Raylan and Rachel have been on a stakeout for 3 days, looking for a fugitive named Wilson Toomey. They’re outside his ex-wife’s house, but they haven’t caught a glimpse of Wilson, and therefore have no grounds to go inside looking for him. Raylan decides to get a closer look. He dons a baseball cap, goes to the front door and tells Toomey’s ex-wife Sonya that he’s a man down on his luck, looking to do a little yard work in exchange for food. While Raylan goes about the yard work, he tries to get a peek in the windows/doors, but doesn’t see any sign of Toomey the first day.

Meanwhile, in Harlan, Raylan’s father Arlo breaks into one of the homes he rents out and starts destroying the tenants’ belongings with a baseball bat. He then phones 911, reporting his own break-in anonymously. When Sheriff Hunter shows up, he finds Arlo asleep on the sofa. Sheriff Hunter brings the tenant, Stan Perkins, in to try and settle with Arlo. Arlo claims that Perkins doesn’t pay his rent, which Perkins disputes. Arlo knees Perkins in the balls and subsequently gets carted off to jail. After the police have left, Perkins goes into a closet and opens a secret compartment. There’s nothing inside, but from the look on Perkins face, there should be.

That night, Raylan’s in bed with Ava when she gets a call on her cell, only the call is for Raylan! It’s his Aunt Helen, currently his stepmother, calling to get Raylan’s help bailing Arlo out of jail.

While Raylan is at the jail bailing Arlo out, Helen gets a visit from Stan Perkins and a couple of thugs he calls his nephews. They start ransacking the house, Stan claiming Arlo stole something from him. When Helen slashes at Perkins with a knife, the nephews defend him, knocking Helen to the ground.

Arlo and Raylan return to Arlo’s house to find the place a mess and Helen roughed up. Arlo’s furious, says he’s going to go after Stan and the nephews. Helen tries to calm him down. She asks for Raylan’s help, but Raylan’s already out the door. Helen goes after him, privately reveals to Raylan that Arlo had a heart attack a couple of years ago. She’s worried about him.

After Raylan’s gone back to Lexington, Arlo goes to a diner, finds the nephews, and beats the crap out of them with a baseball bat. As he’s beating them, though, he’s suddenly hit with another heart attack.

Back in Lexington, Raylan continues doing yard work at the Toomey house. He gets inside the house by telling Sonya he needs to use the bathroom. Wilson Toomey, the fugitive he’s been looking for, is indeed inside. Raylan pulls him aside and reveals he’s a U.S. marshal. He tells Toomey he’d rather not have to arrest him there in front of his young kids, but Toomey resists. After a brief fistfight, Raylan gets him to the ground and cuffs him. That’s when Sonya comes around the corner with a shotgun, the kids right behind her. Raylan is able to talk her down, though, explaining that he’s got no wish to see those kids parentless.

Raylan goes back to Harlan as soon as he hears about Arlo’s heart attack. He visits Arlo in the hospital and warns him to be careful about Perkins. Sheriff Hunter’s revealed to Raylan that Perkins used to be a drug trafficker. Raylan then goes to see Johnny Crowder, local low-life and cousin to Boyd Crowder. Raylan finds out from Johnny that Perkins is not only a one-time drug-trafficker, he’s in fact still dealing oxycontin in the Harlan area.

Armed with this information, Raylan goes to Perkins’ house. Perkins lets him in without protest, and in the secret compartment in the closet, Raylan finds a bag of Oxy. Perkins swears that wasn’t there earlier. That last time he checked the compartment was empty, because Arlo had stolen $75,000 dollars in Oxy from that very compartment the night he busted up the place.

Raylan goes back to the hospital and confronts Arlo and Helen. He’s figured out that Arlo probably stole the Oxy, then came back to Perkins’ house, busted it up and called the cops himself so he’d be found there with nothing on him, making it look like there’s no way he could’ve been the one who took the drugs. Raylan’s also figured out that the bag of drugs he himself found at Perkins’ that night was probably in fact planted, just as Perkins said it was – planted by Helen, since Arlo was in the hospital. Arlo and Helen arranged the entire situation so that not only would they get the drugs, but Raylan would get Perkins out of the way. The only thing they hadn’t planned on was Arlo’s second heart attack. Helen tells Raylan that maybe this whole thing could’ve been prevented if Raylan had just gone to see Arlo when he first got to Kentucky instead of continuing to exclude him from his life. This whole situation took place partly because Arlo was just plain mad at Raylan. He just wanted to see him.

“Well, he saw me,” Raylan replies, walking away.

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