The zoo animals have disappeared but the episode opens with a dead cat.
This was a meandering second episode that introduces more characters of this seedy Texan town.
As this is a whodunnit they are just more suspects with something to hide. Also everyone needs to be careful when they start their car engine.
A concussed Allegra goes around meeting these people. A drunken journalist, a tenant of her sister who makes a pass at Allegra. Another man who might has been her sister's lover.
The most surprising part was that Strucker was still alive when his car blew up. He was covered in so many bandages he could had auditioned for a Mummy movie.
So far Briarpatch is underwhelming. It feels like a cheap knockoff of a Tarantino/Lynch crime drama.