As Walt (Rob Taylor) drives away, we get flashes to his showdown with Chance from the previous episode and he ends up getting shot. Vic (Katee Sackhoff) is at the hospital when he's treated and isn't over the shock of the events. Yeah Vic any old excuse to see Walt shirtless!! Walt tells Vic that everything will be okay and she cries in his arms. Walt is no sooner out of hospital that he attends a CS where Ferg *Adam Bartley) tells him about some remains he's found, which may be human. They find prisoners worked on the farm and he meets up with Bob Barnes (John Bishop) who he locked up, who was responsible for Cady's accident. He tells Walt he's been sober and he helped build the barn for George (Cooper Huckabee). As they find George's body in the barn, shot in the back. Nick (Larry Clarke) tells him George only worked the farm he didn't own the land. But he had plenty of debt so people would be chasing him up for it. George also had a wife and daughter who aren't at the house when he and Ferg drive there. As they drive up, they run into the house and George's wife, Dawn (Jennifer Parsons) tells her daughter, Cassie (Mandy Brown) to get the shotgun. She believes that Nick is behind it and will be here to chase them off the land.
Vic can't control her anger and she accuses Sean (Michael Mosley) of opening a document on her laptop, it was at home. He says it wasn't him and he wants her to leave with him and resign, which she isn't about to do. However she then realizes at work that it was Branch (Bailey Chase) who was there and happened to open the document addressed to Walt. He says she was missing and he was looking for leads, which she doesn't buy cos the letter's about Branch and his behaviour. She didn't send it to Walt, cos yeah he's really big on computers isn't he!! But he's angry cos she thinks he is mentally unbalanced. After her own experience of being held hostage and facing near death, it's a wonder she doesn't understand any better how he feels and what he's going through. No, she's got Walt's shoulder to cry on and even more she wishes.
Cady (Cassidy Freeman) meets Branch at the station telling him she's got an idea of hiring a PI in Denver to find out about Darius. He's surprised and hurt that she didn't ask him for help straight out instead of money and they drive to Denver together. Nick brings the insurance man, Ty Patterson (Michael Rothhar) with him and they can't do anything with the insurance on George since the autopsy report isn't in. Nick suggesting that maybe Dawn had enough and was the one killed him. Walt finds out about the insurance policy and Vic tells him Sean wants her to resign. She doesn't want to leave but Walt thinks she should do that and doesn't talk her out of it or offers her any support. Not wanting to get involved in their personal lives. Obviously he wouldn't come straight out to tell her to stay but Ruby (Louanne Stephens) informs him of an incident at the farm.
Cassie called and Nick is in a tractor chasing her mother. Walt arrives to push Dawn out of the way. George owes him money on their equipment so he's come to collect. Walt tells him this isn't the time and he repeats what he said back at the office about how he should be nice. That's how his father was and it got him nowhere except broke in his grave. He speaks with Cassie who all knew about the policy. Also that they do have a .38, the same gun that was used on George.
At the bar in Denver, Cady questions the bartender about Darius and he shows them the wall of pictures. Whilst there Branch's a photo is taken by a woman who says she hasn't seen a cowboy before. She later sends him the photo she takes of Branch on his phone and he sees David Ridges behind him! Small world, wonder if he put her up to that considering the photo later vanishes so he doesn't have any proof. Which once again makes Cady all the more afraid of him. She thinks he's still hallucinating, he did it before when he tried to strangle her. She then calls Cady for a ride and she confirms in Vic's mind that Branch is seriously deluded and dangerous.
Walt suspects maybe George tried to kill himself and when he talks to Ty, he finds that George tried it once before. He then later tried to talk him out of it again and he got the wrong idea. Ty didn't mean he should kill himself but that he should try and make things better. Ty found him after he took sleeping pills and of course since he can't get a pay out on a suicide he shot him with the gun. So his family would be paid and could work the farm. Walt declares his death unsolved since his story appears far fetched. Vic gives Walt the letter from her laptop and it's about ranch. As he sits in the bar and is watched by Ridges.
Another stand alone mystery with added elements from the story arc, as Vic finally gives Walt the letter about Branch, but she does that without any confirmation of his state of mind, she's not a doctor and just bases it on what she sees. Which is good and fine to a point, but she doesn't even bother giving him the benefit of the doubt, but she expects Walt to be at her beck and call and be on her side unequivocally and without any questions asked. She's not exactly in a one hundred per cent perfect state of mind after what she's been through. Her marriage breakdown and constantly having Walt on her mind. Seems Branch was all but deserted by everyone and doesn't have anyone to turn to. The same with his father, who's more like a father in name only. Branch may have his genes but he's nothing like Barlow. Who's pretty much ashamed of him as he couldn't win the sheriff's position! Not to mention Ridges and his vanishing act, it as as though he was taunting Branch and driving him closer ot going over the edge, as he later says he practically owns him.
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