Justified (season 4)

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Justified
Season 4
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Season 4 DVD cover
Country of originUnited States
No. of episodes13
Release
Original networkFX
Original releaseJanuary 8 (2013-01-08) –
April 2, 2013 (2013-04-02)
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The fourth season of the American television drama series Justified premiered on January 8, 2013, on FX, and concluded on April 2, 2013, consisting of 13 episodes. The series was developed by Graham Yost based on Elmore Leonard's novels Pronto and Riding the Rap and his short story "Fire in the Hole".[1] Its main character is Raylan Givens, a deputy U.S. Marshal. Timothy Olyphant portrays Givens, a tough federal lawman, enforcing his own brand of justice in his Kentucky hometown.[1] The series is set in the city of Lexington, Kentucky, and the hill country of eastern Kentucky, specifically in and around Harlan.[2]

Plot[]

Season four is about a mystery, left unsolved for 30 years. On January 21, 1983, a man wearing a defective parachute plummets onto a residential street in Corbin, Kentucky, dying instantly. His body is surrounded by bags full of cocaine and his name is Drew Thompson. Raylan discovers a mystery when a vintage diplomatic bag is found hidden at Arlo's house containing only a driver's license in the name of Waldo Truth. Further investigation reveals that the parachutist was actually Waldo Truth and that Drew Thompson is still alive, however Arlo refuses to divulge any information. As the investigation continues to unfold, it's revealed that Drew Thompson witnessed Theo Tonin committing murder meaning he could take down the Detroit Mob. Raylan is now living above a bar and attempting to stash extra money away to provide for his unborn child and is in a questionable relationship with the bartender, Lindsey Salazar. Meanwhile, Boyd Crowder seeks to expand his empire with help from an old army buddy Colton "Colt" Rhodes (Ron Eldard). However, his efforts are complicated by the arrival of a snake-handling revival preacher named Billy St. Cyr (Joe Mazzello) and his sister Cassie (Lindsay Pulsipher) who is willing to do anything for her brother. Billy's success is cutting into Boyd's profits, as his users and dealers are getting hooked on faith instead of drugs. Wynn Duffy is ordered by the Detroit Mob to find Thompson and in turn he offers Boyd a partnership in the heroin trade which leads to a showdown between Crowder's gang and the Marshals. At the same time, cousin Johnny (David Meunier) grows ever more resentful of Boyd's success and plans to betray him by promising Duffy he'd find Thompson himself. Boyd, after proposing to Ava, is brought to an unexpected crossroads that threatens his personal or professional destruction. A Detroit Mob enforcer makes a bold move against Raylan forcing Raylan to find out how far he'd go to protect his family. Other stories include Shelby Parlow distancing himself from Boyd and protecting Ellen May, a prostitute, from Ava's growing violent tendencies.

Cast and characters[]

Main[]

Recurring[]

Guest[]

Production[]

The fourth season of 13 episodes was announced on March 6, 2012.[3]

Filming[]

Episodes were shot in California. The small town of Green Valley, California often doubles for Harlan, Kentucky.[4]

Episodes[]

