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Raylan Givens

Jackie Nevada...Sounds like a name out of a Steve McQueen movie.

My stepdad wanted to call me Sierra, but he named me after my mom instead. She walked out on us before I had a memory of her. They never married, and Reno wasn't even my dad.

Raylan Givens

Your stepdad's name is Reno? The man's name is actually Reno Nevada? Some kind of lounge singer?

Card player. Taught me some tricks. Sometimes we get in games together.

Raylan Givens

Sounds like you had quite an upbringing.

He did okay. Best he could without my mom. I did see pictures of her posing nude in the backyard once, Reno left on the dresser.

Raylan Givens

But you never saw your own mother?

Lots of people haven't seen their moms or their dads.

Raylan Givens

Yet others do as much as they can to avoid them.

You just showed your cards.

Jody Adair

That's how I see the world. Going around like this basketball. Me and you gonna have to meet up again, Raylan. Can't say when right now. You're gonna be looking over your shoulder till I make the scene. Then we gonna take it to the edge.

I think you're missing the point. Your daddy got the point. Crowders do what we say.

Wynn Duffy

Theo's got a guy on his way down who has apparently killed more people than malaria.

Do you think that, um, that I could ever be the kind of woman who belongs in these clothes? And walk into church and not have people say, "Now, ain't that sweet? The whore's come to get saved"?

Shelby Parlow

I think If you pretend to be something long enough, it's not pretending.

Raylan Givens

[at Arlo's bedside] You're not gonna say anything, hmm? Just lie there and wait me out. Doc says you've been in and out and there's a chance you'd sleep all the time I was here, but we both know you're too mean to go that easy, so come on. Give me something. I ain't asking for an apology. Hell, that'd take too long, and I don't want any fatherly advice. Figure if you had any worth giving, you wouldn't be circling the drain in a prison infirmary. Just give me something. Who's Drew Thompson? Not for me, for your grandkids. They can grow up with a chief deputy for a daddy, hear stories about their granddaddy who wasn't just a son of a bitch.

Raylan Givens

All right, Arlo. This is your last last chance.

Arlo Givens

Don't go.

Arlo Givens

Closer.

Arlo Givens

Kiss my ass.

Boyd Crowder

[being led from the back room of the bar, in handcuffs] Raylan Givens! If you were coming down here anyway why have Shelby drag me in again?

Raylan Givens

I didn't have him drag you in the first time. [indicates the officer leading Boyd] What's going on?

What's it look like?

Raylan Givens

Did Shelby send you?

He's the boss, isn't he?

Raylan Givens

I just saw him not fifteen minutes ago, he didn't mention anything.

Maybe he figured it wasn't any of your concern.

Raylan Givens

Well except I told him I was coming here. I'm sorry, we haven't met; I'm deputy US Marshal Raylan Givens.

Well, all due respect—

Raylan Givens

'K, just, hold up. [to Ava] Is that an engagement ring?

Ava Crowder

Mm-hmm.

Boyd Crowder

'S a big rock, ain't it? Now as acrimonious as our relationship has been lately, Raylan, Ava and I discussed it and you still gon' be on the guest list.

Raylan Givens

[to Ava] You know the definition of crazy, right? [Ava shakes her head] Keep doing the same thing over and over and expecting it to come out different. [Ava chuckles]

Sir, I'm gonna need you to step aside.

Raylan Givens

Okay, maybe I'm crazy, or I'm just having a hell of a day: did you just give me an order?

You don't move, I'm gonna shoot you.

Raylan Givens

[calmly] Jesus, I hope I got that right.

Boyd Crowder

Now, all the things you've done, the way you built your fortunes, it might make you criminals, but it don't make you outlaws. I am the outlaw, and this is my world, and my world has a high cost of living.

Art Mullen

You let Raylan take him?! Holy shit!

He said it was a late birthday present.

