‘Big Sky’ Season 2 Episode 15 Recap: “This Will Not Be Forgiven”

Jenny was cornered by Dhruv, Ren and Jag’s bodyguard on last week’s episode (Big Sky Season 2 Episode 14) after she was snooping around their drug lab. It looked grim for her on account of Dhruv being four times her size, but this week she fights back and escapes after throwing powdered fentanyl in his face (while shielding her own face with a gas mask). Dhruv inhales the drug and collapses.

Before entering the lab, Jenny was on the premises to tell Ren that a teenager, Mason, died from taking her drugs, and Ren has been pretty shaken to learn that someone might be tampering with her supply. Jag shows up and she explains what’s going on, when the two of them, along with Travis, realize they haven’t seen Dhruv for a while so they go to the lab where they find his dead body covered in the drug powder. Ren and Jag are distraught, but she grabs a gun and they all run out to look for whoever did this. Jenny, still on the property, knows she’s in deep shit. As she runs around the house, Travis finds her and warns her to leave. She begs him to come with her and escape the Bhullars but he cocks his gun and points it at her, forcing her to leave before she gets caught by someone who will actually pull the trigger.

Realizing she’s done something really bad (and the Bhullars will figure out it was her), she calls Cassie (yay, Cassie’s back!) who rushes to Jenny’s house. Jenny has bruises all over her neck from her struggle with Dhruv, and she explains the situation to Cassie, who tells her she needs to report it all to Sheriff Tubb. Jenny doesn’t want to though, because that could implicate Travis, since he’s in so deep with the Bhullars. Jenny does go to Tubb though, and begs him to issue a warrant so she can go back to Ren’s lab and try to bring the Bhullars down.

Hayden Ford, (she’s Mason the dead kid’s sister, in case you’ve forgotten the names of our newest characters), shows up at Dewell and Hoyt wondering if Denise or anyone else has seen her father, Richard. Last week, Denise mentioned briefly (so briefly I didn’t even hear it until they put it in the “Last Week On Big Sky...” clip at the beginning of this episode) that she was worried about Richard and how he would deal with his son’s death, because Denise and Richard were both in recovery together. So now it wall makes so much more sense why he would be triggered by Jenny asking if his son drank or did drugs, since Richard himself struggles with substance abuse. This week, Richard (and his gun) disappeared, hence Hayden’s visit to the P.I. offices.

Jerri and Lindor begin a search for Richard and start at a storage locker he rents. They discover a friend of Mason’s, tied to a chair, who tells them Richard is out looking for whoever sold Mason the drugs he overdosed on. The friend tells Jerri and Lindor to start looking at the Boot Heel, Dietrich’s bar that serves as his home base for other illegal activities like, you know, drug dealing. When they arrive at the bar, a very inhospitable Dietrich tells them that yeah, Richard’s been there, but all he did was bust up the joint and beat people up, but they won’t find the droids, I mean drugs, they’re looking for there.

When Cassie shows up at the office, Jerri, Lindor and Denise fill her in on their new case, searching for Richard Ford. Cassie mentions that if she were him, she’d want to be somewhere where she could feel her son’s presence. Lindor realizes that’s down by the river where Mason died, so he and Denise (in what might be Denise’s first real scene outside of the office) go together, since Denise used to be his sponsor. When they find Richard, he admits to his erratic behavior and says he plans to go home to his family and make everything right, but Denise and Lindor know that, despite his words, something feels very wrong with his behavior.

Verr Bhullar is feeling a lot of emotions when he learns that Dhruv is dead. He’s filled with grief, like his kids, but he’s furious with Jag for never installing security cameras in the the drug lab so they could see who killed him, and he tells Jag he never should have entrusted him with the family business. He cruelly tells Jag that Dhruv’s blood is on Jag’s hands, and then says the Travis will now be their top security guy. As Travis is being bestowed with his new job title, Jenny and her team bust in (Jenny literally saunters) with a search warrant. “Told you I’d see you soon,” she tells Ren as she hands her the warrant and orders her guys to sweep the house. When Jenny searches the basement, the entire drug lab has been removed and it’s empty. Ren pops down to say hi and notices Jenny’s bruised and battered face (“You should see the other guy,” Jenny says) and Ren realizes Jenny is Dhruv’s killer.

Verr can’t believe that his top security guy is dead and his home is being raided by the police, and he starts to express his concerns to Alicia. She tells him not to worry, that the family business will be just fine in Montana, but then she also tells him about a premonition she had, that Jag will kill Veer. (Just what every parent wants to hear, right?) Verr stares out the window at his son like, THIS is the guy who’s gonna get me?

Ren starts asking her team if they know anything about Jenny since she’s so focused on bringing the Bhullar’s down. Travis is like “Who’s that now?” Verr walks in and tells Travis that Jenny is a problem and he needs to eliminate her. Oh, and Donno’s gonna help him.

And while we’re trying to eliminate problems, Ren and Jag go to meet their in-house chemist, Ronit, to question him about who/how/why their drug supply is being tainted. Ronit tells Ren that he was cutting the drugs with other, more potent things under the orders of… dun dun dunnn! Verr. The look of shock on Jag’s face is the look of a man who realizes that, yeah, maybe he does want to kill his dad.

Jenny gets a tip that one of the trucks used to distribute the Bhullar’s drugs has been pulled over. She hightails it to the truck where one of the Bhullar’s drivers that Tanya hired, Brice, tells them the only thing inside is beef. Jenny tears open literally the closest box she can find and immediately finds a bunch of drugs. Lucky! When they interrogate Brice to see what he knows, Jenny turns him and makes him a mole on the inside of the Bhullar’s operation.

And now for the jam-packed final two minutes of the episode. I could really use the Micro Machines guy to help me recap this incredibly dense montage:

Richard Ford never went home, despite promising Denise and Lindor he would. When Denise hears from Hayden that her father is still missing, we see Richard driving, with his gun, the the Bhullar’s construction site. This doesn’t bode well… for someone.

After a long day, Jerri invites Lindor back to her house, but Lindor hesitates, explaining that he has feelings for both her and Cassie, and now that Cassie’s back, he’s conflicted. Jerri looks pretty devastated and tells him he has a choice to make, and she goes home. Lindor then heads to Cassie’s house where he asks if he can come in, and then he cutely stumbles all over his words asking is she still like-likes him. She kisses him and invites him in.

Jenny and Tubb exit the sheriff’s office, with Tubb telling her to be careful about her plan to have Brice become her informant. “Aren’t I always?” she jokes, not realizing that Travis and Donno are sitting in a car directly outside the station. Donno brandishes a gun as their eyes follow her.

Jenny, sleep with one eye open, because someone’s coming for you.