Chapter 08: Frogs

**Chapter 08: Frogs** is the eighth episode of the Season Two. It is preceded by Chapter 07: Fog and followed by Chapter 09: Necklace.

## Plot

Joana finds herself at the mercy of a figure from her past, Michele is led to a remote hiding place, and Marcela receives an unexpected invitation.

## Summary

Marco has Joana tied up and taunts her. He blames her for what happened to him. She tells him he's lucky he's still alive. He doesn't feel lucky.

Marco wakes up in a hospital. He's severely injured. He begs to be allowed to pass. Marco walks out of the building with two prosthetics.

Marco explains that Joana will be executed soon. Marco taunts Joana with what Gerson is going to do to her.

**1 Year Earlier**

Marco watches his girlfriend and baby from afar.

Marco goes back to Gerson and the others. He eats the few drops of food they have left for him. They tell him to clean up their mess and leave.

**10 Months Before**

Gerson asks Marco why he wants to join them. Marco says he needs to eat. Gerson says the militias is not a charity. You have to earn a spot. Gerson tests several candidates and banishes those who fail. Marco outsmarts him. Gerson says Marco will be in if he can get Gerson to the ground. The others taunt him and Marco uses a nearby wire to shock all of them. Gerson starts kicking Marco, but then admits that Marco brought him down. Gerson proclaims him Marco the Cripple.

Marco goes back to Joana and brings her water. She asks him how Gerson found her. Marco doesn't answer and just asks her how she ended up with the Cause. She tells him the Cause is going to end the Process. She has him get the walkie talkie out of her pocket. She taunts him more about being the militia's lackey. His mother would be disappointed.

Rafael asks Marcela for permission to check out the militia. She approves it and thanks him for his commitment. When they hang up, Marcela asks Cássia for news on Michele and André.

Michele and André run through trees. Michele asks if they're close to the hideout. André stops for a moment and is panicked. Michele reassures him that he's okay. He saw himself every day, in every direction. For five years. He calculated how long it would take her to get there if she passed. Eugênio is the reason he knows the place they're going to. André doesn't remember what really happened with Eugênio. After a moment, he remembers things that happened before, not after. She knows he's innocent, but he can't prove that.

Cássia and some guards are tracking André and Michele.

Michele and André cut out their registrations to avoid detection.

Cássia has a drone sent out to find them.

Silas is chatting with a neighborhood kid when he sees a flier about Joana's execution.

Rafael comes to see Gerson. He tells Gerson that Joana is of great interest to the Division. He needs to talk to her under Division orders. Gerson wants to talk to Marcela directly, but Rafael convinces him not to, saying it would irritate her. Gerson says he wants to be there, to watch Joana suffer.

Joana tries to convince Marco to go with her and stop the Process. That way, he can prove to his family that he's not a failure. Gerson and Rafael find Joana and Marco missing. Gerson calls for help as Rafael reports that there's nothing of importance to report from militia base.

Joana and Marco are out on the street. Joana is ready to flee, but Marco isn't going with her. He knows they'll meet again. She flees. She contacts Fernando through the radio. Joana tells him about Marco while Fernando tells her that Rafael is supposed to come rescue her. He tells her to go to the frog basement. He's still detained at the Process building.

Michele and André keep running. They stop and he's not sure if they've reached the place.

Cássia finds their registrations on the ground. They go to where the drones spotted movement.

André is struggling to remember as Michele encourages him. He remembers something and goes to a hatch. It's a communications room left there by the Founding Couple. There's a password, but it'll lock down if they enter it wrong. Michele tells him to try anything. He knows it's related to Michele somehow. He figures out part of it, but not all seven digits.

Gerson interrogates his men, looking for who betrayed him. He looks at Marco and sends everyone else out. He questions Marco, but Marco says Gerson underestimated him. He stabs Gerson with his cane, which he has sharpened.

Marco goes to the other guys and tells them there's no more Gerson. He uses the communicator to ask to speak to the Process Leader. He declares himself the new leader of the militia and calls for her to meet him at his house, the Álvares house.

