Ruiz pulls up outside the house, but as Cross gets out of his truck, he hesitates and then closes the car door rather than getting out. When Cross raps on the window and asks what he's doing, he just rolls it down and asks, "What if we don't find him?" Cross says they will. "You can't say that," Ruiz says. Come on, Ruiz, what do you want from her? You just yelled at her yesterday for not telling you what you wanted to hear. She puts a hand on his arm, which is huge for someone who isn't into physical contact. Ruiz says, "We hadn't really talked for years, and then suddenly he was back in my life. We'd just talked about how I wasn't there for him enough and how I'd try to do better." Cross tells him, "Tate set that up too." This doesn't matter to Ruiz, who now fears losing Gus again. Cross admits that she can't say they'll find him, but "you can't say we won't." Ruiz asks what if he's not inside. "We'll keep looking," Cross says, opening his door for him. After taking a deep breath, Ruiz finally sacks up and gets out of the truck. And during that little crisis, the water level in Gus's tank rose by how much, would you say?

After the ads, both detectives are on the front step. Cross yells, "El Paso PD, open the door!" Ruiz waits almost a whole second before kicking it down, and Cross leads the way into the house with considerable authority for someone who has to hold her gun one-handed. They quickly check the place, which doesn't look like anyone's been in it for weeks. There are sheets on all the furniture and not a crumb in the kitchen, so raiding the fridge is a nonstarter. They move into the garage, where Ruiz knocks an Igloo cooler off the top of a chest freezer and throws the lid open. Wow, he must be hungrier than I thought. OR possibly he was afraid Gus was in there. The freezer turns out to be empty, except for a bloodstained layer of frost in the bottom. "That's where he kept Cristina's legs," Cross figures. But if he collected them on the day he set up his little art installation on the bridge, how did he get them to thaw out so quickly? A big microwave? That seems unlikely, because even the defrost setting leaves you with some icy areas and a couple of corners that have been just about fully cooked. The coroner probably would have noticed that.

Right on cue, Ruiz's cell phone rings, once again with a familiar number. "Gus?" he answers. "No," David Tate says flatly on the other end. "Jesus, David," Ruiz says, and puts it on speaker so Cross can hear. While sitting in Daniel Frye's car somewhere, Tate remarks that Gus is a good looking kid, and Ruiz says to leave him alone. "Take it out on me," he says. "Isn't that what I'm doing?" Tate asks. Ruiz wants to talk to Gus, which Tate says is impossible, though he says Gus is alive for now. "I thought we'd get together," he says as though suggesting brunch. Ruiz asks why he's doing this. "Because I'm angry and I want to talk about it," Tate says, not sounding at all angry. Which, you know, I can understand. Tate obviously had a pretty shitty 2007, but things have been going pretty well for him these last few weeks.

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