Well, now we have some explanation for Gina’s murder, but I don’t remember that Gus was in the station at the same time as Gina, and that he knew where they were going for lunch that day. And Gus didn’t know that Gina would run away. Hmmm.
Despite all the tension and action, this is my least favorite episode so far. I like the relationships more than the story.
Also, it’s hard to believe there’s no backhoe on Charlotte’s ranch.
Cesar has the worst job in America: cleaning up after the dumbest waitress Tampa has ever produced. If either he or Charlotte had a lick of sense they’d move far away and she would sell the fucking ranch. “Hmm, I guess I’ll hang around and see if anyone misses the scary drug dealer lady who nearly razored my face to death. Sound great? Where’s Ray-Ray at?”
Also, didn’t they set up a conflict between Charlotte and her husband’s daughter in the first couple of episodes? Didn’t the daughter say she was going to stick around and see if she got the ranch in the will? Where did she go?
No worries. Fausto knows about the tunnel now so he will ‘protect’ them. 
Good question!
Maybe Charlotte will catch her in the sack with Ray, and she can go get that pitchfork again.
Speaking of which, is Charlotte even strong enough to stick that thing in someone’s back far enough to kill them? I could see doing it if she had a running start, or if Graciela had been lying on the ground, but just poking it at her from a couple feet away?
I don’t understand the logic behind giving up Alma and the girls to get at Gus. The whole Alma thing went nowhere, boning her can’t be the only revenge he wanted for his wife dying.
I don’t understand that either. Maybe he’ll have an opportunity to explain himself.
I want some answers. If anyone has any of these figured out, I’d love to know.
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[li]Why did Tate give up Alma’s location[/li][li]Why did Tate poison the people in the desert[/li][li]Who killed Gina, and if it was Tate (and not a cop), how did he find her so quickly[/li][li]How did Tate get Zina’s old phone number and how did he know Zina and Gus wouldn’t have been talking to each other[/li][li]How did Fausto Galvan find Linder when Linder was burying Hector[/li][li]Back to the first episode, the side of the crossing where the body halves were found had no traffic – it was deserted while cars were backed up on the other side – how did that happen[/li][li]Will we ever know what the deputy saw in that painting in the dentist’s office that made him think he knew what was going on[/li][li]Why did Tate use Daniel Frye – surely Santi was doing drugs with other people, not just Frye, and is there any significance to Frye’s passport being in his missing pantalones[/li][/ul]
I think it’s clear there are 2 killers. If I understand Tates role with the Feebies, ICE or whomever, he was one of the people who wanted to find out who was killing the ‘girls of Juarez.’ The ‘beast of Juarez’ I’m pretty sure pre-dates him and has to be someone else.
He was easily able to get a body from a kill house in Juarez for the opening bridge scene because . . . well . . . Juarez. You can pretty much leave it at that.
Marco already lost the woman who was his wife back then. But he hasn’t lost his son the way Tate did.
Gus is Alma’s stepson; are the girls Marco’s stepdaughters or is he their natural father?
Grasping at straws as to why Tate would let the girls go in favor of grabbing Gus.
I believe that was the crazy guy they got in custody.
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[li]Who killed Gina, and if it was Tate (and not a cop), how did he find her so quickly[/li][/quote]
Tate did, he got the info from Gus. They kinda beat us over the head with that the whole episode.
That particular night he was with Frye, so he is at least marginally related to the whole thing. His passport being in the missing pants is what kept him from going with Santi over the border to buy more drugs so he wasn’t in the accident.
I agree, The Killing had so many red herrings. If this was more like The Killing, we’d have one or two episodes where we think that Marco was the killer, but then it turns out his secret was that he sleeps around. Then there’d be an episode or two where it looks like it was Sonya’s boss, but he actually has some other secret.
Also, I know that some people aren’t huge fans of Sonya’s weird personality, but I prefer seeing her outside of work life compared to the main female cop in The Killing, where there was the constant talk about moving to California, but she can’t go yet, but she’ll be there soon, but she just needs to do one more thing, and so on and so on.
I’m guessing it was to further mess with the cops and Marco. They think things are mostly okay, so Sonja starts to drive Gus home. Everyone was so relieved that Alma and the girls were safe, that they didn’t think about how the family could still be in danger. This allows Tate to get Gus. I’m just guessing though. Because if really he just wanted Gus he could have just taken him earlier.
I don’t have these figured out, but I do have some guesses.
