[mellow guitar intro playing]
["Everything Matters" by AURORA playing]
♪ I'm driving your car with you ♪
-♪ Sleeping in the seat next to… ♪ -[Violeta chuckles]
-What are you doing? -[Elmer chuckles]
[Violeta sighs]
[whispers] Good morning.
[whispers] Yeah, good morning.
-Did you sleep well? -[Violeta] Yes.
-Okay. No more. -[Violeta giggles] Don't! Stop.
-I'm gonna take a shower. -Okay.
♪ A love machine, a cinematic dream ♪
♪ So pure and it hurts ♪
♪ When the beauty is lost in the speed ♪
♪ 'Cause everything matters to me ♪
♪ To me, to me, to me, to me… ♪
[Violeta] Milky, stop. You'll make yourself sick. Come on.
♪ You're a part of the dawn… ♪
-[Milky barks] -Here. Yeah.
I'm leaving. I'll be back soon.
-Bye. -Okay.
[Violeta chuckles]
♪ An atom and a star ♪
♪ You're a part of the movement ♪
♪ And everything matters ♪
-[door shuts] -[song ends]
[Catuxa] Violeta, um…
I know you'll say I'm just being paranoid or whatever,
but I- I just saw Elmer.
He was hanging around Sabela's.
Um, I don't know. Call me back.
[faucet running]
[unsettling note slowly builds]
[ominous buzzing swells]
FOUND DEAD AT HOME UNDER SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES
[Elmer] Careful, careful.
-[drawer slamming] -[suspenseful music playing]
-Milky! Let's go! -[Milky barks]
Milky, in the car.
[breathing heavily]
-Come here. [kisses] Come. -[Milky whines]
Yeah, here. Good boy. Come on.
[engine starts]
[suspenseful music fades]
[menacing chord playing]
[engine starts]
[poignant string music playing]
[music builds to final note]
THE GARDENER
-[radio chirps] -[dog barking]
[police and onlookers murmuring]
[police 1] Please.
-Make way. -[police 2] Stand back please. Stand back.
[police 1] All right, move along, please. On your way.
-Thank you. -Let's go.
[reporter] Forensics have just arrived on the scene.
Violeta, call me when you get this, okay? I'm flipping out.
[reporter] …the Costeira family home.
Quite some commotion in the office.
Let me guess. We're getting our bonuses reinstated?
The police found the body of Sabela Costeira in her house.
No way.
I wouldn't rule out that it's linked to our case.
Sabela and Mon hated our guy's girlfriend.
So he could've lost control again. We need to investigate.
It's a Homicide case.
And it's got all the trademarks of a robbery that went wrong.
Are you mad at me?
[Torres] Are you trying to get suspended?
-No one saw anything. -Hm.
The only ones who know about this are you and I.
We said we'd do it together.
Tell me something, Torres.
[clicks tongue] Have you ever done anything
that is remotely close to breaking the rules?
-No. -Well then.
[sighs]
You should've seen the way those leaves glowed.
They looked like… Like Christmas tree lights.
[sighs] It's… strange, isn't it?
All these people used as fertilizer for plants.
Yeah, sure, but we're gonna need to prove it.
And to do that, we need a warrant from the judge.
So we'll take photos.
And seeing how, after approximately two hours on the internet,
you're an authority, the judge will give us one, no problem.
It was three hours.
[Torres sighs]
We need an expert to give us a report on these spots.
[door opens, shuts]
[expert] We're trying to understand how a body decomposes
and what happens to the surrounding environment.
It's called an island of decomposition, right?
-You've studied the subject? -Well, just a bit.
Uh… We're investigating several missing persons,
and we believe we may have identified the area
in which the bodies were buried.
-[expert] Mm-hmm. -We have some photographs here.
-Would you examine these? -Of course.
Hm.
The decomposition of a body releases a lot of nitrogen.
It's a great fertilizer that stimulates plant growth
and intensifies the green color of their leaves.
Although, this lushness may be attributable to other factors.
The truth is we need something more conclusive.
Yeah. One moment.
What do you think of this?
[expert] Hm.
Those spots on the leaves are compatible
with the possibility of cadmium poisoning of the roots.
-[Carrera] May I ask a question? -Of course.
Um… [clicks tongue]
If I bet at dinner
that the body of a smoker was buried under here
or another location very close by these plants…
-I'd get a dinner, right? -[chuckles] Possibly.
