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If you think about it,

it makes sense that it was Paula who caused the explosion.

What do you mean?

She always suspected that Lorenzo was responsible

for what happened to her daughter.

She may have done it to get revenge on him and all his family.

You sound so sure

talking about Lorenzo Novak's implication in Laila's death, huh?

Did you talk about it during the homage?

Mmm... No, not at all.

Father and son had a more important issue to address.

Nurse!

Nurse!

THE TRIBUTE

One, two, three.

One, two, three.

- One, two, three. - One, two, three.

You don't have to pretend.

It's normal that you're worried about Paula.

She is a suspect.

Now she's the only one who could say something

about what happened before the explosion.

If she survives.

A moment ago you were telling me

that Lorenzo and Adolfo were talking about something more important

than Laila's death.

Can I ask you a question?

What would you have done?

- What do you mean? - You know.

If Mom had told you about...

About Sof�a, the girl you killed.

Nothing.

Wouldn't you have done anything?

Are you listening to yourself? Do you see what kind of dad you are?

The dad of a murderer, it seems.

Are you mentioning this in your memoirs, aren't you?

I have a different title for you. Look.

"Confessions of a Shitty Narcissist." What do you think?

Why are you laughing?

I... I don't know if that fits.

Is this funny to you? Is this a joke?

You made a small mistake. This won't be published in the memoirs.

If I wanted to hurt you, son,

that would mean I care about you, but this isn't the case.

I didn't even want to have you.

Then why did you make me come here, Dad?

You could have left me all fucked-up as I was, huh?

I wanted us to talk about your mother's death.

She was the only one who understood us.

We sank to the bottom for her and for her...

we were tricked.

I don't know what you mean.

Your mother didn't die the way you think.

Get down, Laila. Get down.

Lorenzo!

- Lorenzo! Lorenzo, mom. - What happened? Mom!

- No... - Hey, mom.

Listen, listen. Look at me!

Call someone, dammit! Call a fucking ambulance!

Mom. Mom, look at me.

Mom, look at me! Look at me, dammit!

Give me my phone! My phone! Come here! Come here!

Where's the phone? Help!

Open the glove box! Laila!

- How do I open it? - Look at me! Listen!

Open the glove box and bring me my phone.

Where is it?

Your sister killed your mother.

Sorry, sir. People are waiting for you to blow the candles.

Right up!

Eat something.

It will do you good.

Your father told me you wanted to cut it.

Lorena, great to see you.

Likewise.

Thanks for the invitation. For many more years to come!

If you're by my side, I'm sure of it.

Do you know the secret of a balanced mind?

According to this renowned psychiatrist,

botany.

She's crazy about camellias, right?

And thank you so much for the excellent job

you've done with my son Lorenzo.

Shit!

Are you OK?

I'm OK! Shit, leave me alone!

It's nothing, just a small cut.

It's a great moment to make a wish, Adolfo.

Happy birthday, Adolfo.

To Adolfo!

To Adolfo!

Motherfucker...

Move.

I don't think what you're about to do is very smart.

You're telling me? You're in jail because of that bastard, huh?

Let's do one thing.

- What? - Give me that...

and let's talk outside.

Now?

I tried talking to you months ago, remember?

Look, Azar�as.

I don't know why your master brought you out and invited me,

but if he didn't want what's about to happen to happen,

he wouldn't have done it.

I won't tell you twice, Paula.

It would be a shame if we were forced to do...

something more unpleasant.

Thank you.

I'm glad to see you.

Coming.

Coming!

Coming!

Lorena, I'm fine.

Son of a bitch!

- Son of a bitch! - One, two, three.

- Stop! - It was you, son of a bitch!

One, two, three!

One, two, three.

One, two, three.

- It wasn't me! - Yes, it was you!

- Stop! - Son of a bitch!

Doctor.

Don't worry, she's fine. We managed to stabilize her.

What happened to her?

She had a hidden pneumothorax.

Air gets into the pleura and presses the lung,

that causes the heart to collapse.

- But she'll be fine. - Yes, yes.

