In the present, Alamo doesn’t knock Rue’s head off, but he comes close… until she babbles that she knows the robbery’s getaway driver and can get the goods and money back. Only problem is, Faye is in love with Wayne… even though he tattooed a swastika on her lower back without consulting her about the design. Faye isn’t willing to help, until Rue invokes Fez — who, you’ll remember, went to jail after Faye’s last junkie boyfriend messed everything up.
The plan is for Faye to send Rue a photo of the key to Laurie’s safe, so Alamo’s guys can 3D-print a copy. And as Laurie and the guys leave for a meet-up at Alamo’s house, Faye sends the pic.
Rue alerts the feds that the summit is about to take place, and she’s in the room when Laurie and the guys come inside. Laurie asks about a company Alamo owns, called Gold Rush Medical Services. Apparently he uses it to get his girls plastic surgery, dental work, and other medical procedures in Mexicali. Laurie wants to take advantage of the company’s ambulances — and their medical exception to border policies — to transport 80 kilos of fentanyl.
Alamo agrees, but he threatens to destroy Laurie if she does anything to cross him. Via Rue’s phone, the DEA hears everything. When she meets with her handlers, they tell her she did a good job. And it makes me so sad when Rue beams, because she hasn’t heard that all that much.
Later, Rue hangs out at Jules’ apartment and muses about how she wants to have kids, get married, settle down, be in love. “I Have to live for something greater than myself,” she says. “And you think we’re gonna be that?” Jules asks, unable to contain how funny she thinks the idea is. “I want to be with you,” Rue says, but Jules calls their last hookup a “mistake.” They argue. It gets intense. After Rue calls Jules a “toy” that Ellis keeps hidden away, Jules slaps her. Rue falls into the canvas Jules is painting, then Jules kicks her out before Ellis shows up in 45 minutes. In the elevator down, Rue tries not to cry.
Also of note: Rue warns Maddy that Alamo is trouble, but Maddy doesn’t listen. She shoots photos of Cassie, Magic, and Kitty at the club. But when she asks for some time off for the dancers — who work six days a week — so she can take them out into the world and start building their profiles, Alamo says absolutely not.
