"You were doing well," she says. After a long pause, Frye asks if she knows how he ended up in his car with that bomb. She doesn't, of course, so as he pours himself a fresh one, he says, "I helped kill David Tate's wife and kid." Mendez's reaction is pretty controlled. "Explain," she says. Frye tells the story we know from two episodes ago, where Santiago Sol, Jr. went across the bridge for more coke for himself and Frye. "He clipped that woman's car and just kept going," Frye says. Mendez points out that it was Santi, not Frye. "This is the part where I become a shitty human being," Frye continues, stirring his drink with his finger and saying that instead of testifying or "comforting the afflicted…I just let Santi, Jr.'s dad buy me off." He even busts out an impression of the never-seen Santi, Sr.: "Daniel, I have a big cock. I have a newspaper in Houston. I want you to work for me." I bet that's dead on.

So how did he end up back here in El Paso? I guess I have a theory. Frye confesses to Mendez that he jumped at the offer. "That's why Santi pretended he didn't know you," Mendez realizes. "He big-timed me?" Frye says, before charmingly spitting out a rude slur about the female anatomy. Mendez says she hates talking to him when he's drunk, but that he can change. He says he tried, but obviously can't. She puts the cap on his bottle and suggests a meeting down the street tomorrow. Frye busts out another famous quote in response to that: "Twelve steps can suck my dick." But then she even offers to go with him. Frye takes a long moment, his chin quivering, and finally says to Mendez, "You might be my only real friend." Mendez: "That's pathetic. Seven A.M." And then she walks out of the office. So she came all the way to work in the middle of the night just to look for Frye? Now I'm really wondering where else he was supposed to be. And if Ben Stein is still there droning, "Frye? Frye? Frye?"

David Tate parks outside some factory and hauls Gus out of the car. Weeping, Gus reminds Tate that when he was pretending to be Zina, he told Gus to give Ruiz another chance. "I did," Tate remembers. Gus says he doesn't understand. So Tate tasers him and lets him fall to the ground, saying, "Neither did Caleb." And then he opens his trunk. Think Caleb would understand this?

In the morning, Ruiz returns to his home, which now has armed guards posted outside like the ones at the police station. After he lets himself in, Alma -- who is sitting on the living room couch in full pout -- asks where Gus is. Ruiz tells her to pack for herself and the girls, because he's taking them to El Paso. Alma says her father and brothers are on their way. "We'll be safe with them." Ruiz does a double take at the suitcases that have already been packed. "They won't want to see you," she adds, which is not the most heavily veiled threat I've ever heard. He starts to plead with her, but she reminds him that his daughters were almost killed. Clearly the being-saved-from-a-grenade afterglow is over. She says, probably correctly, that Ruiz was only able to stop it because that's what Tate wanted. "Why us?" Alma demands. "Weren't you friends?" Ruiz heaves a sigh and confesses, "Because I slept with his wife."

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