We removed the air and left drainage

- so it doesn't happen again. - Good.

- Thank you, Doctor. - You're welcome.

Thanks.

It's time to talk about her, don't you think?

Faster, Paula, faster.

You'll get dizzy. I'm dizzy just by seeing you.

Raquel...

I need...

I need to see my husband.

I'm sorry, Mrs. Novak. Your husband is in a meeting.

Enough?

Now you.

- You can't move me. - I sure can.

Mrs. Novak.

What are you doing here?

Mr. Novak asked me to take care of Stella

while he's in a meeting.

He told me you didn't feel very good.

I'm perfectly well, as you can see.

What are you doing?

Drop... that.

We're leaving. Come on.

Are you deaf or dumb? Come on!

Go. Go!

Come on. Out!

I need the proposal in ten minutes.

Where's Stella?

Mrs. Novak took her.

Oh God...

Are you leaving for town with your dad?

Yes, I have nowhere to stay here.

So you're dropping your studies?

No, no, no. You're not dropping your studies.

I'll take care of that.

You'll have to study while you work for me in exchange.

What?

My secretary is about to retire

and I'll need someone I can trust by my side.

But I'm not ready.

Everything can be learnt. You're smart.

I'll talk to your father.

What do you say?

Thank you so much, Mr. Novak.

Great.

You start tomorrow at eight.

It has a smoked wood touch you're going to like.

I appreciate it, but I don't drink anymore, ma'am.

Two years, three months and five days.

You refer to me as "ma'am" now?

I'm sorry.

I'm surprised to see you here.

I'm sure you're more surprised to see other people here.

You're right.

The presence of some guests makes me feel...

a bit curious.

It makes me feel different emotions.

Cheers.

To my daughter.

To justice being made.

At first I thought she was just angry.

I should've known she was doing something.

Maybe you did know but still let her do it anyway.

Do you think that I unconsciously let Paula attack the Novaks?

The unconsciousness is the real narrator of our lives.

It happened to Paula too.

What do you mean?

What the Novaks give you, the Novaks take from you.

I don't know how we'll thank Adolfo, if it weren't for him...

Well, OK, yes. We should thank him for some stuff, but...

This would have happened anyway. He just made it happen sooner.

I would have been a grandma instead of a mom.

You're so dramatic.

My love, everything will be alright. I'm sure. Trust me.

Yes.

We can always give her back.

- That's not funny. - Sorry. Come here.

- I'm nervous. - Alright, listen to me.

Paula, you are caring.

- You're responsible. - Well.

You never get angry. Well, just sometimes.

If I was a kid, I'd like you to be my mother.

There they are. Come on.

- Let's do this. - Yes.

- Let's go. - Let's go.

- Good afternoon. - Hello.

Hello, Laila.

Honey, maybe it's easier if we let them go beyond the door.

Sure, come in, please.

- Thank you. Come in. - Come in.

Over here.

Would you like something to drink? Do you want some juice?

We have pineapple and orange, we weren't sure which you'd prefer.

What is it? Has the cat got your tongue?

- No. - No?

Why don't you tell Paula and Antonio what you told me before?

That you were very excited about moving with your new family.

Well you're here now. Come.

We'll always take care of you.

We'll always be there for you.

Always.

Look.

I have a surprise for you.

- It has music. - Thank you.

Beautiful, isn't it?

Just as beautiful as you.

You're more beautiful.

You're gorgeous.

That was probably the happiest day of her life.

Children are the source of the greatest happiness

and also of the greatest sufferings.

You witnessed with Paula the worst thing that a mother can go through.

Adolfo Novak hired me for Laila's case.

We met one day after her daughter went missing.

She was...

She was devastated.

I suppose you've already tried reaching her friends.

What do you think?

All of them. No one knows where she is.

As far as I'm concerned, your daughter and Lorenzo Novak

are friends.

Mrs. Ortega?

They met a few months ago.

Thanks.

Hello.

What are you doing here?

I needed a break.

You're Paula's daughter, right?

Working for my family goes in the genes.

I was adopted.

Damn.

