Los simuladores

Plot

Cast and description of characters

• Mario Santos ': The head of the team, responsible for planning, logistics and contacting the clients. He is the most refined member. He is fond of drinking earl grey tea, listening to classical music, reading classic French literature, and eating fine, cosmopolitan cuisine. After each successful operation he appears smoking a cigar, often lit by the person that was fooled. He is the only member of the team to be a widower, since his wife died roughly 5 years before the start of the series.
• Pablo Lamponne ': The member in charge of finding the materials and elements needed for the simulations: props, costumes, vehicles, anything. He has a black mixed-breed dog, "Betún", who takes singing lessons and plays a role in several simulations. He is the most reserved member of the team, being very uncomfortable talking about his feelings or his private life. During his childhood he was recurrently bullied for his last name. This, combined with his traumatic military service, during the Falklands War may be the cause of his reserved nature.
• Emilio Ravenna ': The team's leading "actor", who does most of the characterizations required for the simulation. He usually takes the name of "Máximo Cozzetti", which he took from a fraudulent lender who ran an illegal lending business. He's a charismatic playboy, shown to be dating multiple women during season 1. By season 2, he's moved in with three younger women, with whom he has a polyamorous relationship. He's very insecure about his age, since he claims to be 30 in a couple episodes throughout the series, when in reality he's 45.
• Gabriel Medina ': The team's investigator, in charge of obtaining information about the team's clients, the intended targets of the simulation and the elements of the problem the team must solve. He is the most sensitive member of the team, appearing to be very tough and stoic in public, but in truth being very openly emotional and kindhearted with his friends and family. He became divorced shortly before the time when the show takes place; something that he copes with throughout the first season.

Episode guide

Season 1 (2002)

1. Tarjeta de navidad : The team helps a struggling artist to get back together with his estranged wife.
2. Diagnóstico rectoscópico : The team helps a man to get rid of a loan shark and his thugs.
3. Seguro de desempleo : The team helps an old man to get his job back after being unceremoniously fired by his boss for being too old.
4. El testigo español : The team helps a woman to get rid of a nosy, Spanish former lover who is trying to pressure her into restarting their affair.
5. El joven simulador : The team is hired by a man, whose wife is sick and needs to relax, so that they can help his son to pass six hard exams in a single week, thus keeping him from flunking the year and stressing out his sick mother.
6. El pequeño problema del gran hombre: : The team must help the President of Argentina to get his self-esteem back up.
7. Fuera de cálculo : While trying to extract some blackmail material from a safety deposit box, the team gets caught up in a botched bank robbery and must help the thieves escape in order to save their lives and those of the other hostages.
8. El Pacto Copérnico : An adulterous lawyer hires the team to make his wife want to leave him, clearing his conscience for cheating on her.
9. El último héroe : The team works to take all the money from a swindler who poses as an artistic agent, convincing him to enter a fake Survivor-like reality show which will keep him in the Chaco jungle for a full year.
10. Los impresentables : The team helps a girl's crass, lower-class family look good for a dinner with her boyfriend's upper-class family.
11. El colaborador foráneo : The team helps a neighborhood get rid of a corrupt police officer who terrorizes the vicinity.
12. Marcela & Paul : The team helps a recently divorced woman get over her depression by arranging a romantic night with whom she believes to be Paul McCartney.
13. Un trabajo involuntario : The team must work for free to free Santos from a mobster who kidnaps him after refusing a job request..

    Season 2 (2003)

14. Los cuatro notables : To help the family of an ailing man, the team tries to convince an HMO doctor-turned-businessman that he has been nominated to the Nobel Prize for an old idealistic paper he wrote in his youth.
15. Z 9000 : The team convinces an abusive husband that he has a murderous clone stalking him.
16. La gargantilla de las cuatro estaciones : The team is contacted by a man that can't stop cheating on the woman he loves; however, they pretend to refuse the case and he becomes part of the simulation.
17. El Clan Motul : Simulating a vampires story, the team saves a retirement house from being sold.
18. El vengador infantil : The team helps a young comic-book lover to gain self-esteem and resist a bully.
19. El matrimonio mixto : A Jewish boy and a catholic girl hire the team to convince their respective parents that a mixed marriage is not a bad idea.
20. El Gran Desafío : U.S. agents capture the members of the B-Team after taking them for terrorists -which they were pretending to be for the purposes of a simulation-, leading the original team to try to infiltrate the FBI itself to free them.
21. Fin de semana de descanso : Taking a small vacation, the team unmasks a crime being committed by a couple, the Sherlock Holmes way.
22. El debilitador social : The team simulates a trial against a model manager that encourages the girls into unhealthy eating habits, charging him for "pre-crimes against Humanity".
23. El anillo de Salomón : A famous orchestra conductor hires the team to get rid of an obnoxious classical music fan.
24. Episodio final : A two-part episode. The victim from the ninth chapter of the first season comes back from the jungle seeking to kill the team for having tricked him and stolen from him almost one million pesos. The team then makes a simulation to make him believe that it was a test, and then train him to kill Osama Bin Laden. The team also works to convince an ambitious corporate employee to return home and help his father and sister with the family business. This is the team's final job, as they decide to quit for some time and go their separate ways.