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EMILIO: Well, that's it.

IN PREVIOUS EPISODES

JOSÉ: I heard someone's phone ring five times.

One, two, three, four, five.

And on the fifth, everything, boom.

REPORTER: These are the rail tracks...

-EMILIO: What a mess the Moors made. -BABY: What?

It's an ETA attack is what they're saying.

Kid, no, come on. It was those dudes.

Now go home and stay there. You got that?

JABOIS: You ever see him again?

ADULT BABY: Not until the trial.

What'll you do with it?

-A report, maybe a book, I don't know. -Yeah, for what. What's the point now?

It's good to recount things, you know?

JOSÉ: All I'm asking for is that...

that measures be taken so this never happens again.

I ask for respect for all the victims.

RAMÓN: Come with me.

Sit down, Emilio.

This series is based on the interview that Gabriel "Baby" Montoya Vidal granted to

journalist Manuel Jabois in 2014 and on the summary of the mass trial for

the largest jihadist attack on European soil committed

in Madrid on March 11, 2004.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

Hey, kid.

Kid, come here.

Come!

Come on. Hey. Come over here.

Yeah.

Take this.

You look thirsty.

You can come closer. I promise I don't bite.

Hey, you don't have cigarettes, do you?

YOUNG BABY: No.

You're an ugly kid. What's wrong with your eye?

-Nothing. -JUNKIE: What do you mean, nothing?

-It's how I am. -JUNKIE: Oh.

Why are you here?

I'm waiting for my dad.

-JUNKIE: And who is that? -He's Gabarre.

That's some damn shitty luck you have.

Your father owes me 15,000 pesetas. Where is he? In the shacks?

YOUNG BABY: Yes.

Is he doing okay?

-Huh? -JUNKIE: Is he alive or dead?

-He's good. -JUNKIE: Are you sure?

Yes.

And what's your name?

-Gabriel. -Like the archangel.

Listen, I'm going to give you some advice, Gabriel.

See that mountain over there?

Instead of waiting here for your asshole father who could be dead,

go up there.

You can go up there to live.

Go there and live your life and never ever come back to this fucking camp.

Know what's great about the mountains?

-Huh? -You can be alone.

-Do you understand? -Yes.

-So will you do as I say? -Yes.

All right, here's the sign of the cross.

All right, go. Go on.

(MELANCHOLY MUSIC PLAYING)

SEE YOU IN ANOTHER LIFE

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

(INHALER RATTLING)

(INHALES)

(DOOR UNLOCKS)

Madrid March 27, 2007

Day 20 of the mass trial

CIVIL GUARD

JUDGE: Please remain silent.

You are Gabriel Montoya Vidal, correct?

BABY: Yes.

JUDGE: Do you swear to tell the whole truth?

BABY: Yes.

JUDGE: It is my duty to inform you that if you fail to tell the truth,

you may be charged with perjury.

You can be fined, disqualified, or imprisoned.

Do you understand?

BABY: Yes.

JUDGE: Is there any circumstance, condition, or relationship

you believe may impede you from telling the truth,

apart from what is already known by the court?

BABY: No.

JUDGE: Good.

Please speak loud and clear and directly into the microphone.

Please answer the questions the prosecution will be directing at you.

When am I going?

-OFFICER: At 6:00. -What time is it?

OFFICER: 11:00.

Okay.

What now?

You think.

(DOOR LOCKS)

(FOOTSTEPS RECEDING)

ADULT BABY: In the days after the attack,

I remember everything getting really strange.

Everyone got very nervous.

They started looking over their shoulders and doing weird things.

Emilio went to give a statement to the police.

Rafá, the Moor, did the same.

It turned out they both were informants for different departments.

One for the police, and the other for the Civil Guard.

Fucking unbelievable.

Come in.

ADULT BABY: I think they thought if they got ahead of it,

if they told some story, they could save themselves.

