As usual, lots of spoilers ahead. Take heed.
Well nothing like a little Danny Trejo cameo to start things off with a bang, huh? Trejo plays Tortuga, who is wetting his whistle in a watering hole when he is visited by Juan Bolsa, from the cartel. Juan makes some small talk with Tortuga, and tells him he has a birthday present waiting for him in a back room. Tortuga is giddy to see a giant tortoise, but the rest of us know that the last time we saw a giant tortoise, it had a head attached, so this can’t possibly end well.
Juan tells Tortuga he is going to sign the creature, and he paints “Hola DEA”. Now, I’m no knife expert, but I believe that Tortuga was then bludgeoned to death by a machete, which is a delicious little wink to the upcoming release of Robert Rodriguez’s Machete, which just happens to star a one Danny Trejo.
So, I went back to find photos of that tortoise with the head, and damn if that isn’t Tortuga’s head, and the tortoise says, “Hola DEA”. So was that a flash forward in episode “Negro Y Azul” from season 2? I thought we were seeing everything in chronological order, but I must be wrong.
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