03x07 - Madre

[bunniefuu]

[suspenseful music playing]

[suspenseful music playing]

[branch snaps]

[grunting]

No! No, please! No! No!

[grunts]

[theme song playing]

[peaceful music playing]

[suspenseful music playing]

[police radio chatter]

- Oh, poor kid.
- Mm.

How long has she been in the water?

My best guess?
Between 9 and 12 hours.

But we'll know better
once we do the postmortem.

[Miranda]
Any signs of trauma? Head injury?

Hey. I thought Miranda
was on holiday.

She is.

Believe me, it wasn't my idea.

[Miranda]
Hold it still!

And your framing's abysmal.

[sighs]

Hi, Miranda.

- [Miranda] Hi, Roberto.
- [Roberto] Good morning.

As from what I can see--
look, yes--

small contusions
in her arms and trunk,

possibly from the rocks.

And there's nothing else to identify her?

[Roberto]
Just a small bracelet on her left wrist.

Ah, and I found this in her right hand.

Max, I'm out of focus again!

Okay, that's it. I'm coming in.

Oh, sorry, I'm losing the signal here.
Low... battery.

You know that
I know when you're lying to me--

Oh, she really needs this holiday.

- [call disconnects]
- [groans]

[bangs pen]

[phone buzzes]

Don't answer it.

[phone buzzes]

Uh-uh.

Hi.

Palma Police.

They tell me you found the body.

Mm. [grunts]

It's beautiful,
the sea and the island, Dragonera.

It looks calm enough,
but the dragon makes the currents strong.

People swim, they get in trouble,
they all end up here.

Like a drain, you know?

Well, no-one's reported missing
from the town.

We checked.

[grunts]
You think she came from the island?

Maybe you took her over there?

I take a lot of women there.

Oh, cool. So you can take me.

[grunts]

[Adrian]
They won't like it. Women only.

When I deliver to them,
they won't even let me off the jetty.

Don't you worry. Women love me.

¡Vamos!

[Spanish guitar music playing]

Ahh...

Et in Arcadia sum.

Dragonera. Not Arcadia.

Whatever.

Ahh...

Stop there. Please.

This island is strictly for women only.

The boatman should have told you.

Oh, I told him.

Palma Police. Detective Max Winter.

Listen, I don't want to get heavy,
but, technically,

sh**ting these things
at serving officers is a crime.

If I'd been aiming at you,
you wouldn't be talking.

What do you want?
This is a private island.

A young woman was found
drowned in the channel.

I'm trying to identify her.

Wait here. I'll ask Mother.

Mother. [chuckles]

[exhales]

You sure you don't need a hand?

Detective Winter.

How can I help you?

Oh, you must be Mother.

To my daughters.

You can call me Diana.

Have we met before?

You look really familiar.

No, I don't think so.

They tell me you found a body?

Yeah.

A young woman, mid-20s.

Nothing to identify her.

But I have a photo.

Here.

Sorry, I must ask you to go no further.

This island is sacred ground.

No man has stepped foot on it
for almost 30 years.

That's Filo, one of our guests.

She didn't come to breakfast this morning.
We were searching for her.

She was a...

a troubled soul.

She was found by the shore
earlier this morning.

[Diana]
I warn all our guests about the currents.

Even something that looks beautiful
can be deadly.

Well, you said she was...

troubled?

So maybe she was happy
to ignore the warnings?

Maybe so.

Many of our sisters come here
with a heavy burden.

Most of them I can help,
but even I am not infallible.

All right. Okay, I'll just need
to check her belongings,

tie a few things up and then I--

Please. Our rules are not negotiable.

If you don't have a search warrant,
you would be trespassing.

But don't worry,
we will collect her belongings

and send them to you on the next boat.

Thank you.

Lucky you're good with women.

[chuckles]

Ines is totally going to see you.

No, not if I'm careful.

So this woman, she actually shot at you?

There's a strict door policy.
Keine wurst. Or else...

[imitates getting shot by a harpoon]

So I've been researching the island.

It's all true.

Purchased 20 years ago
by a woman named Conchita Martinez.

She's run an exclusive retreat there
ever since.

Well, the woman I met was called Diana.

Maybe she changed her name.

Conchita was the biggest TV star
in the country.

Victima.

I've seen it.

Yeah, that's her.

I knew I recognised her.

Carmen used to watch it.

Ironically.

Well, Conchita gave it all up
in the height of her fame.

She just quit acting and disappeared.

Yeah, they had to k*ll her off.

