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“The Bridge” recap: “Rio” and “Maria of the Desert” (Eps. 3 and 4)

Episode 3:” Rio”

A beautiful, old west style funeral process kicks off this episode. A rider-less horse carries Charlotte’s husband’s boot in tribute, as she walks behind. A mysterious woman can be seen in the background, and one can’t help but think she has something to do with that damn tunnel. Sarin in the water is to blame for the multiple murders in the desert, and the detectives speculate that the killer picked up the missing woman somewhere along the main road. The FBI shows up because a kidnapping in now involved, which guarantees this investigation will be a good ol’ fashioned pissing match.

At the funeral, Charlotte’s stepdaughter simply drips with venom toward her. It turns out that her father left her dying mother for Charlotte and she’s not about to let bygones be bygones. Apparently neither will the El Paso socialites who have attended the funeral. They practically hand Charlotte a bus ticket out of town when she expresses interest in volunteering for their committees.

Sonya and Marco show up at Steven’s trailer and discover the trash can full of burned women’s clothing. Marco tries to break in, but Sonya insists on doing it by the books and requesting a warrant. Marco looks a little disappointed. Marco is also a little bit pissed off, because Sonya won’t drop the complaint against him. Rules you know, she says. Rules my ass, he thinks.

Back at the station, Frye does a bump of coke in the hallway (the hallway?!) before going in to meet Lt. Wade. Wade knows the killer is in touch with Frye and wants him to go directly to the police whenever contacted. Frye wants to know what’s in it for him, of course. Hot and fresh intel, says Wade. With that assurance, Frye sets off to Juarez to dig a little deeper with the help of Adriana.

Charlotte sees the mysterious woman from the funeral, admiring her husbands favorite horse. She introduced herself as the woman from the phone and informs Charlotte that they are partners now. Charlotte doesn’t want to talk about it, and as far as she’s concerned the arrangement is over. Charlotte darlin’, I think you just ticked off the wrong lady. In Juarez, Frye and Adriana try to gather more information for their story. Frye gets a call from the killer requesting a ransom for the girl in the desert. One million, split four ways, by the four richest men in El Paso. When Frye presses him for a reason, he tells him, dialectics. Frye looks as confused as I do. The late Mr. Millright is named as one of the four, and Charlotte comes into the station to let them know. She speaks to Marco, who she fondly remembers from the bridge.

Marco and Sonya show up at Steven’s work and haul him in for questioning. On the way out, he accidentally drops the picture of the girl from the other day. In the interrogation room, Steven continues to maintain his innocence and tells the detectives that he’s someone who helps people. Sonya forms a sort of connection to him. They are two people who don’t communicate like everyone else, and Sonya reads him like a familiar book. The girl in the picture is his sister, and he’s got to find her. Sonya believes him and they turn him loose. Steven travels to Juarez to look for his sister, and runs dangerously close to scary goatee dude (who’s name is Hector we later find out). Steven ducks into a tunnel before Hector can use his noose of horrific death on him.

Frye and Adriana are walking the streets of Juarez when a fight breaks out in front of them. A man is shot in the head in broad daylight, and Adriana grabs Frye and pulls him to safety. They take cover at her family’s home, where she can write the breaking news and Frye can drink beer and flirt with her sisters. Her mother asks if Frye is her boyfriend, and Adriana gives him the giant side eye. No, they are just friends she tell the family. She also asks her sisters to kindly “stop throwing their pussies” at Frye like they are trying to win a stuffed animal at a carnival. The guy that Sonya slept with the night before shows up at the station. She’s appalled and tells him that she can’t have sex at work. For some reason, he finds this enchanting because he asks for her number. Perplexed, she gives it to him.

Marco shows up at Charlotte’s house, who is drinking wine in the kitchen looking like an Ann Taylor by Night catalogue model. He asks for her help with the complaint lodged against him, since cops are saying he accepted a bribe from her. She says of course, and for some reason, they have sex. It’s weird, I know. After Marco leaves, Charlotte follows a mysterious noise out in the barn. There, hanging from the ceiling is her husband’s prized horse, Rio. Someone means business.

Frye is kind of drunk, per usual, and settling in to sleep on Adriana’s couch. After calling her home a dump, and insulting her in other various ways, he asks how the hell did she not end up like her sisters; pregnant and poor.She candidly admits she stayed away from boys. Frye is confused so she clarifies. I’M A BIG MO, she tells him. Those aren’t her exact words, but you get the gist. Being gay she tells him, saved her in a way. Early the next morning, Sonya calls Lt. Wade to let him know a live video stream is being broadcast from the El Paso Times website. The video is of the young woman, Maria, tied up and left to die in the desert sun. They are running out of time.

