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    Sonya 

Det. Sonya Cross

Played By: Diane Kruger
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A member of the El Paso Police Department. Cross has Asperger syndrome.


  • Brutal Honesty: Not the person you want notifying a victim's family.
  • By-the-Book Cop: Sonya hates it when other cops cut corners. Of course, when Marco gives her a gun in Mexico and she fires a shot at a police officer to protect Marco, she is understandably mortified.
    • She is similarly horrified when she learns that Hank, her father figure/mentor/reason why she became a police officer shot Jim Dobbs while he was unarmed
  • Due to the Dead: She volunteers to take Jim Dobbs' ashes after Jack refuses, but struggles to make a decision on what to do next. Sonya rather unceremoniously dumps the container into a dumpster.
  • Erotic Asphyxiation: Has taken to experimenting with this after Jim Dobbs dies. Her obsession with asphyxiation is especially unnerving, because that's how her sister Lisa died at the hands of Jim Dobbs.
  • Lack of Empathy: This gets her thrown out of the house of the husband of the murdered judge.
  • Missing Mom: Her mother was an absentee junkie around the time that Lisa was murdered. In the present time, she is a homeless druggie who Sonya only rarely visits.
  • My God, What Have I Done?: Has this reaction when she fires a shot at a Juarez cop who was snooping around the prosecutor's hotel room. While this may not seem so important as she and Marco were in danger, not only is she not authorized to use a firearm outside her jurisdiction, she was carrying one in a foreign country and actually fired it, and Sonya is very much by-the-book, no-nonsense rules cop.
  • No Social Skills
  • Shoo the Dog: After Hank nearly dies, Sonya makes an effort to visit and talk to her mother, buys her lunch, and gives her money to go away for some time before things become too dangerous.

    Marco 

Det. Marco Ruiz

Played By: Demián Bichir
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"Sometimes you say things that aren't true to make people feel good."

A homicide detective for the Policía Estatal (State Police) of the Mexican state of Chihuahua.


  • Beware the Nice Ones: Despite his friendly demeanor, he's actually the bad cop of the Good Cop/Bad Cop duo with Sonya.
  • The Casanova: Before he met Alma, and soon after their divorce is settled.
  • The Confidant: For Sonya, and over in Mexico, for people who see him as a man of honor, like his coworker Celia and the Prosecutor of Chihuahhua, Abelardo Pintado.
  • Cowboy Cop: Relatively mild example. Given the state of the Mexican police, breaking a few rules is practically the only way to get real detective work done.
  • Disappeared Dad: Marco's own father walked out on him and his mother to continue pushing drugs, and the true circumstances of his death were not what he had always been led to believe.
  • Honor Before Reason: Despite having no obligation or expectation to do so, he returns a suitcase full of money to a ruthless drug lord. And then, just to make it clear that he's not a Corrupt Cop, he turns down a reward from said drug lord.
  • Jumping Off the Slippery Slope:In the last scene of the first season, he asks Fausto to help him get at David Tate so he can kill him personally. Subverted in that, when the opportunity becomes available, Marco ultimately rejects the easier choice of killing David and instead puts his thumb in Tate's already injured eye, while damning him to suffer longer.
  • Knight in Sour Armor: Admits that most murders aren't even investigated in Mexico, due to the sheer number of them.
  • Law of Inverse Fertility: His wife gets pregnant right before he has a vasectomy.

    Hank 

Lt. Hank Wade

Played By: Ted Levine
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"One thing that this job teaches ya is that bad doesn't just happen: it's bred in."

A jaded El Paso cop and Detective Cross' supervisor. He finds himself often counseling Cross to be more diplomatic in her single-minded determination to catch the killer.


  • A Father to His Men: To Sonya and Marco.
    • A deconstruction to some extent; his status as a surrogate father to Sonya can take him to unprofessional lengths, such as trying to strongarm Jim Dobbs' brother out of a relationship with her.
  • Broken Pedestal: After Jack Dobbs reveals that Hank had attempted to kill an unarmed Jim Dobbs. It's even more heartbreaking because Hank was the reason that Sonya became a cop herself.
  • Determinator: Continues to work even after being shot in the gut. He even lets himself out of the hospital even before he was completely healed!
  • Knight in Sour Armor: Hank's been wearing the badge for too many years, and is eager to retire.
  • My Greatest Failure: Hank fired the shot that turned Jim Dobbs into a zombie, and thus robbed Sonya of any hope for closure. She'll never be able to find out why Dobbs targeted her sister.
  • Only Friend: Seems to be the only one who understands Sonya.
  • Papa Wolf: Very protective of Sonya (she came under his care after Lisa's murder and before she was put into foster care), and extends this to Eva.