Art Mullen

Arlo Givens' body not even cold on the slab, and you let Raylan drive off into the sunset with his killer! Have you lost your mind?! Where is he? Tell me he's in Leoville, dropping off the prisoner like a good boy.

Tim Gutterson

Not unless they moved it to Harlan, 'cause transponder's got him around Baxter.

Art Mullen

God damn it. God damn it!

You want me to go up and get him?

Art Mullen

I want you to sit your ass down and get used to purging case files until I figure out how to like you again!

Raylan Givens

This prisoner is one Hunter Mosley. And he may be the only person I know alive who knows Drew Thompson.

Wynn Duffy

Well, now...

Raylan Givens

Mr. Mosley is being transported to Supermax in the recent wake of putting a shiv in Arlo Givens, such to end his life. So I figure, Dixie mafia has got a history with Arlo and Drew. Why not put the two of you together and see what shakes out?

Wynn Duffy

I'm sorry. Wait. Are you saying Arlo is dead?

Raylan Givens

You don't seem happy. I figured, if you ordered the hit, we'd all be drinking Wild Turkey by now.

Wynn Duffy

Deputy Marshal, I am truly sorry for your loss, but you have to understand... I had no idea.

Raylan Givens

[beat] Thank you, Wynn. Whatever your other failings, I believe that's true.

Hunter Mosley

What the hell are you doing?

Raylan Givens

In the words of Arlo Givens, I'm trying to knock some goddamn sense into you!

Boyd Crowder

Well cousin Johnny, Ava and I have been trying to put together a puzzle and it seems you have some of the missing pieces. Why don't you start from the beginning?

Hunter Mosley

Raylan, you listen to what your mama taught you and not that old son-of-bitch you may turn out all right. But I wouldn't count on it, 'cause we both know whose voice it is that makes you do what you do.

First thing we're gonna do is we're gonna acknowledge that this guy is awesome.

Rachel Brooks

What?

I mean, he shoots Theo Tonin, fakes his own death in spectacular fashion, pushes a guy out of an airplane while he's flying it, parachutes into Harlan county with enough coke and cash to jumpstart the economy of small country, and then he has the balls to get a job in law enforcement, not once, but two times! He spends a couple days riding around with you while you're looking for him, and now he's run off with a hooker half his age. That's some badass shit.

Raylan Givens

It's pretty badass.

Johnny Crowder

Boyd doesn't give a damn about nothing. Never did. When we was kids, he'd build half a tree house, and then he'd run off and go build a go-kart. And then he'd forget them both and spend the whole rest of the summer stealing candy and trading it for cigarettes.

Raylan Givens

I'll take your word for it. I just dug coal with the man.

Johnny Crowder

And he gets back from the war, and he finds Jesus. And he receives his ordination through the mail from one of them Bible colleges down in South Carolina or some shit, making us all learn the ways of white supremacy, as it was laid down by the Lord almighty. Then he goes on and on and on about white flight and all that shit. You know what that is?

Raylan Givens

Mm-hmm. People moving out of town?

Johnny Crowder

White people moving to the suburbs.

Rachel Brooks

'Cause they want to cut grass and have barbecues?

Johnny Crowder

Shit, no. 'Cause they want to get away from black people like you and all the greasers and the asiatics and all the goddamn Mexicans running around infecting the place. But, you know, these are Boyd's words.

Raylan Givens

Johnny. What's your point?

Johnny Crowder

You know what he's doing now, Raylan? He's buying a house in the goddamn suburbs! Up there on Clover Hill, because the man is in love.

Rachel Brooks

You sound like he stole your girlfriend.

Johnny Crowder

Ha! No. He stole Raylan's girlfriend. He stole my job. Oh, but I did get this as a consolation prize for believing all of his bullshit.

Raylan Givens

Thing is, Johnny, you didn't get cut in half from Bo's shotgun 'cause of Boyd. You got shot 'cause that's the shit that happens when you choose to live a life as a small-time asshole.