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After the Dominican heist goes south and Dom goes on the run in Fast and Furious 4, Letty returns to Los Angeles, where she hangs the cross on the rearview of Dom’s 1970 Charger. To help clear Dom’s name, she turns to Brian O’Conner (the late Paul Walker), who is at this point in the Fast timeline still working for the FBI. As part of their agreement, Letty infiltrates a cross-border heroin operation led by the brutal drug lord Arturo Braga (John Ortiz). But when she discovers what happens to Braga’s drivers once they’ve completed their jobs, she tries to escape. Chased down and run off the road by the drug lord’s second in command, Letty is presumed dead when her car explodes.
Both audiences and the Toretto crew mourn for Letty — until Luke Hobbs drops a major bombshell at the start of Fast and Furious 6. While a picture can say a thousand words, the one Hobbs brings to Dom only says two: Letty’s alive. The problem is she has no memory of who she was before the accident, and is now working for Braga’s powerful boss, Owen Shaw (Luke Evans). As Dom sets out to bring Letty back to her family, the necklace becomes a tool by which he tries to break her amnesia.
On opposite sides of the fight and with little to no sign that Letty’s memory will return, Dom hands over the cross pendant as a final effort. When Shaw discovers it, Letty gives it to him as proof her connection to Dom is still severed. So while she might not have it on her by the end of Fast and Furious 6, when the time comes, the memory of it helps salvage their bond.
In this way, the cross takes Dom and Letty full circle between the start of the fourth movie and the end of sixth. But it also lays the groundwork for an even more interesting twist for F9.
Written by: Looper
