Time Flies finale recap and ending explained: Ines and Manca uncover Bonar's poisonous plan

Aashna
Time Flies ending explained (Image via Instagram/@eslacuartapared)
Time Flies ending explained (Image via Instagram/@eslacuartapared)

Time Flies is Netflix's latest six-part Spanish crime drama series, which dropped its first season on January 1. The series follows two ex-convicts and best friends, Ines and Manca, who start their fumigation business to stay afloat and make ends meet after their recent release from prison.

While Ines and Manca try to get a fresh start at life, their harrowing financial condition and Manca's cancer diagnosis force them to accept a shady offer by one of their clients, a wealthy woman named Susana Bonar. Their shady client offers Ines to procure a lethal and hard-to-find poison in return for a huge sum of money, which she hesitantly accepts. Ines' estranged daughter, Lali, and granddaughter, Guille, enter her life, increasing the stakes of her mission.

The Time Flies finale revealed that Bonar's sob story about wanting the poison for her abusive husband was false, as the latter had already died many years ago. As the suspense around Bonar's intentions thickens, Manca discovers the woman's eerie connection to Ines' daughter Lali and uncovers her revenge plot against Ines' family.

Here is the complete ending explained.


Time Flies ending explained: Bonar's poisonous plan

The Time Flies finale finally revealed Bonar's true motives with the poison, which stemmed from her deep-seated denial about her daughter Tamara's death. Throughout the series, Bonar kept her daughter's bedroom as a shrine and pretended to receive emails and packages from her, when in reality Tamara was long dead. A flashback sequence in the finale revealed that Bonar's daughter, Tamara, came out as transgender and even went through a gender transition into Timo, which was unacceptable to Bonar. As she longed to get her daughter back, Timo found acceptance in his friends and the school counselor, Lali.

While Bonar continued to force feminine things on Timo in Time Flies, in hopes of reversing his transition, he found acceptance in the outside world, until a tragedy struck him. At a fateful house party, Timo confronted an older man harassing one of his female friends, which led to his death.

However, Bonar refused to identify Timo's body in the mortuary when Lali urged her to let her 'son' go. As the grieving mother went into complete denial mode over her 'daughter's' death, she blamed Lali for accepting and encouraging Tamara's gender transition. The Time Flies finale suggested Bonar was more distraught about Timo's transition than his death, which is why she hatched a revenge plan on Lali by poisoning her daughter, Guille.


Time Flies ending explained: Ines manages to save her granddaughter

The Time Flies finale saw Ines and Manca gearing up for the latter's cancer operation and Bonar welcoming Lali and Guille for her party, which was a ruse to poison Ines' granddaughter. As Bonar prepared a poisonous smoothie for Guille, Manca asked her cousin Rodie to tail Lali and Guille. Once Rodie alerted Ines and Manca that Lali was heading to Bonar's house, the friends realized the wealthy woman's horrific plan to poison Ines' family.

While Ines and Manca raced against all odds to Bonar's house, Guille had already gulped down the poisonous smoothie and was starting to show the effects of the dr*g. As Ines broke into Bonar's house, alerting the local authorities in the process, Manca was taken into the hospital. She came back to life after the doctors performed detoxifying procedures on her.

The Time Flies featured a bittersweet ending for Ines, who managed to save her granddaughter but faced an additional six months in prison, due to her criminal activities (done to procure the poison), which started this mess in the first place.


The Time Flies ending sets up Ines and Manca's uncertain futures

As Ines was sentenced to six months in prison, Manca underwent her cancer operation and finally concluded her long battle with the illness. After the two friends reunite following Ines' parole hearing, they risk their freedom for a momentary chance at happiness.

The final moments of the Time Flies finale saw Ines and Manca breaking into the latter's hospital to steal the cash deposit made for Manca's operation. The scene then shifts to the best friends enjoying cocktails at a beach, suggesting that the ex-convicts continued to live this dangerous life, even after the harrowing incident with Lali and Guille.

The ending signifies that even while Ines and Manca desperately tried to evade their former criminal life, their living conditions and aspirations for a wealthy life pulled them right back into this chaos.


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Edited by Aashna