If the devil really does wear a suit and tie, then on The Last Frontier, he’s got impeccable taste and a killer playlist.
“The Devil Wears a Suit and Tie” might be the official title of The Last Frontier Season 1 Episode 6, but honestly, something like “The Other” would’ve fit just as well.
This hour is all about people pretending to be something they’re not — saints who sin, sinners who save, and a system that claims to protect while devouring its own.
Neil Young’s “Tonight’s the Night” sets the mood early, which is a pretty good tell that we’re in for one of those beautifully bleak episodes.
Levi’s tinkering with machinery while a random fugitive hijacks a medic van by faking a seizure. Nothing says “good morning, Alaska” like murder, manipulation, and medical malpractice.
That fugitive turns out to be Dr. William Wig — better known as the “Angel of Death.” And he’s just as unpleasant as you’d expect with that moniker.
The guy’s got all the bedside manner of a sociopath on vacation. He poisoned 36 patients and coworkers before his plane went down, and now he’s running around cracking jokes about lethal injections like he’s auditioning for an open mic night in hell.
It’s vile and uncomfortable, and yet, somehow, The Last Frontier manages to use him to ask a deeper question: what does mercy really look like when the system is corrupt?
Enter Sarah, who recognizes that Wig doesn’t belong in her hospital and plays him like a pro — all calm surface, steel underneath.
When Frank rushes over because “family wins every time,” he seemed sincere, yet I don’t remember their scenes together. Frank’s constantly torn between two loyalties: his blood and his badge. And lately, it’s getting harder to tell which one’s calling the shots.
Meanwhile, Hutch delivers a great line about the inversion (from increased woodburning) turning Alaska “smoggier than Houston on the Fourth of July,” just to prove he’s got value. I’m glad he’s seeing more screen time.
The Last Frontier keeps proving it knows how to write gallows humor that actually lands. No wonder Levi was so pointed about his appreciation of comics pages.
The Wig storyline gets weirder and more unsettling as he demands a safe deposit box in exchange for sparing the pilot’s life. It was a story that would overall go nowhere in the grand scheme of things, but at least Wig was more entertaining than some.
He wants to be the one holding the moral high ground, and for a minute, he almost tricks us into thinking he has it.
Until the reveal: that box is full of Polaroids of his victims. He even brags about “setting them free.” It’s twisted. It’s wrong.
And when the bank manager — the mother of one of his victims — shoots him dead, it was hard not to cheer. Finally, someone on this show delivers justice without an apology.
Her line — “That’s why I got on the plane” — might be one of the most chilling, satisfying payoffs of the season. And did you see her smile as she faced him as he died?
Colter Wall’s “The Devil Wears a Suit and Tie” playing over the scene was a great touch. If this show doesn’t release a full soundtrack by the finale, we should riot.
But as much as this episode pretends to be about Wig, it’s really about Levi and Sidney. These two could have powered a small city with their tension alone.
She broke into his hotel room like it’s Tuesday, used his toothbrush (gross), and casually suggested murdering an innocent woman to clean up their mess.
That’s romance, Last Frontier style.
Levi, for all his sins, still clings to something resembling a conscience, then and now. He drew the line at killing Elizabeth, but Sidney doesn’t have lines. She’s got angles — lots of them.
Their dynamic was unraveling fast, far before we met them. You could almost feel the betrayal coming like a storm on the horizon.
Sidney’s also carrying a hell of a backstory.
We finally learn that she once proposed a malware operation to assassinate a Chinese diplomat — an idea that was shelved until someone revived it to bring down Havlock’s plane.
Now the CIA’s framing her for her own creation. Talk about poetic injustice. It’s such a good twist that it almost redeems how dense the hard drive plot has been until now.
Luke and Kira’s scenes, meanwhile, are the emotional exhale the episode needs. His “I’m cursed” spiral finally makes sense when we see him crying over photos of his sister.
Kira’s apology landed beautifully. It was gentle but firm. She reminded him he’s not cursed, just different. For once, The Last Frontier paused long enough to let grief breathe, and it’s a strong moment.
The final act kicked into chaos again. Levi was hunted by a creepy old man with a perpetually wet lower lip (reminding me of my grandparents).
Frank’s team used the community to light a makeshift runway, and somehow, “Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress” blasted while everyone scrambled to save the pilot.
It’s absurd and cinematic, which is what this show does best.
By the time the dust settled, Levi had vanished again, Sidney was screaming his name, and Frank was learning that the FBI now had the hard drive — complete with decrypted missile-guidance malware.
It’s one of those endings that makes you yell at your screen, “Are you freakin’ kidding me?!”
But here’s something that stuck out to me. The encounter right before Levi bolts might be one of the most important moments of the season so far.
When he grabbed that older man by the coat and demanded to know how much Sidney knew, something cracked open. You could feel it.
Levi’s instincts have rarely been wrong (if at all), and this time he looked less like a fugitive and more like the only person asking the right question.
Whatever’s unraveling here, it’s bigger than a cover-up and nastier than a simple betrayal. The episode never spells it out, but you can sense the rot goes deep — maybe even closer to Sidney than anyone realizes.
There was also something different in the way Sidney screamed after Levi as he ran off into the snow. There’s a bigger story at play, and we have barely begun scratching the surface.
When Fairport Convention’s “Who Knows Where the Time Goes” fades in, it’s almost cruelly poetic.
The music softens the edges, but the truth’s still lurking in my mind: the devil in this story might not wear a suit or a tie at all. He might wear a familiar face.
But what about you?
I have heard people say the show has already lost its magic. Are you still with me? Can anything salvage it for you if you have left the building?
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