Longmire 6.10 "Goodbye is Always Implied" Review

                                        
In the final ever episode most stops were pulled out but unfortunately some were not, at least not to my satisfaction.  But of course that's my opinion.  Walt (Robert Taylor) still searches for Malachi (Graham Greene) as we get a shot of him making coffee in the morning at home, showing us what a homely person he's become over the years and in some ways, more relaxed in his work and at work too.  Obviously just a forerunner for the ending.  Marilyn (Tantoo Cardinal) waits for Walt outside and tells him she can show him where Malachi is and she wants him off their land as more men are coming in and he's just making it worse.  Giving the analogy of a beetle attacking trees.  Yeah that kind of a disease.  She takes him to the river and they row to other side only for Maggie to be shot.  Whereas it could just as easily have been Walt, which is what Vic (Katee Sackhoff) warned him about earlier when he said he was heading out there on his own.  Wanting Ferg (Adam Bartley) and Vic to watch out for Johnny.  She needs Ruby's (Louanne Stephens) car for the stakeout and she hates that cos last time she had to have it cleaned cos it wreaked of food.

As Nighthorse (A Martinez) finds his people no longer want him around as he's been 'stealing' their profits and stage a casino walkout when he's there giving Henry (Lou Diamond Phillips) a tour in an effort to convince him that this casino does some good.  Keeping their people in work and paying them real wages.  That it's not just a hundred employees but more than one hundred in a snowball effect as they all provide for their families.  As Nighthorse tries to reason with them, shots are fired and he and Henry are whisked away by Nighthorse's security!

Mathias (Zach McClarnon) calls in for help with the casino shooting and Walt eventually turns up after taking her to hospital.  And after hiring Zach (Barry Sloane) as his new deputy cos he needs help right now and sending him out to pick up the DB.  Even easier as he drives a pick-up.  Just when he and Cady (Cassidy Freeman) were fooling around again.  After Cady tells Zach she wants to leave Wyoming for good.  But in the past she couldn't cos something would always call her back, her mother's death, her father needing her and now she's ready to leave which is why she doesn't want any baggage and doesn't see a future with Zach.  That's wishful thinking on her part.  She won't leave Absaroka County and she knows it!  She's a part of it just like it is with her and Walt cements her there.  Okay I was about to go into full blown Gone with The Wind mode here with the speech about 'land being the only thing that matters; the only thing that lasts'.  But here it's more than land; it's a legacy for her, Walt's legacy.

Marilyn dies as Ruby breaks the news which just makes Vic lose the plot again since she harps on about it being Walt.  Obviously Marilyn decided that Walt was the eagle, with Henry being the osprey as Walt just dives in after the big fish.

Security Brian (Wallace Langham) stops at the bridge as both Henry and Nighthorse recognize the car there and Brian shoots the other security guard as he's on Malachi's payroll.  Malachi wants Nighthorse to sign over the casino and all assets to him and forces him to record a video message saying this, otherwise he'll kill Henry.  Henry thanks Nighthorse for saving his life, though it may have been premature since they won't get out of this.  However Nighthorse wants Henry to take over the casino as he's a good man and will do the right thing for their people.  Malachi gets Nighthorse to sign over documents and Henry fooled the guard into showing him where Hector pulled his tooth out cos he stole too.  Reminding him of Agnes and he manages to conk him against the pipe and escape.

Zach finds that Brian is an assassin and on Malachi's side and they head to where he is as Walt sees the sawdust in the photo of Muldoon.  There is a sawmill and Walt smelt sawdust on the DB too by the river.  He doesn't want Mathias to call the Crow Res police as they'll be on his payroll.  Walt almost drives into Henry and they all head back.  Taking Malachi's men out two at a time.  Vic ponders why she always ends up in this position and having to deal with Walt being in danger.  She can't always do this.  Can't keep saying goodbye.  Walt replying, "goodbye is implied in this work."  Meaning even if they don't get to say it, well actually I should say. he won't need to say goodbye to her or vice versa.

