María de la O orders Baeza to kill Conrado, who manages to escape and offers to collaborate with Pontecorvo in exchange for protection.
Mateo and Valerio exhume German's corpse and corroborate he was also murdered by Ledesma. Zuniga takes advantage of the plague, the famine and the popular uprisings to negotiate with the Assistant and persuade him to open the city's harbour to allow the fleet from America to unload the shipments.—AnonymousB