    Charlotte 

Charlotte Millwright

Played By: Annabeth Gish

A wealthy widow whose rancher husband suffers a myocardial infarction on the Mexican side of the border and dies back in El Paso. Shocking secrets about his cross-border activities quickly come to light as Ruiz and Cross' investigation commences.


  • Dark Secret: Discovers that her late husband smuggled illegals across the border through a tunnel to his ranch.
  • Extreme Doormat: Most of her Character Development is geared towards evolving away from this trope, whether for her late husband, for Graciela Rivera, for her stepdaughter Kate, or for Ray, towards a woman who makes her own decisions for her own destiny. Occasionally it resurfaces, as when Ray tries to haul ass to Alaska.
  • Gold Digger: What her stepdaughter thinks of her.
  • Kick The Son Of A Bitch: Kills Graciela and Tim.
  • Nice to the Waiter: To her servant Cesar.

    Linder 

Steven Linder

Played By: Thomas M. Wright
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"I'm just a person who helps people."

A lone wolf trying to survive in the lawless borderland. He's a volunteer at a homeless shelter, but also runs a side enterprise helping women escape from abusive spouses and lovers.


  • Anti-Hero: Linder may be creepy as all hell, but he's genuinely trying to help people.
  • Creepy Monotone: It's reminiscent to the way Buffalo Bill talks.
  • Important Haircut: In "The Beholder," he gets one from Eva.
  • Improvised Weapon: On two occasions has used this trope
    • A hot clothes iron
    • A rock given by an enigmatic roadside salesman
  • I Let Gwen Stacy Die: He escaped his abusive father as a youth, intending to return to rescue his sister; by the time he was able to, she had already died from a drug overdose at a homeless shelter in Tulsa.
  • Mundane Utility: Linder's beard affords him special powers... inscrutability, disguise, and deception.
  • Pre Ass Kicking One Liner: After he learns what Eva's captors did to her
    Steven: Sunday school's over, Bob.
  • Shoot the Shaggy Dog: Subverted. He survives his shooting by Captain Robles. Ironically, Mexico's Office of the General Prosecutor was already after the latter's ass to serve justice.
  • Vigilante Man / Roaring Rampage of Revenge: After Eva kills one of her attackers, he and Eva skip town and begin one against those who wronged the latter.

    Frye 

Daniel Frye

Played By: Matthew Lillard
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A newspaper reporter whose once-promising career has been derailed by a life of parties and substance abuse. Midway through Season 2 his editor fires him on the spot for attempting to publish a damaging story about Grupo Clio without any named witnesses and for insubordination.


  • The Alcoholic: It's no secret that Frye is an alcoholic. He's tried to get sober a few times, but it never seems to take.
  • Deadpan Snarker: One of the series' most prolific.

    Adriana 

Adriana Mendez

Played By: Emily Rios
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"It just doesn't feel like a coincidence."

A young reporter who works with Frye at the El Paso Times.


  • It's Not You, It's My Enemies: After a failed hit on Adriana which results in her girlfriend being grievously harmed, Adriana decides to break up with Lucy to spare her from the danger that comes with investigating this story.
  • Nice Girl: She'd have to be one in order to put up with a pain in the ass like Frye.
  • Tranquil Fury: During Marco's attempt to weed information out of the two journalists, witness her reaction when he deliberately invokes her missing sister Dani.
  • Vitriolic Best Buds: With Frye. It's a wonder that she can tolerate him at all.

Other Characters

    Law Enforcement 

Detective Tim Cooper

Part of the El Paso branch, he's one of the guys on the case. Calls out Sonya for receiving favoritism from Hank.
Played By: Johnny Dowers

  • All of the Other Reindeer / Kick the Dog: His most substantial screentime is a scene in which he calls Sonya crazy in front of Hank, visibly humiliating and rattling her.
  • Heroic BSoD: After the incident that led to the arrest of Jack Childress
  • Pet the Dog: Despite his clear resentment of Sonya receiving favoritism from Hank, he has had some softer moments, like looking after Maria in the desert after she's found and after capturing Jack Childress when he laments the death of Manny Stokes on whiskey and a banjo.

