PepSilogy 4x13

LHDP 4x13
Testigo de Ultratumba (A Witness From The Grave)

By Drs. Pied Piper and Bekelauer

(If you want to watch the episode without downloading it, the link is at the end of the post. The screencaps are purely blog candy and may or may not correspond to the narrative)

Sara comes home running and Lucas is already there [Supersonic powers?]. Lucas tries to calm her down and tells her they’re going for a picnic and asks her to forget everything (when Lucas pulled a gun on her but she didn't know it was he) and that they're in this together. “Si tu saltas, yo salto y si a mí me pegan un tiro, yo sangro” [“If you jump, I jump and if they shoot you, I bleed”].

Lucas confesses that he is a counter-infiltrator because the bad guys have his sister, and no one should know because Salazar is all-knowing and would kill everyone. But what the bad guys don’t know is how much Sara loves Lucas. Beke pukes, Piper gets annoyed.  Lucas, she's a child! 

Lucas comes home to see Mariano and Paco waiting to shoot him in the knee so he gets hurt enough not to go ahead with the harakiri plan. Lucas starts yelling some vintage insults at his colleagues’ stupidity. He explains the detonator thing – and they say they're sorry for thinking he's a selfish idiot who would hurt himself and take those he loves the most with him on his path to self-destruction.  Wait, that's what I would say. Sara barges in and yells “Freeze!” because she heard a noise. Paco and Mariano say they have the narcotics brigade chasing after them for the stolen cocaine (from previous episode).

LHDP intro, then Lola does the monologue. She talks about the different kinds of breakfasts – in company, all alone... Scene of PepSi: “Breakfast in company, all excited about new things that are just beginning”.

Silvia: Look, I hit the target!
Pepa: I don’t believe you!

Lola finds Aitor waiting outside Lucas’ door like a lost puppy. She asks him to help her get the laundry from the clothesline in the courtyard. (Piper's note: I've always found it charming when people dry clothes outside instead of using a dryer. Clothes smell nicer and fresher.) They talk about Carlota while he has Sara’s underwear in his hand.  Paco sees him through the window, takes the undie off his hand, and talks to Lola in private. He tells her to keep her underwear out of public view given Aitor is a subordinate. Lola tells him off sarcastically since they live in a very small flat. He leaves “to go to the dentist” and Aitor asks Lola for the keys to the storage because he needs to find something to fix his scooter.

At the precinct, Quique and Curtis imitate DL and DeGaulle, who are outside arguing animatedly. Lucas, Mariano, and Paco enter and Mariano starts picking on Lucas because he’s got a hickey. Pepa enters the room.

Pepa: Good morning!
Silvia: Good morning!
Pepa: Hola guapa! Did you do something to your hair?

Silvia immediately becomes self-conscious when Pepa compliments her hair.  Awesome facial expressions, MA.  Montoya ambles by still thinking he's got a chance with Pepa.  I start feeling a little sorry for him.  Just a little.

DL starts the meeting with the news of Mr. Smith's death and the circumstances surrounding it. Lucas is back in the case. Paco wants to handle the investigation but DL asks him if he really thinks he’s got the resources to do it, so Mariano also steps up and DL decides to give them the case. They have to go all CSI to reconstruct what happened at the observation deck.

(Sweet PePaco scene)

Meeting is adjourned.  Pepa asks Silvia for coffee.  Montoya thinks he's also invited.  Now I feel a tad annoyed at him. Just a tad.

The hombres are at the observation deck, arguing about what is head and what is tails. Paco is on the ground and steps on Smith's leftover brains. Blug! Up at the deck, they’re trying to reconstruct the scenes from the night before and they end up playing what looks like a stupid cop version of twister.  Lucas is in the truck with Salazar and friends. Salazar is threatening him with throwing somebody else off the building if he keeps on not responding to them. At the observation deck, the Pacos are still going CSI and they’re thinking of throwing a dummy off the building to calculate angles and vectors, but they end up discussing whether Superintendent Smith was fat or not and of course Mariano feels offended. Again.

At Laureano Vicuña (Translator's note: Just so you know, that’s the address of Paco’s house) Aitor, like a wet and cold kitty, is still waiting at the door for Carlota when Lucas arrives. They get into some argument, because Aitor thinks Lucas wanted to separate them like he did with Sara. Of course it's always about you, Aitor! They fight and Lucas allegedly breaks his tooth. At that moment, Silvia and Pepa and Lola appear and separate them.  Then the Tooth Fairy also appears and gives Aitor a big kick in the ass.

