Dimas succeeds in breaking through Lucas's fragility — still in shock — by taking him to meet La Madre, who brands him with a red-hot iron bearing the seal that marks the cursed heirs, baptises him with the name Cain, and tells him his only mother is her. Back at the BAC, Elena and Orduño try to get information out of Marina, but it's impossible. They push her hard, and all she manages to stammer is that she has lived her whole life locked away — and she admits she took part with Dimas in Lucas's abduction. Mariajo negotiates with Rentero for support on the operation, but he refuses. The BAC organises the mission regardless, determined to cut off the network's spearhead and rescue Chesca.
