‘Mayans M.C.’ Season 4 Episode 4 Recap: “A Crow Flew By” and War’s Declared

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Mayans MC Season 4 Episode 4 Recap
Manny Montana as Manny and JD Pardo as EZ Reyes in ‘Mayans M.C.’ season 4 episode 4 (Photo by Prashant Gupta/FX)

FX’s Mayans M.C. season four episode four opens with Randall on death’s door. Manny (Manny Montana) and EZ (JD Pardo) realize why Angel shot him, and Manny tells the older Reyes brother he did the right thing. EZ takes in the big picture and knows this is going to screw up things between the Mayans and El Banquero.

It’s revealed Noah isn’t Randall’s son. Randall deserved what he got.

Manny puts another bullet into Randall’s nearly dead body, finishing the job Angel started. “Let the coyotes take care of this piece of sh*t,” says a disgusted Manny.

Morning arrives and Coco (Richard Cabral) and Hope are still clean and still living together. She asks for a ride home from work that evening because it’s a sketchy area and Coco agrees. They kiss and he heads off to the club.

The club meets and Canche (Jimmy Gonzales) demands to know who pulled the trigger. After a brief pause, Angel (Clayton Cardenas) admits he did, but Manny adds that he finished him off. EZ steps forward and says it was his call since he’s the ranking officer.

Canche’s controlled but furious, blaming Marcus (Emilio Rivera) for giving power to EZ. Marcus stands up for his guys, informing Canche they don’t run protection for pedophiles and telling EZ, Manny, and Angel they did the right thing. He gavels the meeting to a close, but Canche has to have the last word.

“What they did, Padrino, is kill the pipeline and maybe every motherf**ker in this room,” says Canche.

Marcus tells his Santo Padre guys to stay seated to deliver some news which Angel takes incredibly badly. Nestor (Gino Vento) is their new prospect! He looks weird in a Mayans cut and Angel orders him to get him a beer, calling him a French braid little b*tch.

The guys are hanging out in the clubhouse when Canche orders Manny to return to his true family in Yuma. He doesn’t like Manny getting so close to Santo Padre and, in particular, EZ.

Manny says his goodbyes to EZ and seems genuinely sorry to leave. (I take back what I said about Manny’s ulterior motives in episode 3.) He jokes about EZ stabbing him and throwing him off the roof but doesn’t have any hard feelings.

“You’re a good dude, EZ Reyes,” says Manny.

“You too, Manny,” replies EZ.

Coco has a one-on-one with Marcus and Marcus acknowledges Coco’s been putting in the work and staying clean. Marcus gives Coco a special assignment to head to Oakland and represent Santo Padre with the fallen brothers. If he gets it right, Marcus will give him back his bottom rocker.

Bishop (Michael Irby) continues to drink heavily and stew about the state of the club.

EZ stops Canche before he can leave and again takes all the blame for Randall’s death. He wants to make sure Canche’s not blaming Manny for what went down. Canche believes it was probably all Angel’s fault (he calls him EZ’s idiot brother) and EZ reminds him he put them out there with a guy who raped kids.

“Oh, now you’re a f**king advocate for child safety?” says Canche.

EZ wants to put their personal beef behind them for the good of the club. He knows they need to figure out what to do about El Banquero, but Canche’s not having any of this. He will never forgive EZ for going after his kid and points out EZ’s not even willing to help his own president who’s currently drinking himself to death at the bar while EZ wears his flash.

“You’ll never be anything but a walking dead man to me,” snarls Canche.

Marcus has stepped outside to watch the exchange and after it’s over he and EZ return to the table to talk. EZ admits he doesn’t know why Marcus made him VP and Marcus explains it’s because EZ has a good vision of what the club can be. However, he lacks knowledge of their history and rules.

Marcus started the club so they’d have something of their own. EZ needs to understand Mayans M.C. history to grasp what it means to wear the club’s cut.

“Like my friend Jax once said, ‘Forget the past and you’re doomed to repeat it,’” says Marcus. (Love the shoutout to Jax Teller!)

EZ corrects Marcus and says the quote actually comes from Jorge Santayana. (I always forget EZ has a photographic memory until he says something like this. Obviously, I don’t share that trait.)

Marcus gives EZ the Mayans M.C. history book and tells him to read it.

Jess (Grace Rizzo) spills some beer and Taza (Raoul Max Trujillo) and Tranq (Frankie Loyal) ask if she’s okay. She’s jittery but says she’s fine. Taza confesses to Tranq he doesn’t even recognize the club anymore and Tranq believes they’re being tested. He’s not sure they’ll make it.

