Character Analysis: Billy Boyd

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Boyd and Ava are talking about weed growing. Ava is unimpressed and asks whether he still thinks Harlan is dying. Boyd thinks that becoming a farmer might be the thing to save their town and is surprised at how eager Ava suddenly is to leave Harlan. Ava is less than happy at the instruction she is going to be watched from now on. One of the henchmen calls and Boyd instructs him to tell all of their suppliers to only deal to them from then on. They pull up to the police check point they had been sitting at and pass through with little difficulty.

The officers go to inform Raylan and Tim about Ava’s demeanor before shutting down their check point. Raylan instructs Tim to find Albert (guard from last year) before he screws everything up.

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Boyd and his crew of about five men climb atop an old shed.

Raylan asks Ava what she was thinking when she took off. Ava confesses that she didn’t think, she just ran. Raylan tells her that she should be thanking him since she should have gone to jail had anyone else caught her as the best case scenario and dead as the worst. Ava asks if he’s going to yell at her some more or if she can go home to cook Boyd’s dinner. Raylan informs her he would like to keep yelling at her.

Zachariah tells one of Boyd’s men to be careful cutting into that old mine entrance because of the methane. They pay him little heed and get thrown off the top. Zachariah tells them that they need to let the entrance vent for a few hours before they can go down.

Calhoun and his hooker are in his office when some of Walker’s men come by. The girl leaves and they two men ask Calhoun to have a seat. The redhead tells a long winded story to Calhoun before informing him that he was the only one outside of their organization that knew which properties team Walker were after. Calhoun claims not to know and the redhead orders Choo Choo to level a starter tap. Choo Choo hits Calhoun so hard, he kills

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