Finally getting to Malachi, Walt must first save Nighthorse who has been strung up with the chain in  the mill and Walt, after having flashbacks with Nighhorse, finally saves his life, for which he thanks him.  Dealing with Malachi who comes after Walt with his knife, Walt manages to shoot him dead.  He heads home and he puts vodka on his scar and Vic asks him how many he's got.  "Twelve, no thirteen..."  As she asks him about the scar on his back after she spied him at work.  And they get touchy feely and kiss, finally falling into bed together.  Man that was some kinda infatuation!  Next morning she tells him that they can't do this since she will always love her baby more and he will always love Martha.  But they manage to kiss again.

Walt sees Cady and tells her he's leaving work and he wants her to take over as sheriff.  Lucien made him who he is as he learned from him and was a newbie when Lucien hired him.  However he also recalls Lucien said he was working this job too much and Walt doesn't want to grow old doing this.  She's perfect for it and he and her mother would be proud of her!  As Cady cries.  She puts up a 'Longmire for Sheriff: Honesty and Integrity' sign advertizing her intention to run.  As Walt rides away as he's going to hunt for treasure with the map he got from Lucien!  Yeah somehow can't see him doing that.  Henry walks the casino floor and take it Nighthorse was jailed.  Ferg turns up in a suit carrying flowers to make amends with Meg

As Walt gets that call on his phone...SO who was that?  I'd stuck my neck out and said it's Martha??  Especially since they all mentioned her in the space of a few minutes!!  Also Walt saying he was happy now in the longest he's ever been...I know a lot of fans have said that it was just the novelty of Walt having a mobile/cell phone, but for my mind and way of thinking, that's just too simplistic and I know I'm a mile off and then some when I say Martha...yet who would be calling him in the middle of nowhere and how many actually know he has a phone now.  See that's the mystery I think, more than he has a phone...

I did not like that Walt and Vic scene, it just seemed so unreal and tacked on;very tacky indeed.  Okay so I was never an advocate for them and their relationship and I preferred it when their feelings, her feelings were one sided and not reciprocated.  It just seems unlikely he would suddenly see her in a new light after all the distance between them.  What's even more funny or ironic is how Cady, now that she's running for sheriff had already superceded Walt in the romance department with her soon-to-be colleague, Zach, as they already got it on not once, but twice thus far.  Whereas they pointlessly let Walt and Vic loose!  As well as how Vic kept on harping about watching him get hurt over and over and repeating that same old tune, well luv, the simple answer was to just leave then!  But no she hung around (dare I say it like a bad smell) just to get what she so desperately wanted from him.  Her more than Walt as he pursued him relentlessly!  Instead they had Walt being the one who did the u-turn and give up work for her already!

Strange that as Walt gets his life together, leaves behind his work and gets a mobile phone, he gets a mysterious phonecall on it.  I mean how many people could have his phone number.  And why such a cliffhanger, come on, it's not as though the show was coming back for another final season.  I hate that and will always have that in the back of my mind now, just like that song you get into your head and can't get it out.  Of course even worse for me and my retaining memory that never forgets a thing!

Longmire 6.9 "Running Eagle Challenge" Review

                                        
Continuing on from last ep, FBI Agent Vance (Jon Tenney) shows up with the letter that Walt (Robert Taylor) got Vic (Katee Sackhoff) to mail and asks why it took him so long to send it out, if he already knew about Shane Muldoon.  Walt tells him about Decker (Raphael Sbarge)and how he showed up after he already had the meeting with Muldoon, thus he must've been in league with Muldoon all the time.

Vic makes breakfast for Travis, only for Joe Mega (Robert Baker) to tell her that he's gone and left the trailerpark.  He doesn't know where he's gone.  She rushes back to the RV leaving brekkie behind and opens the letter with the paternity results, but then she decides to burn it without opening it.  Then accidentally sets fire to the hanging kitchen roll!  Thought she would've looked at the letter, okay she doesn't really need to know now, but she would want to know one day.  We want to know! That would in some ways also be closure.  She goes to counselling for people who have lost children and finds a woman still there, who lost her baby a year ago and still hasn't gotten over it.  It's not something that can be gotten over so quickly, everyone is different when it comes to grief.  She later tells Walt she went to grief counselling but she won't go again, cos it's too hard.  She can't think of just seeing baby owls and start bawling.  He tells her she's stronger than that and recommends she should take part in the Running Eagle Challenge.

