Warning: spoilers ahead. Tonight was a welcome change from all the domestic drama of late. We got an episode that focused on the down and dirty drug manufacturing, and ratcheted up the tension to unbearable levels. Did everyone exhale a sigh of relief when Hank was summoned away from the junkyard? I did, even though I know the showdown between Hank and Walt is inevitable.
‘Sunset’ begins with a New Mexico police patrol summoned to the residence of a woman who has not been seen for a few days. When he arrives at her isolated adobe, things are rather quiet. We see the sketch of Walt from ‘No Mas’, along with tell-tale candles and cult paraphernalia.
After the officer sees two suit coats hanging out to dry, he knows something is amiss, and starts checking the perimeter of the house. Buzzing flies (never a good sign) are swarming on one side of an outbuilding (which appears to be the same one that all the people were slithering toward on their bellies in ‘No Mas’), and the officer discovers a body.
He calls for back-up, and is confronted by one of the cousins, who refuses to stand down or obey orders, and nonchalantly munches an apple while his counterpart stealthily sneaks up behind the officer and bludgeons him to death, with what I believe was a scythe.
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