Before I Go (Part I)

**Before I Go (Part I)** **(  es.  *Antes de irme (1a parte)* )** is the seventh episode of the fourth season of *Elite*, and the thirty-first episode of the series overall.

## Synopsis

Samuel tells Ari to make her choice while Guzmán plans a romantic date. Cayetana is stunned by a realization. Mencía is backed into a corner.

## Plot

**SPOILERS AHEAD**
Ari and Samuel have passionate sex. Ari appears conflicted afterwards; Samuel questions the reason as to why she is so hot and cold with him. Ari replies that it’s because he allows people to walk all over him. In a flash forward to when Ari is hospitalized, Samuel is asked if he is the one who attacked her. He insists that he didn’t, although the police officer suggests that Samuel knows who did.
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Omar senses that Patrick is still upset over Ander’s behaviour from the night before and attempts to cheer him up. Ander, meanwhile, angrily watches them through the classroom windows. Phillipe's mother, The Royal Highness, has arrived at Las Encinas to help clean up her son's image, and is disgusted to learn that he has fallen for the school janitor. Benjamín reassures her, telling her that Cayetana has proven to be very loyal to her previous boyfriends (namely Polo). Phillipe's mother remarks that she doesn’t know her own son anymore.

Mencía is appalled to find that Armando is a guest at her father's house. Benjamín is making him feel welcome as Armando will be making an annual monetary contribution towards Las Encinas. Mencía furiously confronts Armando in private and orders him to leave her alone, but he confidently retorts that she belongs to him and she can't do anything about it. Mencía knows that Armando is using his presence as an opportunity to blackmail her into sleeping with him again. Unafraid, Mencía threatens to reveal everything to her father. In return, Armando dares her to do so, saying he will inform her family that she is a prostitute.

Omar and Ander chat at the Lake Club; but it turns into a fight when Ander suggests that Patrick is only hitting on Omar to one-up Ander. Omar retorts that Ander is the issue since he doesn’t want to be with either Omar or Patrick but also doesn’t want them to move on.

Prince Phillipe talks to Cayetana while she is cleaning the bathrooms. He informs her that his mother will be spending Christmas with him, and that The Royal Highness will be hosting an important socialite event which Cayetana is invited to. Cayetana is initially uninterested until Phillipe mentions that their seed designer, Sadelagu, will be present at the event and that he can look at some of Cayetana's own designs.

Cayetana attends Phillipe's event in a striking pink outfit. However, she soon realizes that she is the only guest not wearing black & white. Ari is also at the event and looks down on Cayetana for clinging to Phillipe despite the rumours regarding his past. Later, Rebe comes face to face with Mencía as she is about to go into a hotel room with Armando.

Finally able to meet her dream designer, Sadelagu, Cayetana is eager to show him her work but is taken aback when he only offers to look at her sketches if she follows him to his hotel room. Both Cayetana and Mencía are trapped in a moment where they have to consider if they are willing to sell their body for favours: Mencía ignores Rebe’s pleas and follows Armando unwillingly; Cayetana, on the other hand, tells Sadelagu that she will send her sketchers to his workshop. After witnessing Cayetana turn down Sadelagu’s advances, Ari gains respect for her, and wants her to design a dress which Ari will pay for.

Patrick and Omar want to forget all about Ander and make out in the toilets. Still not over Ander, Omar can’t get into it.

Later, Patrick visits Ander and purposely “butt-dials” Omar. Knowing that Omar is listening, Patrick tells Ander that he is serious about Omar, and that it's not just a fling. Ander maintains his love for Omar, stating that he never doubted his own feelings for Omar and that Omar is not just another sexual conquest. This is not what Patrick had planned, and Omar now feels even more conflicted over Ander.

Cayetana and Prince Phillipe go out for drinks which soon turns to them getting passionate in a limo. She wants to maintain their relationship as friends, but a forceful Prince Phillipe won’t take no for an answer. Despite Cayetana repeatedly telling him to stop, he doesn’t listen and nearly rapes her before she jumps out of the limo and escapes, realizing that the rumours about Phillipe were true. Phillipe realizes what he has done and begins to panic.

Ari invites both Samuel and Guzmán to a table at the Lake Club, where she admits to sleeping with Samuel. Ari tearfully claims that she’s in love with both of them but doesn’t want to give either of them up. Guzmán appears enraged while Samuel is appalled.

## Cast

* Miguel Bernardeau as Guzmán
* Arón Piper as Ander
* Omar Ayuso as Omar
* Claudia Salas as Rebeka
* Georgina Amorós as Cayetana
* Carla Díaz as Ari
* Martina Cariddi as Mencía
* Manu Rios as Patrick
* Pol Granch as Phillipe
* Andrés Velencoso as Armando
* Diego Martín as Benjamín
* Eva Llorach as Sandra
* Rachel Lascar as Estefanía
* Boré Buika as Lieutenant
* Gabriele Falsetta as Sadelagu

## Trivia

* This episode marks the last appearance of Sandra.