Justified Season One – Episode Synopsis 0100 - FIRE IN THE HOLE Directed By: Michael Dinner Written By: Graham Yost Overview Following his questionable fatal shooting of a drug cartel hit man in Miami, U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens is shunted off to his native Kentucky where he is assigned to investigate Boyd Crowder, a childhood friend from the coal mining town of Harlan and the prime suspect in a series of crimes tied to a white supremacist gang. As Raylan is briefed on the crime spree, Boyd masterminds the bombing of a church thought to be a front for a drug dealing operation before killing a partner he suspects is a government informant. But Raylan’s investigation gets even more personal when he is sent to look into the shooting death of Boyd’s brother, Bowman, by his wife, Ava, a woman who has had a crush on Raylan since high school. While being questioned by Raylan, Ava is visited by Boyd’s henchman, Dewey Crowe, who says his boss wants to see her at once. After Raylan sends Dewey packing with word that he wants a meeting with Boyd, a brazen bank robbery by the racist gang sends him to look for its leader at his ramshackle backwoods home. Following a tense reunion, Raylan gives Boyd 24 hours to leave Harlan County. Then, even after making it clear that he cannot be seen socializing with a defendant in a murder investigation, Raylan leaves his Marshals Service colleagues at a motel when Ava makes a cryptic phone call to alert him that she is in danger. But as Raylan heads for a showdown with Boyd, the gang quickly engages the other marshals in a violent shootout. After turning the tables on a pair of gang members who have followed him, Raylan arrives at Ava’s trailer to find her being held at gunpoint by Boyd. However, as the showdown between the two men nears what will surely be a deadly climax, Ava appears with a shotgun aimed squarely at her brother-in-law. And as she is about to shoot, Boyd goes for his own gun, only to be outdrawn by Raylan. But while he is sure he killed his nemesis, Raylan is surprised to learn that he narrowly missed Boyd’s heart and that he survived. Logline U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens returns to his native Kentucky where he comes face-to-face with an old friend who’s leading a deadly white supremacist gang. 1 0101 - RIVERBROOK Directed By: Michael Dinner Written By: Graham Yost Overview With Boyd Crowder recovering from his gunshot wounds, Raylan is sent to transport his racist sidekick Dewey Crowe to prison. Having delivered Dewey after fending off his attack in the car, Raylan gets word that two prisoners who were working as musicians at a party have escaped. Needing gas, he has the misfortune to stop at the station that has been commandeered by the two escapees, Price and Cooper. And after forcing his partner to take off running, Cooper takes Raylan’s gun and then locks him in a storeroom before making his getaway. Along with fellow marshals Rachel Brooks and Tim Gutterson, Raylan heads to see Shirley Kelso, a retired stripper and Cooper’s ex-wife. At the trailer where they find her living with her cousin Dupree, Shirley insists she hasn’t seen her ex-husband. Once the marshals have left, however, Cooper emerges from the trailer’s bedroom and, after Shirley and Dupree admit they’ve been looking for the stolen cash he hid prior to going to prison, he enlists them in his effort to recover it. But when he takes them to the house where he is sure it’s stashed, Cooper is surprised to find it isn’t there. And sure he now knows where the money is hidden, Dupree shoots Cooper and, leaving him for dead, escapes with Shirley. Meanwhile, as Raylan continues to avoid any romantic involvement with Boyd’s sister-in-law, Ava, he suspects he knows where Cooper’s money has been hidden, too. While Dupree and Shirley are in the midst of a home invasion robbery at the house where they think the money was left, Raylan and Rachel arrive at the vacant house where Cooper was wounded. Realizing the mistake Cooper made in identifying the location, the marshals track Dupree and Shirley to the home of the Lonner family. Held inside at gunpoint, the Lonners admit to finding the money beneath the floorboards of their home, but claim to have spent almost all of it. After wounding Mr. Lonner in anger, Dupree is surprised when Raylan and his team arrive at the door. And despite the fact that the couple are holding the Lonners and Raylan at bay with their weapons, Tim uses a sniper rifle to kill Dupree as Shirley