Longmire 3.7 "Population 25" Review

                                             
Walt (Rob Taylor) stumbles onto Branch (Bailey Chase) and tells him how "this is his wake up call."  As only Walt can say!  Vic (Katee Sackhoff) and Sean (Michael Mosley) go a short trip as he's hired a sports car, yeah way not to impress her but she's clearly impressed.  Vic should've driven away in the car and left him!  Ha.  Branch and Walt have a heated argument, with Walt telling him he needs to be working on recent open cases and not keep going on with the Ridges' obsession.  Since that's what it looks like to everyone except Branch of course.  Which must be tough and building up on him how people who are meant to know him treat him like he's just pursing a lost cause vendetta.  Well it's okay for Walt which is what he must've thought, cos he can investigate his wife's murder and reopen the Miller Beck case and no one's going to say a thing.

Vic and Sean have an accident with Sean swerving to avoid hitting a bear and the car ends up ditched. There's no signal on her phone so she goes for help at a house they passed.  Leaving her gun with Sean for the bear.  Walt tries to ascertain what Deena told Henry (Lou Diamond Phillips) but Sean calls him and tells him of the accident.  He actually wants to report seeing Gorski (Lee Tergesen) in a car that didn't stop for him but carried on following Vic's direction.  Walt arrives but then finds Sean missing too.  Ferg (Adam Bartlett) is radioed to check the number plate on the car.  When he's interrupted by a man telling him to put his gun down.  It's Gorski who tells him that Sean was abducted by men in a car with no plates.

Vic foolishly enters the house she passed on the road and a woman cooks breakfast for her son and husband, Chance (Peter Stormare).  Which was a big mistake for her cos he knows who she is and thinks that she's here undercover for Walt.  He even calls her Vic as she spots photos of her and Walt on the wall.  As she attempts to leave the two men arrive from the car bringing Sean with them. Gorski convinces Walt he doesn't know where Vic is and they should join forces to find her.  Branch asks Ferg about Gorski and Vic and then tries to look for online.  Vic is handcuffed and Chance believes she is here on behalf of Walt.  Gorski tells Walt his feelings for Vic and that she shouldn't be with Sean.  She did settle for a loser, or was he just a safe choice for her.

Sean is brought in and is asked who he called on the phone and if he called Walt.  He claims to have forgotten the password to the phone, well it was Vic's phone wasn't it but he didn't say that and neither did she.  He will finally give it him and he'll find he did make a call and to Walt of all people. So much for a low battery that lasted for a long time and got a good signal too in Hickbackville!  He puts a helmet over Sean's head and his son hits him with the baseball bat.  Vic asking if he plays baseball.  Branch finds Vic's letter to Walt on the computer and is unhappy she called him 'unstable.' Ferg tells Branch the deputy is investigating the abandoned cars and Walt and Gorski hide out as he goes to the house.  Gorski stops Walt from helping the deputy or else they'll be discovered.  Vic and Sean are now in the basement as the DB is thrown down in the bag and Vic thinks it's Walt, as she scrambles to open the bag.  She wasn't doing any flavours by thinking and acting like that in front of Sean but she's past caring at this point.

Walt gets to another part of the house and finds the DB of a Federal agent in the freezer.  Branch arrives and looks for Walt but doesn't find him.  Walt manages to get hold of one of the men and questions him about Vic.  Chance sets up a courtroom in his house and he will be the sole judge.  He's big on justice - his own kind.  Sean gives the password to him and Sean is given the helmet treatment again and is taken away.  Chance tells Vic of his treatment in the court and how he wasn't afforded his rights to due process.  Walt came to see him before asking about his wife's death.  Chance is told Walt's here and he wants to make a settlement out of court.  He tells Chance to let Vic go and he'll let his people go.  They'll be the only two who remain behind.  Chance sends everyone away and Vic is driven away by Gorski with Sean.  Obviously she doesn't want to leave Walt. Walt talks about his wife and as they hold guns on each other, he tells him he didn't kill his wife. Gunshots are heard.  As the car stops, Vic can't wait to run back and see Walt's fate.  Thus showing she's not interested in either Sean or Gorski and Walt is the only man for her.

This episode seemed like a filler of sorts as the men in Vic's life, all three of them have a showdown of sorts and Vic is only concerned about Walt.  As the other two will now bow out of her life.  Of course we know Walt won't be hurt, at least not seriously.  Also more fuel added to the bad vibes between Vic and Branch as she finds her letter and knows she's going to tell Walt anyway, but he did tell her he doesn't care if she does in the previous episode.  He has nothing to lose at this point, except his sanity which he's already accused of losing anyway.  Maybe he should've got a little gun action in the shoot out to relieve a little of his pent up anger.  Which he will do soon anyway.