From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series (2014–…): Season 1, Episode 3 - Mistress - full transcript
While Richie deals with his visions, Seth and Carlos plan to cross the border. Meanwhile, the Fullers' RV breaks down and Ranger Gonzalez asks for help.
You know the best thing
about the life we lead is?
No.
But I got a feeling
you're about to tell me.
Money, of course.
The worst?
Well, the price we all
have to pay.
To sacrifice our loved ones.
And for what?
Richie ain't nothing.
Richie ain't been
nothing for a real long time.
I hear he can't even throw a knife no
more without cutting himself up.
Must be a mess
when he jerks off.
A life filled with
exotic pleasures is nothing
without peace of mind.
You can have both,
Seth, at El Rey.
And what is El Rey?
Taco stand in Baja?
It is south of your border,
on a mountain near the ocean.
Sounds like paradise.
I don't believe in paradise.
For people like you and Richard,
heaven is not having
to look over your shoulder.
El Rey offers a safety.
Anonymity, and protection.
Protection?
Yeah.
And this protection is free?
30% of your take.
It was real nice
meeting you, Carlito.
One of these days, that retard brother
of yours is gonna get you killed.
Peace of mind is
something your brother needs.
He has not been well, has he?
Okay, what do you
want from me exactly?
The world never gave
you anything.
All the world ever did was take.
So what do you do in return?
- Take it back.
- That's right.
We take it back.
But this time,
we take it back, Seth,
and keep it...
for eternity.
I'm gonna go get us a room.
Be right back.
No!
I'm in the middle of
something, guero.
This is the last
time I'm gonna call you.
You want to know why?
'Cause you're gonna tell me where you
set up That border crossing.
You sound upset.
Things not going as planned?
No, Carlito, they are not.
We got half the state of Texas
looking for us
and I can't cross the border with
a ticking time bomb sitting next to me.
What's the matter with Richard?
Look, you got a guy
on the border or not?
He's at the Acuna crossing.
He'll give you passage tonight.
Wait, tonight?
When?
10:00...
Trust me... night is better.
Look, I got something I got to take
care of before we cross.
Now you just tell me that
you're not gonna bail on me.
Because if you bail on me, I'm gonna
bail on your Mexican ass.
You understand that?
- Seth.
- What?
I'm not Mexican.
No!
No, no!
No, no, no, no, no, no.
Richie...
Goddamn state's
bigger than hell.
10:00 tonight,
we cross, and Miss...
Monica.
Miss Monica here goes back
to her life.
Until then, you are
an insurance policy, my dear.
Do you understand?
Good.
You didn't even try
and talk him down?
Richard, it's 30% to get
into El Rey.
Eternity and bliss drenched in
the nectar of the noble blue agave.
Sounds like a freaking
Bunuel movie.
The hell is this?
That is a Budd Boetticher
picture.
And it's all you're gonna get.
All right, I need thing one and thing two
In case I get into a scrape.
You're not going out there...
that's crazy.
Got to ditch and switch,
and we got to eat.
I can't do anything with
Quick Draw's shriveled member.
You're not gonna need anything
because Miss Monica here
is the best damn teller in the west.
She knows all about
customer service.
Now, what is the, uh...
first rule of
customer service, Monica?
The customer is always right.
Winner, winner, chicken dinner.
Now, you see, me and Richie here...
we are your
most loyal customers.
And we only want one thing...
For you to sit
there and not move.
Got it?
- You got it, Richie?
- Just get me a burger already.
And some, uh, sweet
potato fries.
What a day!
Boy, do I feel great.
I think I'll go to the mall.
You stay put.
Sure, that's a fact!
This is a
bad idea, Daddy.
Scott barely has his learner's.
Scott, keep
your eyes on the road.
Katie, why don't you sit back?
Use that fancy phone of yours to
find us the best place to cross the border.
I've been thinking a lot about what
you said back there with Kyle.
It's just that we didn't know that
you left the congregation for good
or that you stopped
believing in god.
I never said that.
Losing your mother's
been tough on all of us.
I just feel like we need to spend
some time together
as a family...
to do some searching, that's all.
Maybe find a new path...
or a new driver.
Watch it!
This is a bad idea.
Maybe if she'd shut her hole,
I could focus.
Son, a hole
is a pit in the ground.
Don't talk to your sister that way,
or anyone for that matter.
Daddy, all you've told us
our entire lives is to trust in God.
I know.
But right now, I need you to
trust in the pagan power of technology
and please look up that
border crossing.
You don't
give up on God.
You don't give up on him because he
would never ever give up on you.
Kate, I spent my entire
adult life sewing the Lord.
I know exactly what
he's capable of.
Th-that wasn't me.
This sucks.
Right when I started driving.
What are you doing?
I'm looking for the toolbox.
It's not in here.
It's not anywhere...
I never bought one.
Maybe they got something.
All right.
You stay in the RV.
Go on.
Get inside!
Get you something, darlin'?
Excuse me, folks!
My vehicle decided
to quit on me.
I'm no expert, but it appears
to be some sort of busted hose.
Aloha, welcome to
the Big Kahuna burger.
Would you like to try our
Special Agent Utah meal?
Sir?
How come we never did
this when we were married?
That's a fact!
Come on over and sit.
This... couch is nice.
You're not
safe there.
Thanks for
coming out, Professor.
No problem.
Austin says you've been doing Some great
things with this cartel killer case.
Think I might've found them.
- Really?
- Yeah.
It's part of the bank
robbery crew, Gecko brothers.
Like the James gang.
There's only two of them.