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[li]See my guess above[/li][li]I agree with DigitalC, that was Childress, the crazy guy they already got.[/li][li]Again I agree with DigitalC, that was Tate. I’m not sure how he got her so quickly. I guess he found out from Gus that the cops had her, then he followed them when they went to the restaurant, and saw her run out from the bathroom window. That doesn’t explain how he was able to get her into the parking garage so quickly and quietly to kill her and not be seen by the cops.[/li][li]It doesn’t seem that difficult for him to find out Zina’s number, and then buy or bargain his way into getting the number for himself. He’s probably been surveilling Gus for a while, and that’s how he found out who Gus’s friends were and how it would be the easiest to get to him. It was a gamble that Gus and Zina wouldn’t keep talking, but I guess he could have made up some story to cover it up.[/li][li]The stuff with Fausto and Linder is what I’m not clear on. How Fausto found him, and what Fausto said or did to Linder once he found him. [/li][li]I don’t remember the stuff with the traffic, I couldn’t guess.[/li][li]I don’t know if the deputy had any real insight. I think that was just to set up the later shocking moment of when he was shot. [/li][li]I think part of the reason to use Daniel Frye was to make it a bigger news story. Then it helps misdirect the cops, since they think the killer is some weird social justice person, when really he’s also largely motivated by personal revenge.[/li][/ul]
What I want to know is if Tate knew that Marco would be on the case. He could be sure that El Paso and Juarez would be investigating, but I don’t know if he could be certain that Marco would be one of the main cops on the case. And since this is somewhat personal, it seems necessary for the revenge against Marco that Marco has to be on the case.
I don’t know that it’s been made explicit but I’m pretty sure Marco is their father, with Alma.
Re the poisoned people in the desert, there was a bead in one of the water bottles. Beads were found at all of Tate’s killings. (Except for Gina.) So if Childress did that, he had direction from Tate.
That’s another good question. It looked like there wouldn’t have been any Mexican involvement at all. Marco had to ask permission of his boss, and his boss was gonna say no until he got a nod from Fausto. Maybe Tate knew Marco well enough to know that Marco was the only cop who would care enough to get involved?
So, where does this show go from here, next season? I haven’t seen the original show that this one was recreated from, but there are some loose ends of lesser of greater importance:
Charlotte’s Tunnel to Mexico, and the possible repercussions of playing with pitchforks
Linder and his whole mission or whatever it is
Good ol’ Ray-Ray and his gunrunning that the Feds are just waiting to swoop down on
The reporters and their arc
And possible something introduced in the last episode (that isn’t mentioned above) which will cliffhanger into another big storyline
It’s been a fairly interesting show for me, so I’ll tune in next season.
Your list has enough good stuff to carry over – I’m interested in all of that.
We also have Hank talking about retiring, so we might have Sonya adjusting to a boss who isn’t so understanding of her Asperger’s.
I look forward to this show every week even more than Breaking Bad.
Shit. BB and The Bridge and Broadchurch will all be finished soon. Will there be some good drama to get us through the winter?
Does the original show have a second season? i thought it was a one off miniseries.
IMDB lists a second season for the Scandinavian show, ten episodes, no titles, scheduled to start airing in September.
Gah! Frickin’ storm just cut out my satellite signal. grrrr… I guess I’m lucky it isn’t the series finale of Breaking Bad!
How much did you miss? I’d be glad to fill you in.
There are three episodes left. I’m trying to figure out what they’re gonna do in three more episodes.
Thanks, but I just watched the last ten minutes of the encore. It was like an hour long cliffhanger, lol.
But wow, who expected Charlotte would just shoot that guy down in cold blood like that?! (If she was smart, she would have used the rest of the ammo on RayRay.) I guess she came to the hard realization that all she had left was the ranch and tunnel, and she wasn’t going to let anybody take that away.
It was a bit :dubious:-worthy to believe that the ATF would not already know enough about the tunnel with the transmitters and the informant, but I guess they can sell it by pointing at “Fast & Furious” as a real-world example of incompetence.
I’m glad they tied up the loose end of the rich dead guy’s daughter and the will. It makes Charlotte’s actions more believable if she is cash poor and has only the ranch. I still don’t buy her character killing a man in cold blood, but whatever. These would have to be the world’s dumbest ATF agents if they can’t figure out who just killed their informant. Those guns had transmitters–are they ever going to, you know, track them?
I also liked that now we have an explanation for Tate’s targeting of Frye. He was not just with Santi Jr. before the accident, he helped cover it up and accepted a job in payment.