Cardo opens the trunk of the car and finds the dead body inside. Jerome soon arrives with Rigor and he shows him the dead bodies of the supposed killer and victim. Eventually, the CSIs begin working the scene. Eric hangs around and as he beholds the now-crowded scene, Alyana arrives with Pinggoy and interviews Cardo. As expected, Cardo suspects that Edwin was the killer.
Arriving at Double E, some workers are watching the news when a distraught Eric snaps and begins thrashing the TV and everything else he gets his hands on. The workers restrain the madman as he mentions Cardo’s name over and over again. At the morgue, Jerome a.k.a the officer who can’t seem to solve a single case declares Edwin as the serial killer.
Rigor brings to Jerome’s notice the connection of two of the victims who had been mistresses. Jerome dismisses the idea, as well as a CSI’s observation of how the killer had never left a single fingerprint on the victims’ bodies with the exception of the recent murder.
Eric stares at some photos of his brother as he flashes back to how their mother had taken her own life on account of their miserable father’s promiscuity. Without wasting time, the wretched man brings home his wretched mistress to replace their mother. You know how the story goes – wretched mistress starts abusing the boys.
Cardo is commended by his superiors and colleagues for having helped solve the serial killer case. While psycho Eric is having a one-way conversation with his brother’s portrait, vowing to exact vengeance, Alyana reveals to her family how the case had been solved by Cardo. JP begins teasing his sister again with her crush on Cardo.
“It’s you who’s into someone,” Virgie teases her son as she shows Alyana and Teddy the photos JP took of Lorraine in school.
Alyana checks out her brother’s phone. “I think I’ve seen this girl.”
“Where?” JP asks.
“When we covered a drug raiding club. Many celebrities were caught using drugs.”
“Drugs?” JP says in disbelief.
Verna has another pointless argument with her beloved husband. Joaquin comes over and begins guilt-tripping her about how she had betrayed them. <<FF>> With Edwin’s body having been laid to rest, the families of the victims protest and clamor for justice, evidently expressing their outrage. While Alyana covers the story at the cemetery, psycho Eric looks on.
Jerome and Rigor interrogate the Double E Taxi workers over Edwin’s motive for the killings. The guys insist that their late short-tempered boss is incapable of murder. They then come up with a lie about Edwin’s brother being away in the US.
Cardo has a talk with Alyana, charging her to tread carefully despite the death of the supposed killer. Alyana and Cardo stare at each other. Unbeknownst to them, psycho Eric spies. “Sp02 Ricardo Dalisay. I will spare no one in your family. Not one.”
Armed with the knowledge of Cardo’s details and history, psycho Eric, a.k.a Erwin, now posing as a disabled fan of Cardo approaches Alyana, eager to meet his supposed idol in order to give him some of the coconut sweets he’s selling. Pinggoy tries to dismiss him several times but Alyana buys the crap he’s selling and agrees to bring him to Cardo.
Speaking of, Cardo is having dinner with his family as they discuss the plan of learning the art of self-defense so most women would be able to defend themselves. Benny offers to teach the girls and as he brags about his skills, Flora and the kids give him the stink-eye.
“Benny, better not,” Elmo cautions.
“But why?”
“It’s you who’ll get beaten.”
“No way. Ask chief how many times we’ve gotten into a fight.”
“That’s right,” Cardo confirms. “You kept hiding behind me.”
Flora, the kids and everyone else laugh at that. Cardo then offers to find his grandma an instructor for the self-defense classes. The next morning, Tomas shows Don Emilio his genius plan of putting up their new meth lab in a cemetery. Meanwhile, a detainee at the city jail goes about his business.
As the self-defense class begins at Barangay 628, Alyana brings Erwin, (psycho Eric) who’s pretending to be suffering from Peter Pan’s Syndrome to camp Crame. She hands him her sandwich and goes looking for Cardo. Erwin dumps the sandwich on the floor. Benny catches him in the act and demands that he picks it up and drop it in the trashcan. Erwin goes ahead while shushing Benny to keep quiet.
“What do you mean shoo-shoo?” Benny begins. “Don’t you shoo-shoo me. Why do you glare that way? Are you angry?”
Erwin slowly reaches for something behind, scaring the crap out of Benny in the process. Suddenly, he brings out his hands and begins shooting. With his hands. Benny indulges him and plays along in the silly game until Alyana resurfaces with Cardo. Erwin puts on an award-winning show and soon enough, Cardo and Alyana are amused by his harmless antics.
Clueless Rachel is still giving her mother attitude. Said mother doesn’t want to tell her the truth lest she be more affected by it. Cita says the now-annoying girl will eventually discover the secrets of their wretched family one way or another.
Cardo goes ahead to entertain Erwin, who’s still going on with his grand show, even to the extent of fabricating some spectacular history about himself and his family to make himself look even more pitiable. Cardo and Alyana buy his BS story. (BS = “bullshit” by the way).
Erwin is selling his coconut sweets outside the office after being sent off by his newfound friends/targets when some guys come to bully him for selling on their spot. And wouldn’t you just know it? Cardo decides to head back outside to buy all of Erwin’s sweets. He comes upon the scene and dismisses the guys, then decides to take the madman to the clinic to have his bruise treated.
Tomas transfers a whooping sum of 468 million pesos into Rachel’s trust fund. Don Emilio is impressed and proudly so, certain that his granddaughter’s future is secured. Joaquin has no problem with his little sister getting more money than him. They then make a toast to the continuous success of their business.
“I won’t agree with having another partner,” Tomas declares. “We can handle this on our own.”
“Just one more week and I will be free,” the prisoner thinks to himself at the city jail. “After enduring twenty-five years of suffering.”
“Very good idea,” Don Emilio says back at the Tuazon residence. “Because good partners sometimes become bitter enemies.”
“You were the ones who placed me in here,” the prisoner continues. “It’s time for you to pay me back.”
Cardo drops off Erwin at his supposed residence. After putting on another show, and after Cardo is out of sight, the madman reverts back to his former self and carries on. I bet he’s going to get a good afternoon nap at his comfortable hideout.
While Lorraine discusses her mother with her friend Mitch, JP is having a talk with his buddies about his sister’s statement the other day. The guys begin acting judgemental but JP however is certain that Lorraine isn’t a drug addict. Once home, Cardo and Benny inform the family about their new “friend”. As they deliberate over his supposed pitiful condition and enjoying his sweet coconuts, Eric/Erwin the psycho spies.
“Tell him to bring all the sweets that he can make over here,” Flora says. “I will sell them here in the evening.”
Cardo is all for it, though he doesn’t know when he’s going to meet the scumbag again.
Arriving back at his hideout, psycho Eric sets the table for his entire family to eat. Yeah. You heard that right. He serves his mother and father, and then Edwin his brother. All of them dead. And I begin to wonder how they’re going to eat.
“I cooked that myself that’s why I know it’s really good,” Eric says to someone you and I can’t see. “More rice? Are you sure?” Psycho Eric takes a seat and flashes back to the scene at the de Leon house. “This is how they are at Cardo’s. The whole family is complete. They all look very happy. But that will not last very long. Because I’ll finish all of them.”
Credit: Blasters Series
