‘The Cleansing Girl’ Reveals Arman’s Destiny — How They Bid Farewell to Adan Canto

[Warning: The following contains MAJOR spoilers for The Cleaning Lady Season 3 Episode 6, “El Reloj.”]

The Cleansing Girl has revealed what occurred to Adan Canto’s Arman. As we beforehand discovered, the character was kidnapped after the shootout on the air hangar within the season premiere. The Cleansing Girl Season 3 Episode 6 finally revealed who took him, and it formally wrote Canto’s character out of the present. Canto, who has performed Arman since Season 1, died on January 8, 2024, after a personal battle with most cancers. He was 42 years outdated.

The episode started with Ramona (Kate del Castillo) dropping her persistence ready for Arman’s, her nephew’s, secure return. “I’ve waited too lengthy,” she ominously stated whereas wanting into a fireplace, a darkish omen. It then flashed again to a teen Arman on his birthday, displaying Ramona’s rocky relationship with Arman’s father, who advised her to keep away from his son due to her cartel cash.

Along with her protecting relationship of her nephew established, Ramona continued to her plans to rescue him. She arrange a secure home by which Arman can heal, full with medical help. The home got here with horses that Arman and Nadia (Eva de Dominici) can take care of as remedy, permitting their relationship to “heal.” It’s a “no strings” connected deal that got here with “somewhat alternatives.” In alternate for her help, Ramona anticipated Arman and Nadia to remain concerned in her cartel as a part of her trusted interior circle.

Nadia was reluctant to simply accept the secure home, however demanded that she be the purpose particular person in Arman’s alternate. After some convincing, Ramona agreed. However she warned that “the complete negotiation” would now relaxation on Nadia’s shoulders.

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Again at Fiona (Martha Millan) and Thony’s (Élodie Yung), Fiona inspired Thony to be open to her romantic emotions about Arman as soon as he was again. Via some intel in regards to the medicine used on Arman, Thony was ready to determine that it was Dante (Mayans M.C.‘s Clayton Cardenas) who took Arman.

Dante is Ramona’s trusted lieutenant who had been serving to in getting Arman again. When Cardenas’ casting was introduced in December 2023 (earlier than Canto’s dying, which modified the present’s plan for the season), his character description stated he would develop more and more bothered by Thony’s frequent undermining of their cartel operations. Now we all know simply how far he’d take that resentment.

“This entire alternate might be a lie,” Thony warned. She was involved Jorge (Santiago Cabrera) “might be in on the entire thing,” so Fiona helped her get to work as a substitute. Thony packed up an anti-toxin with which to deal with the drugged Arman, ought to they discover him.

Their search led to a constructing the place “nobody would discover” if somebody was being held hostage. With the assistance of a teen who lived within the constructing, Thony and Fiona have been capable of finding the room by which Arman was being held. She noticed a drugged Arman via the cracks of the window, with dried blood on the aspect of his head.

As soon as within the room, Thony fell and crushed some vials of the drug used on Arman, getting her excessive and sending her into hallucinations. Arman appeared to listen to on this haze, in what appeared like the true Canto standing earlier than Yung.

“I assumed I’d by no means see you once more,” the emotional Thony stated as they embraced. This look was probably the results of a stand-in actor and CGI, or it was outdated, unused footage of Canto from a earlier season, as Canto died earlier than they filmed any of Season 3. Nevertheless it was only a hallucination for Thony. Fiona interrupted, warning they wanted to get out of the room. When Thony stated they wanted to take him with them, Fiona made it clear that Arman wasn’t in that room.

“I want Arman,” the distraught and drugged Thony stated as Fiona obtained her right into a automobile. From there, they watched Arman be loaded right into a automobile and pushed off. Thony known as Nadia to warn her of Dante’s involvement, and the skeptical Nadia shared the situation of the alternate. A plumber launched earlier within the episode drove them to the spot, and the FBI appeared. A harmful automobile chase ensued close to a rocky cliff, and Thony and (a closely CGI-ed) Arman noticed one another clearly via their automobile home windows, saying volumes with out phrases.

Arman’s last act was stopping Thony from getting shot. Along with his zip-tied fingers, Arman pushed his captor’s arms so he missed when firing the gun. Arman lunged for the motive force, and the automobile drove off the cliff. By the seems to be of the drop, there will probably be no survivors.

The episode ended with a romantic, peaceable second between Thony and Arman, by which they danced to the tune that gave the episode its identify, “El Reloj.” The ultimate shot of the episode was of Thony and Arman kissing, with a title card on the finish dedicating the episode to Canto.

With Arman dying to avoid wasting Thony, her relationships with Nadia, Ramona, and Jorge simply obtained much more harmful. As soon as once more, Thony’s involvement made a plan go sideways, however the FBI’s involvement is a degree of concern. Subsequent week, Nadia will press Thony about how this tragedy got here to go.