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* PrisonChangesYou: Before going to prison, Lorena was a suburban wife and mother. By the time the first series ends, she has joined the designer drug smuggling operation, become addicted, killed La Bambi in self-defense, and entered into a relationship with La Colombiana.

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* AssholeVictim: Some of the inmates, but the best example would be Lorena killing La Bambi, a vicious gang leader. Or La Saiko attacking [[spoiler:human trafficker Zaide, biting off a piece of her ear]].



* DyingDeclarationOfLove: [[spoiler: Patrick]] to Lorena, in the second series finale.

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* TheDogBitesBack: La Bambi tries to kill Lorena, not anticipating Lorena would fight back in a drug-fueled stupor and bludgeon her to death.
* DyingDeclarationOfLove: [[spoiler: Patrick]] Patrick (Lorena's ex)]] to Lorena, in the second series finale.



* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: La Saiko. Her name is the phonetic spelling of the word "psycho". [[spoiler:She ends up biting off a piece of another inmate's ear.]]

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* MisplacedRetribution: La Saiko's backstory involves being a victim of HumanTrafficking as a child. She eventually attacks [[spoiler:Zaide, a madam involved in trafficking East European young women, biting off a piece of her ear]].
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: La Saiko. Her name is the Spanish phonetic spelling rendition of the word "psycho". [[spoiler:She ends up biting off a piece of another inmate's ear.]]

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* AssholeVictim: Some of the inmates, but the best example would be Lorena killing La Bambi.

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* AssholeVictim: Some of the inmates, but the best example would be Lorena killing La Bambi.Bambi, a vicious gang leader. Or La Saiko attacking [[spoiler:human trafficker Zaide, biting off a piece of her ear]].


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* NoMatterHowMuchIBeg: Lorena beats an inmate to death and nearly kills another while under the influence of drugs. Ashamed of herself and determined to get clean, she handcuffs herself to the bars of her cell. Then she gives the keys to La Colombiana, with instructions to NOT release her no matter what.
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* PrisonRape: it's an HBO drama set in a woman's prison. Enough said. It is the main reason why Antonia begs to be transferred to a woman's prison, as being a transwoman in the overcrowded men's prison leads to this.

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* PrisonRape: it's an HBO drama set in a woman's prison. Enough said.
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It is the main reason why Antonia begs to be transferred to a woman's prison, as prison; being a transwoman in the overcrowded men's prison leads prisons has made her a target for this.
** Inmate Yolanda terrorizes a young new inmate [[spoiler:(Andrea, Teresa's daughter)]] and is about
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* AbortionFalloutDrama: La Negra rubs in Sofia's face that her husband has been imprisoned for stealing money to get her released. She goes to the showers and [[SelfSurgery does the job herself]]. She nearly bleeds out.



* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Averted with Sofia; she [[SelfSurgery does the job herself]] and nearly bleeds out.

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* LanguageBarrier: Guadalupe is in Capadocia for the murder of her employer. It is not until Teresa tracks an interpreter for Guadalupe, an Indigenous inmate who does not speak Spanish, that she can tell anybody about her baby being left behind at the alleged murder victim's home ([[ImprobableInfantSurvival he turns out to be OK when Teresa finds him even though it must have been days]]) and that she was framed by the victim's husband. When he is arrested, Guadalupe is released.



* OffingTheOffspring: Magos's backstory. Her husband beat her and molested their children. To spare them, she poisoned their dinner.

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* OffingTheOffspring: Magos's backstory. Her husband beat her and molested their children. To spare them, she poisoned their dinner. Magos is horrified to learn that her husband continues to have sex with her one surviving daughter, now an adult.



* PoorCommunicationKills: Guadalupe is an indigenous housekeeper who doesn't speak Spanish. She is arrested after being framed for murder. No one understands what she is trying to say as she is taken away, so her baby is left behind all by himself. Fortunately, Teresa does arrange for an interpreter in time to find out why Guadalupe is so distressed and the baby is found.
* PrisonRape: it's an HBO drama set in a woman's prison. Enough said.

