Ang Probinsyano (season 9)

The **ninth season** of *Ang Probinsyano*, a Philippine drama action television series, premiered on August 23, 2021 on Kapamilya Channel, A2Z and TV5 and The Filipino Channel. The series stars Coco Martin as P/Cpt. Ricardo Dalisay, together with an ensemble cast. following the celebrate of 6th Anniversary.

The ninth season of *Ang Probinsyano* focuses on Cardo and the Task Force Agila hiding in the North, President Oscar Hidalgo going on the run with the help of his two friends to warn Cardo, Armando's plan to kill the kingpin responsible for the massacre of his fellow farmers, the Black Ops deal with the high-value targets under the supervision of Arturo Padua, Lito's illegal drug transactions, Renato's hunger for power, and Lily's plan to bring down Renato for the next election.

## Plot

### August 23-January 7 episode

After Ricardo "Cardo" Dalisay killed the ruthless drug lord Enrique Vera to avenge the murder of Audrey, the sister of P/Cpt. Lia Mante and daughter of Fernando Mante, Lia's family left the country for Brazil. Cardo and his group travel to the North (based in Vigan) in search for a new hiding place. Diana and Roxanne, pretending as sisters, eventually rent the house and hide Agila inside. There, they live in peaceful life while Delfin reminds Cardo to calm down to his enemies like Lily, Arturo, Renato and Jacob as he vows to exact revenge on Albert and Lito for Alyana, Teddy and Virgie’s justice. However, they are confident that the enemies will eventually find them someday as their manpower and weapons are diminishing while their enemies’ capabilities are increasing.

Meanwhile, the Black Ops led by P/Maj. Albert de Vela learns that Lia had involved with Cardo and wants to hunt down the Task Force Agila to avenge the deaths of their members who got killed by Cardo, who vows to kill Albert for the death of his late wife Alyana. Albert interrogates and tortures Berting, the Mante family's servant, to demand the whereabouts of Cardo; when Berting refuses to give up their location, Albert kills him, acknowledged that Berting really had no idea, but his death was useful nonetheless.

Lito Valmoria, arch-nemesis of Presidential Adviser Renato Hipolito and Cardo Dalisay, confides to corrupt First Lady Lily Ann Cortez that the P10 million drug transactions will be held at the North with both Hipolito and Don Ignacio organized respectively. Lito had sent one of his subordinates to infiltrate Renato's drug business for information, while Lily connects with a Northern kingpin Don Ignacio.

At the same time, woman in a motorcycle named Mara, who is an apparent vlogger, also arrives at North. It is revealed that Mara is actually the spy sent by her father Armando, whose family and his farmers were killed in the massacre at hands of Don Ignacio and Don Iñigo, who had the connection with Arturo Padua, whose motivation is to claim Armando's land (which was from Don Iñigo, rewarded through land reform) for rich businessmen. After they killed Don Iñigo and seized his mansion and weapons, the farmers evolved into a mercenary group. Armando and the surviving farmers vow to exact revenge on Don Ignacio and Arturo to get the Property Mansion. Mara is sent to get intel regarding Don Ignacio and his latest activities. They plan to kill him during the exhibit, knowing the risk of Lily being caught in the crossfire. Defying Armando's plan, Samuel decides to ambush Don Ignacio on the road instead at the art exhibit, much to Mara's mother Lolita and Armando's chagrin; however, the plan goes awry when they fail to kill Don Ignacio. Armando confronts Samuel for his failure. Don Ignacio decides to cancel the exhibit as a result and calls Lily about this.

After recovering from induced coma, having poisoned by Lily to take over the Palace and replaced by decoy Mariano, President Oscar Hidalgo has made it out from the palace, with the help of PSG member Ambo and housemaid Elizabeth, to reach Cardo, their only hope to stop the enemies' evil plans. After evading Renato's men, Oscar decides to seek help from Fred Santillan, his old college acquaintance and now working as a lawyer, at his house. Mariano hopes that Oscar will not be found in order to continue his lust with Ellen (who has been kicked out from the palace due to Lily's evidence of Mariano flirting with her) and Cassandra.

