So....

Let's talk about the problems these two are facing at the border.

On one hand, Ofelia has now been captured by an somewhat genial American man with a big gun in what I think is the New Mexico/Mexico border.

On the other hand, on the California/Mexico border, Nick has led the people of the colonia out of the frying pan right into a ferocious grease fire.

What say you all?

 

The border shooters were chasing and still firing on the ones who ran. The people from the colonia are worse off because they have nowhere to go and they are being shot at in the middle of the streets. The colonia has been compromised so they can't just go back.

Besides, it is Nick's fault that the colonia was endangered in the first place. But don't get me started on Nick. His attitude made me very angry in the finale.

 

Nah I don't think this has anything to do with Trump.

I think it has more to do with the fact that many Americans blame the Mexicans and other latinos for the zombie apocalypse. Maybe they are simply mistaken, maybe they are racist or maybe they are on to something. What if Mexico was the cradle of the apocalypse? What if patient zero came across the border (illegally or legally, it almost doesn't really matter) and started getting people sick?

 

No. They weren't angry because they were late. By the time, Nick got to El Pelicano supermarket, they were gearing up for war. They were angry because they found out that Nick and the colonia had been giving them 50% fake oxy.

Remember Madison and Elena's run-in with the narcos in "A Pillar of Salt?" They were trying to find out the whereabouts of the colonia. Elena's son told her not to come back looking for him because he won't be there anymore. And the leader of the narcos told Madison to tell her son that he was going to castrate Nick the next time he sees him.

Which led to Madison panicking and turning on the hotel lights.

Nick's original scuffle with them was the beginning of the end. The colonia would've never attracted the attention that led to its downfall if it wasn't for Nick. Luciana and Alejandro both told him that he had compromised the communit.

 

What about Ofelia? The guy who caught her wasn't an American soldier.

 

I don't know.

Nick, Luciana and the others were trying to cross over into California. Ofelia is trying to get back into New Mexico.

They could be affiliated groups. But...that's hundreds of miles in between them.

 

Are you sure?

Do you remember the young family that tried to leave the colonia in the opening of "A Pillar of Salt?" They were taken by the narcos who interrogated and then executed them?

The family of three left the colonia and were abducted BEFORE the trade was supposed to occur. Alejandro didn't forbid Nick and Ofelia from making the trade until after they found out that the family was missing.

Yes, Marco knew about the half-oxy. He was practically foaming at the mouth during the interrogation scene that Madison interrupted. They were upset that Nick didn't show up on time. But they were more upset about the fact that they had been hoodwinked. That's why they wanted to find out where they were.

When Nick came to El Pelicano, Marco was in a good mood because he had made another deal to secure their people and get some real drugs.