Snowfall season 2 episode 6 recap: You’ve got to follow through

It was a tense 48 hours on this weeks episode of Snowfall.

Soledad has (understandably) been an alias this whole time. Her actual name is Loraina, and she had spent a lot of time and effort planning to take Lucia’s operation down. Her bosses wanted to step in and arrest Lucia and her associates right away, but she refused. He ended up giving her 48 hours to wrap the things up.

Teddy and his brother went down to Panama, to gain some insurance on their dealings. I think what they were insuring was the weapons they planned to transport, not the drugs that would buy them with, but that could be wrong. It also just seems more acceptable to ensure weapons ‘over the table’ as it were than to insure cocaine. Even in Panama.

Franklin’s business had been expanding, and one of his friends had an idea to expand it further, but that would also make it more visible to others (like law enforcement, which he wanted to avoid for obvious reasons. A woman, Mia Jones, came to their truck. She knew about their (real) business but had actually come to report to Franklin that his father had fought with a cop and was being tried for it, even though he was the one who was beaten up. Franklin still had no interest in helping him, even after he was assured that his father had been remaining on track, and sober.

Gustavo and Lucia were planning something. It wasn’t clear if they knew about Soledad’s treachery or not (I would guess not exactly) but they knew something was wrong. Pedro arrived, with Soledad, apparently not expecting to find Lucia there. Did he know about Soledad’s allegiance/was he also a double agent? We’ll see.

Teddy met a contact in a nightclub, looking for information, and to reassure her of his commitment to the war. It seemed a lot had changed, in personnel and in collateral. The route had changed, perhaps because the support was no longer running through approved government channels. He got a list of requested supplies, and she got an ETA for the first shipment of weapons.

Someone pulled up in front of Lucia’s warehouse, it was the woman she had been waiting to meet. Some money had gone missing, and she accused Lucia’s group of stealing it. Things got pretty heated and almost everyone was sent out. Eventually Lucia fell victim to someone as ruthless as herself. She was still injured after being hit by some shrapnel, and the other woman took full advantage of it. To buy her life Lucia actually promised to find and give up the recipe for the particular type of rock cocaine that she had been selling — something much more valuable than the money lost. Lucia would need to get it out herself though, so it might not go all that smoothly.

Gustavo and Lucia met Franklin at a diner to try to get the recipe from him. They offered him information, money, and vengeance for his friends, but was unwilling to pass on his recipe. It was one of the main things he had to keep demand and his business going.

Teddy had to pull his brother out of a hotel room, which the Panamanian group had turned into some kind of spa/brothel/playhouse. Teddy was panicked that his brother had mentioned something important, like either of their names or the CIA because the room had been bugged. He was sure he hadn’t, but it was really too late, the blackmail material was there, and if the others hadn’t learned anything incriminating the damage was already done.

Later he and Teddy had a rather illuminating conversation in the hotel bar, discussing their absent parents and how that had effected their lives. Teddy was better disposed towards his mother than his father, but his brother didn’t feel the same. He wasn’t ready to let either of them off the hook.

Rob, one of Franklin’s people, had lost some cocaine, his father had taken it. Franklin actually seemed less angry than I thought at Rob, but maybe he was just saving it. A whole group of them went to find Rob’s father, and try to perhaps use his existing relationship with Franklin to get the drugs back. Franklin had spent a fair amount of time at Rob’s house while growing up.

Rob’s father apparently worked in the movie business somehow. Or just the porn business perhaps. They found him during a shoot, and actually had the consideration to wait for it to cut to step in. They learned that the coke was all gone, used or sold. Franklin offered Rob/his father a ’50 percent family discount’ to repay them for it. Jerome wasn’t satisfied and proceeded to beat Rob’s father up. Eventually Rob stepped in and was supported by Franklin, otherwise that could have gotten bad (or worse.)

Soledad and Pedro (So he was in on it!) staked out a warehouse to find Lucia, but she wasn’t there. Pedro was afraid she had run, but Soledad was sure Lucia couldn’t do that before getting everything straightened out with La Fuerza. Soledad mentioned something about “When you [Pedro] came to us,” so her whole relationship with him could well have been fabricated. Seems more and more likely as things move along.

Franklin and the woman went to find his father, who actually was at his job and seemed sober. The two of them actually turned out to have more in common than they thought. They had grown up in the same area and attended the same school. Franklin even knew one of her ex-boyfriends. This was possibly the first time on the show Franklin had run in to someone who both could relate to him and could also provide an outside point of view. She was working up for law school, because she knew the system couldn’t be fixed from the outside. Franklin actually asked her out, but she turned him down. Her reasoning: she knew what Franklin did, and though she wouldn’t judge him too harshly for it, the drug world was somewhere she had been, and somewhere she didn’t want to go back to. She might even have made Franklin take a second look at his chosen ‘profession.’ I think I have a new favorite character!

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Teddy and his brother were driving along, minding their own business, when they ran afoul of Soledad and her crew. What ensued as a rather undramatic car chase, but we don’t know exactly how it ended.

After striking out with Franklin Lucia and Gustavo sought out another drug dealer to try and get the rock recipe. Their time might be running out. Lucia essentially offered him a blank check for it, but still wasn’t accepted straight away. She seemed optimistic though, so there might be another traitor by this time next week.