Episode 6 of Tulsa King Season 3 was essentially a three-part road trip because ABLE had shut down Montague Distilleries, and Bill was nowhere to be found. In order to sell booze illegally, Grace and Bodhi were sent to St. Louis, while Mitch and Cleo were sent to Shreveport. While Bodhi and Grace supposedly got to their destination without a hitch, Mitch and Cleo were stopped by a highway patrol officer who had been ordered by Cole to harass them. Mitch and Cleo had to incapacitate the policeman in order to get their mission back on track. Once they completed their task by selling the liquor to Johnny Wednesday, they made a pit stop at a local diner to contemplate if risking their lives for Montague Distilleries was worth it or not. In the meantime, Dwight, Tyson, and Bigfoot reached a restaurant called Bubbles for a chat with Ray about his constant requests to get a share of the profits of Montague Distilleries. After some back and forth, Dwight got down to brass tacks and accused Ray of kidnapping Bill in order to force him to bow down to him. Ray had nothing to do with Bill’s disappearance, because Musso was the one who had arrested Bill for almost figuring out that Dwight was working for the Feds, and hence, Ray got agitated. Before Ray and Dwight could reach some kind of middle ground, Cole and his henchmen showed up at Bubbles and began shooting in Dwight’s direction. Dwight and Ray’s team was able to send Cole and his crew packing, but Ray assumed that Dwight was the one who had orchestrated that shootout to kill him, and he supposedly decided to cut all ties with Dwight and go on the offensive. Did he, though? Let’s find out.
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Dwight Meets Sackrider
In episode 7 of Tulsa King Season 3, whilst seated at the Bred-2-Buck Casino with Goodie, Mitch, Tyson, and Bigfoot, Dwight gets a call from Ray. Yes, the same Ray that wasn’t picking up Dwight’s calls and was sporting a big evil smile, as if he had gotten the perfect opportunity to put Dwight under his thumb, was ready to listen to reason. So, what was the point of teasing a war between Dwight and Ray? I don’t know. Coming back to the conversation between the 2 oldies, Dwight says that while giving Ray 80 percent of the profits from the liquor business is out of the question, they can enter an alternate deal where Ray will give him access to every establishment in the Northeast that requires booze. The money that will come out of that area, which is technically Ray’s area, will go to Ray, and it’ll expand Montague Distilleries’ reach. Since that sounds like a good plan, Ray puts his ego to the side and virtually shakes hands with Dwight. That said, Ray does want Dwight to know that a day will come when he’ll have to share his empire or hand over a chunk of it to Ray. Dwight sees that as an empty threat and doesn’t spare it much thought, at least for the time being.
After Ray hangs up, the topic of discussion shifts to the attack at Bubbles orchestrated by the Dunmires. Mitch, Goodie, Tyson, and Bigfoot probably expect Dwight to retaliate, but Dwight knows that they shouldn’t do anything risky until business is booming. Hence, he decides to work on getting that ABLE seal off of Montague Distilleries. Since Attorney General Sackrider is the one who put the seal on their property, Dwight heads over to his office for a chat. Sackrider assumes that Dwight is there to grovel in front of him and submit a request to get Jeremiah to go easy on him. Obviously, Dwight does none of that. Instead, he calmly underscores the fact that Sackrider’s arrogance is because of Jeremiah, and Jeremiah’s high-handedness is because he has the current governor’s blessing. When that’ll change, since Thresher is a frontrunner in the gubernatorial race and the man is essentially in Dwight’s pocket, then Sackrider will find himself in a sticky situation.
Dwight Sets Up A Meeting Between Thresher And Sackrider
Dwight suggests Sackrider switch sides and work on his behalf before it’s too late. The first step towards earning Dwight’s blessing will come by removing the seal on Montague Distilleries. Sackrider doesn’t make any promises, but it seems like Dwight has gotten under his skin. After exiting Sackrider’s chamber, Dwight calls up Margaret to see if she knows someone in Sackrider’s office who can influence the attorney general. Margaret says that she does and goes off to meet Anna, Sackrider’s wife. It doesn’t take too long for Margaret to figure out that Anna and Sackrider are facing some “marriage problems,” supposedly because of his gambling addiction. Armed with that information, Dwight and Margaret head over to Thresher, but Thresher shoots down Dwight’s plan to twist Sackrider’s arm until he betrays Jeremiah.
Thresher thinks that trying to buy Sackrider’s loyalty will irk Jeremiah, which’ll then lead to some kind of controversy, and that’ll hurt his election campaign, which is going great for the time being. Margaret convinces him to take the risk because if Sackrider sides with him instead of the governor, who’s running his reelection campaign, then that’ll guarantee a win for him. Dwight doubles down on his proposal to at least set up a meeting with Sackrider at Bred-2-Buck, and Thresher finally caves in. While Thresher and Sackrider take the booth at the casino, Dwight, Margaret, Bigfoot, Mitch, and Grace observe them from the monitoring room. After lecturing Dwight about how he doesn’t know how to deal with the people of Tulsa, Thresher takes a very direct approach to bribing Sackrider, and Sackrider immediately goes into his shell. So, Dwight virtually butters up Sackrider by sending Grace to deliver some casino chips to get him to enjoy his time at Bred-2-Buck, and Sackrider gets pretty excited, so much so that he drops the conversation about the gubernatorial endorsement and hits the tables.
