Can Episode 10 straighten this narrative out?
I notice some are hoping that episode 10 can straighten all the implausible turns in the narrative so far. I get that, since having been a fan of this show up until episode 9, I am one of those people.
But there are some problems. Not only will it take further bizarre twists to do so, but something more important.
If you like me are of the mind that the core of the show involved the dynamic between Letty and Javier, I simply do not see a plausible way the divide between them at the end of 9 can be resolved. At least not in a convincing way.
Let's look at it from the perspective of Javier's character.
- Javier understands that Letty's goal has been to get Jacob back. But... is that the right thing for anyone? I say no.
- Taking the previous point further, if Letty is not right to be Jacob's full time mother, what does that say about her as a ongoing romantic partner for Javier? He will stick with her and in effect know that means he will not have children with her because she is not a candidate to be a fit mother?
- Perhaps no children does not concern Javier. Let's just keep it on the one to one couple dynamic. She's already shown she can toss him aside when the going gets tough, and just like that end up in bed with not only some other man, but some other man who she has described as satanic. What will be different, reassuring, going forward? What after all was the excuse? She was angry at Javier for not agreeing to kill Sean? She was too high? Neither of those sound very reassuring, going forward. What about as the Exec producer said there's still some "chemistry" between Sean and Letty. That sound reassuring to you? Nope.
- Then there's all the other ways Letty is problematic. It is fair to assume even if one concludes that she really should not get Jacob back, at least as a full time mom, that this will be emotionally disruptive for her. For how long? Who knows? What about the constant petty larceny? What is going on with her parole? What about her future employment prospects? All this seems to add up to only one conclusion - an even quasi normal life with Letty seems out of the question.
- So what is left? She becomes some kind of partner for him in his contract killing business? With benefits included? Gee, what a great concept for season 2.
- But of course how can she become his partner in any sense when he has many reasons not to trust her? These include that, if she in some way is able to come clean about the FBI while still getting him to forgive her for what she hs done so far in regard to the FBI (imo an insurmountable obstacle in its own right), he would still know that SHE is on the FBI's radar scope in their search for him.
This last point is extremely problematic on a going forward basis. We have every reason to think the FBI has concluded that Letty knows who the "Philanthropist" is. So even if Javier somehow escapes their net, how can he join with her in any way knowing that the FBI will be trailing her?
The only way out of this, and I am not saying I predict this will happen since the writers seem to not care very much about the implausible, is this. Javier can both escape the FBI and get them to stop pursuing him and trailing Letty in only one basic way. That is to make them think either the Philanthropist is someone else, or has died.
Well, even if they somehow pull off that kind of escape, there's still all the other problems between Letty and Javier. Frankly if I was Javier, I would leave the country and never see Letty again.