
Celia noted that Madison was only being allowed to stay because of Nick, and if she didn’t get with the program, Nick might change his mind about that. ‘WHAT WOULDN’T YOU DO FOR YOUR CHILDREN?’ | When Celia ordered Strand out after Thomas’ funeral, Madison pleaded her non-friend’s case when maybe she should’ve been pleading her own. After being forced to remember, Daniel - egged on by his missus’ apparition - escaped from the chair to which he was tied, filled the room with gasoline and dropped a match. When his ill-fated wife materialized before his eyes, she reminded him that there was one sin he’d never confessed even to her - his first, when he was just a boy being recruited by the junta. However, he had plenty to discuss with Griselda. “I have nothing to tell you,” he insisted.

Once in custody, Celia challenged the barber to confess his sins. At one point, his delirium became so obvious - he tried to drag Ofelia off to see her late mother - that some of Celia’s men intervened, and he attacked them with a razor. ‘THEY HATE YOU FOR YOUR SILENCE’ | Meanwhile, nightmare-plagued Daniel was quickly coming unglued. “You interested?” Alas, she couldn’t leave without Travis.

When she asked where he’d go when he was kicked out, he told her he’d head for the boat. Victor turned down her request - and pointed out that they weren’t friends, just two people who’d had a “useful arrangement.” Yet it was still clear that they had bonded. Off that argument, Maddie appealed to Strand to save Nick from Celia’s dangerous influence. (Perhaps he didn’t get a good whiff of Zombie Luis?) At an impasse, he volunteered to go out again and come back with Travis. But he couldn’t understand why she couldn’t understand a mother wanting her son back. Naturally, Madison was ticked about Nick’s latest death-defying stunt. So Celia decided that he and he alone belonged there.

“Changed, yes, but no less my son.” And somehow, that was, in fact, what Nick saw. “All of you.” Hoping to pacify Celia, Nick bloodied himself up, went out and retrieved a zombified Luis. “The sun comes down, I want you gone,” she said. Though Madison tried to intervene, Celia wasn’t having any. “You love no one,” she spat, adding a slap for good measure. ‘THIS IS THE END OF DEATH ITSELF’ | Early on in “Shiva,” Celia was lighting into Strand for shooting Thomas in the head rather than joining him in death, as planned.
