Where's Waldo? (Justified)

Raylan (Timothy Olyphant) is informed by Art (Nick Searcy) that Arlo killed an inmate in prison for his knowledge of the bag. Meanwhile, Ellen May (Abby Miller) claims to have found a new direction in her life thanks to the Last Chance Holiness Church, but Ava (Joelle Carter) tells her to focus on her job. Ellen May visits preacher Billy St. Cyr (Joe Mazzello), who convinces her to stay in the congregation.

Boyd (Walton Goggins) is annoyed when the Church choir children stop by his installations, impacting his business. He consults with Sheriff Shelby Parlow (Jim Beaver) about the Church. Shelby explains that Billy and his sister Cassie (Lindsay Pulsipher) have worked on the church, which has been moving around cities for the past months without any illegal activities reports. But Boyd suspects they are behind something. He and Colt (Ron Eldard) confront Billy at his congregation, in front of the crowd. Boyd questions his intentions and wanting to take advantage of the citizens. Billy then proclaims that the Church won't accept any money, which earns him support.

At the office, Raylan talks with Art and Tim (Jacob Pitts) about the content of the bag. They also discover something: Waldo Truth has been collecting social security checks for 30 years, but the Marshals think he's dead. This means someone has been cashing federal checks unlawfully, which makes finding Waldo Truth the purview of the US Marshals. Together with his colleagues, Raylan tracks down Waldo Truth's family. The Truth family tells them the last time they saw Waldo Truth was when he left with an airplane pilot named Drew Thompson. Art immediately suggests they leave, as he recognizes the name.

Boyd meets with Johnny and Ava and shares his theory that Cassie is running the Church and they set to find out anything about her. Boyd also welcomes Wynn Duffy (Jere Burns) in the bar as they previously caught a dealer that worked for the Dixie Mafia. Duffy acknowledges that he works for him. When Boyd offers a partnership, Duffy refuses for a lack of trust, but he also kills the dealer for failing to respect Boyd's territory. Before leaving, Duffy informs Boyd about Arlo killing an inmate in prison, surprising him.

At the office, Art discloses with Raylan and Tim that he remembers the case about the dead parachutist, who authorities originally identified as Drew Thompson. But the visit to the Truths actually solved something for him: the dead parachutist was not Thompson, but in fact Waldo Truth. Later that night, Raylan talks with Lindsey (Jenn Lyon) when a man named Randall Kusik (Robert Baker) enters. Raylan and Randall previously had a confrontation earlier that day and Raylan tells him to leave. However, Randall reveals he was looking for Lindsey because he is her ex-husband, shocking Raylan.

In December 2012, it was reported that the second episode of the fourth season would be titled "Where's Waldo?", and was to be directed by Bill Johnson and written by co-executive producer Dave Andron.^[2]

Series developer Graham Yost addressed a plotline in the episode involving Art Mullen: in the United States Marshals Service, the mandatory retirement age is 57 and the character is revealed to be 56 in the episode, which is also mentioned. Yost said, "in our world, we're now in our fourth season and the whole timeline of the Justified story really has taken place over maybe six months, or at most a year. So, in other words, don't think that we're going to be having a retirement party for Art Mullen anytime soon, but at least it's on the table."^[3]

Yost previewed Colt's role in the episode, "he's smart, he's observant — he was good at his job as an MP. But you look at Ron Eldard with the long hair and kind of unkempt, and you know that this guy didn't get discharged from the military last week. Life has maybe not been going exactly the way he hoped it would upon his return."^[4] Yost said that the idea of having Ellen May be part of the Last Chance Holiness Church was conceived as the writers wanted to explore "the idea of Ellen May being at a real low point and really kind of needing to be saved. Not only is she a prostitute, but she's on and off again pretty wired into drugs. She needs saving, because we like her and we hope for her even in her small world."^[3]

The Truth family was inspired by the 2009 documentary film The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia.^[3] Mother Truth's name was conceived by writer Leonard Chang, who wrote "Mother" followed by the word "Truth", which impressed Yost.^[4] The scene where Boyd and Ava are visited by the church choir was inspired by The Wild Bunch, where they share the same song "Shall We Gather at the River?".^[3]

Despite being credited, Erica Tazel does not appear in the episode as her respective character.

Due to director Michael Dinner's unavailability but wanting to direct the first episode, this episode was the first episode filmed for the season.^[3]