As Walt (Rob Taylor) speeds down the highway he comes across Branch (Bailey Chase) carrying a shotgun. He opens the car boot and shows him Ridges' DB and as they drive to the station, Branch wants to come in but he's been relieved of his suspension. He informs the others about Ridges and tells Ferg (Adam Bartley) to clear out Branch's desk which he reluctantly has to do. He should've asked Vic (Katee Sackhoff) she wouldn't have hesitated and a bit unfair to ask Ferg cos they were much more closer, if that's the word, than anyone else there. You can tell Ferg did look up to Branch.
Walt leaves to see Nighthorse (A Martinez) and as he tells them he's going to arrest him believing he gave away his location to Ridges. However Nighthorse calls for his attorney and she plays the recording of the phonecall getting him off the hook for now, but that won't prevent Walt from pursuing him still, as he still believes he's part of a conspiracy behind Martha's murder, or at least is directly behind it. However a bit of a funny bit when his wife's name is mentioned, Walt loses it and punches him but Vic's nose gets in the way!! Ha. Some would say poetic justice since she was sticking it in where it doesn't belong. Especially when she turned in Branch, I mean how was he corrupt when he kidnapped Sam (Hank Cheyne). Granted he shouldn't have done it, he wasn't thinking straight which isn't the same as being a bad deputy!
Cady (Cassidy Freeman) thinks there may have been racism involved on the part of Det Fales (Charles S Dutton) when he arrested Henry (Lou Diamond Phillips). Giving Walt an idea about feathers since one was found in Branch's wound and it reminds him of Ridges' headdress, also containing crow feathers. He then goes to Denver to see the detective, Vogel (Aaron Abrams) who investigated his wife's murder, along with Fales. He shows Walt the case files and finds the autopsy report with the X-ray of an object in Miller Beck's throat which resembles a feather. Apparently the autopsy didn't last long and Fales was instrumental in pursuing that angle, but then dropped it. However without evidence there's nothing they can do. However Henry suggests they need to dig up Beck's DB and asks where it's buried. Colorado of course. Walt says he's coming with him and takes the jar of the 'Free Henry' funds with them, which they pay Omar (Louis Herthum) to fly them there.
As they dig, the police are notified of Henry's ankle monitor being breached and they arrive. Walt getting into the hole and telling them he's been chasing Henry who's been digging up graves. They bring back Beck's DB, only to find that Ridges has been taken. Vic pulls over Nighthorse breaking his tail light in the process and wants to check his car. Inside she finds his shopping, but sees he made a call to Sam, who's taken Ridges' DB and wants to bury him. They find him during the burial and Walt promises he'll return the DB for a proper burial after. Walt finding the feather in his throat.
Ferg brings by Branch's things to him and is sad to see him end up in that position. Branch examines the tapes of the CCTV surveillance he recorded at Nighthorse's development and sees Barlow's (Gerald McRaney) SUV. He ask him about it and says he was confronting Nighthorse about Branch. Barlow lies telling him his company doesn't do business with Nighthorse. Branch later covers his face with shaving cream and looks at himself in the mirror, he then turns up at work in a suit which Barlow thinks is overkill.
Cady meets with the ADA Sloan (Eli Goodman) and Fales showing them the evidence and how it was suppressed. She makes a deal for the charges to be dropped otherwise they're going to the press with Fales's oversight. Henry is finally free. Walt takes his wife's ashes to the place where they were married and says he hoped keeping them would help her keep him in line and he finally lets go. That's not the half of it, as this story was too conveniently cleared up. Why would they kill Martha, they had to be hired and even if he didn't get evidence on Nighthorse, he was too easily a suspect. Especially with his band of attorneys, he wouldn't have to resort to murder.
Whilst out shooting skeets (clay pigeons as we call them) Branch brings up Nighthorse again. How Barlow didn't even look angry at all and he would've gotten out of the car to confront him properly. Also finding a $50,000 connection to Walt's wife's murder. Barlow was angry and wanted revenge cos he wanted Branch to be sheriff, not Walt. However he doesn't regret it or is remorseful at all and what follows was classic TV at its best. Barlow telling him he has time to make another son and shots are heard even by Walt, as the casings lie on the ground.
It wasn't hard to predict what was coming since Barlow can't have any liabilities or loose ends lying around, his business and money are too important for him than people and even his own son. I mean he was keeping him prisoner under lock and key in the previous episode, thereby showing he had more to fear from him than even from Walt. So he spent years building up a fortune, it's only money and it's not like he's going to take it with him, but it was more important for him to protect his empire than his son. Branch as we know would've done the right thing and that's what really irked Barlow. Unlike him, his son had backbone and scruples, even if he lost the plot after getting shot, who wouldn't. But a great cliffhanger, of sorts, to leave on.
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