Raylan visits Boyd in his prison hospital bed. Boyd wants to know if Raylan let him live on purpose, and Raylan says no, he meant to kill him. Boyd, still in great pain from his gunshot wound, tells Raylan he feels God allowed him to live for a reason. That he is God’s instrument, now. He doesn’t elaborate, but it’s probably not the last Raylan will hear about this.

That night, a pair of state prison inmates, both members of a prison band that dresses up in old-time prison stripes and plays at parties, escape during a performance. On the way to check out the prison, Raylan stops at a convenience store that’s open suspiciously late. The convicts are indeed inside, but they get the jump on Raylan, take his badge, guns, car, even his hat. One of the convicts, Cooper, then turns on the other one, tells him to get lost, he’s on his own. Cooper has his own plans.

Raylan finds it strange Cooper broke out with only 3 months left on a 15 year stint. He and Tim check up with Cooper’s ex-wife Shirley. She’s now hanging with her cousin Dupree and claims she hasn’t talked to Cooper in years. As soon as Raylan leaves, Cooper shows up at Shirley’s place with a shotgun. It turns out Cooper broke out because he’d heard about houses getting broken into and the floorboards getting ripped up in a housing development called Riverbrook – the same development he hid his bank robbery stash in 15 years ago when the houses were still under construction. Sure enough, Shirley and Dupree were breaking into random houses trying to take Cooper’s money before he got out of prison. The trio decides to team up, since Cooper of course knows exactly which house the loot is in.

Cooper, Shirley, and Dupree find the house, Cooper remembers which one it is because of it’s position in relation to a school that was being built along with the development. They break in, spend hours pulling up the floorboards… And find nothing! Dupree figures if Cooper doesn’t know where the loot is, he’s worthless, so he pulls a gun and shoots Cooper in the gut. Shirley and Dupree leave, Dupree apparently with some idea of which house to hit next.

That same night, Ava shows up unannounced at Raylan’s hotel room with amorous intentions. Raylan resists, but sleeps restlessly, getting up in the middle of the night to read the paper. He sees an article in the newspaper about floorboards getting ripped up all over Riverbrook and understands immediately. He knows now why Cooper broke out when he did. Raylan heads for Riverbrook with the marshals in tow. They find the gutshot Cooper, who’s got no idea where the other two went. Rachel points out there are TWO schools in the development, now, and Cooper was using the wrong school for reference.

Dupree and Shirley, meanwhile, have located the correct house and have the family living there tied up. It turns out the family found the hidden money during a remodeling project, though, and they’ve spent every penny. Furious, Dupree shoots the man of the house in the foot.

Using the correct school as reference, Raylan is able to locate Dupree and Shirley. It’s a hostage situation, now. Dupree and Shirley hold the family inside the house hostage. Raylan goes in alone and tries to talk Dupree down, but Dupree won’t give himself up. Dupree turns off the lights in the house, hoping he won’t be able to be sniped from outside. In a fit of conscience, however, Shirley flips the lights back on and Tim snipes him through the window.

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