I wouldn't
exactly call that a gang.
Great, so we got that settled.
I've been tracking these
guys, been finding symbols
that might have something to do
with these crazy little gods
these cartels like to worship.
Crazy little gods?
Okay...
Before we go any further, we're gonna
have to set up some ground rules,
- okay, sheriff?
- I'm not a sheriff.
Yeah, and I don't spend my days
looking at pictures of people
with bones through their noses.
These "crazy little gods"
are my life's work.
If I said something
insensitive, I apologize.
What I meant to say was...
I'm trailing two murderous thieves
that killed eight men.
Including my mentor.
So, what makes you so
certain they're connected to the cartel?
A symbol that shows up
at every murder.
I found it again today.
Something wrong, Professor?
Excuse me, folks!
My vehicle just quit on me.
I'm no expert, but it appears to be
some sort of busted hose.
Perhaps someone here could
help me arrange some sort of jerry-rig
- to keep going
- Let him call AAA.
at least long enough for me to get
it to the nearest service station.
Where'd you find this?
Off my partner's dead body.
They used it on him.
Think he found it at the scene.
I guess you're
the chosen one.
This is an ancient
weapon used in ritual sacrifice.
It's been written about...
But never seen.
This should not exist.
So, how is that supposed
to help me find these boys?
Well, it lets you know who
you're dealing with.
This cartel clearly
warships the vision serpent.
They're the Waxaklahun Ubah Kan, or,
in common Espanol, Los Culebras.
- Serpents.
- Yeah.
So, what does that have
to do with the eye?
Well, the eye-in-hand motif
Appears in codices going back 3,000 years.
Represents the two most important gifts
a god can bequeath on a man,
the ability to see
and the ability to take action.
You can guess what kind of action
this was used for.
Are you okay?
You know, I'm not
just some dipshit triggerman
who screams at bank tellers
to open their drawers.
I am a scientist,
a master tactician.
I am a lock artist.
I-I know.
I know that.
This is what I do.
When something doesn't
make sense, this is what I do.
I figure it out.
You know, my son, he, um,
he does the same thing.
I have two kids.
They're 17 and seven.
My boy, Rafa,
I call him my little Abuelito,
'cause he's such an old soul.
He complains about the weather.
I mean, you know, what kid complains
about the weather?
He likes to draw, too.
Can-can I see?
You.. you have a gift.
I didn't think you'd show up.
- Yeah, we, uh we got a little waylaid.
- We shouldn't be sitting here.
You're all over the news.
- Are you gonna order something?
- Yeah, in a-in a second.
- Now, Vanessa, I...
- Where's Richie?
In the car?
No, we're, uh we're
laying low in a motel nearby.
Okay, now just-
just listen to me, honey.
Plan's changed.
- Changed?
- Yeah.
Plans don't change.
Isn't that what you always say?
No matter what,
you stick to the plan.
We meet here, we cross together.
That's how we designed it.
Yes, um...
But what I failed to mention is that
sometimes plans get better.
What's better than you
and me on a beach in Cancun?
You being alive for one.
What's that?
That's how the plan gets better.
All right, now, that's over $4 million
in bearer bonds.
All right, now, you're gonna take
this to Warren Pritchard at KC Financial.
He's gonna convert it for you, then he's
gonna wash the money all nice and clean.
Honey, after that,
you're gonna be set.
You understand?
You're not gonna need a thing.
- For me?
- Yes.
- All of it?
- Every cent.
He's not even gonna
charge you a fee.
I'm gonna take care of that.
Don't worry about it.
- Baby, I mean that's...
- Right?
It feels like Vegas in here.
- And I can hear the bells dinging.
- Okay.
I feel like one of those obese ladies sliding
quarters into a big old plastic cup.
Just me and my fat ass, you know,
swallowing up a chair.
Well...
Wow.
You remember our honeymoon?
That that time I won at keno,
at keno in the Bellagio?
- You remember that?
- Yes, yes.
It was 4:00
in the morning.
I'll never forget it
because this, uh,
This call girl took
the table next to us.
Oh, yeah.
She had just come down from doing her
business upstairs, and she ordered...
I'll never forget this.
She ordered a short stack
of buttermilks and a black coffee.
- Yeah.
- You remember what you said?
No, no, I don't.
What did I say?
You said, "I guess
that's what the whores eat."
I thought to myself, how
must that feel?
I mean, how must it feel
for her to walk into that cafeteria
and know that everyone there knows that
she sleeps with people for money?
How must it feel when everyone
in the room knows that you're a whore.
I guess I know now.
- Vanessa, I swear...
- I am not a whore,
and I am not your bitch.
You know what I am, Seth?
I'm your partner,
and you know what partners do?
They make plans, and they honor those
plans and they stick to them.
Okay, honey, I know that.
- That's not...
- Did you forget
that I cased that bank
for three weeks?
- Yeah.
- That I knew
every teller's schedule
upside down, inside out?
That I knew that they would be stocking
that ATM when you pushed your way in?
It is not my fault that you
and your brother
are the most wanted
fugitives in the world right now.
That is on you.
Okay, but that is exactly why
that we need to cross alone right now.
Do you understand that?
I baked you a carrot cake every year
with real cream-cheese frosting.
- What?
- I lit candles, blew 'em out.
Yes, honey, I know.
- I know you did.
- Five times, five years.
You think all that time
I was waiting for some money?
I was waiting for you.
Because I love you.
You ready?
You okay?
Bet you don't use
Patron on your kids' scrapes.
Neosporin.
The Patron’s for me.
