Crazy Legarski starts off this episode creeping up the staircase with a hammer in his hand. He pauses in the bedroom over his sleeping wife, looking ominously down at her. We see his disturbing fantasy of bashing her head in, but then she awakens perfectly fine to ask, “What are you doing?”Legarski responds by commenting on how she has danced with another man and how it drives him crazy to think about. Then, he blames himself for the fact that she went out dancing.

I think the writers are trying to make Legarski a complex character. He’s not just some monster killing for sport. He actually seems contrite and upset about his wrongdoings, and yet he never turns himself in to the police.

We’re given a flashback to a time when trucker guy was getting blown by a woman, Sage, in his truck. Legarski pulls him over and lectures him on “falling victim to the evil” that Sage offers him. The lecture is sooo bad. It’s like a Fox News show rhetoric. Legarski tells trucker guy that they can set Sage off on a better path. I guess the scene is supposed to show us Legarski rationalizes human trafficking by telling himself he’s doing these women a favor by selling them.

Cassie and Jenny convince local police to ambush Legarski at the compound. But joke’s on them. Trucker guy has already removed the kidnapped girls before Cassie and Jenny arrive with the police. Legarski gets the last laugh for the time being.

Trucker guy takes the girls to the abandoned bar and holds them there. He cleans them up, and it’s implied that they’re about to be sold elsewhere. Legarski shows up and reveals that after this job he’ll officially quit the kidnapping/trafficking business. Legarski also tells trucker guy that his wife went dancing the previous night. This again makes me wonder what trucker guy is up to. What’s he gain from dancing with Legarski’s wife? Maybe he feels some satisfaction by knowing he could possibly seduce her if he wanted. Both men are despicable, but at least Legarski knows his actions are despicable and wants to stop. Trucker guy comes across as a true misogynist, and this show kinda explains his behavior by writing a dysfunctional relationship with his mother. In this episode, he even grabs Mama Dearest around the throat after she mentions that kidnapping those girls somehow fits in line with his “prurient urges,” and then accuses him of being a sexual predator. What prurient urges? Also, how does his mother know about said urges? Has she witnessed something? Later, trucker guy tells his mama that his “business partner” kidnapped the girls. This makes me wonder just how long Mama will wait before contacting the police.

Psycho trucker guy goes to see Legarski’s wife at her craft business again. She tells him she’s married, which he knows already, of course. He kisses her, and she responds as if she likes it. Not sure where that storyline is going. Will he use her to take revenge on her husband somehow?

Cassie goes to the abandoned bar after being told by Legarski’s wife that Legarski is a creature of habit. In the bar, she finds him with the girls, who are gagged and tied up. Cassie, standing atop the staircase, has a standoff with Legarski as he calls up to her from the bottom of the stairs. She puts a bullet in his head and he falls over right after uttering his catch phrase: “My, my, my.”

This was the winter finale episode of the series, which means we’ll have to wait a while to see what happens next. I wonder if the writers intended this to be a miniseries or a full show with multiple seasons. Killing off Legarski and finding the missing girls so soon makes me wonder where the show could possibly go from here. Maybe it’ll take Cassie a while to track down trucker Ronald and bring him to justice.

Big Sky returns on January 26, 2021.