Jacob, frustrated with the setbacks, recently when Oscar evaded them, was tasked by Renato to prepare for the drug deal. Meanwhile, Lily and Don Ignacio plans to have a business transaction during the art exhibit he organized. Lito plans to derail the drug deal Renato organized, while keeping in mind his personal vendetta against both Renato and Cardo in his priority, now that he has acknowledged by those syndicates under Lily.

Fred reveals to be working with Renato and tips off their location for reward money but Oscar and Ambo discover his deception and incapacitate him before they escape as Renato is coming for them. Making sure that Jacob is a trustworthy representative of Renato Hipolito, he is in contact with the international business associate, Jason Parker to have their deal with their illegal drug transactions in the North. After one of the Black Ops discovers that P/Cpt. Victoria "Vicky" Cruz would tell the Internal Affairs for their corrupt activities, they throw Vicky in the highway and hit her with their car, killing her.

At the palace, Cassandra learns that she is pregnant with Mariano and reluctantly tells Lily about this. Lily later bribes Cassandra to tell Mariano about her pregnancy. Mariano goes out from the palace to surprise Ellen with a new house. When Mariano returns to palace, Cassandra finally tells him the truth that he is the baby's father. Mariano reacts in excitement and names the baby Mariano Jr. Mariano also surprises Cassandra with the same house Ellen lives and lies to her that he and Cassandra are the only occupants. Soon, Ellen discovers Cassandra's presence, resulting in a heated dispute over their affair with Mariano. However, Mariano is only interested in saving the baby, not the admits that he loved both of them but Cassandra also admits her pregnancy with him, leaving Ellen disappointed. Ellen stops at nothing in order to claim Mariano as his lover to become the First Lady.

Albert and the Black Ops learn that Jacob is the most wanted criminal in the country and the latter will conduct the drug transaction with other drug lords. Hoping to revive the Black Ops' reputation, they ambush Jacob on the road and kill him along with his men. Arturo calls Albert, who tells him about Jacob's demise. However, Arturo tells him that he was Renato's right-hand man and added that if Renato knows about this, he will wipe out the entire Black Ops. Albert orders his men to bury Jacob to cover their tracks. To save Black Ops, Arturo frames Cardo for Jacob's death.

The Black Ops later studied Lito's background and learned that he had owned the business of his own name to cover up his drug activities. They plan to eliminate Lito to further regain their reputation. Lily also orders Augustus and his protégé to find Oscar, Ambo and Elizabeth. Arturo meets with the Black Ops, who are told to focus on searching for Cardo. Arturo had vowed revenge for the death of his daughter Clarice at the hands of Cardo and Agila.

Lily tells Lito regarding the searching of Oscar and gives him an assignment to bring Renato down. The Black Ops receive tips from the unknown source that Lito will conduct the drug transaction with his client named Hernandez. Defying Arturo's instruction to inform him first before they deal with the high-value target, the Black Ops ambushes the transaction and pursues Lito. Having learned about this, Lily orders Arturo to stop the Black Ops, but Arturo refuses. Running out of ammo, the Black Ops arrests him but on the way back to their headquarters, they are ambushed by Lito’s henchmen, under the orders of Lily. As Lito gets out of their car, it is revealed that Albert had made a deal with Lito to be on his side in exchange for protecting the Black Ops with Lito's subordinates, having tired of Arturo’s arrogant behavior. Afterwards, they let Lito and his group go.

Renato, having curious of Jacob's not in touch with him, receives a call from his subordinate about Jacob's death at the hands of "Cardo" but Renato believes it is a false report and orders his men to find him. Arturo, having learned that the Black Ops had kept a secret about Lito's capture, calls Albert, who lies that Lito escapes from the custody after Lito's men ambushes them. Arturo demands Albert for the location of Jacob's grave so that Renato would see his body and learn that he was killed by "Cardo". He tells them to be present at the crime scene to whitewash the investigation but threatens to tell the truth if they disobey him again. Albert gives him the location and Jacob's body is exhumed by Arturo's men.

