In fact, he hasn’t even gotten his training wheels off yet.
We know which animal symbolizes EZ when he drives his bike right over the dead bird.
Eight years earlier, he was still enrolled at Stanford (he’s smart, remember?).
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They both can’t wait for her to graduate so they can be together again.
More on that later… Before leaving the shop, EZ hands his pops a mysterious package.
Pops asks if his brother knows anything, and EZ assures him he doesn’t.
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(More on that later too.)
Outside the store, Angel is waiting and asks if their dad spoke about their mom.
Later that night, a group of Mayans ride alongside a van containing the dresses.
As the convoy drives through the desert, they’re ambushed in what looks to be an inside job.
EZ saves the life of a Mayan trapped inside the burning van, but all the drugs are taken.
They trace the ink to a Samoan gang, but Galindo thinks they were probably just hired guns.
To check that, he asks the Mayans to bring him the gang’s shot caller for an interrogation.
Bishop pushes back on the demand but is quickly put in his place by Galindo.
It seems like the Mayans aren’t thrilled to be under the cartel’s thumb.
While in Mexico, Angel and some other Mayans duck into a building, leaving EZ as a lookout.
The duo share a moment, and we know she’ll be coming back into the story.
When Angel and the rest return, EZ notices they’re carrying a package.
When he asks what’s going on, they react with extreme caginess.
Through another flashback, we learn that EZ ended their relationship when Emily came to visit him in jail.
(SOAfans will notice Katey Sagal’s Gemma Teller Morrow watching the breakup in the background.)
Padrino asks EZ to stay outside and wash his bike while the grownups talk.
Padrino concludes the summit with a pound of a gavel.
The Samoan admits to stealing the drugs but swears he doesn’t know who hired him.
His memory is triggered, however, when Galindo orders his arm be chopped off with a machete.
Now missing an ear and an arm, the Samoan provides some details that help crack the mystery.
We learn that a group of rebels, made up of cartel victims, are probably to blame.
Galindo demands the Mayans find the snitch in their ranks and help get the drugs back somehow.
He then strolls off to dinner with his family.
EZ is left to roll up the dead Samoan in plastic wrap as another fun hazing ritual.
We then get the episode’s three biggest twists, back to back to back.
But could the boy belong to EZ?
We then cut back to EZ, who sneaks into his father’s closed store.
In the meat locker, he meets with an FBI agent.
That’s right, EZ is a government witness.
EZ reminds the agent that his agreement was to help bring down the cartel, not the Mayans.
She introduces herself as Adelita.
Behind her, a camp is set up that seems to be crawling with children wearing strange animal masks.
The Mayans deliver her the package they retrieved earlier in Mexico, which is filled with drugs.
We soon learn that Adelita is the head of the rebels, the Olvidados, or forgotten ones.
She’s not afraid of retribution and swears she’ll make the cartel fear for their own families.
Angel then takes EZ aside, telling him that the cartel is suffering and the rebels are the future.
Sensing the sea change, he and some Mayan friends have decided to secretly align themselves with the rebels.
EZ then realizes that his brother is the rat Galindo and the rest of the Mayans are looking for.
Still, he decides to keep Angel’s secret and pledges to help him continue sabotaging the cartel.
As the episode ends, we see Adelita making good on her promise.
When Galindo leaves the restaurant with Emily, they get into separate cars.
