Raylan and the marshals have Shelby holed up in, hilariously, Arlo's place, which isn't looking particularly safe given the chopper ominously circling the place. Knowing they have to move before Tonin can hit them with everything he has, they make a plan to strike out for Lexington. Meanwhile, unlike Wynn, Boyd has chosen to face Augustine, and despite taking some very heavy punches to the face, Boyd is still adamant about getting that half a million bucks should he deliver Shelby. He gives Augustine advice borne of his extensive knowledge of Raylan that results in Colton and a sharpshooter of Augustine's heading to a particular junction, at which a convoy of marshals does in fact soon arrive.

Tim, knowing Colton is out there, smells a rat in the form of some abandoned cars rigged with explosives and stops his group, but he's not the only one thinking ahead – his entire party is a decoy, and Raylan and Art are planning to get Shelby out of there by air. After Art tells Raylan he'd better move from Arlo's, Tim eventually calls Colton, and the two of them have a pretty hilarious "hypothetical" conversation about their situation; soon, it becomes apparent that Shelby is not present. When Colton reports this to Boyd, he knows he'd better figure out Raylan's real move, or like Shelby last week, he'll probably be wishing for death soon enough. But, recalling how a helicopter once landed on the roof of the high school he and Raylan attended, Boyd guesses Raylan's location, and he and another of Augustine's men head for the place.

Raylan and Rachel take Shelby to the aforementioned now-abandoned high school to hide out -- but hey, do you remember how Constable Bob set up a motion detector at Arlo's to alert him if anyone intruded? Turns out he installed the same setup for the high school, as they were having trouble with wire thieves themselves, and he calls Raylan and confirms his location. With Bob having come to Arlo's to find Raylan thanks to that text, he's a sitting duck for the Tonin man come to check out the place, who takes great pleasure in loosely emulating Michael Madsen's character in Reservoir Dogs. A raaaaaather long scene ensues, but Bob won't give Raylan up despite really getting the crap beaten out of him, and he manages to stab and then fatally shoot the guy just before Raylan shows up to rescue him. Raylan and Bob manage to make it back to the high school, but the enemy's air support gets there before their own, and soon Raylan is having a conversation with Boyd and yet another Tonin guy that makes it clear they're going to be hit full force as soon as the rest of Tonin's men arrive. However, Tim uses a Molotov cocktail to detonate one of the explosive-filled cars boxing them in, so the marshals head to back Raylan up, while Colton surprisingly turns on Tonin's sharpshooter and kills him for reasons yet to be revealed.

Back at the bar, Augustine amuses himself by being disgusting to Ava, and when Johnny eventually tells him to stop, Augustine reveals Johnny's betrayal of Boyd. Ava, God love her, nicks Augustine's gun and really, really almost kills him, but merely escapes to leave Johnny and Augustine all awkward.

In the end, Boyd and Tonin's cronies enter the high school's principal's office to find Raylan and Bob, but no Rachel or Shelby. As the marshals arrive, Raylan invites his enemies to withdraw for the moment, so the conflict is resolved without bloodshed – while Rachel and Shelby ride a coal train out of Harlan. The chase continues – next week.