Captain Alejandro Robles

A mostly corrupt captain of the Chihuahua State Police. Marco's boss. At the end of Season 2, he is a wanted fugitive for kidnapping, rape, and abuse of power.
Played By: Juan Carlos Cantu

  • Dirty Cop: He is not the least bit ashamed of his connections to Fausto Galván and regularly abuses his authority.
  • Faux Affably Evil: Usually puts on a magnanimous appearance for the public and for the Americans but can be downright apathetic to civilians and contemptuous of his American counterparts. He also takes part in "parties."
  • Good Parent: Probably his only redeeming quality, lampshaded by Eva and Linder when they spy him playing basketball with his sons.
  • Hazy-Feel Turn: He drops the ball quite quickly. He is kidnapped by the Marinas of the SEMAR (Mexican Marines) and quickly divulges Fausto Galván's hideout.
  • Laser-Guided Karma: As soon as he outs Fausto's location, Marco submits Presecutor Pintado's affidavit to Mexico City, and the Attorney general files charges on his crimes.
  • Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Goes on the run after Fausto Galvan is captured and before he himself can be dismissed from the Chihuahua State Police and tried for kidnapping and rape.

Sheriff Manny Stokes

A bumbling El Paso County sheriff.
Played By: Larry Clarke

  • Red Herring: If it weren't for the fact that he is so painfully naive, his ability to pop up at "the darnest times" would make him a prime suspect.

Celia Delgado

One of Marco's colleagues.
Played By: Ellie Araiza

  • The Confidant: Marco entrusts her with several of his personal belongings and important documents before he is snuck into a federal prison to meet David Tate.

Kitty Conchas

The receptionist at El Paso PD's CAP.
Played By: Diana Maria Riva

Richard Heller

An FBI agent, attached to the task force.
Played By: Alex Fernandez

Ralph Gedman

An FBI agent, attached to the task force.
Played By: David Meunier

  • Sex Tourism: Visits prostitutes in Mexico, one of whom include the young woman whose legs were placed on the Bridge of the Americas.

Agent Joe Mackenzie

A DEA agent who is involved in an elaborate scheme to capture leading figures in the narcotics trade, one of which is Fausto Galván. Appears to have suffered a setback from less-involved cooperation from Mexico's new Attorney General.
Played By: Abraham Benrubi

  • Expy: Of Hank Schrader from Breaking Bad, a blustery DEA agent with a surprisingly geeky hobby.
  • Good Is Not Nice: Even to people who are on his side, he usually comes off as a Jerkass.
  • Killed Off for Real: In the Red Ridge View shootout
  • Mysterious Informant: Has secretly been leading Daniel and Adriana about the Millie Quintana house case.
  • Obstructive Bureaucrat: While he seems perfectly willing to cooperate and let the local El Paso PD do most of the dirty work, he also deliberately withholds information from them.
  • Politically Incorrect Hero: Makes several insensitive sexist comments, like how women with tattoos are more sexually adventurous.
  • Real Men Wear Pink: The nerdy variation: his hobby is painting gaming miniatures.

Agent Pete Rivas

A DEA Agent, works for Agent Mackenzie.
Played By: Joseph A. Garcia

Agent Alex Buckley

A CIA Agent.
Played By: Ian Hart

  • Asshole Victim: He was a corrupt asshole both personally and professionally. Shortly before his death, his bosses in Langely disavow any connection to him, claiming he was psychologically unstable.
  • Big Bad: As the face of the CIA in The Bridge,
  • Dirty Cop: Agent Buckley and the CIA are in cahoots with the whole money-laundering scheme between Rayburn National Bank and Grupo Clio. He also hires an assassin to take out Raúl Quintana after the latter squawks to the El Paso Times.
  • Hoist by His Own Petard: Handpicking Fausto Galván as the successor to the Juarez cartel and resorting to bureaucratic secrecy has resulted in messy consequences on both sides of the border. He is eventually even killed by the same hitman that he himself hired to silence witnesses on the order of his superior.

