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 The second season of Cross clarified that Kayla wasn't actually the one overseeing the brutal suicide of a PTSD veteran at Project Bad Religion; her face had been superimposed onto the body of someone she knew. While this was happening in parallel, the main storyline followed Lance, who was becoming increasingly indifferent to the fact that Crestbrook had been caught red-handed smuggling children across the border. He told Alex and Kayla that they had been hired to stop the individual trying to kill him and that they needed to focus on that, nothing else. 

Speaking of the individual trying to kill Lance, the FBI and the Minneapolis Police Department thoroughly analyzed the information they had gathered about the recent serial murders and his brief encounter with Rebecca (whose real name is Luz, by the way), and sent Alex and Kayla to Rebecca's house. Rebecca showed up for a meeting with Alex and even seemingly agreed to turn herself in to the authorities, allowing Alex to continue his investigation into Lance's illicit activities legally. However, when Alex showed up at the location Rebecca said he would turn himself in, Donnie nearly killed him. If it weren't for Trey, Alex would be dead.

Creator: Ben Watkins
Stars: Aldis Hodge, Alona Tal, Juanita Jennings

Alex meets with Sampson at Ben's Chili Bowl to tell him about his life, and Sampson does the same. I imagine they're both glad that LaDonna's case is bringing Sampson closer to his mother, but that doesn't mean Sampson doesn't have to catch the real killer who framed LaDonna. In fact, Sampson probably needs to speed up the investigation, because it's only a matter of time before his superiors decide they don't want to waste any more resources "saving" LaDonna, and they'd better send her to jail for the crime she's accused of. 

As for Alex, he can't waste any time looking for Rebecca. While he probably wants her to complete her revenge saga and cleanse this world of this evil cabal that preys on young children, he first needs to do his job and catch Rebecca, who is getting closer and closer to Lance and his friend.

Before heading to her briefing, Kayla confronts Alex and, though reluctantly, tells him she warned him he was being an idiot by trusting Rebecca so much, and that his injuries are proof he should listen to Kayla instead of blindly trusting a serial killer. Alex tries to counter by criticizing her decision to give Trey a "Get Out of Jail Free" card, but Kayla rightly refutes that claim, saying that if she hadn't sent Trey after him, Donnie surely would have killed him. Therefore, Alex should thank Kayla and Trey instead of complaining. 

Alex admits his mistake, thanks Kayla for thinking quickly, and then heads into the briefing room for his meeting with the FBI and the Minneapolis Police Department. Roy pounces on Alex almost immediately and tries to pull him off Rebecca's case, since, apparently, she's slipped through his fingers quite easily, and if the FBI takes over the investigation, Roy argues, Rebecca will be caught in no time. Kayla, Shawna, and Anderson enthusiastically defend Alex, and Roy has no choice but to relent and let Alex take charge of the case.

Special Agent Tyler Goff informs Alex about Senator Ashford's meeting with Rebecca. So, without wasting a second, Alex goes to Ashford's office and, after speaking with the senator, finds a box containing all the complaints filed by Gabriela. With the help of these documents and all the information the FBI and MPD have gathered so far, Alex compiles a list of the people Rebecca has already killed (or who have died of natural causes) and those who might be her next targets: Olivia Ashford (the senator's mother), Brent Turlock, Richard Helvig, Beverly Soames, Paul Hartsfield, Lincoln Esteban, Lance Durand, Nat Gancarz, Griffith Stoker, Jelani Amadou, and Nuri Mohindra.

Now, while Alex focuses on deciphering the pattern Rebecca is using to stalk her targets, Kayla tells the team to warn Rebecca's potential victims so they don't unwittingly cross paths with the vengeful spirit. Speaking of Rebecca, she suggests they alter the mission, because Donnie has been shot by Trey and doesn't appear likely to recover from that wound anytime soon. Clare says they must stick to the timeline, because the only way forward is through it.

Not only is Donnie injured, but the FBI and the Minneapolis Police Department also know about Rebecca; therefore, they can't afford to restructure their schedule. They have to act quickly to strike before the authorities anticipate their move. The funny thing is, they don't have to do all that to thwart the authorities and reach their targets, because the authorities aren't taking the situation very seriously.

 Alex goes straight to Amadou and tells him to basically cancel his wedding and stay somewhere safe until the "storm" passes. And what does Lance tell his best friend? He tells him to calm down and go ahead with the wedding, thus giving Rebecca the perfect opportunity to strike. Since that's no longer in Alex's hands, he returns home to deal with Elle and his complicated feelings for her. Luckily, Elle says she's going to break up with him, this time for good, because this isn't working anymore and it's confusing their children. Well, that's great, because if I had to watch one more second of this melodramatic nonsense, I would have given up.

