Mercy – As the episode opens, Rex (Derek Smith) digs a hole and tosses in a bag. A short time later, he leaves the scene and a vehicle pulls in behind him. A pursuit ensues and ends when Rex veers into an oncoming vehicle, sending his truck flipping across an empty lot until it comes to rest. Cowboy Hat (Brian Norris) stops, emerges from his vehicle, and notifies someone to call the cartel doctor. It’s dark when Thony (Elodie Yung) and Jorge Sanchez (Santiago Cabrera) arrive at the scene. He orders her to keep him alive. She argues that she isn’t a miracle worker. He calls someone to arrange a medical suite. Later, Thony patches Rex up. Jorge enters and asks about his condition. She says he has a fractured sternum, collapsed lungs, and potential brain injury but he will wake up after the sedatives wear off. He tells her to go get some rest. She stresses the importance of him being monitored. He reminds her that Rex drove the getaway car in their assassination attempt. Upon leaving, she urges him to give Rex time to heal.
Jaz (Faith Bryant) asks Chris (Sean Lew) to reduce the volume of his music. Fiona (Martha Millan) tells him to increase it and teases him for smiling. Jaz attributes it to Ted helping him. Chris, Jaz, and Fiona cannot pick Luca (Khalen Roman Sanchez) up after school. Thony agrees to ask Stephanie. After Jaz leaves with Luca, Thony suggests they are asking a lot from her. Fiona assures her that Jaz will be all right. Elsewhere, Jorge thanks Neto (Yancey Arias) for coming and warns him against getting carried away like in Santa Maria. Neto recalls Jorge’s dislike for boar hunting and places a cash roll secured with a broccoli band, rings, and a gun on the table. Rex enters the surgical suite, tells Rex to relax, grabs his side, and asks if it hurts. Rex yells out in pain. Jorge turns away. Neto continues to torture Rex. At the Hospital, Dr. Dupont (Daniel Bonjour) has an unruly patient, Ernest (James Cady). Thony distracts Ernest while administering his IV blood pressure medicine. She promises him that he will be reunited with Edna (Sharon Skinner) soon. She receives a page.
At the women’s prison, Ramona Sanchez (Kate del Castillo) is punching a heavy bag when Chiqui (Patricia De Leon) kicks her, sending her to the floor. Ramona gets back to her. Chiqui accuses her of lying about being a bruja (witch). Ramona starts to walk away. Chiqui grabs her arm and vows to find out who she is. Ramona walks away. At the surgical suite, Neto tells Jorge that Ramona’s hired man, Feng (Alain Uy) ordered the hit. Jorge refuses to believe it. Thony arrives to find Rex battered and scolds them. Feng says all he needs to do is tell them what they want to know. She warns if Rex dies, he will take what he knows with him and asks him to leave. He asks Jorge if this a “squealing pig situation.” Jorge threatens him if he speaks to him like that again. Thony frantically works to save Rex. At the cleaning business, Fiona tries to convince Larry to give her some floor wax on credit. Krista (Diana Gaitiria) informs Fiona that she is going to drive for StripRide, utilizing a fake American ID. She boasts of making $1k last week. Fiona asks if she can help get her a job. At the surgical suite, Thony goes through Rex’s wallet. He admits to driving the getaway car but denies knowing what the man who hired him had in mind. She asks who hired him. He says no and pleads with her to help him. She reluctantly puts him into an induced coma and insists Neto waits until he wakes up. Thony criticizes Jorge for allowing Neto to torture Rex and insists he is better than that. He tells her that he isn’t so sure. She asks him to let her talk to Rex if he wakes up.
At Acapulco Tacos & Burritos, Fiona speaks with Elwood (Michael Vincent Berry) about a StripRide job. He tells her that he rents rideshare accounts for a weekly fee and gives her a fake ID for Blanche Clutterbuck. Suspicious, she starts to leave. He suggests they start over. She reluctantly agrees. At the prison, Jorge asks Ramona if Feng is trustworthy. She says Feng doesn’t have any family support. He vows to take him out quietly if Rex confirms it was him. She insists he makes an example of him in front of others. He is set to strike a mining deal and accuses her of hiding in the shadows when she was Sin Cara. She recommends he call a meeting and remind them of what happens to people who step out of line. Elsewhere, Fiona informs Thony of her StripRide job and fake ID. Thony warns that she could be arrested. Fiona reminds her that she is the cartel doctor when she receives her first ride request.