Big helicopter crash.

[imitates helicopter crash]

I think.

Hmm.

Well, a year later,
she turns up on the island.

Anything on the dead woman?

I can't find anyone called Filomena Curtis
who fits her profile.

That's weird.

Don't you think that's weird?

I think it's weird.

There have been over 40 drownings
in that channel

in the last, what, 25 years.

It's mostly fishermen.

Drunk guys trying to swim to the island.

Oh, yeah. And there's one
poor British kid, Anna Harris.

Swept away on an inflatable.

So, yeah, bottom line, it's sad,
but it's no mystery.

Stand up, Blake.

Come on.

In this department,
holidays are compulsory.

I will not have any of my officers
suffering burnout.

Do you understand?

Yes.

Good.

So now you go away.

I don't care where,
but do not come back for a week.

If I see you here again,
I will make it two weeks.

And then I will double it again,
and again, and again,

until your entire life
becomes a permanent vacation.

Winter, my office.

Forget the drowning.
Barcelona needs our help.

Blake, go!

Enjoy your holiday.

These are all names we got
from Grec's accountant.

Oh, the British guy, right?

- Mallory?
- Yeah.

The one that you let get clean away.

Business details, personal payments.

We need to check out each one, okay?

Once we confirm it's a real business,
we move on.

Anything that's a shell,
you report it to me.

Erm, can I be honest?

Erm...

this is a great job.

For an intern.

We do have an intern, right?

Or AI? Do we have AI?

No, Winter, we don't.

In fact, some days
I think we don't even have I.

Can you believe it?
This could take me a week!

Or longer with regular coffee breaks.

- [waiter] Señor.
- Thanks.

[Miranda]
Well, I wish I was there to help you.

But I finally booked somewhere.

Very exclusive.

Oh, wow.

Miranda Blake
actually relaxing. [chuckles]

Anywhere nice?

- [call disconnects]
- Miranda?

- Hola.
- [grunts]

Gracias.

[Hippolyta]
Welcome, sister.

Gracias.

[Hippolyta]
Welcome, sister.

[chuckles]

Any allergies we should know about?

Erm, no, I don't think so.

- Welcome drink.
- Hmm.

What's in it?

Strictly no alcohol.
Goji berries and local herbs.

- It's cleansing.
- Hmm.

Come. Mother is waiting for you.

Follow me.

Hi, I'm Miranda.

Phoebe.

It's your first time?

How can you tell? [chuckles]

I'm level three.
I'm going to be reborn this week.

Lovely.

I mean, I was just hoping
to chill by the pool.

It's sacred water.

It's drawn directly
from a spring in the hills.

Diana says it is absolutely pure.

So no swimming?

No, Miranda.

Here's Mother.

Welcome to the Dragonera,
my daughters.

It's lovely to see
old friends amongst you.

And some new faces, too.

Welcome.

Many, many moons ago, women like us
were the leaders of a better world.

Queens of the Amazon race.

Under their stewardship,
nature and womanhood

worked together in perfect harmony.

Our philosophy is simple.

The female of the species
is not only deadlier than the male,

we are far superior in every way.

I can see some of you
are not yet convinced.

But you will be. Trust me.

Now, please settle in,
and I will join you for supper.

Miranda, isn't it?

Er, yes, right.
Nice to meet you.

Walk with me.

Erm...

I always try and spend
a little extra time with our virgins.

A week is barely time enough
to greet someone,

let alone to help them.

What makes you think I need help?

Everyone needs help, Miranda.

Life is too short,
so much yet to be achieved.

Not a moment to waste, right?

- Er, maybe, sorry.
- [chuckling]

I understand you, I do.

You are an independent,
self-sufficient woman.

Let me ask you something.

Doesn't it exhaust you?

- Yeah, I suppose, sometimes it's a bit--
- You see,

what I teach here is not independence,
but interdependence.

Once we realise our strength
is in each other,

then can we really start to grow
the deep roots

that will sustain over your growth.

Anything else is just superficial,
don't you think?

[quietly] I love your necklace.

- Thank you.
- Sorry I'm touching you.

That's quite all right, it's fine.

Antiope.

Can you take Miranda to her room, please?

Miranda?

I have only one rule.

Don't ever lie to me.

On this island,

only the truth will set you free.

[intercom buzzing]

[receptionist] Hola.

Hola, Palma Police.

Is that... Serrat Associate?

[receptionist] Yes, indeed.
How can I help you?

You already have.
Thank you. Have a nice day.

Okay.