Meanwhile, after several days avoiding both Renato and Lily's henchmen and hiding in an abandoned building, Oscar, Ambo and Elizabeth attempt to board a bus bound for North, having received a money from the couple – whom Ambo helped – for his gratitude, but they are spotted by Lily's henchmen, forcing to go on the run once again. They are later picked up by the truck driver named Donato and gives them food and shelter although Elizabeth covered up their true names. Despite Oscar's insistence that Ambo and Elizabeth would put themselves in danger if they help him, the two decide to stay with him even their lives are at risk. Oscar later attempted to walk to North alone, but Elizabeth and Ambo later found him and still insisted that they will be with him no matter what. When they returned at Donato's house, Oscar eventually reveals their true personality to Donato's son, RJ. RJ then revealed that he did recognize them in the first place because of Oscar's familiar face. RJ later relays them to his father.

Lito is appreciated by Albert's actions for killing Jacob and vows to protect the Black Ops if Renato knows that the latter killed him. Renato eventually learns from the news about Jacob's demise. Believing that Cardo is the one responsible, he vows to make him pay. Arturo meets Renato to form an alliance for Cardo's head. Art and Renato arrange a meeting with Bernice Ibañez to help him regain Renato's public image as part of securing his presidential bid for the upcoming election while Lily, who plans to run as president, plans to use the public media to destroy Renato's image by revealing his true personality. Renato plans to allow the international drug syndicate to operate in the country if he becomes the president.

Lily arranges a meeting with Don Ignacio who agrees to help her presidential campaign and closes a deal for the P20 million drug transaction. Don Ignacio then crosses path with Arturo. Learning of Don Ignacio's connection with Arturo, Lily worries that her plans with him will be cut off as Renato also plans to use Don Ignacio for his own personal influence. Per Lily's proposition, Lito orders his protégés to find Oscar. Albert later accepts Lito's proposition on hunting down his drug competitors, still having determination that the reputation of the Black Ops would be revived. RJ agrees to bring Oscar and his two friends to North, but on the way, they are spotted by Lily's henchmen. RJ is killed when the truck loses control and crashes into the truck, knocking out the LPGs. They escape as the LPGs explode and, realizing that they made it to the North, seek refuge in abandoned hut.

At North, Cardo and Agila decide to leave the house, knowing that the danger is coming for them as long as they stay longer. They were later surrounded by local police officers, forcing them to fight back for their survival. As more forces arrive, Agila hides in the hotel where they hold the tourists hostage including Omar, whose brother was among the casualties of Cardo's attacks at the Black Ops headquarters. At the same time, Armando's group captures Don Ignacio and takes him to the Hotel de Oriente where they unexpectedly cross Agila's paths. Confronted by Cardo at gunpoint, Armando persuades his group to lower their gun to prove that they are not enemies. Armando explains to Cardo about their backgrounds and revenge on Don Ignacio. He also learns about Agila's background and tells him that his group and Agila are the same and decides to ally with him. Cardo trusts him. Outside, Ambo makes his way alone at the North where he overhears the news regarding Cardo. He rushes back to the hut to tell Oscar and Elizabeth.

Learning of Cardo's whereabouts and the attack in the North, Lily, Albert, Lito, Renato, and Arturo plan to go after Cardo, with Renato and Lily want to bring Mariano and Cassandra – under Lily's duress – with them in the North to intervene the situation. As the Black Ops and the local police advance to the hotel, Mara shoots Don Ignacio after he shoots Lolita; Don Ignacio is critically injured. The gunfight ensues with the local police officers open fire at several hostages, killing Omar's wife and injures Omar. They bring Omar with them and fight their way out before they escape in a boat.

Lily, Mariano, Cassandra, Renato and Arturo arrive shortly where Renato and Arturo angrily confront Albert for their failure. "Oscar" addresses the nation, vowing to punish Agila for their crimes. To save the government from embarrassment, Renato fabricates the story by telling to the media that "Cardo" killed the hostages. Oscar, Ambo and Elizabeth learn of Cardo's escape and, with no other options, decide to hide in Oscar's childhood home.

