Daniel’s heart stops for 64 seconds. He wakes up eight days after being shot surrounded by his loved ones: his father, Fermín, and Bea. All of Daniel’s friends, including Tomás Aguilar, come to visit him. He drifts off to sleep.

He wakes up to find Julián Carax in his room. Julián helps Daniel take a sip of water. Julián says farewell, and Daniel reads in his eyes that Julián never discovered that Penélope was his half-sister. Daniel asks Julián to take his pen back and to write with it.

When Daniel awakes again, Bea is there. Daniel asks where Carax is. Puzzled, Bea and the nurse say that no one came in or out of his room in the last six hours. When Daniel turns his head, the pen case is lying there empty.

Daniel and Bea marry in March. On the eve of his wedding, Fermín and Daniel keep their promise to the geriatric man in the hospice, who led them to Jacinta Coronado. Fermín purchases the favors of a prostitute, and they take her to the hospice, where she makes an old man extremely happy. When they ask to see Jacinta Coronado, they are told that she died two weeks before, after being visited by a mysterious man named Julián, who brought her news of her daughter, Penélope.