Below are the episode guides from Wikipedia which do it better justice than I could. In related news, the show has been renewed for a second season. This killer will supposedly be revealed way before the finale of season 1 though.
Basically here's what happened:
- A horse (Rio) gets killed. Who hangs a horse in a barn? That's just wrong.
- Charlotte reopend the tunnel. We all know Cesar is actually the one in charge.
- Marco has a love connection with Charlotte. Charlotte, why did you bring his wallet to the police station? That was dumb.
- Maria is tied down in the desert by a crazy who wanted $1 million. He is doing a live web feed of the event. Which site would allow such a thing? Wherever it is, I don't want to go there.
- Sonya still has Aspergers.
- Reporter Daniel Frye goes to Mexico to get the scoop. And Frye is correct in his assessment that "if it had been a big-tittied blonde lying out there in the heat, SWAT teams, helicopters, spaceships, and Superman would have been right on the scene". Instead, they basically did nothing because she's Latina.
- Ruiz gets the money for the ransom from Fausto Galvan (a very scary person). He had to do this because the police won't do anything and will let Maria die.
- Linder (Sideburns Man) takes Eva (girl who got in the trunk from episode 1) to some ranch. She will be safe from Hector there. He's not the killer. He was just a distraction from the real killer-- or maybe he is the killer. First they hinted he was, then he wasn't, then he really was. That would be fun.
- Hank (Ted Levine from "Silence of the Lambs" fame) and Sonya have a heart to heart while driving. We know her sister is dead but we don't know the circumstances. Sonya has very difficult time with her emotions. EXCELLENT scene.
- Maria is rescued by Sonya and crew (thanks to Sonya sees an oil pump and she and Hank driving around to all of them till they find Maria).
- Ruiz is beaten up by the killer. FBI Agent Gedman lost his head. And the killer didn't want the money after all? Is he trying to make some sort of political statement?
Wikipedia:
Episode 3 "Rio"
The self-proclaimed killer of the two people found on the bridge, the nine Mexicans in the desert and the abductor of Maria tells Daniel Frye that he will kill Maria unless he gets $1,000,000 from four Americans, including Charlotte's deceased husband Karl Millwright. The four people he names are the richest men in El Paso, according to the killer, citing dialectics. Marco expresses frustration to Sonya that she filed a complaint against him for disturbing the crime scene at the bridge. Sonya refuses to withdrawal the complaint and Marco says he will handle it himself. After the killer makes his demands for the ransom from Karl Millwright, Charlotte goes to the El Paso police station to answer questions. Marco asks her casually about her husband's dealings in Mexico. Afterwards, Marco's wife, Alma, and son, Gus, visit him in the El Paso police station where Alma tells him that Gus has dropped another class. Marco introduces his family to Sonya, and Gus is taken with Sonya. Alma says Sonya is very pretty. Later, Marco goes to Charlotte's house at night and tells her he could use her help to get rid of Sonya's complaint. Charlotte agrees to sign a letter that attests Marco did not take money from Charlotte to let her go through the crime scene with her dying husband. Charlotte asks Marco if he is happy in his marriage and they end up kissing after she says she isn't tired. Later, Charlotte is in her pajamas waiving to Marco as he drives away. Charlotte buries her dead husband and her step daughter calls her a whore. After the funeral ends, Charlotte approaches a woman who is still on the ranch. This woman tells Charlotte to work with her to keep running the immigrants through the tunnel on the ranch. Charlotte refuses, and the stranger says goodbye to the horse Charlotte's husband bought with payments from running immigrants in the tunnel. Later, after saying goodbye to Marco, Charlotte hears some noises from the horse barn and discovers one of her horses dead and hanging from the barn's ceiling. At the location where the nine dead bodies were found Sonya deduces that the killer was watching the Mexicans drink the poisoned water and saw Maria escape his trap. Sonya also notices in the distance a trailer home, which proves to be Linder's trailer. Sonya finds burned women's clothes at Linder's trailer. Marco and Sonya bring in Linder for questioning about the murder of the lady down the hall from his apartment. The police have no proof to hold him after brief questioning. Frye goes to Mexico with fellow reporter Adriana Mendez to talk to to the people that were with the nine Mexicans before they tried to hike across the border and died from water poisoning. The unidentified killer ties Maria to stakes in the ground and sets up a web feed to Frye's newspaper to show Maria slowly die from sun exposure.
Episode 4 "Maria of the Desert"
Charlotte tells her foreman to open the tunnel from Mexico after she gets scared by the dead horse. Separately, Linder has Eva in the back seat of his car. Eva is the girl he put in the trunk of his car in the first episode of the series and brought across the border to the US. Linder drops Eva off at a secluded house and tells her she will be safe there from Hector. A Mexican man on a roof with binoculars complains about police scrutiny in the wake of the kidnapping of the Mexican girl Maria. An accomplice tells him that Hector killed someone in the US. The Mexican man says he will take care of everything. He approaches Mexican woman who runs the tunnel that goes to Charlotte Millwright's ranch and tells her he needs to use it. He goes through the tunnel with an accomplice and a suitcase. In the El Paso police station Marco gets a call and says he has to go outside. Marco meets the Mexican man who just crossed the border, and this man tells Marco he has the ransom money for Maria in the desert. Marco brings the money back to the police station and tells the FBI and police that the money is from a legitimate storage business that doesn't want to see a Mexican girl die. The FBI takes the lead in the money drop to the kidnapper, and one FBI agent, Ralph Gedman, goes into a bar which is the prearranged meeting place. The bartender gives Agent Ralph a phone with a message on it. After listening to it, Ralph takes out his FBI earpiece and leaves the bar. Meanwhile, Sonya has identified that Maria in the desert is close to an oil derrick based on the moving shadows in the web feed. Sonya and her boss, Lieutenant Hank Wade, scour derrick sites, and eventually find Maria. They tell the FBI to stop the money drop and find the kidnapper, but Ralph and the money have disappeared. Marco investigates a building nearby and is ambushed by the killer. The killer holds a gun to Marco's head and Marco pleads mercy as he has a family. The killer drops two bags by Marco: the bag of ransom money and the head of FBI agent Ralph. Inside the bag with Agent Ralph's head there is a phone that shows a video of him with his shirt off chugging a liquor bottle in front of a scantily clad young Mexican woman.
Grade: 3 1/2 Monster (out of 5). Its not holding my attention but I'll weather it out and see how it goes. It has potential so it might just be my ADD.
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