![]() You see, smooth-talking Capitán Alejandro Rojas – who enters the room with the timing of a Mexican Squiggy – doesn’t want Americans to know about that inconvenient corpse. Actually, make that 23, since Galvan’s brother, Rafa, was thrown in there, too, but erased from police evidence. The body of Cristina Fuentes was originally dumped in the same house where, a month later, the corpses of 22 members of Fausto Galvan’s cartel also were deposited. Here’s what we learned about all that this week:ġ. With more than a few questions still unanswered in the Millright plot thread, we turn to The Bridge’s main investigation, into the Frankensteined homicides of Judge Lorraine Gates and Cristina Fuentes. Flagman and Saul Goodman getting together to talk shop over a three bean salad with actual beans in it. What I do know is that tonight I shall dream of Monty P. Who’s the client? We still don’t know yet. Flagman, Esquire, Lovett made it clear that, on behalf of an unnamed client, he’ll continue to pay Charlotte to keep that tunnel open. It’s interesting that he said he wanted a divorce from Charlotte right before he died he said he didn’t love her, but maybe he was just trying to protect her from being connected to his misdeedsĪnd speaking of misdeeds … hi, Lyle Lovett, mysterious, shady attorney who has suddenly sauntered into Charlotte’s life with the most unconventional three bean salad in history! (Must be an old family recipe: just mix stacks of cash, cover casserole dish and serve.) As Monty P. It also seems fair to assume, as I did in last week’s recap, that he may have been directly involved in human or drug trafficking. It seems more than fair to assume that Charlotte’s husband Karl was receiving under-the-table payments to keep that portal between south and north open. Cesar the ranch hand confirmed that the calaca-and-candle altar Charlotte spotted was indeed set up there because “Somebody died,” adding: “There was an accident.” Okay, technically, that’s possible, but so far on this show, no death seems accidental. Since she just came up, let’s focus this recap first on Gish’s Charlotte, who discovered that the super-secret door beneath the super-secret cabin on her ranch did not lead to the hatch from Lost but instead, to a passageway between Mexico and Texas. Once again, The Bridge serves as a reminder that the cultural divide between these two countries is wide, and can’t be crossed simply by getting waved through customs. But to most Americans, grinning skulls represent nothing but grim death, especially if you’re Annabeth Gish and you see one in that creepy tunnel that your recently deceased husband never bothered to mention. To many Mexicans – especially those who are tired and parched enough to believe in desert miracles – it conveys all the joy of El Día de Los Muertos, the holiday that celebrates the memory of people who have perished. In keeping with the themes of The Bridge, the calaca can symbolize different things, depending on which side of the border one calls home. The episode was called Calaca, named for those decorative skeletons most often associated with Mexico’s Day of the Dead and that appeared multiple times in this chapter of the story. The Bridge once again lived up to its TV-MA rating this week, delivering a second episode that contained graphic violence (photos of previously killed cartel members, Mexicans murdered while trying to cross the border, implaled coyotes) explicit sexual activity (damn, Sonya!) and crude, indecent language (journalists like Daniel Frye have such terrible potty mouths).
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