MGM+'s Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue is a run-of-the-mill survival thriller centered around nine survivors who end up in the middle of nowhere. Eight passengers had boarded a flight at Guatemala's Aurora International Airport bound for Houston, Texas, but before they could reach their destination, the pilot, Octavio Fuentes, lost his bearings due to a GPS system failure. He tried to contact authorities and sent out numerous requests for immediate help, but no one responded. In the end, the plane ran out of fuel and Octavio had to make an emergency landing in the Mexican rainforest.
The first episode of Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue begins with nine dead bodies arriving at the Mexican military camp of Los Trios. Lopez, an officer, reported to his superior, Captain Gabriel Vega, that they had found these bodies in a well, all lined up. He wasn't exactly sure who had killed these nine people or how they ended up dead, and I guess that's what we're going to find out over the next five episodes. Vega wasn't too thrilled about having these bodies in his camp, but it seems they had received orders from their superiors.
It was pretty obvious that someone was trying to cover up the whole mess, so they had sent these corpses to a ruined camp in Los Trios. The episode also introduced a couple named Emilio and Cora De Léon, who were watching over the camp from afar. These two also seemed to be interested in the nine bodies and decided to wait for the authorities to take the bodies to the morgue. They probably want to steal the bodies, or maybe steal something from inside. Well, whatever the case may be, they didn't seem to have good intentions.
As soon as the plane crashed in the forest, the passengers realized that they wouldn't be able to get out of there unless they worked as a team. So instead of being strangers, they decided to introduce themselves to each other, and in doing so, to the audience as well, so that we also get to know a little bit about the characters' backgrounds and motivations.
The first passenger is Amy Maclean, who married her husband, Dan, in Las Vegas about five weeks ago. They were on their honeymoon in Mexico, Belize, and Guatemala and were traveling back to the U.S. when they boarded the plane from Guatemala City and ended up in the woods. A brief conversation between Amy and Dan suggested that Amy’s father is a tough guy, probably a dangerous man who often appears in the media. Dan never met Amy’s father, but he read about him in the paper and saw him on TV. Well, it sounds like an Anora story but with the genders reversed.
There was another American couple on the plane, Travis and Lisa Davies, MAGA supporters who ran a chain of motels in Kansas and Oklahoma. Like Amy and Dan, they too were on vacation in Guatemala and were returning home. The fifth passenger was Zack Ellis, an insurance investigator who was visiting Guatemala for work. He had to file a report on a fire at a warehouse in the city, which he claimed was not an accident but arson. He was also returning to the US after filing the report. There was also a doctor (or something like that) on the plane named Kevin Anderson, who was in the business of selling medical equipment. He was buying surgical supplies from Guatemala at a low price and selling them in the US for a profit.
While we know most of the details of these 6 passengers, there are two other passengers who refuse to share personal details. There is an English woman named Sonja who said she was traveling to Guatemala like everyone else, but her words have to be taken with a grain of salt. And then we have the most mysterious Carlos Luchador, who said he was a Mexican wrestler, from Lucha Libre, although I am not quite sure what he is doing. Also, he had been keeping his luggage pretty close, which already made the other passengers suspicious that he might be hiding something. Yes, the obvious assumption is that he is hiding drugs, but that is too cliché. And last but not least, we have the pilot Octavio and the flight attendant Beatriz Ortega, but we don’t get to know much about them because they both died on the first day. Beatriz broke her neck during the accident, while someone suffocated Octavio to death after Kevin performed surgery on him to treat his punctured lungs.
I think it wasn't a coincidence that the GPS system suddenly failed. It's possible that it was tampered with long before the plane took off, probably because someone wanted the plane to crash in the middle of the woods. One possible reason why our mysterious killer murdered Octavio in the dark is because he was a local who might have known him, or at least might have let something slip, so the killer got rid of him; it would only make his job more complicated. I know that for now, everything points towards the suspicious guy, Carlos, who, to increase our suspicions, was doing pull-ups at night, but I still believe that there's more to this mystery than meets the eye. It seems that Amy's husband, Dan, might be hiding something. Or maybe it's the English woman who's to blame here.
The end of Nine Bodies in A Mexican Morgue episode 1 raised the possibility that one of these 10 people had survived the desert, and it could be our killer, who had been picking off the survivors one by one and eventually lined up their bodies in the pit. The Los Trios officers already had 10 passports in their custody, but I don’t think the person who killed the rest of the passengers was carrying an original passport. But if they did, then the officers could easily match the IDs to the corpses and figure out who’s missing, right? But, in that case, there won’t be any mystery there, and if they care to investigate, then we might be able to find the killer’s identity in the next episode. Well, let’s see how it all plays out in the next episode, but until then, share your thoughts in the comments below on who you think the killer could be.
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