"A few episodes back, Betty Jo assured Lee that even if Dale and Donald Washberg were fighting about land, the fight between them wasn't really about land - it was about Betty Jo, it was about Pearl, it was about the humiliating ways a family's golden boy can diminish his black-sheep little brother. Even last week, when we learned that Indian Head Hills was at the center of a preposterous real-estate deal that would catapult the cash-poor Washbergs into the black, I believed Betty Jo was telling Lee the truth, as far as she knew it."
"On the heels of a phone call from loose-lipped Lee "alerting" Betty Jo to a secret version of Dale's will that would disinherit her and Donald, she calls Frank Martin, her dead husband's brother's dodgy business associate."
"Their tour of Indian Tulsa includes the Indian store, where Lee buys an ill-fitting suede fringe coat from a welcoming salesperson, and the Indian community center, where, sure, he gets called "Custer," but in a harmless way."
Betty Jo occupies the emotional center of the Washberg dispute, with family tensions framed around her, Pearl, and the humiliations inflicted by a golden-boy brother. Indian Head Hills emerges as the locus of a ludicrous real-estate scheme that could rescue the cash-poor Washbergs. After learning of a secret will that could disinherit her and Donald, Betty Jo deliberately contacts Frank Martin, aligning with a risky, powerful ally. Lee partners with Deidra to tour Indian Tulsa, where cultural discomfort about his whiteness softens his usual aggressive investigative style. The episode contains major reveals but lacks the earlier installments' frenetic, antagonistic energy.
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