Could you write a report with your conclusions?
Of course.
[birds chirping]
[China, triumphantly] Look who's here!
I knew you'd turn up. Want some coffee?
Here.
-[clinking] -[Elmer] All this is for you.
The money Sabela was gonna pay you for going through with the hit on Violeta.
Now you can go back to Mexico.
[China] Well, thank you very much.
I'll finally be able to buy the house back.
Did you ever consider refusing a job in case something bad happened to me?
Or you didn't care?
It wasn't that I didn't care, Elmer.
It was because I knew nothing would happen.
You have a gift.
No, I don't have a gift, Mom, and don't call it that.
-Has the hospital reached out? -[Elmer] No.
-Elmer? -What?
Did you tell her?
No. But I will.
And she'll still love you when she knows?
[pensive music playing]
Hm. Let's see if it works out.
[door opens]
[door slams shut]
[music continues]
[phone vibrating]
-[phone beeps] -[Violeta] Elmer, I've left.
Please don't look for me because I don't want you to find me.
I know you're…
Well, I know that… [sighs]
I know what you did to Sabela.
I should've gone to the police, but I don't know.
Maybe I'm partly…
responsible a bit, too, so I…
I'm going to give you time to get far away.
But then I'm going to the police.
-Goodbye. -[phone beeps]
[pensive music fades out]
[Orson grunts]
[Milky barking]
[Orson grunts with effort]
Fuck.
[coughs]
Shut up, you fucking dog.
-[coughs] -[barking continues]
[muffled barking continues]
[engine starts]
[seagulls calling]
[Elmer] Did you tell her anything?
What? Tell me why I would've done something like that.
Don't start, Elmer.
Why would I go around biting the hand that feeds me?
I have to talk to her.
Elmer. Elmer!
-[Elmer] What? -Please come and sit down.
[Elmer sighs]
[China] Sit down.
[Elmer sighs]
She knows about what you did.
There's no going back.
Any minute now, the police will arrive.
But you still have time to come with me to Mexico.
[intriguing chord playing]
[Orson grunts]
[coughing]
[groans]
[quietly] Aw, fuck! [grunts]
[coughs]
[sighs]
[coughing]
[gasps]
[sighs]
[clears throat]
-[Orson coughing] -[Violeta groans]
[Orson] Shit.
[Violeta groans]
Who are you?
Be good. Behave. It's all fine.
[sighs]
[breathing heavily]
-What are you going to do? -It's nothing personal between you and me.
This is just an assignment.
[inhales sharply] Who gave it to you?
I couldn't tell ya. I never ask questions.
Hm? Everyone for themselves.
You don't have to do this. I swear that I won't tell anybody.
-You won't ever see me again. -[Orson] Calm down. It's gonna be quick.
It won't hurt, I promise.
-[bird chirps] -[Violeta pants]
-[gun fires] -[Violeta yelps]
Ah, shit.
[dramatic, percussive music playing]
-[gun fires] -[Violeta yelps, pants]
-[gun fires] -[Violeta yelps, continues panting]
-[suspenseful music grows quieter] -[birds chirping]
[music fades out]
[twig snaps]
[Violeta grunts]
[dramatic music resumes]
-[Violeta grunts] -[Orson gasping]
[Orson grunts]
[Orson panting]
-[Violeta grunting] -[skull crunching]
[Violeta panting]
[music fades out]
[breathing slows]
[gasping]
[Violeta breathing shakily]
[rhythmic, dramatic music playing]
[phone vibrating]
[music fades out]
PRIVATE NUMBER
[phone continues vibrating]
[Violeta] Elmer, I killed a man. I- I didn't mean to. I didn't mean to.
He came after me. I didn't want to. I- I don't know. [inhales]
[Elmer] Are- are you hurt?
-I don't know what to do. -[Elmer] Where are you?
[panting] I'm not hurt, I--
I'm fine. I beat-- [gasping] I'm in a forest.
I have no idea where.
Quickly. Drop me a pin, and I'll come to you. Stay there.
-[panting] -[birds chirping]
Elmer!
Where are you going?
I'm talking to you, Elmer!
You fucking son of a…
[phone ringing]
-[phone vibrating] -[Violeta gasps]
INCOMING CALL CHINA JURADO
[vibrating continues]
[China] Orson,
tell me it's done.
[Violeta] Things didn't turn out well for Orson.
[chilling music playing]
I know who you are.
