After entering rural Galicia in the first season, the Rapa series moves in its second installment to the city of Ferrol. The disappearance of an officer from the Military Arsenal and a murder about to expire after twenty years bring together Tomás, the early-retired literature professor due to his amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) disease played by Javier Cámara, and Maite, the sergeant of the Civil Guard embodied by Mónica López.
After a first installment that was the best premiere of the course on Movistar Plus, the platform premieres its second season this Thursday, which also consists of six episodes, and it has already been revealed that the series will shoot a third and final installment after the summer. “In the first season we moved on that dividing line between the rural and the urban that occurs a lot in Galicia and in this second season we wanted to get into this city with as much character as Ferrol is and especially in the Military Arsenal that the brand so much”, advances Pepe Coira, creator together with Fran Araujo of this thriller produced again by Portocabo.
One of the unknowns to be resolved in the new season was knowing how the main couple continues their relationship, “two people who cross paths for a crime and suddenly there is chemistry between them,” recalls Araujo. “We had to consider how a few months later, these people, one of them with a terminal illness, have established a new life with a new routine. We wanted to make a season where that relationship was established and the characters considered to what extent they were going to continue together ”, he continues.
The creators explain that it was complex for them to portray a disease such as ALS and how complex it is to be by your side, with the care and commitment that this means. “We wanted to treat this disease with the greatest respect and care, from the writing process to the time of shooting and the work that Javier Cámara did,” says Coira.
Regarding the reasons that led them to decide that Tomás had a terminal illness (as discovered late in the first season), Araujo explains that it had to do “with the motivation for which a person suddenly decides, at a moment in their life where There is a clock that is starting to tick, that he wants to dedicate himself to something that has been his passion all his life, such as reading crime novels, and he wants to be the protagonist of one of them, finding meaning in solving these cases. his life”.
One of the issues that are addressed in this second installment and that Chur wants to highlight is the statute of limitations for crimes. “It is one of the defining themes of the season with a case that has a few weeks left to prescribe,” Coira points out while Araujo highlights “the moral dilemmas that you have to get into there with a social current contrary to the prescription of crimes, on all related to terrorism.