She wants to be free.
She wants you.
Go sit down.
Do it now!
Richie.
Don't be afraid.
Don't be nervous, baby.
It's just us.
It's just you
and your little Gordita.
You really want me?
That is why
you said that, isn't it?
I didn't say anything.
Set me free, Richard.
Set me free.
Richie...
Who are you?
Who are you really?
I don't know
what you're talking about.
Please, I don't know
what you want!
You're playing
some kind of game with me.
You're trying to play a trick on me.
You think that I can't hear your voice
inside me head, Gordita?
What did you call me?
No, no!
See that?
Games, games, games.
You think that you can seduce me,
but you can't.
I didn't say anything!
That's how I like it.
She wants
to be free.
She wants you.
Why do you got
to be such a biatch?
I don't know.
Because he's going against everything
he's ever believed his entire life?
And why do you keep
asking dad about the accident?
What do you care?
Sometimes you sound like
you think it's his fault.
I never said that, Scott.
Scott...
Okay, I'm sorry.
I don't know how to do this.
Do what?
Dad is losing it.
He's not in a good place
right now.
But we never had to
worry about that kind of stuff
because Mom always knew how to
take care of him and us.
I can't take her place.
I don't know how to be Mom.
Then don't try to be.
If my kids could see me now.
They don't think I'm that handy.
Yeah, I'll bet the wife
don't, either.
She not in the picture?
She passed.
Oh, sorry.
See, there I go prying again.
My Shelby, she'd tell me I'm chatting
up a complete stranger
when I should be
minding my own business.
Well, the shape this puppy's in, I think it's
probably best you don't share with your kids
precisely how many ways from
Sunday you are screwed.
Yeah, I'd say this little adventure you're on
might be cut a whole hell of a lot shorter
than you think.
Aah!
God damn it.
God damn it!
God damn it!
What is going on out here?
We're just trying to knock
something back into place.
It's all right.
Hey, man, this puppy's
got to, uh, cool off for a little while.
Why don't we head back inside?
Maybe we'll
cool off ourselves, huh?
Thank you.
You and Shelby have any kids?
Well, we're working on 'em.
I don't know if I'm ready,
to be, honest.
Hang on to her.
It's a team sport.
Baby, you need
to understand something.
You walk out,
you're walking out on us.
We pulled a job...
We pulled a job that
net $30 mil.
You know what we
could do with that money?
We could go get that bar that you
always wanted in the Keys.
That was stupid.
That place
never would've worked.
Like hell it wouldn't.
Still there,
you know, I checked.
- You checked?
- Mmmmm.
All they want's a million five.
Baby, we could take this money
and go down and snatch it up.
I can't do that to him.
He's my brother, he's my brother.
Do what?
Give him $26 million?
All right, listen to me, okay?
There's a-there's
a reason
that Richie was always
so good at figuring out jobs
and stuff for us, okay?
36... 36 jobs we pulled.
Nobody could touch us.
He's an egghead.
Yes, he's an egghead,
but that's not what I'm talking about.
All right, it's because
of the old man.
He used to make Richie think,
you know, keep him on his toes.
At first, it started out when
we were really young, you know,
stupid stuff, just, like, Richie
sneaking us past him
while he was asleep so we could
watch cartoons, you know, stuff like that.
Then the old man would get hammered,
knock us around a little bit.
Me especially.
I don't know what it is, but, uh...
you know, son of a bitch
had it out for me.
I guess I drove him crazy.
That part I get.
You see me laughing here?
Richie spent
a lot of time as a kid
figuring out how to keep
this guy off of me.
And he was real good at it,
'til one day he didn't
have to anymore.
The old man fell asleep on the couch
with a frigging lit cigarette in his hand.
Fire burned down the whole
house, you know?
I was asleep in my room,
smoke got to me, I was out.
Richie came in, he pulled
me out, okay?
I mean, why do you
think I got this stupid thing?
You told me you got drunk
in New Orleans.
Well, I did get drunk in New Orleans,
but Richie told me never
to talk about it, so.
Richie saved your life.
Now you need to save his.
What if he can't be saved?
I just got to get him to
El Rey, and he's gonna be fine.
- My neighbor Patty...
- Yeah.
Right... she's an RN in a
mental hospital over in Devore.
Well, I had her over for dinner one night
when I could finally get
Richie out of his shack in the woods.
She gave him a once-over.
She called it dissociative
something or another.
She thinks he hears voices.
Let me get this straight.
You had him
head-shrunk?
Okay.
I'll tell you what.
I'm gonna get up now, get myself
and my brother a burger.
- You have a nice life.
- Seth...
He is not crazy.
She was transformed
by the serpent god.
Who was?
The mistress.
Look, if one or both of these brothers
is out there killing for these people,
you got to stop thinking like a ranger and
start thinking like one of your own.
One of my own?
Not racially profiling here,
Ranger Gonzalez.
These are your
roots, are they not?
I'm from San Antone.
Oh, so you know about
the blood cult,
the one that asks its faithful to eat
the body and drink the blood of its savior.
Oh, I got my wires
crossed there.
What's your point?
Are you a man of faith?
Gonna baptize
my daughter, same as I was.
This is not just a cartel.
This is a blood cult.
And the patron saint,
to put it in terms you can understand...
she's a very, very powerful
demigoddess.
Okay.
So, who is she?
Well, nobody knows
her real name.
Just that she was so beautiful,
the serpent god had to have her.
He sent his faithful out to collect her
and bring her back to sacred
ground and sacrifice her.
They threw her
into a pit of snakes.