See also: List of Justified episodes
No.
overall		No. in
season		TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal air dateUS viewers
(millions)
401"Hole in the Wall"Michael DinnerGraham YostJanuary 8, 2013 (2013-01-08)3.59[5]
The season opens on January 21, 1983, a man wearing a defective parachute falls to his death on a residential street with bags full of cocaine on him. Shifting to the present, Raylan receives a phone call from a former acquaintance who is now a bail bondswoman in Knoxville, TN. She enlists Raylan's help in finding a fugitive named Jody Adair, who is hiding out in Lexington and wanted by the Knoxville PD. Raylan finds Jody, and takes him into custody. In Harlan, two teenage burglars enter Arlo Givens' house and start breaking into a wall. They see a bag with an ID for a "Waldo Truth" in the wall, and are about to take it when they see a police car approaching. As his investigating the botched robbery, Raylan stumbles on the mysterious bag in the wall of his father's house. Meanwhile, an old friend pays a visit to Boyd, whose crime business is being threatened by a new church. Later, Raylan visits his father in prison to ask him about the bag.
412"Where's Waldo?"Bill JohnsonDave AndronJanuary 15, 2013 (2013-01-15)2.45[6]
Raylan tells his colleagues at the US Marshals' office about the bag's link to the killing in the prison. Waldo Truth has been collecting social security checks for 30 years, but the Marshals think he's dead. This means someone has been cashing federal checks unlawfully, which makes finding Waldo Truth the purview of the US Marshals. Together with his colleagues, Raylan tracks down Waldo Truth's family who tell him the last time they saw Waldo was when he left with an airplane pilot named Drew Thompson. Raylan's boss, Art, later discloses that he remembers the case about the dead parachutist, who authorities originally identified as Drew Thompson. After the visit to the Truth's house, Art realizes the dead parachutist was not Thompson, but in fact Waldo Truth.
423"Truth and Consequences"Jon AvnetBenjamin CavellJanuary 22, 2013 (2013-01-22)2.44[7]
Raylan starts to look for Drew Thompson, who he now believes is alive after his visit to the Truth family. Also, Raylan's boss Art found out that at the time of Drew Thompson's apparent death 30 years ago he was wanted in a sealed federal witness warrant. Raylan's first stop in the Thompson search is visiting Thompson's former wife. Eventually the US Marshals find out that the head honcho of a Detroit criminal organization (Theo Tonin) also wants to find Drew Thompson. According to Thompson's ex-wife, Thompson saw Tonin kill a federal witness. Preacher Billy is killed while handling a rattlesnake.
434"This Bird Has Flown"Bill JohnsonTaylor ElmoreJanuary 29, 2013 (2013-01-29)2.08[8]
Raylan and Rachel are surveying Raylan's tossed apartment. Meanwhile, Lindsay and Randall go to visit sleazy fight promoter Joe Hoppus, who after a tense exchange agrees to set Randall up as a manager of fighters. Raylan and Rachel show up at Hoppus's house the next morning, and he gives Raylan the name of the farmer that he was headed to see. Raylan eventually tracks them down but learns that they already spent his money buying fighting chickens. Meanwhile, Boyd and Ava grapple over what to do with Ellen May when she returns to the bar after Preacher Billy's death. Knowing that Ellen May holds a secret that can put her in prison Ava presses Boyd to have her killed. Boyd proposes an alternate solution: send her to Alabama, where his cousin Lonnie runs a motel and bar. However, on the way to the bus station Ellen May runs away from Colt.
445"Kin"Peter WernerFred Golan & VJ BoydFebruary 5, 2013 (2013-02-05)2.42[9]
With scrutiny of a 30-year-old case involving a dead parachutist increasing, prisoner Arlo Givens, Raylan's father, decides to disclose the location of Drew Thompson for a full pardon. Raylan doesn't want this to happen, so he intensifies his search for Thompson so that his father's information is no longer valuable. Detroit mobsters also want to find Drew Thompson, and enlist Boyd's help to do so. Raylan gets a tip from Josiah Cairn (Gerald McRaney) that Drew Thompson is living with the hill people. Raylan goes to the hills and, after he his captured he finds out that Boyd was giving the same information and they were set up to be killed by the hill people. After Raylan manages to escape, he returns to Cairn's house that night but, finds only his severed foot.
456"Foot Chase"Peter WernerDave Andron & Ingrid EscajedaFebruary 12, 2013 (2013-02-12)2.30[10]
Raylan's boss, Art, tells him that the deal for Arlo is on hold. This gives Raylan more time to track down Drew Thompson and remove his dad's leverage. Raylan finds a bloody footprint in the yard that is unmistakably from Cairn's stepdaughter's cast boot but he doesn't know where she may have run off to. Raylan finds the boyfriend target shooting at a picture of a Native American. Sheriff Shelby turns up, and deduces from the picture where the stepdaughter is. After they find her, she tells them some guys in a van took her stepdad and called him "Drew Thompson." Boyd's lawyer shows up to get him, and she deflects Raylan's questions about why she's stalling Arlo's pardon. Raylan and the sheriff find Cairn and he tells them a former Harlan county sheriff somehow knows where Drew Thompson is.
467"Money Trap"Don KurtStory by : Elmore Leonard & Chris Provenzano
Teleplay by : Chris Provenzano		February 19, 2013 (2013-02-19)2.15[11]
