Caray, Caray!

 In the countryside of CD Jimenez at Rancho de los Garza, while Dora and her head CEO/financial advisor are working on the monthly finances or reports for the trucking business, the Pacheco posse surround the place, cut off electricity and Internet for the ranch, and summarily murder all the guerrerros/security teams they come across.  ( Man, these people Dora's got working for her are such losers it's a wonder Damberto managed to survive at the head of the syndicate as long as he did.)

Meanwhile, in CDMX, aka la DF, poor Jorge, the poor little lamb, is lost.  He gets bullied, beaten and rolled by a gang of young thugs.  His broken processor is also stolen.  So, they get away with a phone and a hunk a junk with a few pesos thrown in.



Across town in a jewelry store Chisca gets a phone call from Jorge to come rescue him from the corner market, which she does asap.  He asks for some cash to reward the market's owner for helping him the way she did.  Chisca rewards the woman with a large number of bills and gets her brother home.  He begs his sister not to tell Miguel about how he must have taken the wrong bus at the busstop from the hospital?  (Redeeming factor numero uno.  Viewerville is now keeping score.)

Murder and mayhem overtake the hacienda and then Dora's digs.  Fat Pacheco and some of his posse hold Dora and Sr. Finanzas at gunpoint.

Jimena says she'll drive Miguel in her own car to the meeting they have with Mig's #2 in finances.  Adela is left at The Towers with nothing more to do for a bit.

At the pizzeria where it looks like they've rented out the entire restaurant for themselves, they discuss numerous businesses to use to pass their ill gotten gaines through.  Jime looks distracted and when asked, replies that she didn't sleep well.  He quotes her an old bit of Samurai wisdom about confronting her anxieties head on.

The ambush and carnage continue.  Skinny Pacheco sings his favorite shower ditties as he methodically shoots in the head anybody he comes in contact with.  Sr. Finances tries to buy him and his brother off with 10 million, American, but Skinny P snickers at the attempt to buy his life so cheaply.

In CDMX, Ade and Valentin discuss for as good a friendship he and Mig have, you'd never expect it since they are as alike as night and day.  In comes Chis and Jorge.  She snubs Ade's questions about what in the world happened to him.  "--Nothing that concerns you!"  Jorge goes to get himself cleaned up.  Mig walks in and invites everyone into the living room for a glass of wine.  Mig notes Jorge's face when he joins them all and asks what happened.  Jorge lies and says he was playing football at school and got knocked around a bit.  Chis suggests a toast from Valentin.  Mig suspects worse things than a football game may have happened to his kid brother.

F Pacheco carries out assassinations by choosing others of the guerreros to shoot each other in the head on command.

Chis tries to get Val to agree to her moving back to Spain to be with him.  He tells her he can't yet formalize anything with her till he gets his divorce.

Later in the day, Ade, Chis, and Jorge learn off the television news that Paula Sandoval committed suicide in her office, setting off a number of investigations.  Ade runs into Mig's office and informs him.  He says he's sorry about that and continues to work without even the flicker of an eyelash.  He is cool, calm, dispassionate.  She cannot believe all he has to say is that he is sorry.  "--What do you mean "I am sorry."  She died on account of us! "  "--It was business, that's all.  You don't have to feel you are to blame.  In her position she could have had any number of reasons to kill herself.  You don't know."  "--Well we do think differently!  I feel I don't know you."  "--Exactly, you don't know me!  This isn't our fault, not directly.  I am a financial investor.  Sometimes you win; sometimes you lose." 
"--But we lied!  We played dirty!"  "--Trickery is all part of high finance.  Some learn to withstand, others get upset--"  "--others kill themselves!"  "--Or they kill me!"  Ade argues she was someone's daughter, wife, sister....a human being who led a life.  He just stares her in the face, totally unmoved, a stone killer when it comes to the business of finance.  Ade is stunned at this other side of Miguel and scoffs sarcastically,  "--The dragon spits fire." She turns on her heel and leaves.

Guajalote is brought in with a couple of others of the help and security guards.  Dora is pushed down with the others.  Guajalote is told to shoot Sr. Finanza.  He is a coward and rather than take the honorable way out, he shoots the accountant in front of Dora, then is forced to watch as she is raped by Fats P.

Hector and his wife, Ana, have a discussion.  She wants him to give up this horrible obsession for vengeance.  She talks him into quitting.

That night Chisca is out with girlfriends.  Angel wants to make up now that rude dude Valentin is gone.  He tells her she's ignorant of how Val doesn't give two rats' patooties for her.  Doesn't she wonder how she ended up at the hospital, to survive that mess?  He tells her to get her head together, kisses her and leaves the bar.

Hector tells Claudia he's given up his fight.  She says he's like all the quitters that have gone before.  Eventually she hits a soft spot and he determines he'll continue no matter the cost.  He is a journalist, afterall. 

Hector goes to interview the fall guy for Nati's murder.  The dude, Braulio, states it was a stray bullet. Hector confronts him with possibly taking money to lie about who really killed her.  Interview over.
Hector gets to the car and admits to Claudia that Braulio is hiding something.  All the more reason, she says, to double their efforts.  Hector wonder's if Ana was right after all.

Braulio, meanwhile, reports to Epigmenio that Hector was nosing around.

Later in the day, Pig meets with Carlos.  "Carlos gives the order to take care of him."

Val meets one of his buddies, debtors (Amaco?) at a bar.  He tells him how he's got Miguel Garza and the kid sister wrapped around his little finger.  Drinking buddy tells Val to be cautious.  However, he does have a capo of the Italian Mafia covering his backside.  Val says when the blow comes it will come from where he least expects it.

Back at The Tower, Mig, Jime and #2 Dude give a name to the new foundation which will be safely  laundering funds.  "--Anybody you have in mind?"  Mig looks around and suddenly sees Ade walk past the office door and smiles.

Across town, Hector arrives home.  Tacho has been laying in wait.  He waits till Hector is inside his building to place a bomb on Hector's rear wheel well.

Back at The Tower, Mig is about to have a chat with Ade when Guajo arrives with a video message for Mig from Skinny Pacheco.  "--The same way we entered your rancho, we're entering into business with you.  You decide."  There are screams and sobs overheard in the background.  "--Decide or we will kill her slowly.  --Not now, though.  We're really enjoying her.....Go for it Nando!!  That's the way!!"  Finally,  Miguel shows a bit of true shock at something.  He is totally drop-jawed impacted at this point, seeing what he is now seeing.....

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