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Emilio Syquia (popularly known as Don Emilio, and later Gustavo Torralba) is the overarching antagonist of FPJ’s Ang Probinsyano.
He is a leader of mafia organization involved in drug and human trafficking, the grandfather of Joaquin Tuazon, and Cardo Dalisay’s archenemy. In the later episodes, he retired in drug dealing business and disguised himself as Gustavo Torralba who’s involve in illegal mining business with the partnership of Lucas Cabrera and Renato Hipolito.
He is played by the late Eddie Garcia. In his younger years, he is played by JC Santos who also played Marco Cabrera in the same show.
Biography[]
Born and raised in a wealthy lifestyle, during his youth he attempted to court Flora de Leon but the latter rejected him to be his date. Later on, he organized a mafia organization involved in drug and human trafficking. At some point, Pablo de Leon attempted to arrest him but the former was fatally shot by the latter. With Pablo’s death, he escaped Philippines and lie lowed in Macau.
Years later, he returns to the Philippines and continued running his organization with the help of Tomas Tuazon and Joaquin Tuazon. With Tomas’ arrest thanks to Cardo Dalisay, he helped Joaquin frame Cardo. As Cardo gets imprisoned, he continued running his business with his grandson. As Cardo escapes in jail and learns that he was responsible for killing Pablo, he got involved in a shootout with Cardo causing him to be injured and authorities arrest him. Later on, he was sentenced for his crime and sent to jail where he meets Cardo once again and continued antagonizing the latter until he was released for proving his innocence. Months later, he was released with the help of Sen. Mateo De Silva whom he partnered to continue run his organization and extract his revenge to Cardo for killing Joaquin.
He abducts Cardo in a remote island and tortured him as his beginning to extract his revenge but was saved by Vendetta. As Vendetta continued eradicating his organization, he faced them off once again in Baguio resulting a shootout once again with his nemesis, Cardo. Cardo manages to shoot him causing him to fall off in a hill resulting his apparent death. He actually survived and injured his left eye thanks to Noah, a miner who saved him and help him establish a mining business. Months later, he disguised himself as a Columbian miner named as Gustavo Torralba and mined the mountains near Baguio City.
With his active gold mining business, Pres. Lucas Cabrera and Sec. Hipolito made association with his business allowing them to freely mine illegally. He moved to the mountains of Sto. Niño, to gather more golds and enslaved people of Sto. Niño with the help of the notorious band of bandits led by Tanggol. When Cardo and Vendetta infiltrated his site to rescue locals of Sto. Niño, he once again faced Cardo until the latter shoots him allowing him to retreat from Vendetta. With his attempt to escape from the Vendetta, he flees in a chopper but Cardo shot his chopper until it explodes finally resulting his downfall, avenging the death of Pablo de Leon.
Personality[]
For being raised in a higher class standards, he is mostly seen to be sophisticated wherein he acts refined speaking in old fashioned manner and behaving elegantly. Despite of his sophistication, he is actually opportunistic yet greedy crime lord who is capable in committing different crimes for his personal benefit. This would also give him an instinct that he can boldly kill and harm others especially his enemies or anyone he knows that they will be backfiring his activities. With his criminalistic nature, this would also cause him to tore apart with his relationship to his daughter Verna. Similarly to his partner, Madonna this made her continually hate him due to his overall criminalistic character.
With his role as a notorious crime lord, he is shown to be tyrannical yet murderous individual as he is capable to mercilessly kill his enemies and even violently tortures them like what he did to Cardo by tying him in a cave in Isla Muerte and have him violently tortured as part of his process to extract his vengeance. Nonetheless, he is a manipulative wealthy crime lord who is capable to bribe corrupt officials such as Sen. Mateo da Silva for his freedom and continue leading his criminal organization for his personal benefits.
Despite of being played as a villain, he genuinely cares anyone close to him such as family and anyone loyal to his organization. As he deeply cared his love ones, he determined himself to avenge their deaths caused by Cardo Dalisay his arch-nemesis. Similarly to his partner Madonna, it was seen that he won’t spare anyone who harasses her and mercilessly kills anyone he sees harassing her indicating that he is also an overprotective man.
Trivia[]
- He is one of the characters that the late Eddie Garcia would play prior to his death in June 2019. Additionally, Eddie Garcia made a special participation in the 2019 film, Sanggano, Sanggago’t Sanggwapo released in September 2019, three months after his death credited as Russel Flores having unfinished required scenes.
- In his teenage or young adult years, he is played by JC Santos who would also later play as Marco Cabrera in the later episodes.
- His downfall is similar to Albert De Vela, wherein they both attempted to escape from their enemies by fleeing a helicopter and died in exploding helicopters who were fired by their enemies. However with the exception, Cardo was the one who fired his helicopter, while Marshall Matero was the one who fired Albert’s helicopter.