Summary
Cross Season 2 provides some much-needed clarity in “Feed”, spending more time with Rebecca as she gets in touch with her history.
Cross Season 2 has been pretty tight-lipped when it comes to providing answers about what’s really going on. This is to be expected, of course, since we’re still in the earliest stages, but Episode 3, “Feed”, makes some decent progress in this regard. The focus is smartly split between Cross and Kayla’s investigation and Rebecca and Donnie’s trip to Mexico, which helps the two halves of the plot to cohere into something more unified.
This is the longest episode of the season thus far, and it feels the most dense. It also contains the most progress in the relationship between Cross and Kayla, which takes quite a turn, something which is surely bound to backfire if the thing I mentioned about Mastermind turns out to be accurate. But we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it. In the meantime, lets break everything down.
A Change of Scenery
We’re in Texas for this episode, since the coordinates on the documents in Lincoln’s hideout led Cross and Kayla to a small border town a stone’s throw away from Mexico. Lincoln is tracking a truck for reasons that are initially unclear, and he’s pursued by Cross, Kayla, and Sampson, who has come along for the ride.
The team is also supported, though I’m not sure “supported” is the right word, by a Department of Homeland Security team, including one particularly troublesome agent named Larsen. He wants to call the stakeout off when it doesn’t yield any results in the first five minutes, tries to shoot Lincoln when he “mistakes” the camera he’s holding for a gun, and later makes some even bigger blunders that we’ll get to in a minute.
Lincoln has a camera because he’s trying to document a child trafficking operation – there are tons of innocent people in the truck. Thanks to Larsen’s interference, Lincoln, Cross, and Sampson are blindsided by some gunmen, who open fire on them. The gang gives chase as the suspects flee, eventually leading to the truck being upended. Everyone inside is saved, but one of the remaining traffickers takes a little boy as a human shield, and Larsen risks the kid’s life to shoot the attacker. This annoys Cross even before he sits in on the interview with Lincoln and basically guarantees that it goes nowhere.
Rebecca Gets In Touch With Her History
While this is going on, Cross Season 2, Episode 3 devotes some time to Rebecca and Donnie, who’re in Mexico. They’re looking for a survivor named Francisco, whom Rebecca’s mother saved years prior. Many children have disappeared from this village, and these are the people whom Rebecca is trying to avenge on her mission.
The trip is deeply personal to Rebecca, bringing her closer to her roots and allowing her to connect with the culture she’s defending. Donnie even offers to take out the next target alone so that Rebecca can spend more time soaking up the local flavour, but he makes a bit of a mess of the hit and gets himself wounded. Still, the job is done, and Rebecca’s faith in the mission is only renewed by getting to know more about her mother and her history.
Is it just me who thinks that maybe these two have the ghost of a point?
Mommy Issues
I didn’t mention it in the previous episode since nothing concrete happened, but Sampson is pretty angry with Cross, since he has known since childhood that his mother was still alive. Once, when they were kids, she had visited Nana Mama, and Cross overheard. Nana Mama was willing to offer LaDonna more money than she could afford to sign over her parental rights, but she took the money and ran. Cross never told Sampson since he figured that the truth would be harder to deal with than not knowing, but Sampson disagrees.
Still, he nonetheless feels compelled to look into LaDonna’s case now, though her claims of innocence don’t seem to hold much water. However, she’s nonetheless adamant that she didn’t do anything wrong, and she’s trusting Sampson to prove that, however disinterested in her he might seem.
Can a woman who acted the way she did with Sampson have changed her ways completely? Or is this just a desperate play to get herself off the hook by leveraging her son’s pain? Time will tell.
One Night Stand
In Texas, Cross and Kayla spend the evening blowing off steam, and predictably, they end up in bed together. This has been coming for a while – Kayla even says as much the next morning – but Aldis Hodge and Alona Tal have legitimately great chemistry, and their hook-up scene is really well done, so it’s still effective despite the predictability.
Things are predictably awkward the next morning, but there isn’t enough time to linger on it because Larsen, the obviously corrupt DHS agent, sprang Lincoln from custody and attempted to flee. He didn’t get far, though, until Lincoln evidently killed him and escaped.
At the very end of “Feed”, we see Lincoln turn up on Rebecca’s aunt’s doorstep. It’s worth mentioning that Lincoln has fashioned Rebecca as a kind of minor deity – the working theory right now is that he removed his own three fingers as a kind of sacrifice to her to solidify his belief in her mission. That kind of devotion can only be dangerous, and with Rebecca’s renewed enthusiasm, things probably aren’t going to end well for Durand.
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