Chapter 06: Buttons

**Chapter 06: Buttons** is the sixth episode of Season Four. It is preceded by Chapter 05: Painting and is followed by Chapter 07: Sun.

## Plot

With tensions rising and rumors spreading fast, André locks down the Process building and presents four candidates with a harrowing final test.

## Summary

Michele tries to get out of her cell. She pulls a button off her clothes and tries to use it. The old man tells her it's no use. Despite this, she tries again.

Michele remembers being a kid and being told she'll never be able to do it. André makes her practice her balance for the Process. He taunts her because she can't do what he can do. She finally jumps over the pile of tires and they go home. When they arrive, they call out for their parents. André goes in alone and finds their parents have been crushed and killed. He tells Michele their parents aren't there and they have to go live somewhere else. André lies and tells her that everything will be fine.

André continues to say nothing is wrong, even as Ariel and Marta tell him about the problems they're facing. He orders a blockade, not allowing anyone to enter or leave, not even Offshore residents from the submarines.

Michele breaks her button. She knows André has a plan. She remembers André being different before.

Those leaving the submarine are told they can't. Marcela then appears and orders the guards to lower their weapons. Marcela is allowed to get off the submarine, but no one else is.

Inside the submarine, Joana, Elisa, Rafael, and Natália wait with the others.

Marcela tells André to open the portals so the submarines can unload. He refuses and says she reports to him, not the other way around. She tells him the Offshore has been destroyed forever and they can't stop it. He declares a state of emergency and suspends all rights. Marcela tells him there's not going back to the Offshore. There won't be anymore food or water from the Offshore. She asks him to let her handle it. He says he's not her son to be ordered around and she punches him. When he tries to get up, she attacks him again and puts him in a chokehold until one of the guards stops her. André orders her arrest. Glória sees Marcela being arrested and asks what happened. She asks where Marco is. Marcela tells her Marco won't be coming. She tried.

Marcela is put in the cell with Michele and the old man. They get into a fight over them destroying each others' homes. Michele and the old man learn for the first time that the Offshore is destroyed.

The candidates are still waiting for their Process to continue.

Ariel and Marta both come asks André questions.

Pedro doesn't think the Offshore is really gone.

André says half the people on the Submarine joined the people from the Shell to take him down and the others stood by and watched. Now they need to figure out who can be trusted. But the candidates can't know about it.

The candidates are angry that the Process is over.

Ariel talks to Glória about the contamination of the Offshore. Ariel's been selected to go, but she doesn't want to go back to the Inland. Glória thins they're on the wrong side and they always have been. She can't be part of it anymore. Ariel doesn't know what to think. Things used to be simple.

The candidates break out of the room they're in and file out. Xavier sees Ariel and Glória as he walks with the others. The guards are overwhelmed with the candidates plus those in the submarine. André ignores all communication.

The guard watching Natália, Joana, Elisa, and Rafael pulls them forward.

André learns that the prisoners are on the submarine.

The four of them are harassed as they exit the submarine. They're told someone wants to talk to them. They're led to André. Elisa tells him the war is over and there are no winners. She tells him to let them go and they can all move forward.

Marcela tries to escape the cell just as Michele did. Michele wonders why Marcela is in there. Marcela tells her André doesn't want anyone to know about the Offshore. André comes to take Michele with him. He takes her to a room where she can see the four others strapped to chairs. They can't see her.

In the room, the four of them await their fate. Joana and Natália try to hold hands, but they can't reach each other. Michele watches as André enters the room with four candidates who have impressed André, including Xavier. He is giving them a special opportunity to go. Joana realizes he's going to convince them each to push a button to kill them. They just hope the death will be quick. Natália tries to beg them not to push.

The candidates wonder if the people will die. André says they're the worst kind of people, who tried to destroy everything the candidates ever cared about, so they must die. If they push the button, it'll prove they're part of the 3%.

The four of them beg the candidates not to push the button, but they go unheard.

André leaves the candidates in the room. Pedro wants them to push the buttons. Another candidate thinks that Joana is saying there's no more Offshore. Xavier agrees. The other two disagree and think they're lying in order to survive.

Michele begs André to stop the test, but he doesn't think it's so horrible to eliminate their enemies. André refuses to believe the Offshore is gone. He says the Offshore is right there.

Pedro steps forward and pushes the button, shocking Rafael. The two other candidates then step forward and Elisa and Natália are shocked as well. They try to convince Xavier to push the button as well and he finally does. The four prisoners appear dead in their chairs.