At Armando's lair, Mara and Samuel begins to express their doubtful towards the Agila while Agila begins suspicious on how Armando got his wealth. Lolita and Armando discreetly plan to use Cardo to strengthen their wealth and power. Delfin, having separated from Agila before the chaos, attempts to seek help from his old friend Col. Almazan but reveals to be Renato's contact and tips Agila's location. Almazan tortures him and forces him to call Cardo to lure them out of hiding. Arriving there, when Cardo discovers a bloodied Delfin, Cardo kills Almazan, triggering the shootout between Agila and Almazan's forces. In the process, several Agila members including Roxanne, Diana, Victor and Cardo are shot. As Agila begins to overwhelm, Armando and his group arrive to assist them and rescue them. It is revealed that Armando is in contact with the bounty hunter Fabros, assigning him to kill Baltazar Ledesma, the owner of a mine in the North. Omar reveals his motive on his mind to kill Cardo to avenge the death of his brother by gaining Agila's trust.

Meanwhile, Don Ignacio's estranged daughter Aurora learns of her father's news. It is revealed that her relationship with Don Ignacio had strained after he kept his daughter away from the man she loved. Aurora had decided to live in the United States to move on from her past. Lito held a meeting with Don Ignacio's client, planning to build drug laboratory in the North to invest millions of money, but the clients refuse and mock Lito for being a "loser". Insulted, Lito The Black Ops interrogates Thalia, Don Ignacio's Head of Security, for concrete information on Cardo but Thalia does not have a knowledge about him. Arturo plans to run as vice president with Renato as his running mate, believing that the two will be given by the strong support from the people. Arturo confronts Albert on a phone call for their failure to catch Cardo but Albert tells him that he is not their superior. Albert later grows closer with Thalia.

Oscar, Ambo and Elizabeth are hiding at the hut at the seaside when they are discovered by nearby fishermen, who tells that many people in their area were killed at the hands of Don Ignacio after Oscar abandoned them; Oscar confirms the story but he had tried to give justice for the victims of the massacre.

Aurora finally arrives at the hospital, seeing his father being revived from the seizure. After learning about Cardo, whom she assumed that his motive was about money, she returns to her former house, where she reveals that Oscar is her former lover. Aurora goes to the riverside, where they used to be dating, to drop flowers as a closure of moments with Oscar. After Aurora leaves, Oscar arrives at the same place and sees the flowers.

Cardo and Delfin recover from their injuries. Cardo's next plan is to attack President Oscar, who is unaware that he is a decoy, and wants assistance from Armando. Armando's group, led by Mara and Samuel, successfully assassinate Baltazar at the minefield but they are outnumbered and retreat, leaving Mara. Mara is injured in the brawl and is about to be killed by one of the minions but Aurora arrives and hits him with his car. Aurora brings her to the hospital but, upon waking up, Mara escapes.

Upon seeing the news, Armando and Lolita are shocked to learn that Don Ignacio is in critical condition, surviving the bullet by Mara. Armando punches Samuel for leaving Mara. Mara goes back to the mansion and learns the fate of Don Ignacio; Armando dissuade Mara to find and kill him. Cardo thanks Mara for saving their lives confidently and vows to leave the premises as long as his comrades recover from their injuries.

Lito finally introduces his protector to Albert, which is revealed to be Lily; initially stunned, Albert approves by giving her a wink smile. Lily vows to protect Albert if they are honest enough and follows her instructions. Renato and Arturo hold a campaign on live television, vowing to punish Cardo should they become president and for the "new Philippines". On the day of filing of candidacy, Renato, Arturo and Lily each slam the certain candidate in a blind item. Thalia meets Albert at the Black Ops headquarters where she provides a description of a woman (Mara) she encountered during the attack on the North. Renato and Arturo unexpectedly visit them to confront them for wasting their time for nothing instead of looking for Cardo. As a result, Arturo suspends them from their duties.

