When is justified season 4 finale

How much is he like Arlo? Is he really just Arlo with a badge? He takes the gun off him in the bar, now he is returning his gun.

That, by the way, is Raylan crossing the line. He has no reason to give Boyd his gun back. In fact, he probably could have arrested Boyd for just having a gun given his criminal history. But here he does give him his gun back, which in our world is a sign of great affection. The room came up with that and Cavell was very interested in writing that scene, so he wrote that and labored over it. You had a chance, and you screwed it up, and you killed three of my men.

But again, that was part of the earlier scene in the diner, Nicky has just been rising in his own estimation — or at least we see that side to him more and more often as the season progresses. And so, here we get the answer. However , he has arranged for that result to be accomplished by other people. So he ends up getting what he needs. You know, we toyed with an earlier version where Theo was gonna remain the Big Bad and Raylan was gonna conspire to a degree with Nicky to take Theo out and remove the threat.

And then well, how does Raylan get out of this? That was the big puzzle for us. So this just became a different version of that. But, I mean, the drive from Harlan to Lexington takes two hours. So somewhere in there. Or, perhaps he did call him beforehand.

That was a nice shot of the limo getting lit up with gunfire as Raylan was walking away. Bill Johnson, our director, just does great work on the show. He had that idea in his mind, and it took a lot of coordination. He was happy with the stuff that we got to do with him this year. Was that so only she would go down if she got caught? Mooney and Paxton were hoping to get Boyd, but nab Ava instead.

When Boyd arrives and sees her in the police car, he goes after Mooney, and then the officers take Boyd down. That was hard to watch Walton get beaten up. And it was Cassie Lindsay Pulsipher , who Boyd saw there when he was on the ground, who gave police the tip about the body? This is her revenge for the death of her brother. Something that started in the first act of the season pays off in the third.

He shared some nice moments with Winona, including a fast and bloody shootout in which she displayed her own talents with a trigger. Afterwards, I don't know who Art thought he was kidding. Of course Raylan's suspension isn't going to stop him from going after Nicky. Which is lucky for us, because we got to enjoy another scene between the two old friends. Although they're always taking verbal jabs at one another, there was a sense of stubborn camaraderie on their way to the airport.

Raylan's comment about the things Boyd has claimed to "love" - the Lord, white supremacy, Arlo - in order to convince himself he's not the bad guy missed the mark. Boyd clearly, sincerely loves Ava.

As we evidenced later on, he's absolutely consumed with anguish when he sees Ava cuffed in the back of a squad car. That scene was completely gut-wrenching and Walton Goggins has never been better. Raylan knows he's got a bit of "bad" guy in him as well. This manifests in the badass moments of the show we love so much, like having the "rat-faced bitch boy" Sammy Tonin wipe Nicky off the face of the earth.

He gave Nicky the chance to turn himself in man, that exchange was great , knowing full well there wasn't a chance in hell he'd go quietly. More than any other season of the show, the fourth season of Justified has been defined by those decisions, those split-second moments when a life could pivot one way or another, based on a binary choice.

Even Drew Thompson — a man who very nearly found a way to do just that — found his old crimes catching up with him eventually, because one of his accomplices hid some incriminating evidence in a wall. After dominating so much of the season, Drew sits this episode out, which is too bad. His kiss-off line to Augustine is vintage Raylan, too.

Raylan seems to have spent the better part of his life running from his miserable upbringing at the hands of his late father Arlo — which played a significant role in his becoming a lawman and validates his feelings about being reassigned to Kentucky when he'd done so much to earn a ticket out. Unlike Raylan, Boyd has embraced his past and become a criminal like so many Crowders before him. Despite the difference in their approach, the two seem to be headed in the same direction.

That is: Raylan and Boyd are doing what they do to make a better future not just for themselves, but also for generations of Givenses and Crowders to come. Much of that answer lies in how things eventually ended for Nicky Augustine. Sure, without Raylan's intervention, he may have assumed the head of the Detroit Mafia, but considering what he pulled with Winona and her unborn child, his time at the top would have undoubtedly been brief.

And as great as Mike O'Malley has been in the role, it was the manner in which Nicky was removed from the equation - and Raylan's willful omission of his involvement in the gangster's demise - that ultimately speaks volumes about Raylan as a character, and where he's headed in storylines to come.