Lola (to Lucas): Did you just lose your mind? There’s a first aid kit in the bar [along with bottles of tequila, of course!]
Pepa: Let’s go.

At the observation deck things are getting dumber by the minute. The Junk Patrol throws a dummy with a printer attached to it (Translator's incredulity: Yes, I thought “WTF?” myself). Nothing. The CCTV recordings have been stolen although they did find Smith’s phone. The JP goes to Los Cachis to discuss the case and  -ta-dah! -- they come up with the brilliant idea to get a Whoopi-Goldberg-in-Ghost medium (Piper's immense knowledge: The character is called Oda Mae Brown) to contact Smith and ask him who killed him.  At the precinct, Paco and Mariano are accessing the info about El Kaiser case and the compilation is long. They need to pick up some more dossiers when Lucas sees the opportunity to screw them over; Sara witnesses everything.

At the dentist, PepSi are doting on Aitor.

Aitor: Hey, I’m not eight...
Pepa: Eh?
Aitor: I said I’m not eight, you can wait for me outside, if you do me that favour, no?
PepSi: No!!
Pepa: No, otherwise you skip the revision, I know you too well. Plus I want to see the tooth they put in your mouth, I don’t want them to make you look like Nosferatu.
Silvia: Hey, and why do you get into fights with Lucas? Oh well... Next time I see him, I’m going to kick his ass [Translator's note: She says “I’m going to slap him and break his teeth fillings!!” literally... so sweet!].  What an animal... He broke your tooth...

Pepa: What you have to do is what I learn at Las Tres Mil [Translator's note: I thought it was a track and field event but NO! Pepa is tough! Las Tres Mil (The Three Thousand) is a neighbourhood in South Seville, 40.000 inhabitants, the Bronx of Spain: poverty, drugs, vandalism, prostitution – you name it, they have it! Honestly, I think this brings a new side of Pepa – we knew she was a badass, but this definitely says she's badder than a simple badass!]. When you’re punching with your right hook, you have to cover your face with the left one!
Silvia: Sure, encourage him...!

Pepa: Eh, do not overdramatize, come on, we have all been punched in the face for love once in our lifetime [Translator's note: She says “We have all gotten our faces broken for love”].
Silvia: Ah, maybe they smacked you!
Pepa: Well yes. Maybe it’s because I always fall for the wrong person.

Pepa and Silvia stare at each other; Silvia stares away first. What, couldn't take the fire in Pepa's eyes? Aitor looks up from the dentist chair to his chaperones, not quite sure what's happening, only that something IS happening. The dentist walks in.

Doctor: Hey, good afternoon!
Pepa: [inaudible] You’re arriving at the right time.
Doctor: Let’s see that tooth.
Aitor: Don’t hurt me, please?
Silvia: Don’t be such a weenie! They are very professional, they’re gonna treat you very well, they’re not going to hurt you, everything is so sterilized. Plus we’re here with you.

Lucas goes into Paco's office, copies the files to his external drive and deletes the classified files from the computer. Sara is buying him some time by telling Paco that her bra and underpants were stolen. Seriously?  That's Your Father you're talking to!  And you're talking to him about your bras and panties?  GAH!

Aitor goes back to Laureao Vicuña, enters the storage unit, and of course finds Carlota’s belongings. He takes a bag of stuff.  Paco and Mariano see him taking the stuff out and immediately assume that he’s the one who stole Sara’s knickers. Paco is livid. Sara arrives at the garage and jokes around [not the best time!] with Aitor. She tries to fix the situation by lying and saying she talked to Carlota before she left, and that she needed a break. Of course Aitor is left heart broken by this "news".

Paco and Mariano are in the house, having breakfast and reading through the dossiers. Aitor walks in because the Pacos wanted to talk to him (about stealing Sara's underwear). Paco and Mariano start sniffing knickers to make Aitor feel "he’s not alone" in his "fetish" but he just looks shocked and perturbed. I would too.  Paco and Mariano have definitely crowned themselves again. Lola comes in and asks them what the hell are they doing sniffing dirty knickers.

At the lab, the seance session with Mr Smith is about to begin. His cadaver looks relatively okay given he’s fallen off a 80m building. Curtis asks Quique to cover the empty eye socket (apparently, Mr. Smith also lost an eyeball)... Quique uses a post-it note (so professional!). They start the ritual and Lola knocks at the door, giving them all a fright. Lola wants to talk to the late Bernarda.

