Lawmen: Bass Reeves
WARNING : SPOILERS beforehand for Lawmen : Bass Reeves episode 4 .
Summary
The Paramount+ Western seriesLawmen : Bass Reevesdips its toe into the repugnance writing style with the inclusion of a mythical hard worker catcher character named Mr. Sundown . As Bass Reeves ( David Oyelowo ) works with young outlaw - turned - posseman Billy Crow ( Forrest Goodluck ) to round up a mathematical group of fugitives and criminals in episode 4 , one of their captive continues to enjoin anecdotes about the notorious Mr. Sundown . Ramsey ( Rob Morgan ) speak of the terrifying " Old Mr. Sundown " around a campfirewith Bass , Billy , and the other prisoner , pose the scene for a very chilling story .
Through four episodes , Lawmen : Bass Reevesepisode 4marks the center point of the Paramount+ serial publication . Bass has started to establish himself as one of the most effective and skilled Deputy U.S. Marshals within the jurisdiction of the Western Arkansas court territorial dominion under " The Hanging Judge " Parker . Bass has demonstrated his slap-up ability to separate fact from fiction , often have to decipher whether masses are lying or telling the true statement as he endlessly pursues to capture known criminal . Ramsey ’s story , however , represents a rarefied point for Bass Reeves ' character as by the end ofLawmen : Bass Reevesepisode 4 , he might have started believing in Ramsey ’s ghost tale .
Ramsey’s Ghost Story About Mythical Slave Catcher Mr. Sundown Explained
Ramsey Describes A Cannibalistic Slave Catcher Around A Spooky Campfire
InLawmen : Bass Reevesepisode 4 , the talkative and deceitful Ramsey say Bass , Billy , and the remainder of the captive a chilling tale about " Old Mr. Sundown " who became infamous for capturing three women and apparently eating them . To Ramsey ’s credit , he does tell a convincing tale that put venerate in everyone listen in the scene other than Bass , who appear more suspicious than anything . Ramsey exact that Mr. Sundown is still roaming around the area at night hunting for former hard worker in order of magnitude tokill them and build a grove made of hide and bones .
Ramsey paints a terrific ikon of Mr. Sundown ’s " grim , sour church building full of Hell ’s music " , set an eery occult tincture on the view . Ramsey then start to spill the beans and hollo a strange strain that honors Mr. Sundown until Bass taps his Holy Bible on his shoulder and gets him to stop . Bass has remained a dear and firm truster in God throughout the series thus far , so it makes horse sense that he would halt Ramsey ’s salacious example and carrying into action of anything that would lean into areas of evil or the occult . Bass tells Billy to read a verse from the Bible out loudly to rid of the dark energy that Ramsey had just introduced .
Episode 4’s Mr. Sundown Story Sets Up A Terrifying Real Threat For Bass Reeves
Ramsey Might Not Have Been Telling Ghost Stories After All
Ramsey go on to scream and sing out for Mr. Sundown rather hysterically throughoutLawmen : Bass Reevesepisode 4 , testing Bass Reeves ' patience until he is finally push over the edge . Ramsey hear to kill Bass Reeves in the night after he bunk his shackles and had already brutally off another prisoner . It appear that Ramsey ’s consistent talk of Mr. Sundown summon a grim energy that led him to off the prisoner and seek to take Bass ' liveliness while he was sleeping . Bass clearly sense the bearing of evil as he beat out Ramsey up for attempting to murder him in cold rakehell .
Bass is challenged like never before in the face of Ramsey ’s wickedness inLawmen : Bass Reevesepisode 4 . Ramsey ’s decision to propagate his wickedness is grim as he tells Bass that he does n’t value his badge or his authority as a lawman . Bass strike back by reminding Ramsey with a unrelenting biff that to him , he is the law and God wrapped in one . Bass seems to have finally put a lid on Ramsey ’s sinister ways until the very last scene of the sequence in whichhe may have actually been border on by Mr. Sundown himself . What was once considered morbid illusion has now become a very material threat to Bass Reeves .
Is Bass Reeves' Mr. Sundown Based On A Real Person?
Mr. Sundown is likely to egress as a formidable foe in succeeding episodes ofLawmen : Bass Reevesif he is in reality as tangible as Ramsey claimed him to be . Through four episodes , there is not enough information to know whether Mr. Sundown is based on a real - life somebody , although hard worker catcher were historically a very life-threatening threat be the Civil War . According to Ramsey , Mr. Sundown is not only a Nox - brood slave catcher but also a cannibal with associations with the occult or deuce - worshiping practices . Hopefully , Lawmen : Bass Reevesepisode 5 will reveal the accuracy about the horrifying Mr. Sundown .