Don Ignacio's brother and Aurora's niece Eduardo hears about his brother, but he is only interested in taking his brother's wealth, having had been kicked from the mansion by Don Ignacio for spending the money over gambling. Don Ignacio finally wakes up from the coma and gladly sees his daughter, who expresses disappointment over her past. A series of flashback shows Aurora being confronted by his father over a relationship with Oscar due to the fact that he is just the fisherman. He demands his daughter to break up with Oscar to preserve their family's reputation and has Aurora to send her to the United States. Aurora tells Oscar that his father knows their relationship and Oscar wants to talk him but Aurora dissuades him. Not willing to let Aurora go, Oscar decides to hide Aurora in his hut at the seaside. It is revealed that Armando and Lolita are Oscar's fellow citizens. Seven months later, Aurora and Oscar had their first child, whom they named Maria Isabel, with Lolita also taking care of her. One night, armed men led by Don Ignacio and Eduardo raid the village to find Aurora, and begin to kill dozens of people, including Armando and Lolita's biological child. Aurora watches Oscar being apparently killed by Eduardo and has Lolita take their child away before being captured and is taken away. The next day, Oscar survives the bullet but upon returning to the village, he is disowned by the remaining survivors for the deaths of their relatives, and presumes that his child is killed in the chaos. Oscar learns that Aurora had leave the country to the United States.

In a present, Don Ignacio tries to seek forgiveness from her, but an enraged Aurora walks away and breaks down in tears. Vowing revenge for the death of their biological child, Armando plans to use Mara to kill Don Ignacio. Cardo and Agila, Mara and Armando learn the presidential bids of Lily, Renato and Arturo in the news. Lily personally greets Aurora and meets Don Ignacio at the hospital where she plans for their next move once he discharges from the hospital.

At the palace, Mariano hurts Ellen for facing Arturo during the fiiling of COC but stops when he learns that she is pregnant. Lily has a bitter exchange with Renato and Arturo over their presidential throne, with Lily plans to banish them from the palace but the both sides threaten to tell the public about their wrongdoings including the hiring of a decoy president, Renato's acquittal of all charges with the help of fake president, Lily's job as a bagman, and Arturo's family illegal drug business. Renato tells Lily that in order to settle their differences, Renato orders Lily to the public that "Oscar" is a fake president, otherwise Renato will reveal her wrongdoings. Eduardo visits Don Ignacio, only to confront the former over the money that eventually strained their relationship.

### 2022

#### January 3: Kaibigan

Elizabeth and Ambo, having starved, retrieve leftovers from the waste bin to eat. Armando, Cardo and his group arrive at the farmers neighborhood, having previously been raid by Don Ignacio to take their earnings. The farmers ask their plea to Armando to save them from Don Ignacio's abuse. Renato and Arturo personally visit Don Ignacio where they discuss about their presidential bids. Initially expected to get Don Ignacio as their endorser for their candidacy, Don Ignacio is only interested on giving a reward for Cardo's head.

#### January 4: Hiling

Having presumed that Renato and Arturo got the endorsement from Don Ignacio, Lily consents Lito to use Black Ops for killing Don Ignacio. Cardo shares his story to Armando about his life as a police: flashback shows that Cardo was framed for drug dealing and was wrongfully convicted, Delfin was arrested after the police planted the drugs on his house, Cardo's comrade was being setup, the death of his son in the fire, and Alyanna's death at the hands of the Black Ops. Cardo tells that he did his job for the family and the country.

Albert gives his proposition to Thalia, to kill Don Ignacio. Not wanting to let Aurora's departure back to the United States, Don Ignacio had manipulated the doctor to change the test result that Don Ignacio has a stage 4 cancer.

#### January 5: Desperado

Oscar becomes ill after eating leftover food they retrieved from the waste bin, so Oscar seeks help from Paeng who agrees to bring Oscar at his house to treat him despite his grandfather Bastian disapproves him from helping Oscar and his two friends. Bastian had held a grudge on Oscar for the deaths of their people at the hands of Don Ignacio. He reluctantly agrees to help in recovering Oscar.

Ellen plans to sever his relationship with Mariano over the latter's abuse of her. She tries to ask forgiveness from Arturo, and regrets for staying with Mariano; Arturo angrily agrees on the condition that Ellen will follow his task. She confides Mariano's abuse to Renato, who agrees to help her and put her in the government position while confidently states that his running mate Arturo someday will not stay longer on his duty once he win the vice presidency.

#### January 6: Dasal

Don Ignacio reveals to Lucia that he lied about the cancer so that Aurora will not stay away from him. After Eduardo angrily walks out, Lucia confronts the hospital staff, threatening to relieve from their duty if anything happens to Don Ignacio, who is noted for building the hospital. Eduardo visits Don Ignacio, who says that only Aurora would pass as the inheritor. Aurora meets Mara at the church, where Aurora noting her for saving the latter's life. Mara promptly walks off and hides behind the walls where Aurora expresses each other's hardships.

