The six-episode first season of Time Flies, the Argentine crime drama, wrapped up with a tense finale that revealed the full extent of a wealthy client’s revenge plot. The show follows ex-convicts and business partners Ines and Manca, who struggle to build a new life with their pest control company after prison. A dangerous offer from a client, Susana Bonar, drags them back into a world of crime and uncovers a deeply personal story of grief and denial. The finale answered the season’s biggest mystery: who Bonar wanted to poison and why.
The Setup: A Desperate Deal for Deadly Poison
After their release from prison, Ines and Manca try to stay afloat with their fumigation business, but money is tight. Their situation becomes critical when Manca discovers a lump in her breast and cannot afford the immediate medical care she needs. This financial desperation leads Ines to listen when a client, the wealthy and eccentric Susana Bonar, makes a shocking proposal.
Bonar asks Ines to use her criminal contacts to obtain a rare, lethal poison. She spins a story about wanting to kill her abusive husband, appealing to Ines’s own past of violence against her husband’s mistress. Bonar offers a large sum of money upfront, which Ines sees as a way to pay for Manca’s urgent cancer treatment. Although Manca is fiercely against the deal, Ines feels she has no other choice to save her friend and accepts the advance payment.
Manca’s Investigation Uncovers Disturbing Clues
While Ines works on getting the poison, Manca’s suspicions about Bonar grow. She begins her own investigation, discovering that Bonar’s story is full of lies. First, she learns that Bonar’s husband has been dead for years. She then finds a more alarming connection: Bonar got Ines’s business contact information from a woman named Lilliana Villanueva. Lilliana is the sister of Charo, the woman Ines killed fifteen years ago.
This discovery makes Ines and Manca believe Bonar’s plan is an act of revenge for Charo’s death. However, the plot thickens when they find out Lilliana is also dead, complicating the motive. Manca’s digging also reveals that Bonar has a strange connection to Ines’s estranged adult daughter, Lali, who has recently re-entered Ines’s life with her own young daughter, Guille. Bonar has been secretly meeting with Lali and Guille, a fact she hides from Ines.
Bonar’s True Motive: Grief, Denial, and Revenge
The finale reveals that Bonar’s plan has nothing to do with Ines’s past crime. Her target is not Ines, but her own daughter, Lali. The reason stems from a personal tragedy. Bonar once had a child named Tamara, who later came out as transgender and transitioned to living as a boy named Timo.
Bonar could not accept her child’s gender identity. She refused to acknowledge Timo, instead keeping Tamara’s old bedroom as a shrine and even pretending to receive letters and packages from her “daughter”. Timo found acceptance outside his home, particularly with a supportive high school counselor—who was Lali. Tragedy struck when Timo was killed while defending a friend at a house party.
Bonar was called to identify her child’s body but refused, claiming the young man was not her “daughter”. Stuck in deep denial about both Timo’s transition and his death, Bonar twisted her grief into blame. She held Lali responsible for accepting and supporting Timo, believing this encouragement led to her loss.
“She blamed Lali for accepting and encouraging Tamara’s gender transition. The Time Flies finale suggested Bonar was more distraught about Timo’s transition than his death”.
Her revenge plan was to make Lali feel the same profound loss. She intended to poison Lali’s daughter, Guille, right in front of her.
The Final Confrontation: A Race Against Time
The climax of the season occurs on the day of Manca’s crucial cancer surgery. Bonar hosts a party, inviting only Lali and Guille. As she serves a poisoned smoothie to the young girl, Manca’s cousin Rodie, who had been following Bonar’s movements, alerts Ines to the danger.
Ines races to Bonar’s home, leaving the hospital where Manca is undergoing her operation. She arrives to find Guille has already consumed the drink and is beginning to show symptoms. Ines breaks into the house, which triggers the security system and automatically alerts the police. The authorities arrive in time to rush Guille to the hospital, where doctors are able to save her life with detoxification procedures.
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The Aftermath: Consequences and a Bittersweet Escape
Ines succeeds in saving her granddaughter, but her actions have legal consequences. She provided the poison and committed other crimes to obtain it. Despite Lali and Guille speaking in her defense in court, Ines is sentenced to an additional six months in prison.
On a brighter note, the money from Bonar paid for Manca’s surgery, which is successful. She is declared cancer-free. When Ines is released, the two friends reunite. In a final act that shows how hard it is for them to escape their old patterns, they concoct a plan to steal back the cash deposit they paid for Manca’s hospital treatment.
The series ends with Ines and Manca on a beach, enjoying cocktails, having secured a temporary escape from their struggles. The final scene suggests that despite their best efforts, their circumstances continue to pull them toward risky choices, leaving their future uncertain but their friendship intact.
Where to Watch Time Flies
All six episodes of Time Flies Season 1 are available to stream globally on Netflix. The series is in Spanish with subtitle and dub options available.
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