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* PoorCommunicationKills: Guadalupe is an indigenous housekeeper who doesn't speak Spanish. She is arrested after being framed for murder. No one understands what murder by the victim's husband. The arresting officers ignore her as she screams when she is trying to say as she is taken taking away, so and no one realizes that her baby is was left behind all by himself. Fortunately, Teresa does arrange for an interpreter in time to find out why Guadalupe is so distressed and the baby is found.
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* PrisonRape: it's an HBO drama set in a woman's prison. Enough said. It is the main reason why Antonia begs to be transferred to a woman's prison, as being a transwoman in the overcrowded men's prison leads to this.
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Teresa Lagos, the prison governor, and Federico Marcos, ECSO's employee and representative in the prison, have constant disagreements regarding the inmates' rights and treatment. Unknown to most except Federico and a few inmates and wardens, ECSO uses the prison as a front for drug trafficking through Cautiva, a rehabilitation program where inmates sew lingerie. The secondary storyline covers Lorena Guerra (Creator/AnaDeLaReguera), an upper-middle class stay-at-home mother who accidentally kills her best friend, after catching her having sex with her husband. She is imprisoned and transferred to Capadocia.

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Teresa Lagos, the prison governor, and Federico Marcos, ECSO's employee and representative in the prison, have constant disagreements regarding the inmates' rights and treatment. Unknown to most except Federico and a few inmates and wardens, ECSO uses the prison as a front for drug trafficking through Cautiva, "Cautiva", a rehabilitation program where inmates sew lingerie.garments for the lingerie line of the same name. The secondary storyline covers Lorena Guerra (Creator/AnaDeLaReguera), an upper-middle class stay-at-home mother who accidentally kills her best friend, after catching her having sex with her husband. She is imprisoned and transferred to Capadocia.



* PrisonersWork: Under the pretense of teaching job skills to the inmates, ECSO has them sew garments for the “Cautiva” lingerie line. They do earn wages they can send to their families.

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* PrisonersWork: Under the pretense of teaching job skills to the inmates, ECSO has them sew garments for the “Cautiva” "Cautiva" lingerie line. They do earn wages they can send to their families.
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* InfantImmortality: Part of La Santita de la Roma's backstory: after the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, she was one of a group of newborns that had managed to survive for days before being rescued.

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* InfantImmortality: ImprobableInfantSurvival: Part of La Santita de la Roma's backstory: after the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, she was one of a group of the newborns that had managed to survive for days before being rescued.rescued from the maternity ward of a collapsed hospital.

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* ArcWords: During the third series:''"Lo que te duele, mátalo"'' ("Kill what hurts you"). It is part of Dr. Alós's brainwashing process and an episode title.



* ChekhovsSkill: Lorena's degree in chemistry comes in handy when La Colombiana [=ODs=]. She ends up joining the drug operation.

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* ChekhovsSkill: Lorena's degree in chemistry comes in handy when La Colombiana [=ODs=]. She ends up joining the prison's drug operation.



* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Averted with Sofia; she [[SelfSurgery does the job herself]] and nearly dies.

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* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Averted with Sofia; she [[SelfSurgery does the job herself]] and nearly dies.bleeds out.



* InfantImmortality: Part of La Santita de la Roma's backstory: after the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, she was one of a group of newborns that had managed to survive for days before being rescued.



* ArcWords: During the third series:''"Lo que te duele, mátalo"'' ("Kill what hurts you"). It is part of Dr. Alós's brainwashing process and an episode title.
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* BigBad: ECSO.

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* BigBad: ECSO.ECSO, the company that owns the prison as a front for smuggling drugs. In the third series, La Cofradía (The Brotherhood).



* MadnessMantra: During the third series:''"Lo que te duele, mátalo"'' ("Kill what hurts you").

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* MadnessMantra: ArcWords: During the third series:''"Lo que te duele, mátalo"'' ("Kill what hurts you").you"). It is part of Dr. Alós's brainwashing process and an episode title.
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* ChekhovsSkill: Lorena's degree in chemistry comes in handy when La Colombiana ODs. She ends up joining the drug operation.

