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!
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