...and then we cut to a much darker location -- Arlo's house, as we'll later learn even if it's not immediately recognizable. Inside, a male and female teenager (not sure when or even if their names are given, but they're "Benny" and "Roz") use sledgehammers to break a hole in a wall ("the wall"?), and Benny takes the opportunity to strip some of the copper wires out, but Roz asking him what the hell he's doing makes it clear that that's not their primary errand. When the hole's big enough, Roz shines a light in, and we see a bag that, despite all the dust and age, looks awfully familiar if you've watched the opening scene enough times to notice anything other than that mangled parachutist. But before the kids can attempt to retrieve the bag, they hear a siren and see the lights of a cop car approaching, and when Benny asks what they do now, Roz's response is "We run, you dumb shit." Well, guess we know who's the Boyd and who's the Hiram of this pair.
Outside, the kids run up the street into the dark -- not sure why they wouldn't escape into the woods, but it's not my ass going to juvie if they get caught -- and, instead of pursuing, Patton Oswalt gets out of the car and yells some impotent-sounds threats. He's dressed in what looks like a sheriff's uniform, but we'll learn he's actually "Constable Bob Sweeney." Bob grabs his Maglite and goes inside to check the house out...
...while, in the latter's car, Adair is taunting Raylan by guessing what his affiliation is. He notes that it can't be local, as Raylan would have IDed himself as such, so he settles on Federal, and adds that bounty hunting is illegal in Kentucky. Raylan tells Adair that continued chattiness will result in an introduction to the trunk of his car, so Adair requests and receives permission before asking if it means anything to Raylan that he has no priors. Raylan isn't interested, but becomes so when Adair brings up his kids, and he asks Adair if he gets visitation. Adair says he does, but it's limited since he doesn't have a place suitable for children; he starts working up a head of steam about that, but Raylan's phone rings, and it's Bob. When Raylan hears about the break-in, that puts him in a shitty enough mood, and when Adair won't shut up, Raylan slams on the brakes, causing Adair to lurch forward painfully, and it would have really been hilarious if Raylan had a passenger-side airbag. As Adair licks his wounds, Raylan lectures him that he's got no self-awareness -- he thinks trying to do right by his kids excuses all else, and that is interesting on a number of levels -- one, Raylan is doing something illegal for his unborn kid's sake (as he admits later) right now, but more broadly, a lot of antiheroes from groundbreaking TV shows in the past ten years -- Walter White, Tony Soprano, Dexter Morgan, just to name a few -- have, at one time or another, used family to justify (ooh, see what I did there) their nefarious actions (Adair, by the way, killed a couple heroin dealers when they wouldn't be robbed without a fight), so it's interesting to hear Raylan draw attention to the phenomenon. Anyway, Raylan sums up his little speech by reciting an old saying: "You run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. You run into assholes all day? You're the asshole." It's a lot of assholery for Adair to wrap his head around...













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