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The thug drives away, drumming a little victory rhythm on the steering wheel as he reports by phone that he has "the queen without a crown" and that Bolívar is under control. In the trunk, Reina comes to and pounds on the metal that surrounds her, calling for help.
Javier comes to and looks around.
Reina grabs her cell phone. She pretends to be asleep when her captor checks on her.
In his streeeeeeetch limo, the panorgasmic Stefi tells the diamond buyer she isn't for sale. She wants to know who the diamond is really for. He says it's better if she doesn't know: it's for someone that moves the world.
The buyer drops her off. Stefi tells Lopez that the buyer is offering to pay even more than she imagined; there's something more to this red diamond than meets the eye -- as rare and precious as it is -- and she's going to find out what it is.
Skanky Miriam (Lázaro's woman) shows good cop Christian into Andrés' office. Christian has a photo of Andrés and Reina together in Paris and asks what their connection is.
Intermission at the Aerial Circus. The gang mingles, scowls, flirts, threatens. Victor warns Greta's fiancé to make sure he does what he is supposed to do. Lazario gets a text message: the hospital has decided to give him a second chance!
Reina calls Javier from the trunk of the car -- "Someone kidnapped me! They're going to kill me!" He tells her not to cut off the call for any reason: "Think -- what color is the car?"
Andrés smiles smarmily at Christian. "Oh, of course, Reina! We met at a fashion show... We were... ahem... lovers. I was separated from my wife at the time, and Reina wasn't married yet. It was one of those things that gentlemen don't discuss."
Christian leaves him with the photo.
FLASHBACK
Paris, France. (You can tell because Reina is wearing a red beret.)
Andrés introduces himself to Reina, who sits at a bistro table, apparently waiting for him. She says they met years ago when she came to the casino looking for Stefi after Reina's fiancé had been shot. But now she wants to talk about his father. He didn't die a natural death -- he was poisoned. She shows him a copy of the autopsy report.
She doesn't know who was responsible. But she refuses his offer to take over the search for the truth. She is on a path of no return, a path that will lead to the truth -- or to death.
No one else knows about this. Reina will talk to Andrés after her wedding in Las Vegas in one week. First she has to make sure her daughter's life is safe.
Flashback over.
Skanky Miriam offers Andrés a drink and a lap dance.
Javier tries to calm Reina. He tells her again not to hang up. He will call 911 from another phone. He is at the agency and Rocky is following his lead.
Greta's putz of a fiancé tells some guy, must be her boss, that it would be best if Greta were fired after his wedding -- he doesn't want a wife who flies through the air. "Just name your price." Greta overhears this and is furious. She kicks the putz to the curb.
Javier encourages Reina -- she's a fighter. "Try to remember the color of the car." She remembers -- it was sand-colored. "How fast was it going?" "Fast." "What sounds did she hear?" "It sounded like a street."
"What about the man?" "Not too tall, dark complexion."
"Are you still on the street?" "No, on a highway."
Rocky wants to call the police. Javier tells him not to -- they'll get her killed. He keyboards furiously.
Images of Greta performing, jubilant, high in the air.
Stefi sits in her dollhouse and does googles. She reads about the Curse of the Red Diamond. As she reads about the possible link of the beautiful gem to suffering and death...
...the audience at the circus gasps at the horror unfolding before their eyes. Greta loses control and falls from a great height. She lands on the grand piano with enough force to smash the instrument and send the pianist reeling backwards.
As Stefi's voiceover continues -- the curse is invoked when one of the three diamonds is separated from the others -- Victor and Susana watch helplessly as the paramedics rush Greta away.
Stefi continues reading -- only a woman, a goddess, is safe from the curse.
Now Javier is speeding in his car towards Reina. "Don't hang up the phone!"
The kidnapper's car stops in front of a house. The driver pulls Reina roughly from the trunk. She lets her phone fall to the ground. He sees it and stomps on it, and then hits her hard. Unnoticed by either of them, her cross falls to the ground. Her tormentor blindfolds her and forces her into the house.