She was consumed and transformed
and became a mistress of the night,
a harbinger of the next realm.
Okay, so what
does that even mean?
It means the killer
who uses this...
he isn't looking for blood...
but trying to see something...
trying to see something that
people like you and me can't see.
Look and you will see me now.
Set me free.
Come to me.
Richie...
He's trying
to see the other side.
Just tell me.
Just tell me, how do you know?
How did you know my name?
Gordita.
Only my husband calls me that.
He calls me that during sex!
How could you
possibly know that?
How did you know?
You're back.
How's that King Kamehameha?
Is that the one with
the pineapple in it?
It most certainly is.
I may be biased,
but I think it's delicious.
Let me get one of those
and two native-style Mahalos
with sweet-potato fries, please.
Just the sandwich or
the tidal wave meal?
Tidal wave it.
Oh, uh, you don't, um,
- do you have any horchata?
- Yes, we do.
It has a little hint
of macadamia nut.
Sounds delicious...
Give me two.
What the f...
What the...
Jesus, what are you doing?
Maybe if I start acting like a crazy
loon, you'll finally give a shit!
Give me that!
Stupid!
It was never gonna be you
and me, it was always you and Richie!
- Honey, that's not what this...
- Don't even try to sweet talk me.
You love your brother so much,
why don't you go screw him?
Look, I'm
all he's got, all right?
Now, why can't you
understand that?
I'm all he's got!
Look, just...
Just go see Pritchard.
Get your four million, okay?
Just... go.
We could've been good together!
We were together.
It wasn't good.
I'm not afraid of you!
Just don't... please.
Please, we
were just role-playing.
What are you talking about?
My husband and I,
we've been having problems.
We went to see a counselor, and
she suggested role-playing.
Then we went to
a hotel just-just like this one.
He'd be the cop, and I'd be
the high-priced call girl.
It cost me a
fortune at Frederick's.
It was just something he wanted to
do 'cause it reminded him
of some Burt Reynolds
movie that he loves.
- I didn't know any of that.
- Yes, but you did!
No, it's just noise, okay?
I hear things inside my head, and
sometimes she talks to me!
- Who?
- I don't know!
But if I listen...
and if I focus,
she can show me things.
I saw you on the bed, okay?
I guess... I guess you were telling your
husband to call you Gordita...
Tu gordita.
It means chubby, little girl.
Leandro, he calls me that
'cause he's-he's always loved my curves.
It was "Sharky's Machine."
What?
The movie that your husband
likes is called "Sharky's Machine."
He was Burt.
You were Rachel Ward.
I don't know how you did it,
but it's like you saw me.
It's like-it's like
you saw the real me.
I see too much.
Daddy?
Katie-cakes?
We were letting
the engine cool down.
I can help...
come on.
Oh, this is...
this is my little girl.
- She's always looking for the family toolbox.
- How you doing?
Trying to find
ways to fix her old man.
Go on.
I'll catch up.
Well...
Aren't you a little young
to be hanging out in here?
You're a little pistol,
aren't you?
Now, I mapped out where all
the killings happened along the border.
Maybe it'll show us...
Huh?
Where's the knife?
- What?
- Did you take it?
- What... no.
- The knife.
Yeah, you, uh...
You wanted me to take it.
You wanted me to put it in my bag and take it
to the university for some laboratory tests.
I didn't ask you to do that.
Yeah, you did.
No, I didn't.
Okay.
You're gonna tell me
it belongs in a museum?
It belongs to the lords
of the night.
Is that some other
gang I don't know about?
The nine Mayan lords
of the night.
They occupy the first realm.
One of them threw the girl
into the pit of snakes.
If I find those
assholes, I'll arrest them, too.
Baby, not for nothing,
but you best get out of here.
Something is coming.
Night is coming.
Doesn't that come every day?
Today is different.
She wants to be free.
She wants you.
It's time.
Looks like a
pattern to me.
It's a safe zone.
That's sacred ground.
That's precisely in
the middle of the cult's ancient lands.
In the middle of that,
the border crossing.
I gotcha.
Hi.
My name's Lila and I just started working over
here at Bethel Fidelity Insurance office.
We, uh.
We had a little bit of
a computer crash over here.
We got the hearing coming up
on the Fuller accident.
That... should do it.
All right.
See you around.
You have the report
on file, right?
Well, if you could send
that over, that would be just great.
Dad, stop!
Dad, what the hell?
You all right?
Oh, my God!
- Kate!
- I'm fine.
Katie, I'm sorry, I'm sorry!
Think I'm gonna drive.
Thanks for your help,
Professor.
I gotta get going.
I know you're in a hurry,
but I just realized something.
You said the bank robbers
are brothers, right?
That's right.
You know the one
about the brothers, don't you?
Summoned to the underworld,
the place of fear.
It's in the Popol Vuh.
The Mayan bible.
The brothers journey to the underworld
to trick the gods.
Trick them how?
They beat 'em at their own game.
Richard, it has been a long, hard road,
but our debts are paid.
And we are finally on our way.
Where's the girl?
What the hell is she
doing in here?
What is wrong with you?
I worked it out.
I can see now.
I can see.
Can you?
And what is this?
Because...
this doesn't
look like anything that...
that I've ever seen, Richard.
Don't "Richard" me.
I'm gonna do a lot worse
if you don't stop right now!
This is not who we are.
This is not who you are.
Say it!
This isn't me.
Say it again.
Say it!
It is me.
Do you realize what
I have been through to get here?
Huh?
Do you?
It's okay.
