Tili Kidnaps Matei
Episode 4 of Subteran starts with the aftermath of the police raid, where Golescu is investigating the incident. Vasile shows Golescu a video posted on an underground telegram channel that criminals used to brag about their criminal activities.
Golescu reveals to the media that one police officer was killed and another was hospitalised. He also shows the video posted on the telegram channel. Also, Golescu releases the video of Bones taken from the Bucharest hotel.
Dracu and Tili react instantly shooting the two gang members who posted the video in telegram. They hesitate to shoot Bones and Cami since she is still holding the laptop and they need answers from Bones.
Bones had anticipated such a scenario happening and had earlier hidden a stun bomb and secretly told Cami to run when he gives the signal. Dracu and Tili are caught off-guard when Bones sets off the bomb, but Cami manages to escape.
The police soon arrive at the scene. Tili and Dracu are summoned back home by Tanase. Cami hides under a parked car and is separated from Bones. Left stranded, Cami goes back to the police scene and asks to talk to the prosecutor. She is then forced to run when she notices Vasile looking at her. She tries to call her mother using a phone borrowed from a waitress, but the call is not answered. Meanwhile, Bones escapes the scene disguised as an EMT officer.
Next, Tanase confronts Tili and Dracu for losing his money and his favourite daughter, Crisi. Tanase criticises Tili for her past bad behaviour, saying that Crisi is the only daughter who still has a chance.
After their mother’s death, Tili became involved in violent behaviour, including drugs and murder, and Tanase was forced to constantly clean up her mess. Tanase says that he had promised his dying wife to always protect Crisi and he intends to do so. Also, Tanase finds Crisi’s passport, which means that she did not go to Dubai.
Tanase orders them to find Crisi and his money as soon as possible. We learn that Tanase is anxious about the upcoming deal because it is his ticket to going legal. Tili and Dracu are infuriated since Tanase only cares about his business going clean and Crisi. She tells Dracu that they are both liabilities to his plan to become clean and therefore they have to look out for each other.
With nowhere else to go, Cami decides to go back to her apartment. She uses a burner phone to call her mother, but Bones arrives before they can talk and disconnects the call. They have a showdown about Bones hiding the fact that he was at the hotel room when Luca was killed, but Bones explains the situation.
Cami successfully decrypts Bank’s laptop, finding incriminating information regarding Tanase’s organisation and the crypto. Bones and Cami have to run soon after because Dracu and Tili find her address. However, she manages to download all the information from the laptop to her phone.
Tili and Dracu break into her apartment and find the connection between Cami and Luca. Tili is heartbroken by the possibility that Crisi might be dead. While they are still at the apartment, Crisi’s mother calls her back, and the number is recorded in the countryside.
They find the address to the countryside written on the back of one of the photos pinned on the fridge. At the same time, Bones and Cami take a taxi to the same countryside address. However, one of the taxi drivers is a spy for the Tanase organisation, so he leaks Cami and Bone’s whereabouts to Tili and Dracu.
A glimpse into the investigation shows Golescu arriving at the hospital to check on Tatu. Mrs Tatu is waiting for Tatu to wake up at his bedside. Golescu makes small talk and then asks to take Tatu’s phone, which is on the bedside table for evidence.
Back to Bones and Cami, their taxi makes a pit stop to fuel and for them to buy some water. While inside the store, Bones notices one of Tanase’s men who has caught up to them beat their driver and locked him in a van.
The man then changes into the driver’s clothes and waits in the car for them. However, Bones already had a plan in mind. He buys a charging cable, which he uses to strangle the man as his son as he enters the car. Bones and Cami kick the man out of the taxi and drive themselves the rest of the way to the countryside.
Meanwhile, Tili is the first to arrive at the countryside. Cami’s mother is a quick thinker, and when she hears the motorbike outside her compound, she instructs Matei to run out the back door. She then lets in Tili just as Cami tries to frantically call her mother’s phone. Tili knocks out Cami’s mom and takes the phone. Matei sees everything from outside the fence and starts to run away as instructed by his grandmother.
Cami and Bones arrive at the countryside house to find Cami’s mother unconscious. The episode ends when Cami receives a call from Tili showing her that they have kidnapped Matei.
The Episode Review
The ending gives Bones a dilemma. Tanase is most likely to ask for the evidence in exchange for Matei. Will Bones choose to bring down Tanase’s organisation with the evidence, or use it to save Matei?
The episode expounds on the dysfunctional kinship in Tanase’s family. He clearly favours Crisi over Tili, which adds to the anxiety of wondering what he will do when he finds out that Bones and Cami killed his favourite daughter.
The cliffhanger ending and the change in Cami’s demeanour after the call sets us up for a possible fierce confrontation in the upcoming episodes. It is worth noting that Cami’s parents were both police officers, so Cami can likely become a fierce person when backed into a corner. How far is Cami willing to go to protect Matei?
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