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* ChekhovsSkill: Lorena's degree in chemistry comes in handy when La Colombiana ODs.[=ODs=]. She ends up joining the drug operation.
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* BiggerBad: The people behind ECSO are [[spoiler:a SecretSociety called La Cofradía (''The Brotherhood'')]], introduced in the third series.
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* ChekhovsSkill: Lorena's degree in chemistry comes in handy when La Colombiana ODs. She ends up joining the drug operation.
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* IronicName: The prison work program has the inmates make lingerie for the "Cautiva" lingerie line. "Cautiva" is Spanish for "captive". Of course, the inmates themselves wear plain, boring undergarments.


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* PanopticonOfSurveillance: The opening credits feature a shot of Capadocia's blueprints, showing that it was built in this design.
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* SoBeautifulItsACurse: La Colombiana.

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* SoBeautifulItsACurse: La Colombiana. She says so herself, as her beauty has managed to get her nothing but trouble.
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Teresa Lagos, the prison governor, and Federico Marcos, ECSO's employee and representative in the prison, have constant disagreements regarding the inmates' rights and treatment. Unknown to most except Federico and a few inmates and wardens, ECSO uses the prison as a front for drug trafficking through Cautiva, a rehabilitation program where inmates sew lingerie. The secondary storyline covers Lorena Guerra, an upper-middle class stay-at-home mother who accidentally kills her best friend, after catching her having sex with her husband. She is imprisoned and transferred to Capadocia.

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Teresa Lagos, the prison governor, and Federico Marcos, ECSO's employee and representative in the prison, have constant disagreements regarding the inmates' rights and treatment. Unknown to most except Federico and a few inmates and wardens, ECSO uses the prison as a front for drug trafficking through Cautiva, a rehabilitation program where inmates sew lingerie. The secondary storyline covers Lorena Guerra, Guerra (Creator/AnaDeLaReguera), an upper-middle class stay-at-home mother who accidentally kills her best friend, after catching her having sex with her husband. She is imprisoned and transferred to Capadocia.



* BiggerBad: The people behind ECSO are [[spoiler:La Cofradía (''The Brotherhood'')]], introduced in the third series.

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* BiggerBad: The people behind ECSO are [[spoiler:La [[spoiler:a SecretSociety called La Cofradía (''The Brotherhood'')]], introduced in the third series.



* FakingTheDead: In the final episode of the second series, [[spoiler:Lorena and Teresa]] fake their deaths to escape Capadocia. In the show's finale, [[spoiler:Teresa's daughter Ruth was revealed to have survived the bomb blast that killed her father]].

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* FakingTheDead: In the final episode of the second series, [[spoiler:Lorena and Teresa]] fake their deaths to escape Capadocia. In the show's finale, [[spoiler:Teresa's daughter Ruth was is revealed to have survived the bomb blast that killed her father]].
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* EvilInc: ECSO, which owns Capadocia and uses it and the inmate work program as front for drug trafficking.

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* EvilInc: ECSO, which owns Capadocia and uses it and the inmate work program as front for drug trafficking.BigBad: ECSO.



* CallingParentsByTheirName: [[spoiler:Andrea]] to Teresa.

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* CallingParentsByTheirName: [[spoiler:Andrea]] to Teresa.Teresa, as a sign of disrespect.



* EvilInc: ECSO.

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* EvilInc: ECSO.ECSO, who use Capadocia and Cautiva as a front for trafficking with designer drugs.



* MadDoctor: Hirám Alós.

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* MadDoctor: Hirám Alós.Alós conducts strange psychological experiments on the inmates.
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* BigBad: ECSO.

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* BigBad: ECSO.EvilInc: ECSO, which owns Capadocia and uses it and the inmate work program as front for drug trafficking.

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* ImpaledPalm: Yolanda starts teasing Marta (who was denied a conjugal visit with her girlfriend) about how the girlfriend had been with her only due SituationalSexuality and would later dump her for a guy. She gets a pair of scissors through her hand for being a smartass.



* PoorCommunicationKills: Guadalupe is an indigenous housekeeper who doesn't speak Spanish. She is arrested after being framed for murder. No one understands what she is trying to say as she is taken away, so her baby is left behind all by himself. Fortunately, Teresa does arrange for an interpreter in time to rescue the baby.

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* PoorCommunicationKills: Guadalupe is an indigenous housekeeper who doesn't speak Spanish. She is arrested after being framed for murder. No one understands what she is trying to say as she is taken away, so her baby is left behind all by himself. Fortunately, Teresa does arrange for an interpreter in time to rescue find out why Guadalupe is so distressed and the baby.baby is found.