In Ted’s (Chase Del Rosario) car, Chris spins donuts in a parking lot. He stops and tries to restart the engine but it won’t turn over. Ted compliments his driving. Chris asks if he is going to Cornell. Ted says that is his mother’s idea, not his. Fiona drops Jaz off at a college fair. She expresses how proud of her she is before leaving. A short time later, Fiona arrives to pick up her first passengers. She gets out to open the door and they decline a ride with her. At the hospital, Thony imagines Neto torturing Rex and doesn’t hear a Code Blue alert. A staff member grabs her attention. Thony races to Ernest’s room and starts CPR. She intubates him and his heart starts beating again. DuPont threatens to report her to the medical board because Ernest has a DNR. She apologizes. At a pub, El Don (Danny Pardo) receives a call from Ramona asking if Chiqui’s father told him anything. He says Chiqui’s mother, Anita, was smoking when she passed out. The house caught on fire and Chiqui suffered burns to her body. She orders him to let the others know that she fully supports Jorge. Outside Belen Furniture, Fiona catches Chris and Ted driving recklessly. She scolds Chris for not studying for his GED. Ted is surprised she still has her red van. Offended, she says it will make a good laugh for Rose. He assures her that he meant nothing by it. Chris pulls her away.
Jorge tells Thony he needs Rex to talk before his impending cartel meeting. She administers adrenaline and he wakes up. She tells him that he has an internal bleed. He pleads with her to give his wife a photo with GPS coordinates of where the money is hidden. She promises to make sure they get it and administers a medicine to stop his heart. She tells Neto and Jorge. Neto accuses her of killing Rex and threatens her with a torch. Jorge orders him to dispose of the body. Once alone, Jorge asks if she killed Rex. She admits to making his death painless but it was Neto who killed him. She claims Rex denied any knowledge of the hit on them, gives him the GPS coordinates, and says she promised to make sure his family gets it. She pleads with him to let her help him. He tells her to go home. At home, Fiona tells Chris about the passengers refusing to ride in her van. He embraces her. Jaz arrives upset because Fiona didn’t pick her up. Fiona apologizes. Jaz accuses her of favoring Chris, who doesn’t carry his own weight.
Jorge digs up the Rex’s bag, opens it, and says he knows who tried to kill him. He and Thony return to his car. At the prison, Ramona tells Chiqui that her mother never forgave herself for the burns she suffered in the house fire. Chiqui reluctantly agrees to let Ramona contact her mother, Anita. During a meeting, Jorge assures the cartel members that there is nothing to worry about. He shows them a lithium rock. At the prison, Ramona lays The Tower card on the table and warns Chiqui that everything she built will soon crumble. At the hospital, Ernest struggles against his breathing tube. At the mining site, Jorge explains the purpose of lithium. At the prison, Ramona Chiqui is startled with Ramona reveals the Death card. Ramona urges her to embrace it. At the hospital, Thony finds Ernest in an anxious state. At the mining site, Jorge walks around the cartel members and says one of them is a traitor. Utilizing the lithium rock, he hits Neto on the head. Neto falls to the ground. Jorge throws a cash roll secured with a broccoli band at him. Chiqui becomes stressed and sweats profusely. DuPont tells Thony that Ernest is bucking the vent. She is distracted. Neto draws a knife on Jorge. A man tries to intervene but Jorge insists on doing it himself. A struggle ensues and ends with Jorge stabbing him in the chest. Neto taunts him about being a scared little boy. DuPont and Thony remove Ernest’s endotracheal tube. Chiqui collapses. At the mining site, Jorge beats Neto to death with the lithium rock. He assures the cartel that he is Sin Cara. Ernest breathes on his own.
Treating Jorge’s arm laceration, Thony asks what happened at the meeting. He gives her the money to give to Rex’s family. Chris and Ted surprise Fiona with her souped-up van. She takes Jaz for a ride. Edna tells Thony that she said goodbye to Ernest before he died. She thanks her and breaks down crying. Thony comforts her. Drinking, DuPont proposes a toast to Thony for officially earning his hatred. Drinking from his flask, she asks if he believes hell is other people. He says yes but it could be the loneliness. A short time later, Thony drops the bag of cash off at Rex’s house, rings the doorbell, and watches Rex’s wife (Sara Starr) look inside the bag and carry it into the house. Someone snaps her photo as she returns to her car.
The Cleaning Lady Review
Jorge learns an old acquaintance Neto hired a hitman to kill him. Ramona urges him to make an example of him to send a warning to the others. He beats him to death with a lithium rock at a cartel meeting.
Thony intubates a patient DNR patient. Ernest bucks the vent. Thony and DuPont remove his breathing tube. Edna is grateful to get to say her goodbyes before he dies.
El Don digs up information on Chiqui. Ramona tricks her into believing she contacted her mother and her life would soon crumble. Chiqui collapses. Ramona smiles and walks away.
Thony continues to overstep her bounds. Like Arman, Jorge does nothing when she takes matters into her own hands and jeopardizes his cartel in the process. At least, this episode revealed she isn’t the perfect doctor as she has always proclaimed.
It felt as if the show was promoting the use of fake American IDs by undocumented immigrants. Around 23.9 million people in the United States fell victim to identity theft in 2021, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Nearly 59% of the victims lost a total of $16.4 billion.
The episode deserves a 4 out of 10. Get more Cleaning Lady recaps here. Learn what others are saying by visiting our forum. Check our advertising packages here. Support our site by clicking the link.
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