"Ricky's Tacos" is the seventh episode of the American television police procedural supernatural drama Awake.

"Ricky's Tacos" earned a Nielsen rating of 0.9, being watched by 2.68 million viewers in its initial broadcast.

The show centers on Michael Britten (Jason Isaacs), a detective living in two separate realities after a car accident.

Soon after, they find out that, the father John Ferris (Christopher Cousins) had been sexually assaulting her and her younger daughter.

Meanwhile, in the "red reality", Britten and Efrem Vega (Wilmer Valderrama) deal with a case with a dead man Pablo.

Michael Britten (Jason Isaacs) is with his wife Hannah (Laura Allen) in the "red reality" talking to a real estate agent (Maura Soden) about selling their house and moving to Oregon.

In the "green reality", he speaks to Dr. Judith Evans (Cherry Jones), who claims that his subconscious is trying to stop their move to Oregon.

Back at the station, Dr. Banks (Chris McGarry) warns Bird and Britten that they found signs of rape.

After transferring into the "red reality", Britten speaks to Captain Tricia Harper (Laura Innes) about the storage unit, however she wants him to work on cases that have not been closed.

Back in the "green reality", Britten goes to the impound lot and finds the parking pass with the tiger logo.

In the "red reality", Michael drives back to Westfield Distribution and discovers that the doors are locked to look for more evidence, unaware that Detective Ed Hawkins (Kevin Weisman) is watching him.

Later, Bird calls to tell Michael that the autopsy report shows that Sabrina was four weeks pregnant when she killed herself.

Although it did not directly impact the ongoing storyline of Awake, "Ricky's Tacos" continued key thematic elements to the series that were originally introduced in "The Little Guy", the second episode, with a fast food attendant telling Britten that he cannot go to Oregon due to the Westfield case, and Kessel and Harper discussing their involvement, like in "The Little Guy".

Club claimed that "Ricky's Tacos" introduces a "deeper connection to our hero via some unexplained conspiracy".

Alan Sepinwall of HitFix observed that the episode is devoting "time to establishing Harper as more than just a mysterious conspirator", and claimed that "the show probably fumbled things by revealing both the existence of the conspiracy and Harper's role in it so early, rather than letting us get to know her before smacking us in the gut with the discovery."

In the United Kingdom, the episode was first broadcast on Sky Atlantic on June 15, 2012, and obtained 223,000 viewers, making it the third most-viewed program for the channel behind Hit & Miss and Smash.