Arlo Givens – Raylan’s estranged, jailbird father – is found asleep in a property that he has ransacked with a baseball bat. Arlo’s defence is that he owns the property and his tenant, weedy kitchen salesman Stan Perkins, has not paid the rent. As Givens makes up for lost time with Ava, he receives a phone call from his stepmother Helen, asking him to bail his father out of jail. Givens, who has deliberately avoided his family since returning to Kentucky, reluctantly agrees.

Meanwhile, Helen is besieged at home by Perkins and his two brutish nephews. Perkins claims that Arlo stole something important from his home during the rampage. “I need what your husband took from me,” he snarls. “So either I get it, or I kill him.” Arlo and his son arrive on the scene as Helen picks up the pieces. She has been attacked and the house ransacked. “Perkins never sent the rent?” a suspicious Givens asks his stepmother. “Well, it’s possible he might have done and we’ve forgotten,” Helen claims, evasively. “We’re old, Raylan.” Givens immediately suspects that his father is up to his old tricks.

As Arlo prepares to wreak his revenge on Perkins, Helen comes clean to Givens about the events of the last few years. She discloses that Arlo suffered a heart attack two years ago, and has also been diagnosed with bipolar and post-traumatic stress disorders. “He’s on medication now,” Helen adds. “He’s calmer than I ever saw him.” “He just busted up a man’s house and squared him in the balls!” Givens says, incredulously.

Arlo soon ends up in hospital again, after suffering another heart attack in the process of beating Perkins’s thugs. Meanwhile, Givens learns that the ‘salesman’ has a record for trafficking stolen pharmaceuticals, in particular a powerful painkiller known as ‘hillbilly heroin’. At the hospital, Givens warns Arlo to stay away from the dealer. “Stan Perkins may look like a pushover, and that’s why you thought you could pull one over on him,” he tells his defiant father. “But you can’t.”

Before long, Givens susses out that Arlo has managed to pull the wool over his eyes too. “Is there a part of you that’s disappointed that you raised such an idiot?” Givens snarls. Is this the end of their already troubled relationship for good?

Elsewhere this week, Rachel, Mullen and Givens stake out a house where they believe fugitive Wilson Toomey is holed up. After three days without results, Givens decides to take drastic action. Posing as an unemployed gardener, he offers to tidy the Toomeys’ garden free of charge. After charming his way indoors, Givens thinks he has an arrest in the bag – until Mrs Toomey puts a gun to his head...