But two CNI agents sent from Madrid were waiting for Emilio.

I'm here to help you.

-Mmm. -My first point,

I know what goes on here at in Avilés.

So I think I have something that you need. Mmm?

And you have something that I need.

I help you. You get me back. Hey.

Then we'll be even. Hmm?

Can I smoke here? Huh?

And what do we need from you? Come on, talk.

You wanna know things.

Know about... Well, the truth is...

If I can... (EXHALES)

With all due respect, I don't know you at all.

But, uh, I know you know jack shit.

They're really pulling the wool over your eyes. You don't even know.

-I already told Ramón who it was. -Who was it? Tell us, then.

Sure, "Tell us", he says. Sure.

I tell you, and then? No.

I'm a lot of things but I'm not an idiot. Hmm?

Tell them, Ramón.

Tell them how we work together. And I'm not an idiot. Hmm?

-Yeah, well, sometimes you are. -(GRUNTS)

He's saying that because you came from Madrid,

he wants to be cool here. Hmm?

But, no, I'm serious. He knows I'm not an idiot.

So, what do you want?

Two things.

First, protection.

I won't say a word until you sign that I'm protected.

And my wife too.

Don't get ahead of yourself, Emilio. You're asking for too much.

No, if I'm not, I'll get up right now, you'll never see me again.

Come on. You don't need threats.

No, man, what threat, no! I'm just trying to make a deal with you.

Well, we'll think about it.

-It's not that simple. -EMILIO: No.

No, think about it then.

I'm in no rush.

RAMÓN: What's the second thing?

Second?

You said two things.

Tickets to Madrid-Zaragoza.

-What is this? Is this all some joke? -I don't know.

No, I mean the King's cup! Yeah. Hmm?

A box! Yeah.

No shit seats!

And take me out to dinner! Damn!

I mean this place is, uh...

It's hard to say anything in this fuckin' place.

I'm telling you.

So they...

They tell me they wanna rob a jewelry store, hmm?

And they need some material to do that so...

so they can blow the glass cases and the safe open.

-Explosives? -Exactly. Explosives.

-Yeah. -So you hooked them up?

No, I just gave information on where to get 'em. Nothing else.

-In the Conchita Mine? -Yes.

OFFICER: But you went with them, didn't you?

No. No. No. I didn't. No way.

I told them. "They're here."

I gave information. Like I'm doing now.

-And? -And?

ADULT BABY: Emilio was arrested that same night.

They didn't believe a word of the lies he fed them.

I saw what happened and flipped out.

ADULT BABY: Rafá was arrested, too. A few days later.

El Chino.

The guy's a psycho. A psycho!

I swear to you guys.

ADULT BABY: In the end, it turned out what they said to save their own asses

ended up incriminating the other.

It didn't matter. None of us was going to get away with it.

Avilés was being watched.

Police on every corner.

No one in the streets.

Those days were strange as hell.

(DOORBELL RINGING)

-KOALA: (OVER INTERCOM) Yeah? -Koala, wanna go take a walk?

KOALA: No way, dude. I can't. I'm sick. I'm staying home.

-Oh. Right. -KOALA: Bye, man.

ADULT BABY: When they arrested Emilio, people treated me like a leper.

(DOORBELL RINGING)

-KOALA: Yeah? -Koala.

-KOALA: What do you want? -You're a piece of shit.

ADULT BABY: No one looked at me.

No one touched me. People were afraid of me.

Very afraid.

What's up, Dani?

What are you doing, bitch? You acting like you don't know me now?

Asshole! I bet you'll come back when your weed's all out!

DINAMITA: You know what you're gonna say?

-BABY: Say about what? -When they come.

-BABY: Who? -Who the hell you think? The police.

BABY: Hey, we're dry.

-You got anything left? -No. There's nothing.

BABY: Let's do some lines then.

Damn it, I'm kidding.

-I can't get over how ridiculous you are. -(THUDS)

So tell me what you're gonna say.

