The season 5 opener was a particularly good one for many reasons and still manages to entertain and keep up the thrills as in past seasons, a shame then that season 6 will be the last of this amiable Western series which ticked all the boxes as far as police shows went.
Cady (Cassidy Freeman) finds Walt (Robert Taylor) passed out on the floor and he asks where she is, Cady thinking he's talking of her mother and tells him she's gone, of course he was referring to Donna, but she wasn't to know that since he hasn't told anyone about it, other than Vic (Katee Sackhoff) but then Vic was only being nosey cos of her feelings for him. Of course in other ways, Cady saying that she's gone could also refer to Donna since she is gone. She grabs the sheet from the bed to use it to stop his bleeding, however she wasted all that time instead of calling for help first. She also calls Henry (Lou Diamond Phillips) but he's too busy with Mathias (Zahn McClarnon) who takes his blood sample just to prove that he was the one involved int he shooting last season. Hey he couldn't do that, it's illegal and seems Henry didn't have much of a choice. Henry doesn't answer the phone.
Vic arrives at the hospital and finds Walt alone, so she takes 'liberties man' by kissing him! I should say snogging!! What! She can't do that, he's not in his right mind, saying she's kissing him once "before he dies." He replies he's not dead, well obviously!! Hey I wrote a similar scene once back in 2000 where the hero gets kissed by his unrequited love when he's lying on a hospital bed!! Wowie deja vu or what?! Cady walks in and tells him he was shot and he can't recall what happened, as he's also got concussion; though we do get some flashes over the course of the episode. Walt now mentions Donna and how he wasn't alone, but Vic tells him she's not here. She's missing and she calls Ferg (Adam Bartley) to mount a search for her and if she'd have known she'd have done it sooner.
Walt gets out of bed against doc's orders and everyone else's orders and goes to find Walker Browning (Callum Keith Rennie) whom he handcuffed to the bed. But he's gone and the nurse tells him Sheriff Wilkins (Tom Wopat) released him. Of course it wouldn't be Walt. Notice Walt's gown was open in the back when he was in bed and then it was done up when he got up. He checks himself out and they end up at the office, where he tries to dress himself, Vic having to help him with his pants, yeah she would! Okay Walt any excuse to go shirtless!! for a while longer!! (Rob!) Then they end up at his house: a CS. His Bronco's missing as his rifle so he was shot with it. Vic finds Donna's clothes: evidence, including her bra and dress.
Walt and Vic head to the next county where he confronts Wilkins about releasing Walker and he tells him it was in his jurisdiction, then head to Donna's clinic. But they need a warrant for her files. Walt faints and Vic thinks he's feigning it so the nurse leaves to call for help the and Vic makes a mad dash to throw the files out of the window! However then realizes he's not pretending as he comes to a while later! On the way back she tells him they should be checking out Donna cos it doesn't have to be about him and especially as he flashes around her driving licence pic, but no one's seen her. Vic tells him to pop a pill and he throws it out of his mouth, could've done that later. She stops the truck and makes him swallow the same pill, again, eeww! Telling him she kissed him cos it was her way of moving on.
Ferg tells them he found the Bronco nearby his house and there's no blood, but there's no evidence of Donna either. Later he tells Vic about the blonde hair he found in the back and it couldn't be hers cos Vic wasn't in the back. She gives him one of her own hairs for analysis as they check out the files. Walt walks in and asks what they're talking about. Cady also finds out they don't have legal permission for the files and Walt already faces a civil suit, so they need to get themselves permission from the court and get a special master appointed. Reminding him of what he told her about getting evidence another legal way. Ferg thinks it might be Zach since he's been drinking and no one's heard from him.
Vic takes him to Henry's where he passes out and after going to Donna's house, they find an intruder and the other files. He's Andrew Price (Sterling Beaumon) and claims to be her son. But doesn't have ID. At the station, he tells Walt he must be her boyfriend and he's not her type. Also he should look into her exes. Ferg is told to lock him up. Walt takes Henry to the oil field but the rig's been removed and he comes across Doug (Kelly Mower) there who was told to clear everything away. Walt wants to find the rig but Henry is called by Mathias who tells him he needs Hector's help and if he doesn't get it, then he call the sheriff.
Cady tells Walt about her job with Nighthorse and Walt's not pleased as he's using her against Walt. But she wants to use it to help people since it's funded by the casino and mom would've wanted that too. She tells him he's hurt in the same way he hurt her with news of Donna. Oh Cady he's old enough to make up his own mind in seeing whomever he wants and he lost her a long time ago. He needs a life of his own too and not one of loneliness. It's not like he will ever forget her. Vic checks Donna's calendar and finds that one man, Duncan Butler (Mac Brandt) missed four appointments and when they speak with him find he's got an alibi, for both days. At the office, Walt gets a call from forensics who tell him about the blond hair! Yeah the hair he wasn't meant to know about.
As I said plenty going on here to continue the season with and setting up plots for the rest of the eps. Including Henry being 'blackmailed' by Mathias into helping him, for his own purposes though. But guessing truth will out with that too as far as Walt is concerned. Walt having flashes of his time with Donna, short as it was, but get the impression, there's more going on here with Donna than meets the eye. Perhaps she and her life wasn't as clear cut as she seems and probably has many secrets. I means she didn't tell him about Andrew, even though she knew about Cady.
Hopefully Vic is over him cos as I said, didn't want that relationship, they're not right for each other.
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