El Dragón #78, 1/14/20: The Aftermath

We begin a repeat scene of Chisca and Miguel getting shot. Chisca’s last words to Ishiro were about how many children she wants. He relives all their good moments, but Chisca dies in his arms. Ishiro is overcome with grief.

Peligros comes downstairs, sees Chisca then Miguel. He is followed by Adela who is also overcome by seeing Chisca dead. She turns around and sees Miguel lying on the floor, motionless. Jorge is on the phone getting an ambulance. He sees his dead sister and cries. Adela cradles Miguel in her arms trying to get him to wake up. Jorge starts mumbling and it comes out that he was the one who put ePig up to this horrific tragedy. Jorge says something like, “He promised he was only going to get Miguel and no one else!” Ishiro hears this and tries to harm Jorge, but Peligros makes him let go.

Miguel is wheeled into surgery and Adela right beside him before she has to let go so the doctor can take him into the operating room.

Peligros walks back through the Garza mansion with the police. He tells them to do what they need to do. As Rosario’s body is wheeled out, Peligros stops and says to him, “Rosario, you were brave.” He does the sign of the cross. Then he goes over to a crying Jorge and tells him to be quiet.

Carlos Duarte in disguise with a baseball cap and backpack calls his old friend Teofilo and wants his help getting out of the country, but Teofilo refuses. Duarte tells him, “If I fall, then you fall with me. Look I just need to disappear.” So Teofilo tells him that he will make a few calls and then call him back in ½ hour with the plan.  Then Teofilo calls Romero.

Chisca’s body is wheeled out and Ishiro bends down to kiss her. Jorge comes crying and kisses her also asking her forgiveness. He remembers some good times with his sister. Peligros tells Ishiro that if Miguel lives, ePig will soon be coming after him. He advises Ishiro to go to the clinic and take care of himself. As he leaves, he gives a hateful glance at Jorge and says he that he would preferred that he died, not Chisca.

At ePig’s place, he wants to know from Tacho if Mig is dead or alive. Tacho tells him as many bullets as he put into him, he would have to be Superman if he lived. ePig said that Mig has more lives than a cat and just wants to know if he is dead or alive. Tacho says, “I don’t know, I left after Jaramillo was killed.” ePig tells Tacho to listen to the news because if he is dead, it will come out on the news.

Ishiro comes to the hospital as he left the mansion. He’s bleeding and Adela begs him to go get treated and checked out, but he’s not listening to her. He agrees to, but then tells her that when ePig finds out that Miguel is still alive, he will be back.

Duarte is on the phone with Teofilo who is giving him instructions on where to go.

A police detective talks with Peligros and wonders how this house could have been invaded like this with so much security. They argue about what Peligros saw or didn’t see. But Peligros is not giving out any information.

The Garza mansion, now a crime scene, [I have no idea why Jorge or anyone else except police and the coroner should be there. Normally crime scenes must be evacuated because it could be tampered with.] Jorge sees a gun on the floor, picks it up and runs.

Jimena listens to the news at home and is on her way out of the country with Miguel’s money.

Jorge goes back to ePig’s place with gun in hand. He shoots the gate and looks for ePig, but he is not to be found.

The doctor comes out with news about Miguel and says he is alive, was able to remove the bullets, but will need to be in intensive care. Ishiro says that is too dangerous and they will need an entire floor to themselves because of security. They say that they can pay for it. Adela asks for the truth, “Are you going to be able to save him?” But the doctor says, “I cannot say. Right now, he’s in God’s hands.”

Carmen, Tacho, and ePig watch the news together and realize that Miguel is still alive, but in critical condition. Tacho holds up his gun and says he will take care of things.

Carlos, now with Telofilo on an apartment rooftop somewhere, wonders what they are doing there. Then Romero shows up and Carlos wants to know the plan. They proceed to tell him about his crimes and bring out the gun that Carlos used. Carlos gets very angry tells them they are going to regret what they did. Teofilo tells Carlos he is FINISHED, but Carlos grabs the gun and tries to shoot. Surprise, the gun is empty and there are no bullets. They both psych him out and tell him that the police are on their way. (Sirens are heard it the background.) Carlos is now in a full panic and jumps up on the wall while the other two are telling him that he will spend his life in prison. As he is on the wall in a panic, he falls backward to his death on the ground. Both Telofilo and Romero look down and say, “Well he sure believed the police were coming. And looks like he got his last wish, he disappeared.”