-That you're huge. -For fuck sake, take this seriously!

I am, calm down.

What do I know? No idea. Stop asking me things.

Okay, just tell them you know Emilio in passing or something.

-And that's all. -Okay.

Is that clear? Say nothing more!

(SIGHS)

Listen, Tenete, I'm gonna make one thing very clear to you, all right, man?

You're not my dad. Understood?

No kid. I'm not your dad. But Emilio isn't either.

The hell you saying?

You heard me.

Listen, leave me alone. I already know what to say if they come for me.

"If they come"?

You think with 191 murdered, police will let you pass?

Emilio got arrested.

But he's not going to say anything.

ZARAGOZA: Isn't it true that you thought that the perpetrator of the attacks

was Jamal Ahmidan, El Chino,

because you'd provided him explosives in Asturias?

-I didn't provide anything. I told you. -ZARAGOZA: Mmm.

I don't have access.

I've already told you about this.

I don't have access and I'm not in contact with anyone from the Conchita Mine.

All right, then according to you, the bag had no explosives.

Did you have other information?

What I don't understand is how you deduced Jamal Ahmidan

committed the attacks that day.

You've claimed this is the truth.

-Eh, I already told you. -Watch your tone, please.

I didn't need information. It was a matter of putting two and two together.

Because, I mean, Jamal Ahmidan said, "I'll see you in this life or another."

And then there were suicide bombers on the trains.

And he doesn't answer the phone anymore. Two plus two equals four. (SNIFFLES)

(CROWD MURMURING)

Can you explain why Antonio Toro said

that you seemed nervous after the attacks on March 11th?

As you can see, I'm a nervous person.

My wife also says I'm a nervous person.

Also you can see in the reports that we gave you,

I have schizophrenia and it makes it worse.

But were you feeling more nervous than usual?

I wasn't nervous anymore than I usually am. I wasn't affected.

(LAUGHS) No way.

Avilés April 4, 2004

What'll it be?

A shot, maybe?

BARTENDER: Of what?

Whiskey?

Sure.

REPORTER: (OVER TV) ...the terrorists, holed up in an apartment,

allegedly detonated

the explosives that were left over after leaving the backpacks

-on the trains that exploded -Oh, my God.

...at Atocha, Santa Eugenia and El Pozo.

In this operation,

a member of the State Security Forces lost his life in the explosion.

Seven terrorists are suspected to have committed suicide in the explosion.

Three bodies have already been identified,

Mohamed Oulad Akcha,

Jamal "El Chino" Ahmidan, who is the alleged leader,

and Abdennabi Kounjaa. Efforts to identify the rest...

-(PILI PANTING) -The baby's coming, let's go!

(DOOR SLAMS)

So the Moors blew themselves up.

They're all fucked in the head.

They think they're going to heaven.

I have no fucking idea. But I don't think they're going up there.

No fucking way.

Do you know of La Maruca junkyard?

That's where they should go, those sons of bitches.

You know? With the fires and the junkies.

They've arrested The Miner, no?

Yeah.

And what's gonna happen to you?

-Mm. Bah. -What's up? You don't care?

There's no point.

ADULT BABY: It was as if everyone from the group,

all of Emilio's people, all of us...

(SIREN WAILING)

ADULT BABY: It was as if we were marked on our foreheads.

And people knew we were going down.

Bro. Bro!

Damn it! Wake up!

(SIRENS APPROACHING)

-What are you doing, idiot? -Get up! The police are here.

Fuck me. The neighborhood is surrounded.

They're saying they're here to arrest someone for March 11th.

Those sons of bitches.

(INFANT CRYING)

-Gabriel, what's wrong? -BABY: It's nothing.

Gabriel.

(INFANT CRYING)

Avilés June 9, 2004

(PILI SHUSHES)

ADULT BABY: And we started going down.