Do you smoke?

While you're working?

- In front of your boss' son? - Right.

Your mother got me this job, and I think she likes me.

What should I do now? Should I tell her or not?

What should we do?

No fucking clue, do as you want.

I don't tend to think too much before doing something.

I get why my mom likes you now.

What's your name?

- I'm Laila. - Laila?

Such a beautiful name. Where does it come from?

What's your name?

What's my name?

Don't you know my name?

Tell me.

Lorenzo.

- Lorenzo the painter? - Sure.

My family would paint me in a bad light, though.

Can I have a puff?

At first they just hanged out from time to time.

She had her life: she went to college, to the gym,

she had dinner with us.

You never approved the relationship.

I thought it meant nothing and she'd forget it.

I wanted her to make her own mistakes, but...

But?

But then Mrs. Novak died and it all went crazy.

Lorenzo?

Lorenzo, it's me.

Don't enter, Laila. Please don't enter.

Laila, don't come in.

- Lorenzo, I'm sorry. - I told you not to fucking enter!

Don't enter, don't enter!

I'm sorry.

I don't have a mother.

- I don't have a mother. - I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

Honey, I'm home.

Are you hungry? Your dad's about to arrive.

What are you doing?

I'm leaving for a few days with Lorenzo.

I'm so sorry about what happened to Lorenzo,

but you can't stop your life.

You're about to start college.

I'm taking a sabbatical year.

- A sabbatical year? - Yes, a sabbatical year.

He's just lost his mother. He needs me.

No, he needs to be with his family and you, with yours.

Besides, our holidays are planed already.

You're jealous.

What? Don't you want to share me?

Laila, you're very young.

You have your whole life ahead. Lorenzo isn't right for you.

What would you know?

- He's not a good person. - You don't know him.

I've known him since he was born. I've seen him growing up.

He's a rich, spoiled brat.

I don't want him to drag you too.

Rest assured he won't.

Mom, I've grown up.

I think you can trust me.

Please. I'll call you, alright?

Laila.

Take care, please.

I love you.

Love you too.

That night she went to the Novaks' house with Lorenzo.

Nothing was ever the same.

- How long was she there? - A few weeks.

We talked a couple of times.

But she stopped going to class.

And started using.

She wasn't the same when she came back.

- What do you mean? - We argued a lot.

Then she disappeared for a month, almost a month.

Any ideas of where she could have been?

The flat the Novaks have in New York.

She never answered my calls or texts back again.

I chose not to badger her, hoping she'd return home.

I chose to ask for help the person I trusted the most.

She'll come to her senses.

We've all been young and rebel.

I don't know, being rebel is one thing, but this...

You're talking to someone who left her house for 20 years.

I don't know if that calms me...

It should.

If I had had a mother like you,

I would never have left anywhere.

I'll look after here when she's around, OK?

Thank you so much.

She meant that.

But as she started having more responsibilities in the company,

Stella stopped going home.

I asked Azar�as to watch her

whenever she was at the Novaks'.

Hello, Paula, what is it?

No, they're here in the garden. It all seems normal.

Goodbye.

Yesterday was the last time you saw her.

We had an argument again.

A strong one.

- Right before the new year. - About what?

About what she's doing with her life.

I had never seen her like that. Never.

Do you understand I'm not your daughter?

If you say something, you'll never fucking see me again.

Got it?

She left after that and I never saw her again.

Sorry for making an obvious question, but I have to.

Did you try calling her?

At least 30 times, her father too.

Couldn't it be possible

that your daughter is very angry, and she's still angry now,

and that's why her phone is off? Not even 24 hours have passed.

Long enough for Lorenzo to leave.

He left home and no one knows where he is.

Isn't that a coincidence?

No, I'm not crazy.

Something happened to my daughter.

No one is saying that you're crazy, Mrs. Ortega.

You're just a mother worried about her daughter, and rightfully so.

Why won't the police listen to me?

Police can't initiate a missing person case

over an adult person when not even a day has passed.

That her partner has gone missing too isn't conclusive either.

They may even be together.

