A truly thrilling chase through narrow subterranean tunnels on a blind white horse (don’t ask) leads Ledesma to be trapped and rather than face his fate at the hands of the Inquisition, he kills himself by headbutting a high beam. The final episodes send Mateo and young Valerio on a wild hunt for the final pieces of the puzzle to reach Ledesma, and it was exhilarating stuff – secret passageways and door switches, body exhumations and assassin attacks – all to lead us to the eventual (and perhaps unsurprising) conclusion that his former Protestant conspirator Pedro Lanzas (Antonio Dechent, seemingly contractually obliged to star in every Spanish drama at some point) was indeed the phantom figure they sought. ![]() Times may change but the fact remains when church and state combine it’s never usually for the betterment of the common man – as Mateo, Luis and Teresa find out to their bitter detriment in the shocking conclusion to this excellent historical crime drama.įor Mateo, truth and justice are inseparable concepts – and his pursuit of both as such is his ultimate weakness. ![]() In the week that saw Spanish actor Willy Toldeo arrested and detained for questioning after “ridiculing the Virgin Mary and God” on social media, you might be tempted to pontificate on the history of religion in society when mixed with the law – especially in the context of how the remainder of The Plague played out this weekend with an exploration of exactly that (albeit with some far more gruesome penalties attached).
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