This is all gonna be
a memory when we get to El Rey.
It's gonna be blue agave, sunshine
and beaches.
Just you and me, buddy.
Just you and me.
about the life we lead is?
No.
But I got a feeling
you're about to tell me.
Money, of course.
The worst?
Well, the price we all
have to pay.
To sacrifice our loved ones.
And for what?
Richie ain't nothing.
Richie ain't been
nothing for a real long time.
I hear he can't even throw a knife no
more without cutting himself up.
Must be a mess
when he jerks off.
A life filled with
exotic pleasures is nothing
without peace of mind.
You can have both,
Seth, at El Rey.
And what is El Rey?
Taco stand in Baja?
It is south of your border,
on a mountain near the ocean.
Sounds like paradise.
I don't believe in paradise.
For people like you and Richard,
heaven is not having
to look over your shoulder.
El Rey offers a safety.
Anonymity, and protection.
Protection?
Yeah.
And this protection is free?
30% of your take.
It was real nice
meeting you, Carlito.
One of these days, that retard brother
of yours is gonna get you killed.
Peace of mind is
something your brother needs.
He has not been well, has he?
Okay, what do you
want from me exactly?
The world never gave
you anything.
All the world ever did was take.
So what do you do in return?
- Take it back.
- That's right.
We take it back.
But this time,
we take it back, Seth,
and keep it...
for eternity.
I'm gonna go get us a room.
Be right back.
No!
I'm in the middle of
something, guero.
This is the last
time I'm gonna call you.
You want to know why?
'Cause you're gonna tell me where you
set up That border crossing.
You sound upset.
Things not going as planned?
No, Carlito, they are not.
We got half the state of Texas
looking for us
and I can't cross the border with
a ticking time bomb sitting next to me.
What's the matter with Richard?
Look, you got a guy
on the border or not?
He's at the Acuna crossing.
He'll give you passage tonight.
Wait, tonight?
When?
10:00...
Trust me... night is better.
Look, I got something I got to take
care of before we cross.
Now you just tell me that
you're not gonna bail on me.
Because if you bail on me, I'm gonna
bail on your Mexican ass.
You understand that?
- Seth.
- What?
I'm not Mexican.
No!
No, no!
No, no, no, no, no, no.
Richie...
Goddamn state's
bigger than hell.
10:00 tonight,
we cross, and Miss...
Monica.
Miss Monica here goes back
to her life.
Until then, you are
an insurance policy, my dear.
Do you understand?
Good.
You didn't even try
and talk him down?
Richard, it's 30% to get
into El Rey.
Eternity and bliss drenched in
the nectar of the noble blue agave.
Sounds like a freaking
Bunuel movie.
The hell is this?
That is a Budd Boetticher
picture.
And it's all you're gonna get.
All right, I need thing one and thing two
In case I get into a scrape.
You're not going out there...
that's crazy.
Got to ditch and switch,
and we got to eat.
I can't do anything with
Quick Draw's shriveled member.
You're not gonna need anything
because Miss Monica here
is the best damn teller in the west.
She knows all about
customer service.
Now, what is the, uh...
first rule of
customer service, Monica?
The customer is always right.
Winner, winner, chicken dinner.
Now, you see, me and Richie here...
we are your
most loyal customers.
And we only want one thing...
For you to sit
there and not move.
Got it?
- You got it, Richie?
- Just get me a burger already.
And some, uh, sweet
potato fries.
What a day!
Boy, do I feel great.
I think I'll go to the mall.
You stay put.
Sure, that's a fact!
This is a
bad idea, Daddy.
Scott barely has his learner's.
Scott, keep
your eyes on the road.
Katie, why don't you sit back?
Use that fancy phone of yours to
find us the best place to cross the border.
I've been thinking a lot about what
you said back there with Kyle.
It's just that we didn't know that
you left the congregation for good
or that you stopped
believing in god.
I never said that.
Losing your mother's
been tough on all of us.
I just feel like we need to spend
some time together
as a family...
to do some searching, that's all.
Maybe find a new path...
or a new driver.
Watch it!
This is a bad idea.
Maybe if she'd shut her hole,
I could focus.
Son, a hole
is a pit in the ground.
Don't talk to your sister that way,
or anyone for that matter.
Daddy, all you've told us
our entire lives is to trust in God.
I know.
But right now, I need you to
trust in the pagan power of technology
and please look up that
border crossing.
You don't
give up on God.
You don't give up on him because he
would never ever give up on you.
Kate, I spent my entire
adult life sewing the Lord.
I know exactly what
he's capable of.
Th-that wasn't me.
This sucks.
Right when I started driving.
What are you doing?
I'm looking for the toolbox.
It's not in here.
It's not anywhere...
I never bought one.
Maybe they got something.
All right.
You stay in the RV.
Go on.
Get inside!
Get you something, darlin'?
Excuse me, folks!
My vehicle decided
to quit on me.
I'm no expert, but it appears
to be some sort of busted hose.
Aloha, welcome to
the Big Kahuna burger.
Would you like to try our
Special Agent Utah meal?
Sir?
How come we never did
this when we were married?
That's a fact!
Come on over and sit.
This... couch is nice.
You're not
safe there.
Thanks for
coming out, Professor.
No problem.
Austin says you've been doing Some great
things with this cartel killer case.
Think I might've found them.
- Really?
- Yeah.
It's part of the bank
robbery crew, Gecko brothers.
Like the James gang.
There's only two of them.
I wouldn't
exactly call that a gang.
Great, so we got that settled.
