Dave Alvin

Raylan visits Winona, who is being held hostage by three of Augustine's henchmen. The men want to use Winona as leverage so that Raylan will take them to Drew Thompson. Raylan and Winona manage to kill the three men. Afterwards, Art warns Raylan he will be fired if he goes after Augustine. Meanwhile, Ava, Jimmy, and Boyd prepare to exhume Delroy's body from the mine, only to find that law enforcement has already beaten them to it based on an anonymous tip. Boyd then decides to use his leverage with Lee Paxton, who owns the funeral home that Delroy's body is in. Boyd earlier had the Detroit mob kill two of Lee's acquantances and Boyd suggested Lee was next if he didn't give him $100,000 and a Dairy Queen franchise. Boyd tells Lee to help him now, and his debt will be repaid. Lee suggests swapping the bodies before the autopsy report. Raylan then visits Augustine in his limo and offers him the deal of turning himself in and swearing not to harm his family. Augustine scoffs at the cop threat and vows to kill Raylan's family once he returns to Harlan after killing Sammy Tonin in Detroit. Raylan, however, has already called Sammy to Harlan. Sammy's henchman (and Picker, who has seen which horse to back) execute Augustine by shooting up his limo. Meanwhile, Ava is arrested while disposing of Delroy's body, Lee having engineered an elaborate scheme to incarcerate Boyd. Boyd vows to have Ava free in 24 hours by buying her the best lawyer money can afford. Boyd sees Cassie, the dead preacher's sister, in the distance observing the bust as she was the anonymous tipster. Duffy visits Boyd, telling him that he is now in charge of heroin distribution in Harlan. The last part of the episode shows Raylan plastering over the hole in the wall of Arlo's house (the house Raylan grew up in) before going outside to sit in a chair and drink while staring at the graves of Frances, Arlo, and the headstone for his own future grave-site. Boyd breaks into the house he wanted to buy with Ava and looks around stoically. Boyd takes one last look at the path he thought would lead him away from his roots, while Raylan returns to his.

Raylan goes looking for Winona, and starts to get nervous when he sees the marked Secret Service money from the evidence locker has disappeared again. He finds Winona at her sister's, and she denies taking the money, but explains to Raylan that she left because she is resigned to it never working with him. Raylan and Art eventually figure out that the elderly evidence clerk took the money when one of the bills pops up in El Paso, Texas. Quarles' associates, led by Tanner (Brendan McCarthy), hit Boyd's underground Oxy clinic set up at Aunt Helen's house, leaving three dead. Raylan is led to Boyd by Arlo, who seems disoriented and is talking to himself. He tracks down the survivor of the hit with the help of Boyd and Ava, who suspect Limehouse might have something to do with the hit. Raylan convinces the survivor to help him after laying into her pimp, and he tracks down the mobile Oxy clinic set up by Tanner. Raylan gets into a scuffle with Tanner in the clinic as it's being driven through a field, throwing Tanner from the truck and shooting the driver, who bleeds to death. Raylan looks for Tanner, who escapes on foot. Wynn Duffy tells Quarles of the situation thinking he was behind it. Quarles has no idea what he's talking about, but he is ecstatic at the prospects of a war. Meanwhile, Limehouse hears of what happened, and confronts his assistant, who reveals he gave up Boyd's Oxy clinic to get hit by Tanner. He accepts his mistake and offers his life to Limehouse, who refuses to let him off that easy, and tells his henchman that he will be right on the front line to watch what he started.

Three weeks after the events of season 2, Raylan is recovering from his gunshot injury. Boyd visits Raylan in the U.S. Marshal's office to answer some of Raylan's questions about missing marijuana. Boyd attacks Raylan after Raylan says Boyd's demand that Raylan give Dickie to Boyd is ridiculous. Boyd is taken into custody and relays orders through Ava, who has to deal with Devil's insubordination. Dixie Mafia associate Emmitt Arnett (Steven Flynn) is paid a visit by Detroit enforcer Quarles (Neal McDonough), who demands repayment for a failed real estate investment. Arnett sends Fletcher Nix (Desmond Harrington) to come up with some money to pay back the Detroit mob by robbing a wealthy man of his watches. Nix shoots this man after stabbing his hand with an icepick. Deputy Tim recognizes the MO and drags an unwilling Raylan to question Wynn Duffy (Jere Burns) because of his experience with the Dixie Mafia and Nix's background working for Duffy's security company. Wynn denies involvement but then calls Arnett to warn him that Raylan is coming. Arnett's female secretary, secretly in league with Quarles, warms up to Raylan and reveals Arnett is arranging a meeting that night with Nix. Arnett sends a bodyguard to the meeting and Nix sends a homeless man. Separately, Quarles meets with Arnett and Arnett says he is waiting for his guy to show up with payment. Quarles says the guy isn't coming (as Quarles set him up to get busted by the Marshals), and then shoots Arnett and his secretary. Raylan meets Winona and takes her to his apartment, where Nix is waiting to kill Raylan under Arnett's orders. He recognizes Raylan as the Marshal who shot Tommy Bucks in Miami. He tries to stab Raylan with the icepick, but Raylan gets the upper hand and shoots him. Elsewhere, Boyd arrives in prison for assaulting Raylan, and he stares down a shocked Dickie as he is taken to his cell.

Dewey Crowe returns to Harlan to take advantage of a big score, but a more dangerous element has their eyes on that same prize. After the dust settles, both Raylan and Boyd try to help Dewey in their own way.

David and Rico are at odds over the death of a telemarketer; Lisa & Nate hold a dinner for David & Keith.