‘Big Sky’ Season 2 Episode 2 Recap: A New Stranger In Town

Is Wolfgang Legarski my new favorite TV character? You know, Rick Legarski’s twin, Wolfgang, a.k.a. Wolf. “As in, Mozart. Van Halen. Blitzer.”

During last week’s season premiere, we got a brief look at John Carroll Lynch’s new role on Big Sky Season 2, but this week, we’re starting to understand who Rick Legarski’s twin really is. As he holds Ronald Pergman captive in his backyard, Wolf explains that his dead twin Rick was an incompetent failure who was using Ronald as a pawn in his twisted exploits. Wolf’s job, now that he has Ronald all chained up, is to cleanse Ronald of all the evil lurking in him. Wolf explains that it is he, and not Ronald, who’s in charge here, he is the Alpha. He’s also holding Ronald’s girlfriend Scarlet captive too, and while he offers Ronald a glimpse at her from afar, he’s not letting them speak just yet.

Undersheriff Jenny Hoyt, hard at work at her new job away from the P.I. firm, is still at the scene of the truck accident from last week where those meddling kids ran off with a huge stash of drugs and cash and the driver was shot by an unknown, whistling mystery man. Jenny discovers the fresh blood (the blood of a reanimated drug dealer who tried to fight off the truck driver who shot him, you remember him, right?), so Jenny calls for some forensics.

At the home of teenagers Bridger and Madison — those are the names of the brother and sister who were complicit in stealing the bags of drugs and money, whose parents were definitely like, how can we name both of our kids after our favorite Clint Eastwood-Meryl Streep romance film? I know, The Bridg..er of Madison County! — the siblings are squabbling over whether or not they should go back to the scene of the crime. Madison is all “Be cool, Bridger, no one saw us,” but unbeknownst to either of them, the stranger from the woods who saw them is camped outside their house. Later, Bridger takes it upon himself to report what he saw to the Sheriff’s office, but while there, he notices an officer named Deputy Harvey whistling “Oh, Susannah,” the same tune that the person who murdered the truck driver from the accident was also whistling. Spooked, Bridger leaves without speaking to anyone.

Deputy Harvey, the man whose whistling is going to give him away

When Bridger confesses to Madison, Harper, and Max that he saw the whistling murderer at the Sheriff’s station, Max also confesses that she used some of the money she’s stashing from the accident to help her mom pay for dental work. The watcher in the woods is still surveilling all of the friends as they discuss this, and this time he makes himself known, following Max and Harper as they walk home, yelling “I saw you!” He only backs down after Max pepper sprays him.

Over at the Dewell & Hoyt offices, Cassie is reeling after discovering that photos of her son Kai were inside State Trooper Dewey’s house when she discovered Dewey’s body last week. Shaken at the fact that she’s put her son in danger by digging into the Pergman case, she tells her old pal Mark Lindor that he’s going to have to finish the Pergman investigation without her help, she just doesn’t feel safe.

Lucky for everyone, Jerrie passed the P.I. exam and is now officially licensed to work as an investigator so she can take on more work at the office. Jerrie and Cassie start work on a case for their new client, Meadow Soprano (okay her name is Tonya, and obviously she’s played by Jamie Lynn Sigler), whose boyfriend, Big Sam, has gone missing. When Max stops by Cassie’s office, she notices a photo of Big Sam, who she recognizes as the truck driver she witnessed being shot to death. She tells Cassie she doesn’t recognize him, but it doesn’t take a lie detector test for Cassie to realize Max is hiding something.

Max, meanwhile, is surrounded by bad influences. First, her friend Harper convinces her it would be a good idea to sell the bags of drugs they stole. Then there’s the matter of T-Lock, her mom’s awful boyfriend. When T-Lock hears that Max paid for her mother’s dental work, he suspects that something’s up with her. When Max takes a small sample of the drugs out of her secret hiding place in order to bring them to Harper to sell them, T-Lock catches her. The problem here is that T-Lock is a shady dude, and our guess is that he’s going to start selling these drugs himself.

And now there’s the matter of the new gal in town. Ren (Janina Gavankar) arrives to Montana by private jet and makes it clear to everyone she meets that she’s a little bit crazy. She’s like the titular woman in Billy Joel’s “She’s Always a Woman,” she’s the type who will most definitely cut you and laugh while you’re bleeding. Honestly, the woman described in this song is a real nightmare, huh? Plus, I always assumed that you couldn’t be convicted if you’d earned your degree thanks to some lyrics that I NOW KNOW should be taken as two very separate thoughts.

Ren, it turns out, is the puppet master behind the entire “bag of drugs and cash” fiasco, and she’s come to town looking for her, uh, bags of drugs and cash, and the first place she goes looking is the diner where Tonya/Meadow Soprano works, just as Cassie is questioning Tonya about why Sam bought two one-way tickets to Cabo scheduled to depart the night he disappeared. Tonya clearly knows more than she reveals, and gets flustered about and won’t answer her. As Cassie leaves the diner, she makes small talk with Ren, who then turns to Tonya/Meadow and explains that she also has a few questions about Sam. Ren later shows up to Tonya/Meadow’s apartment and ransacks the place looking for her bags of drugs and cash before kidnapping her.

Cassie and Jenny, who realize that their two cases are converging, decide to go talk to Tonya/Meadow, and when they show up, they see that she’s been taken.

Stray Thoughts:

  • They did Jerrie dirty this week, setting it up to make it look like she was going on a date with Lindor, when in actuality, it was a way for Lindor to get intel on how to get Cassie to date him. #JusticeForJerrie!
  • Jenny Hoyt has some interesting band t-shirts, huh? The Clash? UB40?? And not even some “Red, Red Wine” shirt either, but one that promotes the 1984 album Geffery Morgan, an album with NO U.S. hits or even singles? Okay Jenny, I see you and your punk rock, crossover reggae tastes!

  • Is it me or is the relationship between Max’s mom and T-Lock out of left field? She seems so nice and he’s such a scammer. Where would they have even met? Oh, I know, they met at “Monsters Who Leave Their Ice Cream Out While Eating It Anonymous.”

See you all next week when we meet again in Big Sky country!

source: nypost.com