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One of the craziest episodes of TV I have seen this year.

You could tell five minutes in it would be polarizing. This was not an episode of Goliath. This was half Criminal Minds, 25% North by Northwest and 25% acid trip.

We saw Billy and a mysterious lady of the night held captive and have to derive a plan to escape, and then come up with a plan for him to get to America.

Insane. I didn't know what I was watching, but I loved it.

The majority of this penultimate episode introduces an entirely new set of characters who are forced to cohabit within the claustrophobic confines of a small house. Recovering from a drinking binge, Billy has no memory of what brought him to the home. Is he in a safe house? Or is he in a holding tank until his captors decide to murder him?

Billy is captive to a ridiculous group of losers. It is difficult to believe that they are somehow part of the efficient La Mano organization. Assisted by an Asian woman who is also being held captive, Billy improvises a devious escape plan.

Another one of the key players, Danny Loomis, is finally taken out by the man with the prosthetic hand. Danny loses an ear, then leaps to his death from a tall building. Patty will eventually follow a paper trail to the grey-haired man at the club, who is also in real estate: Pete "The Broker" Oakland.

Brittany is having a positive effect on the unscrupulous Tom Wyatt, who has sent her a mysterious package. Patty has stolen from Jeff (with whom she is now sleeping) a cell phone belonging to Keith Roman. Marva is phoning all of the numbers.

A frantic Denise is finally becoming disillusioned with her heroine, Marisol Silva after she took Billy to Mexico for a weekend, then "lost" him! Elena has done some effective sleuth work in discovering that Marisol is a fraud. Elena spoke with the nun who was repulsed by Marisol/Claudia. For her pains, Elena is fired, then has her nose disfigured by the man with the prosthetic arm. The episode ends with Billy having successfully evaded his captors and crossed the border with the assistance of a driver named Fernando Valenzuela. He is picked up at a gas station on the U.S. side of the daughter by a relieved Denise and Patty.

It goes nowhere. It does nothing. And everyone is ugly.

Didn't feel the chemistry between McBride and Marisol. Ending was not believable - the cartel would not leave McBride alive. I still enjoyed a lot of the action, especially when McBride and the "lady in red" were escaping their captors!

Spoiler warning. Amazingly talented character actors are totally wasted in the D-level story. The dialog, the camera work, and everything in this episode fails on every level. Even the episodes after (which are also very weak) are not as deadly dull as this episode. It's an episode that's clearly filler and introduces no memorable characters or plot. It's as if the show ran out of money and simply had the actors improvise their lines in this single location for the majority of the episode. There's no real tension, nor any flash in the improvisation. I suspect lots of last minute rewrites in dialog by someone who has never actually listened to dialog. You can actually skip this episode and not miss any plot point in the story arc. It's as if a 10 minute, 5 page scene was stretched to 45 minutes. If this episode were aired first in this season you'd not want to watch the rest of the season. If you want to be bored for most of the episode and have a bad memory of the show, then proceed to watch. Otherwise skip it.