Justified - Season 4 starts Jan 8th

Rewatched bits of the episode this morning while waiting for a visitor and I've jumped back off the Shelby = Drew train.

It's too obvious, just too damn obvious for it to be him. Add in Shelby having too much backstory for them to handwave away, all those years working in the mines after leaving the police force first time round etc.

With such blatant misdirection I now think it's one of the surviving Hill crowd, probably the one who looked the least scared of Boyd when he had them sat in his bar, the gray haired chap iirc. The other two looked like they had had a rather nasty surprise (although the Judge should be used to surprises at Boyds after Ellen May tried to shoot him ) but the grey haired chap just seemed to stare him down. After deciding it wasn't Shelby and that "Drew" has probably been onscreen so far as producing him out of thin air would be just as bad a cop-out (haha! *coughs*) that leads me to this chap.

I look forward to being proved wrong very soon! 5 episodes to go.

^^^ Whoops

4 episodes to go and it appears everything is in place already so there must be some really wild shenanigans still in store!

Surprised Tim didn't at least arrest Colt, wondering if he wants the satisfaction of killing him without any witnesses.

Have you not watched last nights episode?

They threw the Art is retiring thing at the start of this season out there but they don't really go out of their way to explain how short the time frames are in Justified. This season is only 10 days or so long at this point for example and apparently they are only six months on from S01E01!

I don't think Art is going anywhere just yet, he's just announced he is on his downhill stretch. Then again they may decide to take a long time jump between seasons, give Raylan's kid a few years on him/her etc.

I thought Raylan was going to end up boffing Rachel earlier in the season when she was talking about her divorce and last nights little repartee makes me think it will happen eventually with the awkward workplace repercussions to follow

Three episodes to go, can only presume there's some really wild shenanigans over the Marshalls holding onto Drew. Will Theo Tonin be nuts enough to send the heavy mob in? Then again he had an FBI agent blown away (by his friend no less!) a few days earlier so I doubt he's thinking straight over such a long term hatred.

Boyd has to know it was Johnny that set him up right? No-one else even comes close to being in the right position to drop him in the shit, Johnny fucked that one up bigtime.

Talking of limited screentime, it's fucking amazing how Ellen May has knocked it out of the park when she has been asked to go from comic relief dumb prostitute girl to the likes of what we saw this week. I can't see her around next season whether dead or moved on due to events but she will deffo be missed.

I still think Ava is going to end up brown bread this season along with Johnny and Cole. Whether it be Johnny Cole or Ellen May causing it I don't know but there's so much shit going on there I can see Boyd ending up completely on his own, well except for snakebiteface who reappeared this week.

Can't help but repeat the love shown above, what a brilliant episode from start to finish. Drewbacca, oh dear

There went my "Johnny is working Duffy for Boyd" theory, I've been consistently wrong this season but who cares, what great telly.