Eleanor is walking down a lonely, dusty road when she comes across an armadillo corpse. She surrounds the poor beast’s body with a rock formation, taking care to protect it from the elements. Such a tender gesture coming from a brutal killer who recently disposed of a teenager in a barrel of lye. One of Galvan’s men comes to pick her up, and she slides into the backseat as he places her cargo in the van. He mumbles in Spanish that she’s crazy, so perhaps that will come back to bite him later.
At the bank, the manager Mr. Delarge, who is under the thumb of Galvan, gets a call warning him not to tell a soul about what really happened when Yovani and Eleanor stopped by. Tim, the assistant who had his ear sliced off by Yovani, pokes his slightly mutilated head in. He promises not to say a word as long as Delarge keeps paying for his silence.
Jack Dobbs sits at the bedside of his brother Jim, as Jim takes his last breath. The nurse asks him if he’s like to be alone with his brother, but Jack says he just wants to put this all behind him. Have I mentioned that I don’t trust Jack? Lt. Wade and I have that in common.
Prosecutor Pintado shows up at Marco’s bachelor pad to try and convince him to assit in building a case against Capitan Robles. Right now, Pintado only has enough to take a few dirty cops off the streets. Marco holds the key to bringing down the whole house of cards. When Pintado brings up the recent meeting with Robles and Galvan, Marco plays dumb but Pintado knows the score.
Sonya rushes to the hospital ward, just as Jack is sketchily going through Jim’s old drawings. (Methinks there is a clue in there!) He informs her that she is too late and Jim has already passed. Sonya, who is reeling from the fact that she cannot get the closure she so desperately craved, sits down beside Jim’s body and puts her hand on his chest. When Jack attempts to comfort her, she screams and recoils at his touch. Sonya sends Jack away and as he leaves, he grabs the box full of drawings.
Staying at a cruddy hotel that looks a lot like the one Jack is staying at, Charlotte once again tries to reach Monte Flagg. Inside, Ray is chowing down on some tacos and watching NASCAR. He looks like a man finally in his natural habitat. Charlotte is starting to freak out about how they are going to survive once their meager stash runs out. Ray is confident that once they are in Alaska they can build a new life for themselves. In fact, he’s kind of romanticizing the whole ordeal. Fish canning. Kids. Log cabins. Not so much for Charlotte.
Frye and Adriana show up at the bank, and Frye immediately zeros in on Tim’s ear bandage. Yup, they are definitely in the right place. They lie and say they are interested in opening an account for a small business, but when Frye and Adriana get into the Delarge’s office, they reveal that they are investigating a money laundering scheme.
Adriana drops the Q word (Quintana) and Delarge’s face freezes. He calls security and Frye and Adriana make a hasty exit. When they leave, Delarge knows he’s toast. He slowly walks out into the lobby, and tells Tim where he keeps all the burner phones and suggests that Tim go on back to Pennsylvania where people don’t cut each other’s ears off. Delarge then walks out into the parking lot, where Adriana and Frye spy him. Delarge pulls out a gun and kills himself in front of them and the poor guy spinning the bank sign.
Marco, Sonya and Wade all arrive to investigate the suicide. There is surveillance footage of Yovani and Eleanor from a few days earlier so they know that Galvan is involved with the bank somehow. Also on the footage are Frye and Adriana, who are no longer flying under the police radar in their investigation. Sonya goes off to talk to Tim, the assistant, while Marco heads to the newspaper office to question Frye and Adriana.
The man who murdered Raul is kind of a mess after what he’s done. He reports to a strange man in his car, who doesn’t want to know the details or why the killer is so shaken up. It turns out that the killer felt Jesus in the room after he stabbed Raul. The other man doesn’t really care about the hitman’s spiritual awakening and sends him on his way.
Sonya questions Tim about Eleanor, and he instantly spills the beans. When Sonya explains how deadly serious Eleanor is about covering her tracks, Tim asks to be put in protective custody. He tells Sonya about the burner phones and how he was instructed to destroy them.
Back at the office, Frye can’t even pretend to give a fig about Delarge’s suicide, calling it a rookie move. Adriana reminds him that Delarge had a wife and two daughters, but they doesn’t do much for Frye’s empathy meter. When Marco saunters in, Frye’s tone changes. He thanks Marco for his actions on the bridge, but Marco doesn’t want to go there. He wants to know what Frye and Adriana said to Delarge before he offed himself. When Frye evades his questions, Marco turns to Adriana. He mentions her sister and offers his condolences and assistance. She takes this to mean that Marco knows something and is offering that info as a bribe, and she’s not entirely wrong. Frye tells Marco that he can have the information that he and Adrian have collected when it goes to press.
