.......kill Helen? I’m having a tough time figuring out what his motivation was. Is it that he understood that the animosity between the Byrds and Helen had reached such a point that they could no longer work together and one of them had to go?
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I think Navarro was too smart not to see her tactics for what they were (and besides, Marty and Wendy were useful), and he probably had people on her, too, when she went to the FBI.
Basically I think Helen raised red flags with him the moment she started badmouthing the Byrdes.
She was making deals with his opponents, and he probably figured that out.
shareWell, that's just speculation.
Which part, that she was making the deals or that he figured it out? We know he figured out very quickly that Marty was listening to his wife's phone calls, so I don't think that's a stretch by any means. And I think the first part is made explicit in the show, isn't it?
shareI think the minute the FBI agent called Marty she realized the danger that they were in and dispatched the Feds to raid his enemy based on the evidence Marty had provided. Navarro realized the power Marty had with the Fed to be able to go after his enemy so took out Marty’s threat. That was what they asked for. Navarro May have said he didn’t make deals with them but may have realized that it served his interest to keep them from “internal harm”.
shareI think it's along those lines. Could be that Navarro saw through the phony confession, too.
Or, who knows?, maybe all will be revealed next season?
Actually...maybe it's that Navarro blamed Helen for the problems. Think about it: she's one of his top people and he sends her to handle the situation and do damage control. Navarro knows the Byrds. He didn't hire them to handle chaos, he hired them to launder money. They were doing their jobs. Helen wasn't doing hers. Helen blamed the Byrds for not getting things under control, but isn't getting the Byrds under control Helen's job...?
Well it was obvious to me that her hitman Nelson that was always with her sold her out and was informing Novarro of her intentions to set the Byrd's up so Novarro would kill them. Cause she asked Nelson at one point in the season that "If you ever get the call for me you'd let me know right?" and he nods as if he'd give her a heads up, yet he's the one who shoots her at the end.
I think Helen thought Nelson was loyal to her and she could trust him, but he was only loyal to Novarro and i assume was informing Novarro of Helen going to the feds to set Marty up.
Just rewatched. . .we don't know who shot her. The person is off camera.
Man, this is a good show.
It was clearly Nelson, cause Nelson walks off to the side where she gets shot from, plus you can see the shooter is wearing the same black long sleeved buttoned up shirt Nelson was wearing when he got out of the car.
shareI'm not doubting it's Nelson. I assumed it was. . .I'm just saying, we don't KNOW it was. That's all.
I'm wondering why they didn't show him explicitly. There's a reason for just about everything they do on this show. . .
I would say that if it wasn't him then we're most likely dealing with a plot hole. It pretty much HAD to be him who pulled the trigger.
The reason they didn't show him is because they wanted it to appear that bit more sudden and shocking not seeing Nelson in the frame walking towards Helen and getting his gun out. The moment before they have him walking away to the side, almost as if they want us to believe he's walking out of the scene, when as we know he actually isn't.
The reason they didn't show him is because they wanted it to appear that bit more sudden and shocking not seeing Nelson in the frame walking towards Helen and getting his gun out. The moment before they have him walking away to the side, almost as if they want us to believe he's walking out of the scene, when as we know he actually isn't.
I think this illustrates a recurring problem with the show-it leaves out pretty big plot points. Marty or Helen having the power to get U.S. troops to interdict in a drug war based on some blurry license plates is a bit of a stretch. They should have shown U.S. troops on a raid if that's what they are going with. I would imagine Navarro would want some proof of that claim before offing Helen who he has known and trusted longer than the Byrds.
shareHe couldn't have in-fighting within his "team", and she was not a team-player. She was out for herself. She was generating a power-struggle between her and the Bryds, and trying to come out on top. Navarrao didn't like it.
Someone had to go, and he trusted Wendy more. And I also think he wants to get in her pants, which goes a long way towards ensuring her survival.