Samuel García

Samuel García is the main protagonist in the overall first story arc and one of the two overarching protagonists (alongside Guzmán Nunier) in the second story arc of the Netflix series Elite. He is also the titular main protagonist in Elite Short Stories: Carla Samuel and Samuel Omar. 
He serves as one of the two main protagonists (alongside Marina Nunier) of the first season, the main protagonist of the second season, one of the two main protagonists (alongside Polo Benavent, Mencía Blanco and Patrick Blanco) in the third, fourth and fifth seasons, the overarching protagonist of the sixth season and an overarching protagonist of the seventh and eighth seasons. 
He is portrayed by .
== Personality ==
Samuel is charismatic and befriends those around him easily. He is caring and compassionate, however also shy, introverted and cold to those who wrong him. In seasons two and three, it seems like he has an accusatory glance. He also becomes more manipulative and scheming after hanging out with Carla. While affectionate to those closest to him, he was quick to lash out towards Nano when he discovered Nano had slept with Marina. Samuel's involvement in bullying Polo — despite having valid reason — shows his harsher, darker side. He was not afraid to sell out then girlfriend Rebeca in a bid to clear his brother's name.
== Biography ==
===Season 1===
Following the collapse of his school, San Esteban, Samuel receives a scholarship to attend the elitist private high school, Las Encinas, alongside his friends and classmates, Christian and Nadia. He is looked down by most of the student body, particularly Guzmán, because of his poor background. Guzmán's also family learns that Nano, Samuel's older brother, spray-painted their house implying Guzmán's father's corruption, causing Guzmán to make a scene but Nano shows up and worsens everything in his attempts to defend Samuel, to which Guzmán vows to report him to Azucena, the principal, and have him expelled. However, Nadia manages to spare Samuel from trouble by threatening to snitch on Guzman and Lu for having sex in the school showers, so Guzman has no choice but to relent. Despite this, he does grow closer to his younger sister, Marina, with whom he starts spending a quality of time with, magnified by the fact of getting paired up for a class assignment. 
However, this relationship becomes tense over the fact that Nano owes a gang upwards of $60,000 for protection they provided while he was incarcerated. Nano learns of the incriminating evidence and asks Samuel to help in retrieving them in a bid to blackmail Marina's father for the money, but Samuel can't bring himself to betray Marina. It is further strained when Marina keeps hiding things from him, mainly getting pregnant and she avoids telling him who the father is, although he doesn't suspect Nano at first. In the middle of a class, he sees Marina and a teacher, Martín, talking about some "issue" and he mistakenly assumes that he is the one who knocked Marina up. Azucena witnesses this but Martín denies it, but Nadia reveals his bribery deal with Lu to earn back the top score from Nadia. In turn, Martín is fired and Lu is suspended for two months. Samuel finally finds out that Nano is the father when Guzmán, who has found out as well, shows up to get revenge on Nano and breaks the news out loud, leading Samuel to attack him in a fit of rage before Guzmán could even take a chance.
At the graduation party, Marina leaves early to wait for Nano by the pool. Samuel approaches her as she sits alone, sobbing due to her indecisiveness over whether or not to escape with Nano. Samuel attempts to convince her one last time to stay, but she ultimately refuses and Samuel retreats back to the party, defeated. He runs to Guzmán, begging him to convince his sister to stay, but Guzmán, given the severity of Marina's actions, now wants nothing to do with her and ignores Samuel. After Marina is murdered by Polo in retrieving the red watch that contains the incrimating evidence, Nano is framed for the crime after Samuel saw him fleeing the crime scene and assumes him to be the culprit. While Nano is arrested, he frantically tells Samuel that he would've never done anything to hurt Marina as he genuinely loved her. Guzmán, however, blames Samuel for having introduced his brother to Marina in the first place, something that Samuel rebukes, reminding Guzmán that he had turned to him for help and was rejected. Lu stops the fight and Guzmán storms off, then she tells Samuel not to return to the school ever again if he knows what's good for him, leading Samuel to grab her by the arm, remarking that she and other people like her were to believe that they own the world, at which point Lu leaves, Samuel sarcastically telling her he hopes seeing her class if they allow her back. Carla then texts Christian so he can hang out with her and Polo, reluctantly ignoring Samuel's pleads to clear Nano's name.