Marco enters his old home. He says anyone who stays there must follow his rules.

Michele tells André to use whatever comes to mind. He wants her to think of it, some shared memory. She thinks for a moment and then enters a code. It's the shape of a backwards N like she used to write when she was learning. They enter the room right before Cássia and the guards arrive.

Joana finds Silas in the room with the frogs. She asks him how he got more fertilizer. She realizes he traded her for it, turned her over to Gerson. Silas says he feels bad for it. He's spent his whole life trying to be a wrong man, but he suffers, too. She tells him he's the same as the others, not different at all. Rafael then comes in and startles them. Joana and Silas struggle and call into the frog pit. She pushes Silas down and then grabs Rafael's hand so he can lift her out.

André and Michele explore the room. She asks him who else knows about that place and he says it's just the two of them, of those left alive.

Rafael treats Joana's hand. He tells Joana she saved his life and thanks her. She says she wanted to kill Silas as revenge.

Marcela approaches the Álvares residence.

**Years Ago**

Marcela talks to Julia at the RTC. Marcela questions her about the picture. She misses her son. Marcela says she left her son behind, too. But she passed and that's just how things are. Marcela says she doesn't think of her son much. Julia says she can't do it. She has to know. She wants to know how he's doing and wonders if it'll ever go away. Marcela says it won't. She leaves and says she'll come back tomorrow. Julia looks at the picture and says she couldn't help but name him Augusto. She asks if Marcela named her son and she says she did. In their family, they always name them. His name is Marco Álvares.

Marcela enters the home. Her son recognizes her and tries to hug her, but she pulls back and shakes his hand instead. She was surprised he didn't pass, but she doesn't want to talk about that. She wants the information he promised her instead. He says he got information from the Cause saying they were trying to destroy the Process. She tells him that threat has been neutralized already. It must be a new plan. He wants to help stop them. In exchange for his help, he wants another shot at the Process. He pleads with her. She agrees to consider his proposition. She offers him her hand, but he pulls her into a hug, crying. She then pulls away and leaves.

## Cast

### Main Cast

* João Miguel as Ezequiel
* Bianca Comparato as Michele Santana
* Vaneza Oliveira as Joana Coelho
* Rodolfo Valente as Rafael Moreira
* Michel Gomes as Fernando Carvalho
* Samuel De Assis as Silas
* Cynthia Senek as Glória Ribeiro
* Laila Garin as Marcela
* Bruno Fagundes as André Santana
* Thais Lago as Elisa
* Rafael Lozano as Marco Álvares

### Special Guests

* Fernanda Vasconcellos as Laís
* Maria Flor as Samira
* Silvio Guindane as Vítor
* Zezé Motta as Nair
* Mel Fronckowiak as Julia
* Celso Frateschi as as Old Man

### Guest Stars

* Luciana Paes as Cássia
* Bruno Bellarmino as Gerson
* Carlota Joaquina as Médica Gisele
* Henrique Schafer as Eugênio
* Adriano Bolshi as Militia Thug (Wander)
* Thiago Freitas as Militia Candidate
* Nicoli Diana as Michele Santana (Child)
* Victor Torrens as André Santana (Child)
* Marina Renz as Menina Silas
* Teka Romualdo as Larissa
* Giovanna Bonjardim as Marco's girlfriend

### English Dubbing Cast

* Billy Kametz as André Santana
* Sean Johnson as Fernando Carvalho
* Ethan Murray as Gerson
* Ki-Ki Fab as Joana Coelho
* Laura Post as Marcela Alvares
* Bojo Wulff as Marco Álvares
* Bianca Comparato as Michele Santana
* Jay Preston as Rafael
* Jalen Cassell as Silas

*Additional Voices*

* Sean Benedict
* Sylvia Biggs
* Beau Billingslea
* Susannah Corrington
* Brittany Cox
* Erin Fitzgerald
* Cindy Robinson
* Tara Sands
* Michael Sinterniklaas
* Kaiji Tang
* Stephanie Thomas
* Robert Vestal