     El Paso Ranch 

Ray Burton

A friend and former lover of Charlotte.
Played By: Brian Van Holt

  • Even Evil Has Standards: Couldn't bring himself to kill his good friend Tim, even after he's found out to be a criminal informant.
  • Friends with Benefits: He's the guy Charlotte turns to for sex.
  • Idiot Houdini: Somehow, somehow, Ray has managed to avoid any consequences for his stupidity. So far. Even he seems to be amazed at how long he's lasted.
  • Unwitting Instigator of Doom: His friend Tim, an FBI informant, gets him guns to smuggle through Graciela with transmitters on them; when Graciela finds them, she assumes Charlotte is the informant.

Cesar

Charlotte's servant at the ranch.
Played By: Alejandro Patino

Kate Millwright

Karl Millwright's daughter, Charlotte's stepdaughter.
Played By: Emily Wickersham

     The Cartel 

Fausto Galvan

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"Marco! You ever been to Norway?"

A powerful drug lord in Mexico. In Season 2, he spends much of his time in hiding because a change in government resulted in a greater crackdown on crime by the new authorities. Midway through Season 2, his hideout is raided and he briefly becomes a fugitive from justice before he is outwitted and captured alive by Marco.

Played By: Ramon Franco

  • Meaningful Name: Shares his name with the titular character from the Trope Codifier of Deal with the Devil, although his actual role in the deals would be the inversion.
  • No Celebrities Were Harmed: He is this show's version of Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman, a real-life Mexican drug lord. Both of them are rough-and-tumble criminal bosses who eschew overt display of wealth, could move as they please in their stronghold cities, and are willing to use brute force to eliminate their rivals.
  • Pragmatic Villainy: Fronts up ransom money for a woman kidnapped by the serial killer, just to get the Feds out of the picture and resume business
  • Punch-Clock Villain: In a twist, he is the Jefe of his cartel. By mid-season 2, even he appears to tire of the drug lord life and hints at wishing to visit the fjords of Norway. Understandable as he has been in hiding from the authorities for the most of the season and feels cooped up.
  • Villains Out Shopping: Usually seen doing this, but not enough to cross into The Drug Lord Who Doesn't Do Anything. He has been seen shopping for new clothes with his girlfriend, paying a visit to another organized crime boss in a nail salon or attending his son's tomb. Important conversations do take place though.
  • You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: When the Marinas raid his hideout, he immediately knows that someone snitched, and to make his circle of associates smaller, he kills his other bodyguards except for Obregon.

Eleanor Nacht

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"Do you want to be a pet?"

A creepy bookkeeper for the cartel.

Played By: Franka Potente

  • Bait the Dog: At first she appears to express kindness by hiring a Mexican dayworker who seems to suffer from a mental disability, despite several others vying for her attention. But then she barks at him to walk faster.
  • Blue-and-Orange Morality: Appears to operate on an entirely different plane of existence. Has no qualms of killing a teen and sticking his body in a drum filled with bleach, but takes the opportunity to build a makeshift headstone for a roadkill armadillo.
  • Combat Sadomasochist: To the extent that she'll jam a pin into her own chest just to get her rocks off.
  • Evil Counterpart: To Sonya- they're both women with No Social Skills who were set on their respective paths when a surrogate father rescued them from their biological parents.
  • Faux Affably Evil: Appears polite and demure at first, but you'd better not set her off.
  • Hates Being Touched: As demonstrated when the bank intern tries to help her clean up the spill on her dress.
  • Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant: You do NOT want her writing your name down in her ledger.
  • Not So Stoic: When she loses her ledger, she loses her cool.
  • Rape as Backstory: She grew up in some sort of devout religious community where her father raped her repeatedly as a child. Eventually, the community found out, and rather than punish him, they punished her, casting her out. She was then taken in by Fausto Galvan, who offered her vengeance by arranging for her mother to be murdered and her father to be castrated and then locked up in a hole in the ground. In exchange, she became his loyal bookkeeper.
  • Would Hurt a Child: Zigzagged. While she had no qualms offing Kyle the overeager teenager, she does spare his younger brother and his friend Dex, because she saw an innocence in him (he didn't want to touch her and he wet his bed.)
  • You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Appears to be very fond of this.

Graciela Rivera

An older Mexican woman who operates the tunnel under the Millwright ranch.
Played By: Alma Martinez

  • The Don: La Jefa: She smuggles people, not narcotics. She's not above smuggling weapons, though.

