With Shelby in the bag, Raylan is definitely up for a promotion, and he happily tells Winona about it; she's just as happy to tell him that they're having a girl. Raylan then learns that Shelby is being sent to supermax because he won't talk, and he won't talk because he wants the marshals to promise to rescue Ellen May. Art and Raylan initially tell him to stuff it, but when they hear who it is he wants to protect, Raylan talks Art into letting him take Tim and Rachel up to Nobles Holler to retrieve Ellen May. Meanwhile, Limehouse has apparently told Ellen May that he plans to take Boyd's money and still find a way to let her go, but Ellen May is resigned to the idea that she's going to die.

However he may be getting the information, Tonin hears about Shelby's desire to protect Ellen May, so Johnny calls Limehouse to see if he can purchase her. Limehouse is still nursing all kinds of grudges and flatly refuses to have any dealings with Johnny, especially not now that he's in bed with Detroit -- but Johnny reads this as Limehouse already having made a deal with Boyd. Augustine calls Boyd from Johnny's phone and, apologizing for his conduct toward Ava, offers to give him both his traitorous cousin and the money needed to purchase Ellen May; this leads to a tense meeting at the bar at which Augustine explains his plan: He wants them to buy Ellen May for him (presumably to use her against Shelby), whereupon he'll give them Johnny, and Ava, reasonably enough, decides she has to be the one to go up to see Limehouse. So: Are enough people converging on Nobles Holler for you?

Well, the marshals are the first there, but of course Limehouse is like, "Ellen May who?" so Tim waits for the staties to come search the Holler while Raylan and Rachel head to Harlan to talk to Boyd. Unbeknownst to any of them, however, Ava gets into Nobles via a back way, only to receive a lecture from Limehouse about how what she's been doing is going to cost her any peace of mind, and the news that he already let Ellen May go. Ava figures she's either gone to Nicky Kush or to Cassie, so she and Colton head for the church while Boyd, Augustine, and Picker go to Kush's. Ellen May is with Nicky, who sees the group arriving and manages -- while dressed in full-on paranoia combat gear -- to get the drop on them, but of course then can't hold it together to keep them at bay longer than a minute. They learn that Ellen May has headed for the church, but when Boyd calls Jimmy to give him instructions, he gets Raylan, so everyone goes scurrying toward another potential showdown.

At the church, Ellen May is telling Cassie what a miracle it is she's still alive, and goes on about Delroy; she's about to spill the identity of her accomplice when the woman herself arrives. Ellen May tries to get Ava to embrace some kind of goodness, and Cassie chimes in that Ava will have to kill her as well if she kills Ellen May, but things are looking awfully tense even before Colton shows. When it comes down to it, Ava can't pull the trigger and reports as much to Boyd, who of course calls Colton and tells him to do what his fiancée cannot. However, Tim shows up at that moment, and the women scatter to leave him and Colton to have their final showdown. After a goodbye smoke, Colton makes the exit he's been wanting for some time now by drawing on Tim, who drops him, only to take his sunglasses as a sign of respect for their shared experiences. Bet they'll look good on him, too.

In the end, Boyd tells a shattered Ava that they have to get rid of Delroy's body, while Raylan takes Ellen May to Lexington to be reunited with Shelby, and the tender hug they share isn't lost on Raylan. Also, Winona sits down to enjoy a lovely new comfortable pregnancy chair -- DELIVERED BY PICKER. I am scared, you guys.