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* TakingTheHeat: Sofia is in jail for driving under the influence, except her husband was the one driving. She counts on him being able to get her released. Except he ended up in jail trying to embezzle the money needed.

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Capadocia is a privately-owned prison for women in Mexico City, owned by a corrupt business conglomerate called ECSO. It was created after a riot in a woman's prison and promoted as an experimental rehabilitation-oriented prison for the least dangerous inmates. Most of the episodes have a new character enter the prison, as well as telling their stories and those of the inmates.

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Capadocia is a [[PrivateProfitPrison privately-owned prison prison]] for women in Mexico City, owned by a corrupt business conglomerate called ECSO. It was created after a riot in a woman's prison and promoted as an experimental rehabilitation-oriented prison for the least dangerous inmates. Most of the episodes have a new character enter the prison, as well as telling their stories and those of the inmates.


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* PoorCommunicationKills: Guadalupe is an indigenous housekeeper who doesn't speak Spanish. She is arrested after being framed for murder. No one understands what she is trying to say as she is taken away, so her baby is left behind all by himself. Fortunately, Teresa does arrange for an interpreter in time to rescue the baby.
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* BaldWoman: A case of ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: La Pelona (meaning "the bald one") is bald. No explanation is given.
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* BaldWoman: A case of ExactlyWhatItSaysInThetin: La Pelona (meaning "the bald one") is bald. No explanation is given.

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* BaldWoman: A case of ExactlyWhatItSaysInThetin: ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: La Pelona (meaning "the bald one") is bald. No explanation is given.
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* BaldWoman: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysInTheCan La Pelona is bald]]. No explanation is given.

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* BaldWoman: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysInTheCan A case of ExactlyWhatItSaysInThetin: La Pelona (meaning "the bald one") is bald]].bald. No explanation is given.

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* BaldWoman: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysInTheCan La Pelona is bald]]. No explanation is given.



* DistinguishingMark: Teresa catches her husband having sex with another woman, who has a Sagittarius tattoo on her shoulder. Then she sees that tattoo on [[spoiler:Isabel]]'s shoulder.



* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Averted with Sofia; she [[SelfSurgery the job herself]] and nearly dies.

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* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Averted with Sofia; she [[SelfSurgery does the job herself]] and nearly dies.

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* AssholeVictim: Some of the inmates, but the best example [[spoiler: would be Lorena killing La Bambi]].

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* AssholeVictim: Some of the inmates, but the best example [[spoiler: would be Lorena killing La Bambi]].Bambi.


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* PrisonersWork: Under the pretense of teaching job skills to the inmates, ECSO has them sew garments for the “Cautiva” lingerie line. They do earn wages they can send to their families.

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* CallingParentsByTheirName: [[spoiler:Andrea]] to [[spoiler:Teresa]]

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* CallingParentsByTheirName: [[spoiler:Andrea]] to [[spoiler:Teresa]]Teresa.



* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Averted.

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* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Averted.Averted with Sofia; she [[SelfSurgery the job herself]] and nearly dies.



* LoveTriangle: A rather squicky one in the first series: [[spoiler:Teresa has an affair with one of her students, Daniel. He loves her, she doesn't. To get back at her, he starts dating her daughter. She falls for him hard, he doesn't.]]

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* LoveTriangle: A rather squicky one in the first series: [[spoiler:Teresa [[TeacherStudentRomance Teresa has an affair with one of her students, Daniel.Daniel]]. He loves her, she doesn't. To get back at her, he starts dating her daughter. She falls for him hard, he doesn't.]]



* OddFriendship: Cell-mates Andrea and Monserrat. The first is the daughter of the prison governor, the latter [[spoiler: a drug lord's wife]].
* OffingTheOffspring: [[spoiler:Magos']] backstory. [[spoiler:Her husband beat her and molested their children. To spare them, she poisoned their dinner.]]
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* OddFriendship: Cell-mates Cellmates Andrea and Monserrat. The first is the daughter of the prison governor, the latter [[spoiler: a drug lord's wife]].
* OffingTheOffspring: [[spoiler:Magos']] Magos's backstory. [[spoiler:Her Her husband beat her and molested their children. To spare them, she poisoned their dinner.]]
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* TransTribulations: Transwoman Antonia is incarcerated in an overcrowded men's prison and is not allowed her hormones. This changes after she is transferred to Capadocia.

