Gronda goes out to throw out the garbage before leaving, turns around and sees Estrellita.
Estrellita: "Hello."
Gronda: "Are you still here? ... Now I saw the photo of your play in the center."
Estrellita: "I almost feel sorry."
Gronda: "Why?...that's how I see you every day."
Estrellita: "The photographer said that he liked my face, I was supposed to be an extra and suddenly pumb, they gave me the star ... it was so sudden."
Gronda: "Finally, if you were able to fulfill it."
Estrellita: "What happened to yours?"
Gronda: "Let's just say I'm fine."
Estrellita: "I would like you to go see my performance, you encouraged me all the time."
Gronda: "Yes, I plan to go one day."
Estrellita: "I like being here with you, Arturo."
Gronda: "Really?"
Estrellita approaches Gronda.
Estrellita: "Do you want to say something, Arturo?".
Gronda really wants to do it.
Gronda: "I...he asked me, if you...".
But once again he gives up and represses his emotions.
Gronda: "Will you return to AAA one day?"
It's not what Estrellita expected.
Estrellita: "Always so mysterious, gargoyle man."
Estrellita touches Gronda's face, she caresses him.
Estrellita: "Arturo".
Gronda: "Bibiana".
Estrellita: "Have a happy birthday."
Estrellita leaves, but first tells her.
Estrellita: "I have a date tomorrow."
Gronda: "Therapy?"
Estrellita: "No, heh, heh...I'm going out with a man."
Gronda: "Any boyfriends?"
Estrellita: "Well, I like him."
Gronda curses softly.
Gronda: "Damn."
But Estrellita listens to him.
Estrellita: "What?".
Gronda: "No, nothing...well, how to say it, at the end of the day it's camaraderie."
Estrellita: "I think it could turn out to be more than that."
Gronda: "More?"
Estrellita: "I don't know."
Gronda quickly says.
Gronda: "I'll go see your play day after tomorrow."
Estrellita: "Really?"
Gronda: "I'll be there."
Estrellita: "Don't let me down."
Gronda: "Not even thinking about it."
After...
Gronda goes to his house, an apartment on Francisco Sarabia street, his landlord is another retired wrestler, in the encores he called himself El Apache... he is very strict with rent, El Apache plays cards with other fellow veteran wrestlers: Pirata Morgan and El Brazo while listening to Los Tigres del Norte.
El Apache: "Rent!".
Gronda: "Hello."
El Apache: "Lots of hi, and no payment."
Gronda: "They're going to pay me this week and...".
El Apache: "You're a month behind."
Gronda: "I promise that as soon as..."
El Apache: "If promises were cookies, my daughter would be fat."
His daughter is Faby Apache.
Pirata Morgan: "I wouldn't sell records so well at the tianguis."
El Brazo: "Neither do I meat in the market."
El Apache: "You see?".
Gronda: "Sorry, I only have this for the week."
El Apache takes the money from Gronda.
El Apache: "Feeling it doesn't solve anything, and don't try to avoid me, I have the ears of a cat."
Gronda: "Thank you." Sarcastic tone.
Faby Apache: "Hello Arturo."
Gronda enters him house, it's not much, but he's stable... every night he listens to the police on the radio, hoping to see how he can help.
In Villa Nicolas Romero...
El Elegido and Gronda travel by plane to Nicolás Romero to visit Chessman, he is in his personal gym training, while he supervises his project.
Kenzo Suzuki: "Chessman, Gronda and Elegido are here."
El Elegido: "My good Chessman, I can already feel the prizes close, mate."
Chessman: "Calm down, it's not about the awards...so you did come, Gronda."
El Elegido: "You know that the tournament in honor of El Cavernario Galindo is about to happen, this year they will choose teams of a heel and a face, Gronda is impatient to enter and...".
Gronda: "And I wanted to know if you and I could enter as a team."
Chessman: "Yes, that's being said all over the backstage, the truth is I didn't plan to fight this season... but Elegido gave me a space on his agenda, so we can fight this first round and then who knows.