Kayla encounters Felicia, the woman who witnessed the PTSD-affected soldier beating himself to death while security cameras displayed Kayla's face in a deepfake. She tries to stop her and get some answers. She almost escapes Kayla, but Trey stops her. Afterward, she's taken to a shipping container and tortured in a Clockwork Orange-style manner until she reveals the truth about the location of the original security cameras, because Kayla can prove that it wasn't her, but Felicia, who ordered the veterans killed. 

Predictably, Felicia claims to have no idea who fabricated that idea. In fact, Felicia is shocked to discover that the Mastermind has taken things so far that Margaret committed suicide. She seems to understand that it's only a matter of time before the Mastermind catches her and Kayla. Therefore, she'd better join forces with Kayla to take down the Mastermind. But she decides not to help, perhaps because she believes that if she tells Kayla anything useful, she'll be killed. Felicia isn't wrong to assume that, since, regardless of what Kayla tells herself, she was an active member of Project Bad Religion and led many PTSD soldiers to their deaths as they struggled to readjust to normal life, and it's possible she's connecting the dots.

Felicia's rebellious nature almost compels Kayla to kill her, but she restrains herself and leaves her marinating in that container. Once she's out, Trey says he can intervene and kill Felicia. However, Kayla can't allow that to happen until she has the information she needs to protect herself if anything about Bad Religion comes to light. So, for her second round with Felicia, she brings the same drug that drove those PTSD soldiers completely insane and threatens to inject it if she doesn't start talking. 

Felicia thinks Kayla is bluffing, but she doesn't want to risk anything entering her bloodstream. So she reveals that the documents are stored in a secure facility 30 floors below Roy's office. Kayla suspects this might be another one of Felicia's tricks, so she doesn't let her go until she can confirm that what Felicia says is true. Of course, this isn't the only side mission. Sampson and Vega visit Milo, one of the supposed casualties from the shootout that could send LaDonna to prison for life. 

At first, Milo is reluctant to cooperate, but when Sampson promises to bring antibiotics for his wound, he calms down. Milo mentions a business deal and how the meeting place was "lit" by a gunman named Nighttrain. How does this relate to LaDonna? Well, when Sampson mentions the name "Nighttrain" in front of LaDonna, she goes blank. So I don't really know where this is going, and it seems that neither Sampson nor LaDonna know either, which is why they're looking at photos from Sampson's childhood, since that's the stage of his life that LaDonna missed.

Alex meets a tarot reader who tells him the legend of the Flower Girl, something Gabriela apparently told Rebecca when she was a child. The story goes that after the death of Hernán Cortés, Emperor Moctezuma Xocoyotzin, or Moctezuma, marched to Tenochtitlán. Tenochtitlán was home to a brave young woman named Xóchitl, and her mother urged her to sing an ancient song while soldiers ravaged their home, hoping to inspire her people to resist oppression. 

When the soldiers realized the effect Xóchitl's song had on the people, they dragged her to a crater and threw her in. This didn't stop Xóchitl from singing, and to silence her voice, the soldiers kept piling more and more earth onto the crater; eventually, it became the Tacaná volcano. Therefore, to reconnect with his people, he had to leave his earthly confines and reach the mountain's summit from within. Each level of that mountain was guarded by demons, and at the very top resided the most ferocious of all. This led Alex to recall the tattoo on Rebecca's back, which contained this entire story, and to connect each of those demons to the person Rebecca had murdered. 

Sheriff Morgan was the dog, Turlock was the healer, Helvig was the sinner, Hartsfield was the parasite, Ashford was the scales of justice, Nat is the guard, and Lance is the crown of fingers. That leaves them with the architect, the hammer, and the mouth. According to this list, the architect, Amadou, is next. What is he up to? Following Lance's instructions, he is preoccupied with his wedding. He seems to be coming to his senses, but it's too little, too late. At the end of episode 6, while Amadou is dancing with his wife, Rebecca, disguised as an exotic dancer, approaches him and slits his throat. Before anyone can grasp the situation, Rebecca cuts off his fingers (because that's her signature). Alex, Kayla, Goff, and the rest of the security team try to track Rebecca down, but Donnie starts providing cover from a distance. Goff is shot in the head and dies. 

Alex and Kayla let Rebecca escape yet again. Yes, the episode began with everyone vehemently supporting Alex and his handling of the case. However, what is he going to say now? Sure, he's figured out Rebecca's pattern, but despite knowing Amadou's life was in danger, he couldn't act quickly enough to protect him and arrest her. How is he going to reassure Roy that he's still the best person for the job? Well, maybe if he manages to pull off some 4D chess moves and outmaneuver Rebecca and Donnie. That said, the problem is that if he doesn't let Rebecca complete her mission, this cabal of child traffickers will continue to exist. If he intervenes at any point in the investigation, he'll receive "higher orders," preventing him from dismantling the Crestbrook network.

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