Take Ruth and Wyatt Langmore, for instance. Wyatt's girlfriend Darlene Snell is very much alive, thanks to Wendy's better-late-than-never call to 911 at the end of the previous episode. When she straight-up murders Kansas City mob boss Frank Cosgrove for the crime of pissing her off-seriously, never antagonize this woman while she has a shotgun within reach-Wyatt decides to take Ruth up on her offer of collecting their cash and his kid brother Three (Carson Holmes) and getting the hell out of town. But when he returns to the Snell compound to break things off with Darlene, he finds her sobbing. Turns out that Social Services are going to take away her baby Zeke on account of her failing health-acting on a tip from Wendy Byrde, though Darlene doesn't know this (yet). Rather than leave her alone, Wyatt scraps his plan and proposes. Given that Ruth has tipped off Frank Cosgrove Jr. About his father's murder (with surprising tenderness; she too lost a father, as she tells Junior) and given him free rein to attack Darlene as long as Ruth gets a day to wrap things up in town, the timing for Wyatt could not be worse. Of course, everyone else in the Byrde family is aghast when they find this out-no one more so than Jonah himself, who immediately packs his bags and leaves. "You can't throw a kid into a burning building, Wendy," Marty says, "and watch him come running back out into your arms and pretend that it's love." Wendy's response, basically, is try me. The half-season itself, however, has every chance of ending very strongly-drawing on the smiling sociopathy of Laura Linney as Wendy, the badly damaged sweetness of Julia Garner as Ruth, the gawky gentleness of Charlie Tahan as Wyatt, and so on down the line. I just wouldn't get too attached to anyone. There's only one way all this ends, as the episode's punning title "Sangre Sobre Todo" hints: Blood above all.
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