===Season 2===
Samuel is the main focus of Season 2, as he desperately tries to figure out who murdered Marina to try and exonerate his brother, Nano, who is stuck in prison. He is greeted harshly by Guzmán, who is still mourning Marina, and beats him up, leading Azucena to handle the situation, although it leads to nowhere as Guzmán firmly states that Samuel is to blame and swears that anyone he sees interacting with Samuel will be dead for him. Samuel befriends the new girl, Rebeka, who helps him get work by doing illegal deliveries for her mother. He does this so he can make the bail money to get his brother out faster and also helps him investigate the murder.
After Samuel gets an envelope with enough money to pay the bail (from Polo, albeit anonymously), Nano gets out of jail. Restless, he doesn't hesitate to show up at Las Encinas, causing Guzmán to fly into his vengeful rage and try to attack Nano, who tries to explain his innocence in Marina's murder, assuring that he truly loved and would never hurt her, while both of them are held back by Samuel and Guzmán's friends. Guzmán then threatens to kill Nano himself should he ever dare return to the school or anywhere near him or his friends. Angry at his brother's recklessness, Samuel drags Nano to the lockers, calling him out for always making everything worse and orders him to go home and stay there if he knows what's good for him. Despite taking care of the situation, the students (even Guzmán) are still apalled about the sudden incident, and keep wondering just what this means for them. "Let's hope you have the dog well tiep up", Lu mockingly remarks to Samuel. Azucena cuts her off and states that Nano is free until it is proven otherwise. "Or until he kills someone else", Guzmán coldly states.
Throughout the entire season, it is revealed that Samuel has gone missing, and each of the students connected to him are interrogated, consisting of flashbacks that lead up to the point that Samuel goes missing. It's unclear if he was murdered or is just hiding. Also, he gets involved with Carla, whom he suspects is involved in Marina's murder, trying to get information out of her, although accidentally falling in love with her in the process. When Nano attacks Carla for messing with Samuel and believing she killed Marina, Samuel comes to her defense and beats his brother up, thus saving her life. Out of gratitude for this, Carla does not denounce him to the police. When Samuel eventually finds out it was Polo who killed Marina, he tries to tell Guzmán, who in turn disbelieves this and get into a scuffle, causing Lu to report them to a teacher. After being questioned by Azucena, who is fed up with this situation, Lu says that Guzmán started the fight, and he is suspended for three days. When Samuel confronts Carla, she taunts him confidently, asking why is he playing this little game of his when he only ends up losing. Carla also warns Samuel that he will end up like Christian, who has hospitalized from a car crash intentionally caused by Carla's father to buy his silence over Marina's murder, if he continues the investigation, while he secretly records this in his cellphone and plays it to the police, to no avail as it proves to be fruitless. Carla's father tips her off about the audio, and in response Carla slaps Samuel for breaking the trust between them.
By the time Samuel has left a fundraising party, Polo has told Carla's father about Samuel's accusations. When Samuel fails to answers any of her texts or return her calls, while speeding away from some men chasing him (probably sent by Carla's father to get him out the picture), Carla starts fearing for his life. Completely repented and believing he would suffer Christian's fate, Carla is finally ready to sacrifice her wealthiness and loyalty to her family by confessing that Polo was Marina's actual killer and that she and Christian helped cover it up, leading to Polo's arrest and Nano's release. However, it turns out that Samuel, with Guzmán's help, had faked his own death to trap Carla into confessing. Thus, Carla confronts Samuel for having tricked her, to which Samuel responds he lost her but Carla refutes that he never actually had her. As she leaves, we see her eyes welled up with tears, implying that she actually did care about him. Samuel and Guzmán have now become friends, but their happiness is short-lived when they witness Polo's sudden return, having been released on lack of evidence after Cayetana hid the murder weapon and he falsely denied his crime. 
