Ash Kelley

What a description.

Exactly.

And they said, obviously, that kind of money and confidence didn't come from selling small amounts of weed or even cocaine at that point to tourists.

Yeah.

There was something a lot bigger going on here.

So the agent pretty much confirmed what Benitez already knew.

The remaining Hernandez family must have hooked up with a more powerful cartel.

But he mentioned one more thing that Benitez didn't know.

According to the DEA agent, there had been rumors circulating lately about the Hernandez boys talking about how they had all the protection they needed and that they had bought off the local cops, all of which they attributed to, quote, some weird religion that made them invincible.

Okay.

Yeah.

Okay.

So it was the comment about the religion that started to bring everything into focus for all of these agents here.

The statue of the trickster god that Morales' partner had found in the back of the suburban, the fact that little Seraphine had just blown through the police checkpoint without the slightest hesitation, and the fact that he didn't even seem to think about being followed when he led them directly to the ranch, like that wasn't on his radar.

It all started to make sense.

Yeah.

Now, little Seraphine had never been the brightest member of the family, but even he wasn't so stupid as to openly defy the police that brazenly, unless he thought he was untouchable and protected.

Oh, yeah.

You see what I'm saying here?

Oh my God, that makes so much sense.