Justified,’ Season 3, Episode 6
The rampage of the adult bull Olyphant.
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When Timothy Olyphant previously played a law enforcement officer on HBO’s mud-spattered Western “Deadwood,” he presented Sheriff Seth Bullock as the Angriest Gun in the West. Peace officers on most TV Westerns come across as tough, taciturn fellows defending a law-abiding town from villainous outsiders. Olyphant’s Bullock matched Deadwood’s rampant evil with a kind of righteous fury to impose the rule of law on the wilderness.
On most episodes of “Justified,” our leading man pours on the laid-back charm, but this week shows glimmers of the old Olyphant. Raylan spends the episode royally pissed off, first by the terse “Dear Raylan” letter he received from Winona, seemingly out of nowhere. Raylan retraces Winona’s tracks, finding her absent from her office as a legal secretary (with travel websites on her computer) and the money she stole from the evidence locker gone missing again. Raylan asks Art for time off, but Art suggests that first Raylan needs to sort out a shooting that happened on his late Aunt’s property in Harlan County. Just when he thought he was out ...
The episode begins with a pair of hot hitchhikers flashing their bras at a trucker (Happy Basic Cable Mardi Gras, everyone!) before arriving at Boyd’s Oxy clinic at the Aunt Helen’s old house. Boyd’s young country doctor friend offers them a small bottle, but they’d rather take a big one: “There’s gotta be a little wiggle room in there someone,” one of the hotties, Ella Mae, says lasciviously. While she’s, uh, negotiating, a pair of gun thugs bursts in, shoots up the place and steals the Oxy, but Ella Mae survives.