Although Dougie’s boss insists that he’s a “solid citizen” who’s been working for him for 12 years, he notes that Dougie had a car accident prior to getting hired and still has “lingering effects.” He also mentions that Dougie had dissociative moments even before Coop was transplanted into his life, though a little bit of spaciness is probably to be expected when you’ve been manufactured as a sacrificial simulacrum for a malevolent spirit. They’ve discovered, for example, there are no records of Dougie prior to 1997, and while their first thought is “Witness Protection Program” rather than “supernatural doppelgänger constructed by an evil being from another dimension,” they can tell that something is amiss. The remarkably high level of violence directed at Dougie has finally been noticed by the local police, who open an investigation not just into the attempted murder but also the “damn strange business” that seems to follow the man at the center of it all. Since his arrival in the life of the ne’er-do-well insurance salesman, Dougie/Coop has already survived a stakeout by a sniper, a car bombing, and of course, the bold daylight shooting attempt by Ike the Spike. Vegas, of course, is the home of Dougie and Janey-E Jones, so it sounds like we’ve got multiple hit people heading off to finish the same job. Evil Cooper leaves Hutch and Chantal with instructions to kill Warden Murphy within the next two days, and then head to Las Vegas for another doubleheader. He now demands to know if Duncan has done “it” - i.e., offing Dougie - and notes gravely that it’d better be completed by the next time he calls. You may remember Duncan as the man we saw sitting in an office with a view, hiring hit man Ike the Spike at the behest of some ominous malefactor who was clearly Evil Cooper.
After his long walk, he is very ready to start crossing off action items in his bullet journal: He sends that “dinner table” text, and then calls Duncan Todd. He makes his way to a house marked by a red bandanna, where his accomplices Hutch and Chantal have been waiting for him. Looks like someone’s got a case of the Mondays!
After being double-crossed and shot by Ray, and clawed at by the otherworldly talons of ghouls, he finds himself stumbling down a dirt road the next morning, looking bloody and bedraggled. The great escape isn’t going quite as smoothly as Evil Cooper had planned, however. The first informs them about the fingerprint match with Major Briggs on the decapitated body in Buckhorn, and the second that “Cooper flew the coop,” a pun that seems inevitable, in retrospect. board a flight home, only to make an aerial U-turn when they receive not one but two calls about more nefarious goings-on in South Dakota. Michael Horse as Hawk, Robert Forster as Sheriff Truman, Dana Ashbrook as Bobby Briggs.Įarly on in this episode, Evil Cooper borrows a pretty pink clamshell phone from an accomplice named Chantal (Jennifer Jason Leigh) and texts a cryptic message to an unknown recipient: “Around the dinner table the conversation is lively.” Although this episode does not free us - or Good Coop - from the human purgatory that is Dougie Jones, some lively and informative conversations do end up tying together some of the show’s most esoteric threads in surprisingly linear ways.Īfter their prison visit, Gordon Cole & Co.
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