[breathes heavily]
[music builds]
[music cuts out]
[door opening]
-[friend] This seems… -[Catuxa] Viole?
Hey. Viole?
[friend] Hello?
Violeta?
[friend] Vio?
Wow.
[drawer sliding]
-Don't touch anything. -[cutlery clinks]
-Doesn't this seem a little weird to you? -[friend slurps]
You should see how I leave my place in the mornings.
Look, girl, will you stop fucking around? I'm really worried.
Relax. For Violeta to leave town without telling us…
It's not normal, but what do I know?
[Catuxa] She's not answering my calls or WhatsApp messages.
-What if she ran away? -[friend] From what?
-Elmer. -[friend] You're paranoid about that guy.
Yeah, but I saw him hanging around Sabela's house
the night she was killed.
You're telling me now?
-Why didn't you say anything? -I don't know. Because…
Because you'd say I'm paranoid, and I might just be.
Maybe I'm crazy, and the guy's normal.
-I just think-- -No, no. You're not going crazy.
That guy's really weird.
-We should go to the police. -Yeah.
[phones ringing]
[Carrera sighs]
REFRESHING… INTERNAL MAIL NATIONAL STRATEGIC PLAN
[Carrera tapping pen]
[sighs]
CORONER'S COURT NO. 2 SEARCH WARRANT
We got it. It just came in. They've granted us the search warrant.
[Carrera laughs] Yes!
Okay.
Let Forensics know. I'll call in available police units.
We've got them, Torres.
[determined music playing]
[sirens wailing]
All right, here we go, folks.
As you know, the judge has restricted us to the exteriors, okay?
Everybody, stick to the perimeter.
The areas marked in green on your maps. If you have any questions, let me know.
You can tell she's an actress. She can sure make an entrance.
She's an artist.
[ominous chord playing]
[suspenseful music fades]
[China] Good afternoon.
Is something wrong?
China Jurado, we have a warrant entitling us to search your property.
It's all in order.
You can look it over while we proceed with our work if you don't mind.
May I, please?
Very well.
But you won't find anything here.
We'll see about that.
Let's go!
Down the back!
[suspenseful music playing]
[birds chirping melodiously]
What the hell is this shit?
[music slows]
-We have to dig. -[Torres] There's nothing here.
[Carrera] But they might find remains.
She can just say the soil came from somewhere else.
[Carrera sighs]
[music ends]
What the hell do you think you're doing? Why don't you go hug a fucking tree?
This won't end here, I swear.
[pulsing music playing]
[Carrera] We're outta here.
[menacing chord slowly builds]
[China] Listen, Orson. You're gonna love what I have here.
Youth, the divine treasure!
[pulsing music continues]
We have a visitor, Orson.
Can you please help me turn off the lights?
[machinery whirring]
[music fades out]
POLICE
[Catuxa] Hello.
We'd like to report a missing person.
Inspectors Torres and Carrera are away at the moment.
Take a seat and wait.
Are there no other police officers we can see?
Yes, but for a missing person, they're the ones you need to speak to.
[sarcastically] Thanks.
She's still not answering.
[clicks tongue]
[crows cawing]
[Elmer] Violeta!
Are you okay? Are you hurt?
His name's Orson.
I know because your mother called him that.
Can you explain that to me?
Sabela Costeira paid us to…
[Violeta inhales]
[hesitating] She hired us to make you disappear.
What are you? A family of assassins?
I'm sorry.
I thought if I eliminated Sabela, it'd solve the problem, but no.
I didn't think of my mom.
Right.
I have to get away from here, leave…
-Go to some small town. -No. Violeta.
-To Portugal, or-- -You don't have to go anywhere.
They'll investigate, find the body…
-I'll go to prison. -Hey. Everything will be fine.
Violeta.
I'm going to take care of it.
[dynamic music playing]
Put these on.
[jewelry clinking]
[zipper pulling]
-[music builds] -[gearshift cranking]
[door slams]
-[glass shattering] -[car thudding]
[dynamic music fades out]
And Mon? Did you make him disappear, too?
How many more?
Eleven.
But why not kill me as well?
Because I couldn't.
I studied you. I knew you and Milky were going for a walk in the forest.
How were you going to do it?
What's important is that I didn't.
And you kissed me.
-So my kiss saved my life. -[Elmer] It changed everything.
-What do you mean? -[Elmer] In me.