[sighing]

Oh! This place. It's so lovely.

It's just simple.

Antiope is such an unusual name.

After we are reborn,
we all get to choose our new names.

The first Antiope
was a great Amazon warrior.

Excellent choice.

[birds and insects chirping]

[indistinct chatter]

Thank you.

Daughters of Eve,
please say thank you

for all the delicious gifts
from Mother Nature.

[all] Thank you.

Now, drink.

- [dishes clattering]
- [indistinct chatter]

I was very sorry to hear
about that young woman.

The one who drowned.

That must have come as
a real shock for you.

I'm sorry, I didn't mean to upset you.

I suppose I'm so used to Mother's
successes that a failure is...

almost too much to bear.

Did she ever talk about herself?

Family, that kind of thing?

Mother wouldn't discuss these things,
even with us.

Anything revealed in the sanctum
is secret knowledge.

The sanctum?

It's where we take The Journey.

All will be revealed
when the time is right.

Do you think it was suicide?

The poison from trauma must be released.

If it is kept inside,
it can infect everything.

Filo didn't k*ll herself.

It was our world that failed her.

Hmm.

You really should try
the stuffed aubergine.

We grow it all here.

Please.

[birds cawing]

[frog croaking]

[gong sounding]

You know, for so many years
I wasted my money

on material things.

Like clothes, cars, restaurants.

It was only after I started my journey
in the sanctum

that I realised
what was really important in life.

And now I donate,
to make the world a better place.

You donate... to Diana?

Of course.

I mean, the work
she does here is... vital.

Don't worry.
You'll soon understand.

So...

What brings you here, Miranda?

What's your story?

And don't you dare tell me
it's just a holiday.

Hmm, you know.

This and that.

Trying to work some stuff out.

Some personal stuff.

Hey, Diana will help you.

She helps all of us.

- [gong sounding]
- [chimes clinking]

Miranda? Miranda?

We're nearly ready
for the next session.

Yeah, yeah, sure,
I just need to use the loo?

It's all this hydration.
I'm like a water balloon.

Mm-hmm.
Okay.

[door opening outside]

This is a private area.

Yeah, I'm so sorry.
I'm totally lost.

I'm looking for the toilet?

Miranda. The name comes
from the Latin "to wonder at."

And I really do wonder about you.

In a good way, I hope.

[chuckling]

Well, you're concealing something.

That's clear enough.

There's a choice to be made, isn't there?

And you don't know which way to turn.

That's life, though, isn't it?

A series of choices.

Such a hard shell.

But when the dam breaks, it breaks.

Yes. I think we should make
an exception in your case.

You will take The Journey tonight.

Hippolyta will come for you.

Namaste.

[all] Namaste.

[mobile buzzing and ringing]

Hey, how's the holiday?

I'm on the island.

[Max] Me too.

I live here.

[Miranda] No, no, no.
Not the island.

The island. Dragonera.

What? You're with the Amazons?

Seriously?

What's it like?

It's lovely.

There's no alcohol,
but they do give you this, like,

goji berry cleansing juice thing,
which is really great, actually.

The food is strictly vegetarian,
but they do have a pool.

Okay.

Huh. A pool is cool.

Yeah, but there's strictly
no swimming, Max.

It's sacred spring water
meant for rebirthing only.

I mean, you should see what I'm wearing.

You do sound different.

Sort of.

I don't know.
Relaxed.

- As in, not uptight.
- Okay. Thank you.

Listen, I've got an address for you,
and I don't have very much signal.

Filomena Curtis was registered
to an address in Sant Elm.


Did you get that?

Got it.

Find out anything else?

That rich women like to spend
a hell of a lot of money here.

So you think Filo got upset?

Asked for her money back?

Maybe. Or maybe this is
just what it looks like.

A tragic accident.

What?

We now have a major lead.

I'm dropping everything immediately.

Yes, priority number one.

Max Winter is on the case.

Okay, great. I think.

Let's go.

Hello?

Palma Police?

[door creaking]

[grunting]

[inhaling sharply]

[grunting]

Who are you working for?

[Max] Palma Police.

My ID is in my right pocket.

Anyone can fake an ID.

Who are you really working for?

I agree, the pay's not great.

So, erm, overall, I say
I'm definitely doing it for me.

Tell me, who sent you?

I did.

Drop it, now.

[gong sounding]

In this life, we are all born three times.

Once when we leave the womb
of our earth mother.

The second time
when Saturn returns to us.

And the third, when we understand
the true nature of life.

