilkin's been appointed by the Mayor.
Walt finally finds Vic's RV and tells her what's happened. She went for a drive and she doesn't have an alibi and he checks her gun, which has one bullet missing. But they don't know if Tucker was shot with a 9mm. Lucien sees Walt at work and tells him he's been made the new executor of the will and he can now have the case against Walt dropped, but Walt doesn't want him doing that as it will show favourtism. Yeah and then he'll never clear his name effectively. Walt also leaves all his property to Cady since he doesn't want to lose his home or his land which comes as a shock to her.
Lucien also gives Walt Tucker's diary and tells him he obtained it from Tucker's other office at Barlow's company since he was also CEO. Walt uses a pencil and finds the imprint of Alex Graham, as well as a Post-it with the name Alan O'Brien. He tells Ferg to find him and also he goes to see Alex (Radha Mitchell). She's Barlow's ex wife and she invites Walt into her room in an attempt to seduce him. She recalls Barlow would've lost his head if he had seen them together right now. She wants what's hers, half of the estate and she's here to seduce the new executor of his will to get her own way if necessary. Took me a moment to recognize Radha, she's changed so much from her days of playing Catherine in Aussie soap, Neighbours.
Vic returns to work to help Walt and tells him that Wilkins is waiting for him outside the office and she also does a stupid thing too again. Her undying loyalty is all well and good but she just makes mistakes and makes things worse for him. Walt says she'll return with an alibi. She tells Wilkins that he didn't do it and that he was with her. Her RV was parked outside his cabin and writes him a ticket for loitering.
Henry can't give Walt an alibi and is sorry since he took his Bronco and drove out to the Res. Telling Walt about being attacked by someone dressed as Hector. Walt thinking he's probably playing Hector again. But it wasn't him. He doesn't know if Walt was still here or not, but does that mean no one else saw Walt in a crowded bar and how did he get into Henry's apartment. Unless Henry put him there. But wouldn't he have been too drunk to even get to Tucker's and shoot straight! Henry can't alibi him since he'll probably makes things worse for him, which he already did, just like Vic.
Walt gives Lucien the heads up on Alex and also he has three missing bullets from his gun clip. Walt can't recall how many shots he took at Chance and can't recall much of anything. Lucien reloads his gun clip and now Walt doesn't have any bullets missing. He is sure Walt didn't shoot Tucker. How is he sure, well cos he's the one who did it. As said by me and sis at the same time. There were hardly any other credible suspects there anyway. Ferg and Walt go to Barlow's as the alarm is on and find Alex trying to take what was hers. She has a gun, but he tells her it would've been so easy to hide the weapon amongst Barlow's other collection. He takes her in and Vic is still interviewing Alan Brien's. There being many of them. Wilkins is there and releases Alex as Walt doesn't have any authority to arrest her and wants Walt and Vic to accompany him to the Mayor's office. Where it's shown Vic lied and Cady comes in as they're being interviewed without a lawyer present. She got the news from Mathias and was going to get him a good criminal attorney, but didn't have enough time.
Walt thanks Mathias who doesn't believe Walt is guilty as he was genuinely shocked to see Tucker dead. Walt looks at the note again and the name Alan O'Brien and takes out the book Lonesome Dove from his book shelf. He drives to Barlow's where Lucien is doing an inventory and finds some items missing. Walt tells him about the book and how Lucien gave it to him, but he hasn't read it in years. Walt recalled the name Alan, who was Sean O'Brien's brother. Lucien saying he was just a minor character in the book. However Walt says he was the one who gave him the book. Thus he knows it was Lucien who took care of Tucker. Lucien wanted to do one last right thing since Walt is a good sheriff and good for the county. He asked Tucker to drop the case but he wouldn't. So he didn't have a choice. He shot him. As they head for a showdown themselves cos Lucien doesn't want to spend his last days in prison.
They shoot and Lucien is shot in the hand and Walt in his leg. Walt won't finish it off. So Lucien takes a final drink and heads for the cliff where he throws himself over. At least he now knows who will attend his funeral. Walt saying "I wouldn't miss it you bastard." Phew that's a whole family wiped out in this show. But it was coming, you could tell. Lucien telling Tucker about Sitting Bull and how he said he had two dogs in his heart, a mean one and a good one. He thought Tucker had the same and appealed to his good dog, but to no avail. Tucker was bringing the case and persecuting Walt "because I can." Which was too much for Lucien to listen to. Quoting the line from Alan in the book to Walt and how this land "burned up my tears." True, not just cos of the weather, but the hardship to endure.
Vic also going to kill herself came as a shock. After seeing that family with their daughter. She was always a strong person, or at least gave that impression. But she couldn't go through with it and Walt makes her promise to never do that again. As it'll be more painful for him not having her here than this case or anything else. He doesn't have many friends and loyal ones at that, so every one counts and plus he doesn't want to keep losing people he cares about either.
Halfway through the final ever season (sob!) and this case being wrapped up so 'easily.' I would've liked to have seen it go on a little bit and seen what would've happened. But that wasn't to be. Also Tucker claiming that everyone Walt encounters ends up dead kinda wrote his own epitaph in many ways. Well I can't call it wishful thinking, cos that's exactly what happened to him. Perhaps karma and a little too conveniently. Then again Longmire was also good at quoting from movies and Milgrom also refers to the Mayor driving up and carting Walt away as a scene from Goodfellas.