Sackrider Falls Into Dwight’s Trap
Jeremiah and his henchmen show up at the parking lot of Bred-2-Buck with the intention of pulling out Sackrider from Dwight’s clutches. Of course, Dwight doesn’t even allow Jeremiah to set foot in his establishment and sends him back home with two suggestions: firstly, he should read Sun Tzu’s The Art of War, and secondly, he should join Dwight’s enterprise or leave. Jeremiah is too egotistical and megalomaniacal to even consider any kind of collaboration. Hence, he leaves after threatening to kill Dwight if he tries to use Jeremiah’s people against him. Going back to Sackrider and Thresher, the former seems to be on a bit of a hot streak, thereby making him too malleable to Thresher’s words. If Sackrider becomes too friendly with Thresher, then he won’t be indebted to Dwight. So, to bring down Sackrider’s morale, Dwight sends Grace to swap the genuine dice with loaded dice, and Sackrider’s losing streak begins. That’s when Grace drops another stack of casino chips in Sackrider’s lap to keep him going.
As Sackrider hits the tables again, Thresher spots Dwight and Margaret and finally comes to the realization that Sackrider isn’t the only one who’s being played; they have been toying around with him too. Dwight explains to Thresher that by losing so much money at his casino, Sackrider will always be in his pocket, and if Sackrider is in Dwight’s pocket, Dwight will be able to make him dance to his tunes and get him to endorse Thresher. Although Thresher realizes that this is a good strategy, he appears unhappy about the fact that Dwight and Margaret kept him in the dark. Once Thresher becomes the governor, I’m sure he’ll forget about Dwight and Margaret’s white lies. Going back to Sackrider, when he comes crying to Dwight about his losses, like a god, Dwight says that he is willing to waive the debt if he becomes his man instead of Jeremiah’s. Sackrider doesn’t give a verbal confirmation, but the look on his face makes it clear that he has fallen for Dwight’s trap hook, line, and sinker.
Tyson, Spencer, and Goodie Extort Some Students
Spencer is seen secretly meeting Cole. Yeah, these two are apparently in a situationship of sorts. Cole confesses to her that he doesn’t like working for Jeremiah. Spencer says that he shouldn’t be fraternizing with Cole either, because of what he did at the Montague Distilleries’ inauguration party. Cole almost reveals that he tried to kill Dwight, but since he knows that it’d irk Spencer enough to break up with him, because Dwight is the one who gave Spencer a legit job, he keeps that under wraps. I don’t know where the writers are going with this subplot, especially since it’s so boring and devoid of chemistry. Is this supposed to be a mini Romeo and Juliet story? Is it all going to end on a tragic note? Will I care about Spencer and Cole if either or both of them die in the crossfire between Dwight and Jeremiah? I don’t know; we’ll see. Anyway, after Spencer’s chat with Cole is over, she heads over to Bred-2-Buck, where she is approached by Tyson and Goodie with a little side hustle.
Since the shutdown of the distillery has reduced the cash flow into the Manfredi empire, and they can’t always smuggle the liquor illegally because the Dunmires are monitoring all the routes going out of Tulsa, Tyson and Goodie decide to extort university students dabbling in drugs. Spencer is a student, so she takes them to a frat house that is notorious for supplying drugs to the entirety of Tulsa. Tyson wants to attack the aforementioned frat house there and then, but Goodie postpones the operation by 24 hours so that he can acquire some federal badges and check out what they’ll be facing once they enter the lion’s den. The following day, they hit the frat house. One of the students even recognizes Tyson because they used to be in the same class, but since he assumes that Tyson has gone on to become a cop, Tyson plays along and gets the student to take them to the spot where they have stashed the money and the drugs. Once Goodie is satisfied that the students have given up everything they had, he and Tyson exit the frathouse and head back to their headquarters. Goodie says that he’ll take the cash to Dwight, but Tyson and Spencer need to sell the drugs fast. Spencer says that she’ll take care of that because she knows every bar and club in the area (I’m sorry, but Scarlet Rose Stallone’s dialogue delivery is really bad).
Jeremiah Is Jailed
Cole is turned into Jeremiah’s punching bag because Jeremiah needs to vent at someone after Dwight showed him his place. Cole does try to push back against Jeremiah’s humiliating words, but underneath all those muscles and machismo, Cole really isn’t all that powerful. Hence, he has no option but to absorb Jeremiah’s verbal punches and kicks. In the ending of Tulsa King Season 3, episode 7, Jeremiah receives a copy of Sun Tzu’s The Art of War from Dwight, and the realization hits him that he has lost Sackrider and the ban on Montague Distilleries has been lifted. Instead of taking a measured approach to recovering from this setback, Jeremiah barges into Sackrider’s office and begins berating him for betraying him. Sackrider, in so many words, makes it clear that he has switched sides and he isn’t afraid of Jeremiah’s threats anymore because he has more faith in Dwight than him.
This causes Jeremiah to get fully violent, and he tries to choke Sackrider to death in his office. Before Jeremiah can do any serious damage, he is escorted out of the attorney general’s office and thrown straight into prison. Is that it for Jeremiah? Is Musso going to be the big bad for the rest of the season? I guess so. I mean, Jeremiah has nothing going for him anymore. Cole would have posted the bail money to bring Jeremiah back into the playing field, but does he have a single reason to do so? No, not at all. The distance between Jeremiah and Cole will certainly allow the latter to grow, because he has been oppressed and abused by his dad for such a long time. Will jail time teach Jeremiah to love his one and only son, though? I doubt it. That said, I do think Jeremiah’s subplot has reached its end, at least for this season, and we are going to see him again in the inevitable fourth season of Tulsa King. What do you think? Let me know in the comments section below.
