This week’s Outsiders continued to pull focus from the Farrells and direct it toward the town folks, including smiling energy company shark Haylie Grimes (Francie Swift), who tries to put Wade Houghton in his place a nicely as possible. It doesn’t work. Just talking to Wade, you can tell he is strong willed and cannot be put in his place.
“Here’s a basket of [stuff] now do what I tell you,” he snarls after she pays her respects to Wade’s dead predecessor and leaves a fruit basket (the currency of PR execs everywhere!).
Haylie fascinates me because she’s a character who could easily tip into caricature. But she’s quite real. She is sweet as pie to the public, but to those that she works with she is tough as nails, and almost rude and demanding. One must wonder as a woman, if she feels she needs to have the two contradicting sides so perhaps she doesn’t get pushed over by her male counterparts.
Back up on Shay Mountain, the Farrells continue their infighting. Asa asks Big Foster what happened to him: “You used to be big and funny; now you’re just big and drunk.” Ouch.
Hasil and Sally-Ann finally have sex.
Big Foster and Asa play rock ’em, sock ’em robots with construction equipment. How either one of them, especially Big, would know how to operate such equipment, remains a mystery. I’m wondering if it’s trial and error of deaths on the mountain?
“This was fun and all but seriously, Foster, you gotta stop trying to kill me all the time,” Asa says in a line that sounds like it was someone’s offhand remark in the writers’ room about the characters that actually made it into a script, or maybe Joe Anderson ad-libbed it, whichever way or reason it was put into the scripr it works perfectly.
Gwin confesses to Lady Ray that she really does love Asa, even though she told him earlier in the episode that the sex they used to have wasn’t that great.
“I want him but he’ll hurt me, he’ll leave again, I know it,” Gwin says.
Wade dangles more clues about his past with the Farrells
“If you knew what was up there, you wouldn’t be chasing it, you’d be running as far as you could in the opposite direction,” he tells Haylie
but he’s still short of specifics.
