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And there it is. Sorry to see those people getting beaten down and blamed for local ails... But now that Joe's got some skin in the game, he'll no doubt get dragged back into the ring.

I like coach being definitively portrayed as a side effect of the shifty pain meds given form by Joe's conscience. A bit cliché, but it worked really well when none of the old crew is around to fill us in to how Joe dug his hole so deep during the time skip. I didn't know that there was an honest to goodness falling out with the urchin kid. I wonder if he'll show up again to rub some salt in those wounds?