Tenete, Toro, Emilio's wife. Even Koala, who didn't do anything.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

ADULT BABY: Over the next few days, they all went down but me.

The circle was getting smaller.

You know I thought,

"They aren't coming for me, so Emilio must've stayed quiet."

I knew he wouldn't turn me in. I don't know why, but I did.

Unfortunately, I didn't have anyone to get me my shit.

I took the last joint I had and smoked it.

Why would I sell it?

BABY: "Hey, Miner.

"You've been a true friend and you continue to be.

"I've been doing roadwork to get some cash so I can visit you.

"Which I wanna do, you bastard."

Tenete?

"Don't forget you have a friend forever. For whatever you need."

(DOOR SLAMS)

(INHALES)

Oh, fuck.

(DOOR CLOSES)

ZARAGOZA: Do you remember any occasion where Álvaro Méndez Orviz, "Tenete",

went with you to pick up explosives in the Conchita Mine?

That's just a lie from the kid.

And he involved Toro. He involved me.

He involved Koala, I mean Julián, sorry. He involved all of us.

The 'kid', Gabriel Montoya?

Gabriel Montoya, yes.

Was he your confidante?

No, he is not my confidante, because I...

I have other confidantes. Not him. Because... No.

(SIGHS)

(ENGINE ACCELERATING)

(HORNS HONKING)

ZARAGOZA: Did you make threats to the minor, Gabriel Montoya Vidal,

telling him not to speak out?

EMILIO: Not at all.

There's a letter.

In my defense brief

we asked that you enter a letter that Gabriel Montoya Vidal

mailed to me in prison.

It said I was his best friend and he would never forget me.

All right, uh, a person that says

that I threatened to kill his father in prison and what not,

I don't think he'd write to me saying I was his best friend.

(ENGINE ACCELERATING)

Hey, you fuckers!

-(CHILD CHEERING) -(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

(SCREAMS)

(ALL EXCLAIMING)

Let's go!

(INDISTINCT SHOUTING)

(GRUNTS)

(PEOPLE CHEERING)

(INDISTINCT SHOUTING)

(SCREAMS)

MAN: Boom! Let's go!

It's gonna explode man! It's gonna blow!

(INDISTINCT SHOUTING)

(ALL CHEERING)

BABY: Hey.

Hey.

-What's wrong? -I need to take a piss.

(KEYS JINGLING)

(DOOR UNLOCKS)

OFFICER: Let's go.

Hey, Baby, what's up? Hey, come here a minute.

-BABY: What is it? -EMILIO: One minute!

-I gotta piss. -No, you can wait one minute.

Hey, let us talk for a sec, it's been a long time!

What's wrong? You don't smoke anymore?

Can I get you some juice?

So what's up? Hmm? How are you doing in prison?

-It's not prison. -Yeah. All right.

You know I have connections. If you need something...

No.

Listen, Baby.

I...

I know a lot of things have gone down.

The two of us have been through a lot, hmm?

I said things that...

I didn't wanna say and...

You know, I regret it. Sorry, it's...

that... that monster I have inside.

You know that.

I have an alligator inside of me. It messes with those I love, hmm?

You know that.

I wrote you a letter.

Yeah.

You didn't answer.

Come on, you sound like a girlfriend.

Yeah, I didn't answer. What can I say?

I think I was mad or...

Yeah, I'm a jerk, what can I say?

You see, Baby.

I'm fucked in the head, hmm?

I don't know, it's some psychological disorder,

bipolar, schizo or something... I don't even know what it is.

I'm fucked. I'm messed up, Baby.

I have to go.

Hey, Baby, you can say that, you can say that...

That I'm not the devil, right?

It's me, you know?

I've always taken care of you.

I have to go.

Hey, when we get outta this place, let's party, okay?

You and me, Baby.

SÁNCHEZ: With the Court's permission.

-Hello, Gabriel. -BABY: Hello.

How old are you now?

19 years old.

