The Family
Episode 6 of Outer Range begins with Royal out driving to the hole. Autumn is there waiting for him; she wants her necklace back. Royal agrees to take her back to the farm… but in reality he actually drives far away from her tent, leaving her stranded and alone. Autumn starts to lose her nerve and demands he stop. When he fails to do so, she tumbles off the quad and hurts her legs pretty badly. ..
After Royal confronts Autumn, she tells him that she found the same mineral inside his land and that’s also connected to the hole in time. Autumn insists that Royal tell his family about this, but he refuses and leaves. He also burns her tent on the way back.
Joy heads to see Kirkland Miler, deciding she’s going to arrest Rhett and Perry. Her version of events is pretty accurate to the truth but for the time of death from the coroner. As we know, that’s four days after the fight in the bar where Joy is convinced that the coroner is “just wrong.” Kirkland reminds her he has an election coming up to and refuses to go with this as evidence, shutting the door on her.
Joy attends church to try and win this election. Her family aren’t exactly happy about it, but Autumn wanders out in the woods and stumbles along until a bear shows up. She lies down on her back and tries to stay quiet. “Yellow” She says. A voice whispers back “Show him.” This appears to be in reference to Royal and whatever is going on here, and that definitely includes Autumn knowing more than she’s letting on.
Rhett and Maria end up sleeping together and wake up in a motel together. We saw this at the end of episode 5, and the story continues here too. When Rhett appears at her door with flowers (picked from her own garden no less!) he decides to leave the ranch for good after the rodeo. The thing is, Maria wants the truth about Perry. “You’re covering for him aren’t you?” She asks. There’s a big pause. Perhaps too big, as Rhett tells her he’s not. Maria scoffs at his feeble lie and eventually shuts the door, encouraging him to be honest next time.
Luke, who has been living at the Tillerson Ranch with his aunt Patricia since Wayne’s death, learns that everything will be handed over to Billy upon Wayne’s death. Patricia is not happy about this and decides to try and change this, given the Will is not binding. ..
Autumn catches up to Billy as he’s out hunting on the ranch and shows him a hole in the ground. Knowing what’s down there, Billy heads home. “You were right about the west pasture, Dad.” ..
Autumn is flustered when she finds her tent and possessions burned. Instead, she takes a knife and carves that familiar insignia on her chest. After this, she sits and meets with Perry. Autumn is erratic and claims that Royal tried to kill her. She also uses Rebecca as leverage, and tries to convince Perry to go to the police and incriminate Royal for Trevor’s murder. ..
Perry won’t go to the police, but agrees to deal with this himself. “It’s a new beginning!” She says, delighted with this turn of events. What does that mean? Is she from a different time period? Perhaps in the future? I’m sure we’ll find out soon!
Cecilia tells Royal she wants to be alone and Royal reflects on their moments together, pointing out he’d be lost without her by his side. Despite his kind words, she implores that he leave. Royal honours her wishes and rides away.
That night, Perry heads home and confirms to the family that he’s confessed to everything. He’s left a letter for the sheriff, taking the blame for Trevor’s death. Now that they know it’s on them, there’s no telling what they’ll find.
Rhett is absolutely livid, given he had to give up Julia for this. When he mentions Perry is the reason Amy doesn’t have a mother, all hell breaks loose. Amy is taken out of the room, while Perry breaks the news that he did all of this because Autumn was going to tell the police. Amy is shocked and takes off, sporting a bleeding hand. As she does, whimpering, red and blue lights twinkle on the horizon. It’s the police, and they’re clearly here to arrest Perry. ..
The Episode Review
The Outer Range episode was another strong one, continuing the drama we’ve seen across the past few episodes and doubling down on the mystery elements. It seems that Amy and Autumn are connected in some way, and I wouldn’t be surprised if we find out Autumn is actually Amy in the future.
The woman stumbled into a hole in the future and is now trying to fix it so that it won’t happen again. This is causing strange things to happen as time is distorted and changed.
That’s all a theory at this point though so take my words with a pinch of salt! Do feel free to add your own theories in the comments below! ..
The show has done well to keep things mysterious and this is a much improved chapter compared to episode 5. The ending certainly hints that we’re going to be looking at far more drama in the future, and with two more episodes to go next week, it really is anyone’s guess how this one will end.
