El Foso y el Muro

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

### Cast

* Diane Guerrero
* Alfonso Herrera
* Jose Ruiz-Gonzales
* Bryan Greenberg
* Licia Alonso

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***El Foso y el Muro ("The Pit and the Wall")*** is the fourth episode of the first season of *Woman in the Book* and the fourth episode overall. It is developed by Daniel Persitz, written by Eva Gonzalez Szigriszt and Pamela Garcia Rooney, and directed by Jeanette Moreno King. It stars Diane Guerrero, Alfonso Herrera, Jose Ruiz-Gonzales, Bryan Greenberg, and Licia Alonso.

The episode premiered on June 25th, 2021.

## Summary

Thinking the Woman in the Book wants her unborn baby, Lily tries to escape the hacienda with Ricardo and Daniel, with deadly consequences.

## Plot

The Woman looms over the group and Lily screams at her, asking her what she wants from them. The Woman then starts to reach out towards Lily's pregnant belly, and Lily instinctively shields her stomach, crying out that The Woman can't have her baby. The Woman screeches again, deafening the group, and forces Lily to pull up her shirt and expose her stomach. As Ricardo begs The Woman to leave his sister alone, The Woman drags her knife finger up Lily's stomach, creating a small wound before disappearing once again. The group is quiet as they try to regain their composure, and Ricardo asks Lily if she's alright. Lily says she isn't, but the cut isn't deep and she should be fine, as Nena hugs her and starts crying. Ricardo tells Lily that before she started yelling at The Woman, she had a strange glazed look in her eyes. Lily tells them that she's been having visions in which she sees the past through the eyes of Christina Navarro. Daniel tells them that they need to talk about things later, and they need to get back in the hacienda for safety.

The group goes back into the house and finds Juana's body on the floor. Nena closes Juana's eyes as Lily tries to find Juana's car keys in her purse. Ricardo yells from outside that the keys are in the car, and he tries to start it as the others get in the vehicle, but to no avail. Ink begins to leak from the vents and the front of the car, and in the commotion Lily gets another call from Liam. Daniel yells at her to answer it and tell the caller to call the police, but Lily hesitates. Daniel takes her phone from her and starts trying to talk to Liam, but Lily tries to wrestle the phone away from him. The phone suddenly short-circuits and Daniel throws it out the window, and the Find My iPhone app suddenly activates before the phone is swallowed by ink. Ricardo manages to start the car and move it a few feet, but the car shorts out as well. He yells at the others to get out of the car, and they manage to run away from it before it explodes. They start trying to make it to the front gate on foot, but a large tidal wave of ink appears and starts rushing towards them, with similar pools of ink driving them to the center of the property.

The Woman rises from the ink and Nena starts to yell at her, calling her a beast. Lily begs Nena not to make The Woman angry, but Nena takes out her rosary and orders The Woman to go back where she came from. The Woman circles Nena, and she starts to cough as ink leaks from her mouth, nose and eyes. She then drops to the ground, dead as she drowns from the ink filling her body. Lily starts to cry, wondering aloud how they could just stand there and do nothing, and Ricardo says because The Woman will kill them if they try anything. The siblings then run into the house as the ink flood closes in on them, and Ricardo tries to bolt the door shut. The ink starts to seep through the cracks, and Daniel yells for his siblings to follow him as he runs away. He leads them to the kitchen and starts opening the cabinets, yelling for his siblings to find the salt. They start rooting through the cabinets until Lily finds a bag of salt and hands it to Daniel just as The Woman appears in the kitchen doorway. Daniel grabs a handful of salt and throws it at her, which incapacitates her long enough for the siblings to run to the library. Once inside, Daniel shuts the door and spreads the salt around the first floor in a protective circle. Lily asks him how he knew the salt would work and he replies that he grew up locally, so he knows a thing or two about the supernatural.

Lily then sees the open history book on the table and tells her brothers that she saw The Woman come out of it. Ricardo asks her why she didn't tell them this before, and Lily admits that she didn't want them to think she was crazy. She tells them that she saw the book the night their parents died as well, and Ricardo asks her if she thinks that The Woman killed their parents. Lily is sure of it, saying that their mother loved their father so much and would never do anything to hurt him. She tells them that she opened the book, and that it's her fault Nena and Juana are dead. As her brothers try to reassure her, The Woman suddenly appears in the doorway. However, she can not get inside due to the ring of salt Daniel pour around the room, and she screeches at them instead, causing books to fly off the shelves and hit the siblings. When the storm dies down, Lily asks The Woman once again what she wants. The Woman then causes a book to be thrown at Lily, who manages to catch it before it hits her. She then realizes that the book is the same family history book that The Woman came out of. Suddenly, the books around them open and pages start to come out of them, flying at the siblings and giving them papercuts all over their bodies. Lily manages to look up and sees The Woman disappear as the pages suddenly become lifeless again.

Lily goes over to the bookcase and tells her brothers that in her last vision, she was locked in a secret dungeon that was hidden in the library. As they start to tear the books off the shelves, Lily says that she thinks The Woman is trying to show them something, but she doesn't know what it is. Ricardo says that she's trying to show them she can kill them, and Daniel agrees with him, saying that if it wasn't for the salt, they'd all be dead. Lily disagrees, and Ricardo reminds her that The Woman cut her belly and tried to take her baby. Lily says that The Woman could've harmed taken her baby if she wanted to, but she didn't. She takes the fire pokers from the fireplace and the siblings start to stab at the bookcase, tearing it away to reveal the secret passageway from Lily's vision. They enter the passageway, using Ricardo's lighter to light their way, and they find the door leading to the dungeon.

## Cast

 Licia Alonso
 Bryan Greenberg

## Trivia

* "El foso y el muro" translates to "the pit and the wall" in Spanish.
* Despite having apparently died in the foyer, Juana's body has disappeared when the siblings try to hide from The Woman in the house.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Crypt Monsters. “WOMAN IN THE BOOK Episode 4 | El Foso y el Muro | By Crypt Monsters.” Facebook Watch, Crypt Monsters; May 20th, 2021.