And Rabbi’s attempt to buy a candy bar for Satchel’s birthday ends with a twister swallowing him up, along with Calamita and Sparkman (the latter likely already dead from Calamita’s bullets), as if a more powerful force is rendering its disapproval of this generational feud among Kansas City’s various crime families. The hidden money is mostly gone, having been discovered by a pair of brothers who took over the store.
(*) There are scrambled familial relationships among the other rooming house guests, too, with some confusion about whether Pastor Roanoke is traveling with his wife or mother, and the major’s “niece” addressing him by his first name and in general behaving in an uncomfortably close fashion towards the old man.īut the adventure doesn’t work out. Family business has reshaped both of them, and now the best option is for them to find somewhere over the rainbow where they can hide from the Faddas and the Cannons. Even though they’re not talking about their shared past, and are using the assumed names of Duffy and Colt, their link is palpable. But whenever Rabbi and Satchel are paired, it’s hard not to think about what brought them together, and why Rabbi is so protective of Loy Cannon’s son. Ben Whishaw has been mostly marginalized, though excellent whenever called upon, and it wasn’t until Josto and Oraetta’s pillow talk last week that we got any sense of how horrifying the trade was for him as a boy(*). It’s a potent idea, but one where the show has demonstrated more interest in the fathers’ feelings about the deal than that of their kids. This season began with criminal fathers trading away their children to make peace. “East/West” is a part of this season, though, and thus the journey takes on added resonance for what we know of the bond between the once and future Milligans: Rabbi in his final days on earth, and Satchel as he literally sets out on a road that will eventually make him Mike. So much care is given to the details of the rooming house, its occupants, and Liberal as a whole that this one could almost function as its own entity, to be screened for people who haven’t seen anything else from this season and couldn’t tell a Deafy Wickware from a Zelmare Roulette. But it’s also much more interesting, because everything feels of a piece, rather than trying to make mismatched parts like Doctor Senator, Gaetano Fadda, and Oraetta Mayflower fit into the same picture. It’s much slower than any previous installment this year. Most of it is just about Rabbi trying to retrieve some money he once hid in a feed store in the town of Liberal, Kansas, while Satchel hides out at the rooming house, with Constant Calamita and Omie Sparkman on their trail. Where other episodes of this season have had to bounce around a half-dozen plots and three times as many significant characters, “East/West” is deliberately spare in both story and style.
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