Walt (Rob Taylor) has a flashback to his wife telling him to be careful and also takes his gun to make an arrest. He heads down to the Rez station to arrest Malachi (Graham Greene) for police corruption. Malachi says he needs a Federal warrant but Walt's going to bluff it. He says he didn't come here without Fed back up and Malachi tells him to put his gun down, as Walt readies the trigger. At Malachi's parole hearing he testifies that Malachi shouldn't be released since he offered him a bribe to not be here otherwise he would beat up on Henry (Lou Diamond Phillips) in prison. He's anxious for the Parole Board's decision. Obviously he didn't count on Malachi having a long reach and getting some Parole Board member under his corrupt belt, somehow, either with use of money or threats.
Walt wants to find the man who killed Miller Beck and narrows it down to suspects who weren't in jail at the time, but Malachi was. He tells Ruby (Louanne Stephens) he's taking his vacation days since he's got all of them and he tells Vic (Katee Sackhoff) he doesn't want the taxpayers paying for a Denver case, so he's going to work it on his own personal time. He pays a call on all three, including Stanley (Kenneth Wayne Bradley) in prison. Walt tells him about Rebecca and how he left body parts all over different towns after his killing sprees. he blames Walt for taking Rebecca away and he could've been happy with her.
Walt then visits Lucian (Peter Weller) to ask for his help, he's not interested until he tells him he could get shot. He orders pizza and Jamie (Bob Clendenin) tells him were to find Creely Dorn (Rodney Eastman) who was imprisoned for making crystal meth. He escapes as his workers give him the sign and Lucian finds a hidden camera. Crely admits he was the best cook in prison but now he's graduated onto a more lucrative drug, a mix of heroin, sleeping pills with added strawberry flavour which the college kids love. He's arrested and Lucian tells Walt he didn't tell him Martha was murdered. She was irreplaceable and he offers his condolences, recalling he made a pass at her once. Walt replies she told him twice and Lucian says he was drunk.
Mathias (Zahn McClarnon) shows up at the station and Vic doesn't go and investigate the stolen chicken case which she thinks is too trivial. Does that make any difference it's her job and what she's getting paid for picking and choosing cases, when Walt specifically asked her to do so. She tells him she's in charge and he says Sam (Hank Cheyne) made a complaint about being kidnapped by Tom and Jerry and she gives him their mugshot book for him to look at. He's missed four days of work so maybe making this up, but he was high. After Branch (Bailey Chase) plied him with peyote tea so he'd hallucinate and not remember they kidnapped him. That was a waste of time anyway since Sam didn't tell them anything at all. They left him in the desert and Branch tells him he's lucky cos he won't get caught. Travis (Derek Phillips) will be unlucky if he does. Which he does cos Sam identifies him as the kidnapper. She arrests him and Branch offers him an alibi as they were at the Red Pony and Travis drove him home. Obviously she'd check up on that with Henry who tells them they left by seven. Also the bar tabs showed they had two drinks. So he couldn't have been drunk. So why didn't Branch just order more drinks.
Travis panics and admits that he went along with it since he's known Branch since they were little and he didn't want him hurting anyone. That he's a psycho and she needs to stop him. Vic asks Walt about whether she did the right thing when she turned in the corrupt policeman. Knowing that Branch may be heading the same way if he hasn't already. But she doesn't let on about Branch yet. Walt recalls what she said about home and thinks the chicken thief is Hector (Jeffrey De Serrano) since $20 was left for it, that's its worth. Also recalling a woman came in to see Cady (Cassidy Freeman) and Henry telling them to stop looking for him. Hector's the only way they can get justice on the Rez, reminding Henry of the girl who was raped and she paid Malachi for help but he didn't do anything. It was Hector who beat them up and brought the men before her. Which means the hiker didn't see Hector but Branch thinks it was David Ridges, tall and thin with long hair.
They head to the desert and Vic finds blood leading to Hector in a cave. He was shot by Ridges as Branch shows him the photo but he doesn't know why the 'snake' came after him. He wants to die on the land of his people and not in a cave as they carry him out. Walt could've got a dying declaration out of him for Henry and it would've stood up in court. Well, any sort of a declaration. Malachi is released and poor Walt didn't get the memo, as he turns up at the Red Pony and takes Henry's furs and other trophies which he leaves a wad of cash for.
Of course this was all leading to Ridges still being alive showing Branch wasn't hallucinating after all. They didn't really give Branch any credit for what he saw and told them, so is it any wonder he went the psycho route, first he gets shot (oh dear a sign of yet more worse things to come for him) and then he's doubted by the very people who are meant to know him and have his back.
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