Bandidos Season 2’s ending was centered around the titular group trying to retrieve a precious jewel called the Tear of Fire from the clutches of Regina. Why? Well, the story goes something like this. Lili, whose original name was Carlota, was Regina’s stepsister, and the former had killed Regina’s biological father and gone on the run. After discovering her whereabouts, Regina compelled Lili to use her friends to get the Tear of Fire as a form of reparation. Fearing for their lives, Lili, Miguel, Octavio, Ines, Lucas, and Citlali spent the entire show searching, failing, and then searching some more for this fabled treasure. When they eventually got to the cave that housed the costly piece of stone, Regina, Ariel, Pepa (the gangster who belonged to the Mayan tribe that was the rightful owner of the Tear of Fire), and the landowner whose wife had cheated on him with Miguel surrounded the Bandidos to get their hands on the prize. Regina’s right-hand man, Mano, killed Pepa and the landowner, while Regina took the jewel. When Mano refused to kill Ines’ son, Alex, a shootout ensued, which led to the death of Octavio. So, Lili, Miguel, Ines, Lucas, and Citlali hatched a plan to defeat Regina once and for all. Did they succeed? Let’s find out.
Spoiler Alert
A Failed Heist
After acquiring the Tear of Fire from the Bandidos, Regina decides to hold a gala to display the jewel in front of all of Mexico, I guess. Regina knows that Lili is going to try to steal it. Lili knows that Regina knows that she is going to try to steal the jewel. Regina knows that Lili knows that she knows that an attempt at stealing the jewel will be made. Anyway, the thieves split up into three teams of two. Lucas and Citlali are assigned to hit the casinos, because one can’t expect a jewel to entertain the guests for too long. Ines and Miguel are sent to the vault in the hopes that that’s where the real version of the jewel is being kept. Meanwhile, Lili and Leo plan to hit the display room despite knowing that the jewel that’s there is a fake.
Once Lucas and Citlali are done manipulating the slot machines, Citlali goes to the lobby while Lucas goes to the vault, where Ines and Miguel are drilling, so that he can remotely lower Lili into the display room. As soon as Lili touches the jewel, Regina and the guards surround her. Leo jumps his bike off the terrace of the building adjacent to the building where the gala is happening, enters the display chamber, and rescues Lili. The vault is rigged with explosives that go off and apparently kill Miguel, Ines, and Lucas. Leo and Citlali manage to escape, but Lili gets caught. At the police station, she confesses to Carmen, Ines’ ex-flame and a police officer, and admits that the Bandidos did what they did to get back at Regina. Carmen tells her to sign her confession letter, but she refuses. Canche and Regina, who have been watching Lili and Carmen’s conversation from the viewing room in the interrogation chamber, briefly talk about Lili’s fate and how Spain is requesting her extradition so that she can be tried for allegedly killing Regina’s father, i.e., Lili’s stepfather. Regina thinks that this is the end of Lili. Hence, she walks into the interrogation room to have a chat with her stepsister, not knowing that she is actually walking into a trap.
Regina Is Arrested
Here’s a little backstory. When Lili was known as Carlota and she was just a child, she was dropped at the doorstep of Ramon Valdes, a dangerous man who dealt in diamonds and guns. Regina hated Carlota, and that turned her into a bit of a menace. Valdes apparently noticed that and cut Regina out of his will, leaving Lili to inherit it all. The official story is that Lili killed Valdes, took the inheritance money, changed her name, and went on the run. Since then, Regina has been looking for her, and she wants the money that is rightfully hers. Now, even though Regina has the Tear of Fire, which is probably worth more than the money Lili inherited, she wants her to give it up. Lili says that Ramon was actually her biological father and that’s why the act of giving her the money is legitimate. What’s not legitimate is the allegation that Lili killed Ramon Valdes; it’s actually Regina who did it because she was jealous of the relationship between Lili and Ramon, and then she pinned the blame on Lili and made her a wanted criminal.
When Lili asks Regina if she carried out the murder all by herself or if she needed help, Regina blurts out that it was all her doing. Regina is supposed to be this mastermind crook who is a thousand steps ahead of everyone in the world. However, because the plot requires her to be an idiot, she forgets that she is in an interrogation room and confesses to murdering her own father. An interrogation room has video and audio recorders. Even if you can’t see them, they’re there. That’s why it’s called an interrogation room. Every streetside crook knows that, but Regina’s brain conveniently switches off because this is the final episode of the show, and the writers want Lili to win even though it makes no narrative or logical sense. Of course, Regina gets arrested and sent to jail. What about the heist and the Tear of Fire, though?
Season 3 Expectations
Despite getting seriously wounded during the shootout in the cave where the jewel was found, Mano apparently alerted Xime (the househelp who looks after Miguel’s amnesiac father) about the fact that the whole Tear of Fire gala presentation was a trap for the Bandidos. Xime conveniently made her way to the vault and stopped Miguel, Ines, and Lucas from dying in an explosion caused by the bomb that was rigged to blow. When everyone was safe, Lucas set off the explosion, and, with the help of Canche (who was paid off by Ariel, who switched sides to get the Tear of Fire into his museum), he entered the morgue, along with Miguel and Ines, in body bags. Please, don’t question the logic behind sending three unscathed bodies to the morgue. Also, don’t question how an audio confession got someone of Regina’s stature arrested and how Lili got the clean chit for allegedly murdering Ramon Valdes. Let’s move on to the important stuff.
In Bandidos Season 2’s ending, the titular treasure hunters (along with Leo and Pachita) give away the Tear of Fire to Ariel so that it can be displayed in the museum and get millions of dollars in return. Pachita promises to use the money she got to pay off some of the inmates in the prison that Regina is in so that she can get a taste of her own medicine. But if that audio confession doesn’t hold any water, then Regina is definitely coming back to haunt the Bandidos, especially Lili, in the yet-to-be-announced Season 3 of the show. Lucas and Citlali plan to go to China once Citlali is done breaking up with her current boyfriend, German. So, maybe we’ll see them conducting some heists over in Asia; there’s a whole host of valuable items to choose from. Carmen gives Ines the offer to rejoin the police and resume their romantic relationship as well, but Ines chooses to go on a vacation with her son, Alex. Miguel heads off to Turkey with his father so that he can experience some form of adrenaline rush before his mind totally fails him. Lili is seen examining the brooch that Ramon gave her while he was taking his last breath, and I guess she figures out that the jewels in that ornament are her inheritance money. Or maybe she notices the directions to the inheritance money that are etched into that brooch? I don’t know. It’s too vague to decipher, but if Netflix decides to greenlight a third season of Bandidos after this abysmal second season, maybe we’ll get the answer to the mystery around Lili’s brooch.
