'Lethal Weapon' Season 2 Spoilers: Riggs Finds Mexican Justice
When "Lethal Weapon" season 2 comes back this Tuesday, it will pick up right where the last episode left Riggs and Murtaugh, in Mexico on the hunt for a drug kingpin. For spoilers on what the second season has in store for the partner cops, read on. If you don't want to see spoilers, don't continue.
In the final episode of "Lethal Weapon" season 1, a vengeful Riggs abducted his wife's killer, Gideon, to interrogate him and learn the truth. But he found the CIA-trained assassin a hard nut to crack. Gideon escaped, and later he and other men working for Tito Flores captured Riggs and Murtaugh. The cops turned the tables on Gideon and chased him through subway tunnels until the assassin got hit by a train.
But the big revelation of the finale actually came from Ronnie Delgado, the father-in-law of Riggs, notes TV Line. Delgado made a slip that let Riggs figure out that the murder of his wife, Miranda, had been meant as a message to Delgado from Tito Flores. By the end of the episode, Riggs had gone to Mexico to find and take down the man who ordered the death of Miranda. On learning this, Murtaugh went after Riggs to help him.
In season 2, "Lethal Weapon" finds both men in Mexico. Riggs is constantly harassing Tito Flores with voice mail messages, while Murtaugh is following the drug lord around, hoping to catch sight of his partner. This is proving to be an expensive trip south of the border for Murtaugh, and his wife is not pleased.
The Mexican adventure does not go as Riggs expected. "Lethal Weapon" executive producer Matt Miller told TV Guide that Riggs does find a kind of closure, even though it's not exactly what he wanted. "It all somehow feels like some degree of justice," said Miller.
Riggs then begins the process of moving on, but he remains broken. Season 2 will reveal that Riggs has been broken for a long time, and his troubled past will come back to haunt him. Flashbacks will take us back to his life as a boy growing up in rural Texas and examine his relationship with his father in childhood.
