| Alguien te mira | |
| Directed by | María Eugenia Rencoret |
| Written by | Pablo Illanes Nona Fernández |
| Script by | |
| Cinematography by | |
| Produced by | Daniela Demicheli |
| Starring | Francisco Melo Francisco Pérez-Bannen Álvaro Rudolphy Sigrid Alegría Francisca Imboden Paola Volpato Alejandra Fosalba Celine Reymond |
| Music by | |
| Theme song | When I See You Smile (Bad English) |
| Performed by | Bad English |
| Country | Chile |
| Language | Spanish |
| Network | TVN |
| Broadcast | Santiago, 2008 |
| No. of episodes | 78 |
Alguien te mira was a night-time telenovela from Televisión Nacional de Chile. Directed by María Eugenia Rencoret, produced by Daniela Demichelli and written by Pablo Illanes and Nona Fernández. The telenovela marked a change in themes from earlier night time productions from the state channel, being that this time the main themes were not troubled couple relationships and sex, but this time the main theme was associated with a serial killer, who kills women by taking their hearts. The debut date was April 30, 2007, and the last episode took place on August 16 of the same year.
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Santiago, 1992
Rodrigo Quintana, Piedad Estévez, Julián García and Benjamín Morandé are inseparable friends. Idealistic in their planning of future projects, they study medicine and dream of working together to help the needy.
Rodrigo (Francisco Melo) is the most charming and intelligent, and is the natural leader of the group. His personality wins over Piedad (Sigrid Alegría) with whom he shares an intense but tumultuous love, while Julián (Álvaro Rudolphy) loves Piedad in silence. Rodrigo's drug and alcohol addiction result in the deterioration of his relationship with Piedad. He reaches a point where he disappears from his friends' lives, after a confusing incident that results in a dead body and in Piedad being hospitalized.
Rodrigo Quintana leaves his friends and his studies to admit himself into a rehabilitation center outside of Chile. Piedad is never the same again.
Santiago, 2007
Now, 15 years later, when Benjamín, Julián, and Piedad have forgotten about the past, Rodrigo returns to their lives. Partners in an ophthalmology practice, the three doctors find that Rodrigo Quintana's return from Europe continues to bother them. The friends have changed. Quintana opts for an austere lifestyle in a rural clinic, while his friends accumulate a small fortune operating on the eyes of high-society people.
Rodrigo's return breaks Piedad's daily routine, who discovers that in spite of everything, Rodrigo is still the love of her life.
Meanwhile Julián—divorced for a year from Matilde (Alejandra Fosalba)—becomes preoccupied with Piedad. It bothers Julián that history could repeat itself, and that Rodrigo could finally succeed in taking away the woman Julián's always loved but has never been able to have.
But love is not the only thing that changes the lives of this group of friends. While they are all at a benefit event, they are witnesses to a crime. The victim, María Gracia Carpenter (Amparo Noguera), a well-known socialite, is the third murder that torments the city.
Before her, the mysterious disappearance of Angela Argento (María José León), a sophisticated executive, was very closely followed by the media and the police. They concluded that they were in the presence of a psychopath serial killer, whose victims were beautiful, independent, high-society women. All were killed using the same M.O., a deep and accurate cut to remove their hearts.
The lead police detective Eva Zanetti (Paola Volpato) is in charge of the investigation. Everyone is a suspect. Slowly the circle of suspects is tightened, and the suspects are reined in. Only one is the killer, and with the passing of time the hour of the discovery of the killer's true identity draws closer.
In the 44th episode, (transmitted on June 28, 2007) after two months, we find out who the killer is.
Note: Julián García does not just kill any women, only the ones that seem to leave their sons/daughters aside and ignore them. Look at the episode where Tatiana dies: Julián: ¿and the kids? and Tatiana:The kids don't exist, don't worry about them
Julián García, after putting Piedad to sleep, takes her and little Sofía to a nearby factory, with the intentions of revealing his identity to her, and trying to gain her confidence to try to escape. While Rodrigo escapes from police after they were looking for him for the death of Tatiana, he follows Julián to the factory, where he speaks to the cops, who already found out that the fingerprints belong to Julián. Rodrigo enters the factory and confronts Julián, who wounds him with a knife, and sprays gasoline on him in order to burn him alive. Rodrigo fights off the attack and Piedad escapes. Finally, Julián lights up Rodrigo and when Julián tries to escape, Rodrigo pushes him inside the factory, breaking some gas pipes. The factory then explodes. Although on fire, Julián García escapes from the factory, and is killed by Benjamín who takes a gun from a detective and shoots while the killer is burning alive.
The ending is open to interpretation: Rodrigo ends up with part of his face burned, and it is unknown whether he will gain back Piedad's love. Also unknown is what happens to Matilde as a result of her operation. It is also assumed that Benjamín will go to jail for killing Julián, but this is not shown.
Pablo Illanes has explicitly said that there will not be a sequel to the telenovela, because it will not be appropriate with his spirit.