The Body

In episode 4 of Elite Season 5, Benjamin is blackmailed by Armando. There are flickers of shots from the present too, including Armando’s body found face-down in the water over a lake. He’s about to be discovered.

Phillipe is feeling lost at school. He’s not sure where he stands with Omar and Samuel, his friends from back at school. Omar seems to be in control, but Phillipe can’t help but feel like he’s not quite sure what to do next.

Interestingly, Samuel notices Bilal at the party pickpocketing a wealthy client’s phone so Samuel calls him out for betraying Omar’s trust and kicks the kid out. Thanks to some poisonous words from Benjamin, Samuel decides to quit his job.

When Omar follows him outside, he notices the body on the lake and dives in to check if it’s Bilal. ..

It is not, of course, but Bilal randomly shows up to help Omar pull Armando out of the water.

Bilal is tasked with finding Rebe and bringing her to Omar. He recovers Samuel, forced to admit the truth to avoid being kicked out the club again.

Rebel and Mencia were talking at the party but there was clear frostiness between them after what happened at the drive-thru. The thing is, Mencia saw Rebel kissing a random woman there called Jess. The other sister, Ari, ended up getting blind drunk and dancing down on the dock. She was joined by a bemused Ivan who eventually agreed to go out on the water with her. ..

Isadora and Patrick are at the bar, where Isadora adds drugs to her drink and Patrick catches everyone off-guard by stumbling in and knocking over one of the sculptures that was supposed to be auctioned off. Benjamin is furious with him and eventually strikes his son, right in view of Mencia too. Although she takes her father’s side, she does reprimand him for striking the kid.

Patrick’s day goes from bad to worse when he notices Ari and Ivan out on the water – in full view of everyone I may add – making love. Patrick is heartbroken and out of all people, it’s Cruz who sits with Patrick and offers up some kind words of encouragement. And ironically, they end up kissing together too.

Philippe breaks up with Caye and immediately goes back to see Isadora, kissing her on the balcony. ..

Jess walks away from the bar, feeling very angry. She’s been kissed by Rebe, and Mencia seems to be very jealous of her. Jess thinks that Mencia is a terrible person, and she’s glad that she’s not around her.

However, when Mencia picks up the pieces of her mobile from the ground, she notices that there is another SIM card hidden there. It could well be Armando’s. Checking it out, she realizes the number stored on there belongs to Benjamin. ..

Big drama comes from the beach. It’s here where we see snippets of the “present” timeline blend with what we’ve seen during the school year. That shot of Samu dragging a body? Yep, that’s actually Armando.

Rebe finally catches up with Omar and Bilal, who stand together and try to dispose of the body. Omar had no part of this though and he’s unhappy that the others never told him the truth.

Samuel decides to call the police, but we cut to a shot of the body floating in the pool. This time the camera pans up to reveal that Samuel is behind the camera. ..

The Episode Review

Episode 4 of Season 5 of “The Walking Dead” featured a lovely little twist at the end of the episode that added some deliciously twisted relationships to the mix. These relationships started to develop quickly and seemed to be going in a very interesting direction, but at the end of the episode, something strange and unexpected happened.

In the days leading up to Samuel’s death, we learn a great deal about what is happening in the world. We learn that he is being killed off and that his death will have a significant impact on the course of events.

The whole interview process was not actually about the body in the pool after all, and this is a lovely red herring to obscure this. After all, there have been glimmers that we weren’t seeing the whole picture, given the way this show has been edited across the episodes so far.

Elite’s latest episode was arguably the best of the season, with both its plot and its pacing coming together well. ..