La Prensa Impresa

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

### Cast

* Diane Guerrero
* Alfonso Herrera
* Carlos Carerra
* Graciela Valderrama

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La Letra Pequeña

***La Prensa Impresa ("The Printing Press")*** is the ninth episode of the first season of Woman in the Book and the ninth 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, Carlos Carerra, and Graciela Valderrama.

The episode premiered on July 30th, 2021.

## Summary

After being driven back into the hacienda, Lily and Ricardo discover the horrible truth about how Christina became the Woman in the Book. But their plan to stop the angry spirit by printing her book is interrupted.

## Plot

*In the 1800s, Christina and Antonio are out in the garden, having their pictures taken by The Curandera for the family history book. The Curandera brings them an infant swaddled in a blanket and hands it to Christina, which is taken by Antonio who lovingly refers to the baby as "my boy ("mi mijo")" . As their pictures are taken, Christina does not smile. As Antonio prepares the camera, Christina takes her son and goes over to the lake, staring at her reflection. She walks into the lake and goes underwater, holding her breath before going under herself. Antonio, having prepared the camera, shouts for Christina to bring him his son; he and The Curandera are horrified when Christina returns, soaking wet with no child. Antonio screams at her, demanding to know what she has done with his son.*

In the present day, Lily awakens from her vision sobbing on the ground. As Ricardo helps her up, she sobs that Christina murdered her own son. Ricardo hugs her, saying that enough is enough and they need to get out of the hacienda. As they hold each other, a tidal wave of ink rushes towards them, driving them back into the hacienda. They run inside and lock the doors, retreating back into the publishing office. As the ink starts to wash up against the windows, the house begins to shake and Lily doubles over in pain. Ricardo realizes that The Woman wants them to hurry up with the printing, but he still doesn't know how she wants them to do it. Lily yells that they can't print the book if she vomits all over the paper, and the rumbling and ink flood suddenly stops. Lily and Ricardo looks at each other, and she hisses at him, telling him to not jinx it. Ricardo picks up the printing plates while Lily turns on the printing press, and they get some ink and pour it on the press as they start printing the pages. As she starts to go up the stairs again, Lily has another contraction and is unable to go up, so Ricardo continues to print the pages on his own.

Standing at the bottom of the stairs, Lily has another vision. *In the past, Antonio holds a struggling Christina underwater in the bathtub, and he pours a bottle of ink in the water. Christina struggles a bit more before going limp and drowning. An unknown amount of time later, Christina wakes up and floats out of the bathtub, now a ghost, and leaves the bathroom. In the hidden dungeon, The Curandera hides the printing plates in a secret compartment behind the altar, and puts her poetry and the photographs taken that day in a secret compartment. She sets the remaining photograph of Christina next to the Navarro family history book, and says a small prayer as magical energy enters the book and the photograph. She then goes to the office and prints a page with the picture of Christina, and says another prayer. She suddenly stops when Christina appears in the room and tries to talk to her, and then inserts the page in the book Antonio was creating. Antonio enters the office and sees The Curandera tampering with the book and storms over to her. Christina tries to put herself between them, but since she no longer has a corporeal form, Antonio passes through her.*

*Antonio grabs the book from The Curandera as she tries to stop him, and throws it in the fire. However, to his shock, the book does not burn. He demands that The Curandera tell him what is going on, and The Curandera tells him that she put a spell of protection on the book. Antonio says it must not have been a good spell, since he killed already Christina. Christina tries to calm The Curandera, but The Curandera screams that Antonio is a murderer. Antonio grabs The Curandera and drags her to the secret dungeon as she screams that while he killed Christina's body, her soul will live on in the book and everyone will know Antonio is a murderer. Antonio throws her into the dungeon and says that she can join the ghosts of his father's disobedient slaves. As he chains her to the wall, The Curandera curses him and his entire line and spits on him. Antonio wipes the spit off his face and tells her to rot in hell. As he leaves, he says that by the time he gets back from finding his new wife, the curandera will be dead. After he leaves the library, Christina goes over to the fire and tries to pick up the book, but her hands pass through it. In her frustration, she manages to levitate the book out of the fire and open it. As she opens it to the picture of herself, she screams as she is sucked into the book.*

Lily wakes up from her vision and tells Ricardo that the book has a spell on it that is keeping Christina trapped inside. Ricardo asks how they can break the spell, and Lily doesn't think they can. Ricardo says that they have to find a way to get her back inside the book for good, and Lily says that if they do what she wants, she'll let them go. Ricardo asks what will happen if she just decides to kill them anyway, and Lily starts to keel over from another contraction. Ricardo looks up and sees Christina has appeared behind them and is watching them. Christina melts into ink and reappears directly behind Lily, grabbing her from behind as Ricardo begs her not to hurt her. Christina shrieks as she pulls Lily into a wall of ink, and a tearful Ricardo screams for her to let his sister go.

## Deaths

 **Christina Navarro** | Drowned in the bathtub by Antonio Navarro.

## Continuity

### Revelations

 Antonio locked The Curandera in the secret dungeon and left her there, resulting in her death.

### Continuity

 "Poesía de Sangre"
 "Quemando los Huesos"

## Cast

 Carlos Carerra
 Graciela Valderrama

## Trivia

* "La prensa impresa" translates to "the printing press" in Spanish.
* Despite not having a physical form, Christina leaves ink footprints as she leaves the bathtub.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Crypt Monsters. "WOMAN IN THE BOOK Episode 9 | La Prensa Impresa | By Crypt Monsters." Facebook Watch, Crypt Monsters; July 30th, 2021.