Phoebe here is going to leave us forever.

But who will come in her place?

Alexa!

Alexa! Alexa!

[group chanting "Alexa"]

[chanting continues]

Alexa, Alexa...

- Alexa!
- [chanting continues]

[cheering]

[woman] Congratulations, congratulations.

[indistinct congratulations continue]

- Oh!
- It's time, Mother is waiting.

Let's go, vamos.

Enrique Mas.

Hidden Agendas. Editor in chief.

So some kind of blogger.

A blogger?

[laughing]

Listen, I do deep dives into things
they don't want you to know about.

UFOs, alien visitations.

The secret lizard government.

What I don't see is how this
is connected to the Grec case.

Grec? What's Grec?

A government agency?

Is that who you are working for?

[sighing]

Step into my office.

You're a really sneaky guy, you know that?

Why were you following me?

I knew this place wasn't on the list.

I wondered what you were up to.

I had the situation
totally, totally under control.

So why are you here?

This was the last
registered address of our dead girl.

Miranda found it in their records.

Miranda's on the island?

Unofficially.

Okay. I'm in.

[tranquil music plays]

[Hippolyta]
Mother.

It's time for your journey.

This tea is made of a succulent
that only grows on this island.

In high doses, you'll become locked
in place, unable to move a muscle.

However, a small amount
can open a window into your soul.

Can I be honest with you?
I have a real trust issues

when it comes
to drinking deadly poison.

And I thought you had to have
the bracelet things.

You know, like Phoebe.

Alexa?

Alexa just... believes she is suffering.

But you're different.

You're strong.

I can feel your pain.

And it hurts me too.

Do you feel fulfilled in your life?

If the answer is yes, then please
walk out of here with my blessings.

But if the answer is no,
if there's any doubt in your mind...

then you must take The Journey.

Be brave, my daughter.

Have the strength to face your demons.

Okay, I'll do it.

[Diana sighs]

[swallows]
Ugh.

Good.

Good.

Now step in here.

[Diana, softly]
There you go.

[Miranda sighs]

Now relax.

Stare into the void.

Embrace it.

- [Miranda sighs]
- There.

Talk to us, Enrique.

Believe me,
we are the good guys.

The next people through that door...
not so much.

You know how people
vanish without a trace?

That's us.

We are the magicians... of death!

Sh-she rented my room.

That's all.

One month's money up front,
moved in, and I hardly saw her.

I think she was doing some kind
of book research.

That's all I know, I swear.

But... you didn't report her missing.

Why would I?

Like I said, I hardly saw her.

[Max sighs]

[Miranda]
Ohh! I'm falling!

[Diana] Many years ago,
there was a little girl called Miranda.

Can you see her?

Yes.

[Diana] Are you with her?

Can you feel what she feels?

Yes. Yes, I can.

Tell me. Tell Mother what's wrong.

Her father is crying and she...
she doesn't know why.

But you do, don't you?
You understand?

She's gone.

[voice breaking]
They both loved her so much,

and now she's gone.

She's gone forever.

Miranda doesn't want
to feel like this ever again.

To lose someone she loved so much.

So everybody must be pushed away.

No one can get close.

But I'm here now.

Mother will take care of everything.

Shh.

Do you believe?
In, er, UFOs, I mean.

No.

Well, here's my problem.

They could contact anyone
on the planet to communicate with...

but they only ever
pick the crazy people. Why?

Maybe they like crazy people.

[sighs]

Looks like some kind of DNA kit.

Paternity tests, that kind of thing.

I bow to your expertise.

That's her.

[Mancuso]
Filomena Curtis?

Well, no. It's Harris, not Curtis.

But it's definitely her.

Yeah, look.

This old article
about the missing British child.

Could she be one of the girls?

[tense music rises]

Yeah, you're right.

Anna Harris had an older sister,
Filomena.

You must trust me.

Yes.

Good girl.

So, tell Mother...

why you're really here.

The truth?

I just want to know what happened.

We all want the truth.

I came here for the girl in the water.

Alexa.

Well, she's your sister now.
Your family.

No, no, no. Not Phoebe.
The other girl.

In the ocean.

I came to find out
what happened to her.

To... to Filo.

I see.

Did you know her?

No, no. No one knows her.

Not even the computer.

I think that's weird.

Don't you think that's weird?

Mm-hmm.

Computer? Explain.
Mother doesn't understand.

The police computer.

It has everyone on it.

Everyone who is born,
everyone who has died.

Everyone.

Even you.

