Velvet Was the Night

Leonora doesn’t return when she said she would, which annoys Maite. She receives a call from Leonora asking her to meet her at a particular address with her cat and a box of her belongings. Maite, now more annoyed, agrees and takes the cat and box to a printing shop, where she meets a young man, Rubén Morales. Rubén knows Leonora, but he wasn’t told that she was coming to his shop. When Leonora doesn’t show up when she says she would, Rubén directs Maite to Leonora’s sister, Cándida, who also doesn’t know where Leonora could be. Cándida tells Maite that Leonora is involved with the student protestors and is Emilio’s ex-girlfriend. Cándida refuses to take the cat, so Maite is left with Leonora’s possessions.

Elvis meets El Mago for coffee. His boss tells him that he and his unit have a new job: tracking down Leonora Trejo and getting a camera and film from her. He’s also directed to interrogate Father Villareal, a leftist Jesuit priest and teacher who has been in contact with Leonora. Elvis is nervous about potentially physically assaulting a priest, but El Mago reminds Elvis that he was recently promoted to a new position of authority and needs to prove himself.