At its worst, John had a number of fever dreams about Danny coming back from the dead.
And that’s a great place to start today… because John is indeep.
I’m not talking about his dive into the ocean where he may have died/drowned/been resuscitated/killed his mom/etc.
I’m talking about the whole season: the murders, the cover-ups, the seeing Danny literally everywhere.
Sally is showing people around the inn.
Kevin (Norbert Leo Butz) is getting yelled at by Jake.
Meg (Linda Cardellini) is running.
John (Kyle Chandler) is still driving.
But Eric isn’t having it.
It seems pretty calm across the board, but then there’s Kevin.
Good ol' Kevin hops in his truck and a man puts a gun to Kevin’s neck.
Speaking of crumbling, John goes to the doctor because he’s worried.
Probably seeing his dead brother.
Danny says she’s part of the family, but the reasons as to why aren’t clear.
Maybe she’s the love child from Robert’s affair?
Maybe just another extension of the Rayburn clan?
The door is locked, and she can’t get him to respond.
Thinking the worst, she runs to the garage to discover a naked Kevin with a loaded gun.
He says not to look at him, and he puts the gun to his head.
He puts the gun down after admitting that the DEA knows everything about his operation with the Cubans.
Belle tells Kevin to get John because John can fix everything… except himself, honestly.
Kevin goes to John, but he immediately folds after being judged by John.
He says John has thisstare, but I’m pretty sure that’s just Kyle Chandler’s face.
The whole family is always sad, which doesn’t feel like an unfair assessment.
He apologizes to Diana, but it’s too late.
She walks out, and John is left in tears.
Not a great thing to hear from your grandma.
John meets with a detective and calls out that he knows Kevin is under a secret investigation.
He wants to help Kevin, but it will require some legwork on Kevin’s end.
And it’s also going to require him to out his de facto dad Roy.
When Kevin makes it to the hospital, he can’t find Roy.
Hey, Kevin, did you hear that?Not.
He’s left wondering what’s going on as his entire family is on the line.
Let’s take a departure from the Rayburn world and catch up with former nurse-now-waitress Chelsea.
Nolan doesn’t need John in his lifekid has enough problems on his own.
So John goes home and finds Kevin sitting outside of the inn.
The music inside iscrazy loud, and Sally is inside wasted.
Because she found out Roy’s dead.
And John jumps to the conclusion… Roy was the man she had an affair with.
Kevin hates that theory, but it seems like it could be pretty sound.
Everything: her kids, the inn, everything.
But most of all, Sally feels like she’s wasted her entire life, as a businesswomananda mother.
But when Kevin tries to comfort her, Sally goes all in and explains how messed up Danny was.
And the girls… she only had sweet things to say about.
And if you thinkthat’s bad, let’s talk about John, who ripped Sally upon delivery.
She blamed him for everything: for Danny, for Sarah, and for the entire Rayburn demise.
He was the one that caused the most damage, but John is broken at this point.
All he has to say is, “You have no idea what family is.
You never have.”
It’s a KILLER scene for Sissy Spacek, but man is it tough to watch.
She’s left alone in her kitchen with a legacy and a house that is ultimately worth nothing.
John goes to a bar, and what do you know, Danny appears again.
How did you see me growing up?"
He can be honest and switch the way that the Rayburn family works.
John lets himself in, and feels like Kevin and Belle have taken off.
One of the detectives says, “I know this guy, he’s no genius.”
Have truer words ever been said?
I stand corrected: Kevin isn’ttotallyignorant.
He and Belle continue to escape in a much smaller boat.
Beth says he can just let it go, but Nolan isn’t ready to shake it off.
He can’t rise above the same motivation that his dad had.
In an office, John gets a call from a blocked number.
It’s Kevin on the other end, and they’ve made it to Cuba.
John was in on the plan all along.
He just wanted Kevin to escape.
So itwasn’tKevin that was the brains behind the situation.
When Kevin asks if John, Meg, and Sally could come and visit, he says no.
He’s got to end it… all of it.
So we return to the lines that opened this episode.
The ones where John said he’s going to tell the truth about everything.
But Aguirre isn’t going to let John hang himself on this.
He’s going to Boston to take the partnership with Mike.
Before their journey started, it was over.
Young Danny looks back at John through the window and says Nolan doesn’t need to know.
No, I’m not kidding.
That’s it.Bloodlineends on a knowing stare.
Maybe it only took a look for Nolan to know.
Maybe it was a cliffhanger cut short byNetflix.
Maybe it was creative storytelling gone… awry.
But regardless, that’sBloodline.
Meg is presumably still running.
Danny is dead, and Sally is getting the worst mom award this year.
That’s just the Rayburn way.
