Flora—Víctor

Flora and Víctor’s twenty-year marriage is presented through a sharp conflict over who held power in the relationship and what led to Víctor’s death. Flora says he threatened her and that she acted in self-defense; Amaia Salazar rejects that account, arguing that Víctor was devoted to Flora and that she saw Flora shoot him again after the first shot had brought him down.

Marriage and Power

Flora tells Amaia that she knew Víctor after twenty years of marriage. Amaia’s interpretation of that history is markedly different: she says Víctor adored and revered Flora, respected only her, and was so constrained by her that he would have been unable to threaten her. This is Amaia’s assessment, not a settled account of their private life, but it makes the marriage’s apparent intimacy inseparable from a question of dominance.

The evidence offers no independent account from Víctor. Instead, the relationship is reconstructed in a confrontation between the surviving former spouses’ accuser and the woman accused of killing him. Amaia uses the length of the marriage to challenge Flora’s claim that she understood Víctor as a threat; Flora invokes those same twenty years as the basis for saying that she knew him and suspected him.

Víctor’s Death and Competing Accounts

Flora insists that Víctor threatened to kill her, recalling that Amaia was present when he shouted at her. She denies that her explanation was invented and maintains that his threat made her actions self-defense. Amaia answers that she heard the first gunshot and believes it must have knocked Víctor down; when she arrived, she saw Flora fire again. She says she thinks she witnessed Flora finish him.

The disagreement turns on the meaning of the second shot and on what Amaia saw. Flora angrily tells her that she has no proof. Amaia concedes that she lacks proof of the accusation as she has framed it, so the scene leaves the legal and factual question unresolved rather than establishing Flora’s guilt as an uncontested fact. What it does establish is that Amaia does not believe the self-defense account.

Anne Arbizu and the Marriage’s Rupture

Amaia places Víctor’s death in the aftermath of Anne Arbizu’s violent death in the river, at Víctor’s hands. She also tells Flora that Anne had been involved with Freddy and that Anne was the source of the pain Flora had been suffering through Ros. Amaia points to Flora and Anne’s apparent closeness: they had a relationship friendly enough to part with kisses and embraces.

Amaia rejects the idea that Flora intervened because she cared about the murdered girls. Recalling Flora’s earlier defense of a supposed purifier who punished insolent girls, Amaia accuses her of indifference to their fate and argues instead that Víctor’s mistake was harming Anne. She presses Flora to explain what bound them and whether Flora loved Anne enough to avenge her. These remain Amaia’s accusations and questions; Flora’s response in this exchange addresses Víctor’s alleged threat, not the nature of her relationship with Anne.

The Relationship in the Confrontation

Flora initially refuses to answer Amaia, tightening her jaw and looking out through the glass. When she turns back, her gestures show the effort of containing herself; later, she turns toward the window again and shouts that Amaia has no proof. The physical retreat and angry denial make the confrontation a struggle over who can define the marriage after Víctor can no longer speak for himself.

The scene therefore holds two incompatible versions of Flora and Víctor’s bond together: Flora’s account of a husband who threatened her, and Amaia’s picture of a husband who adored her and could not stand up to her. The death ends their marriage, but it does not settle its meaning. Amaia’s attempt to connect Víctor’s killing to Anne’s death further complicates the relationship, turning a disputed claim of self-defense into a question of vengeance and concealed attachment.