Fermín Montes Reunites with Flora, and Amaia Confronts Her

Fermín Montes Reunites with Flora, and Amaia Confronts Her is a turning point in which a private reconciliation becomes a test of trust between colleagues and exposes the emotional force of Flora’s attachment to Anne. Fermín admits that he and Flora are together again despite what she nearly did to him; Amaia warns him, sets a strict boundary around police information, and then confronts her sister directly. The exchange does not settle Flora’s motives. Instead, her wounded reaction to Anne’s name sharpens Amaia’s suspicion that the relationship with Fermín is entangled with a far more consuming passion.

Fermín’s confession and Amaia’s warning

Fermín tells Amaia that he has been back with Flora for several days. His explanation is brief: while on his way up to the police station, he encountered Flora’s car; they saw one another, she called him, they talked, and they resumed their relationship. Amaia responds with disbelief and anger. She reminds him that Flora had already hurt him and had nearly destroyed him, and insists that he is making a grave mistake.

The scene places his decision against the cold of the Baztán Valley. After hours of rain and mild weather, icy gusts have emptied the streets; the two cross the square and road to the church before Fermín stops to speak. His gaze repeatedly strays as he tries to explain a choice he cannot explain even to himself. When Amaia calls Flora dangerous, he grabs her shoulders and shakes her slightly, not to deny the danger but to insist that he knows it. He says that he has loved Flora since they met, has never stopped loving her, and sees her as his last chance. Amaia’s alarm meets a love that Fermín understands as both perilous and indispensable.

The intensity subsides into tenderness: Amaia lays a hand on Fermín’s cheek, and they fall silent. But their personal exchange becomes professional when Amaia stops at the bridge and makes him promise that nothing said or done in the police station—or outside it—about any case will ever reach Flora. She makes him repeat the promise and warns that any suspicion of a breach will cost him not merely a case but his place in the police permanently. Fermín gives his word and says that he has learned his lesson. The scene thus links his renewed intimacy with Flora to a concrete risk: the possible passage of confidential information through a relationship Amaia does not trust.

Flora at Engrasi’s house

Amaia leaves the bridge angry, walking quickly enough that she barely notices the roar of water at the dam or the cold that would normally have made her tremble. She initially intends to pass Engrasi’s house and continue walking to calm herself. Then she sees Flora’s car parked outside. Inside, the family is gathered around Flora as she describes how well she organized Rosario Salazar’s funeral. Flora holds a cup and saucer, sipping coffee as she speaks—a composed domestic scene that stands in sharp contrast to Amaia’s mounting anger.

Amaia does not answer Flora when she is questioned. She takes her sister’s coat from the entrance rack and throws it at her feet, then waits silently by the door until Flora passes. Ignoring the others’ protests and questions, Amaia follows her outside and closes the door behind them. There, she demands that Flora stop pretending to be normal and explain what she intends with Fermín. The confrontation draws together Amaia’s personal knowledge of her sister and her responsibility for a colleague whose career Flora has already damaged.

The dispute over motive

Flora refuses the premise that she owes Amaia an explanation. She presents their renewed relationship as a private matter between two adults, and acknowledges that she may not have been wholly honest with Fermín when they first became involved, when she was still married and he knew it. In her account, circumstances have changed and her interest in him is now genuine.

Amaia counters that she was present on the night Víctor Oyarzabal died and knows what really happened. She recalls the reasons that led Flora to become involved with Fermín then, but says she cannot understand why Flora is doing so again and urges her to leave him alone. Flora laughs at the suggestion that Amaia can prove what happened that night. Her response does not resolve the dispute: she concedes possible dishonesty in the past while insisting that her present feelings are sincere.

Amaia rejects that claim and reframes the question of Flora’s interest. She suspects that Flora’s attention is not fundamentally about a man and points instead to someone young, blonde, and beautiful: Anne. The accusation changes the emotional register of the confrontation. Flora’s customary disdain gives way to fury, and she tells Amaia that she knows nothing about the relationship and must not name Anne. The force of the response makes Amaia reconsider what she has witnessed: Flora appears bent under a terrible weight, her usual brightness gone. Amaia judges that the passion between Flora and Anne may have been the strongest Flora ever felt, beyond anything a man had given her, and that it had carried enough force to lead her to kill. This remains Amaia’s interpretation, not a settled account of Flora’s motives.

Aftermath and significance

With Flora’s response, the confrontation ends without reconciliation or an explanation. Flora wraps herself in her coat, gives Amaia one last look of contempt, and gets into her car. Amaia watches her in silence, then takes several photographs of the front of the vehicle with her phone. The gesture shifts the encounter from family argument toward observation: Amaia has not accepted Flora’s account, and the car itself becomes something she chooses to document.

The episode’s central conflict is not simply whether Fermín and Flora love one another. Fermín acknowledges the danger while choosing the relationship; Amaia treats that choice as inseparable from his professional vulnerability and her own knowledge of Flora’s past. At the same time, Flora’s reaction to Anne complicates Amaia’s certainty about what drives her. The renewed relationship begins as Fermín’s declaration of enduring love, but Amaia’s challenge leaves it surrounded by suspicion, secrecy, and the unresolved weight of a passion that may have shaped a killing.