is arrested. Logline The hunt for a prison escapee sends Raylan and his team into a hostage situation at the house where the convict stashed the proceeds from a bank robbery 15 years ago. 2 0102 - LORD OF WAR AND THUNDER, THE Directed By: Jon Avnet Written By: Gary Lennon Overview While the U.S. marshals are staking out the hiding place of fugitive Wilson Toomey, Raylan’s 65-year-old dad, Arlo, claims he hasn’t been paid for the house he and his wife, Helen, are renting to Stan Perkins – and takes a baseball bat to the home’s contents to retaliate. Calling in the attack himself, Arlo then passes out on the couch where he is found by Sheriff Hunter Mosley. And though Hunter gets him to apologize and promise to pay for the damage, Arlo is arrested after assaulting Perkins. Tracking Raylan down at the motel room where he is staying with Ava, Helen asks him for help. And after Raylan reluctantly bails Arlo out of jail, Perkins and a pair of thugs arrive at the Givens home, threatening Helen and demanding that Arlo return something they claim he stole from them. Though Arlo is determined to make Perkins pay for confronting Helen, Raylan insists that his dad sit tight. Questioning Perkins about the events that spawned the assaults, Raylan begins to suspect that Arlo and Helen may have simply misplaced the rent checks. But after Raylan warns Perkins to let the sheriff handle any trouble, Arlo ambushes his two thugs with a baseball bat, an assault that only stops when he has a heart attack. Meanwhile, as Ava is questioned by the U.S. Attorney about the shooting of Boyd Crowder, Raylan and Rachel’s surveillance leads to Toomey’s arrest. Told that Perkins was recently released from prison after serving time for a drug charge, Raylan heads to the hospital to see Arlo. Warning his dad against trying to pull a rent scam against a dangerous ex-con, Raylan then questions bar owner Johnny Crowder, who reveals that Perkins is dealing Oxycontin. Confronted by Raylan, Perkins admits he had a large cache of the addictive painkiller hidden in the house and insists it was stolen by Arlo. As a result, Raylan finally realizes that everything – from Arlo’s arrest following his attack on the house, to getting his son to post bail, possibly even the heart attack – is part of an elaborate scheme to rip off Perkins. Logline Following Arlo Givens’ arrest for assault, Raylan’s investigation suggests that his 65-year-old dad and stepmother may be involved in an elaborate scheme to rip off a recently paroled drug dealer. 3 0103 - COLLECTION, THE Directed By: Rod Holcomb Written By: Graham Yost Overview Along with Art Mullen, Raylan meets with gallery owner Karl Hanselmann, a collector of the paintings of Adolf Hitler, who’s helping the Marshal’s Service secure the assets of con man Owen Carnes. Finding him at the estate he shares with his wife Caryn, the agents serve Carnes with an order that makes everything he owns, including three Hitler paintings, government property. When Hanselmann says that the paintings are forgeries, Owen demands to see his art consultant, David Mortimer. But once the marshals have left, Caryn distracts Owen as her horse trainer Greg Davis shoots him in the head. With the Carnes’ fortune seized by the government, Caryn and Greg make Owen’s death look like a suicide to get the fraud case against him dismissed. And to keep David’s sale of the Hitler forgeries a secret, Caryn implicates him in the murder while still promising to burn the forged paintings to protect his reputation. When the FBI arrives to find Owen dead and a fireplace filled with the smoldering remnants of the artwork, they are indeed prepared to drop the case. But once Hanselmann confirms that the Hitler paintings could not have produced the ashes, Raylan suspects Carnes was murdered. After being questioned by Tim Gutterson, David worries that Caryn’s scheme is in danger of backfiring once he learns that the burned paintings weren’t the forgeries. Confronted by David, Caryn admits to burning some other artworks and keeping the forged Hitlers to blackmail the art consultant. Once Raylan reveals that he is on to their scheme, Caryn enlists Greg in a plot to get rid of David, too. But after luring David into her trap, Caryn is stunned to discover that Greg has cooperated with the police and recorded her admitting to killing her husband and arranging David’s murder, too. Finally, as Raylan looks to make peace with his ex- wife Winona, Hanselmann reveals the surprising truth behind his interest in the Hitler artworks.