The ending of the 6-part Argentinian caper is quite positive for the kind of show the first 5 episodes make us believe it is. The Netflix original tells the story of two criminals, or heroines, whatever you’d like to call them, who are trying to get their act together after spending years in prison. Their attempt to go back to an earnest life (by running a fumigation business) is ruined when a woman asks Ines, one of the two women, to bring her a dangerous poison. Ines agrees only because Manca, the second of them, is suffering from cancer and needs treatment. What follows is a convoluted mess where the women, well, mainly the sick Manca, discover what’s really going on with Susan Bonar, their client, and why she wanted Ines specifically to buy the poison. How do Ines and Manca discover the truth? Do they get a happy ending? Does Ines reunite with her estranged daughter and granddaughter? Let’s find out in Time Flies’ ending.
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Why Does Bonar Want Lali and Guille Dead?
Before we get to Susan Bonar, we need to first get to the beginning of this story. Ines was a happily married woman with a beautiful daughter 15 years ago. However, the big stain in her life was that her husband was cheating on her, and she knew about this, along with everyone in the neighborhood. It was basically an open secret. While she dealt with it quietly initially, on her husband’s birthday, when he was the only person who showed up late, Ines grew enraged. Ines’ rage didn’t turn towards her husband, though; it went straight to his mistress. And one day, when the cheaters are catching up on a date, after he’s clearly neglected Ines back at home, Ines decides to run over his mistress, leaving her dead. This is when she went to prison and then met her current best friend, Manca, who now has a lump in her breast. Here, we can understand that Ines has always been quiet and self-preserving. She cared about status, she lived a lavish life, and she wanted to be looked up to. However, when her husband didn’t respect her wishes, she turned hostile. It’s not that Ines was an evil woman; she grew to hate her life because she didn’t say anything to address her resentment until it grew like a volcano inside of her and led her to commit murder.
At the time, after driving back home with nothing on her mind, Ines learned that her teenage daughter was pregnant. She told her it would be okay, and she could have the child if she wished, but then went to prison for 15 years, leaving her daughter all alone. However, Lali grew up to be a great mother, and Ines’ granddaughter, Guille, is an absolute beauty, whose appearance everyone comments on. Anyway, because they’re estranged, Ines stays away from her daughter, claiming she’s not anybody’s grandmother. But this all comes back to haunt her later. You can tell Lali’s intuition and her change of heart come from being abandoned, almost. I don’t think Ines was a bad mother, but because she was suffering herself, she didn’t have enough time to pay attention to her daughter, who, instead of resenting her mother, chose to ignore her. Lali doesn’t even seem to care when her mother shows up again after so many years and doesn’t even bother greeting her until it’s essentially too late.
Sometimes you turn into the thing you need the most, and for Lali, that’s a psychiatrist who helps teens. Lali works at a school, the same one her daughter Guille goes to, and there, she makes a friend named Tamara. Only Tamara transitions and becomes Timo. This is when Bonar comes in. Bonar is actually Timo’s mother, and after his transition, she denied the idea of having a transitioned child. Susan even talks about struggling to have children, and how Tamara came after a lot of treatment and IVFs. But ultimately, she felt betrayed when her daughter didn’t want to be a daughter anymore. Moreover, Timo transitioned on his own with no support from his parents, so obviously, his first contact was the school counsellor. This is when he started talking to Lali, his friend Guille’s mother. Now you see the connection, no?
Well, Bonar finds Ines through Liliana Villanueva, who happens to be the sister of her husband’s mistress. Liliana’s always wanted revenge, so she gives Bonar the fumigation company details. Hence, she becomes a client of Ines and Manca and proceeds to lure her into a trap. To be fair, Bonar doesn’t really care what happens to Ines, she only wants Lali to pay for “what she did to her daughter.” Now, to make matters worse, Timo died two years earlier, while he was with Guille. She couldn’t do anything to save him, and later, Bonar denied the kid being hers. She said her child is Tamara, not Timo, and she still believes so. After all this time, she’s still got a room full of girly things that she believes her daughter will come back to (sigh). Somehow, despite being in denial, Bonar blames Lali and Guille and wants them dead. Bonar’s revenge stems from her discontentment with her son’s transition. She feels like she’s done wrong in raising this child she wanted so desperately. Like she’s done something wrong, which is why she looks for the easiest solution, blaming the one person who actually cared to listen to what Timo had to say.
