Apple TV’s Sugar season two, episode three begins in the immediate aftermath of John Sugar (Colin Farrell) being shot and left for dead. If he were human, he’d be dead, and that would be the end of Sugar. But his alien body allows him to drive away, although his car’s sounding as rough as he looks.
(The following is a recap of season two, episode three – “Watch Face” – and there are spoilers.)
He swaps cars with Val (Sasha Calle), and she’s stunned by the two large bullet holes in his windshield and the fact that his shirt’s covered with blood. John’s voiceover explains it feels like there were at least 300 pellets in each shotgun shell. “We can take a lot … and that was a lot,” admits John.
John sets about tending to his wounds, even setting up a transfusion with alien blood.
Not long afterward, Sugar’s back on his feet, looking completely normal. His car’s also back in top shape, thanks to someone Val knows. John likes her and warns that maybe it’s too dangerous for her to work with him now. She understands but isn’t quitting. (Their relationship is sweet, and John genuinely cares about Val’s safety.)
John’s voiceover notes there are 40,000 unhoused people in Los Angeles, and he’s seen how people treat those who are underprivileged. He walks through an encampment and finds Sarah Jaquez, Jesus’s mom, and she confirms that she knows her son was murdered. He hung with a rough crowd, but he was a good boy. She’s certain that “Fire Sale” did this and then sounds a bit off when she says he didn’t like that they were feeding the homeless fentanyl. Sarah warns John to be careful.
Danny’s trainer, Teddy, introduces him to Len Pankow (Rell Battle), a promoter who offers him a chance to go to Vegas and fight Nestor Rodrigues. Danny (Jin Ha) is speechless; this could be his big break.
Ji (Raymond Lee) calls as Danny’s heading out after training, and he sounds like he’s out partying.
John had Val buy a camera for surveillance, which she’s going to use while she watches Hannah’s place in case Ji shows up.
Danny fills John in on Ji’s call and sounds freaked out when he tells John that he’s being followed. John gets his address and confronts a couple of EZ4 gangbangers in a car, asking them to deliver a message to their boss. They need to tell the man in charge that he hasn’t forgotten and will be talking to him soon. (EZ4 is the gang that’s after Ji and killed Jesus because they mistook him for Ji.)
Danny thought John would show the gang members following him his gun, but all John did was talk. (He doesn’t carry a gun.) John makes a risky move in traffic and loses Danny’s tail. They head to the club Ji called from and Danny scans the crowd. It’s packed, and John and Danny split up to cover more ground.
John’s shocked to see Peg (Laura San Giacomo) from his home planet on the dance floor and then quickly realizes he hallucinated her presence. Meanwhile, Danny spots Ji at the bar, hair dyed blonde, and drinking. Ji warns his brother to be careful because there’s somebody after him. They need to go to the desert and hide out for a while, promising they’ll come back eventually bigger than ever.
Ji mentions he’s got money coming and Danny tells him that he knows about the drugs he stole from a hospital. Ji freaks out when he sees Sugar, thinking his brother called the cops. Sugar chases him into the alley and a friend of Ji’s knocks Sugar out from behind.
Ji and his friend run away.
Danny takes John back to his place, and John admires a painting that Ji drew of their mom. Danny provides a few more details on his family and confesses he doesn’t think Ji will live long enough to complete his big drug deal. He thinks Ji’s given up on himself.
John and Danny get a chuckle over the fact that John went home and counted his suits after Danny commented on his wealth. John’s got 14 suits in his closet and more in storage. Danny calls him a baller.
Another voiceover finds John talking about siblings and how they can drive each other crazy, just like what happened with him and his sister. “But I’d do anything to get her back,” he admits.
As John’s driving home, he spots graffiti that reads “Fire Sale in Downer Town.” He googles it and doesn’t come up with any results. Val reports in and she’s incredibly bored. Ji hasn’t shown up at Hannah’s, and she wonders what she’s supposed to do if she needs to pee. John laughs and tells her to pee. There aren’t specific rules.
John goes for a late-night swim, confessing that he hopes that seeing Peg doesn’t mean that he’s seeing ghosts again. Charlotte (Laura Donnelly) just happens to also be in the pool and jokes that he’s stalking her. She poses an ethical question about her job, asking if certain ends justify any means. She doesn’t disclose any details because she signed an NDA, and John thinks she’s being mysterious, obscure, and cryptic. John suggests the answer to her question is that it sounds like a slippery slope to go down.
John describes her as a hard person to read; Charlotte’s heard that before. There’s some serious flirting going on before she swims away. Back in his room, John explains that the rules state he’s not supposed to get involved with a human.
Tom Flyberg (Shea Whigham) meets with John in a dog park – of course – and he’s learned that the EZ4s are a “heavy f**king crew” in Downer Town. They’re basically a Mexican gang, and John won’t explain why Ji, a Korean, made their hit list. Tom confirms EZ4’s leader is Jose Alejandro Cortez, who goes by Jose Guapo. Tom describes him as a killer who’s disciplined and smart. He moves drugs for the Universales, run by Sergey, who John’s familiar with. Tom believes Ji should just keep running; these aren’t people to screw around with.
John’s next stop is to see the gang member he keeps running into. The guy admits Guapo is the big dude and claims he didn’t know that the gang tried to kill John. John’s still sure he and Guapo can deal with this without any more violence. When John brings up the fire sale in Downer Town, that gets his attention. He escorts John through a gauntlet of EZ4s, all of whom eyeball John as he walks by.
It turns out this guy is Guapo and he leads John into a sketchy room with a mattress covered in blood and makeshift soundproofing. John tosses him the bloody card that was thrown on his body after the shooting, and Guapo asks how he heard about Fire Sale. Guapo claims none of this was his idea but before he can reveal whose idea it was, gunshots are heard outside. John and Guapo get into a fight, and just as Guapo is about to shoot John, the police barge in and shoot Guapo dead.
John’s cuffed and walked out, along with the remaining gang members. Once he’s outside the building, a sheriff cuts him loose. John explains he’s a PI looking for a missing kid but is distracted when he spots a sheriff (Tony Dalton) checking his watch the same way that he saw a man do in security footage.
The sheriff notices John’s staring at him and stares back.
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