You changed everything in me.
I know you have 32 freckles on your face, 13 flecks in your left iris,
and when you're anxious, you bite your lower lip.
[gentle piano intro playing]
You've never been in love?
[Elmer] No.
You must think I'm a freak.
Not at all.
["Devil that I Know" by Jacob Banks playing]
♪ We came forward ♪
[Milky barking]
♪ Running backwards… ♪
Come on, sweetie!
-[chuckles] I'm here. It's okay. -[Milky growling]
♪ Shotgun riding for ya ♪
♪ Somehow we made it ♪
♪ Although jaded ♪
♪ Was it worth it all? ♪
Thank you.
♪ Could it be more? ♪
♪ Overdosing ♪
♪ At least I'm with my baby ♪
♪ We can't get any higher ♪
♪ We can't get past Messiah ♪
♪ But we're still chasing ♪
♪ For that feeling ♪
♪ Was it worth it all? ♪
♪ Could it be more? ♪
♪ And oh ♪
♪ What a way to die ♪
[Violeta sobs]
♪ Standing eye to eye ♪
♪ Pretending we're alive ♪
♪ As we grow colder ♪
♪ And oh ♪
♪ The devil that I know… ♪
Violeta, where are you?
-[Violeta] I'm on my way home. -Are you okay?
-You sound off. -Yes. Yeah, yeah, I'll tell you later.
Um, I really need to see you. Where are you?
[Catuxa] At the police station, with Lúa.
-Why? -[Catuxa] Did you listen to my voicemail?
-No. -[Catuxa] Fuck.
Last night I saw Elmer in front of Sabela's house,
and this morning, she was found dead.
I think he was the one who did it.
[Violeta] No, no, no. Elmer couldn't hurt anyone, honestly.
Catuxa, you need to take my word for it, please.
♪ Was it worth it all? ♪
Okay.
♪ Could it be more? ♪
[Lúa] C'mon, let's go.
[song ends]
[chief] I don't understand what came over you, Torres.
This isn't like you. What were you playing at?
We carried out the investigation in line with procedures.
[chief] Don't give me that crap.
You know very well you should've taken this case to Homicide.
That was our intention, but we didn't have the evidence, sir.
-That's why we went to search the nursery. -They're guilty, Commissioner.
Then congratulations.
It is a disaster of widely epic proportions.
We'll catch them, sir. We know their M.O. We know how they do it.
So when they try it again, we'll be ready to pounce on them.
Is that what you think?
That you're going to be working here much longer.
We think our killers may also be responsible for Sabela Costeira.
Thanks for the insight, Carrera.
But we already found him.
He crashed his car going round a bend on the way to Portugal.
[Carrera sighs]
[chief sighs angrily]
[Carrera sighs]
Don't worry. I've seen worse. It's all the same in the end.
[sighs] It just pisses me off that he's right.
I totally fucked up.
You have to give me some credit. I fucked up, too.
[Carrera chuckles]
Do you want to go get a beer?
I have to go home.
[somber music playing]
[Carrera sighs]
I'll see you around then, Torres.
[somber music continues]
-[car approaching] -[engine shuts off]
[car door opens]
[music fades out]
[metallic clanging outside]
Your friend Orson is dead.
I spoke to her, Elmer.
Violeta is fine. In case you're interested.
-You told her, huh? -[Elmer] Yes, I told her.
-[China] Hm. -[Elmer] But don't worry.
Only a crazy person would be with me knowing what I've done.
This is the moment we've been waiting for. We can leave.
What did you do with all our earnings?
Is that all you want?
This is my money.
Because I committed the murders.
The police were here today.
With a search warrant for the grounds.
Do you know what I had to do?
I had to move everything that was down there.
Before they got here.
And dump it all into the sea.
[low, menacing chord playing]
Congratulations.
Take your share.
What's wrong with you?
You already had what I took from Sabela Costeira.
And you tried to kill Violeta. Why?
So you'd survive.
To save you, son.
You have a tumor growing inside of your brain, right?
I want you to live long.
You did it out of love?
[China sighs]
[Elmer] Very well.
Just burn it then.
Burn the money.
Burn all of the money, Mom!
Burn it!
[panting] Burn it all, Mom.
[China breathes shakily]
You can't do it.
[breathlessly] Throw it away.
