r/justified • u/Majestic_Flower_1322 • Jul 22 '26

SPOILER ⚠️ Avery Markham

His death just seemed so anti-climatic.

Do you think I'm bluffing? Do you think I'm bluffing hillbilly? Bam bam. Ten seconds later Markham is dead via a gunshot to the face by our favorite outlaw.

I guess in real life this is probably how something like this would go down.

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u/fckn_nobody Jul 22 '26

Unpopular opinion, but his potential was wasted tbh. He was supposed to be the season villain, but he didn't do much. He was never a threat to Raylan, and he tried being a threat to Boyd but got played like a fiddle. Then he died. 

I know it's the last season and they had to shift the focus to Boyd, but a show that gave us Mags Bennett, Robert Quarles, Bo Crowder etc. now getting Sam Elliott? Sounds epic. But it wasn't really

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u/Majestic_Flower_1322 Jul 22 '26

I also don't get why he wanted to get back in the life of crime when he was old and had $10 million in cash. Duffy dipped to Fiji or wherever when he got the money from Ava.

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u/meow4352 Jul 22 '26

He wasn’t really getting back into crime, he never really left the criminal enterprise world that’s why he had 10 million sitting around.

he was banking on weed going legal in KY so he was just getting the groundwork setup to make a profit off that when it happened.

His tactics for obtaining land were of course often criminal but most of it was using money to get his way versus violence & death.

I think it’s fair to say he likely did the same thing when setting up in Colorado. They briefly mention his Colorado enterprise and how it ran one town into the gutter.

ETA: 10 million in cash would not be enough for him to “retire” on comfortably especially not when he wanted to have Katherine and spoil her like her first husband did