El Elegido: "Ok, I'm going to a meeting, I'll leave the red team to chat, see you on Friday in Guadalajara, Chessman, good luck."
Elegido leaves.
Chessman: "He doesn't look like Latin Lover at all, I don't know where the comparison came from?"
Gronda: "Look, I was talking to Vampiro."
Chessman: "Gronda, Vampiro told me everything...you've been in trouble lately, you're brilliant...but lazy."
Gronda: "I always try to improve."
Chessman: "You do well, strength and intelligence is not a privilege, but a gift and must be used for the good of humanity."
That's when his wife, Liliana Zamora, arrives.
Liliana: "Kevin, let's eat."
Chessman: "Arturo, this is my wife Liliana, Liliana he is Gronda, the human gargoyle, the one who falls asleep during Vampiro training."
Liliana: "I also fell asleep in my first training, I didn't spend the first 10 minutes."
Chessman laughs. Gronda sees the sketch and plans of the Chessman machine.
Gronda: "Is that it, Chessman?"
Chessman: "Yes, my design to initiate and sustain the merger."
Gronda: "You use the harmony of atomic frequencies."
Chessman: "Sympathetic vibration, wow, you break the stereotype that strong men are big jerks."
Gronda: "Harmonic reinforcement?".
Chessman: "Go on."
Gronda: "An exponential increase in energy released."
Chessman: "Wow...am I looking at Lou Ferrigno or Manuel Sandoval Vallarta?...that's right, a lot of energy, like a perpetual sun that provides renewable energy for the world."
Gronda: "I admit it, Chessman, I didn't imagine you would do something like this."
Chessman: "That's why people shouldn't underestimate the minds of athletes like us."
Chessman invites Gronda to eat at his business; Chessman Snack. Huaraches of steak and pastor and pineapple water are served.
Gronda: "If your invention works, it will change our lives."
Chessman: "It's amazing and functional."
Gronda: "Can you stabilize the fusion reaction?"
Chessman: "Please, Gronda...didn't you understand?...it's my life's work, at this point I know the consequences of a bad calculation".
Liliana eats with them.
Gronda: "Don't worry, I didn't want to question you."
Chessman: "As you can see, Liliana, Arturo thinks I'm going to blow up the city."
Chessman laughs.
Chessman: "Sleep easy, friend, Chessman is never wrong."
Liliana: "He never lets her do anything, he goes to the show, I'll be there too. Kevin you should sleep well today."
Chessman: "Did Edison sleep before he turned on the light?"
Gronda: "Or Beethoven before writing the fifth."
Chessman: "Oh, my dear Arturo, I like you very much... so much so that today, in the afternoon, we go to that show at AAA and show that we are a duo."
Liliana: "Arturo, tell us a little about yourself... do you have a girlfriend?"
Gronda: "Well, ah, I couldn't tell."
Chessman: "If you don't know, who knows, the neighbor?"
Liliana: "Don't bother him too much, maybe it's a secret love."
Chessman: "Well, love shouldn't be a secret, if you leave something as complicated as love in there, it will hurt you a lot, I can say that I was lucky in love."
Liliana: "Both, dear, but it's not easy, you have to cultivate it... I met Kevin at a show in the coliseum arena."
Chessman: "Very true, I remember that I threw a suicide stop between the second and third rope, I fell with the front row audience, there I saw her, the first thing she said to me is..."what beautiful eyes you have"".
They both laugh.
Chessman: "After the show, we talked in dressing rooms and he told me about a certain T.S. Eliot, pure poetry, I never understood it well."
Lilian laughs.
Liliana: "So it says."
Chessman: "A tip my friend, if you want a good woman in your life, give her poetry."
Gronda: "I'm surprised coming from you."
Chessman: "Just as you see me as cursed, I have another side."
They both laugh. Later that night, they both go to a Lucha Libre show where they team up and face Charly Manson and Pirata Morgan, Gronda knocks out Charly Manson after a Chokeslam while Chessman knocks out Pirata Morgan with a Spear, does the count of three and take the victory with a standing ovation.
