 See the first season of Justified for background information on Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens and the home of his youth... Harlan County (a hopelessly impoverished, backwoods coal-mining community in southeastern Kentucky). Storyline: Season three introduces a new main villain, Robert Quarles of Detroit. The criminal organization connected to the Frankfort mafia has exiled Quarles to Kentucky. Quarles allies himself with local enforcer Wynn Duffy and begins to muscle in on the local criminals, successfully supplanting them until Raylan begins investigating. Quarles' efforts also bring him into conflict with Boyd's group resulting in the deaths of several local individuals. Simultaneously, Dickie Bennett, the lone survivor of the Bennett clan, seeks the aid of the black residents of Noble's Holler and their leader, Ellstin Limehouse, in recovering his inheritance. Limehouse attempts to keep his people out of the struggle between the criminal groups but becomes involved when Boyd gets the upper hand on Quarles, leading to a series of betrayals and deaths. Disc 1 of the Justified The Complete Third Season Blu-ray 3.01 The Gunfighter - Three weeks after the events of season 2, Raylan is recovering from his gunshot injury. His recovery is delayed when Boyd assaults him in his office, claiming Raylan promised he would hand Dickie to Boyd after Loretta was safe. 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, who demands repayment for a failed investment. Arnett sends his bodyguard to come up with the money, and he chooses to rob a wealthy man, shooting him after stabbing his hand with an icepick. Deputy Tim recognizes the MO and drags an unwilling Raylan to question Wynn Duffy because of his experience with the Dixie Mafia. 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 an important meeting that night. At the meeting, Arnett's bodyguard sends a decoy and the stolen goods aren't recovered. During the real meeting, Quarles reveals he had no intention of receiving payment, and that he gave the Marshal his bodyguard and the goods. He then shoots Arnett and his secretary. Quarles tells a stunned Wynn Duffy that he has big plans for Harlan County. Raylan meets Winona and takes her to his apartment, where Arnett's bodyguard is waiting with the goods. He recognizes Raylan as the Marshall 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. The arrival of a dangerous new player in Lexington puts Raylan on a collision course with a sadistic Dixie Mafia hitman. While still recovering from his gunshot, Raylan takes himself off of desk duty when one of Wynn Duffy's associates is involved in a murder. Meanwhile, Ava takes over Boyd's business while he is back in jail. 3.02 Cut Ties - The murder of a fellow Marshal throws Raylan together with a woman from his past. Boyd engineers a showdown with Dickie Bennett. So while the marshals try to figure out who killed a witness security officer and why, Boyd finds a way to get a message to Dickie Bennett in prison. When a Federal Marshal close to Lexington is killed on a witness protection job, Art takes a more hands-on approach in finding who's responsible. Raylan works a different angle on the case with the help of an outspoken Marshall from his past. In lockup, Boyd learns he is getting released because Raylan is recanting his statement about the assault. Running out of time, Boyd manages to get himself alone with Dickie, threatening to kill him unless he tells him the location of the money from the Bennett organization. Dickie tells Boyd that Mags ran her money through Limehouse, a crime-boss in Harlan County. 3.03 Harlan Roulette - Raylan's face-off with a tyrannical Oxy dealer puts him on a collision course with the new head of the Dixie Mafia. Boyd fights to take back part of his family's empire, but his methods threaten to tear his crew apart. In tracking down a familiar enemy, Raylan crosses paths with a pawn shop owner with connections with the Dixie Mafia, while Boyd and his new crew begin setting up shop in Harlan. 3.04 The Devil You Know - A prison guard springs Dickie and Dewey from prison in an attempt to get his hands on Mags' secret fortune, while Robert Quarles offers Devil a shot at becoming a boss if he betrays Boyd. Dickie is broken out of prison by corrupt guard Ash and his three accomplices, with an unwilling Dewey coming along for the ride. Looking for Dickie, Raylan reaches out to Limehouse and Boyd, the latter to whom he relates a story of when a younger Arlo was knocked out by Limehouse after trying to hurt Raylan's mother. When Raylan takes down Ash, the remaining accomplices split up with the two prisoners. Dewey tries to escape, but is taken to a motel room where his captor is planning to harvest his organs. The two other captors force Dickie to call Limehouse and arrange a drop of the Bennett fortune. They take Dickie to the old Bennett store looking for the fortune. Unbeknownst to them, Limehouse is laying in wait and kills Dickie's captors, giving Dickie what's left of the fortune. Dickie refuses the meager remains of the Bennett fortune, and opts instead to wait for Raylan to show up and turn himself in. Elsewhere, wayward Crowder associate Devil is reached out to by Quarles, and he tries to get Johnny to jump ship with him. However, Johnny sets him up and Devil walks into a deadly trap set by Boyd. 3.05 Thick as Mud - After Devil's demise, Quarles extends an offer of partnership to Boyd Crowder. However, Boyd refuses Quarles' offer, calling him a "carpetbagger" (someone from the north who uses southern workers for profit), which Quarles seems to take offense to. Limehouse reveals to his associates that he was lying to Dickie about the status of the Bennett fortune, and that he has a woman on his payroll who has a connection to one of Quarles' underlings. Meanwhile, Dewey Crowe is in a race against time to collect for a sadistic organ harvester, or else succumb to kidney failure. After Dewey robs a series of odd locations with varying success, Raylan tracks him down to a convenience store, where he helps the frightened Crowe realize that he still has his kidneys. Raylan goes to the organ traffickers house to investigate, and manages to turn the tables on the traffickers, leaving both of them dead. Raylan returns home to find his house empty, and reads a letter, presumably left by Winona. 