#### January 7: Alok

Thalia goes to Don Ignacio's room but Don Ignacio wakes up and holds her arm. It is revealed that Thalia was casually raped by Don Ignacio in exchange for receiving his wealth. She attempts to kill Don Ignacio by strangling but before she can do it, Lucia kicks her out. Lucia proposes Aurora to hold his father's business but Aurora refuses, noting that his father had founded illegal business such as mining which uses the farmer's relatives as slaves. Thalia accepts Albert's offer to neutralize Don Ignacio.

Knowing that Lily would win in the presidential election, Renato and Arturo bribe a secretariat with P100 million to lure Mariano into attracting with her. The unseen figure records Mariano and the secretariat's passionate moments. Ellen tells Arturo about Mariano's abuse that leaves bruises on her arms.

Samuel tells Marco that he will not trust Cardo and Agila.

#### January 10: Pakana

Aurora refuses to be her bodyguards hired by Thalia. Eduardo appears and tries to ask Aurora's forgiveness but she angrily kicks him out. He finally gains Aurora's trust by faking the ambush staged by Eduardo's men and rescues her. The sex scandal of "Oscar Hidalgo" has gone viral on social media and made headlines on the newspaper, which infuriates Lily and Cassandra. Lily accuses Renato and Arturo for this.

#### January 11: Tagapagmana

Lito and Albert's plan of killing Don Ignacio interferes further when Eduardo grows closer to Don Ignacio. Lito also plans to kill Don Ignacio's clients, who had taunted him about his proposed business in the North. Don Ignacio forgives Eduardo after saving his daughter, but does not mean that Don Ignacio will trust him. As an appreciation, Don Ignacio wants Eduardo to become Aurora's head of security. Don Ignacio is finally discharged from the hospital in a wheelchair. At home, Aurora reluctanly agrees to hold one of Don Ignacio's businesses, the hotel.

Various people began to lose confidence on "Oscar" after seeing his sex scandal video.

#### January 12: Karibal

Aurora watches the news of "Oscar" (unaware that he is the decoy) sex scandal on television. "Oscar" and Lily give their statement on live television and feign sadness while apologizing for the incident. Armando reminisces his past about his jealousy towards Aurora over choosing Oscar that leads to physical confrontation. Armando would become grow closer with Lolita and he blames Oscar for the death of their biological child, stating that this incident nothing happened if Oscar did not Aurora to the village.

Augustus confirms the identity of a woman in the sex and Lily orders him to kidnap the woman for the information.

#### January 13: Ahas

Lito and the Black Ops kill five Don Ignacio's clients one by one. They also learned that Don Ignacio has discharged from the hospital. Don Ignacio learns that someone attempted to acquire his land and has Eduardo to find out the buyer.

#### January 14: Kasiraan

Following Renato and Arturo's instructions, "Oscar" and Lily upload the video of their statement on the Internet. After this, Mariano proceeds to see Ellen, but Lily has Cassandra follow him. As Ellen tries to leave, Mariano locks her up in the house. When Cassandra confronts him, Mariano lets slip that he has a child with Ellen. Cassandra informs Lily about this, who insists that Cassandra must be on Mariano's side to regain Lily's agenda. The sex scandal of "Oscar" is still the hot topic on news and social media.

The real Oscar learns the scandal from the radio, and realizes that his image is destroyed. Oscar explains to them that Lily, learning that Oscar will fight for the corruption, gave him a drug that resulted him in a coma for several months to ensure that Lily, Renato and Arturo will stay in the palace and continue their corrupt activities, and that president is a decoy.

#### January 17: Sulot

Don Ignacio learns the demise of five clients and has Eduardo to find the responsible. Lily notes Lito that Don Ignacio will go after him if he knows about this. Lily also learns that Renato has topped on presidential surveys. Renato and Arturo connect with big-time drug lord Caloy for funding their campaign, while Lito had also arranged a meeting with Caloy. Renato knows that someone acquired Caloy, so he plans to find out the person.

