Walt (Robert Taylor) questions Travis (Derek Phillips) along with Vic (Katee Sackhoff) since they haven't been able to get hold of Branch (Bailey Chase) on his phone. Travis tells them he's afraid of Branch and there's no telling what he might do, especially since he threatened him after he found out he told Vic everything about kidnapping Sam (Hank Cheyne). Branch gets a call from David Ridges (David Midthunder) telling him to leave the past alone, the ghosts and there's no record of it again on his phone. Branch gets to the bridge and Ridges's tells him he will kill Branch next time and how his soul is his. His jumps off the bridge, where Branch shoots at him several times and Ridges still gets the last laugh by taunting him several times that he managed to get away.
Walt and Vic speak with Sam and ask why Branch kidnapped him. He burns sage and tells them his office needs some cleansing. Sam thinks Walt is protecting Branch and Walt assures him Branch will face the consequences of his actions. Sam says that Branch no longer has a soul, echoing the sentiments of Ridges's who told him he owns his soul and he won't have any piece of mind anymore. Ferg (Adam Bartley) is angry that no one's told him what's happening over the past and he still doesn't know. Saying he's done so much for Walt and he's always in the dark. He doesn't even get his own desk, which Walt remedies now by throwing off Branch's things and name plate and puts Ferg's there instead. Frankly it wasn't a good time to confront Walt, cos he still doesn't know what's happening.
Cady (Cassidy Freeman) finds out the court date has been moved up to two weeks. She will try for a continuance. Cameron (Nick Gehlfuss) looks at the file the prosecution has sent over and says it's a bit thin. Ruby (Louanne Stephens) gives Walt an envelope from Sean which contains divorce papers for Vic, so deliver them yourself, what a loser he really was! But then Vic has a knack for finding those. Branch rocks in and doesn't make any sense about the bridge incident and Vic doesn't help when she mentions how crazy Branch is acting. He grabs her by the neck and pushes her towards the window. Walt breaks it up and locks Branch in the cell. Branch tells her he doesn't harbour any ill will and thinks Ferg should follow up on his lead at the bridge. However Vic says she'll go cos she doesn't want to stay here with him. Barlow (Gerald McRaney) arrives and demands that Ferg let Branch go. He refuses but then he threatens Ferg's father.
Walt arrives to find Branch gone and Ferg tells him about Barlow's threats. Walt drives to the bridge and Vic finds a phone tucked into the seat which belongs to Ridges. She then finds Branch's number was dialled. Branch is told by Barlow that he''ll be there for him and he then locks him into his room, after showing him the business cards he had made up for him, hoping he'd join him. Walt and Vic turn up to rarest Nighthorse (A Martinez) and when he says Ridges isn't alive, he tells him he made 17 calls to Nighthorse. In the cell Nighthorse wants a deal and agrees to arrange a meeting with him next time he calls. In return he wants all charges dropped. Also saying Ridges told him he was going to kill Branch, but he advised against it. He doesn't listen to him anymore.
Walt hands Vic the appears and admits he didn't say what he should've the other day. That he values her as a worker and doesn't want her to resign. She signs the papers. Henry (Lou Diamond Phillips) calls Malachi (Graham Greene) and tells him if he doesn't tell him about Darius's whereabouts when Walt's wife was killed, he's going to set the bar on fire. If he tells him then he can have the deed. Malachi thinks he's bluffing and Henry throws the lighter onto the fuel. Walt arrives as the fire is put out and Henry tells him he set it on fire. Darius was in Connecticut and this is confirmed by Cady. Barlow finds Branch gone as the alarm sounds and finds a gun missing. Nighthorse calls Walt telling him where Ridges is and as Walt drives there, he finds that someone had already warned him as he drives off in his truck. Then Ridges appears dressed as a White Warrior. Branch threatens Travis but says he won't shoot him, he wants his truck and also takes the radio, listening to Walt on there as he tells Vic he knows where Ridges is.
As Ridges rides towards Walt and knocks him down several times with his spear, he finally goes for Walt and Walt stabs him with his knife. Finally he gets the man and finding that Branch was right after all and wasn't hallucinating. Yet he doesn't get any credit for this, not that he wanted it, but seems everyone just deserted Branch in the end. Nighthorse telling them that Ridges actually was playing counting coup, he wanted to get close enough to touch him. He shot Branch instead. But it had to be Walt who brought down Ridges and had been gunning for him for a long time (no pun) but it was the knife that got him in the end.
A long series with so much going on though. At least the stories will be wrapped up even if not to our satisfaction, still leaving open some loose ends for season 4. Clearly Barlow has an agenda and doesn't even appear to want Branch working with him, especially since he locks him in his room like a little child. Where he could've done some harm to himself if he wanted to and how was that looking out for his son. He was more disappointed in him than anything else and of course this was a result of the election and losing, then going back to work for Walt! His nemesis. And there goes Henry's hopes of getting the murder charges dropped when eh finds out it wasn't Darius.
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