Cielo (Mia Danelle) thinks Jess is still sick and sends her home. Jess steps outside and calls the VP of Sons of Anarchy’s San Bernardino charter. (Recall in season four episode two she found Montez’s SoA coat in a barrel on Santo Padre’s property.) She’s nervous about spying on Santo Padre and tries to back out but he won’t let her. She finally tells him she may have heard something useful.

EZ tries to mend the relationship with Bishop, but Bishop suggests he shove his apology up his ass. EZ punches Bishop in the face, knocking him from his chair. He tells Bishop he needs to respect his VP and tells the guys who hold Bishop back to educate their ex-president.

Felipe (Edward James Olmos) receives a postcard from Gaby that reads:

“I got the internship! Company isn’t as good as the carniceria but there’s less blood. I miss you.”

EZ shows up at his dad’s butcher shop and all the shelves are empty. As his dad makes his way into the front of the shop EZ picks up the postcard from Gaby. He takes off before they can talk, leaving the postcard behind on the floor.

Mayans MC Season 4 Episode 4 Recap
Vincent Rocco Vargas as Gilberto “Gilly” Lopez in ‘Mayans M.C.’ season 4 episode 4 (Photo by Prashant Gupta/FX)

In other Mayans news: Creeper (Joseph Raymond Lucero) goes on a date and Gilly (Vincent Vargas) shows up at the birthday party for the son of an old friend. He has a good time catching up and hanging out with his old military buddies and is told not to wait so long before his next visit.

He admits the M.C. is the closest thing he could find to a brotherhood stateside. Gilly’s friend tries to soothe his conscience and it’s revealed he has PTSD from something that happened during a tour of duty.

Canche makes the trip to Mexico and apologizes to El Banquero (Guillermo Garcia) for Randall’s death. He promises the Mayans will do whatever it takes to make it up to him, reminding him they have a good thing going. El Banquero responds by shooting the television.

El Banquero doesn’t say a word and Canche backs slowly out of the cartel leader’s house.

Four episodes in and we finally catch up with Miguel Galindo (Danny Pino). He looks nothing like his normally well-put-together self and is making a rock wall in an old cemetery. Miguel notices a kid – Tomas – watching him from the bushes and shows off his juggling skills. Minutes later Miguel launches into an explanation of why he’s building a wall, saying the dead need to be cared for too.

It’s revealed Miguel’s gone to ground at a convent where his aunt is a nun. They have a good relationship and joke about him needing to confess his sins. Apparently, he’s always been her favorite nephew and was a precocious child.

Later that day Miguel’s past appears to have caught up with him. Truckloads of armed men arrive at the convent and Miguel’s forced to hide as the nuns attempt to calm the situation.

The men demand “Martin” and his son, Tomas, saying they’ve crossed the LNG. So, they haven’t discovered Miguel’s hideout after all.

Miguel’s aunt is able to get them to leave without any bloodshed.

Night falls and back at the clubhouse the Reyes brothers chat on the porch. There’s some good-natured teasing – Angel calls his bro a nerd – and they seem relaxed. However, Angel gets serious when he says he needs to make sure he doesn’t screw things up with Nails. EZ admits, reluctantly, Nails actually likes Angel and isn’t going anywhere. He tells his big bro to go home and Angel sort of considers the suggestion.

Hope leaves work and expects Coco to pick her up. He’s a no-show.

Angel arrives home and Nails whispers his dad’s there and he’s brought a cake. She leaves them to talk without taking a piece and the atmosphere is awkward, to say the least, as Angel and Felipe eat.

Marcus is attempting to have a relaxing night at home, surrounded by his kids and ready to watch a movie. Marcus is old-school and wonders why they just can’t watch something on the VCR when his wife, Diana, tells him to switch it to Apple TV. His daughter, Tessa, asks, “What’s a VCR?”

Marcus has got to feel like a dinosaur with that comment. He replies, “You’re killing me, Tess.”

It gets a little tense when Diana reveals she’s invited Bishop for dinner next week. She thinks he’s in a lot of pain and could use their friendship.

EZ interrupts family night and tells Marcus he’s “tired of small men hijacking this club.” EZ’s read the rule book/history of the Mayans and believes Canche and Bishop are trying to destroy everything Marcus has built.

EZ wants to active the kill-switch clause which allows any president to be removed if there’s a unanimous vote against them. “You’re always talking to me about brotherhood. Why not give the power back to the brothers? Reinstate the kill-switch,” says EZ.

EZ believes it could stop a repeat of what went down between Bishop and Canche. Plus, it can protect the club’s future.

Season four episode four ends with the President and VP of SoA San Bernardino meeting. Although the president was against the idea of war with the Mayans, the discovery of Montez’s coat in a barrel full of lye outside of Santo Padre’s clubhouse has changed things. Chibs has given the green light to go to war with the Mayans. They’ll attack while the Mayans are busy with their fallen brothers/day of the dead stuff.




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