A few episodes back, Betty Jo assured Lee that even if Dale and Donald Washberg were fighting about land, the fight between them wasn’t really about land — it was about Betty Jo, it was about Pearl, it was about the humiliating ways a family’s golden boy can diminish his black-sheep little brother. Even last week, when we learned that Indian Head Hills was at the center of a preposterous real-estate deal that would catapult the cash-poor Washbergs into the black, I believed Betty Jo was telling Lee the truth, as far as she knew it.

How I squealed when, in the closing moments of “Old Indian Trick,” Betty Jo reveals herself to be as cunning as the men around her. On the heels of a phone call from loose-lipped Lee “alerting” Betty Jo to a secret version of Dale’s will that would disinherit

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