Snowfall
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InTheIliad, war is a game marked by fate and fury.
And isThe Iliadpossible at all when the printing press and even printing machines exist?
Suddenly, their future talk is interrupted by present peril.
Louie and Jeromes pagers begin to beep, going off incessantly.
Unbeknownst to them, the hit during Franklins drop with Teddy is much worse than he let on.
Things are off from the beginning.
When Franklin explains that Peaches is sick and introduces the new guy, Teddy looks at him suspiciously.
You offer sick days now?
You gotta take care of your people, man.
Peaches Two is shot dead almost immediately, Gustavo gets grazed on the arm (not El Oso!
), and Teddy is shot in the chest.
Driving off to save himself, Teddy leaves Gustavo behind and kicks into survival mode.
Helping Gustavo into his car, Franklin rear-ends the orange van and drives them to safety.
Franklin and Gustavo make their way to a pay phone in the hopes of orchestrating a rescue.
Unsure of exactly who was behind the hit, Franklin racks his brain for answers.
Gotta know your enemies, mijo, Gustavo tells him.
Maybe they followed you!
Gustavo rejects this suggestion outright and suspects Peaches was behind it, but Franklin brushes past the suggestion.
Franklin calls Jerome while Gustavo watches his back.
Pinche ropa sucia, Gustavo answers indignantly.
This morning, I was making pancakes in dinosaur shapes, Gustavo responds (awww!).
Speaking of family, none of Franklins family is spared from these acts of war.
Leon shoots one of their attackers and is surprised when they drive off without their comrade.
They left one of their dead behind.
No ID, he notes.
Whoever did this was close, he says.
As the episode unfolds, no clear answers are provided.
Still, troubled intimacies remain a threat to all the characters caught up in Franklins web of networks.
Eventually, he stops at what looks like it’s a random home.
She finds Teddy on her kitchen floor, bleeding out.
Thomas, what a surprise?
Parissa, how you been?
Teddy asks between groans and winces.
Better than you, Parissa responds (Queen of comedy!).
She negotiates a medical bill of a quarter-million in exchange for operating on him.
After inspection, she explains that the bullet hit an auxiliary artery and shouldnt be fatal.
You wont die unless I want you to, she says.
Before running to the hospital to steal surgical supplies, she throws salt on his wound.
Nothing keeps you awake more than pain, Thomas, she says.
To calm them, Jerome emphasizes Franklins resilience.
Franklin is a survivor, he says.
Lighter on their feet now, the two men sneak into a house without a car in the driveway.
The man proceeds to shoot Gustavo next, and the two men fall to the ground.
Franklin panics, worrying that the man has plans to stuff them.
The old man assured him that he is far too slender to be an ideal candidate for taxidermy.
Gustavo, however, he finds to be the perfect size for such an experiment.
(If this man actually stuffs El Oso, I will scream!)
As the men slip into tranquilizer-induced sleep, their fate lies in the hands of a stranger.
When he awakes from his sleep, Franklin finds that he and Gustavo are caged next to a tiger.
Still groggy from the tranquilizer, Gustavo struggles to gain clarity amid Franklins clarifying fear.
One of Big Deons men struggles to roll his joint amid Leons revolutionary rants.
Can the fires of revolution light a blunt?
Killing Teddy is one thing, recording my son talking about illegal activity is a-motherfuckin-nother, she tells Ruben.
Cissy crossed the Caribbean sea twice for her family.
Come hell or high water, she wont steer her son in the wrong direction.
