“I’m going to hunt down Cardo Dalisay, and I will make him pay for this. His own life, in exchange for yours.”
Cardo and the Vendetta storm their way through some goons and after taking them down, they dash for the cars that are on standby and off they go. Psyçhö Marco and his minions hijack a random car and give chase. In the tenement at Legarda, the authorities take care of the aftermath of the operation gone horribly wrong.
A news report on TV states the presumed number of casualties in the encounter between the Vendetta and the police. And of course they lay the whole blame on the Vendetta. While Psyçhö Marco and his men pursue the Vendetta, Catherine nags her husband with worries of her son’s safety and Lucas shuts her up.
The high-speed chase continues, with Marco’s group raining bûllēts on the fleeing vigilantes. While Peng sadly informs his mother and the girls about the dëåths of Happy and Barakuda, our favorite hero begins to return fire. On account of the tragic incident at the tenement, General Borja resolves to have a serious talk with Andi.
Delfin interrogates the girls about their connection to the Vendetta but they deny having had anything to do with them. Without warning, Andi admits that they’ve been helping Cardo and the Vendetta. She also admits to helping Cardo and Romulo escape from the hospital. Miss Becky and Peng recount how they had been saved from life threatening situations by the group.
They declare that they’re no criminals, unlike vice president Cabrera and Hipolito. Still, Delfin states that the Vendetta’s actions are unlawful in spite of their good intentions. Marco and his men continue to chase and fire at our favorite hero and his comrades in two separate vehicles.
“Anton, pull over,” Cardo says after a while. “We’re gonna end this, right now.”
Miss Becky and the girls tell Delfin of the praiseworthy things the Vendetta has done, from preventing the election fraud to brother Lorenzo’s kidnãpping. Andi reminds Delfin that his grandson isn’t a bad person but only wants to fight for what is right. Delfin relates with her but still wants to find the group so they could put an end to everything.
The girls then declare that they would never give up the Vendetta even if they knew their whereabouts. The Vendetta pull over in their three separate jeeps and they step out onto the road. They take their positions, guñs at the ready. Psyçhö Marco advances, screaming out his lungs and firing from his car. Cardo and his comrades return the favor and riddle the advancing car and Marco’s body with a barrage of bûllēts.
Even when the car crashes, the Vendetta doesn’t lighten their offensive until both cars have been lighted up and burning. Alyana looks on from the safety of one of the jeeps, spellbound at the demise of her once illëgâl boyfriend, the one and only Psyçhö Marco. Good riddance to mädnêss overload. At home, Vice president Cabrera receives a call of grave meaning.
While the authorities work the crime scene, Chikoy notifies Billy and Vargas that the body brought to the hospital was Marco Cabrera’s. Well, this is pretty stüpïd. So the psyçhö survived even after being riddled with bûllēts and getting blown up too? Again, pretty stüpïd I say.
Vice president Cabrera and his wife hurry to the hospital, only to be informed by the doctor of their son’s passing. The doctor says the psyçhö had lost too much blood but if you ask me, I’d say she was spewing nonsense. Who dies out of blood loss after being blown up?!
In a car for that matter! Anyway, Catherine begins to make a fuss and Lucas consoles her. Later that night, the Vendetta arrived in a different neighborhood where George had grown up. Lucas and Catherine come to see their dëmėnted dead son’s body at the morgue.
Catherine is inconsolable but we don’t sympathize with her because we’ve always known that she and her psyçhö son had it coming. She and her entire family are so despicable. Lucas hands his wife over to Menchu to comfort her before turning to Marco’s corpse and vowing to avenge him.
“I’m going to hunt down Cardo Dalisay, and I will make him pay for this. His own life, in exchange for yours.”
President Hidalgo tells his family of how Marco had been shôt and rushed to the hospital. Marissa asks what he had been doing in Legarda in the first place and Oscar states that according to witnesses who were nowhere to be seen on the scene, the Psyçhö had fought the Vendetta. As if that’s not enough föolishñess for one day, the president also says that it was Cardo who günñed down Marco.
Cardo alone and no one else. Such idiōts. Andi has a talk with General Borja and makes it known that she’s ready to face the consequences of her actions. She strives to let him see that though he and Cardo have different convictions, they both have the same objective – to search for truth and justice.
Meanwhile, George leads the members of the Vendetta to his aunt’s place. Lucas receives a phone call from Hipolito who sympathizes with his son’s dëāth. Delfin pays a visit to his family and informs them that according to his investigation, it wasn’t Cardo’s group who k!lled all those policemen and civilians but Homer’s.
Flora urges him to relay the information to president Hidalgo so they would stop hunting down her grandson but Delfin is reluctant since the president is a “lamebrain” who believes that there’s an alliance between Cardo and Homer’s group. Grandma Flora woefully reveals to her brother how Cardo and Alyana had come over for a visit prior to the incident at Legarda.
In the meantime, the wounded members of Vendetta are treated by Nico, George’s cousin who happens to be a veterinarian. They’re allowed to stay for a while since they have nowhere else to go. At the safe house, Hipolito berates Homer’s group for failing to do the job they had been given which had led to the dëāth of Lucas’ son.
“So it was Dalisay,” Homer grumbles. “Why doesn’t he take out his anger on him?”
“You guys are also to blame here,” Hipolito argues. “If you’d already finished off Vendetta like you promised, Cabrera’s son wouldn’t have been a casualty.”
“There’s no one else to blame but his own son himself. It’s he who didn’t use his head.”
“Don’t make excuses,” Hipolito retorts. “If Cabrera says it’s over for you, then it’s over.”
Lucas goes to see his not-so-dead despicable son at the city jail. Brandon is upset over his brother’s dëāth so he’s eager to get out of prison so he and his wonderful father would bury our favorite hero in his grave. Forget the funeral.
At the Palace, General Borja strives to make Oscar see that Cardo’s group weren’t in cahoots with Homer’s and neither were they responsible for the dëåths of the countless policemen and civilians. The lamebrain president refuses to listen and resolves to whine to the General like an impossible and irritating nagging wife.
Hipolito charges his men to stay indoors until there’s a task from the vice president. When Homer offers to deal with Lucas so no one dictates to him, Hipolito lashes out at him and reminds him that Lucas is the one in power.
The Vulture tells his minions that if he’s to return to power and be in position again, then Lucas has to be convinced that he’s on his side. Homer smirks and asks if Hipolito is on their side. At camp Crame, General Borja deliberates with his men about how Homer’s group had found out about the hideout of Cardo and the Vendetta.
They realize that it was vice president Cabrera who had given the information to Hipolito, who in turn had relayed it to Homer and his dëāth squad. On this note, they plan to find evidence of Homer’s connection to the vice president. The members of the Vendetta sadly sit around the table outside. Soriano who’s seated inside with Jerome, fears for their safety in the clutches of the Vendetta.
However, Jerome is certain that no harm would come to them as long as Cardo is around. He considers reaching out to General Borja. At the safe house. Homer throws a fit over the betrayal of Bubbles. Cue in his men to prompt him that they need to restore their reputation with Lucas by finding and taking down the Vendetta.
“Alright. I’ll go find Bubbles,” Homer declares. “Because I’m quite sure wherever that traitor is, that’s where the Vendetta is.”
