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Full Commitment

Full Commitment
Season 2, Episode 11

Air date	April 20, 2011
Written by	Benjamin Cavell
Directed by	Peter Werner
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"Full Commitment" is the 11th episode of the 2nd season, and the 24th episode in the series overall. It was written by Benjamin Cavell and directed by Peter Werner. It first aired on April 20, 2011.

1 Synopsis
2 Cast
- 2.1 Regular Cast
- 2.2 Guest Cast
3 Screenshot Gallery

SynopsisEdit

We pick up in the aftermath of last week’s episode, with Raylan being grilled for, yep, getting in a shootout with the professionals hired to kill him. Gary storms in, blathering about how Winona’s not safe around her ex. Art gets Gary off Raylan’s butt, but the tension between he and Raylan is now thicker than ever. In fact, he places Raylan under official protection, drafting Gutterson to babysit him while the truth behind the hit is figured out. One guess as to how that arrangement’s gonna work out…

At the same time, Brooks is assigned to protect Winona, who could very well be targeted for assassination herself. They’re staying at Gary and Winona’s house, where Gary has kinda calmed down and is almost courtly towards Winona.

The next morning, Raylan tries to warn Gutterson that at some point, he intends to ditch him in order to investigate on his own. Sure enough, at a convenience store, Raylan slips away and beelines to Mags’ store, which has been vandalized by locals still smarting over the shady business dealings with Black Pike. While she’s understandably angry with Raylan, she asserts that she hasn’t ordered a hit on him, and even diffuses a tense situation when Doyle shows up.

Meanwhile, Dickie Bennett is training a trio of local yokels to be his muscle as he forges ahead on plans to be in the weed business for himself. Face it, there’s been something unhinged about Dickie from jump, and he’s pushed closer to the edge of insanity when, in the midst of a drug deal, Boyd Crowder and a couple of masked minions (one who appears to be Arlo) steal the proceeds for themselves. Later, when two of his team quit on him, Dickie blows them away. Dickie asks the remaining member of his crew, Jed Berwind, if he wants to quit too and, after seeing the fate of the other two, Jed replies "Hell, no!"

Boyd and Johnny Crowder (and Arlo, who was indeed a part of Boyd’s crew) are counting the proceeds, with Ava in the room, as well. Earlier, Helen gave her some friendly advice: try not to know too much about what Boyd is up to. Now, though her romantic feelings for him are strong, she’s regretting knowing as much as she knows.

Later that evening, Raylan has joined the gang at Gary and Winona’s. As they all bicker, Raylan notices a car outside, keeping surveillance on the house. Raylan being Raylan, he gets the drop on the dude, and it turns out he’s one of Wynn Duffy’s men. Rather quickly, the dude dimes Gary out as the entity who hired Duffy to take Raylan out, and Raylan takes him to Duffy’s office, turns the tables on Gary by making him a future target of Duffy himself. Raylan tells Gary to disappear for good.

Gary may have taken leave of his senses, but he’s not as crazy as Dickie, who’s really lost it. He has figured out that Arlo was with Boyd, and he heads over to Arlo's house and breaks in looking to exact revenge. Helen wakes up when she hears breaking glass and grabs ger shotgun to go investigate. At first she thinks it is Arlo in the kitchen making noise, but instead discovers Dickie and Jed armed with sawed-off shotguns. Dickie informs Helen that they are looking for Arlo to get back what he stole from them. She tells Dickie that Arlo is not there and that he and Jed had better be gone before he returns or "he's gonna make what Raylan did to your knee feel like a hand job from an angel." Helen cocks her weapon and shots are fired as the episode ends.