Hector "Calaca" Valdez

One of Fausto Galvan's sicarios. His girlfriend, Eva Guerra, tried to escape from him by engaging the services of Steven Linder.
Played By: Arturo del Puerto

  • Ax-Crazy: Kills a woman in her apartment after she complained about his banging on her neighbor's door and threatened to call the police. Most likely also killed the homeless paint huffer as well in his search for Eva.
  • Determinator: Almost nothing will stop him from finding his girlfriend Eva. Who knew a hot flatiron would?
  • Stupid Evil: Fausto calls him this. He doesn't consider the consequences of the attention that his actions over the border have received.

Obregon

One of Fausto Galvan's top enforcers.
Played By: Daniel Edward Mora

  • Butt-Monkey: Regularly suffers verbal abuse from his employer.
  • Dumb Muscle: It works in his favor, however. Fausto trusts him entirely because he knows that he is too stupid to ever betray him.
  • Hidden Depths / Real Men Wear Pink: Is a fan of Metallica and Taylor Swift.
  • Would Hurt a Child: On Fausto's orders, he and some other sicarios retaliate against the teens who stole Fausto's heroin.

     Others 

Gustavo "Gus" Ruiz

Marco's son from a previous marriage.
Played By: Carlos Pratts

Alma Ruiz

Marco's current wife.
Played By: Catalina Sandino Moreno

  • Good Parents: Treats her stepson Gus like her own, even after she kicks Marco out of the house for cheating.
  • Put on a Bus: After the whole David Tate affair, she takes her daughters and obtains a divorce from Marco. She doesn't even show up to sign the divorce papers, instead handing that responsibility over to her lawyer.

Kenneth Hastings/David Tate

Alma's colleague.
Played By: Eric Lange

  • Eye Scream / Eye Poke: In the appropriately named "Eye of the Deep." Twice. In the same eye.
  • Face–Heel Turn: The deaths of his wife and son turned him from a dedicated FBI agent into a serial killer.
  • Killed Off for Real: He is quietly poisoned on Fausto's orders after Marco had a change of heart.

Eva Guerra

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A young Mexican woman whom Steven Linder smuggles over the border to a safehouse.

Played By: Stephanie Sigman

  • Beauty Contest: This was her ticket out of her small village where she grew up and also how she met Hector.
  • Rape as Drama: After Linder informs her of Hector's death, she returns to Juárez and begins work at a maquiladora. One day after work, a driver in a red car offers her a ride, which she accepts with hesitation. Later, she is seen at the police station to report being kidnapped, but then the police drug her and take her to a party to be raped. Another police officer is tasked to kill her in the desert, but he has a change of heart and leaves her at a nun's monastery.
  • Shut Up, Hannibal!: when she faces off her former captor who is now bound in Bob's shack and is taunting and attempting to humiliate her.
  • Mafia Princess: As Hector's girlfriend, she is this to him. Of course, this is also the type of life she is trying to escape.
  • Vigilante Man: She and Linder have taken up this path against those who wronged her.

Jackson Childress

A disturbed, racist vigilante, kicked off the police force on disability.
Played By: Chris Browning

Jim Dobbs

The man who raped and murdered Sonya's sister, Lisa.

  • Chekhov's Gun: Those drawings that he made for Sonya? Including the ones on her fridge? Two of them lead to a water tower with a body buried underneath in the dirt.
  • Lonely Funeral: His cremation is attended by exactly two people (not counting the cremator), his younger brother and the sister of the woman he murdered.
  • Retired Monster: A bullet to the head left him with severe brain damage, so he's unlikely to be a threat to anyone else. In the first season, he was still capable of making crude drawings, but by the opening of the second season, his condition has deteriorated to the point where he's bedridden.

Gina Meadows

A young El Paso girl, first seen at the police station being held overnight for shoplifting.
Played By: Cole Bernstein

Sofia Mendez

Adriana's mother.
Played By: Blanca Araceli

  • Have You Tried Not Being a Monster?: How she approaches her daughter's sexual orientation. It leads to conflict.
  • Hypocrite: While she berates Adriana for being a lesbian and encourages her to work less and marry a man, she and her lazy daughters were more than happy to live off of Adriana's paychecks until Daniela found work at a maquiladora.

