Más Sabe el Diablo (Literally "The Devil Knows More", "Falling Angel" in English-speaking markets) is a successful Spanish-language telenovela produced by the United States–based television network Telemundo.
[4] Set in New York (yet mostly filmed in Miami[4]), the serial features the street-wise Ángel, who treats life as a game he plays to win.
A compressed version entitled "Más Sabe el Diablo the Remix" was to air[when?]
Don Browne, the president of the television network, said that it maintained "total creative independence" during the process.
[citation needed] The show starts by telling the story of Esperanza Salvador, working as the maid in the Acero household in Mexico.
[citation needed] Years later, the streets become a second home for Ángel, where everyone knows him as the Devil (El Diablo).
Thanks to his trade as a thief and despite his good heart, he is involved with a gang of expert thieves in large criminal acts; in the end he pays with a jail sentence.
She pleads with the judge to let him go free and give him an opportunity to rectify his path, without suspecting that he will end up splitting her life in two.
Unable to refuse León's requirements, Ángel's only option is to organize the robbery with a detailed and sophisticated plan that is characteristic of his personality.
[citation needed] The robbery brings Manuela and Ángel closer while giving Jimmy the strength to find whoever is responsible for his father's murder, on his last day as an officer.
[citation needed] Ángel leaves early because of his ailing mother, but he lies about it in order to participate in the computer chip robbery.
A surveillance camera catches El Caucho's neck tattoo while he is moving the loot from the van to their vehicle.
Martín doesn't care and instead arranges for Ángel to commit a robbery at the Hamptons in exchange for his mother's release.
[citation needed] Ángel commits the crime for El Hierro (Martín) but the corrupt police are on his tail as he leaves the house.
Ángel notices the cops and rides off on a motorcycle leaving behind the papers El Hierro wanted.
At a dead end on an abandoned bridge, Ángel surrenders and tries to explain himself but Jimmy tells him to save it.
[citation needed] Ángel looks for Manuela and reveals to her that he is Martín's son and that he set him up to make him look bad in her eyes.
Doubting what Ángel tells her, she takes some of Martín's hair off his comb and swabs his mouth while he is asleep to do a DNA test.
Meanwhile, Martín is trying to get rid of Jimmy, Manuela's brother-in-law, who is getting in the way of his macabre plans, and sets him up to put him in jail.
[citation needed] Martín secretly asked Carmelo to put a GPS radar into Marina's cellphone.
What Martín doesn't know is that Christian left a virtual copy of this confession and that Carmelo has conspired with León Beltrán to betray him.
[citation needed] When Martín went to his mother's house, he saw that she had committed suicide, then, when he was going out the door, he saw the spirits of Marina, Cachorro, Christian, Graciela, and Mauricio.
While at the party, Ángel, Manuela, Daniel, Topo, Perla, Junior, Camilo, Susy, Sandro, Jimmy, Virginia, Lucas, Ariana, Mike, Sylvana, Horacio, and Andres took a happy picture.
[citation needed] After the ending of Más Sabe el Diablo, Telemundo released a Direct-to-DVD prequel El Primer Golpe (The First Heist) where we discover the origins of Diablo, his early years in the streets of New York and the great tragedy which led him to meet his lawyer Manuela Dávila, the love of his life.
In a series of key events, never before revealed in the soap opera, we discover that Martín Acero is the secret mastermind who controls Diablo's destiny.
[citation needed] El Primer Golpe tells the story of the trip of Ángel Salvador, Diablo, to Miami with his crew of Topo and Gregorio (as gay lovers), El Ronco (as a business man), and Cachorro (as a nerd) to do an important job and steal five million dollars from the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida, after a failed robbery at a CompUSA.
During the preparation of the robbery, Ángel falls in love with a mysterious woman named Rene Cardona, the head of the heist operations and her fake wife on the mission as Beatriz Beltrán, who hides a fatal secret: her deal with Acero to obtain the diamond necklace from one of the blackjack tournament players, Ms. Maria Ponce De León, and exchange it with a fake one.
But Martín Acero fails to hold up his end of the bargain when he finally obtains the real Star of Rwanda and tells Rene he lied and that the crew won't get out free.
Rene dies in Ángel's arms after he throws the Star of Rwanda into the water with police on scene.