Diane drops off the evidence she found from the crack-making operation at the center to Haynes. Claire snoops around BJC’s finances and discovers the huge unexplained payments to Laycock Logistical. Myrna is alerted to the same and goes to Frank for help. He asks for Myrna’s BJC credit card and asks her to send Claire on a “coffee run”.
Ben and Esme’s mother comes to visit them and she tells them about the programs she found through leaflets that Myrna distributed with the drugs. Despite Ben’s request to stay with her, he shoots her down saying one month isn’t a long enough time. Diane also fills up Gabby with details of the date last night with Greg.
It is not good for Gabby to date Greg. Claire has called her asking about Laycock and also thanking her for the 100,000 she donated to the BJC. Gabby doesn’t know about it and looks at Greg suspiciously when Claire says that organizations like the BJC are often used to launder money.
Frank replaces Claire’s card with Myrna’s card at the coffee shop. Gabby pays a visit to Spencer and asks to look at her account. When she sees what Claire told her, she freezes her payments and goes out for a drink with Spencer.
Frank decides to take his family out for a lobster dinner; while Rani and Ben have dinner again with the former’s parents. They also reveal that they have decided to help with the food store. But the mood is spoiled by Dean’s call saying they’re short of 10,000 (the money which was supposed to go out that day but Gabby froze it). ..
The group meets at the center to discuss the situation. Greg explains the situation and suggests bullying the customers to buy more of the load on the same day.
Gabby and the others are struggling to keep their business afloat after mysteriously showing signs of amnesia. Gabby is angry with drugs and alcohol, but the group is still trying to make up the difference.
Gabby’s live stream is seen by Greg, who is sent by Rani to find and stop Gabby, as well as by Haynes’ partner. Haynes listens to it as well and hears Greg’s name. She remembers it from the day he bailed out Tyler (in episode 4). She asks her partner to bring in Gabby for questioning. Frank pays for the dinner with the credit card as Greg reaches Gabby but is stopped by the bouncer for his “nerdiness”. He goes after Gabby in his car, while Haynes’ partner goes after him in his.
Haynes is still on the runner she has been tracking and follows him after he finishes deliveries. Greg climbs atop a building where Gabby goes next to the party. It is protected by a password that Greg does not know. He also spots the officer and Rosie (from Season 1) in the room he enters through the window. He locates Gabby downstairs, while the officer is on his tail.
Haynes goes into the community center and Ben breaks the news to everyone else. But Myrna and John are able to salvage the situation by turning the fiasco into a social cause class. Haynes seems unconvinced but doesn’t have any evidence to incriminate them. But they are on her radar and that can explode any minute.
Gabby walks into the room with Greg and mockingly berates the group, before going into an emotional meltdown about how they all have broken her heart. She saw them as an adopted family. So why didn’t they involve her as well? Gabby actually isn’t too upset with them and the situation is under control. For now. ..
Gabby asks Spencer to make the payment the next day and Rani delivers the good news to Christian. She also seems low-key upset about the operation ending.
In a recent interview, Christian revealed that she may be enjoying the gang culture too much. Christian then tells her about Ben and his story and how they were never able to get out of the drug menace once they were in. Myrna secretly exchanges the cards with Claire and the job is done. Greg applies the final touches. Esme again has a fight with Ben when he confronts her about a boy she was studying with last night. Rania admits to him that she was getting hooked on the buzz and makes up with Ben. She also nudges him to help his mother by keeping her close to Esme and off drugs.
The group decides to kill Rani first, but Ben gets in the way. Rani tells him that she knows he’s going to get in trouble if he doesn’t do it, and Ben agrees. They take care of Ben and Rani before turning their attention to the Dean.
The Episode Review
In a season that has seen the Outlaws pulled apart by rival gangs, Frank has once again come to the rescue. He has been able to keep the group together on more than one occasion, and this latest instance is no different. He has once again shown his class by bailing them out. This has helped save the Outlaws from certain destruction, and it is clear that he is a valuable asset to the team.
The Dean’s drug operation came to a close with some relief. The mechanics of the process took its toll on the outlaws, who held on by the smallest of margins. There were fractured precepts within it and Rani was the person at the top of the pyramid. She clearly established a chain of command - quite frighteningly - and made sure the operation ran smoothly. ..
Episode 5 of Season 2 has had a number of surprising plot developments. While the last season lacked such interesting subtleties in story and character, Episode 5 has shown that this is not the case. ..
Rani’s coming of age in many ways is a liberating exercise for her character, who has always been told what to do. She was the deer in the headlights in season 1; now, she has transformed into the person driving the car with the headlights. We almost thought Gabby wouldn’t have been redeemable after learning the harsh truth but she came affront quite quickly. It was a bit of a shocker but Merchant thought it best to lengthen the story. Probably a big negative for this episode.
In episode 5 of “The Outlaw King,” Myrna’s rigid moral compass has gradually loosened as she also scopes the end and not the means. This phenomenon has grown stronger during the course of season 2 and has taken center stage in episode 5. On to the final episode where the outlaws will execute “brass bunkum,” whatever hatch plan that is. ..