You're 19.

And your birthday was just last month in December, right?

Mm. Yes.

SÁNCHEZ: When did you meet José Emilio Suárez Trashorras?

In 2003.

SÁNCHEZ: In the summer? Or the fall?

It was almost winter.

Someone introduced you? Or did you just meet at bars?

-We just met. -At a bar?

In the neighborhood.

SÁNCHEZ: Is it true that José Emilio took you to bars and strip clubs,

and he paid you money?

BABY: Yes.

-SÁNCHEZ: Did he give you drugs? -Yes.

SÁNCHEZ: And so, did a friendship build between the two of you?

More or less.

That afternoon, when you accompanied José Emilio to the mine,

the people there told you

that you were taking explosives down to Madrid, correct?

Yes.

However, you still went. You accompanied them for more.

Yes.

BABY: We got to the mine and I stayed in the car.

Emilio went over with this guy, Mowgli, up the mountain.

SÁNCHEZ: Do you remember how much time it took

José Emilio and Mowgli to return?

(SOFTLY) A half-hour or 45 minutes.

Speak up. We can't hear you.

(LOUDER) Maybe a half hour or 45 minutes.

SÁNCHEZ: Do you remember hearing José Emilio tell the other person

not to forget something?

Yes, not to forget about the screws or something like that.

-SÁNCHEZ: The screws? -Yes.

Do you recall having stated to us that José Emilio said

"to not forget the tops and also the screws."

Yes, I said that.

JABOIS: You knew you were condemning him, right?

-What condemned him? -Well, Emilio.

When you pointed out the nails and screws. It proved that...

That he knew exactly what he was doing. It was shrapnel for killing people.

I told the truth.

You hadn't told that before, Gabriel.

Yeah.

JABOIS: It's just that...

There's something that I don't understand.

Do you really not regret anything?

I don't regret what I did.

I regret what happened.

No, but you already told me that.

It's how I look at it all.

It's not that think that,

that I was a kid, so it doesn't matter. Yeah.

It matters, yeah, but...

But you understand that all those people on those trains...

Your mother could have been there. Or... or... or your sisters.

Exactly, you repent, and you repent, yes, for what happened.

But what's the use now?

If you had known the dynamite would be used for bombs on trains full of people,

would you have taken that backpack? Hmm?

At this point, no. But back in those times...

All those years ago, I wasn't thinking. I was someone else.

See, sometimes,

Emilio and I would go to collect on a debt, and you'd carry your pistol,

and if things went sideways, then you shoot.

You grab the pistol and fire a few shots, and you don't think.

You simply don't think.

And, look, I'm not saying it's okay. Just saying how it was.

JUDGE: The court, unanimously, has issued the following ruling.

The following defendants have been found not guilty.

Antonio Toro Castro,

Carmen Toro Castro,

Álvaro Méndez Orviz and Julián Montes García

of all charges of which they have been accused.

(PEOPLE MURMURING)

JUDGE: Silence in the court, please.

The following defendant has been found guilty.

Rafá Zouhier as a perpetrator of the crime of explosives trafficking

in collaboration with a terrorist organization.

He is sentenced to 10 years in prison.

The following have also been found guilty.

Luis Prieto Reinas and Roberto Rey Aparicio,

both responsible for the crime of transporting explosives.

They're sentenced to three years in prison.

(DOOR BUZZER SOUNDS)

JUDGE: The following has been found guilty.

José Emilio Suárez Trashorras of being a necessary collaborator

in 192 charges of homicide.

With the mitigating circumstance of psychological disorders,

he is sentenced to 25 years in prison

for each charge of terrorist homicide committed

making a total of 34,715 years in prison.

Precautionary measures against the acquitted defendants will be lifted.

Thus, hereby, we deliver, and sign our sentence.

That concludes our session.

(DOOR SLAMS)

JABOIS: Where do you see yourself in the future, Gabriel?

