Major spoilers ahead for Lucky episode 5

Lucky episode 5, “Are We Bad People?,” picks up in the aftermath of Cary’s (Drew Starkey) death as the chips are down for Lucky (Anya Taylor-Joy). She’s injured from the car crash and grieving when she admits to a stranger that she’s tired of the way she’s been living.

Lost and with no way to recover the $9.9 million Cary digitized, she makes her way to Priscilla (Annette Bening) but finds no comfort or understanding. She’s still on the hook for the money. Then Lucky makes an unexpected discovery. A teddy bear hiding a game-changing secret puts her back in control of her situation.

But a favor called in by Agent Billie Rand (Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor) shifts the state of play and puts her father John (Timothy Olyphant) on the board, opening Lucky up to a plan that’s the riskiest move she’s made all season.

Lucky Questions Whether She’s A Bad Person

In the wake of the car wreck, Lucky is simply trying to blend in. She comes across two victims of an accident she and Cary caused when trying to escape the police and the feds. Choosing the vehicle with an incapacitated woman in her 70s behind the wheel, Lucky gets in and roots around for her wallet so she can put a name to her and piece together a story to tell to the EMTs when they arrive.

The woman is Ruth Turner, and Lucky passes herself off as her granddaughter Amanda to gain entry to the ambulance and transportation to the hospital before the police can catch her. By the time Ruth is being rushed into emergency care, the adrenaline Lucky’s been riding from the chase and her own crash is starting to wane. She sees Billie being brought into the hospital before she passes out and wakes up in her own hospital bed.

Moving quickly, Lucky makes a quick stop in the bathroom where she encounters a teenage girl. She doesn’t know the teen is Billie’s daughter, Dana (Aadyn Encalarde), but she offers her some advice. Dana is struggling because the last thing she said to someone she loves is that she hates her and that person could die.

Lucky commiserates sharing that she used tell her father that she hated him, but she didn’t mean it. She thinks what she really hated was that he knew that she’d do anything for him. She encouraged Dana to get back to the person she loves and let her know that she didn’t mean it. With that nugget of good will bestowed, Lucky makes her way out of the hospital.

Despite part of her hair and much of her dress being covered in blood, she manages to slip past law enforcement and books a room at a hotel. A bath triggers the memory of when she asked her father if they’re bad people. Even as a teen she was pretty sure they weren’t good people, but she couldn’t parse whether that made them bad.

John explained to her that good and evil are man-made constructs. Like everything else man-made they’re highly imperfect. He said that a lion doesn’t waste a second pondering over whether it’s good or bad to kill an antelope. The lion’s concerned about survival.

Lucky pushed back, stating that they’re not animals. But John had a response for that, too. It’s his belief that the only reason humans aren’t animals is because we say we’re not. So, for him, bad is based on degrees from goodness. There’s no strict definition of either concept. It’s fluid and, though this goes unsaid, subjective.

But dressed in Cary’s hooded sweatshirt and jacket, Lucky only knows what she’s lost. She goes down to the bar to have a drink and find a mark. She’s part way through conning a man whose flight has been delayed, causing him to miss his daughter’s birthday, when she decides to just stop.

Lucky tells him that she’d planned to use his guilt over his daughter to get him to pay for her room. She knows exactly what to say to a man like him, how she wouldn’t even have to ask, he’d insist on helping her. Her story about being given the wrong suitcase by the bellhop would have worked. Trouble was she couldn’t make herself perform one more con.

She opens up to the stranger who she sees as a good father and shares with him that her husband died today in a car accident. That they’d been arguing when it happened and she regrets what she said.

During their conversation, Lucky admits to being tired of living the life of a con woman. She wants to believe, even if it’s just for today, that she’s not a totally bad person. The man assures her by using the statement that she used with him when he confided that he didn’t want to screw his daughter up—“The fact that you’re worried about it probably means that you don’t have to worry about it.”

It gets Lucky to laugh and allows her to have a real moment, one not plagued by doubt, ulterior motives, and lies for the first time in this story.

Lucky Gets Access To What’s Left Of The $10 Million

The next morning, Lucky steals a car from the valet. Her destination is Priscilla’s house, where the grieving mother is holding a memorial for her son. She’s spreading Cary’s ashes when Dutch (Clifton Collins Jr.) informs her that Lucky’s here to see her.

Lucky tells Priscilla a half-truth, the money is gone. Cary was the only one who knew where it was. She withholds the fact that the $9.9 million is tied up in cryptocurrency in an account that she can’t access. Priscilla asks if Lucky loved Cary, to which Lucky answers that she did. More than Priscilla will ever know.

Neither this knowledge nor her grief deters Priscilla from the position she’s held since the premiere. Lucky needs to figure out how to get her hands on the money or she’s going to answer to Priscilla. Frustrated, when she gets back in the car, Lucky takes the teddy bear she’s been carrying around in Cary’s bag and starts bashing it against the steering wheel.

The violence triggers the bear’s voice box, which plays a recording of Cary reciting the 12-word seed phrase Lucky needs to get into his crypto wallet. She now has the money, but she doesn’t give it to Priscilla. Instead, she books a private jet. However, Lucky doesn’t leave like she planned thanks to a phone call from John that pulls her right back into the mess she was about to escape.

Lucky Sets A Trap For Billie

After being discharged from the hospital, Billie returns home for the rest that her doctor and her boss encourage her to take. But, as she tells Dana, to relax she works. She convinces her daughter to sit beside her on the couch as she looks through the case file on Lucky. That’s when she learns Dana and Lucky had an encounter in the hospital bathroom.

Dana’s reluctant to give up information considering she’d been open with the con woman about how she was feeling with a loved one in serious condition. But she does tell Billie that Lucky shared with her that she hates that she’d do anything for her dad. The admission gives the agent an idea. She calls Gates (Mo McCrae) to get him to call in a favor at the DOJ but the request must stay between them.

When John’s released from prison, the implication is that it’s Billie’s handiwork. Lucky says as much when they’re on the phone. She thinks Billie did it to smoke her out. Her assessment of Billie is that the agent believes she holds all the cards, but she actually doesn’t. She tells John to meet her at their spot, the high one.

The father-daughter duo reunite on the roof of an apartment complex. John sees how banged up she is and wants to know what her plan is. Lucky tells him that she has the money. He’s proud of her but what she’s got cooked up isn’t going to be something he likes. They pick a spot in the front of the building to be arrested by Billie though it’s clear Lucky hasn’t been caught out. This is exactly what she wants to happen.

Lucky’s gamble puts her and her father in the FBI’s hands, but it’s not likely to last. She always seems to have an ace up her sleeve and, for the moment, that may turn out to be the $9.9 million that no one but her father knows she has.

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