Mark Ledesma is asleep on his hotel bed when the cops suddenly burst in. OMG, you should see this one cop. He looks... He's just so... The hair... OMG, and he's not even a major player in the story but his grooming (or lack of) has already stolen the show. Anyway, a search of the hotel room uncovers a half kilo of heroin. Ledesma asks for his lawyer: Mario Estrada.
Mario has represented this man before. Ledesma is a sleaze bag but he's a professional sleaze bag. To be caught with just half a kilo of heroin sounds sloppy. Mario suspects the drugs were planted. Outside of the judge's chambers, Mario is physically attacked by a woman. She's angry that he was successful at getting Ledesma out on bail.
Dani's case concerns Gabriel Lozano. He is a terminally ill patient and his wife wants to have him committed. He's fighting it saying he may be dying but he's perfectly sane. The first time Dani sees her new client, he's undressed out on the balcony as he throws money down to the people below. (He threw his suit down to a couple of vagrants is why he's in his boxers.)
Mario's mother sends him some baby supplies, including a baby. It's one of those robobabes that simulates a real baby. Moma Estrada thinks her son needs some training in fatherhood. Dani doesn't think he'll last long with robobabe. Mario accepts the challenge and strives to prove to her he'll make a decent dad.
In court Gabriel Lozano explains how he was so busy making a lot of money that he didn't get around to taking care of his health. Now it is too late to treat his disease. Since he can't take it with him and other people need it now, Lozano is giving away his fortune. Dani suspects this is the real reason Lozano's wife wants to commit him: to preserve their money for herself.
Gema gets a security tape from the hotel where Ledesma was staying. It shows him going up to his room with a woman. She doesn't stay long, though. The tape shows her leaving, then she comes back to the room for a few seconds and leaves again. David, Mario's junior lawyer (and one third of the love triangle I'm not interested in), recognizes the woman on the tape is also the woman who attacked Mario at the courthouse.
Her name is Clara Arancedo. Mario tricks her into coming to his law office. The woman gives her sob story. Yes, she planted the drugs in order to get Ledsema arrested. She's avenging her dead daughter. Ledesma dated the girl, got her hooked on heroin and then used her as a mule (person who carries the drugs inside their body to smuggle from country to country.) One of the bags inside the daughter burst and she died a horrible death.
Meanwhile, Dani is really connecting with her client. Perhaps too well. Other lawyers in the firm are worried she's getting too close. Gonzalo tries to make Dani see reason. Her client is probably going to lose his case so Dani should stop fighting so hard for him.
Mario finally has to admit to Dani that he can't take robobabe any longer. Still, Dani is touched at how much he's learned and done in the short time he's had robobabe.
Blah blah blah This time it's Dani's turn to make the long and moving statement in court blah blah blah.
Mario hires a junkie to take the fall for his client. They rehearse the young girl (who resembles Arancedo's dead daughter) to tell a tale in court that will sound similar to the dead daughter's tale. Hearing all this gets to Arancedo. Tearfully she stands up in court and confesses to all that she was the one who planted the drugs.
Moved by Dani's long and moving statement, the Lozano's make up and the wife drops her case.
Mario has all sorts of dirt on his now former client, Ledesma. He hands the volatile records over to idealistic David. (Or "Davith" as it is pronounced in this show. Is this the legendary Castilian lisp I've read about?)
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