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8. The Spoil

Raylan is assigned to protect a local coal mine executive as she tries to buy up land for the company but faces opposition from the Bennett clan.

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Boyd blocks Bennett attempts to prevent local landowners from selling to Black Pike, so Doyle has him falsely arrested and Johnson bails him out. Following the bomb threat, Raylan is assigned to protect Johnson at a county meeting. She tries to convince the residents to sell their land to her, but Mags sways them to her side and announces a party at her house. Dickie and Coover attack Boyd, but Ava fights them off. Johnson visits Arlo to ask him to sell, while Helen Givens pays Raylan to leave Harlan with the money Arlo owes the marshals. Raylan stops one of the plaintiffs from killing Johnson, while her brother is caught trying to kill Reardon. Raylan tells Helen he lied about leaving Harlan and keeps the money to return to the marshals.

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