Amaia decides to check the cave where the bones of Johana were found as well as some unknown ones. Now that she is certain that there is a second person involved in the crimes, she checks the walls of the cave, and finds the word Tarttalo.
At the police station Zabalza and Padua have summoned the young man who is connected to teh agotes, Beñat Zaldua. He comes with his father, and it is obvious that the father is drunk and has beaten his son. After a run-in between the man and the policemen, he ends up in a cell. Beñat admits to writing the blog, but Zabalza and Padua can tell that he has nothing to do with the attack to the church. The boy refuses to admit that his father beats him even though the two policemen assure him that he can escape from that situation.
Jonan has been trying to find other women from the Baztan area who were killed by their husbands, and he finds two, whose relatives are in Bilbao and a village in Burgos. Amaia decides to go and see them, and before seeing the two women, Amaia stops at Zarautz, where her sister Flora lives. Now Flora works in television and things are going well her way. What Amaia wants to ask her is about Anne Arbizu, one of the women that Victor killed. Recently Amaia discovered some insults left on the wall of the bakery, which is what had her sister Ros upset. She discovered that the person leaving those messages was Freddy's mother-in-law. Amaia confronted her and also told Freddy to tell his mother the truth about him and Anne Arbizu, which his mother had no idea about. Freddy told her that he loved Ros, but Anne was something else. He also said that Anne and Flora were friendly as he saw them hug once. So that is what Amaia wants to know, and when she confronts her sister and asks her directly if she loved Anne, Flora starts crying, which Amaia had never seen her do before. Amaia leaves her without getting a single word from her.
In Bilbao Amaia talks to Zuriñe Zabaleta, whose sister was killed by her husband. Zuriñe says that her brother-in-law was the boring type, and he and his sister went out a lot as they had no children. With time it seemed that they remained together out of habit, but her sister told her that he had caught her husband in lies, and he suspected that she was seeing another woman. Edurne started talking about divorce, but as a theoretical idea. Then he beat her up to death, and then he jumped from their 8th-floor flat. When Amaia asks her if there was some left message, Zuriñe says that there was the word Tarttalo written in blood on the walls.
Then Amaia drives to a small village in Burgos, where she talks to the aunt of Maria Abasolo, another victim. The aunt says that her niece's husband was a bully who dominated and bullied his wife. When Maria got a dog, she changed and seemed happier, which upset the husband. Then he killed the dog by hanging him from a tree. That devastated Maria, and she even dared to threaten him. The aunt tried to talk Maria into leaving her husband. Then when the aunt went to visit her one Sunday, he found her dead in bed; he had smothered her, and he was found hanging from a tree, and there was a note with the word Tarttalo.
Amaia is on her way to Elizondo when Dr San Martin calls her, saying that he has the results of the test on the bones found in the church that was vandalised. Yet, he wants her to come to Pamplona to discuss the results. Amaia is not happy to have to stop there, but she has no choice. During the meeting with the doctor and the Superintendent, Dr San Martin explains that he performed the tests three times to be sure of the results. The bones belonged to a 9-month fetus or a one-month baby, and these bones are around 150 years old. The strange thing is that when DNA was contrasted with the database, they found a match, and it seems that these bones are connected to Amaia. The baby was Amaia's ancestor. Amaia remembers that Jonan told her that the bones could mairu-besu, the arm of a baby that was not baptized as it was believed that they protected homes. Amaia is convinced that whoever put the bones there did it on purpose because they wanted to draw her attention. Now they need to find where they took the bones from.
Before leaving, Amaia talks to Padua, telling him that he has DNA from objects that belonged to Edurne and Maria, and he wants to contrast them with the bones found in the cave, and Padua says that this is going to be difficult without a court order. Amaia has no choice but to call Judge Markina, who once again tells her to meet him at a restaurant. We can tell that Amaia feels flustered around the judge and seems attracted to him, which is something I don't like. Amaia explains the case to him, and he seems to come around. Then he insists she have dinner with him, but then her phone goes off. It is Flora, who tells her that there is a problem with their mother, who is in a mental hospital. Rosario has attacked someone, and the police are involved. Flora claims that it will take two hours to get there, and Amaia is closer. I wonder what she will find.
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