Whew. You know, I do so enjoy Justified, but I wish I could learn to watch these episodes without getting all tense.

I do like when they can work the promo picture [link] into a scene. Different chair, but still.

Holy shit! I had to watch the 11. Holy shit! Tom! We like Tom!

How the FUCK did Quarles get the drop on him? Unless Boyd shot him?

One thing I love about this show -- it's always over before I expect it.

I thought Boyd was out cold, but he wasn't there when Raylan got there, was he?

I was sure Quarles inability to drop his gun, what with the sleeve gizmo, was gonna get him shot. I do not know how he could have turned that around. Arlo was at large, whereabouts unknown, though why anyone but Quarles would shoot Tom at that point I don't know.

Erroll had me totally fooled, even while I couldn't believe he was that stupid. He wasn't at all, so that solves that. And Raylan goading Dickie into drawing on him, a thing of beauty.

Loretta is always a treat.

I was suspicious of Erroll's motives from the beginning, not just because he'd shown so much loyalty to Limehouse, but who in their right mind would team up with Dickie? Erroll didn't need Dickie to get the money.

I appreciate that we now know that Limehouse didn't steal Dickie's money. He is honorable in his way, and it never quite rang true that he would steal from a client.

I forgot about my favorite small character moment from last week -- Raylan and Art sitting in the conference room filling out forms and Art says "You have to do this every time?" Not only funny, but a nod to the idea that Raylan actually does have to account for all of the people that he shoots

I appreciate that we now know that Limehouse didn't steal Dickie's money. He is honorable in his way, and it never quite rang true that he would steal from a client.

Yes, that was bothering me and I'm glad to have it settled. You make a good point about Dickie, I just didn't think that through. It's my favorite kind of twist, one that makes me think I should have seen it coming if I'd really been on top of things.

The form-filling out was a great moment. Also Raylan looking over Art's shoulder to (I assume) make sure their reports tallied.

You got me thinking, t. I wonder if Arlo shot Tom in a hallucination fog and Boyd spirited him away. It doesn't make any sense for Boyd to shoot Tom, he probably wasn't even holding a gun at the time. He was just there when someone tried to kill Quarles, so he had no reason to bring the heat that shooting a police officer would get him.

That could make sense. I imagine there's a lot of people from the past that Arlo would shoot at if he thought Tom was them.

I will say "me too" to all he people who were glad Limehouse was not stealing from a client. I take back my comparison of him to 21st century investment bankers. Limehouse is far more honorable and honest than Goldman Sachs or Wells Fargo or Bank of America... Of course Limehouse is fictional. I suspect there is much less honor among real thieves.

Does it strike anyone that Raylan has just come full circle? Deliberately goading someone who deserved it into drawing on him so he could shoot them was how Raylan got sent back to Harlan in the first place.

I've got to say the reversals in last night's episode were dizzying: double-, triple-, I think at least one quadruple-cross happening simulatneously.

Man, seeing Dickie get shot made me happier than it should have. Jeremy Davies (and his HAIR!) have been doing a great job making him so loathesome. I hope for the rest of the casts' sakes that he isn't going the method route with his appearence because he looks mighty ripe.

Just caught up on Mad Men -- I swear, every single scene between Don and Megan came right after he'd just found something out or gotten or made a trauma-adjacent phone call, and every time she walked in and they started talking I would tense up and think, Here he goes again, reflexively not telling her something important, because that's what Don does with women, not tell them things. And then he'd go and open up his mouth and ... tell her the thing. I don't even know what to think about a Don Draper who just goes around telling his wife all the things.

Now I'm full of a horrible Buffyverse foreboding. The only other woman he's ever been totally relaxed and 1000% truthful with died horribly of cancer; there's no conceivable way this show could allow us to see him being even marginally functional and content unless it intends, somewhere down the line, to crush the happy beneath its boot.