Season 3 ignites with Laia (Lorea Intxausti) defying tradition to claim control of Madrid’s most prestigious funeral home after her husband’s suspicious death – only to face corporate warfare from Dámaso (Carlos Areces), who’d spent years plotting his takeover. As Laia battles embalming-room mutinies and a predatory rival conglomerate (“Eternity Holdings”), her leadership is tested by a bombshell #MeToo scandal implicating the company’s founding legacy. With police reopening her husband’s “accidental” case, Laia must outmaneuver enemies inside her boardroom and the morgue, where coffins hide more than corpses.

Creators Javier Ruiz Caldera & Alberto Caballero escalate the gothic satire into a knife-fight for survival. Laia’s fight exposes Madrid’s deathcare underworld – where black-market organ trafficking, AI-driven grief exploitation, and a clandestine society of funeral directors pull strings. This season isn’t about burying the past; it’s about digging up corpses to weaponize their secrets.

Muertos S.L. Season 3 series cast guide

1. Lorea Intxausti Oregi as Laia

Laia’s transformation from grieving widow to cutthroat CEO peaks as she weaponizes funeral customs against Dámaso – sabotaging his elite clients with “leaked” scandal sheets tucked in obituaries. Intxausti crafts razor-sharp poise, crumbling only during midnight visits to her husband’s refrigerated corpse, where she whispers strategies like confessions. Her defining move? Using the #MeToo investigation to purge disloyal employees via “ethical restructuring.”

Intxausti (b. 1987, Basque Country) trained with female CEOs to master corporate warfare tactics. Her real grief counseling sessions informed Laia’s chilling monologue to a widow: “Tears are currency here. Spend them wisely.”

2. Carlos Areces as Dámaso Carrillo

Dámaso’s descent into villainy turns operatic as he forges alliances with organ traffickers and resurrects Laia’s addict sister (Salamanca) to destabilize her. Areces oozes decaying grandeur – snorting embalming fluid during board meetings and gifting enemies custom urns. His most monstrous act? Framing Laia for evidence tampering by planting her fingerprints on a exhumed body.

Areces (b. 1975, Asturias) studied mafia documentaries to refine Dámaso’s ruthless physicality. His improvised aria over a rival’s coffin (“O Fortuna” meets flamenco) became an instant cult moment.

3. Adriana Torrebejano as Manuela / “Laia”

Manuela’s return – disguised as Laia using prosthetics – creates chaos as she infiltrates Muertos S.L. to avenge her disfigurement. Torrebejano masterfully mimics Intxausti’s mannerisms before revealing jagged burns beneath the mask. Her vendetta crescendos when she poisons Dámaso’s cologne with grave toxins.

Torrebejano (b. 1991, Madrid) endured 4-hour daily makeup sessions for the role. Her real trauma therapy sessions fueled Manuela’s psychiatric ward breakdown scene.

4. Gerald B. Fillmore as Abel

Abel, Dámaso’s conflicted enforcer, faces moral collapse after discovering children’s bodies in a black-market shipment. Fillmore portrays his unraveling through trembling hands during embalmings and secret alliances with Laia. His redemption arc peaks with a sacrificial act: crashing Dámaso’s hearse into the Tagus River to destroy incriminating evidence.

Fillmore (b. 1980, UK) shadowed Madrid funeral directors to perfect mortuary protocols. His character’s backstory – a former doctor who lost his license – explains his surgical precision with cadavers.

5. Amaia Salamanca as Vanesa Hernández

Vanesa, Laia’s estranged sister, returns as a pawn in Dámaso’s game – clean after rehab but secretly feeding intel to Eternity Holdings. Salamanca layers fragility with venom, relapsing during her mother’s funeral and stealing condolence cash. Her tragic spiral ends when she’s found overdosed in a display coffin.

Salamanca (b. 1986, Madrid) consulted addiction specialists to depict withdrawal authentically. Her character’s autopsy report becomes a key piece of evidence against Dámaso.

6. Diego Martín as Chemi

Chemi, Laia’s ex-lover and forensic investigator, reopens her husband’s case only to uncover his ties to the organ ring. Martín radiates weary integrity – especially when destroying evidence to protect Laia, whispering “Justice won’t bring him back, but it might bury you.” His corpse-discovery scene in a floral cooler reveals the season’s biggest twist: multiple “accidental” deaths.

Martín (b. 1977, Madrid) learned forensic pathology to lend authenticity. His character’s limp (from a past case) symbolizes the show’s theme: Everyone walks with ghosts.

7. Salva Reina as Nino

Nino, the embalming-room tech, becomes Laia’s unlikely ally after the #MeToo scandal exposes his harassment by management. Reina delivers dark-comic relief – smuggling evidence in body cavities – but shines when leading a worker’s strike by slowing embalming fluids, causing “premature decompositions” for elite clients.

Reina (b. 1977, Seville) improvised Nino’s mortician humor (“Rigor mortis? More like rigor mor-this job sucks”). His real passion for workers’ rights informed the strike storyline.