EW: Dewey found Messer near death and was about to finish the job when a family stumbled upon him, so he couldn’t. Was that always the plan?
Graham YostIn the initial break, I think that Wade died earlier in the episode. It was Tim’s idea to extend Dewey’s quest to find Wade through at least half the episode, so that we didn’t know if Raylan was gonna find Wade before Dewey did and maybe save Messer’s life, and then it just doesn’t turn out that way. We thought it’d be great if Dewey was tantalizingly close to succeeding and then gets interrupted in a way that he can’t just kill this family. That’s not Dewey. They’ve also got weapons, so it probably wouldn’t have turned out well for ol’ Dewey Crowe.
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