Walt spoke with Henry (Lou Diamond Phillips) about Nighthorse (A Martinez) and about Muldoon, also about Decker being corrupt and Decker let Eddie know where they were when they were run over.  He tells Henry to get Vic enrolled in the competition even if it is for Native Americans only since she needs it.  Telling him about losing the baby and Henry asks who the father was, thinking it might be Walt.  Everyone would think that wouldn't they.  So Walt sees Vic in a different light now.  But she can't ride a horse or even paddle a canoe.  So he teaches her to ride, how to brush a horse and then take it slowly riding.  All rather touchy feely in many ways.

When she arrives home, she finds her father there.  He's here cos of the shooting and as they share cheese steaks, he tells her she's wasted here and should come home with him.  There's a programme in Philly which she'll be suited for and it'll give her a promotion, instead of being a deputy, putting herself in danger for Walt, who just keeps getting himself into trouble.

Cady (CAssidy Freeman) is visited by Nighthorse and tells her she can't have much more money cos he's in a tight spot and was over zealous with the budget.  She doesn't think anyone will come and see her anyway.  One of his bodyguards tells them about a man outside.  Cady knows it's Zach (Barry Sloane) and she takes him a Rainier.  He admits her father hired him and he knows she's independent and everything.  She's glad he's here, but he doesn't drink anymore.  She later tells him to come inside her house cos he's just sitting out there and she says she can't work cos she's not Cherokee and knows nothing of their history.  As they get it on together!!  That was obvious too from last ep.  She later tells Walt he should hire Zach cos he loves the job, is good at it and wants to help people.  Instead of Walt running himself into the ground with only two deputies.  One day one of them will leave, hitting the nail on the head as far as Walt is concerend with Vic.
Vic's father, Victor (John Doman) pays a call on Walt to and they talk of Vic and how she's wasted here.  Got shot over him and Walt explains she shouldn't have been there, but she was and she saved his life.  But he's not interested in that.  He tells Walt she'll be leaving with him. 

Henry and Walt come up with Johnny who works for Nighthorse at the casino cos one of them is an inside man and he needs to find him.  But he can't go to Mathias (Zahn McClarnon) cos he doesn't know if Muldoon might have someone on payroll in the Res police.  Telling Ferg (Adam Bartley) to get info on Johnny too.  Henry takes a delivery from the Red Pony to the casino and asks for Johnny, but his boss tells him he's the only one who signs for deliveries and Johnny isn't here.  He's probably at his uncle's workshop.  When he gets there with Mathias, they find he's gone.  And the work logs show Johnny was there at lunchtimes when his boss was away and so he signed for them.

Walt tells Vic to go to the competition when she doesn't want to.  She manages the running and the canoeing but the horse riding lets her down.  She falls off the horse and he runs away.  She almost gives up, but then the horse turns up again and she leads him back to the finish line.  Here's she's applauded by Walt and she tells him she's tired, almost lost his horse and she's leaving.  Nighthorse wants Henry's help in convincing the people that he's on their side.  He won't be able to pay them the casino profits now cos he needed $1 million for his bail.  Henry says he won't do that to them, to family.

Vic and Walt come up with a plan to lure Malachi out by using the drugs.  They speak on the radio and that's why he wanted Vic to scramble the police scanner.  They still have the drugs in lock up and plant a phone into the brick of drugs.  That phone had a long battery life!  The signal finally moves and they follow it to a warehouse and Ferg finds Decker hiding out.  The FBI arrest him but Walt can't question him cos he doesn't get permission from Vance's bosses.  He can give Walt the transcript of his answers though.  So Ruby (LouAnne Stephens) comes in with the mail and he decides to show Decker the pic of Muldoon, saying he can save Decker from Malachi.  Decker finally relents as the FBI take him away.
Hey that pic Walt had of Muldoon, that was doctored wasn't it, I mean he must've taken Muldoon's idea with Eddie and done the same to dupe Decker into helping him out with the whereabouts of Malachi.  Only nobody else thought that, obviously they didn't see the photo, but wonder if this is the case, cos Walt was all straight faced about it.

