Justified: Season 3, Episode 5 “Thick as Mud” (B+)
Here we have some duplicitous villains, and the best part is that they’re all getting involved with one another in some malicious way. Dickie isn’t much of a threat to Limehouse, but the fact that Limehouse lied about the money is sure to come back to haunt him somehow, especially considering how he will soon insert himself into the conflict brewing between Boyd and Quarles. It’s clear that, after his motivations and aims were ambiguous last season, Boyd has decided which side of the law he wants to be on. Taking Devil’s cell phone before he buried him meant that he was determined to get to whoever it was that tried to steal one of his men and get revenge. Quarles seems just as robustly ready to take on an enemy, but his “carbetbagger” status means that he’s alone without many friends, whereas even Raylan has a soft spot for Boyd, to a degree. Dewey was running around like a chicken with its head cut off trying to get $20,000 so he could get back his kidneys, which turned out not to have been removed in the first place, making him the latest in a long line of dumb criminals in Harlan. His fruitless search for cash was entertaining, and while he was fine, Raylan nearly lost his own life in the pursuit of his extortionist. I was thrilled to see Maggie Lawson from “Psych” in a guest spot as the flirtatious nurse, and even more excited when she turned out to be the baddest of the bad guys. Raylan, however, remains effortlessly cool, shooting her through the dead man on top of him. It’s not easy to kill that man.
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