I've been tracking these
guys, been finding symbols
that might have something to do
with these crazy little gods
these cartels like to worship.
Crazy little gods?
Okay...
Before we go any further, we're gonna
have to set up some ground rules,
- okay, sheriff?
- I'm not a sheriff.
Yeah, and I don't spend my days
looking at pictures of people
with bones through their noses.
These "crazy little gods"
are my life's work.
If I said something
insensitive, I apologize.
What I meant to say was...
I'm trailing two murderous thieves
that killed eight men.
Including my mentor.
So, what makes you so
certain they're connected to the cartel?
A symbol that shows up
at every murder.
I found it again today.
Something wrong, Professor?
Excuse me, folks!
My vehicle just quit on me.
I'm no expert, but it appears to be
some sort of busted hose.
Perhaps someone here could
help me arrange some sort of jerry-rig
- to keep going
- Let him call AAA.
at least long enough for me to get
it to the nearest service station.
Where'd you find this?
Off my partner's dead body.
They used it on him.
Think he found it at the scene.
I guess you're
the chosen one.
This is an ancient
weapon used in ritual sacrifice.
It's been written about...
But never seen.
This should not exist.
So, how is that supposed
to help me find these boys?
Well, it lets you know who
you're dealing with.
This cartel clearly
warships the vision serpent.
They're the Waxaklahun Ubah Kan, or,
in common Espanol, Los Culebras.
- Serpents.
- Yeah.
So, what does that have
to do with the eye?
Well, the eye-in-hand motif
Appears in codices going back 3,000 years.
Represents the two most important gifts
a god can bequeath on a man,
the ability to see
and the ability to take action.
You can guess what kind of action
this was used for.
Are you okay?
You know, I'm not
just some dipshit triggerman
who screams at bank tellers
to open their drawers.
I am a scientist,
a master tactician.
I am a lock artist.
I-I know.
I know that.
This is what I do.
When something doesn't
make sense, this is what I do.
I figure it out.
You know, my son, he, um,
he does the same thing.
I have two kids.
They're 17 and seven.
My boy, Rafa,
I call him my little Abuelito,
'cause he's such an old soul.
He complains about the weather.
I mean, you know, what kid complains
about the weather?
He likes to draw, too.
Can-can I see?
You.. you have a gift.
I didn't think you'd show up.
- Yeah, we, uh we got a little waylaid.
- We shouldn't be sitting here.
You're all over the news.
- Are you gonna order something?
- Yeah, in a-in a second.
- Now, Vanessa, I...
- Where's Richie?
In the car?
No, we're, uh we're
laying low in a motel nearby.
Okay, now just-
just listen to me, honey.
Plan's changed.
- Changed?
- Yeah.
Plans don't change.
Isn't that what you always say?
No matter what,
you stick to the plan.
We meet here, we cross together.
That's how we designed it.
Yes, um...
But what I failed to mention is that
sometimes plans get better.
What's better than you
and me on a beach in Cancun?
You being alive for one.
What's that?
That's how the plan gets better.
All right, now, that's over $4 million
in bearer bonds.
All right, now, you're gonna take
this to Warren Pritchard at KC Financial.
He's gonna convert it for you, then he's
gonna wash the money all nice and clean.
Honey, after that,
you're gonna be set.
You understand?
You're not gonna need a thing.
- For me?
- Yes.
- All of it?
- Every cent.
He's not even gonna
charge you a fee.
I'm gonna take care of that.
Don't worry about it.
- Baby, I mean that's...
- Right?
It feels like Vegas in here.
- And I can hear the bells dinging.
- Okay.
I feel like one of those obese ladies sliding
quarters into a big old plastic cup.
Just me and my fat ass, you know,
swallowing up a chair.
Well...
Wow.
You remember our honeymoon?
That that time I won at keno,
at keno in the Bellagio?
- You remember that?
- Yes, yes.
It was 4:00
in the morning.
I'll never forget it
because this, uh,
This call girl took
the table next to us.
Oh, yeah.
She had just come down from doing her
business upstairs, and she ordered...
I'll never forget this.
She ordered a short stack
of buttermilks and a black coffee.
- Yeah.
- You remember what you said?
No, no, I don't.
What did I say?
You said, "I guess
that's what the whores eat."
I thought to myself, how
must that feel?
I mean, how must it feel
for her to walk into that cafeteria
and know that everyone there knows that
she sleeps with people for money?
How must it feel when everyone
in the room knows that you're a whore.
I guess I know now.
- Vanessa, I swear...
- I am not a whore,
and I am not your bitch.
You know what I am, Seth?
I'm your partner,
and you know what partners do?
They make plans, and they honor those
plans and they stick to them.
Okay, honey, I know that.
- That's not...
- Did you forget
that I cased that bank
for three weeks?
- Yeah.
- That I knew
every teller's schedule
upside down, inside out?
That I knew that they would be stocking
that ATM when you pushed your way in?
It is not my fault that you
and your brother
are the most wanted
fugitives in the world right now.
That is on you.
Okay, but that is exactly why
that we need to cross alone right now.
Do you understand that?
I baked you a carrot cake every year
with real cream-cheese frosting.
- What?
- I lit candles, blew 'em out.
Yes, honey, I know.
- I know you did.
- Five times, five years.
You think all that time
I was waiting for some money?
I was waiting for you.
Because I love you.
You ready?
You okay?
Bet you don't use
Patron on your kids' scrapes.
Neosporin.
The Patron’s for me.
She wants to be free.
She wants you.
Go sit down.
Do it now!
Richie.
Don't be afraid.
Don't be nervous, baby.
