EPISODE

1. The Moonshine War

Raylan tangles with a ruthless Harlan County crime family while hunting for a fugitive sex offender.

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Raylan follows and incapacitates Boyd before he can kill Gio Reyes's niece. He takes her to Miami and orders Reyes to square things between them, backed by the local chief deputy marshal. Raylan is offered his job in Miami back, but he declines and returns to Kentucky. Harlan marijuana grower Walt McCready calls the marshals after a pedophile harasses his teenage daughter Loretta. Raylan learns that they both work for the criminal Bennett family, who the Givens family has a long-standing feud with. Sensing police presence, he kidnaps Loretta and flees, though Raylan tracks him down and arrests him. Bennett matriarch Mags fatally poisons Walt for talking to the police and decides to raise Loretta herself. Raylan learns that Boyd has gotten a job with the Black Pike Coal mining company.

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