[ominous music rises]

Filo was looking for her sister.

Yeah, all of them.

All the drownings.
The bodies recovered.

They all ended up in the channel.

All except one.

Anna Harris.
They never found her body.

Maybe this isn't a pendant.

It's a locket.

Some hair inside.

Remember the DNA tests?

I think she had found her sister,

and now she needed to prove it.

Chicos.

I get all the same results.
You know, the lung section,

the blood work and even
the sphenoid sinus sampling.

This woman definitely drowned,

but all the evidence suggests
that she did not drown in the ocean.

Which doesn't make any sense.

There is no other cause
of death to be found.

She drowned, but in fresh water.

So you are saying she was k*lled
somewhere else and dumped there?

Well, h-hold on.

Miranda mentioned a pool
on the island.

It's them.

The Amazons,
they could have k*lled her.

And Miranda's alone on that island.

You think she's in danger?

Well, they shot at me for being a man.

Pretty sure the sisterhood
won't like a spy.

All right, No time to lose.

Take another look at Martinez.

[Diana]
...other guests confined to their rooms.

[Hippolyta]
Yes, Mother.

Quick.

Do I just sit here?

Ooh, no, stop, stop. Stop.

[urgent music playing]

- You wait here.
- Yeah, yeah.

There, look there.

[sharp thwack]

Okay, I see her.

Break right. I'll cover.

Go. I've got this.

Drop it.

Carefully.

Miranda!

Stay there! Don't move!

She's not breathing!

- Max, give her to me. Come on.
- She's not breathing!

[urgent music playing]

Get out.

No, Mother, no, no.

Don't move!

[coughing]

[gasping]

Hey.

[speaking Spanish]

[Max] Conchita Martinez
could never have children.

But then it happened-- the miracle.

The missing child everyone
thought drowned

ended up in Dragonera.

Hippolyta.

That's her, the missing child.

Hippolyta is Anna Harris.

Filo's sister.

When Filo saw her for the first time,
she just knew she'd found her.

But she also knew she needed
cast-iron proof of who she really was.

She needed Hippolyta's DNA.

[audibly struggling]

No! Help me!

[Max] They must have k*lled Filo
the same way they tried to k*ll you.

Diana had to protect her secret...

at any cost.

She k*lled her.

Her own sister.

[indistinct chatter]

How could you do this?

The lives you've ruined,
especially Hippolyta's.

She was lost. I gave her a home.

She wanted for nothing.

No, you stole her.

And you brainwashed her.

Her parents, her family,
they loved her.

I was her destiny.

And she was mine.

And I was her mother now.

You wouldn't understand, though.

[melancholic music plays]

[Max sighs]

Roberto tested the juice they served.

Trace amounts of
a psilocybin-like compound.

They were drugging everyone
from the moment to step onto the island.

- Really?
- So what was it like?

This whole weird trip thing.

[soft chuckle]
I don't know.

I mean, it was interesting.

And in a weird way, it did sort of
help me work a few things out.

Wow.

[soft chuckle]

I just need to love myself a little more.

That's all.

Okay.

That's cool.

[lively music rises]

What about other people?

Maybe.

We'll see, won't we?

[lively music playing]

Been great working with you.

Sorry you have to go.

[Mancuso] Well, I'd love to stay but,
you know, Barcelona needs me back.

Ah!

[both chuckle]

I'm really sorry.

[speaking German]
Shame. And now get lost.

Did I ever mention
I am fluent in German?

[speaking German] Goodbye,
you lame excuse for a detective.

[comedic musical sting]

Hey, you.

Maybe one day we'll meet again.

Maybe.

There's always a job
in Barcelona, if you want it.

Hasta pronto, Miranda.

[car door opens]

Thank you.

[Max sighs]

Hey, erm... the UFO guy, Enrique--
you let him go, right?

I thought you let him go.

Scheisse.

What?

¡Hola!

Hello?

[Enrique, far away]
¿Hooo-laaa?

[Anna Ross sings
"Time On Our Side"]

[Max]Next time on
The Mallorca Files.

There's an assassin on Mallorca
to k*ll someone at the summit.

Yaga's an eco-extremist
with t*rror1st links.

[expl*si*n]

[Miranda]I mean, I haven't seen him
in 15 years, but now he's DI at Interpol.

This isn't a collaboration,
it's a handover.

You're making fools of yourself.

You know what the difference is
between you and me?

I want to be here.

[glass shatters]

Guard down, guard down!

[g*nsh*t]

[onlookers screaming]

Max!