Vic wants to talk to Walt and he thinks this means goodbye, but she asks for a raise!!  Much to his relief. SO last ever ep to go and I know many have watched this last year. but I waited til we got it here, hoping it's going to be a goodun!  Know most have had  a year to have missed the show and move on from it, but this was one show you kinda wished went on forever, ha, no, for a little longer!  At least!  A detective/western which we haven't seen the likes of in a while, if at all!  Will miss everyone especially Rob Taylor who I've been watching for ever (almost!) in everything he's done!!

Longmire 6.8 "Cowboy Bill" Review

                                               
Walt (Robert Taylor) speaks with Ferg (Adam Bartley) about the shooting even if it was a good kill and Ferg says he was holding a hostage.  Walt replies he might have wanted to question Eddie about his dealings and of course, Shane Muldoon and Malachi.  So he gives Ferg leave for a few days.  This leads him to call on Meg (Mary Wiseman) and her mother, Beverly (Marylouise Burke) tells him she's away.  She likes to go out on her own.  He looks for her around town and even sees her ex, Reggie (Joe Coots) who's fixing his car, or attempting to.  He was at a job interview at Cody and he used to work in a bank.  Ferg suggests Pagosa Springs and he replies that's far for a job.  Seeing as Meg showed him the photos when she and Ferg went there.  Ferg suspects Reggie could be Cowboy Bill cos he needs the money.

Walt asks Zach (Barry Sloane) to babysit Cady (Cassidy Freeman) well he hires him cos he may have stirred up a hornet's nest and his loved ones might be in danger.  He hires him to look after her, even if she's independent and wouldn't like it.  Walt shows him a photo of the back of Muldoon's head since no one has any pics of him. Cady returns to wok and finds the place vandalized, with Mandy (Tamara Duarte) trying to clean up.  There's graffiti on the wall telling her not to touch their children and also a scrawling of an upside down person, which Mandy says she doesn't know what it means.  But Henry (Lou Diamond Phillips) tells her sometimes it's a threat.  Zach also turns up and she knows she hasn't paid him.  He says he can help with the carpentry and Henry knows how to use a broom.  Mandy returns cos she can't get benefits unless Cady fires her, but when she sees Zach, she decides to stay.

Ferg tells Zach what he found and needs his advice about Reggie.  Zach says he needs more than just his instinct before he takes this to Walt. Nighthorse's (A Martinez) lawyer calls him and he is willing to tell him about Eddie, he doesn't know he's dead and Walt tells Vic (Katee Sackhoff) he wants to use that against him.  Would've thought his lawyer would be on the ball with that news, even though it may no be common knowledge yet.   Nighthorse tells him he knows someone who could tell him where Eddie is and that's Muldoon (Dylan Walsh).  He's been dealing with him since a week ago since he had a business arrangement with Barlow who used to put money into the casino.  Tucker was aware of that and now he's dead, he needed new input.  However he denies letting drugs onto the Res cos he wouldn't do that to his people.  Obviously Walt doesn't believe him.  Nighthorse gives him a way to contact Muldoon the way he does in exchange for remaining in solitary.

Walt tells Vic about this who thinks he's just messing with him.  Walt uses Henry's computer to send Muldoon a message saying, 'Sitting Bull.'  He also tells Henry that Eddie was Hector and he found the mask in his belongings.  Henry commenting that Hector dies again.    Henry was trying to find an out for Nighthorse to prove his innocence.  But he can see he won't need that now.  So what about the stolen Indian artefacts and is that going to be relevant for the last two eps, or just a red herring.  Vic also mentioning that Nighthorse doesn't know he incriminated himself.

Ferg heads to where there was another robbery at Pagosa Springs and he sees the policeman on TV talk of the attempted robbery as he checks in.  Officer Fields (Ryan Carlberg) tells him he wasn't in uniform and when he asked what was going on, Cowboy Billl fled.  Also there was a partial number plate with '24' in there, which Ferg says corresponds to Absaroka County.  As he checks this out, he asks the clerk if he' seen Reggie or the sketch of Cowboy Bill, as he finds the complete numberplate of the car in the motel's ledger. He heads to the owner, Gloria Dodd (Eve Gordon)and she finds the number plate on her car has been stolen.  Leading Ferg to arrest Reggie, who denies it all.  Wouldn't it have been easier to check out his alibi first, which he did, but I should say, he should've waited for a response from the bank where Reggie had the interview.

