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Very very very important 🤤

I love how he doesn’t really look her in the eyes here.

Why do you think he does that?

Oh man, you have no idea how often I think about all these small things right now. :] I mean he does look at her about a second later, but I keep thinking back to that part in Sheridan’s script where Alejandro says in exactly that situation (you know, the extremely chatty Alejandro of the initial script): “You remind me of my wife. I find it very difficult to look at you.” When I write a character, I always try to blend all the information I get (scripts, movie, interviews) to get a background that is as complete as possible, and then run free with it. So that scene in the movie when he says “You remind me of someone very special to me”… All the information I found on this scene and Alejandro’s character in general is like this mosaic to me. Does she remind him of his wife? His daughter (when he tells Kate that at the end)? Or does he mean himself? I believe he means his wife or daughter or both because he wouldn’t refer to himself as someone special. But to me, it’s still implied that he also sees his younger self in Kate, when he was young and so very very idealistic. TL;DR I think he can’t/doesn’t want to look at all those things reflected at him.  Her purity and naiveté (to a certain extent), her optimism and idealism. All the things that remind him of his daughter and wife and of that young man who thought he could fight evil with law and ballpoint pens. (Sorry for that long ass answer. I could talk about him for hours.)

I’m only guessing here. :D That’s why I like to talk about “my” Alejandro. And for my Alejandro, it’s really ALL OF THOSE: You put that perfectly “you remind me of my wife and I’m attracted to you” and “you remind me of my daughter and it confuses me because I’m attracted to you” (and I actually don’t really know how to be attracted to someone anymore). But also “you remind me of my wife and daughter because they’ve been just as innocent and pure as you are and I will drag you into this like I dragged them into these horrible things”. And “you remind me of myself and I would love to protect that part of you, keep it pure, but I think this will break you and if you step in my way, I will end you like they ended me”. Alejandro’s life status on facebook: It’s complicated. My Alejandro doesn’t bother that much about what his wife and daughter would say, if they saw what he has become. They are dead. I don’t even think he bothers about all the blood on his hands. Alarcon’s children were only a means to an end. And at this point, Alejandro doesn’t care about the means anymore. I believe he’s perfectly okay with the person he has become. I like to think about him as seeing himself as a tool, a vessel, to achieve that ultimate goal: bringing terror and death to those who bring terror and death to innocent people. I like that Sheridan started both scripts for Sicario and Soldado with these VOs (spoken by Alejandro in Sicario and by Isabel in Soldado): “They must be forced to look at all they have destroyed. By having the same done to them. Or they will forget… Forget they are human. Believe they are as different as they feel… Then they are the lion, and everything we loved and lost, simply it’s meal.” I think that’s his ultimate objective right there. Not just ending those who murdered his wife and child, but bringing pain and despair to every single one of them. And he actually is the means to this end here himself. (It’s also why I think he wouldn’t want to be killed in a I’m-reckless-here-because-I-want-to-die-anyway-so-I-can-see-my-family-again way. He didn’t turn his full front to Kate because he wanted her to end his grief. He did that because he knew she wouldn’t do it anyway and this was just his way of saying “I told you so. Not a wolf. Get out of here as long as you still can.”) I really think he doesn’t want to look at Kate and see what he has brought upon his family. He tries to protect her every way he can, by giving advice, showing concern (”How’s the neck?”), but also by making her look at it, really look, so maybe she will not end up getting killed by him or them. Go away. You still haven’t lost everything. Don’t become me. Because if you do, you’ll maybe discover you are not strong enough to walk that way to the end. (It’s 3 AM here, oh god…)

A valid opinion. :D

Excuse me while I butt in here. I can definitley agree with the theory of it being about his wife or daughter but I really think it comes down to the naive prosecutor that he once was. How he thought he knew right from wrong - good vs evil and somewhere in the shitty road that he’s been down that it was him, he lost himself to this world. He once could have been a starry eyed lawyer who thought he could rid the world of all the bad people and now maybe in his mind he’s become one of them. Kate was by the book and he used to be as well but now his innocence is lost along with his family.