I got to hang out with John Rogers yesterday, and he's really in love with his job. He's so immersed in cons and heists, it's hysterical. And kinda blase about it by now too.

Lots of cool tales of true life inspirations and various heists like ATM scams and bits of his evil speeches of evil that the Network asked him to tone down, but were all from wiretaps. And heists they had to change to make sure no one could get away with duplicating them.

Fun times.

ita, I deeply envy you hanging out with John Rogers and talk about cons and heists. I have a mad crush on him. Though of course he won't answer, I Twitter-asked him when Colin would get to play a bad guy on Leverage. I bet he'd be awesome at it. Just, y'know, trying to plant the seed.

I'm scared of her and I know she's fictional.

Well, not so fictional. She's based on a similar real-life person from the region, though I don't know if she was quite as harsh with her children.

And I guess we know why Jeremy Davies' character has a pronounced limp now. Nggghhh!

She and Hailee Steinfeld could have a dialogue-off, because they both do it so well.

Indeed. I'm curious if she was one of the hundred who auditioned, because under different circumstances we could have easily seen a reverse of roles here. Or at least I can imagine it.

Well, not so fictional. She's based on a similar real-life person from the region

I so didn't need to know that.

I don't think Davies' limp is because of his mother.

Yeah, didn't we basically get told that Raylan is why he limps? We didn't get the backstory, just the allusion?

Yay for John Rogers and cons!

I dunno. When she whapped Coover on the leg before getting on to the serious hand damage, it got me wondering. I wouldn't be surprised if Raylan had been the reason for Davies' leg injury, but not necessarily the perpetrator.

Ah. That could be.

But the only thing that leads me to believe otherwise is that Raylan seemed to acknowledge the indication of blame. Which I don't think he would accept if he were only the reason. But that's vague, I know.

She was careful to injure Coover's non-shooting hand and precise in inflicting damage, I don't think Dickie's limp is from Mags' punishment.

She was careful to injure Coover's non-shooting hand and precise in inflicting damage, I don't think Dickie's limp is from Mags' punishment.

Especially because she said something about if he wasn't already crippled to near-uselessness he'd be getting it too - hardly think she'd throw that out there if she had caused it.

I can't remember the details anymore either, but I definitely remember the limp being Raylan's fault as well.

I just did a Google search, and found this:

The setup is certainly intriguing: Davies plays “Dickie Bennett,” the smartest of three brothers and a high school rival of Givens. Since Prohibition, the Bennett and Givens families have warred like the Hatfields and McCoys. Dickie’s family traffics in weed, for which Bennett spent time in prison. He still walks with a limp due to an altercation with Raylan on the baseball field when they were both 17.

But that's the extent of it; I can't find any description of what the altercation was or why it resulted in a permanent limp.