-What do I think my future is? -JABOIS: Yes.

You're really young. What do you wanna do?

(SIGHS) Well, maybe I would...

No clue.

Go to the mountains.

The mountains?

Yeah. Live in nature and...

in the mountains.

I mean, I like the mountains.

-JABOIS: Hmm. -It's nice.

You'd be alone there, yeah?

-Nice and alone, yeah. -JABOIS: Of course.

Without people.

(CHUCKLES SOFTLY) Maybe.

Maybe because there's no people.

(JABOIS EXHALES)

ADULT BABY: I don't know. Maybe I'd live with my lady.

The two of us living quietly.

A normal life. Nothing special.

The kinda life that may seem boring to some people.

I've never had that.

PILI: Put that car away.

JABOIS: Your life has been difficult, hasn't it?

PILI: You'll eat everything.

ADULT BABY: I had a shitty life.

JABOIS: Right.

But better to have a shitty life than no life at all, right?

(SNIFFLES)

BABY: Yeah, that's true.

JABOIS: Do you ever think about the people on the trains?

(INHALES) I guess.

I try not to, but...

-JABOIS: And Emilio? Think about him? -No.

No?

No.

JABOIS: Mm-hmm.

Listen, if Emilio got in contact with you again,

if he answered your letter, what would you do?

I wouldn't open anything from him.

I don't wanna know anything about him.

-That it? -Hmm?

Are we done here?

Yeah, we're all finished. Hmm.

(DOG BARKING)

MANZANO: Hey!

You're going to freeze out here, dumbass!

What are you doing?

Mom told me I had to come out here and look for you.

Your mom?

If she wants me, let her come get me.

She said if you don't sleep at home, better not come back.

MANZANO: If I don't sleep at home?

That's what she said.

Well, I was gonna, Gabrielín. I was.

But now I don't wanna fucking do it, huh?

You tell you mother, Gabrielín, for me, okay?

You tell her your father said she can shove it up her ass.

-Sure. -Got it?

Well, go on. Go home. I'm going to a party.

(MANZANO COUGHS)

Where are you going?

Down to the docks there. Checking it out. Why?

What's wrong? You wanna come with me or what?

(MANZANO CHUCKLES)

Son of a bitch.

You're such a rascal. Who could you have got that from, huh?

Come on. Let's go.

We'll steal a car and make trouble,

like we did that day at the pharmacy, remember?

-YOUNG BABY: Yeah. -We had a good time that day.

You have to live, Gabrielín. If you don't, what's the point?

(MANZANO SINGING IN SPANISH) And when the sun comes up

(BOTH SINGING IN SPANISH) And I hear your name

It's like a reflection

That sometimes hides

I'll know you've come

From the far past

To give me your coat

To be by my side

Gabriel Montoya Vidal served 6 years in a juvenile center.

Currently, he lives in Avilés and is married.

Nobody calls him "Baby" now.

José Emilio Suárez Trashorras is serving 34,715 years in prison,

the longest sentence ever imposed on a Spanish citizen

by the authorities in our country.

Antonio Toro was sentenced one year later by the Supreme Court

to 4 years in prison

for trafficking explosives related to March 11.

In the attacks of March 11, 2004, the jihadists murdered 192 people

and nearly 2000 were injured.

One month later, seven of the jihadists killed themselves and a GEO policeman.

March 11 affected thousands and left a deep wound in Spanish society.

Some of the characters, events, and dialogue in this series have been

fictionalized or invented for the purpose of dramatization.

With respect to such fictionalization or invention, any similarity to the name

or to the actual character or history of any person, living or dead,

or any actual event is entirely for dramatic purpose and is not intended

to reflect on an actual character or their history.

BASED ON THE BOOK BY MANUEL JABOIS "NOS VEMOS EN ESTA VIDA O EN LA OTRA"

PUBLISHED BY EDITORIAL PLANETA (GRUPO PLANETA)