3.06 When the Guns Come Out - Raylan tries to find Winona after she leaves him, Boyd tries to find out who hit his crew's oxy clinic, and Quarles takes an interest in Raylan after he finds out that he has been asking questions about him. 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 resolved 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, 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. Wyn 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. 3.07 The Man Behind the Curtain - As Quarles prepares to corner the oxy market in Harlan, he gets a visit from the boss' son. Meanwhile, Raylan's interest in the enterprise gets him in trouble with the FBI. A wounded Tanner shows up at Limehouse's hollow, begging for forgiveness for letting Raylan get involved. Limehouse forgives him and lets Tanner lick his wounds, only if he agrees to provide information on Quarles' movements. They are interrupted by a disoriented Arlo, who is off his meds and thinks his late wife (Raylan's mother) is hiding with Limehouse again. An annoyed Limehouse knocks Arlo out and delivers the old man to Boyd. As Raylan tries to adjust to life without Winona, Quarles gets on his bad side when he approaches Raylan assuming he's on Boyd Crowder's payroll. Quarles also enlists the Sheriff of Harlan to disrupt Johnny's bar, which causes Boyd to reach out to someone he's helped in the past. Raylan finds out from an exasperated Tim that Quarles is meeting with the son of Detroit's biggest racketeer, and interrogates him at the horse stables, where he finds out that the Detroit mob has been experiencing problems with Quarles as well, and want him gone. With this blessing, Raylan uses a judge to shut down Quarles' developing underground clinic, which causes Quarles and Duffy to smoke out Winona's ex-husband Gary. 3.08 Watching the Detectives - Quarles and Duffy kill Gary Hawkins and try to frame Raylan for his death, while also getting the FBI on his tail. Meanwhile, Quarles raises the stakes in his war with Boyd Crowder, and Ellstin Limehouse tries to decide whose side he's on. Quarles and Duffy bring Gary back to Harlan and kill him on Winona's front lawn, putting Raylan in the crosshairs of the FBI and the Lexington homicide department. With the help of Tim and Winona, Raylan manages to avoid prosecution. He visits the house where Quarles was forced to vacate to find Duffy painting a room (where Quarles presumably killed someone). Raylan warns Duffy that Quarles is going down, and he is going to take Wyn down with him if they stay together. Elsewhere, Quarles is approached by Limehouse, who wants to make money from both sides of the Quarles/Boyd feud. Quarles rebuffs Limehouse's offer, and sets up Boyd by blowing up the current Sheriff of Harlan's car, putting him in jail and delaying Boyd's campaigning for a new Harlan Sheriff. Tanner returns to Quarles, and is threatened at first, but sent on a job that requires him to "shoot somebody in a crowded room". When Quarles finds out from the Detroit boss's son that Raylan has been cleared of suspicion, he loses his composure and threatens to shoot him. The boss's son baits Quarles to shoot him, telling him it will lead to a "short, lonely existence". Feeling cornered for the first time, Quarles shows up alone at Noble's Hollow and sheepishly asks Limehouse for assistance. 3.09 Loose Ends - Raylan pursues a Dixie Mafia soldier who may be the key to taking down Quarles. Ava turns brutal in order to protect an imperiled prostitute. -- After dodging a close call with Gary's death, Raylan puts his focus back on Quarles, who is having logistical problems with Sheriff Napier's campaign. After Raylan is visited by Ava, he sees Boyd in jail, who tells Raylan that he is being framed by Tanner. He explains Tanner's involvement with Quarles and the blowing up of Sheriff Napier's car, which leads Raylan to deduce that Tanner was the one who got away from the mobile Oxy clinic. Raylan clears Boyd's name for the bombing, which lets Boyd show up to a town hall debate between Quarles' candidate Sheriff Napier and Boyd's candidate Shelby (Jim Beaver). With the help of his charisma, Boyd wins over the crowd in favor of Shelby. Raylan looks for Tanner, who is told by Limehouse's man Errol to get a refund for the bomb he put in Napier's car. The two of them rob the old bomb maker, but Tanner steps on a landmine. He gives Errol the money to give to his mother before it arms itself. Raylan later arrives on the scene to try to get information out of him, but the mine explodes under Tanner before he could get anything. However, Raylan watches Tanner's mother's house and sees Errol delivering the money to her. He visits Limehouse that night and warns him that he's getting closer to burying Quarles, but Limehouse doesn't seem worried, and instead menacingly reminds Raylan of when he nearly killed his dad right in front of him when Raylan was little. Elsewhere, Ava goes against Johnny Crowder's wishes when she kills an abusive pimp who was paying Boyd Crowder protection money, but tells a curious Boyd that she is considering taking on his position. 