This was the first episode back after the winter hiatus. If you remember correctly from back in December, Cassie returned to the bar and found Legarski there with the kidnapped trio. She puts a bullet in Legarski’s head. He falls down, presumably dead, after muttering his catch phrase: “My, my, my.”
In this new episode, Legarski is somehow not dead. He’s hospitalized with a brain injury and unconscious, but clinging to life. His wife, Merilee, played by the wonderful Brooke Smith, is clueless about her husband’s criminal activities. Cops literally rip up the boards in her house looking for evidence of her husband’s crimes. Merilee’s also clueless as as to who her husband’s partner could be, and even though she’s danced with Ronald, she knows him by a different name.
Ronald speaks openly with his mother about his involvement in the kidnappings. He tells her that Legarski’s wife doesn’t know his identity. Still, Mama has her doubts. She’s afraid her son will go down. I think she should turn him in. I would. He deserves a looong prison sentence. Ronald, rather than fleeing the scene, paints the exterior of his long-haul truck cab blue and still hangs around his mother’s house. Not sure what he thinks he could accomplish by hanging around. One of his kidnap victims lives locally and could easily identify him, and if Legarski remembers anything he could–and probably would–implicate Ronald. Plus, Ronald’s mother keeps reminding him that the cops know Legarski’s accomplice is a trucker. Ronald responds by telling her he has to get into Legarski’s house and find whatever evidence would incriminate Ronald. Not sure why he thinks he could find evidence after the police have already searched the place, but I guess the writers wanted a reason to keep Ronald hanging around Helena, Montana.
The cops uncover Cody’s vehicle with his body inside. Jenny falls to the ground, grief-stricken. Cassie is upset, too, of course; however, she at first appears more upset about shooting Legarski than about Cody’s death.
Cody’s memorial service includes a sad speech from Jenny and lots of tears. Later, Jenny and Cassie vow to team up “just for this case.” I like their partnership, and if the show is extended past this first season, I’d like to see them together going after more bad guys associated with this trafficking ring. They don’t seem to have distinct personalities, though. Both women are tomboys who wear jeans and big belt buckles, and if we were to go through each woman’s closet, we’d find leather jackets and more than one cowboy hat.
Jerri returns home to find that someone has left a note outside her trailer that says, “You don’t learn,” which was something Ronald had said to her after tasering her during the hostage horror. Earlier in the episode he sat in his pickup outside a restaurant and took pictures of her. Creepy.
Legarski’s eye pops open at the end of the episode. Stay tuned…
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