Episode 4: “Maria of the Desert

It’s pretty obvious that Frye leaked the video, so the detectives set off to find him. They search under every bridge and rock, but he is nowhere to be found. The ask Adriana but she dodges their questions until Marco gets up in her face.

At the ranch, Charlotte has Cesar bury Rio. She’s frightened now, and tells him if the woman wants the tunnel open then open the damn thing. She asks what she’s supposed to do now. Nothing he says, and the less she knows, the better. Charlotte’s stepdaughter is lounging by the pool, and the two bicker some more. The stepdaughter is now staying for the reading of the will. Oh and Tina the housekeeper found Marco’s wallet in the guest room. Busted.

Fausto Galvan, a powerful Mexican trafficker, is gazing at the city when he receives bad news from his henchman. The border is locked up tighter than ever thanks to that pesky bridge murder, and they can’t move their product. Also, there was another murder of a woman that bares the hallmark of a certain madman they know. Time to find an alternative way in. Sonya and Marco show up at Frye’s lady friend’s apartment. Apparently he drank all of her vodka, so she wants his ass out of there anyway. Frye is still kind of drunk, and Marco grabs him and tosses him against the wall, which sobers him up pretty quickly.

The mysterious tunnel woman is getting a mani/pedi when Galvan walks in and tosses some acetone in her bodyguards face. She has a tunnel, and he needs one. It’s an offer she can’t refuse, lest she wants to end up like Rio the horse.

The FBI takes lead of the investigation, and tries to gather the ransom for the drop. They decide to cut Marco out of the loop, which angers him greatly. The FBI interrogates Frye, but he’s beginning to become sympathetic to the killer’s ideals. He asks why the delay on the ransom, and points out that if Maria was a white woman, the ransom would ready by now. Frye gets a call in the interrogation room from the killer. The killer asks who the agent will be doing the drop and Frye is told it’s Gedman, who understandably looks nervous. Marco gets a call and excuses himself. A black car picks him up, and inside is Galvan, who has used the tunnel to cross. He hands Marco a suitcase containing a million dollars. He doesn’t want to girl in the desert to suffer. Marco hands the money to the FBI and insists on being there for the drop. Sonya is at her desk, glued to the video and searching for clues. She finds it and whispers in Lt. Wade’s ear like a little girl. They head off to find Maria. Steven drives up to a ranch with a cross emblazoned on the gate. In the backseat is Eva, and here is her safe house. Brother Bob greets him, and offers Eva a job and a place to stay where she won’t be harmed. She’s less than impressed, but if she can hide from Hector here, she’s willing to give it a shot. Steven asks for a kiss in exchange for his help. She gives him a small one, and he says he will remember it always. In the car, Lt. Wade asks Sonya if she’s been to see “him” lately. (I get the feeling that this mystery man had something to do with Sonya’s sister’s death.) She tells Wade no, that she tried but couldn’t get out of the car. She went to her sister’s grave instead, and it made her very sad. He asks if she thought of a happy thought like he taught her? She admits that she couldn’t think of one. The relationship between Lt. Wade and Sonya is so far the element that makes this show for me. He gets her so well, and for Sonya, this is a rarity. They follow the clues and end up finding Maria, who is in bad shape, but alive. Sonya smiles like the sun. After back up arrives, she and Lt. Wade head off to the drop location. The FBI are in place and Gedman is wired up and ready to go. He heads into the bar with the ransom. The bartender hands him a phone and Gedman plays a message that causes the color to drain from his face. He removes his ear piece and walks toward the back of the bar. After losing the signal, the FBI and Marco swarm the back of the bar. Frye gets a message from the killer, telling him to go to the back alley. There he opens the dumpster and finds something gruesome. Marco searches a storage area when he is knocked to the ground and a gun is put to his head. He begs for his life and the killer knocks Marco unconscious. The killer leaves a garbage bag and the suitcase next to Marco, before escaping. Sonya and Lt. Wade find Marco in the unit. Lt. Wade opens the bag to find Agent Gedman’s head looking back at him. A phone begins to ring inside, and Lt. Wade fishes it out. The same video of Christina Fuentes plays, but it contains new footage. Christina turns the camera onto someone else. A beer swilling, sweating, Agent Gedman.

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