Get Drew

Raylan (Timothy Olyphant) searches Shelby's (Jim Beaver) house for any clues while Boyd (Walton Goggins) sits on the floor in handcuffs. Boyd tells Raylan that Raylan made a wrong decision becoming a Marshal and should have followed Arlo's lead into Harlan County criminal enterprises. Boyd at this point does not know that Arlo, Raylan's father, is dead. Raylan is in no hurry to tell him.

Shelby takes his stuff from his office and gives money to Ellen May (Abby Miller) to leave town. He leaves but decides to return and pick up Ellen May, telling her they will go to Huatulco in Mexico for a better life. Their attempt to leave on a plane is disrupted when they see the Marshals in the airport and leave. Raylan expresses frustration at the airport attendant for not telling them that Shelby had a plane there and for keeping a light on outside, which alerted him to avoid them. They discover women's underwear in his house and deduce Ellen May is with him and Mullen (Nick Searcy) tells Raylan and Rachel (Erica Tazel) that they will find them.

Boyd is released from police custody and tells Ava (Joelle Carter) and Johnny (David Meunier) about the situation and sends Colt (Ron Eldard) on a mission, who promises to get everything done right. Johnny contacts Duffy (Jere Burns) about Drew Thompson's identity so he can send hitmen. However, Duffy refuses as they have no track of his location and tells Johnny to find and kill Thompson himself or Johnny will lose his right to kill Boyd.

Without the airplane or a car, Ellen May decides to take Shelby to Ellstin Limehouse (Mykelti Williamson). Shelby pays $15,000 so Limehouse can give shelter to Ellen May and take her out of town but Limehouse reveals that he knows about Shelby's real identity and takes him. Ava then visits Limehouse after Boyd and Colt torture one of Ellen May's friends for information. She sees Ellen May and Limehouse tells her that the price for both Ellen May and Shelby is $150,000 each. She tells this to Boyd, who tells her to accept it despite knowing they will not be left with anything. In fact, Boyd has been making a deal with Nicky Augustine (Mike O'Malley) to give them Thompson for $500,000.

Boyd confides his plans to Johnny through the phone. After he hangs up, Johnny is visited by Raylan and Rachel. Johnny offers to give them information on Boyd's money, which could get him arrested for tax evasion. But Raylan and Rachel are not interested in Boyd, they only want Drew Thompson and Raylan tells Johnny that if he helps them, he can help with Boyd. Boyd meets with Limehouse to deliver the money but Limehouse double crosses Boyd and says the $300,000 is enough only for one person. Despite Boyd wanting to take Ellen May, Ava tells Boyd to take Shelby instead of Ellen May. Ellen May spits in Ava's face, making Ava doubt her decision about making Boyd take Shelby.

Once Boyd has Shelby, Shelby tells Boyd that he never would have stayed in Harlan if it wasn't for breaking both of his legs on his parachute jump. As he had money and cocaine with him, he connected with Bo Crowder and Arlo Givens to protect him in exchange for a cut of the money and drug proceeds. This arrangement got the Crowder and Givens families out of trailers. Boyd feels no empathy for him and hands Shelby over to Colt, who has been assigned by Boyd to deliver him to Theo Tonin. He takes him to a field where he handcuffs him to a tractor, teasing him about what Tonin will do to him. As a helicopter approaches, Colt leaves the keys on a post and leaves the area.

As Nicky is about to exit the helicopter to take Shelby, Marshals' vans arrive, forcing him to leave without Shelby. Raylan, Mullen, Rachel and Tim (Jacob Pitts) arrive and take Shelby into custody, thanks to Johnny's tip. Colt evades the authorities and informs Boyd about the situation, worrying him and Ava as they don't know what will happen now as they lost their money and Tonin will be furious. Duffy is also notified of the situation and intends to leave the country. Back on the field, Raylan tells Mullen they will have trouble getting Shelby out of Harlan County alive.

In February 2013, it was reported that the tenth episode of the fourth season would be titled "Get Drew", and was to be directed by Billy Gierhart and written by co-executive producer Dave Andron and story editor VJ Boyd.^[2]

The episode featured the return of Mykelti Williamson as Ellstin Limehouse, last seen in "Slaughterhouse". On bringing him back, series developer Graham Yost said, "That idea just came into the room. I told Mykelti at the beginning of the season, because we're old friends from Boomtown, 'I don't know if you're coming back, but we're certainly talking about it because we love you and love what you've done with Limehouse'. We just felt this pull to get up into Noble's, and we knew that this was a place where Ava had hidden out in the past. We also knew that one of the whores in the previous season had been giving information to Limehouse, so we knew there was a connection there for Ellen May. It all made sense."^[3]