===Season 3===
Once again, Samuel takes on a leading role in season 3. With the investigation still eyed on him, Polo is immediately sent from school to home, while a trial between him and Carla to hear their parts is scheduled. Guzman is confident that Polo will confess to the murder, but Samuel, on the other hand isn't so sure about this. A postcard from Asilah, Morocco arrives at Samuel's house; it is from Nano. Samuel and his mother call Nano, who says he is enjoying his new life in Morocco and is healthy, although he is doubtful that Polo will be brought to justice. At the court, Polo seems to be on the verge of confessing, but is interrupted by a tearful Carla who announces that she made up all the allegations, having been blackmailed by her father into doing so, fearing that the police may look into his dirty dealings that implicate her mother, which would get them bankrupt, thus proving that Nano was right about the situation's easiness. Because of this, Polo is officially allowed back into the school and the culpability of Marina's murder is shifted back to Nano. Samuel's mother leaves for Morocco to be with Nano, aksing Samuel to join her, but he refuses and wants to finish his studies at Las Encinas. When Guzmán beats Polo up, Azucena becomes outraged and states she will no longer be tolerating any of this and threatens to expel anyone who attacks Polo again, and not allow them to graduate until next year. To make things worse, Polo's mothers fund a scholarship for students to attend college in New York, to bribe them into keeping their mouths shut about Polo. 
Samuel crosses paths with Carla, who angrily snaps at him, citing that telling the truth would only ruin her family and their wealth, and that she would have nothing left, with Samuel trying to prove her wrong because even if she has nothing, she'll have him at least and that he loves her. Carla slaps him in response, refusing to believe this, because he only loves her as long as she does as he says and when Carla is of no more use to Samuel he would ditch her. “No, it’ll prove you’re the person I fell in love with,” he insists. To make matters worse, Carla is forced, under threat by her father, to distance herself from Samuel, playing along with still being cold towards him, but meaning well as she is concerned for his safety and she deep down still harbors feelings for him. Because of this, he moves on with Rebeka, who reveals that she had feelings for him since she met him and they start dating. 
Guzmán asks Polo if he did truly killed Marina, which Polo denies; Guzmán says that he might be able to trust him again after all and starts ignoring Samuel like before. They skip classes and Guzmán invites Polo over at his place, but it is a trick, as he drugs and leaves Polo tied up. Polo is interrogated and abused by Guzmán whilst Samuel watches, and eventually he cracks, revealing that he did kill Marina, but accidentally. Later on, Samuel and Guzmán, through fake twitter accounts pretending to be Polo, keep harassing him with this method, with Samuel also bringing up Polo's suicide attempt. Unsettled about this, Polo convinces his mothers to change schools for him to finish the year; they agree. Polo's plan is foiled when the tweet is forwarded to all of the British schools; in turn, they refuse to admit him. He accuses Samuel and Guzmán, but they deny it. Unbeknownst to Polo, it was actually Cayetana who had sent the tweet, forcing Polo to finish his studies at Las Encinas. 
Meanwhile, Samuel has the opportunity to clear his brother's name when he is summoned to the police station. The Inspector informs Samuel that they have been tracking the illegal activities of Rebeka's mother for quite some time and propose him a deal: if he gains crucial information about Sandra's crimes, Nano will no longer be charged with Marina's murder. However, Samuel starts mulling over this as he is dating Rebeka and doesn't want to betray her. After thinking it through, Samuel decides to go through with the police's deal, and agrees to secretly provide them info to bring down Sandra's drug business. Samuel waits in front of Rebeka's house until she arrives. When they enter her house, Samuel places a hidden microphone under the dining table, unbeknownst to Rebeka. She awakens to find her house being investigated as swarms of police take numerous pictures and ignore herSamuel attempts to hide his guilt since he knows that he is the reason why Rebeka now has no money. Samuel is clearly feeling guilty that he is secretly responsible for Rebeka's mother being in prison, and Rebeka being left without a cent to her name. 
