Monroe and Miles finally figure out that maybe, Team Matheson is outnumbered, as Connor shamelessly tries to hit on Charlie. Too bad Connor doesn't know that Charlie has literally spent two seasons learning that everyone around her is full of shit. Connor would be the perfect boy-toy, though. Cute, nice body, but not bright enough to know when you're insulting him. Oh, yes, he should be perfect for Charlie. She volunteers to help/babysit Monroe and Connor, mostly to make sure they come back with the men they promised.
Aaron and Priscilla reach Lubbock, Texas and are blown away by someone being nice. At this point, someone offering a stranger food creeped me out too. They find their old friend, Peter, who helped develop the nanotech's operating system with them. Peter has discovered his own powers with the nano, too. But Peter attributes it to God, and performs tent-revival miracles before everyone's eyes. To be fair to the residents and Peter, they have no other way of explaining Peter's powers. Aaron and Priscilla, though, watch in horror as everyone starts praising Jesus. Their attempt later to convince Peter that it's self-aware artificial intelligence responding to a request from one of its makers is not really successful. Peter must know his programming code had the potential for self-awareness, as he was one of it's programmers; so Aaron and Priscilla telling him they've had the same creepy powers without calling it God must be a blow. Peter later locks them up in their hotel room, mostly because he doesn't want Aaron and Priscilla ruining the awesome gig he's got going. Notice- neither has informed Peter that Aaron can set people on fire at will. After all, we know what Christians do to witches.
They're not going to ask for donations, are they?
A pretty well-beaten Tom is brought to the President, and his sweet-talking doesn't work on the guy. Lucky for Tom, he's getting a super awesome top secret mission. Since the Patriots have finally figured out that Monroe is actually still alive, they've decided to re-kill him before The Republic of Texas figures out they screwed up the execution. So, Tom kills Monroe; and the Patriots don't scoop out his wife's eyes. Tom also manages to get his son's freedom in the deal. Eventually, the two of them show up in Willoughby, go back and forth with Truman, and are then on their way to find Miles and Monroe. Truman tries to act like he's in charge, but unless he's got a tail on Tom and Boyband, he'll have no way of knowing if Tom is actually going to do as promised. Tom has the slight upper hand in this, as Truman has failed to kill Monroe, and Tom has the confidence of Tony the Tiger.
Team Monroe, in New Vegas, meets the mercenary leader Duncan Blake, who is not the disheveled Son of Anarchy, but the well-groomed brunette who also knows Monroe real identity. She makes a ridiculous deal for 30 diamond pieces per man, and Monroe stupidly agrees. Now they just need to steal the diamonds. Good thing they're already in a casino.
Like Ocean's 3, but much, much dumber
As Miles and Rachel get it on, Connor and Charlie do the same thing. Charlie confides in Connor that the family's entire mission is suicidal, but she'll keep at it 'til she dies because... family. So, we have a brainless romantic, and the cynic. Monroe finds them and can't believe two kids with hormones raging, almost no adult supervision, and no respect for other people's rules anyway would have sex the second they were alone. I guess a homicidal maniac can be a naive prude.
Once they're all clothed however, they put into place their plan to get the diamonds necessary to buy goons. It's a classic caper, with Monroe getting the town's attention on him for a prizefight, Connor acting as another distraction when he causes havoc inside the casino, and Charlie running off with the lockbox. As she climbs the fence, she realizes she can't take the lockbox with her, and leaves it there. And that was her mistake. She should have busted it open and left it empty before ditching it, because the casino goons open it to find it was a decoy. Connor got right back up when the joint was emptied, took the real lockbox from the trashcan Charlie hid it in, and strolled out. Monroe finished his fight, with Duncan egging him on (she either likes him or really needs to get paid), and met Connor just in time to be bludgeoned by the angry casino owner. Now Charlie and Duncan will have to save their men. That's the problem with boy toys - they can never solve their own problems.
Tom finds Miles right away (Truman will be so pissed), worming his way into the farmhouse cellar by sweet-talking Dr. Rachel's Dad. He and Boyband swear they're on Miles' side, with Tom basically telling Miles what he was planning until his wife turned up alive, and Boyband agreeing it's the truth. Miles is still suspicious, but might just give in because here's someone willing to fight for free. The beauty of this scene is, despite Tom's act, you get the feeling he'll turn on the Patriots the second he can. Would he be willing to cut his losses with a wife he thought was dead anyway, to save his son and actually get revenge on the Patriots?
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