Longmire 3.6 "Reports of My Death" Review

                                               
Walt (Rob Taylor) and Henry (Lou Diamond Phillips) have words about Malachi (Graham Greene) and he seems to really have had an adverse effect on Henry, Walt then finds a DB is found on the park bench of a homeless man who appears to be that of Welles VanBarclom.  A man who disappeared years ago after leaving home.  He tells Ferg  (Adam Bartley) the man is worth millions and he checked his ID.  His family, sister, Penny (Kathleen York) and brother, Graham (Jamison Jones) hired  a PI Fred Tavish (Matt Roth) to find him, giving him a composite sketch of what he may have looked like now.  Also convenient that the sketch matches exactly the homeless man as he was now, at least there would've been a few changes.  What are the chances they'd get an exact composite. They get a call from the media about his death and they don't know who leaked it.  Surprise, surprise, spoiled, bratty son, Carter (Stafford Douglas) via Twitter.   (Some sort of joke here considering the fact their mother had all those birds around, which startles Vic (Katee Sackhoff) and she has to question why so many? Ha!)

Vic finds out that Walt knew them from when he was 12 and his father worked here, she wonders if Walt was a chatty 12 year old.  At the station they find the press pack waiting for them.  When Darius comes to collect the rest of the animal hides etc from the Red Pony, Henry has his foot in the freezer as he freezes his ankle and pops off the monitor.  He follows Darius with his camera and takes photos of him meeting with Malachi, as they remove cameras.  Cady (Cassidy Freeman) turns up but doesn't see him at the Red Pony telling him there's no soiree here, as she breaks in through a window.  She later calls Cameron (Nick Gehlfuss) to find out, hypothetically what happens if her client does a runner.  He tells her she can't tell anyone or she'll lose the bail money, but also since it's privileged no one else needs to know.  Adding he thinks she might want him as a lawyer on the case.  Cady says she can't afford him.  

Malachi walks in with Nighthorse (A Martinez) and throws the cameras onto Walt's desk, Walt says he didn't plant those since he'd get a warrant.  Malachi shows him a receipt which states Branch (Bailey Chase) bought them.  Well you didn't go far enough Branch and why such big cameras too? Walt is angry and wants Branch on the phone, who's out in the desert with Vic following up a lead on Ridges.  But a man arrives saying he's the real Welles (Parker Stevenson).  He planted his ID on the man so that his family would call off the search and finally leave him alone.  Walt needs proof of who he is cos he found two sets of ID on the man showing he was Welles.  He won't arrest him but says he can hang out at his place and threatens him with exposure to the press unless he talks to him.  Walt wants him to come to his family's house but when he gets there he's abrupt and won't answer questions, like his sister's nick name.  Carter takes a photo of him and tries to tweet it again but Walt takes his phone.  

It appears the homeless man died of a drug overdose and it resembles heroin but was some form of opiate.  Walt recognizes his socks as belonging to those of the high school football team, cos Walt used to wear the same socks.  The man tells him he gave them to the homeless man and Walt tries the shelter where he speaks with a Sergeant (Dustin Seavey) who knew him, going back to Cleveland. He says he didn't take drugs not even the ones doctors gave him, so he was a little not right.  Also shown by him not having any track marks on his arms.  He tells Walt he's the second man who asked about him, the first was a PI.  Walt chats with Tavish who tells him he gave up on the search as he wasn't well paid and shows him the sketch of the real Wells.  So if Walt knew him back then, wouldn't he have had a slight inkling that he resembled the same Wells he used to know.  

As Henry follows Darius he sees Deena (Madchen Amick) come out of the bar.  He follows her and asks her about the stolen money.  She says Darius made her do it and she didn't have any other choice.  Of course she had choices he tells her.  Cady calls and he picks up saying he'll come in and she tells him he shouldn't have done that.  Henry says he's coming back now.  Walt wants Ruby (Louanne Stephens) to check Tavish's account and his phone records.  Where she finds he had money paid into his account recently, but not from the family.  He heads back home and Welles calls him "Wally" what his father used to call him when he worked there.  He wanted his own life and left the only way he could.  He envies Walt's life out here.  He paid Tavish to ensure he didn't report back to his family after finding him.  So he already knew that Welles looked like the sketch he gave to Walt.  

Vic hates having to accompany Branch into the desert wilderness but she wants to keep an eye on him and brings up he and Travis kidnapping Sam.  Branch justifying himself by saying he didn't do anything wrong and Sam already had the peyote.  He doesn't care if she tells Walt since they have this perfect relationship going on, but he needs to find who tried to kill him and make sure he doesn't do it again. As Walt drives up the family home, he notices the camera and called the Tavish to meet him there saying the text was from her.  He used the brat's phone to send it.  Walt tells her that her sketching has improved and also that the angle of the sketch wasn't right.  She drew the homeless man from the camera angle.  Whereby she admits she did all that cos their mother loved Welles more and she's not sorry.

Walt returns to the Red Pony when Henry does and he shows them a photo of Darius, the man works from Denver and Malachi has many more workers there.  Cady storms in and says they're not keeping secrets from her.  She asks if that's the man who killed her mother.

A bit convenient for Welles to have turned up dead after all these years right here and under his family's noses!  Just so there could be a DB and she could have his inheritance too.  Her motive being selfish of course, she looked after her mother when she was ill and her birds, saying it wasn't about the money, but the fact Welles left her to do it all.  She didn't have to and if she stayed behind she must've still had a reason and that had to be money.  Cos it sure wasn't wanting their mother's love which she knew she'd not get.

Welles said he didn't want the inheritance or the money and just walked back off into the sunset, he should've taken it and carried out some philanthropic endeavours with it.  I mean think of the charities he could've helped, he didn't have to leave it to his family to take it all.  Especially since he met the homeless man and saw how he was living and barely surviving.  So didn't like that part of the storyline, he wanted to live his own life, understandable, but why not help others live some kind of a decent life of their own as well.  Turns out Walt knew him too when he was little and his father worked for them.  He wanted a father like Walt's (showing how Walt turned out the way he did cos of him.)

Henry and Deena's relationship must've been volatile they way they he grabbed hold of her and forced the information out of her.  Hmm, must've been a way stormy kinda intimacy!  Ha.  Seems like she just wanted the money anyway either way, so did Darius really take the money or did she keep it. Branch still on his quest for revenge and getting Ridges but Vic showed no ounce of sympathy whatsoever towards him, which she demands from Walt, like when he won't be sympathetic or sorry when she late r tells him about Sean.  You'd think he wasn't really a colleague of hers but some stranger who she doesn't know.  Which is exactly how she acted.