1992 – Season 1 Episode 6 Recap, Review & Ending Explained

I Did What I Was Told

Episode 6 of 1992 begins with Richi showing up at the strip club. He heads into the office and finds the owner dead, charred and clearly killed by our killer, Victor.

Does Victor kill the Minister?

Speaking of which, Victor makes it to Madrid completely undetected, while Amparo and Richi realize they need to get to the Minister before it’s too late. Given all the deaths, the blackmail is too much and he decides to use his wife Teresa’s family in order to get the money and pay off the killer.

Victor shows up at the estate and burns the guards outside with his flamethrower. Just as he does, the Minister receives a call warning that the killer is at his front door. There are gunshots in the background, where Victor ends up single-handedly taking all of these guys out. Eventually he rocks up to see the Minister. The man is hiding out in his office with a little gun, prepared to kill the guy.

A big chase ensues through the house, where Teresa locks herself in the panic room and lets Victor burn her husband. He does so right in front of the bookshelf and miraculously, the house doesn’t go up in flames. In fact, the Minister is alive long enough to head outside and begin rolling around.

What happens after the villa incident?

Teresa also gets out from the panic room, despite there being fire on the outside of the bookshelf, and it happens just in time for Richi and Amparo to show. They question her about the Minister and she explains about the mysterious phone call. If not for that, she’d probably be dead.

The pair realize that this could be a crucial clue, and they run it through the system for details, courtesy of a house call at Manchado’s place. They find a number for Seville, and an address which happens to be a phone booth. So naturally, off the pair go on the train.

Anyway, Victor gets on the train and sobs as he looks over the footage of the night his mum died. The thing is, Victoria is still alive and given he’s not sticking around at home, he’s going to be targeted sooner or later. And where does he end up? On the same train as the others. What a coincidence!

Who is the real puppet master here?

Victoria isn’t the only one though, as Carmen boards the same train, suspecting something afoul. It’s here where we find out that Victoria was working in collusion with Victor, and even encouraged him to go after the others to get his vengeance. Victoria made him his weapon, and watched over the guy all this time, intentionally blowing his own office up and covering himself in the bath to avoid the worst of the explosion. He staged the entire incident, including ripping his clothes, hurting himself and piercing his thigh.

Victoria was the one who made the call to the Minister, using a voice-distorter, and used all of this as a ploy to get away.

Victoria is eventually burned by Victor on the train, while Victor goes a bit mad and starts burning up the roof of the train. It doesn’t cause a fireball though, but instead just burns a couple of bags either side of the baggage area. However, when his flamethrower stops working, Victor hits the emergency brake which somehow sends absolutely everyone flying up the train.

With everybody down, Amparo grabs a gun and shoots the canister on Victor’s back. It blows a hole in the train and also appears to kill some people too, given they’re taken out on stretchers.

Meanwhile, the police show up at the lair, where they find another charred body in the drains.

How does 1992 end?

The Flamethrower Murders has finally come to an end, and Teresa capitalizes on everything, putting herself forward as a candidate for a new party, founded on honesty and integrity.

Richi gives up drinking properly now, while he also gets closer to Amparo, who has decided to go to law school. Richi has been sober for a few months and he’s decided to go to rehab too. The pair have a newfound respect for one another and while it’s too soon to have dinner, they do agree to keep in touch.

The Episode Review

Deary me. So 1992 comes to an end with a conclusion that’s pretty laughable from a logic perspective. Even looking past all these characters being on the same train at the same time, the way that Victor is dispatched belies belief. Nobody is going to fly up the train that way, and Victor launching flames into the ceiling of a carriage would surely cause a fireball to spread throughout the carriages? It certainly wouldn’t have stopped him from burning.

But then that’s before mentioning the Minister’s secluded villa, where Victor rocks up like John Wick and just manages to kill all the guards one by one despite clearly not having any military or fighting background.

The other issue with this show stems from the characters. Richi and Amparo are so helplessly cliched but at least they get an arc. Robledo’s death is just here to drive the narrative forward and his replacement, Carmen, gets one episode where she gets involved just for the convenience of the plot before she’s quickly relegated to background fodder.

There have been a lot of contrivances throughout this series and while we do get a conclusive end to this tale, it’s not particularly memorable and feels like an exclamation point on the worst parts of this show.

This has been a poor series overall and unfortunately, not one to remember. What a shame.