I wasn't thinking and opened twitter just before watching the episode, and saw our own Rowan Kaiser say something about people reacting to "Trust" like it was the Red Wedding.

After the ending, I remembered somewhere in the comments of a previous season, there was at least one discussion charting out Ava's gradual corruption from being someone like Raylan (killing a guy who has it coming over a meal) to someone like Boyd (killing whoever, for the hell of it, and also for money), and…

Raylan has talked about taking a more hands-off view of shitkicker-on-shitkicker violence in prior seasons, around the time when he told Quarles he genuinely hoped he, Boyd, and Arlo would all just get each other killed.

When Markham asked if Loretta had any family so he'd know who her next-of-kin was when he killed her, I began to suspect she might've willed everything to Raylan.

Woo! More Raylan ice cream cone love! You still have time to walk back the biggest alteration to his character from the original books, show!

I know. Last week, I was expecting the show to be over before the last act, so much had happened, but this one was just rocketing along straight through, I was startled when the end came. It felt like there was more episode (I guess four more episodes, in fact).

I think the money is only actually laundered if there's some legitimate business to mix it in with.

I thought it was a bad toupee and a worse dye-job. Like, shoe-polish.

Luckily, I've been making notes on the progression of time in "Justified." Loretta was 14 at the beginning of season two (just got to "The Moonshine War" in my rewatch/first watch with my buddy). Winona gets pregnant later that season (or possibly slightly before, but lets make the high-end estimate), has the baby…

Since it's a mob-owned hotel, I assumed that was a signal that they'd need the "special" housekeeping staff that handles tough stains, knows the locations of quarries and disused mineshafts, and doesn't ask questions.

Loretta's speech reminded me of two of the other great Justified pro-crime speeches, Mags arguing against Black Pike, and Boyd comparing the incumbent sheriff to the strikebreakers of his youth.

Only implicitly. The end credits don't match actors to characters, but George Coe wasn't credited in any of the Archer Vice episodes, while Tom Kane was credited when Woodhouse appeared.

A more figurative example would be Eric Roberts showing up as the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come last year. Even though it wasn't a negative consequence in the way Boyd, Dewey, Dickie, and what's-his-face getting out of jail were, Raylan didn't seemed thrilled to see the kind of man he's on the road to being in ten…

That's because he's a cop. Guns are made to kill, and there's no good reason for trying to pull off trick shots that are much more likely to miss or, if they hit (in a show that treats violence even in a partially-realistic fashion like Justified), still cause death or permanent injury. Cousin Johnny and Dickie Bennet…

More than meth, oxy, rocket propelled grenades, and gun violence, apparently.

There was also the CI Boyd accidentally killed when he decided to blow up a meth lab during his Batman phase. But I suppose that doesn't count as murdering an innocent person either, since he was in a meth lab, or Boyd didn't realize he was there when he pulled the trigger, or Boyd didn't know he was secretly a good…

Justified likes playing with foreshadowing, though. Remember how they established Raylan lost his quick-draw in season 3, and Quarrels had his sleeve-gun, and that impossible shoot-out ended up being a total red-herring?

I'm getting the sense that a lot of people have forgotten the scene where Helen made a post-death cameo talking to Arlo. Or was it just more dramatically acceptable as a device when the character imagining their dead relative had dementia?

It's phrased ambiguously, but the post really only spoils the fact that Tommy Lee Jones is a lawman and also old.

“Were they paying or were you?”