Raylan is on his way to visit a couple of prisoners, including his dad, when he finds out that a person he delivered to the bail bondsmen escaped and killed Raylan's female acquaintance and her partner. Raylan eventually finds the escapee at the bar below where he lives, and shoots him in a standoff. Raylan visits his dad in prison. Raylan tells him he will get him transferred to a country club prison if Arlo tells him where Drew is but, Arlo dismisses the offer. Raylan tells his dad he does not really care if he is killed in prison by associates of the Detroit mob that are also looking for Thompson. Raylan leaves and tells Arlo that his going to see ex sheriff Mosley. In a separate plotline, Boyd is no closer to finding Drew Thompson at a house party amongst the wealthy people of Harlan. Some of the party goers ask Boyd to kill someone for them or they will shut down his brothel.
478"Outlaw"John DahlBenjamin Cavell & Keith SchreierFebruary 26, 2013 (2013-02-26)2.18[12]
Raylan visits former Harlan County Sheriff Hunter Mosley to ask about Drew Thompson. Raylan offers Mosley the same deal he gave Arlo, a transfer to a more comfortable prison. Instead of helping Raylan, Mosley decides to kill Arlo instead and leverage his deal. Duffy visits Boyd and tells him that Theo Tonin is growing impatient so Boyd gives him the name of two men who could be possible matches for Drew Thompson. A hit man employed by Tonin kills both men. Johnny uses his knowledge of Colt's failure to kill Ellen May as leverage by texting Colt and posing as her, wanting $20,000 in exchange for silence. Johnny later informs Duffy that neither of the men that were killed were Drew. The mob hitman who killed Browning and Keener, dressed as a Harlan County sheriff's deputy, comes to kill Boyd; Raylan arrives just in time and shoots him dead. Later, Raylan learns Arlo has died from his injuries, and he leaves the Marshal's office to claim his father's body.
489"The Hatchet Tour"Lesli Linka GlatterTaylor Elmore & Leonard ChangMarch 5, 2013 (2013-03-05)2.32[13]
While transferring Arlo's killer, former sheriff Mosley, to another prison, Raylan stumbles upon the identity of Drew Thompson. Meanwhile, Boyd and Ava discover that Colt did not kill Ellen Mae, and that sheriff Parlow is protecting her.
4910"Get Drew"Billy GierhartDave Andron & VJ BoydMarch 12, 2013 (2013-03-12)2.40[14]
Raylan searches Shelby's house for any clues while Boyd sits on the floor in handcuffs. Drew Thompson decides to flee to Mexico, and takes Ellen May with him. Thompson plans to fly to Mexico but has to change plans when he realize that the airport hanger was comprised. Drew and Ellen May noticed a police road block from the woods, and with no more options, Ellen May takes Drew to Limehouse. Drew offers Limehouse $15,000 to take in Ellen May. Limehouse says he won't protect Drew for that money, but says Drew is valuable to other people, so he'll keep him for the highest bidder. Ava and Boyd arrange a deal with Limehouse for Drew and Ellen May. Meanwhile, Johnny tells Raylan and Rachel where Drew is. The Marshals arrive just in time as the Detroit mob arrive to pick up Drew in a helicopter. Shelby tells Raylan to get Ellen May from Limehouse, while Raylan tells Art they will have trouble getting Shelby out of Harlan County alive.
5011"Decoy"Michael WatkinsGraham Yost & Chris ProvenzanoMarch 19, 2013 (2013-03-19)2.45[15]
Nick Augustine visits Boyd at Johnny's bar, angered at Boyd's failure to get Drew Thompson. Boyd reassures Nick that he needs him alive so in other to find Thompson. The Marshals are at Arlo's waiting on a helicopter to airlight Thompson away. They split up with Art and Tim creating a diversion while Raylan and Rachel stay with Drew. On the road, Art and Tim see three abandoned cars on the highway, which Tim quickly suspects is a set-up for an ambush. Meanwhile, Raylan, Rachel, and Drew head to Raylan's old high school to wait for the chopper. At Arlo's house, Bob Sweeney is held hostage by a Detroit mob muscle who brutally beats him to find out where Drew Thompson is. However, after a struggle, Bob manages to get his hands on one of his guns and shoots him dead just as Raylan arrives. Raylan takes Bob back to the high school as Rachel and Drew escape from Harlan on a coal train.
5112"Peace of Mind"Gwyneth Horder-PaytonTaylor Elmore & Leonard ChangMarch 26, 2013 (2013-03-26)2.44[16]
Drew Thompson tells the Marshals he will refuse to testify unless he knows that Ellen May is safe. Meanwhile, Augustine tells Johnny that Theo Tonin, the Detroit mob boss, has heard from his informants that Drew won't enter protective custody unless Ellen May is safe. Raylan, Rachel, and Tim head to Limehouse's holler where he denies that Ellen May is on the property. He later reveals to Ava that he let her go free. Ava and Boyd deduce that Ellen May will seek shelter at the church. Ava gets there just in time to overhear Ellen May confess to helping dispose of Delroy's murder to Cassie after he was killed. Ava calls Boyd when she's finds herself unable to kill Ellen May, so Boyd instructs Colt to do it. However, Tim arrives at the church and shots Colt after a standoff. Later, a delivery man is seen setting up a rocking chair for Winona, but the delivery man turns out to be Picker, one of Augustine's henchmen.
5213"Ghosts"Bill JohnsonFred Golan & Benjamin CavellApril 2, 2013 (2013-04-02)2.25[17]
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. However, they manage to kill all three men. 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 and have switch the body with another dead corpse. Raylan 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 deal and vows to kill Raylan and Winona. Meanwhile, Ava is arrested while trying to dispose of Delroy's body. Duffy visits Boyd, and tells him that he is now in charge of heroin distribution in Harlan.

