Longmire 2x12 - A Good Death is Hard to Find

This episode starts with recitations of amateur cowboy poetry.  WEIRD!


The case:  Finger in a safe deposit box willed to the Sheriff.  Lucian, Branch's crazy former Sheriff Uncle.  A manipulative girlfriend.  LOTS of lies.  The Ferg lets a suspect go and everyone thinks he screwed up.  Turns out he actually did something really clever and everyone is impressed.  YAY FERG!






The important stuff:  Vic is still being stalked by Ed, her ol' buddy from Philly.  She finds evidence that someone has broken into her car and her house.  She confronts him and smacks his car in frustration.









She showers with a gun and someone took a bite out of her soap so she ends up sleeping in the office cell.








Vic tells Walt what is going on and all of the back story of why she left Philly and became a blonde.  He tells her since her husband is out of town, she should stay at his cabin until they deal with the stalker.

Lizzie shows up late at night and accuses Walt & Vic of having an affair.  Walt & Vic both strongly object but awkward looks also get passed around.

Vic goes to Henry to try to hire the mercenary from the Res to scare off Ed Gorski but Henry snitches on her to Walt.  Walt goes to scare off Ed himself with threats and stories about Hector and Achilles in the Iliad. High brow intimidation.

Longmire 2x11 - Natural Order

It seems Walt stayed out all night in the desert leaning backward from the ropes tied through his chest skin until the skin finally rips through.  Is it just me, or is ripping your nipples off not a really creepy way to prove you love your daughter??

Cady is awake and plays a pretty hilarious prank on Branch pretending her head injury made her forget him.  His face is priceless.

Henry tells a cute story about punching Walt as a kid the first time they met.

A game warden is stabbed to death and Walt takes more interest in the headless elk nearby.  We get poachers and Chinese remedies and cancer patients and loving husbands and wasting sickness and doting fathers but mostly we get Vic pulling a face when she & Walt uncover some gross evidence.

Longmire 2x10 - Election Day

Its election day and Walt's campaign rally is full of dancing and fun and Vic out of uniform again.  Its a little country for Vic:  "that block of ice is charming but its not a very efficient way to make a drink."

 Walt dances with a voter.  Ferg dances impressively well with Cady.  Ferg likes Cady!


Cady is shuttling people from the Reservation who don't have cars to their polling places to vote.  Vic gets called to a car accident and finds Cady in the grass with her eyes open but she is unresponsive and bloody.  She looks dead.








Cady is in the ICU and Ferg flips out over finding the person that hit her.  Vic has to reign him in before he blows the case or gets himself hurt.  Vic blames herself when her investigation runs out of leads.  Henry blames himself for not driving a drunk home himself since the guy the drunk called to pick him up turned out to be the one that hit Cady.  Walt blames himself for being happy instead of protecting Cady.





Walt decides he has to atone for the sins of Denver with an old Cheyenne ritual.  He tethers himself to a pole with hooks through his skin in the night.  YIKES!

Oh, and he won the Sheriff's election, but no one really cares about that right now.

Longmire 2x09 - Tuscan Red

Henry convinces Walt to admit he wants to win the election. And then something explodes. Subtle.
At the site of the explosion, Vic has to play peace keeper between Sheriff Longmire and Res Police Cheif Mathias.

The explosion is the result of methane build up in the house coming out of the water pipes. Vic's husband works for the fracking company that the a lot of the Res believes is ruining their water supply. She rescues him from a violent riot by arresting him.







Vic says fracking repeatedly in this episode. Battlestar Galactica fans everywhere giggle with delight.

Cady intentionally gets a speeding ticket from Branch to tell him its over between them. He disagrees. Later, she gets drunk and dances like a wild woman. Branch leers at her like a creeper. They both end up drunk and acting like horny teenagers.

Branch tells Walt to be a better father to Cady and implies that he should resign from the election in order to do so.

Longmire 2x08 - The Great Spirit

Another western staple: a dead guy being dragged behind a horse!  Walt gets his cowboy on by lassoing the wild horse.



Vic, Branch and Walt go to an illegal rodeo out of uniform walking in like the Mod Squad.  Vic flirts for information and then awkwardly doesn't know what to do after the information runs out.  Branch tries to be slick but his political ambition (i.e. plastering the town with campaign signs of his face) blows his cover.  Well done, jerk face.

extra undercover Vic picture just because... HOT!

Everything gets flipped on its head when the dirt bag victim turns out to be a real saint and the "aw shucks, Sheriff" good guy turns out to be the murderer.  Walt uses the same wild horse to get a confession.  City girl Vic is trying to manage the rearing horse while Walt takes his sweet time getting his confession.


Henry and Walt have to get their stories straight about the trip to kill Walt's wife's murderer because the Denver detective is snooping around again.  We get more of the story in flashbacks including a very old Native woman who sewed up Walt's wounds.  Henry goes to visit her to make sure she won't tell the detective about that night.  He asks if she remembers that night and with a very slight twink in her eye, quietly shakes her head, then asks if Henry's friend is well.  He says he may have put her and his friend in a bad position.  She says, "You did right,"  and then asks,  "What did the first Warrior say to the Great Spirit?"  Henry smiles and we get a voice over of him telling the tale.  While we hear Henry's tale, we see Walt releasing the wild horse and telling it to go home.

The first warrior looked out on the land that was his home.  He saw the hills, and the stars, and he was happy.  For giving him his home, the first warrior told the Great Spirit he would fight and win many battles in his honor.  But the great spirit said "No.  Do not fight for me.  Fight for your tribe.  Fight for the family born to you.  Fight for the brothers you find.  Fight for them," the Great Spirit said, "for they are your home."

