5.2 Good Intentions On that note, does anyone truly understand Boyd half so well as Mara appears to? Mara asks to see Boyd’s tattoos and rather than be repulsed by his Swastika she instead recants a story about how she knew men who killed Nazis and men who were Nazis. She then proceeds to tell Boyd that in Russian prisons, tattoos tell a man’s life story and begins to inspect him, coming to some pretty accurate conclusions. Boyd seems mesmerized by this. There is a definite connection between these two and Boyd’s connection to Mara is starting to cause some major friction with Ava. Boyd is screwing up, Ava knows this and she is starting to realize that Boyd is not her saviour. Ava proceeds to call Boyd out for failing to bribe a judge who could help get her case thrown out and for stupidly almost killing the one man whose testimony they need to get revoked. Boyd may not completely realize it yet, but his actions seem to subconsciously suggest that he knows that having Ava stay in prison would actually free him up to pursue Mara. How telling was it when Boyd responds to Ava’s accusations with the line “I didn’t kill Delroy.” Perhaps Boyd is more then subconsciously distancing himself from Ava and once again he is showing us his true colours. The scary thing is that Mara seems to be an almost carbon copy of Boyd and they both have an uncanny ability to disregard normal human emotions especially when these emotions come into conflict with the things that they want. Furthermore, Mara concocts a brilliantly devious plan to cut off the hand of a dead man and put one of Boyd’s tattoos on it so that they can convince her husband Lee that deputy Mooney, who now seemingly works for them, has killed Boyd. The relationship that is developing between Mara and Boyd is utterly fascinating and one that has added an entirely new dimension to the show. There is also trouble at Audrey’s as Dewey Crowe is not doing well as a entrepreneur and his cousin Daryl informs him that he has in fact been ‘ripped off’ by Boyd by over-paying for the whorehouse he now owns. In fact cousin Daryl believes that Dewey overpaid Boyd by about $125,000. Daryl believes that Dewey should get that money back and that Dewey should then give Daryl half of the money for helping him with his predicament. Dewey meets with Boyd to discuss this matter but Boyd can’t be bothered with him, so Dewey decides to stand up to Daryl and tell him that he will not be giving him any of his money. However Daryl claims that Dewey’s friend Messer has been stealing from him for months and that he has been doing this under the orders of Boyd. Daryl then wants Dewey to kill Messer for what he has done. Now the question is: was Messer really stealing from Dewey and was he really doing this on behalf of Boyd or did Daryl concoct this scheme to earn Dewey’s trust? That is a scenario that I am excited to see play out next week. Read Matthew’s review of the previous episode, The Kids Aren’t All Right, here.