Reception[]

On Rotten Tomatoes, the season has an approval rating of 100% with an average score of 9.5 out of 10 based on 25 reviews. The website's critical consensus reads, "Bolstered by witty, efficient dialogue and confident storytelling, Justified makes a strong case for consideration among cable television's top dramas."[18] On Metacritic, the season has a weighted average score of 90 out of 100, based on 14 critics, indicating "universal acclaim.[19]

Tom Gliatto of People Weekly praised this season, writing: "What gives the show its kick is the gleefully childish lack of repentance shown by most of these rascals—countered by Olyphant's coolly amused control."[19] Verne Gay of Newsday praised this season also, writing: "Character—as the old saying goes—is a long-standing habit, and their habits remain very much intact. The same could be said of Justified.", and Chuck Bowen of Slant Magazine praised this season, writing: "Justified is the strongest, liveliest, and most tonally accurate adaptation of the writer's work to date, and the latest season bracingly suggests that isn't likely to change anytime soon."[20]

Ratings[]

The fourth season averaged 2.434 million viewers and a 0.9 rating in the 18–49 demographic.[21]

Home media release[]

The fourth season was released on Blu-ray and DVD in region 1 on December 17, 2013,[22] in region 2 on August 12, 2013,[23] and in region 4 on August 8, 2013.[24] Special features on the season four set include ten audio commentaries by cast and crew, deleted scenes, five behind-the-scenes featurettes, and outtakes.[25]

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