Silver or Lead

**Silver or Lead** is the second episode of the Paramount Plus series Coyote. It was released for internet streaming on 7 Jan 2021.

## Synopsis

Ben and Maria travel across the desert toward the border fence while trying to stay ahead of their three trackers. After delivering Maria to his former partner Garrett, Ben is made aware of a threat against his family and he is forced to re-enter Mexico to ensure the safety of his family.

## Plot

From a flashback, we learn that Maria's father, a teacher, was killed by members of the cartel for disciplining one of his students that had brought drugs into the classroom.

In the present, Ben and Maria drive into the desert, heading towards the U.S. border town of Bisbee, AZ. Ben's truck gets a flat tire in the middle of the desert which forces the two of them to walk 27 miles to the border. Despite their language barrier, the two are able to communicate and they become more sympathetic to each other.

They soon realize they are being followed by 3 trackers and have to use their wits to avoid being captured. At one point, they discover the decaying bodies of several people and they swap their clothes with clothes from the bodies. They then put their clothes on two of the bodies and prop them up against some rocks to try and deceive the trackers. The trackers are temporarily distracted, but soon resume the hunt.

Eventually, Ben and Maria reach the border fence where Ben cuts a hole through it with a battery powered say he had been carrying. As they climb through, the trackers are right there and Ben dares them to shoot them. However, it is clear that the trackers have been instructed not to kill them and let them go. Ben and Maria continue on into the U.S. and are soon discovered by two men who have also been tracking them but from the U.S. side. Ben kills both men and they eventually are found by Garrett.

While they are talking, Ben is sent a video on his phone that shows a man has broken into his ex-wife, Jill's house and he is standing over his sleeping daughter Kate. Ben talks with the sender who tells Ben to go back to where he left his truck or his daughter will be taken. Without telling Garrett or Maria what happened, Ben starts walking back towards the fence and heads for his truck. Ben eventually comes upon the truck which is being driven by the female tracker. He gets in and is driven to a bullfighting ring where Sultan takes his gun and wallet and sends him inside where he finds Juan Diego Zamora, the head of a local Cartel, who tells him that his family will be OK as long as Ben does what Juan Diego says and that he is not to tell anyone.

Juan Diego tells Ben to go back to the cabin where he finds that someone has set the incomplete wooden structure on fire. Distraught, Ben sees Dante standing at the top of a hill and finally, succumbing to exhaustion and hopelessness, collapses on the ground.

## Cast

* Juan Pablo Raba as Juan Diego "El Catrin" Zamora
* Adriana Paz as Silvia Peña
* Kristyan Ferrer as Dante Zamora
* Octavio Pisano as Sultan
* Julio Cedillo as Neto Mendez
* Cynthia Kaye McWilliams as Holly Vincent
* George Pullar as Garrett Cox
* Emy Mena as Maria Elena Flores
* Amy Forsyth as Kate Clemens
* Bobby Daniel Rodriguez as Lugo Peralta

## Galleries

### Main Characters

Ben ClemensJuan Diego "El Catrin" ZamoraSilvia PeñaDante ZamoraSultanNeto MendezHolly Vincent
### Supporting Characters

Jill KerrGarrett CoxMaria Elena FloresKate ClemensLugo Peralta