‘Big Sky’ Recap: ‘Catch a Few Fish’

Written by Emily Auskaps

Caution: This article contains spoilers for the season two finale of ‘Big Sky’. To revisit the previous episode, click here.      

This season of Big Sky wraps up with the arrival of Tubb’s replacement as sheriff, Beau Arlen, to town. He gets off to a rocky start with Cassie, who describes him to Jenny as very Texas. Jenny seems surprised Tubb’s replacement has already arrived. Jenny tells Cassie that Travis has ghosted her, and she’s worried he’s going to kill Veer. Cassie wisely suggests arresting Veer to take away Travis’ target, an idea which Jenny loves.
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Poppernak has already endeared himself to the new sheriff in town by the time Jenny arrives to the station. She asks to speak with Beau privately and finds that Tubb has already filled him in about the Bhullars and the situation with Travis. Jenny informs him she needs to stop Travis, and Beau is game for her plan, though he makes it clear that she’s not doing this alone.

When Jenny and Beau arrive with the warrant to arrest Veer, he’s already on a ride into the woods with Travis. Ren had earlier put him into the passenger seat of Travis’ truck outside the hospital after he refused to admit blame for getting Jag shot. As Travis points a gun at Veer, Ren tells him, “I love you, Daddy,” and shuts the truck door. The phrase has never sounded so ominous, as the look of dread that comes over Veer’s face can attest.

Ren briefly tries playing coy over her father’s location, but reconsiders after Beau throat punches Donno when he tries to make them leave and threatens to throw Ren in jail with the least savory characters he can muster. To everyone’s surprise, Ren hands over the location of her father, saying he wouldn’t hesitate to do the same to her. Armed with this information, Jenny and Beau take off after Travis and Veer.

Cassie is startled when she returns home to find the door ajar. She draws her gun and immediately begins checking room by room. She finds Phoebe seated at the table with a box a cereal and a frightened look on her face. No sooner does Cassie ask Phoebe where her mom is than her phone rings. It’s Scarlet, she tells Cassie she was right about Phoebe deserving more out of life. Scarlet wants Cassie to get in touch with an aunt who will take care of Phoebe, her name is in Phoebe’s iPad. Scarlet makes Cassie promise that Phoebe will end up in the right hands, then tells her to check Phoebe’s backpack, smashes her phone and drives off. In the backpack, Cassie finds the hard drive of information about the syndicate that Scarlet had had hidden.

Travis is in the process of beating Veer to death over the disappearance of Kate Garza when Jenny and Beau find him. Veer didn’t help matters by telling Travis that anything that happened to Kate was his own fault for making her his informant. Travis demands to know where her body is, to which Veer responds that she is still alive. This only briefly gives Travis pause before he continues pummeling Veer until Jenny fires off a warning shot. Warning him she won’t miss again, she handcuffs Travis while Beau checks on Veer, who is barely still alive.

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Back at the Bhullars’, things are looking grim for Alicia when Donno arrives gleefully with his tools for killing. Ren informs Alicia that she’s taking over and wants Alicia to tell her everything about the financial side of things. Well aware that things might go this way, Alicia has taken the initiative to ensure her own survival. Those insurance papers Alicia had Veer sign were actually to give her power of attorney over him, and she had put in place financial contingencies is case she was to end up dead. Alicia lays bare for Ren her options: partner up or buy her out. As Ren is not keen to work together, she will have to buy her out.
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Jenny must turn Travis over to his handler at state, who have a litany of charges for him to face. Beau offers to accompany Jenny to transport him, but she declines his offer. As they drive, Travis tells Jenny that Veer told him Kate was still alive. He doesn’t know if he should believe it, but it is obvious he wants it to be true. Against her better judgment, Jenny pulls to the side of the road in the middle of nowhere, un-cuffs Travis and lets him go. Travis asks her what’s the catch? Jenny tells him to turn himself in after he finds Kate. She tells him to get out before she changes her mind and drives away leaving him in the road.

Jag is still in his hospital gown when he goes into Veer’s hospital room. Jag leans down over his father who whispers, “My son” before Jag yanks the pillow from beneath his head and deliberately smothers him. Ren slips into the room and escorts Jag out.

Jag is dressed in his own clothes when Ren wheels him into the lobby before insisting that he can walk the rest of the way out. Ren tells him not to, but Jag still embraces her and tells her he loves her. For a brief moment she softens into his hug, then pushes him away. They part ways.

Jenny finds Cassie, Lindor and Denise looking over the encrypted information, on the hard drive that Scarlet had given them on a computer at Dewell and Hoyt. Lindor suggests Cassie and Jenny go get a beer and have a girls’ night, which they find adorable.

Jenny and Cassie are surprised to find themselves able to enjoy a beer in the unparalleled ambience that is the Boot Heel after the way their respective days began. Beau arrives and, with the offer of tequila, is invited to join them. Beau is neither surprised by Jenny’s choice to let Travis go, nor is he particularly worried about it. It seems that Beau Arlen is going to get along here just fine. Until next season, dear reader.

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