I can't speak to the omniscient/omnipotent killer discussion below, but killing an FBI agent would/should kick this whole thing into another gear.  Thinking back to a local example, back around 2002 there was a problem with transcontinental freight trains being held up and robbed as they went past the border at Anapra…

About the wallet, its not just that he'd need that to go back and forth since he's a Mexican citizen, but even Americans need to carry their passport (or equivalent) with them to get back into the U.S.

In 2010 the City of El Paso only had 5 homicides, although that was unusually low. More typically it is between ten and twenty per year, averaging 15-16, which is still incredibly low for a city of 660,000 people.

MSA is the abbreviation for metropolitan statistical area, a commuting-based, (multi-)county scale unit of urbanity.

It's also worth remembering that good ol' Hegelian dialectics aren't just about contrasts, but also about unities (thesis, antithesis, and synthesis).  The quality of this show going forward depends on how they weave these contrasts into a synthetic unity.  Its early, admittedly, and the Sonya-Ruiz paring offers one…

Cool.  Nice to encounter another El Pasoan on this board.  I'm from West-Central, although school has taken me across the country since.

I liked this.  Good episode that created tension and continues to advance the murder mystery plot while building potentially interesting subplots.  I also want to thank my fellow commentators from last week, I thought that discussion was interesting and productive.

[In reply to Kumagoro.] Yeah, the politics of the production strike me as a very plausible explanation, but the effect of San Diegoizing (San Diego is significantly whiter and wealthier than El Paso) El Paso is unfortunate and undercuts the uniqueness of the place in real life.  Still, it ultimately all comes down to…

Yeah. To echo Willoughby, the largest population in El Paso is bilingual, but there are significant populations both of monolingual English and Spanish speakers.

I think that's a fair point about what a realistic number would be, and may be something that (hopefully) improves as the show worldbuilds.  I think a good starting point may be to have the sheriff's deputy be Hispanic or some of the CBP staff.  It would also be important for the show to show hispanic americans as…

I don't know if anyone would read a comment left the day after, but here goes.