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* AssholeVictim: Some of the inmates, but the best example would be Lorena killing La Bambi.

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* AssholeVictim: Some of the inmates, but the best example [[spoiler: would be Lorena killing La Bambi.Bambi]].



* DivorceIsTemporary: Santiago and Teresa get back together. However, it's never clear if they remarried, or if they ever got divorced.

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* DivorceIsTemporary: Santiago [[spoiler:Santiago and Teresa get back together. However, it's never clear if they remarried, or if they ever got divorced.]]



* FakingTheDead: In the final episode of the second series, [[spoiler:Lorena and Teresa]] fake their deaths to escape Capadocia. In the show's finale, [[spoiler:Teresa's daughter Ruth is revealed to have survived the bomb blast that killed her father]].
* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Averted with Sofia, [[SelfSurgery who takes matters into her own hands]] and nearly dies as a result.

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* FakingTheDead: In the final episode of the second series, [[spoiler:Lorena and Teresa]] fake their deaths to escape Capadocia. In the show's finale, [[spoiler:Teresa's daughter Ruth is was revealed to have survived the bomb blast that killed her father]].
* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Averted with Sofia, [[SelfSurgery who takes matters into her own hands]] and nearly dies as a result.Averted.



* OddFriendship: Cellmates Andrea and Monserrat. The first is the daughter of the prison governor, the latter [[spoiler: a drug lord's wife]].
* OffingTheOffspring: Magos's backstory. Her husband beat her and molested their children. To spare them, she poisoned their dinner.

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* OddFriendship: Cellmates Cell-mates Andrea and Monserrat. The first is the daughter of the prison governor, the latter [[spoiler: a drug lord's wife]].
* OffingTheOffspring: Magos's [[spoiler:Magos']] backstory. Her [[spoiler:Her husband beat her and molested their children. To spare them, she poisoned their dinner.]]
different actress in the second series.



* TransTribulations: Antonia is first incarcerated in an overcrowded men’s prison before transferring to Capadocia.

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* AssholeVictim: Some of the inmates, but the best example [[spoiler: would be Lorena killing La Bambi]].

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* AssholeVictim: Some of the inmates, but the best example [[spoiler: would be Lorena killing La Bambi]].Bambi.



* DivorceIsTemporary: [[spoiler:Santiago and Teresa get back together. However, it's never clear if they remarried, or if they ever got divorced.]]

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* DivorceIsTemporary: [[spoiler:Santiago Santiago and Teresa get back together. However, it's never clear if they remarried, or if they ever got divorced.]]



* FakingTheDead: In the final episode of the second series, [[spoiler:Lorena and Teresa]] fake their deaths to escape Capadocia. In the show's finale, [[spoiler:Teresa's daughter Ruth was revealed to have survived the bomb blast that killed her father]].
* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Averted.

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* FakingTheDead: In the final episode of the second series, [[spoiler:Lorena and Teresa]] fake their deaths to escape Capadocia. In the show's finale, [[spoiler:Teresa's daughter Ruth was is revealed to have survived the bomb blast that killed her father]].
* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Averted.Averted with Sofia, [[SelfSurgery who takes matters into her own hands]] and nearly dies as a result.



* OddFriendship: Cell-mates Andrea and Monserrat. The first is the daughter of the prison governor, the latter [[spoiler: a drug lord's wife]].
* OffingTheOffspring: [[spoiler:Magos']] backstory. [[spoiler:Her husband beat her and molested their children. To spare them, she poisoned their dinner.]]
different actress in the second series.

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* OddFriendship: Cell-mates Cellmates Andrea and Monserrat. The first is the daughter of the prison governor, the latter [[spoiler: a drug lord's wife]].
* OffingTheOffspring: [[spoiler:Magos']] Magos's backstory. [[spoiler:Her Her husband beat her and molested their children. To spare them, she poisoned their dinner.]]
different actress in the second series.


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* TransTribulations: Antonia is first incarcerated in an overcrowded men’s prison before transferring to Capadocia.

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