In the meeting room, they are all getting ready for Paco and Mariano's presentation. Silvia and Pepa walk in, they say hello and assume their roles of looking gorgeous. [Translator's horny plea: Are they not working and only making out and we can’t see them? I need fanfic fillers here! :D].

Mr Smith begins to speak via the medium lady, but he’s speaking in English so the junk patrol does not understand him and Curtis goes to find Pove to translate.

Sara goes to Lucas and tells him it’s the last time his name is not among her last ten calls. *BARF!* So he phones her to ask her out and she refuses cause she has a meeting.

At the lab, everyone's all lining to talk to their dearly departed friends. Smith keeps speaking English... and SO IS POVE! Queen’s English actually! Translator is stunned... Because she obviously does not know that the actor who plays Pove is really from Murcia, which she backhandedly maligned in 4x06.

Paco and Mariano realise that the file is missing from the laptop. Paco tries to distract DL and goes to get Pove... who was serving as translator at the seance. Paco goes ballistic when he sees what the Junk Patrol is up to but the medium lady shouts and says that Smith was on his way to meet someone. Paco and Mariano relay this information to the people at the meeting (who have no idea that John Edwards - the medium not ex VP candidate and philanderer - is at the comisaria).

Silvia: If Smith was meeting someone at the observation deck and didn’t say anything to anyone and didn’t take precautions, it’s because he knew the person.
Paco: Silvia’s deduction is a deduction of our deduction [Translator's snark: WTF?], I mean, that’s what we think.

Superintendent DeGaulle says he was with a police officer from San Antonio, and Paco thinks they have an infiltrator. They leave to go to the seance again. DL asks Montoya to get the archives from the Kaiser case... but they are not in the computer anymore. At the lab, the seance group has lost connection with Mr Smith, but when they’re about to get it back, DL et al walk in and witness this clusterfuck. I think this would make for a good cellular phone commercial:  5G network so strong you can reach the dead!  Okay, maybe it's not that funny, but really, it was funny in my head.

DL takes Paco back to the meeting room and says he and Mariano have crossed the line. They try to excuse themselves but it’s too late. Lucas and Sara coordinate so they get sent home for a while and in the process protecting themselves. It’s very sentimental because it’s like proper treason. DL throws them out of the case. Silvia and Pepa’s faces are priceless.

End of PepSi scenes, but we know you care so much about the Kaiser case and cannot wait to know what will happen next, so we're telling you the rest of the episode anyway.  Plus we still have a lot of screencaps to plaster all over...

At Los Cachis, Paco and Mariano are having a pity party for no real reason. Paco says Lucas is a good cop (Hah!) and can be anything he wants to be but he’s wasting his time in San Antonio with them, the awful cops. You think? Quique arrives with Smith's mobile phone log and they realise it’s Lucas who was at the observation deck with him.

Lucas is doing some shooting practice, feeling like crap when Sara comes in carrying a bag that would make James Bond so jealous: GPS trackers, mobile phones, network connection devices... the whole enchilada!

Aitor is pretty much determined to find out where the hell Carlota is and breaks into Lucas' flat Mission: Impossible style.

Lucas meets with Mariano and Paco who tell him that he is the principal suspect in Smith's murder. Lucas asks them to cover for him, because he’s innocent, and that they have to trust him. Paco does trust him and swallows Smith’s SIM card. WTF? Mariano wants to do someting similarly honorable and tries to swallow a Lithum battery, but they stop him.

Aitor finds Carlota's passport implying that she did not go out of the country.  He doesn't trust Lucas anymore.  The End.

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Piper's commentary:
 Not a lot of PepSi screentime, but I didn't really understand their little exchange at the dental office.  Why would Pepa get offended with Silvia's allusion to getting emotionally smacked, and why did she answer her with "Pues sí. Será que siempre me fijo en la persona equivocada" and gave her that loaded look?  I thought that they have agreed that they're just friends, they had coffee that morning and bonded over bagels and bullets, then this exchange?  Did something happen or was said between coffee and dentist?  Or the writers got lazy again and wanted some dialogue that shows PepSi's road to coupledom without regard for the rest of the storyline?

And then there's the never-ending stupidity of the cops at San Antonio.  Never. Ending. Stupidity.  If they were going to hold a seance, they did not really need the physical body of the deceased; they could hold it in the safety and privacy of their own home - of course "privacy" is relative in Spain.  But not where the precinct captain could catch you.  Then there's Smith's missing eyeball.  For some reason, this reminds me of the Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head commercial, where Mrs. Potato Head's lips fell and she replaced it with Angry Eyes.  But that's just me.  I'm sure this is not funny to a lot of people.