Tiago wrestles with guilt over Diego’s confession, Elsa and Frank move in with the Crafts and Maria meets the devil in multiple guises.

After a heavy involvement in last week’s episode, Tiago and Lewis step into the shadows to allow Magda and Maria to take centre stage. While the LAPD are delighted to have closed their case, the detectives know that Diego’s confession is just one part of the bigger puzzle. The partners go their own ways to seek solace in drink or pursue Nazis (the Fuhrer’s next Eagle’s Nest is being recced in California) meaning that Magda can continue her evil work under less scrutiny.

Maria (a stoic Adriana Barraza) is one of the few who can see what’s going on. She spots Magda in a graveyard while on the way to work, suffers from the spite of her Elsa incarnation (kicked out of her bedroom) and then meets her face to face while in the company of good sister Santa Muerte. It’s a powerful scene, the matriarch of the house defending her family whom she sees is being torn apart, concluding with her banishing the beast from her home. But it’s a temporary reprieve and likely to have consequences.

Verdict: With three episodes left it feels like we should be moving into the endgame, and if that injects a little pace, it would be no bad thing. 7/10

Nick Joy