Lt. Wade has called in Agent McKenzie and the DEA to the bank to share whatever info they can glean from the joint. However, the El Paso police isn’t sharing everything. Sonya informs Wade about the cell phones and makes quick like a bunny out the door with his blessing. She meets up with Marco outside of the newspaper offices, and asks him about a company called CLIO Group Internacional. Of course, he says, they are a major player in Mexico. Turns out that Delarge made a call to them earlier that day.
Eleanor is doing a bang up job of creeping Galvan’s man out. She’s humming weird tunes, sitting directly behind him, refusing his Taylor Swift CD. She tells him that she likes to be being behind him “so I can see what you do, before you do it.” Welp.
Marco and Sonya cross the border into Mexico so that she can try to get some answers about Delarge’s relationship with CLIO. See, the only number that Delarge ever called on his burner phones was CLIO’s. Marco tries to suggest that perhaps it was all just an innocent business arrangement, but Sonya knows that those calls tie Eleanor and Galvan to CLIO. Sonya is quiet for a moment, but then tells Marco that Jim Dobbs died that morning. She’s feeling all kinds of confused because his death doesn’t bring her closure she thought it would.
When they arrive at CLIO, they are met by the CEO, Mr. Cerisola, who happens to be the man that was with Galvan the night he summoned Marco. When Marco see him, he knows that things just went from bad to worse and Sonya is very much in Galvan’s crosshairs now. Cerisola denies knowing Delarge in any way, but does admit that CLIO has done business with the bank. He also denies knowing Eleanor. However, he offers to get them the phone logs for the company, and Sonya appears satisfied for the moment. Cerisola calls Marco over and the two men take a walk. Marco assures Cerisola that Sonya isn’t a threat to his operation. He admits that they haven’t found Eleanor yet, and Cerisola delights in letting Marco know that they already did.
Sonya meets back up with Marco, her hands full of phone records for the last two months, none of which will show any record of Delarge or his calls. She questions why the CEO would bother meeting with two cops investigating a suicide. She then asks why Cerisola wanted to meet with Marco. Marco shuffles around her queries, making up a story about CLIO wanting to hire Marco for security consulting.
Monte finally shows up at the hotel and he comes bearing good news. Galvan doesn’t want Charlotte and Ray dead! At least not today. He’s going to give them a do-over, which means no Alaskan happy ending for Ray. When Monte suggests that he and Charlotte go for a drive, Charlotte follows him so fast she practically burns holes in the carpet on her way out.
Reverend Bob is having a little bit too much fun torturing the dirty cop in his barn. Linder is more pensive about the whole thing. He asks the cop how he came to be so crooked. Linder then demands every name of every dirty cop at the party where Eva was raped and beaten. When the cop laughs him off, Linder prepares his trusty rock for more action.
Jack Dobbs shows up unexpectedly at Sonya’s, and she invites him in. He apologizes for not calling her when his brother was dying. She asks what he took as he was leaving, but he lies and says nothing but a bunch of crap. Sonya then climbs on his lap, and begins kissing him. When he pulls away, she takes his hand and places in around her throat. He asks if she’s sure, and she gives her consent. Then it gets a little 50 Shades of Sonya up in there.
Marco finds himself in a church, lighting a candle for Gus and meeting up with Pintado. This time when Pintado asks for his help, Marco doesn’t refuse. Pintado needs Marco to gather witnesses who are willing to testify against Robles and Galvan. Marco suggests Eva because she would be their best bet at identifying the crooked cops. He offers to go to her and see if she’s willing to talk. When Pintado presses Marco about Galvan, he only agrees to consider taking him down if Robles falls first.
While Sonya is asleep, Jack goes into her kitchen and takes one of the pictures his brother has drawn. On it is a drawing of a woman or girl and a strange symbol in the corner. He folds in and sticks it in his belongings before slipping back into bed.
Now things are about to get weird. Like really weird. Eleanor meets up with Fausto Galvan in a dark bunker/dungeon/torture chamber. It’s up for debate. He asks why she killed Yovani, and she explains that he touched her where she didn’t want to be touched so she killed him. Galvan doesn’t seem to upset about losing Yovani, since Eleanor is who he really values. He also has something she wants, or someone to be more precise. He leaves her alone and she walks over to a heavily enforced cell. Inside, there are animal like grunts, but it’s no animal. Eleanor coos as she talks through a hole in the cell, offering the person inside an acorn to eat. (Can you eat acorns?) Fingers try to snatch it from her hand, but she holds it back. “Dainty,” she tells it. Bloody hell! What is happening?!
