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I guess I shouldn't be surprised that Daryl is manipulating Dewey and taking over Audrey's. Dewey isn't terribly bright, and his lack of business sense would have lead to someone manipulating him for control Audrey's sooner or later.

A Russian mob dating site? I love it! "Find your match at Vory v zakone Mingle!"

I have a feeling he will. He's affiliated with the Detroit mob.

I never understood how Audrey's could operate in the open. It engages in the sex trade, sells alcohol in a dry county, and serves as a meeting place for all kinds of criminals. Regional law enforcement must be terribly corrupt if they haven't shut it down.

I agree. Dewey often has no idea what he's doing, and that makes him more dangerous in a way than his cunning colleagues.

Boyd's distance from Ava and sexual tension with Mara tell us something about him. As much as he tells himself that he loves his people, he looks out for number one first and foremost. For example, he did nothing to help Arlo in season 4, after praising Arlo as a father figure the season before.

I wondered about that too. Maybe she's lying about her origins?

Never underestimate a fool like Dewey. The universe seems to protect fools like him.

Mara doesn't intrigue me as a character. If she were more three-dimensional, rather than just a femme fatale, I might feel differently.

"Come on knock on our door / we'll be waiting for you / with guns drawn, guns drawn, yeah, three's company too!"

It was definitely poetic justice. In "The Kids Aren't All Right", Cyrus used the air gun on a young man for his own sick amusement, but I couldn't tell what was wrong with the man. Was he a drug user? A mentally disabled man? Either way, Cyrus' karma came back!

Thankfully, he has better fashion sense and hygiene than Matt Foley.

Maybe that was the point. It may have been meant to show us that Raylan is being irresponsible with his tactics and putting bystanders in danger.

I think the suffocation scene was to make the audience hate Monroe, so we wouldn't feel so bad when he got shot.

I want to see her too. I'd love to see her lock horns with her equally cunning cousin Daryl.

So much for Boyd's relationship with Ava. The moment Ava's locked up, he's letting a Latvian beauty paw at him … a Latvian beauty who's also married to one of his chief enemies! I don't see this ending well.

- It's fascinating watching Boyd's criminal empire and personal life crumble around him. Boyd has always fancied himself as an "outlaw" in control of his situation, but as his attack on Paxton and flirting with Mara demonstrates, he's not even in control of himself. How long will it take before Boyd's illusions of

I can't help but wonder if Hannibal is setting up Bedelia Du Maurier just as he set up Will. As with Will, his relationship with DuMaurier involves slowly dissolving professional boundaries and preparing food for her. Does Hannibal plan to undermine her sanity, frame her, or kill her at some point?

I liked Mikkelsen's subtle facial expressions throughout "Savoreux". When Will realizes that Hannibal made the phone call to Hobbs, Hannibal's eyes widen ever so slightly. His final smirk at the end of the episode was the stuff of nightmares, and so very effective.

I've been disgusted by Hannibal's savagery throughout the season, so his manipulation of Will was just part of a longer history of evil. I will say that what he does to Will shows that Hannibal can be as psychologically sadistic as physically sadistic.