![]() He remembers that pasaje means a room outside of time and decides to use Violet’s directions to Iberra’s house to go seek some answers. Somehow the book is helping Alex begin to put some pieces of his memory together. I’m not sure what the emotion is that we’re supposed to know she felt, but it seems like almost an instant recognition or a connection beyond just “Oh, weird, a phone.” Why, Baltasar asks, is this case their mystery to solve? It doesn’t seem like any of them really know yet. Baltasar asks her if she had any sort of connection with the phone when she saw it, and she says no, but we know that’s not really true. Emma makes up some shit about financial hardship being their lowest point, but no one’s buying that. They did, four times, Noah admits (damn!), and both agree that the wedding was the highest point in their marriage. He leans on Emma and Noah for more information, asking them if they hooked up their first night together. (That’s by Iberra as well, yes?) His dad died when he was 10, and all of that is how he became involved with Alex and the Oceana Vista and this case. He sewed the yellow snake into couture garments for some of the worst people in the world and ultimately fell in love with a detective novel named El Espejo. We do know more about Baltasar, though, who says he was born with a dexterity in his hands that led to working in the Frías family business when he was 10. He insists it’s about him, which seems like a stretch because books can really be about anyone if you look hard enough, but … maybe it is? What do we really know about Illán Iberra anyway? He finds her book, flips through it, then loses his shit. Violet is reticent, so Alex does it for her. Upstairs (and in the past), Alex is convinced that Sam and Violet were looking to steal from him or fuck him over, and he asks them to empty out their pockets and purse. He says he needs to understand them to know how they can work together and to figure out how they fit into the puzzle. He begins leaning on them for more information, both personal and about the incident that led Emma to find the phone, only to discover that, really, they don’t have all that much to offer. That being said, Baltasar is convinced they’re somehow involved since they do appear on Alex’s mural. (The business center was booked.) Baltasar has done way, way, way, way more work on this whole case than the two Americans, and it’s instantly clear that they were foolish to think they could just up and solve it. Meanwhile, Baltasar, Luna, Emma, and Noah are set up in their hotel’s day-care center going over case files. They’re also grossed out by Alex’s scent, which Sam describes as “blue cheese and patchouli.” That’s when Alex paints Sam and Violet as they sit terrified on his couch. S&V decide to make a break for it, only to find that they’re essentially locked in the room, held hostage (in what’s probably a light, unthreatening situation, but only we know that) by a man who clearly doesn’t have the greatest command of reason and restraint. He tears the closet open, scaring the shit out of Sam and Violet, then just grabs a robe and closes it up. They’re a 30-inch waist, which he’s not, and he realizes that someone has been in his room. Maybe 2006? But in a flash, we’re right back in the hotel room watching him sit naked, drifting in and out of consciousness before finding a pair of pants on the ground. It’s unclear when Alex is actually making this video. He’s making a video directed at “Baltasar the memory detective,” which is cute and seems about right. On what, we don’t know - that’ll come into play later. The second half is the heartbreak.” We see him stumbling through the jungle, filming himself. Speaking of time machines, there may be one of sorts? At least, that’s certainly the vibe in this episode, “El Espejo” (the mirror), which opens with Alex reminding us that “this isn’t the end. Emma was still knocked out from whatever medical procedure, so she never got to hold her hand, and it’s clear that if she had a time machine, that’s what she would change in her life. There was a baby, a girl, who died just 63 minutes after she was born. Though she never discloses the loss in her life, Noah does in a conversation with Luna. Well, we finally know what has broken Emma, and it’s terrible.
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