Stop me if you’ve heard this one.   Two hookers try to get oxy from a crooked doctor.   The doctor only wants to part with a little, so the hookers try to use his “little part” to get a bigger share.   Then, out of the blue Tanner pops in a kills all but one of the hookers.   I know, the joke starts out strong but falls apart during the punch line.   However, this shit is Justified, where we can always go for quality stories.

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Justified kicks off this week with Limehouse coming back from his deal with Dickie.   Turns out, Limehouse isn’t as honest as we though he was.   He’s hiding a large amount of money from Dickie and tried to sneak one by him.   From what I gather about this scene, it looks like there might be issues in Limehouse’s crew.   It will be interesting to see how he deals with it.

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I spent this Valentine’s Day with someone special.   Someone that’s always been there for me.   Some one that I can tell my problems too.   Someone that will always listen.   Someone that I love.   Commander Shepard.

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We rejoin Justified with Devil and a man named Tanner having a conversation about a meeting.   Quickly its revealed that Quarles is the man Devil is here to meet.   Quarles is working his way through the local thugs, so it was only a matter of time he got to Devil.   Quarles offers Devil a fast track to the big time.

I’ll give Quarles his due.   The man can talk.   He sells Devil on the concept of killing Boyd faster than you can blink.   Fathers in the greater Lexington area, watch your daughters, Quarles is in town and he’s about to charm the panties off them.

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We start this episode with Raylan going to … wait … Where’s Raylan?   Oh well, he’ll show up.   I guess we’ll pass the time with Ava introducing Limehouse to Boyd.   Obviously these two characters are going to be interacting for the foreseeable future.   The problem for Boyd is he’s relatively weak.   What makes it worse for him is Limehouse knows it.   Boyd tries to come to Limehouse as an equal, proposing they split Mag’s money, and fails.   Perhaps he’ll have better luck next time, as of now, he needs to restructure his crew.

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We rejoin Raylan as he wakes up from a slumber that I can only assume encompasses dreams of fighting giants and satisfying women by the dozen.

When last we left Boyd he was cooling in stir.   As he walks over to Dickey, Boyd is told he has a visitor.   As the spot light is put on him, Boyd pockets the shiv and leaves the lunchroom.   Its seems Raylan saw through Boyd’s plan to get locked up to extract revenge on Dickey.   I know I’ve said it before but the reason I love the conflict between these two characters is that they will forever be polite to each other right up until someone is punched or shot.   Then, after the heat of battle, the will go right back to niceties.       I’m not sure if it’s a product of the region they were raised or if its because they grew up together, or both, but for me its one of the main reasons I like the show.

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When we last left Deputy Marshal Raylan Givens he was bruised, battered, and shot.   We pick up season 3 a few weeks later.   Raylan is back with the marshals under limited capacity until he’s fully recovered.   It was painful to see him draw and shoot … and miss.   We’ll see how his injuries will limit him in the future.

Raylan is working on his investigation into what happened with the Bennett’s weed and money since the family was taken down.   Boyd is called into the marshal’s office to fill in some gaps in the aftermath.   After some classic banter between the two we are treated to a fistfight.   Good lord it feels like it’s going to be a good season

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Unless you live on the Moon or if you have a DVR you’ve heard of Terra Nova.   You know what, scratch that, I think Fox put a few ads on the Moon, in caves, and even under rocks.   You could smell the desperation.   They wanted it to succeed.

The premise is a cool idea, if just a little bit lifted from Sliders (make sure to pronounce in a hushed whisper).   There is a dimensional portal that goes from the year 2148 to 65 million BC.   Instantly your geek bullshit detector should around Roland Emerich levels.   The question is, if they go into the past, won’t they change the future?   It’s the classic Grandpa Paradox.   If you leap into the past to kill your grandfather before your father is born, how can you be born to go into the past to kill your own grandfather?   They handle this with one line of forced dialogue.   It appears that they are not going directly into the past; they are going into the past of an alternate dimension.   Like I said, cheesy fix.   They might as well have said a wizard did it.

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Here it is folks, the mid-season finale of the Walking Dead.   We start out with Glenn’s trademark speech craft ability.   Glenn announces that the barn is full of walkers.   This of course causes a panic amongst the survivors.   This revelation presents a few problems for everyone.   For Rick it means that he has a new complication with Hershel.     For Glenn, it’s the betrayal of Maggie’s trust.   For Shane, this is a security threat.   The lion’s share of this episode is going to be focusing how everyone handles this new development.   I love how the opening ended with a throwback shot of the barn door bulging slightly as Shane got near.   Reminded me of the hospital shot during season 1.

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Last week we left Glenn and Maggie in a barn full of walkers.   If you didn’t watch it, its not what you think Hershel is keeping them there with a purpose.   This week we pick up with Carl and Lori feeding chicken, discussing philosophy.   Carl’s utterance of the line “Everything’s food for something else” feeds into Lori’s doubt about giving birth to a child in this world.   Its an interesting view of how a child adapts to the situation he’s been put in.   There’s no moral dilemma, there’s no internal conflict.   Its just a simple transition.   “Oh, people turn into flesh eating monsters and we have to kill them … ok.”   Change doesn’t affect children as much because they have less of a routine.   This whole episode deals with people at different stages of their lives and how they’ve adjusted.

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