The horse runs a little ways off and then looks back at Walt.

  They have a moment.  The horse comes back to thank Walt as Henry's story ends.

We all choke back tears.

Longmire 2x07 - Sound and Fury

Cady helps to identify someone at the Red Pony.  She refers to him as the "hot one" and Vic says he has to be a "bad boy." This whole line of conversation seems to make Walt very uncomfortable.

Vic runs into someone she apparently knew in Philly.  The conversation is friendly but there is definitely something creepy and threatening and Vic can't wait to get away from him.

Vic gets a drink with creepy guy from her past and he mentions being hard on her during "the whole IA thing and Bobby." Apparently Bobby committed suicide.

The case involves hitmen and Vic thinks her old pal might be involved.  Turns out its this train hopping, Shakespeare quoting, philosophy spouting psychopath who holds Henry at gunpoint.  Walt shoots the guy, saving Henry and quips about not letting him take his truck.  Good fun!

Longmire 2x06 - Tell it Slant

A drunk Indian guy rides a horse backward wearing a mask. Walt says he is a "Contrary Warrior" and he does the unexpected to make people examine their beliefs.  Vic thinks "thats annoying."  Henry says his tribe does not have a Contrary Warrior anymore and this guy is just "a pest, with pretentions."

Indian remains show up at a property Branch's dad is developing into a golf course.  Branch's dad is a dick.  So is shady Jacob Nighthorse.

The victim is a Cheyenne psychic.  Everyone is ragging on psychics as frauds and grifters but Vic has gotten her cards read and is pretty pissy about the disrespect everyone is showing the victim and her clients.

At a debate between Branch & Walt for the sheriff's election some woman refers to Vic as "some foul mouthed blonde lady" who isn't even from here.  Vic is not amused.  

Longmire 2x05 - Party's Over

Lizzie lures Walt out to her house to seduce him with a false break in report.   Lizzie's lusty plans are thwarted when Walt takes a call for a real crime.

In trying to question a female fighter, Vic ends up in the ring... getting her ass kicked. 

They also have to question these charming "magazine" salesmen.  These fine, upstanding citizens of Absaroka County.





Vic:  How is it that kids out here in the middle of no where still manage to look like Philly gangsters?

Walt:  They all watch the same tv shows.







Other stuff happens and they solve the case.  Moral of this story? Drugs are bad!


Cady is finally back in town after having been in Denver asking about the circumstances around her mother's death that Walt had hidden from her for the last year.  She and Walt have a heart to heart and things look like they are mending.

Longmire 2x04 - The Road to Hell

What western is complete without an episode about cattle rustling and crooked cow cops?

So a truck full of cattle get stolen and then cows start showing up around town making political statements.  As cows are want to do, of course.

Vic has a secret admirer that really freaks her out - she gets flowers with a card that says "Happy Anniversary" but her wedding anniversary is several months off.

She seems to know exactly what this is about, but she's not sharing.

When her husband brings her breakfast in bed and asks her what is bothering her, she quietly tells him "they found me."

Vic's vulnerability is heart breaking.  Give this girl an Emmy!

Longmire 2x03 - Death Came in Like Thunder

Vic and Walt respond to a 911 call and Vic laughs at the victim's helmet cam recording of his own tumble down mountainous hills.  "Ass over heels.  I gotta see that again."  she chuckles, ignoring his pain.

Turns out his bike flipped over a dead body, not a rock - oops!  New victim.  Case of the dead Basque sheepherder leads to mail order brides where Vic and the match maker don't quite see eye to eye.

I can't believe men pay you for this.

A lot of men think American women are pushy and overbearing.

But Vic gets touchy when the match maker tries to set Walt up.

Other stuff happens.  For one thing, this guy keeps going all Hulk Smash!  Ferg makes a discovery that basically breaks the case - Go Ferg!  And Branch's campaign for Sheriff has him in the pocket of Jacob, the shady Native from the Reservation.  We don't like Jacob.

Also, this episode informs us that Vic has to google hemlock to know its what killed Socrates, that Walt knows about art, and that Henry can get a little dark and scary sometimes.  

A good woman was murdered. 
A bad man is dead.  End of story.

Longmire 2x02 - Carcasses

A body is found in the compost bin of the road kill clean up lady.  If not for the carcass lady, that'd be Vic's job.  Yuck.

The investigation leads to some truck stop hookers.  Vic has far too much fun with this!

There is a soldier with PTSD but she turns out to have nothing to do with the case.

Vic wakes Walt up from sleeping in the cell by kicking the metal cot leg and loudly asking "what the hell ya doing sleeping in here?"

Longmire 2x01 - The Unquiet Mind

Vic yells at a Buffalo to get out of the road. As if she thinks she might be able to bully a buffalo. She fails.

Walt is a tough old bastard with a death wish so he goes chasing after a bunch of escaped prisoners, by himself, up in the mountains, on foot, during a blizzard.

Walt hallucinates a bunch on the mountain, Branch insists he come with Henry to search for Walt and Vic ends up stuck at the Sheriff's office with a bunch of federal jack asses. She is pretty much losing her shit with worry.  Then she pulls a Starbuck and punches a superior asshole.

(gif courtesy of Fuck Yeah Vic Moretti)

Walt fights and tumbles down a mountain with the bad guy. Eventually they both passout from the cold and when Henry and Branch find them the bad guy is frozen to death but Walt is conscious and quippy.

Are You Ready for Season Three of Longmire?

In just a few short days we will begin our countdown to the season premiere.  We will be posting a recap of each season two episode every day leading up to June 2nd.  Keep an eye out for it!

In the meantime, enjoy this trailer for Season Three of Longmire...