Oftentimes, children become guinea pigs for parents who are desperate just for the one thing: being a parent. I think this is what happens with Susan Bonar, who finally had everything she wanted: a daughter to dress up and train to be obedient. But that’s not what happened. Tamara turned against Bonar, and she had no idea how to deal with this, so she chose violence instead. It’s possible that if she’d looked after her son and given him a place in her heart, he might not have found himself in a situation where he could so easily end up dead. Maybe he wouldn’t have felt like he needed to attend shady parties at all. So, ultimately, it’s her guilt that drives her to take revenge for something that Lali and Guille never did.
How Does Ines Save Her Granddaughter?
Over the course of the show, Manca does all the research and finds out exactly what Bonar wants. But she can’t connect the final dots, which Ines herself figures out. When Manca tells Ines that her daughter is walking into Bonar’s house, Ines immediately knows intuitively that the poison that she herself procured is for her daughter and granddaughter. By the time Ines makes it to the house, Guille has already had the smoothie that’s laced with the poison. She’s also taken a video of Timo’s room, a shrine of pink. Despite the poison being one of the most dangerous in the world, Ines is able to save Guille, and fortunately, Lali never had any. It’s because Ines broke into the house that the authorities showed up in time to take Guille away. However, feeling guilty for the blunder that she’s made, Ines confesses to having procured the poison for Susan. Additionally, Susan drinks the smoothie herself, which means she’s dead now.
But saving Guille doesn’t change the fact that Ines hasn’t been around for Lali, and that she made a terrible mistake in killing a woman all those years ago. She definitely faces the consequences for the rest of her life, because this relationship is not repaired and will likely never be. Lali does talk in court in Ines’ defense though, and Ines gets 6 months in prison for procuring the poison. However, when she comes out again, things are very different.
What Happens to Ines and Manca?
In Time Flies’ ending, Ines and Manca decide to do yet another heist before heading to the beach, as they’d always planned. They decide to pull off a robbery, using their fumigation truck and equipment and running away on a bike. I guess they’ll forever be on the run now that they’ve committed another crime, but hey, Manca’s free of cancer because she got her surgery done while Ines was in prison, and they’re now happy, or at least the happiest they’ll ever be. Maybe someday Ines will reunite with Lali and her two kids and get to know them, but for now, she’s an independent woman who has experienced the consequences of her mistakes.
I don’t think you can say that these two women will ever truly be free, because the things Ines has done will eventually come back to haunt her. I mean, she nearly was the reason her own granddaughter died. Also, why did she choose to kill the mistress and not Ernesto, the man who truly hurt her? Maybe because she wasn’t thinking straight, or maybe because she thought at least he’d be a good dad. We don’t really see anything about him after the mistress’ death, so I guess that didn’t work out either. So while the ending does seem blissful, I don’t think the lives of these two women will ever be. Maybe if Ines had chosen to kill her cheating husband instead of the other woman, things would’ve turned out very differently. Maybe Lali would’ve stayed in touch, and maybe there would’ve never been a Susan Bonar in their lives. Instead, Ines, Manca and Lali could’ve possibly lived a happy life with their growing family.
What Can We Expect From Season 2?
While there’s no official announcement for a renewal of Time Flies, and the series seems to end on a happy note that makes it look like this story is over, if we had to theorize, I can imagine this petty thieving that Manca and Ines have just started could balloon into an actual business. Once a criminal, always a criminal? Don’t think that applies to everybody, but for these two, the way things turned out and how all other avenues and doors seem closed, there’s a chance they’d want to keep criming, but stay out of prison this time. I don’t think either of the women is evil, or wants to do “bad,” they just need their lives to be exciting and happy, so this is what I expect them to do. On the other hand, just maybe there’s a chance of Lali coming back in Ines’ life, or rather Ines trying to find a way to break through and actually be a part of her grandkids’ life.
