EPISODE

2. Riverbrook

Raylan visits Boyd in the prison hospital to check on him, and transport Crowe to prison. Meanwhile, during a 'prison band' performance, convict Douglas Cooper and a fellow inmate escape. After Art Mullen asks Raylan to return to investigate, Raylan makes a stop at a gas station. Unbeknownst to Raylan, the convicts have set a trap, and Cooper makes off with Raylan's guns, car and hat. After learning that Cooper only had three months left on his sentence, Raylan and marshal Gutterson make a trip to Cooper's ex-wife, Shirley. Cooper then visits after and makes a deal with Shirley and Dupree, Shirley's 'cousin'. They are looking for money Cooper hid in the flooring of development housing during construction. After Ava makes a house call to Raylan, he discovers a hunch as to the location of the money. Cooper, however, screwed up the location. After Dupree shoots Cooper, they find the right house, whose occupants have spent it all. A hostage situation ensues after Cooper helps Raylan find the right house, and Shirley helps Raylan by allowing Gutterson to snipe Dupree, citing that it 'wasn't right' to shoot Cooper. The episode ends with a nice conversation between Cooper and Raylan as they once again leave the prison.

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Raylan visits a now religious Boyd in a prison hospital. Ava tries to seduce Raylan, but he turns her down to not compromise her as a witness against Boyd. Robber Douglas Cooper escapes from prison to recover a money stash, agreeing to give a cut of it to his ex-wife Shirley Kelso and her cousin Dupree in exchange for their help. Dupree shoots him when he accidentally leads them to the wrong house, and he points Raylan the correct way when found. Dupree takes the house's residents hostage when he learns they spent the money and asks Shirley to turn the lights off when Raylan confronts him. She does, but turns them back on for shooting Cooper, allowing him to be killed by deputy marshal Tim Gutterson. Raylan escorts Cooper to jail after he recovers, who wonders if he still has a chance with Shirley.

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