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Vic is having passionate sex with her husband when she receives a phone call advising Walt needs assistance at the Red Pony. Upon her arrival, Henry directs her to Walt, who is drinking heavily at the end of the bar. She offers him a ride home, when they get a disturbance call. They find Chris Sublette beaten unconscious at his house and a painting has been taken. It is revealed that both Sublette and his wife were cheating on each other. A rodeo veterinarian is thought to be cheating with Mrs. Sublette, and his entire family is questioned when their vehicle is spotted after the painting is recovered. The man's wife admits to asking her son to follow him to Sublette's house. The son expected to see his father with Mrs. Sublette, but attacks Chris when he sees him having sex with his father. Barlow Connally (Gerald McRaney) learns that Walt had been drunk at the crime scene and asks Branch to use that against him in the election. Branch refuses, saying that Walt was technically off duty at the time, had solved the crime, and recovered the painting.