At Flaco’s place, Peligros breaks the news to Flaco and Trejo about Miguel’s injuries and Chisca’s death. But what Peligros want to know now is where is Jimena? He needs to find her. Trejo says that will be impossible because he mobile phone seems to be out of the area. Flaco says that he believes that Jimena is a traitor. Peligros wants to know if there is any way to track her, so Flaco goes to the computer to see what he can find out. At the same time, Peligros’s phone rings and it’s Dora. He gives her the sad news that Chisca is dead and so is Rosario. Dora becomes angry and tells him that’s it’s all his fault since he was in charge of security. Finally he tells her what Jorge did, bringing down the whole security system there leaving them open to attack. “The boy is very regretful now, but it’s too late already.” She asks where Jorge is now, but Peli says he has disappeared. Dora asks Peligros to find Jorge and tells him it’s a priority.

Miguel is wheeled into a room with his oxygen and machines. He wakes up and he asks about Chisca, asking if he she is dead. He can hardly contain his own grief.

Edna gets to the place where Carlos fell and says she wished she could have taken him in. She asks about Miguel and her co-partner (don’t know his name) says that he is out of surgery at the hospital. Unfortunately, no one in the Garza household says they know anything. They believe Epigmenio Moncada is responsible and they want to catch him.

Peligros finds Jorge at Kenia’s grave. He remembers Ishiro’s words and put the gun up to his mouth, but Peligros stops him. Pelio hugs Jorge and tells him he is not alone.

Mauricio comes to Edna’s office wanting to know about Carlos. She gets serious and tells him that his name was among Carlos’s dirty business. Edna is angry and says she has the goods on him, then orders him to leave her office.

Claudia and another reporter talk to Teofilo after what happened with Duarte to ask his opinion on what happened. All Teofilo would say is that he’s sorry it happened and the corruption that Duarte was involved in seems to have led him down this desperate path.

Edna talks with Gary in her office and says she has investigated Carlos Duarte’s business dealing and they do not cross over with Miguel or the Naga company. As she talks, she’s turning pictures down of herself with Mauricio. Edna says that when Miguel recovers, she is going to question him. [Good luck with that one.]

Tacho comes to the hospital armed with his gun. [What, no armed security outside the hospital and no one on the lookout for Tacho?]

Ishiro is in Miguel’s room, but he is starting to hallucinate and thinks he is seeing Chisca. He kisses her and she says, “I’m alive, here I am.” He tells her he cannot live without her. Then his vision fades and he says an injured and bloody, dying Chisca. Adela finds him and he has blood all over his hands and collapses on the floor.

Flaco has found out that Jimena took millions of DOLLARS, not pesos from Miguel. She is on her way to the Cayman Islands. Trejo goes nutty, saying that he doesn’t blame her for doing that and if he had the opportunity, he would have done the same. He yells at Flaco, telling him they are like the last musicians on the sinking Titanic and they would both do well to jump out now instead of working in this rat’s hole. Then Flaco starts talking very sensible giving good advice about what they should do. Flaco says he trusts Miguel and that if they just hold and wait things out, they will survive and come out ahead. He asks Trejo if he wants to live the way Jimena is going to, always looking over her shoulder to see if Miguel has come after her. Trejo calms down and Flaco tells him he’s been on a bad trip. Now go have some orange juice.

The doctor has taken care of Ishiro, but Ishiro is not very cooperative and keeps wanting to get up. The doctors tells him he cannot get up because he has bad infection, but Ishiro keeps fighting to get up. Adela walks in and Ishiro begs her to call Peligros to keep watch over Miguel. She tells him there is a police officer stationed outside.

Peligros brings Jorge home and Jorge goes to his room. He puts the gun to his mouth again, but Dora finds him and stops him from pulling the trigger. She tells him that he is the son she never had and that she is going to take him to the Cuidad Jimenez ranch and there is where they will bury Chisca, next to their grandfather.

Tacho finds the police officer stationed outside Mig’s room takes him at gunpoint and offers him money. Adela comes down the hallway and notices he’s missing. She begins to try to wheel Miguel out. But here comes Tacho dressed like the police. [I have no idea how this guy does not stick out like a sore thumb.] Next we see Tacho dressed in scrubs and a white mask. Meanwhile Adela is trying to move Mig’s bed to hide him. But Tacho finds her and he pulls out his gun. Peligros is right behind starts to take care of Tacho. It appears at first that Tacho is winning the fight with Peligros, but he gets back up and starts swinging at him. Tacho pulls out the gun, they struggle with it. The gun goes off and they both fall to the floor. Which one is shot?