La Tormenta

* Jack Davis, Kate Krantz, Darren Brandl, Simon Ore, James Fino, Paul Young (executive producers)
* Mike Griffin (co-executive producer)

### Cast

* Diane Guerrero
* Alfonso Herrera
* Bryan Greenberg
* Karen Furlong Arellano
* Graciela Valderrama

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***La Tormenta ("The Storm")*** is the seventh episode of the first season of *Woman in the Book* and the seventh episode overall. It is developed by Daniel Persitz, written by Eva Gonzalez Szigriszt and Pamela Garcia Rooney, and directed by Jeanette Jeanne. It stars Diane Guerrero, Alfonso Herrera, Bryan Greenberg, Karen Furlong Arellano, Graciela Valderrama.

The episode premiered on July 16th, 2021.

## Summary

Lily and Ricardo grieve their terrible loss and learn more about what the Woman wants. They're interrupted when Lily's angry husband, Liam arrives -- he's finally found her.

## Plot

Lily and Ricardo kneel over Daniel's corpse, with Lily crying as she remembers finding Daniel in the library eighteen years earlier. Ricardo pulls a blanket over Daniel, saying that he should have done more and tried to be a better brother. Lilly tells him to stop, and he says that he should've tried to keep in touch with Lily and Daniel. Lily tells him that he did what he had to do to survive, just like she did, and she didn't escape one monster to get killed by another. She tells her brother that they're going to make it out, but they're going to need to fight like hell to do it. She is then interrupted by a flash of lightning and thunder. Ricardo says they should bury Daniel next to their parents, and Lily says they can't bury him because his adoptive family will want his body. Ricardo agrees, since there's a storm coming anyway, and Lily realizes that Nena's body is still outside. She proclaims that they can't leave her out there and grabs some pokers from the fireplace.

Lily and Ricardo head out through the hacienda grounds as the storm begins and search around with a flashlight, seeing that the walls of the hacienda are covered with black roots. They get to the arch and see white roots growing to close a gap and break them with their pokers, creating a way into the hacienda graveyard. As they search through the graveyard for the spot they left Nena in, Lily sees a shape in the corner of her eye. She looks around, and hears Ricardo yelling for her, saying he found Nena's body. He picks up the body and starts to follow Lily back to the hacienda when they hear a shriek. The Woman appears in a flash of lightning, startling Ricardo into dropping Nena's body. The Woman shrieks, the noise incapacitating the siblings, and she binds them with ink and drags them over to a large puddle of mud. As Lily struggles, she sees that The Woman has dragged them to the graves of Christina Navarro's six daughters. The siblings struggle as they begin to sink, and Lily screams as the bones of the babies start to rise from the mud. They both disappear below the surface, but Ricardo manages to pull himself out before getting Lily out as well.

Ricardo is now more convinced than ever that The Woman wants to kill them, but Lily insists that she brought them back to the six graves to remind them of what happened to the six daughters. Ricardo picks up Nena's body and they go back inside, with Ricardo wondering what they do next. In the printing office, Lily realizes that The Woman is keeping them alive because she wants them to print her poetry, which tells the story of Antonio Navarro killing six babies because they were girls. Ricardo, finally realizing that Christina and The Woman are one and the same, laments that the poor woman became such a terrible monster. Lily says that Christina suffered so much in her life, and she should be a saint instead of a demon. Ricardo wonders if The Woman will kill them after they print the book, and Lily starts to examine the plates. As she runs her hands over them, she has another vision.

*Christina is working at the printing press, and she ask if "the monster" has returned yet. The Curandera, who is keeping watch at the window, says no, but his horse could arrive at any moment. Christina finishes printing the pages and stacks them up at the desk, asking the curandera to grab the last sheet and saying she'll bind the pages the next time Antonio goes hunting. She and the curandera take the pages through the passageway into the dungeon, hiding the pages and the plates behind the altar. Christina says that this book is her life's work and begs The Curandera to keep them safe, asking that if anything happens to her the curandera must make sure to finish it and expose Antonio Navarro to the world. The Curandera hugs her, swearing on her soul that she will not let Christina down.* Lily wakes up from her vision, and tells Ricardo that the curandera swore on her soul to finish making the book, but she was unable to keep her promise.

Outside, a car drives up to the gate and Liam gets out of the car with a baseball bat. Lily hears him calling her name and starts to freak out, wondering how he managed to find her. Ricardo assures Lily that he won't be able to get in, and Lily insists that he'll figure out how to get in. Ricardo insists he won't be able to scale the wall, as glass shards will cut him to pieces if he doesn't drown in the ink moat created by The Woman. In the foyer, The Woman appears and goes outside when she hears Liam calling Lily's name. She watches him from the wall as he calls for her, insisting that he wants to make sure she's okay before adding to himself that he'll wring her neck. The Woman then makes a section of the wall disappear for Liam to enter the grounds and watches him from the roof.

In the office, Lily hears Liam getting closer to the hacienda and becomes even worse. Ricardo tells her to go hide and he'll deal with Liam, and Lily begs him to stay because Liam will hurt him. Ricardo hugs Lily and tells her everything is going to be okay before he goes to the foyer. As Liam pounds on the door and screams for someone to let him in, Ricardo opens the door and asks him in English what he wants. Liam asks where Lily is, and Ricardo tells him there's nobody there but him and tells him to leave before he calls the police. He tries to close the door, but Liam blocks it with the bat and once again asks where Lily is. Ricardo says he doesn't know who he's talking about, and Liam says that he's been tracking Lily's phone since she went missing the day before. Ricardo directs him to the village down the road, saying that he might find Lily there. Liam laughs and headbutts Ricardo before dragging him outside by his hair, throwing him on the ground in front of Lily's broken phone, which she lost when they were trying to escape in the car earlier that night. He then beats Ricardo with the bat until he falls unconscious, and goes inside the hacienda.

Upon entering the hacienda, Liam starts to explore the foyer, and is shocked when he finds Juana's corpse on the ground. He starts to go deeper into the house, calling Lily's name. Lily, meanwhile, has hidden in the dungeon and begins to have a panic attack.

## Continuity

### Continuity

 "El Foso y el Muro"
 "Quemando los Huesos"

## Cast

 Karen Furlong Arellano
 Graciela Valderrama

## Trivia

* "La tormenta" translates to "storm" in Spanish.
* Though in "Secretos de los Muertos" there were two graves marking "Beatriz Navarro" being born on the same day, there are now two graves marking "Angelica Navarro" being born on the same day. Whether this is a continuity or animation error is unknown.
* Liam says that he began tracking Lily's phone since the day before -- however, it is unclear whether he is referring to the day she left their home or the moment Daniel answered her phone.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Crypt Monsters. "WOMAN IN THE BOOK Episode 7 | La Tormenta | By Crypt Monsters." Facebook Watch, Crypt Monsters; July 16th, 2021.