'Justified' Season 5 Episode 3 Spoilers: Raylan Will Take Over a Mobster's Mansion [Video]

By Jessica Michele Herring | Jan 16, 2014

On the latest "Justified," Givens helped out Loretta McCready and Boyd tried to get enough money together to bail his wife out of jail.

The episode begins in Tennessee, where a pot dealer is beaten by two cohorts (Steve Harris and his brother Wood) because they were shorted on a pickup of weed from two kids in Lexington, Kentucky. "Hot Rod" Dunahm (Mickey Jones) tells the thugs to take care of the situation, so they shoot the third dealer.

Lee Paxton (Sam Anderson) is in a coma after being brutally beaten by Boyd (Walton Goggins). Mooney (William Gregory Lee), a cop who wants to arrest Boyd, gets Paxton's wife, Mara (Karolina Wydra) to say it was him, but she recants when she goes to Boyd's bar to see him in person.

Raylan (Timothy Olyphant) goes to visit McCready (Kaitlyn Dever), who had been sent to jail after she was caught selling marijuana to a police officer's kid.

As Raylan is leaving the courthouse, he runs into Alison (Amy Smart), McCready's social worker. While she flirts with him, she also yells at him for making McCready stay in the cell overnight. Raylan says he is going to talk to McCready's boyfriend, Derrick, and try to convince him to break it off with her.

Then, Raylan sees a truck with Tennessee plates outside Derrick's house, and finds the men from Dunham's crew beating him up. He makes them leave, then tells Derrick to break up with McCready. Outside, he arranges a date with Alison.

Meanwhile, Boyd and Wynn Duffy (Jere Burns) are trying to deal with a possible rebellion among the dealers. Boyd assures them that they will get a shipment in a day and a half's time.

At the marshal's office, Raylan talks to Sammy Tonin (Max Perlich) and Art Mullen (Nick Searcy). He arranges to stay at the home of the money launderer, now that it's federal property.

After the meeting, McCready tells Raylan that her boyfriend disappeared. It turns out the men from Tennessee kidnapped him and are having him dig up the money that he and McCready embezzled. They also intend for the hole to be his grave.

Raylan shows up just in time, and whacks the drug dealers over the head. He then finds out that Derrick is dealing with Hot Rod.

Meanwhile, Mara is pulled over at gunpoint by Mooney, who says he is going to arrest her for attempting to murder her husband unless she brings Crowder in.

Raylan meets with Hot Rod, and tells him that his people are not to come into Harlan again, and they must leave McCready alone. Later, McCready tells Raylan that she had actually moved the money, allowing him to investigate everything.

Dewey Crowe's (Damon Herriman) cousin Darryl (Michael Rapaport) also comes to town, which Dewey is not happy about.

Also, Alison and Raylan have their first date, but Alison tells him that she isn't going to jump right into bed with him. Then he invites her to go bowling.

Boyd also finds his shipment had been hit, and all the people involved had been killed.

On the next episode, "Good Intentions," "Raylan takes over a mansion once run by a mob accountant, and Boyd tries to regain his stranglehold on the Harlan heroin market."

Walton Goggins told TVLine that in Episode 5, Boyd's inability to facilitate Ava's release from prison will cause him to explode with anger.

"There's a scene coming up in Episode 5 [where] I've never felt that kind of guttural anger from a person that I've been playing," Goggins shared, "and the ire is directed towards a person who has very much wronged Boyd and Ava. The way it comes out of his mouth and what he does is epic for me as an actor. And what happens immediately after this action is such an indication about where this guy is. It's just a release. 'Now, I can be calm.'"

It was also recently confirmed that "Justified" will have a sixth season, but it will be its last.

The cabler's CEO, John Landgraf, confirmed the news at the Television Critics Association winter press tour. He added that the decision was made by executive producer Graham Yost and series star Timothy Olyphant.

"They felt that the arc of the show and what they had to say would be served by six seasons instead of seven," said Landgraf, "and I regretfully accepted their decision."

Check out the promo for the series' next episode, "Good Intentions," which airs Tuesday, Jan. 21 at 10 p.m. on FX.

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