Epitafios

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Epitafios (English: Epitaphs), also known as If The Dead Could Speak, is a 2004 13 episode, Argentine crime fiction TV mini-series with the tagline: El final está escrito ... ("The end is written ...").

It was the first original series produced by HBO and HBO Latin America and it was also produced in conjunction with Argentine TV/film company Pol-Ka. Though all actors were from Argentina, a neutral Spanish was used instead of the local Rioplatense Spanish, avoiding colloquialisms such as the local voseo. Written by Marcelo Slavich and Walter Slavich and directed by Alberto Lecchi and Jorge Nisco.

The series debuted in Australia on SBS in May 2007 under the title, "If The Dead Could Speak."

A second season is in pre-production.

[edit] Plot

The series is set in Buenos Aires and centers around a killer's revenge plot carried out on the people involved with the death of four high-school students during a hostage-situation gone bad, five years before. The show's two main characters are: Renzo Márquez, ex-detective (played by Julio Chávez) and Dr. Laura Santini, psychiatrist (played by Paola Krum). To add a further twist to this whodunit, Márquez and Santini are ex-lovers. In the second half of the series, Renzo Marquez is aided by a homicide detective Marina (portrayed by Cecilia Roth), who herself is held hostage by Bruno Costas, the series' murderer. During her stay with the psychopathic murderer, she is forced to kill her mother who left her family for another man, causing the detective's father to commit suicide. Her troubling childhood has led Marina to seek thrills by playing high-stakes Russian Roulette. As bodies of her defeated adversaries surface in Buenos Aires, she is assigned to the case.