Javier reports to Smith that they have lost the signal. He'll go to the last location he has.
Stefi tells Lopez she is going to sell the red diamond. If she doesn't, that man will try to kill her, like he tried to kill Victor de Rosas. "Listen carefully..."
Andrés, sated, dismisses Miriam. He stares at the Paris photo.
Reina's tormentor doesn't know why he has been ordered to kill her, but he can tell her that someone wants her to suffer. He calls on a second man, a lanky black man with a shaven head, and the two tie Reina to a chair.
Javier drives up to the cell phone location and spots the smashed phone.
Reina begs for her life. The thug ties a gag around her mouth.
Javier finds the cross.
The thug begins her torture. He puts a tin pail on her head. Here's the game: if he hits the pail, she wins; if he misses, she dies. He aims his gun... Outside Javier hears a shot.
Victor blames Susana for Greta's accident. She says she'll kill herself if something happens to Greta. He says she won't have to -- he'll kill her himself.
The doctor calls the family of Greta de Rosas: she has very bad news.
The thug cackles maniacally. Did Reina pee her pants? That time he just fired into the air. The next time, he'll aim for the pail. POW! He shoots the pail off her head. Reina cowers silently.
SuperJavier bursts in, guns blazing, dispatching the shooter and at least two more of his henchmen. He is shot in the thigh. He tears off his leather jacket.
Lázaro reports back to work, coincidentally at the very hospital where Greta has been transported. He enters her room with some supplies just in time to witness a cardiac arrest. The team of doctors begins defibrillation...
...Javier removes his shirt, exposing his beautifully sculpted upper body and incidentally, using the shirt as a tourniquet for his leg. His gun is out of bullets. Reina's chair has toppled over and she lies on the floor, helpless, still gagged and blindfolded. One of the bad guys takes aim at Javier, but our boy overpowers him with his wits and his strength. What a guy!
Stefi and Lopez meet the buyer in some dark creepy place. He has at least half a dozen burly guys with him. He shows her the contents of two briefcases of cash. She signals to Lopez to hand over the black pouch. The buyer takes the ginormous red stone from the pouch and holds it up to the light. The deal is done. Everyone turns to leave.
But wait! A red laser target lights up in the darkness! Men in black masks are shooting and the buyer's gang is returning fire. Stefi crouches on the floor and covers her ears.
Javier limps over to Reina, straightens up the chair she is still tied to, and removes her gag. "Are you going to kill me? Who are you?"
Instead of answering her or removing her blindfold, HE CHLOROFORMS HER. "Perdón," he whispers. Then Rocky enters with a cadre of agents and they take charge of the scene.
The bullets fly around Stefi's head.
FLASHBACK
A little girl cowers among the dolls on her bed and sees a man in a black mask murder her parents. The murderer, seemingly unaware of her presence, removes his mask. She sees his face.
When the man leaves, the girl goes to the closet and pulls out a small boy who has been concealed inside. She hugs him.
"You can come out now! Hurry up." Lopez, left standing in a room of corpses, calls to his boss. Stefi walks over to the buyer's body, crouches down and takes the diamond pouch from his pocket. Then she and Lopez make a run for it, each grabbing one of the suitcases of cash.
Christian arrives at the hospital. Victor tells him Greta is in very bad shape. Susana joins them to report that the doctors were able to resuscitate her, but her injuries are so serious that only a miracle can save her. They say she should pray -- but to whom?
Isidro tells Victor that Reina is gone and nobody knows where she is.
Javier carries the still unconscious Reina to a fainting couch in her bridal salon. He strokes her face gently and tells her that despite her betrayal, despite his disillusionment, the love that didn't exist, despite prison, she is still his Reina (sigues siendo mi reina). With her he lived the best of times and the worst of times. That's why -- he pauses to put the cross in the palm of her hand -- in spite of everything, he still loves her.
Their love song swells.
Te esperaré
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