When Azucena informs Rebeka that the board considers having her expelled (given the seriousness in her mother's crimes), she offers Rebeka to sign a paper for her to drop out "voluntarily" so that her student record won't be tainted. When Rebeka refuses, reminding how Guzmán was allowed to stay during his father's arrest and ranting about the injustice of letting a murderer like Polo continue attending the school, all of her classmates, including Samuel, follow suit, saying if she leaves then they leave as well. At school the next day, Rebeka learns the school board have agreed to keep her on, but as long as she makes sure her tuition payments are on time. Without much of a choice, she decides to start dealing drugs at school both for this and to fend for herself, despite Samuel's objections. Sandra starts to suspect Samuel in having sold her out, which Rebeka refuses to believe. To test Samuel's honesty, she fills her bag with fluorescent paint during a blackout party, and Rebeka finally realizes that Samuel had her mother arrested, breaking up with him and punching him in betrayal. 
When Samuel notices Valerio giving drugs to Carla, he confronts him and kicks him out of his apartment, where he has been staying after being kicked out of his parents' home; Valerio relays this information to Polo, who threatens to report Samuel to Azucena for almost beating Valerio up unless he allows him back. Samuel then reveals Valerio's sell of drugs to the school and Carla, which Polo initially refuses to believe, but is forced to accept this as the truth when Samuel brings up her strange behaviour. Nonetheless, Samuel starts losing hope about Nano being set free, but Guzman wants him to go to a party at Yeray's house to distract himself, forcing Samuel to agree. During Yeray's party, Carla eventually collapses on the pool over her excessive drug use, prompting Polo to dive in and save her. When Valerio refused to sell drugs to Carla, particularly after Polo called him out on this, Rebeka sold them to Carla instead, out of spite and jealousy for her closeness to Samuel, making Rebeka feel guilty when the incident happens. 
The following day, while Samuel and Guzman talk about their future after graduating, Rebeka and Valerio decide to call off their drug business and flush their stash down the toilet. However, Polo shows up and aggresively grabs Valerio by the throat, accusing him of having sold the drugs to Carla, to which Samuel intervenes and starts beating Polo up, with Guzmán and Rebeka trying to hold him back. During the struggle, Rebeka accidentally drops the bag, which is seen by Azucena, who summons Samuel and Guzmán to her office, along with Rebeka and Valerio. Not only is she expelling the two over selling drugs at school, but is also expelling Samuel and Guzmán for their previous mistreatment of Polo after one of his mothers complained to Azucena about bullying. While Guzmán accepts this with his head held high, Samuel doesn't take this well and furiously attempts to charge at Polo once again for ruining his life and Guzmán holds him back, but Nadia, fearing that the scandal might cost her the Columbia scholarship, tells Samuel to leave him alone. Samuel knows she is defending him so she won't regret accepting it, even if it means siding with Polo. In the lockers, Samuel fumes over the loss of his chance to graduate and how Polo always manages to win, but Guzmán appears to have stopped hating Polo and wants to move on, but Samuel is not the same page about that. Polo feels guilty about his mistake, as he knows that Samuel and Guzmán didn't deserve to be expelled, let alone on their last day of school. The Inspector summons Samuel to the police station, where the Inspector informs him that the whole deal with the foreign officers was all a scam to track Nano's location, which led to his arrest and now he's awaiting repatriation. Despite assuring that she was tricked too, Samuel is understandably furious about this and blames the Inspector for having done her job very poorly, meaning that the deal to get justice for Nano was all for nothing. 
===Season 4===
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=== Season 5 ===
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=== Season 6 ===
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