The Muffin or the Hammer

Travis and Alicia watch Ren from afar.

**The Muffin or the Hammer** is the fifteenth episode of the second season of *Big Sky* and the thirty-first episode of the series overall. It was written by Sharon Lee Watson & Ryan O'Nan and directed by Christina Alexandra Voros. It aired on April 7, 2022.

## Synopsis

With her life on the line, Jenny makes a violent decision that puts a Bhullar target on her back; but as she closes in on the family, Veer questions his children's ability to lead and makes a major personnel decision that will change everything. Meanwhile, a grieving father tears up the town over his son's death; and Cassie returns, ready for a fresh start, considering just how Lindor might factor into it.

## Plot

Jenny was sneaking around in the drug lab and was caught by Jag’s henchman, Drew. She manages to free herself and throw some white powder on his face that kills him. Elsewhere, Jag is with Ren, she tells him that someone is messing with their product, a kid overdosed and it was laced. She tells him that they don’t tell dad until they know more.

Stone walks up, Jag asks if he has seen Drew, he tells him he thinks he is down in the lab, he and Ren go to look for him. Jenny hears a door opening and footsteps, she runs. They find Drew dead, smothered in Fentanyl all over his face. Ren has a tear that goes down her face, she grabs Drew’s gun and leaves, calls Jag to follow her.

Meanwhile, Stone has already left the lab and he is outside looking around. Jenny makes a run for it and Stone sees her, he tells her to make a run for it now. He aims the gun at her and tells her to go. Jag and Ren run around the corner and asks if he saw anything, he says no.

Tonya and Dunno have a distributor gagged and tied to a chair, she asks him if they are cutting their drugs, he shrugs no. Dunno gets a call from Ren, she tells him that Drew is dead. Dunno tells Tonya they have to go now.

Cassie arrives home, her phone is ringing, she tells Jenny that she will be right there. Once together, Jenny turns around and she tells her that she screwed up, she can’t be alone right now, she doesn’t know what she’ll do. Jenny tells Cassie that Travis is working for the cartel. Cassie tells her she is going back to the office, she need to get back to work, she needs to do something. Cassie tells her to be careful.

Hayden walks into the office, asks Denise if she heard from her dad. Denise says she is so sorry about what happened to her brother. She tells her that last night her father disappeared and left his phone at home, his gun from his safe is gone.

Jenny is in the station, she tells Tubb that they need to get a warrant and raid the lab.

Mark traces Hayden’s father’s credit card, he used it near a storage locker that he rents. Mark and Jerrie head over there and find the locker unlocked. Inside they find a guy with duct tape on his mouth and his hands tied, her dad wanted to know if he sold drugs to Mason.

Ren and Jag tell Veer that Drew is dead. He asks about the security cameras and Jag says it was on his list. Veer tells Stone that he will step into Drew’s position as security. All of a sudden, Jenny walks in with a team and a warrant. She tells the team to sweep the house, while she and others take the basement.

Mason’s dead headed to Dietrich’s bar, he demanded to know who sold his son drugs. Jerrie and Mark are there, he tells them he is not there and wants the two of them to get out of his bar.

Jenny goes to the basement, it is cleared, she tells Tubb that they are too late, they cleaned it up. Ren goes downstairs, she asks Jenny what happened to her face and Jenny says it was a boxing workout, she should see her opponent.
Alicia tells Veer that she had a premonition, when he dies, it will be at the hand of his son.

Cassie returns to the office, she says she is back and she will see how I goes. Jerrie walks in and gives her a big hug, and she got her lunch. Cassie asks them to do normal, its going to take time, but she needs to keep busy. Jerrie tells her about Richard Ford missing, he is Mason’s dad. Danielle says he is a good man, he is just grieving. Mark says he has an idea where he could be, Denise wants to go with him, she thinks she can get through to him. They head to wear Mason was found and there is Richard. After Denise speaks to him, Richard promises to go home and thanks Denise for everything.

Jenny is back at the station, she apologizes to Tubb.

At Ren’s house, she asks Stone if Jenny could have killed Drew, she had marks on her neck. Veer tells Stone to handle the problem. Take Donno with him, he knows how to handle a problem. Meanwhile, Jenny is pulling over another truck belonging to the Bhullars and she finds the fentanyl.

Mark drives Jerrie home, she tells him it has been fun working together these last couple of days. She invites him in, he says he is not good at this sort of thing, inter-personal relationships. She asks if he and Cassie are together, he says he doesn’t know. He tells her that he has feeling for her, but this whole thing with Cassie and Ronald, he doesn’t know which way is up anymore. She tells him he has a choice to make and leaves the truck.

Ren and Jag find out that it was there father who ordered the pills to be cut.

Jenny and Poppernak have the driver, Bryce, in the station, he won’t talk. Jenny tells him that if he doesn’t talk, he could go down for manslaughter that killed Mason. She tells him that she needs to have a man on the inside, he agrees.

Hayden calls Denise, her dad never went home. Then we see Richard, a gun in his truck, he drives to the Bhullar’s business. Mark goes to see Cassie, he says he is checking in, she invites him in. He tells her that he knows she just got into town, he wanted to talk to her about them, he is not even sure there is an us, maybe she changed her mind. She leans in and kisses him. She tells him that he still talks too much.

Tubb and Jenny are leaving the station, he tells her to be careful. Meanwhile, Dunno and Stone are watching her from a truck.

## Cast

### Starring

* Katheryn Winnick as Jenny Hoyt
* Kylie Bunbury as Cassie Dewell
* Dedee Pfeiffer as Denise Brisbane
* Anja Savcic as Scarlet Leyendecker (credit only)
* Janina Gavankar as Ren Bhullar
* Logan Marshall-Green as Travis Stone
* Omar Metwally as Mark Lindor

### Guest Starring

* Jamie-Lynn Sigler as Tonya Walsh
* Dallas Roberts as Richard Ford
* Patrick Gallagher as Sheriff Walter Tubb
* J. Anthony Pena as Deputy Mo Poppernak
* Ryan O'Nan as Donno
* Vinny Chhibber as Jag Bhullar
* David Meunier as Dietrich
* Yuvraj Dhesi as Dhruv (credited as Yuvraj Dhesi 'Jinder Mahal')
* Travis Hammer as Bryce
* Nik Dodani as Ronith
* Constance Zimmer as Alicia Corrigan
* Bernard White as Veer Bhullar

### Co-Starring

* Keara Lloyd as Hayden Ford
* Jasper Keen as Darryl
* Malcolm T. Green as Deputy Miles
* Matthew Mahboub as Bartender

## Trivia

* This episode scored 2.57 million viewers.
* This episode's original title was "This Will Not Be Forgiven".