Meg finds out and loses her temper at Ferg.  Also adding he probably suspects her, but she was miles away trying to get a reverse mortgage on her mother's house, as Walt and Vic return.  Also throwing her watch at him, the one he gave her.  Walt doesn't think it's Reggie and he tells Ferg he made the same mistake as him and learned from him, he should've taught him better.  Cos what he did was follow his gut instead of going through the evidence before him.  Bob (John Bishop) also asks Walt what wood he wants for the kitchen, Walt leaving him to choose.

Vic gets a comment on the post with the words, 'extinction' and Walt takes that as a threat.  However in return for the bail, Nighthorse tells him it's a meeting place, where he takes Vic with him.  Getting there 12 hours ahead of time.  Walt tells her the Indians used to do that and sometimes they would get their days ahead.  Vic asks if there's something he wants to do before he dies. He doesn't really know and well, his answer would be 'get it on with her'!!  No really!  Ha.  The looks that passed between them.  He tells her he doesn't want to lose her and that's why he brought her here with him, to protect her...Walt bringing out his leather jacket again for the stakeout!

Muldoon turns up and Walt tells him about Eddie.  He makes a deal that if he gives him Malachi then he can go free.  He has until next day to decide.  Next day they don't hear back from him and Agent Decker (Raphael Sbarge) comes to see him telling him Muldoon turned himself in.  Of course he's on his payroll cos him turning up like that was too convenient, knew he was dodgy when he first arrived on the scene.  Walt asks Vic to check if Agent Townsend is still lead on the case.  As he and Ferg talk with Gloria again who tells them her son's in rehab.  They find more number plates were stolen from rehab and used in the robberies.  Giving Walt the clue that it was someone who had a family member at rehab.  Vic tells him that Townsend is still on the case and he tells her to mail the letters to the FBI detailing info about Muldoon.  As he checks out Bob's RV there's another robbery in progress in Cumberland County and his assistance is required.  He walks into the bank and brings Bob out.  Walt will cover the $10,00 for his son's last rehab, which is why he started robbing banks.

Not many loose ends to tie up now, except for Muldoon and Malachi and well I guess Vic and Walt too, it's that obvious.  In many ways, probably Cady and Zach, there's an attraction there, it seems.  Especially after he finds that the office was trashed from the inside and that someone let them in.  This being Mandy of course since she has to deal with those people who are her friends.  Cady writes her a letter telling her she's fired now!  Clearly she's distressed and of course Zach notices all this.  A bit late for Walt and Vic, as I said and to repeat myself, this was something that didn't really need to be delved into for the final remaining eps!  How will Ferg fare with Meg?

Longmire 6.7 "Opiates and Antibiotics" Review

                                          
As Walt (Robert Taylor) brings glasses to celebrate at work with his booze from the office drawer and we get another song again in the opening, as last week's ep, he finds the others are working on the Ian murder.  Even Zach (Barry Sloane) is there.  Vic (Katee Sackhoff) was at the morgue and tells Walt et al that he wasn't killed with 16 arrows but there was a 17th puncture there too and she couldn't see it or how it was made.  Was probably drugged, didn't they do a Tox screen?  Walt finds that Eddie had parents and he sent cheques to them but they never cashed them cos they didn't want his dirty money, which Ferg (Adam Bartley) says was "good for them."  The investigation leads to the Irish mob again and ultimately to Shane Muldoon, cos you know that part of the story wasn't over and done with.

Vic stops a truck and waits for Walt to get there to find it's carrying artifacts headed for Nighthorse (A Martinez) and his casino.  The crates have false bottoms and inside he finds heroin, up to 20 kilos.  Thus giving him the ammo he thinks he needs to get Nighthorse once and for all.  But as he questions him, subtly leading up to the drugs.  He firstly thanks him for his testimony cos there was nothing but lies being told until Nighthorse told the truth.  Nighthorse replying he was under oath.  Walt then tells him about the crates and the drugs and Nighthorse tells him it was Malachi who is setting him up.  Walt reads him his rights and Mathias (Zahn McClarnon) arrests him as the casino is on sovereign land, so Walt can't technically make the arrest.  The way Walt got into accusing him was very unexpected saying how he would have to owe him a favour for his testimony and suggesting that would be turning a blind eye to the drugs.