Armed men storm the seaside to inform the people that the certain client named Mr. Guevara had bought this land to construct a resort, and gives them seven-day ultimatum to evacuate the premises.

#### January 18

Don Ignacio tells Eduardo about a certain foreign drug lord had arrived in the North and acquire his resources without his knowledge. Arturo wants Don Ignacio pay him for the former's contribution with him: as a judge, he was also involved in claiming Armando's land.

Aurora proposes to increase salary on hotel employees; Don Ignacio agrees. Bastian's family shows a land title paper to Oscar, who proves that the title is legally given to them from the government but noted that if someone did not pay a land tax for a long time, the businessmen will take advantage of taking their land. In this case, their paper is now antique. Since Oscar is too dangerous to face them, he has Ambo to take charge of the argument; Ambo reluctantly agrees.

Eduardo's men abduct the man, whom they believed to be the land buyer, and brutally torture him for the name of the conspirator. The man tells Eduardo that Lito Valmoria is the land buyer, but despite this, Eduardo kills him. After learning that his clients died in the foul play, Don Ignacio is curious about the identity of the killer.

#### January 19

Arturo visits Don Ignacio, discussing about the condition that will endorse one of the presidential candidate if they bring Cardo's head. Lito reiterates that the P20 billion transaction with Caloy must continue to strengthen the drug trading in the North. One of his men relays the information to Eduardo about the deaths of Don Ignacio's clients.

## Cast

* Coco Martin as P/Cpt. Ricardo "Cardo" Dalisay
* Julia Montes as Mara
* Susan Roces as Flora "Lola Kap" S. Borja-de Leon
* Lorna Tolentino as First Lady Lily Ann Cortez-Hidalgo
* John Arcilla as Renato "Buwitre" Hipolito
* Angel Aquino as Diana T. Olegario
* Rowell Santiago as Pres. Oscar Hidalgo and MarianoTemplate:Efn
* Jaime Fabregas as Delfin S. Borja
* John Prats as PC/MSgt. Jerome Girona, Jr.
* Michael de Mesa as Pat. Ramil "Manager" Taduran
* Marc Abaya as Jacob Serrano

Supporting cast
* Tirso Cruz III as Sec. Arturo "Art" M. Padua
* Ara Mina as Ellen Padua
* Marela Torre as Thalia
* Joseph Marco as Lucas
* Vangie Labalan as Lucia
* Tommy Abuel as Don Ignacio Guillermo
* Rosanna Roces as Lolita
* Malou Crisologo as Yolanda "Yolly" Capuyao-Santos
* John Medina as P/Cpt. Avel "Billy" M. Guzman
* Marc Solis as P/MSgt. Rigor Soriano
* CJ Ramos as Pat. Patrick Espinosa
* Bryan "Smugglaz" Lao as Pat. Marsial "Butete" Matero
* Lordivino "Bassilyo" Ignacio as Pat. Dante "Bulate" Villafuerte
* Raymart Santiago as P/Maj. Victor A. Basco
* Shaina Magdayao as P/Maj. Roxanne Opeña
* Sancho delas Alas as Pat. Gregorio "Greco" Cortez
* Jay Gonzaga as James Cordero
* Nonong Ballinan as Ambo
* Whitney Tyson as Elizabeth

Guest cast
* Richard Gutierrez as Angelito "Lito" Valmoria
* Val Iglesias as Turo
* Dax Augustus as Augustus
* Julian Roxas as Julian
* Geoff Eigenmann as P/Maj. Albert De Vela
* Paolo Paraiso as P/Cpt. David Alcantara
* Mark McMahon as P/Cpt. Cris Fabia
* Elaine Ochoa as P/Cpt. Victoria "Vicky" Cruz
* Maika Rivera as Cassandra Jose
* Danny Ramos as Winston Cabral
* William Lorenzo as Berting (short scene)
* John Estrada as Armando
* Michael Flores as Samuel
* Chai Fonacier as Cheche
* Elora Españo as Aira
* Rani Caldoza as Remy / Hotel Manager La Casa de Guillermo
* Rogerson Jimenez Pulido as Atty. Fred Santillan

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