Santiago Vega (Daniel Zovatto) is the pride of his family. As “Penny Dreadful: City of Angels” opens, he is receiving his detective’s badge from the Los Angeles Police Department.
Vega’s promotion is a blessing and a curse. He is charged with defending the law, but that often putting Vega at odds with his brothers Raul (Adam Rodriguez) and Mateo (Johnathan Nieves).
His first big case is the bizarre murder of the Hazlitt family, who have ties to the church of a Sister Molly (Kerry Biche), a popular, winsome evangelist.
The corpses are made up like Day of the Dead figures and lead Vega and his world-weary partner, Lewis Michener (Nathan Lane) further into the insurgent Mexican-American culture rising in the city, circa 1938.
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