Daniela Mendez

Adriana's younger sister. She stopped going to school to work in a maquiladora.
Played By: Lorena McGregor

Bob

The owner of a ranch that doubles as a safehouse for abused women.
Played By: Jon Gries

Cristina Fuentes

A young Mexican woman, whose bottom half was found on the Bridge of the Americas. Came north to Juarez to work in the maquiladoras, but turned to prostitution.
Played By: Natalie Amenula

  • Posthumous Character: She is already dead (obviously) long before the events of the first season. The upper half of her body was dumped in a house that was filled with the dismembered corpses of cartel men (one of whom was Fausto Galván's brother), and her other half was preserved until they were placed on the Bridge of the Americas with the judge's upper half.

Maria

A Mexican woman trying to cross the border.
Played By: Karen Sours

Darcy

Steven Linder's coworker at the homeless shelter.
Played By: Diane Delano

Monte P. Flagman

A mysterious lawyer, employed by Graciela Rivera, Charlotte's husband, and eventually Charlotte herself.
Played By: Lyle Lovett

  • Amoral Attorney: Sort of. He doesn't appear to be worse than any other lawyer; he just represents some very evil people.
  • Punch-Clock Villain: He'll help anyone who can pay his fees.

Jack Dobbs

Jim Dobbs' brother, who Sonya meets while Jim Dobbs is dying and with whom she forms a physical and emotional relationship.
Played By: Nathan Phillips

  • Second-Face Smoke: Does this as a sign of defiance to Hank trying to meddle in his relationship with Sonya.
  • Shirtless Scene: Almost every other onscreen appearance is this.

Abelardo Pintado

Introduced in Season 2, he is the newly assigned prosecutor for the State of Chihuahua and has arrived in Juárez to shake things up.
Played By: Manuel Uriba

  • Bodyguard Betrayal: His hired private security man deserts him just before he is kidnapped.
  • Dead Guy on Display / Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: His body is staged to look as if it had been thrown out of the vehicle he was riding in a car accident.
  • Field Promotion: He gets an impromptu promotion to Prosecutor of the State of Chihuahua by the Mexican Attorney General in his first appearance onscreen.
  • Killed Off for Real: He is abducted and murdered in broad daylight by Juárez police because he was coming too close to exposing the abductions, rapes, and murdered conducted by police officers and had procured a signed affidavit from one of their surviving victims.
  • Naïve Newcomer: Treated this way by Captain Robles and everyone around him.
  • Wide-Eyed Idealist: Is intent on ridding corruption from the Chihuahua State Police, starting with Captain Robles and working his way to Fausto Galván, and tries to convince Marco to assist him.

Sebastian Cerisola

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"In public, power is best wielded with a gloved hand, not a clenched fist."

The CEO of Grupo Clio Internacional, one of the largest holding firms in Mexico.

Played By: Bruno Bichir

  • Affably Evil: Is quite friendly to Marco when he and Sonya pay his company a visit while investigating.
  • Corrupt Corporate Executive: It's not known to what extent his relationship with Fausto Galván goes, but seeing how chummy they are with each other, you can expect some shady dealings. He brokered a deal with the Attorney General of Mexico to shut the DEA out of Juárez in return for less violence.
  • Hazy-Feel Turn: The repercussions of Prosecutor Pintado's murder, the Rayburn bank manager's suicide, and the murder of the teens who hit Fausto's cargo are so huge that Sebastian quickly dumps his support of Fausto and the Red Ridge money laundering as a liability.
  • Morality Pet: Clearly loves his daughter Romina, who unfortunately is a junkie.

"Franco"

"Franco is a pseudonym. He is an assassin.
Played By: Júlio Cedillo

  • The Atoner: Played straight after immediately killing Raúl Quintana and seeing Jesus on his cross in the same room, he becomes guilt-ridden and later decides to "confess" to the El Paso Times reporters (who are wearing hoods) in a local chapel. Ironically, talking to reporters was exactly the reason why his last victim was murdered. Ultimately this is defied as he is sent by the CIA station chief to silence Agent Buckley.
    Agent Buckley: So how's Jesus?
  • Don't Fear the Reaper: As the role of the Reaper, he is this to his victims.
    "Franco": But I was gentle in the end. I listened to them, wiped their tears, and let them have their moment.
  • Professional Killer: He is hired by Agent Alex Buckley of the CIA to kill Raúl Quintana for talking to the El Paso Times. He also murdered Raúl's friend Chuchito. He claims to have killed at least 243 people.


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