Obviously Nighthorse begs Walt not to take him to lockdown at the County jail since Malachi's supporters are there and they won't leave him alive.  Walt arguing he's done the wrong things over the years but this time he's going to do things by the book.  Nighthorse even begs him but Walt turns a blind eye.  Nighthorse's lawyer, Kevin Morris (Currie Graham) makes a deal with Walt, rather Walt offers by saying he will put Nighthorse in isolation if he agrees to tell him the whereabouts of Eddie Harp (Dan Donohue).  However Nighthorse insists he doesn't know that when Henry (Lou Diamond Phillips) visits him.  He tells Henry he's been set up and why would he go to the FBI and open himself up to them if he was guilty.  Arguing it's always the White man's way to undermine them and begin tribal wars.

Henry tells Walt that Nighthorse's artifacts are real and he had communication with the government and got those artifacts to display in the casino.  Walt found the crates when searching Nighthorse's house with Vic and they appear to be different.   Vic saying she's thinking about leaving his land and taking the RV back to the trailer park.  Walt is reluctant to see her go.  Oh so now he's gets 'feelings' for her!  Well not something we all wanted to see in the sense of unrequited love on her part would've been much more interesting.  Where does it say characters have to get together, even for a short while or one night??!!  Peeved with that!! (To come!)

Walt didn't find any emails between Nighthorse and the government and tells Vic to look for those.  She's adamant Nighthorse is a criminal and thus guilty, that they know he is.  Walt replies they think he is, they don't know or have any proof.  Conveniently!  Ferg gets the licence photo of Eddie when he was about 20 years younger with his red hair and he is the only one who saw him.

Mathias tells Cady (Cassisy Freeman) that Catori (Susan Santiago) has kidnapped Tate (Phoenix Wilson) and his parents want him back, but she hasn't seen her.  She calls when Mathias is still there and tells her she's coming to see her.  She wants him to have treatment and then will return him to his family.  However Mathias takes Cady in and she doesn't answer his questions.  She will be accused of second degree murder if Tate dies. So she asks Ferg for help but he can't on the Res since Walt is also out.  He recommends Zach can help and she hires him for $500 a day.  He was her father's deputy for a week and he's not strictly a PI.  At the hospital she finds that Catori couldn't have got in since there was a crowd out there.

Henry finds Rusty (James Macon Mauldin) and takes him to a mobile medical unit on the Res where Henry finds the doctor treats drug addicts with methadone. Zach comes in for a drink and tells Henry he's working for Cady to help Catori and Henry tells him of the mobile unit.  They wait for her to turn up since Cady's left voicemails for her.  He gets the treatment he needs and both Cady and Zach see Eddie who's pretending to be the doctor's assistant, since no one knows who he is.  Later Catori gives herself up to Mathias and Cady gives the pills to Tate's father since the penicillin didn't give him anaphylactic shock he should give him the antibiotic pills since he doesn't have to go to the hospital or see doctors.

At the station Zach sees the younger photo of Eddie and tells them he's at the mobile unit.  Walt tries to talk him down but he doesn't listen when he says his parents want to see him.  Eddie holds the drug addicted doctor hostage and asks where Ferg is.  He gets his wish since Ferg shoots him square between the eyes.  Probably to Walt's chagrin since they can't pump him for info now on Muldoon!  Okay what's with the shootings, first Vic shoots Chance and now Ferg.  This one rounding up a few loose ends and the beginnings of yet more to solve before season's out.  How Walt's day turned from wanting a drink with his friends and colleagues to having an investigation on his hands.  Don't know why I've been spelling Knighthorse with a 'K' and not as Nighthorse!! for some reason.  Oh well never mind!  Though he wouldn't really approve of that 'White' man spelling!  Ha.