It's just us.
It's just you
and your little Gordita.
You really want me?
That is why
you said that, isn't it?
I didn't say anything.
Set me free, Richard.
Set me free.
Richie...
Who are you?
Who are you really?
I don't know
what you're talking about.
Please, I don't know
what you want!
You're playing
some kind of game with me.
You're trying to play a trick on me.
You think that I can't hear your voice
inside me head, Gordita?
What did you call me?
No, no!
See that?
Games, games, games.
You think that you can seduce me,
but you can't.
I didn't say anything!
That's how I like it.
She wants
to be free.
She wants you.
Why do you got
to be such a biatch?
I don't know.
Because he's going against everything
he's ever believed his entire life?
And why do you keep
asking dad about the accident?
What do you care?
Sometimes you sound like
you think it's his fault.
I never said that, Scott.
Scott...
Okay, I'm sorry.
I don't know how to do this.
Do what?
Dad is losing it.
He's not in a good place
right now.
But we never had to
worry about that kind of stuff
because Mom always knew how to
take care of him and us.
I can't take her place.
I don't know how to be Mom.
Then don't try to be.
If my kids could see me now.
They don't think I'm that handy.
Yeah, I'll bet the wife
don't, either.
She not in the picture?
She passed.
Oh, sorry.
See, there I go prying again.
My Shelby, she'd tell me I'm chatting
up a complete stranger
when I should be
minding my own business.
Well, the shape this puppy's in, I think it's
probably best you don't share with your kids
precisely how many ways from
Sunday you are screwed.
Yeah, I'd say this little adventure you're on
might be cut a whole hell of a lot shorter
than you think.
Aah!
God damn it.
God damn it!
God damn it!
What is going on out here?
We're just trying to knock
something back into place.
It's all right.
Hey, man, this puppy's
got to, uh, cool off for a little while.
Why don't we head back inside?
Maybe we'll
cool off ourselves, huh?
Thank you.
You and Shelby have any kids?
Well, we're working on 'em.
I don't know if I'm ready,
to be, honest.
Hang on to her.
It's a team sport.
Baby, you need
to understand something.
You walk out,
you're walking out on us.
We pulled a job...
We pulled a job that
net $30 mil.
You know what we
could do with that money?
We could go get that bar that you
always wanted in the Keys.
That was stupid.
That place
never would've worked.
Like hell it wouldn't.
Still there,
you know, I checked.
- You checked?
- Mmmmm.
All they want's a million five.
Baby, we could take this money
and go down and snatch it up.
I can't do that to him.
He's my brother, he's my brother.
Do what?
Give him $26 million?
All right, listen to me, okay?
There's a-there's
a reason
that Richie was always
so good at figuring out jobs
and stuff for us, okay?
36... 36 jobs we pulled.
Nobody could touch us.
He's an egghead.
Yes, he's an egghead,
but that's not what I'm talking about.
All right, it's because
of the old man.
He used to make Richie think,
you know, keep him on his toes.
At first, it started out when
we were really young, you know,
stupid stuff, just, like, Richie
sneaking us past him
while he was asleep so we could
watch cartoons, you know, stuff like that.
Then the old man would get hammered,
knock us around a little bit.
Me especially.
I don't know what it is, but, uh...
you know, son of a bitch
had it out for me.
I guess I drove him crazy.
That part I get.
You see me laughing here?
Richie spent
a lot of time as a kid
figuring out how to keep
this guy off of me.
And he was real good at it,
'til one day he didn't
have to anymore.
The old man fell asleep on the couch
with a frigging lit cigarette in his hand.
Fire burned down the whole
house, you know?
I was asleep in my room,
smoke got to me, I was out.
Richie came in, he pulled
me out, okay?
I mean, why do you
think I got this stupid thing?
You told me you got drunk
in New Orleans.
Well, I did get drunk in New Orleans,
but Richie told me never
to talk about it, so.
Richie saved your life.
Now you need to save his.
What if he can't be saved?
I just got to get him to
El Rey, and he's gonna be fine.
- My neighbor Patty...
- Yeah.
Right... she's an RN in a
mental hospital over in Devore.
Well, I had her over for dinner one night
when I could finally get
Richie out of his shack in the woods.
She gave him a once-over.
She called it dissociative
something or another.
She thinks he hears voices.
Let me get this straight.
You had him
head-shrunk?
Okay.
I'll tell you what.
I'm gonna get up now, get myself
and my brother a burger.
- You have a nice life.
- Seth...
He is not crazy.
She was transformed
by the serpent god.
Who was?
The mistress.
Look, if one or both of these brothers
is out there killing for these people,
you got to stop thinking like a ranger and
start thinking like one of your own.
One of my own?
Not racially profiling here,
Ranger Gonzalez.
These are your
roots, are they not?
I'm from San Antone.
Oh, so you know about
the blood cult,
the one that asks its faithful to eat
the body and drink the blood of its savior.
Oh, I got my wires
crossed there.
What's your point?
Are you a man of faith?
Gonna baptize
my daughter, same as I was.
This is not just a cartel.
This is a blood cult.
And the patron saint,
to put it in terms you can understand...
she's a very, very powerful
demigoddess.
Okay.
So, who is she?
Well, nobody knows
her real name.
Just that she was so beautiful,
the serpent god had to have her.
He sent his faithful out to collect her
and bring her back to sacred
ground and sacrifice her.
They threw her
into a pit of snakes.
She was consumed and transformed
and became a mistress of the night,
a harbinger of the next realm.
Okay, so what
does that even mean?