André leaves Michele alone in the room.

The four candidates are vaccinated. They celebrate passing.

Xavier enters the room with the bodies and unlocks Joana. He places her body down on the ground.

Glória tells Michele to come with her.

Xavier is releasing the others when Pedro comes in and thinks he's helping with Process maintenance. They lift Elisa and then Joana, but notice that Rafael seems to be breathing. Pedro is angry. Xavier tries to calm him down. He didn't mean to involve Pedro. The four others all wake up as Michele knocks Pedro out. She's happily reunited with Xavier. Ariel and Glória check on them. Xavier explains that Glória warned him what they were going to do. Glória lowered the voltage and Ariel also stepped in to help. Xavier learned the hard way that a lower voltage would cause them to pass out but not die. It worked out.

The fans are shut down again. They all start to crawl through, including Ariel, who says there's nothing left for her there. Michele stays behind to announce it to the whole Inland. It won't be taken seriously otherwise.

Michele avoids guards as she goes through the Process building. She and André end up with guns pointed at each other. She tells him he lost and everybody survived and got out. He tells her he's the Leader, but she reminds him that the Offshore is over. Keeping the gates closed won't change that. She asks why he's acting like that, just like when their parents were killed.

Young Michele peeks through the window.

Michele tells André she knew their parents were dead, but he pretended everything was okay. He says he was protecting her, but he wasn't. He was hiding the truth from her and from himself. Everyone will know the truth soon and he's the only one who wants to believe it. He thinks he and the chosen ones will reconstruct the Offshore. He tells her to lower her weapon because he knows she won't shoot him. She still shoots him and takes his weapon. Then she takes his headset and makes the announcement that the Offshore is over.

In the Inland and at the Process building, people listen to Michele talk. People rush past the guards to exit the submarine. Pedro wakes up. Michele says there will be no more Process, no more lies, and no more manipulation. It'll be scary at first, but it's a good thing. They can decide for themselves. She tells them to move forward with their lives and live free. She removes the headset and uses the statue of the founding couple to break André's screen. André then appears behind her and stabs her when she turns around. He holds her while she bleeds to death. He imagines the Founding Couple there, telling him they're proud of him.

## Cast

### Main Cast

* Bianca Comparato as Michele Santana
* Vaneza Oliveira as Joana Coelho
* Rodolfo Valente as Rafael Moreira
* Rafael Lozano as Marco Álvares
* Cynthia Senek as Glória Ribeiro
* Bruno Fagundes as André Santana
* Thais Lago as Elisa
* Laila Garin as Marcela
* Fernando Rubro as Xavier Toledo
* Amanda Magalhães as Natália

### Special Guests

* Fernanda Vasconcellos as Laís
* Silvio Guindane as Vítor
* Ney Matogrosso as Leonardo Álvares
* Zezé Motta as Nair
* Celso Frateschi as Old Man

### Guest Stars

* Verônica Bonfirm as Verônica
* Marina Mathey as Ariel
* João Bienenmann as Pedro
* Darcio Oliveira as Antônio Carvalho
* Mariana Leme as Guard Paloma
* Michel Waisman as Guard Márcio
* Tamyris O'Hanna as Guard Marta
* Marcel Góes as Guard Igor
* Ligia Yamaguti as Doctor Iara
* Thais Harumi as Isabel
* Lais Louver as Naira
* Fabrico Licursi as Process Employee 01
* Dudu De Oliveira as Offshore Resident #1
* William Prado as Offshore Resident #5
* Alexandre Pereira as Process Guard #1
* Leonardo Cicero as Process Guard #2
* Felipe De Souza as André Santana (Child)
* Helena Luz as Michele Santana (Child)
* Pedro Gasparotto as Augusto (Boy)

### English Dubbing Cast

* Joe Fria as Marco Álvares
* Jason Linere White as Xavier Toledo
* Misty Monroe as Joana Coelho
* Billy Kametz as André Santana
* Ryan Bartley as Elisa
* Jay Preston as Rafael
* Deneen Melody as Glória Ribeiro
* Bianca Comparato as Michele Santana
* Laura Post as Marcela Álvares
* Tara Sands as Natália

*Additional Voices*

* Andia Winslow
* Jennifer Losi
* Daman Mills
* Katelyn Gault
* Andrew Diego
* Sean Burgos
* Chris Hackney
* Beau Billingslea
* Taylor Polidore