3.10 Guy Walks Into a Bar - Raylan struggles to keep Dickie Bennett in prison while contending with an increasingly violent and unpredictable Quarles. -- With the Sheriff election going on, Boyd and Quarles both make maneuvers in their camps to get their candidate to win. Limehouse hedges his bets and eventually decides to help Boyd Crowder by introducing him to Quarles' campaign manager. This technicality costs Sheriff Napier the election, even though he had won the majority of voters. This sends Quarles into a drug fueled tailspin, as he reveals to Duffy his childhood of being trafficked by his father while strangling a young man in front of him. Quarles decides to directly confront Raylan, telling him he is going to put a bullet in his head. Raylan is dealing with another problem, as Dickie is set to be granted early release due to lack of evidence on his charges of kidnapping Raylan and murdering Aunt Helen. Raylan chases down all the people involved with Dickie's crimes, but they refuse to testify. Raylan goes to testify in favor of Dickie remaining in prison, but he bungles it, and eventually just tells Judge Reardon to just release Dickie, because he'll either slip up again or be killed in the process. At Noble's Hollow, Limehouse hears from Errol that Dickie is getting out, which might cause problems for the missing Bennett fortune, so he tells Errol to bring Dickie to him as soon as he is released. At the close of the episode, Quarles is alone in a hotel room sniffing Oxycontin repeating a mantra to himself. As Quarles strips, it is revealed that he has kidnapped another young male prostitute, holding him in his bathroom. 3.11 Measures - Raylan squares off with a pair of merciless Detroit hit men. The battle between Boyd and Quarles comes to a head. -- Quarles tries to maintain control in his war with Boyd Crowder by killing a drug dealer on the Crowder payroll, taking his supplies. But his problems extend beyond Harlan, as the boss in Detroit Theo Tonin is sending hired guns to deal with the Quarles problem. After being embarrassed by Raylan, they find Wynn Duffy, and put him in contact with Theo. Wynn takes them to Quarles' motel room, but they are being followed by Raylan and Art, who were watching Wynn's trailer. After Raylan rescues Quarles' hostage and arrests the Detroit hitmen, Quarles notices the commotion and flees to Noble's Hollow to lay low. Limehouse tells Quarles he could hide out as long as he has the money, which Quarles doesn't. Unbeknownst to Quarles, Boyd has intimidated Sheriff Napier into turning on him. So when Napier calls up Quarles and tells him he knows a place where he could dump the drugs, Quarles walks into a trap set up by Boyd, who uses a tazer to render him unconscious, telling a couple prostitutes to strip him and tie him to the bed. Meanwhile, Dickie is released from prison, and tries to worm his way back into the Bennett fortune with the help of old associates. Things hit a snag when his associates are approached by Tim and Rachel, who use them to get information on the remainder of Dickie's money. Dickie's forty thousand dollars (independent from the real fortune) is seized by Tim and Rachel when Erroll presents it to him, but Dickie convinces Erroll to help him go against Limehouse to find the real fortune. Erroll eventually accepts Dickie's proposal, only adding that they are going to need someone with a particular skill-set to get the Bennett fortune, that someone being Boyd Crowder. 3.12 Coalition - Limehouse launches a plan in motion that will get rid of all his enemies once and for all, but will anyone take the bait? Meanwhile, Wynn Duffy works on getting Robert Quarles delivered back--dead or alive--to the Detroit mob. -- At the same time Boyd makes a pact with Dickie Bennett in a last desparate attempt to recover Dickie's three-million dollar inheritance from Limehouse. 3.13 Slaughterhouse - While Quarles winds up on the run from the marshals after killing a state trooper, Limehouse uses an inside source to get Boyd in trouble with the law by tipping them off that Boyd Crowder was the one who killed and buried Devil and to the general location of the grave. -- Quarles attempts to steel $500,000 from Limehouse to buy his way back home. In the attempt Limehouse manages to cut off Quarles' arm and while Quarles is bleeding out he tells Givens that "Your old man" killed the State Trooper. -- Givens awakens his father in the dead of night and hauls him into Marshal Headquarters. Boyd sits in a nearby cell. Boyd explains to Givens that Arlo isn't his crew, but "my family." -- In the interrogation room, against legal advice Arlo readily and deliberately confesses to killing Trooper Tom Bergen... and Devil as well. "I did it to protect Boyd," explains Arlo, who continues to protect his adopted, criminal son by confessing to a murder that he didn't commit. Soon after, Boyd waltzes out of lock-up, a free man. Walton Goggins (Boyd Crowder [43 episodes, 2010-2013]), Natalie Zea (Winona Hawkins [40 episodes, 2010-2013]), David Meunier (Johnny Crowder [29 episodes, 2010-2013]), Raymond J. Barry (Arlo Givens [20 episodes, 2010-2013]). IMDb Rating (01/01/13): 8.7/10 from 20,369 users IMDb Rating (12/11/12): 8.7/10 from 19,795 users
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