It means the killer
who uses this...
he isn't looking for blood...
but trying to see something...
trying to see something that
people like you and me can't see.
Look and you will see me now.
Set me free.
Come to me.
Richie...
He's trying
to see the other side.
Just tell me.
Just tell me, how do you know?
How did you know my name?
Gordita.
Only my husband calls me that.
He calls me that during sex!
How could you
possibly know that?
How did you know?
You're back.
How's that King Kamehameha?
Is that the one with
the pineapple in it?
It most certainly is.
I may be biased,
but I think it's delicious.
Let me get one of those
and two native-style Mahalos
with sweet-potato fries, please.
Just the sandwich or
the tidal wave meal?
Tidal wave it.
Oh, uh, you don't, um,
- do you have any horchata?
- Yes, we do.
It has a little hint
of macadamia nut.
Sounds delicious...
Give me two.
What the f...
What the...
Jesus, what are you doing?
Maybe if I start acting like a crazy
loon, you'll finally give a shit!
Give me that!
Stupid!
It was never gonna be you
and me, it was always you and Richie!
- Honey, that's not what this...
- Don't even try to sweet talk me.
You love your brother so much,
why don't you go screw him?
Look, I'm
all he's got, all right?
Now, why can't you
understand that?
I'm all he's got!
Look, just...
Just go see Pritchard.
Get your four million, okay?
Just... go.
We could've been good together!
We were together.
It wasn't good.
I'm not afraid of you!
Just don't... please.
Please, we
were just role-playing.
What are you talking about?
My husband and I,
we've been having problems.
We went to see a counselor, and
she suggested role-playing.
Then we went to
a hotel just-just like this one.
He'd be the cop, and I'd be
the high-priced call girl.
It cost me a
fortune at Frederick's.
It was just something he wanted to
do 'cause it reminded him
of some Burt Reynolds
movie that he loves.
- I didn't know any of that.
- Yes, but you did!
No, it's just noise, okay?
I hear things inside my head, and
sometimes she talks to me!
- Who?
- I don't know!
But if I listen...
and if I focus,
she can show me things.
I saw you on the bed, okay?
I guess... I guess you were telling your
husband to call you Gordita...
Tu gordita.
It means chubby, little girl.
Leandro, he calls me that
'cause he's-he's always loved my curves.
It was "Sharky's Machine."
What?
The movie that your husband
likes is called "Sharky's Machine."
He was Burt.
You were Rachel Ward.
I don't know how you did it,
but it's like you saw me.
It's like-it's like
you saw the real me.
I see too much.
Daddy?
Katie-cakes?
We were letting
the engine cool down.
I can help...
come on.
Oh, this is...
this is my little girl.
- She's always looking for the family toolbox.
- How you doing?
Trying to find
ways to fix her old man.
Go on.
I'll catch up.
Well...
Aren't you a little young
to be hanging out in here?
You're a little pistol,
aren't you?
Now, I mapped out where all
the killings happened along the border.
Maybe it'll show us...
Huh?
Where's the knife?
- What?
- Did you take it?
- What... no.
- The knife.
Yeah, you, uh...
You wanted me to take it.
You wanted me to put it in my bag and take it
to the university for some laboratory tests.
I didn't ask you to do that.
Yeah, you did.
No, I didn't.
Okay.
You're gonna tell me
it belongs in a museum?
It belongs to the lords
of the night.
Is that some other
gang I don't know about?
The nine Mayan lords
of the night.
They occupy the first realm.
One of them threw the girl
into the pit of snakes.
If I find those
assholes, I'll arrest them, too.
Baby, not for nothing,
but you best get out of here.
Something is coming.
Night is coming.
Doesn't that come every day?
Today is different.
She wants to be free.
She wants you.
It's time.
Looks like a
pattern to me.
It's a safe zone.
That's sacred ground.
That's precisely in
the middle of the cult's ancient lands.
In the middle of that,
the border crossing.
I gotcha.
Hi.
My name's Lila and I just started working over
here at Bethel Fidelity Insurance office.
We, uh.
We had a little bit of
a computer crash over here.
We got the hearing coming up
on the Fuller accident.
That... should do it.
All right.
See you around.
You have the report
on file, right?
Well, if you could send
that over, that would be just great.
Dad, stop!
Dad, what the hell?
You all right?
Oh, my God!
- Kate!
- I'm fine.
Katie, I'm sorry, I'm sorry!
Think I'm gonna drive.
Thanks for your help,
Professor.
I gotta get going.
I know you're in a hurry,
but I just realized something.
You said the bank robbers
are brothers, right?
That's right.
You know the one
about the brothers, don't you?
Summoned to the underworld,
the place of fear.
It's in the Popol Vuh.
The Mayan bible.
The brothers journey to the underworld
to trick the gods.
Trick them how?
They beat 'em at their own game.
Richard, it has been a long, hard road,
but our debts are paid.
And we are finally on our way.
Where's the girl?
What the hell is she
doing in here?
What is wrong with you?
I worked it out.
I can see now.
I can see.
Can you?
And what is this?
Because...
this doesn't
look like anything that...
that I've ever seen, Richard.
Don't "Richard" me.
I'm gonna do a lot worse
if you don't stop right now!
This is not who we are.
This is not who you are.
Say it!
This isn't me.
Say it again.
Say it!
It is me.
Do you realize what
I have been through to get here?
Huh?
Do you?
It's okay.
This is all gonna be
a memory when we get to El Rey.
It's gonna be blue agave, sunshine
and beaches.
Just you and me, buddy.
Just you and me.