Ruiz gets out of his car on a high ridge road and meets Tate leaning up against the grille of his. His current car, that is. "Hello there, old friend," Tate says smoothly as Ruiz approaches, but then he realizes Ruiz isn't slowing down and orders, "Stop." Instead of complying, Ruiz clamps his hands around Tate's throat and demands to know where Gus is. Tate keeps his mouth shut and his eyes locked in Ruiz's indicating that he's not saying anything. And they both know that if Ruiz actually strangles him, Gus is screwed. Finally Ruiz releases him in frustration. "Strange feeling for a cop, isn't it?" Tate remarks from his knees. "To be powerless?" Ruiz suddenly realizes that the car Tate's driving belongs to Daniel Frye. "That's some amazing detective work," Tate snarks. Ruiz asks if Tate killed him too. Maybe, maybe not. Matthew Lillard is still only a guest star, after all.

Instead of answering, Tate asks Ruiz, "Have you thought about me much? Since my suicide?" "Not much," Ruiz admits. Seems like Tate was doing enough thinking for the both of them. Tate says, "You know I was crumbling, right? After the accident? Shrink had me hooked on pills, the FBI fired me…But not one phone call." Ruiz says they were "out of touch." Yes, that's what that means. "Funny how that happens," Tate says. "Get in the car." Ruiz loses it and says that Jill chose him instead of Tate. "You killed all these people because your wife left you?" "She was taken from me," Tate whines. Ruiz says Tate's not the first person to lose everything, and points over the hills in the direction of Juarez. "Over there, it happens every day! People have their lives ripped away from them! It doesn't make them killers!" Well, some of them it does, obviously. Otherwise lives wouldn't be getting ripped away in the first place. That's just economics.

Tate glances over at the border and says, "Maybe I'm special." That's not what he said to Cross on the phone a few weeks ago, before anybody knew who he was. "You're not," Ruiz says. Okay, good talk. Tate tells Ruiz to get rid of his phone, so Ruiz drops it on the road. "You have a gun?" Tate asks. Ruiz says he does. "Good," Tate says. "I'll drive." He gets in, and Ruiz rides shotgun, and the car pulls out onto the road, leaving Ruiz's vehicle parked on the side of the road facing the wrong way. That shouldn't attract attention.

So during Ruiz's argument with Tate, the water has gotten up to Gus's waist when he's up on his knees. Okay, Dave, I understand why you're pissed, but this is a totally disproportionate response. As horrible as Caleb's fate was, at least he died instantly. Nobody subjected him to the slow torture of being forced to remember that piece of shit movie The Cell like this.

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