Velvet Was the Night

Maite and Rubén drive to the address Emilio gave them, where they meet Lara, a white journalist who covers stories about people disappearing in South and Central America. Lara confirms that Leonora came to see her because she claimed she had a story about the disappearances of activists and phone tapping. Lara thinks it would have been a good story, but Leonora was too scared to give it to her outright. Lara claims that when Leonora left her, she said she’d call back but never did. Lara also tells them that Leonora was dropped off by a man using their very car. From her description of this man, Rubén gleans that it was Sócrates, from Asterisk. Sócrates never told any of the other members of their collective that he was the last one to have seen Leonora.

Elvis returns home and goes through the files El Mago gave him. He discovers that the house they visited earlier when tracking Maite belonged to Emilio. After going through Sócrates’s file, though, and learning of his past leftist activity, he decides that he will first interrogate Sócrates. He and El Güero find Sócrates outside of his own apartment and forcibly bring him inside.