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I'll start to work.

- Do you want some coffee?

- Yes, please.

- Come in.

- No, I can wait here. No problem.

You can't stay here, it's very cold.

Come on in.

What's the problem? Get cleaned up.

Come in.

Come.

Everything OK?

Yes, yes thank you. It's all right.

I'm gonna take the coffee to Tomas

and be back.

Okay, thanks.

We, too, we had a pair of frights

when we came here.

You sure you don't want to eat

anything?

No, no, no. Thank you.

This is a good place to live but

you need to adapt.

Children?

- Do you have any children? I see that...

- Ah! No, no. No.

My husband would

like to, well, I...

work too much and not...

I don't know very well.

Oh, well, don't be dismayed.

I had Dani, well, Daniel, he does

not like me to call him Dani,

was I was almost 40.

A child changes your life.

But it also gives you everything.

Sorry.

Look, how handsome. He'll be here any

minute now so you'll get to meet him.

Clara?

Hi.

No, I'm waiting for him.

We went out with his friends.

What?

Are you're with them?

And Daniel is not there?

That's weird...

if he left at 6!

Yes.

He came back from work,

changed and left.

Yes.

Well, that's it. I reset it

and it works perfectly.

Are you staying for dinner?

I'm sure my wife convinced you already.

All right.

No, really, I'm very

late, I'm sorry.

Yes, all right, Clara.

Okay, I'll call you.

Clara says that the boys have not

seen Daniel. They thought he was with her.

What do you mean?

That he should be with his friends, but

no one knows anything about him.

Did you say anything?

Come on, don't get antsy.

Maybe he had other plans.

Sure, Tomas, but he told me

he would be with his friends.

Maybe, he didn't tell you the truth.

Why?

And if he met another girl?

But, no, Tomas. No.

It's all very strange.

I'm going to call him.

Calm down. He's a big boy now.

Do you hear?

Yes.

Mom

I heard.

- Did you hear a cell phone ringing here?

- No.

I'll call him again.

My son.

He's not with his friends, and my

wife imagines God knows what.

Here it is.

That's weird.

Daniel never goes out

without his mobile phone.

It probably fell off and he didn't

realize it.

You tell her, Raquel.

I have to go, really,

I'm very late.

Nobody knows anything about Daniel.

What now?

Tell me what we do.

I just thought of something

But I'm in your hands.

It depends on you.

The look in her eyes scared me.

Scrap Yard

I made my car disappear

without a trace.

Well, I don't know...

It's located in front

of a scrap yard.

Then I said goodbye to her with the understanding

that it would be the last time we'd see each other.

When I got to town I reported the

car theft to the police,

pretending to be

returning from Paris,

and so I told Sonia.

I told her that I would stop to sleep

in the apartment in the city.

But you're okay?

I did not sleep all night.

But I felt a fraud, an impostor.

One that had taken 10 years

to climb to the top...

but in an instant, I

could lose everything.

The next day, I went to work.

We were preparing the entry of

Go Global Tech Media, Asia,

and it would have looked strange

if I had not shown up.

For more than a year, I had tried

to conclude the agreement.

And now it was going to happen I

could not ruin it.

Before returning home, I

tried to arrange my thoughts,

to present myself in front

of my wife and my daughter.

I had to put a mask,

so that they wouldn't the man I wasn't

but one that should have been.

And when it looked that I had succeeded...

the inevitable happened.

Daniel Garrido, 23, came

out from work in this

bank branch, at around

six in the evening.

So he went home and soon

after came out again.

His parents were waiting for him

at dinner time, but have not received

news of him since then.

Relatives and friends

gathered to search for him.

They believe he probably

was involved in an accident.

His car might be

invisible in a forest ravine.

The face of that father was

imprinted in the retina of my eyes.

I projected his grief.

But I swore that this would be the last

mistake that I would make in my life.

- Excuse me.

- Go ahead.

Tell me.

The prosecution new witness

has arrived in court.

Are you sure?

Not much time left, you

have to make him hurry.

Let me know if there are further news.

The prosecution witness

has arrived at court.

No word yet on who he is, but

the judge is on his way.

I have to talk to Felix.

- Tell me.

- Felix, where are you?

I'm coming from Bilbao.

Virginia Goodman is here because it seems

that the prosecution has gone ahead of us.

What do you mean the prosecution?

- Look, when do you get back?

- Tonight, on the last flight.

Put her on.

He wants to talk to you.

- Felix?

- What's going on?

A new witness.

He just arrived at court.

Virginia?

It's very likely that Mr.

Doria be compelled to testify tonight.

Send me the details in writing,

but I leave it up to you.

I'm on a big break, perhaps

very beneficial for the case.

- I'll call in a couple of hours.

- OK. Thank you, Felix.

What did he say?

Everything's under control.

Don't worry.

Well, let's continue.

Where were we?

I resumed my life.

Then the police arrived.

Mr. Doria, you have visitors.

It's the police.

There's no record of it.

How do you know?

The details, Mr. Doria.

Police in Bierge found the

remains of two collisions,

5 km from where the deceased

lived.

But there's no record of any

party involved in both accidents.

The curious thing is that the

boy's father picked up a woman,

who had had an accident right here,

the same day his son disappeared.

You know her?

- What is this?

- Let's see...

Why would my client care what happened

in Bierge, when he was in Paris?

This woman said to the

father of the missing boy

that she hit a deer.

But the remains of a second

vehicle on the road

force us to hypothesize

something has happened that was

concealed with the help of a companion.

So?

The license plate of the car

driven by this woman

belongs to a BMW which is

registered to your client.

And that was stolen from a

private parking that weekend.

Are you insinuating that Mr. Doria

is trying to hide an accident

for which there's no evidence?

According to the complaint,

you could not provide

a parking ticket that would prove

that the car was where you said it was.

I lost it.

It was in my wallet, which I left in

my jacket. I lost it during my journey.

Yes, I know. So you said at the police

station. Very convenient, isn't it?

One moment.

The license plate information was

given by the father of the deceased?

That's very convenient.

- And an unverified clue.

- That's we want... verify!

It wasn't necessary to disturb my

client to check his trip to Paris.

It was sufficient to ask his secretary

for the details.

Are we finished?

Why are you so nervous?

Tell me, or I won't be able to help.

Does the disappearance of this boy has

anything to do with you?

Then?

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