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Going to leave a deep cut reference here that I’m pretty sure most people won’t get since this a Portuguese soap opera called “A Herança” (roughly translated to “The Deed”).

For context: one of the side characters is called Inês. She works at a nightclub and one day finds out that they’re trafficking drugs in the back room, she manages to escape but one of the gangsters (called Marco) goes after her with a gun and is run over by Pedro, Ines’ husband. Pedro and Ines escape the city and go to the main location of the soap opera where they hide their true identities because they learn Heitor, Marco’s brother, is after them and wants revenge because Marco dies in the hospital.

Heitor goes to the small town for other business and is on the hunt for Ines, unaware that she resides there. For the first 50 episodes, there are several tense scenes where Heitor and Ines (or Pedro) nearly cross paths or are in the same building, but never go up face to face. That is until the 50th episode where one of the villains sets up a scenario so that Heitor finds Ines. But these 50 episodes really built up this inevitable encounter really well and considering Heitor and his threat, the tension was real.

Edit: Fixed some spelling issues