Episode 5 opens with a young Robbie and Billy at the quarry where they would swim again. We then see present Robbie arrive at Ray’s place with a gun, searching for him, ready to give him a piece of his mind about what happened to Cliff. Shelley reveals he is back in jail, and that the FBI took him in two days ago. Shelley tells Robbie she can help him move the drugs.

Aleah and Tom discuss what evidence they may have for the second suspect and find out about Bartos, the truck driver who was going to help Robbie flee the city. The witness who Robbie thrashed around is then asked to describe Robbie, and we see Jayson and Perry at Jayson’s place, where Perry looks to be putting trackers or something under the car. Perry arrives at Robbie’s place and starts having his little reunion with Maeve. She tells him to walk around the back, so he doesn’t see Sam in the yard. After a discussion, he leaves the garage, and Maeve rushes to tell Sam to hide in the chicken coop. Perry goes to the main house, where he gets the ping about the location of the car he’s tracking. After another quick bit of dialogue, Maeve brings Sam to the parking lot of her job, where she talks to a co-worker about what to do.

The FBI gets closer to discovering Robbie when the prints on the bucket Sam had matched Maeve’s, and through familial matching, learn of Robbie’s brother, Billy. Skipping way ahead, we run into Freddy again, whose son brought Robbie in to discuss things with him. Either it’s a set-up, or not, and that’s all that will be said.

Back at the FBI, the sketch artist completes the sketch of Robbie, and Robbie returns to the house and finds Maeve nowhere in sight once again. Tom arrives at Robbie’s house and runs into him as he’s packing the car to go. Tom uses the old “need to use the bathroom” trick to set up an FBI raid and to get into the house to ask Robbie some questions. Robbie then basically forces Tom at gunpoint to drive away from the house (obviously, he wasn’t falling for the tricks).

In the next scene, Maeve turns herself and Sam in to the FBI, and Kathleen McGinty starts interrogating her. Jayson tells Perry that they figured out it was Robbie, and with two groups now looking for him, it looks like things are closing in for him, especially since he kidnapped a
federal agent. After Robbie lets Tom live, and makes him walk a mile into a forest, Tom runs into a bunch of people on the other side, and borrows a woman’s cellphone to call his family, and the Task team, to let them know he’s ok, and that they can track him using his satellite radio. They
find him and pick him up, where they get a pin on Robbie’s location. They arrive at the location, but they aren’t alone, as not too far away, Perry and the Dark Hearts gang are there as well, which spells trouble across three boards.

This episode feels like it’s going by quicker than the previous ones, and in a way, feels less grim when compared to the other episodes. There was more action, and it was reminiscent of a Law and Order scene where they are chasing the bad guy, and any number of things could happen to an officer or the perp. Hopefully, these last few episodes also pay off, and they aren’t a letdown.

Rating 8.1/10