[syringe clatters]
[ominous chord fades]
[China breathing nervously]
-[cane thwacks] -[body thuds]
[eerie organ tune playing]
[gurney wheels rattling]
[rhythmic strings overlapping]
-Oh, Doctor. He… -[doctor] Yes?
He was unconscious on the floor. He might've hit his head.
Don't worry, Mrs. Jurado. I'll find you when we're done.
[China] Thank you.
[rhythmic music continues]
[stirring organ riff playing]
[music fades]
Viole.
Do you need anything?
No.
[Violeta sniffs]
Come on. Tell me what you need.
Tell me what you want me to do, and I'll do it.
[inhales tearfully] Wake me up in…
two years.
When this is all over and done with.
[Catuxa] It'll be okay. You'll forget him.
No.
No, no. I'll never forget.
[gentle piano instrumentals playing]
[inhales, sniffs]
You know what the worst part is?
That this city insists on reminding me of…
of everything that has gone wrong in my whole life.
There are my parents…
Xoan…
[sniffles]
And Elmer.
[sniffling, sobbing]
I don't want to stay.
I can't bear it.
["Skin" by Joy Crookes playing]
♪ What if you decide That you don't want to wake up, too? ♪
♪ I don't know what I'd do… ♪
It's unlocked.
Come on.
-[Lúa] No, wait. Don't close it. -[Catuxa] Okay.
Need help?
Well.
♪ You've got a life… ♪
I love you.
♪ Worth living ♪
♪ What if you decide ♪
-♪ That you don't want to wake up, too?… ♪ -[both sniffling]
-[Violeta] Will you be okay? -I'm good.
-[Violeta] Are you sure? [laughs] -[Catuxa] Of course.
[Catuxa] We'll talk all the time.
[Violeta] Okay.
-Let us know when you get there. -[Violeta] I will.
-♪ That you're given ♪ -[engine starts]
♪ Was made to be lived in ♪
[horn honks]
♪ You've got a life… ♪
[Lúa] You okay?
♪ Worth living ♪
-[song fades out] -[machines beeping]
Thanks a lot.
Hey, honey.
It all went really well.
[Elmer] I cannot move my arm.
This one?
That's normal, my love.
The doctor told me that it will take a few days.
But then, it will go away.
Because you came through well, Elmer.
I didn't want the operation.
You had passed out, Elmer.
I didn't forget what happened in the nursery.
What happened is what had to happen to you, son.
[softly] And what if I had died?
You didn't.
And here you are.
Here we are.
Together.
[China sighs]
[stirring string instrumentals playing]
Thank you, God. You saved my son.
It all went well. Thank you.
Thank you for guiding us in your divine wisdom and perfect time.
May it always be so.
Always, always.
[stirring music continues]
[China] The operation took away his emotions
but gave Elmer back his life.
[water dripping]
[China] And he went back to his plants. To his gardens.
And to his greenhouse.
At first, I believed that, in time,
our life would go back to how it was before.
That hasn't happened.
He hasn't forgiven me.
Elmer.
But any mother would have done the same thing in that situation.
I can see resentment on his face.
Sometimes I think he's faking it.
That it's simply a memory of the last thing he ever felt for me.
And then sometimes,
I'm terrified.
If there's anything I've learned these past few months,
it's that one should always expect the unexpected.
[stirring music fades out]
[Violeta] Hi, Elmer.
[Elmer] What are you doing here?
[Violeta sighs]
I was asking around about you.
So you decided to stay.
Yes.
I stayed after all.
And how are you?
Well.
And you?
I need to hire you.
I need you to send someone away.
[funky music playing]
Who?
["Busy Earnin'" by Jungle playing]
♪ So you come a long way… ♪
[Carrera] Torres, I'm on Pedras Negras beach.
You're not gonna believe this.
♪ It's time, too busy earnin' ♪
♪ You can't get enough ♪
♪ Just busy earnin' ♪
♪ You can't get enough… ♪
We'll have to close the beach.
[Carrera laughs]
♪ Too busy earnin' ♪
♪ You can't get enough ♪
♪ And I get it always ♪
♪ But I bet it won't change, no ♪
♪ Damn, that's a boring life ♪
♪ It's quite, busy earnin' ♪
♪ You can't get enough ♪
♪ Just busy earnin' ♪
♪ You can't get enough ♪
♪ You think that all your time is used ♪
♪ Too busy earnin' ♪
♪ You can't get enough ♪
♪ Just busy earnin' ♪
♪ You can't get enough ♪