Let’s reflect on those no longer with us: Dale Washberg, Blackie, Berta, and now, Allen. How are these men related? Blackie and Berta tried to kill Dale, and Allen killed them for their failure. Allen was implicated in their failure, though whether he was killed for that or for killing Blackie or for some third reason remains a mystery. It’s unlikely that Dale knew the other men before his death, yet his death kicks off this spree of interconnected murders. And if all this violence strikes you as improbable in dusty Oklahoma, Sterlin Harjo has anticipated your doubts: Tulsa has the highest crime rate in the country, as Lee mentions a few episodes prior.

It seems obvious that the man bathed in the sinister red light of refracted explosions at the end of “This Land?” — presumed Governor Don

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