You had argued,

so it's not weird that she didn't answer your calls.

Are you telling me you won't do anything?

No. All the opposite, Paula.

For better or worse, I am not a cop.

Inspector Torres.

Happy New Year.

Thanks to that the case was solved.

Yes.

Paula never believed the official version.

But I have the feeling that neither did you.

I must admit that everything seemed very...

Very convenient.

They triangulated the girl's phone's location

before it got disconnected.

Here.

Did they find what they were expecting?

It depends on how you look at it.

But we managed to connect the dots that led us

to the main suspect.

Mr. Garbedian.

I'm Inspector Torres.

Give me a minute.

I suggest you to stand up slowly and to raise your hands.

I repeat, I just need a minute.

- Azar�as! - Stop!

Drop that.

Do you know the tale of The Wolf and The Hummingbird?

The hummingbird alit on the wolf's snout.

For a minute, the wolf stayed still.

The hummingbird thought he was safe.

And then, in just one bite, the wolf ate the hummingbird.

Don't mistake stillness with weakness.

It's OK now.

I'm done.

I'm at your complete disposal.

Arrest the hummingbird.

Azar�as Garbedian, you're under arrest

as the alleged murderer of Laila Montoro.

You have the right to remain silent,

not to answer any questions and not to plead guilty.

You have the right to a lawyer.

If you don't have one, you'll be appointed one.

You have the right to inform about your arrest one person.

We didn't have to push him much for him to confess.

While he was watching Laila to keep her mother informed,

Azar�as became obsessed with the girl.

On New Year's Eve he saw Laila leaving the party,

drugged and very upset.

He offered to drive her home, but he changed his mind.

He tried to abuse her,

but she fought back.

That ended with Laila dead.

Azar�as confessed the murder,

but he never revealed where he left the body.

In fact, Laila's body never showed up.

That didn't stop the case to be closed.

Maybe a bit hasty?

With his own confession and all the evidence,

police had more than enough to lock Azar�as up.

But Paula wasn't satisfied.

She's one of those souls who never give up, huh.

She keeps fighting although the battle is lost.

Paula was sure

that the real culprit for Laila's death was Lorenzo.

It's funny how certainty and truth

rarely go hand to hand, don't you think?

You're travelling the whole world for nothing.

You don't care if we find him, do you?

I care about you.

Paula, please.

You have run out of places where to find. It's over.

This will be over once we find our daughter's killer.

We already have. He's in jail.

Lies! That's not true and you know it.

You're refusing to accept that.

Azar�as would have never killed her. I know him well.

They're lying to us. They're lying to us.

Do you think you're the only one who wakes up

in the middle of the night thinking you're drowning?

My love, we can't continue like this.

We have to move on. It's for the better, trust me.

Sure, "trust me." You've said that a hundred times.

Shit, we have to recover our life.

- What life, Antonio? - The one we had before this

- Before what? Before Laila? - Before Laila's death, yes.

What are you saying?

- She was our daughter. - No, she wasn't--

Leave right now. Leave right now.

I don't want to see you ever again.

Leave right the fuck now!

Paula was left alone.

And she hit rock bottom.

We all deserve a second chance, don't we?

Have you got kids, Detective?

No.

Maybe that's why you don't understand.

Paula had the certainty

that Azar�as wasn't her daughter's killer.

Nothing else mattered.

For a writer,

I'm surprised by the liberal use you make of words.

Paula had no certainties. She had intuitions.

I can assure you I have used the right word.

That's what Adolfo and Paula talked about at the homage, right?

Let go off me!

Paula.

Sit down.

Please.

I am sorry we have to see each other under these circumstances.

I've spent many years by your side not to know when you're lying.

You are so right. However, I really am glad to see you.

I'm sorry I can't say the same.

You may leave. Thank you.

I wanted to introduce you to my biographer.

I don't care who he is.

You went ballistic, huh?

With Lorenzo, I mean.

He's still alive, isn't he?

You still think that Lorenzo killed your daughter.

What am I doing here, Adolfo?

Why have you invited me?

I killed your daughter.