Later that day, the chance to take part in an elaborate and potentially lucrative scheme arises when Sandler (Oscar Nuñez), a former business associate of Marcos, contacts Marcos to ask for help selling a counterfeit sheet of some rare stamps that he made (the "nine queens" of the title). The potential mark is Gandolfo (Ignasi Abadal), a rich, corrupt, stamp-collecting Spaniard who is staying at the hotel where Marcos' sister Valeria (Leticia Brédice) happens to work while he waits to be deported the next day. Since there is insufficient time to properly check if the stamps are authentic, Gandolfo hires an expert (Leo Dyzen) to come to his room and do a quick check, and he is satisfied by the confirmation he receives. He offers $450,000 for the stamps, with the exchange to take place that evening. Outside of the hotel, the stamp expert says he knew the stamps were forged and demands Juan and Marcos pay him for saying they were genuine. The fake stamps are then stolen out of Juan and Marcos' hands by thieves on a motorcycle who, unaware of their value, toss them into a river.