Os Mutantes: Caminhos do Coração

Os Mutantes: Caminhos do Coração is a Brazilian soap opera produced and aired by RecordTV between June 3, 2008 and March 23, 2009 in 243 chapters, replacing Caminhos do Coração and preceding Mutantes: Promesas de Amor, being the second part of the trilogy. It is the 11th soap opera shown by the station since the resumption of dramaturgy in 2004. It was written by Tiago Santiago, with the collaboration of Altenir Silva, Doc Comparato, Gibran Dipp, Maria Cláudia Oliveira, and Waldir Leite, under the direction of Daniel Ghivelder, Guto Arruda Botelho, Hamsa Woo, Pollyana Silva, Vicente Barcellos and Vivianne Jundi and general director of Alexandre Avancini.

It features Bianca Rinaldi, Leonardo Vieira, Julianne Trevisol, Maytê Piragibe, Marcos Pitombo, Juan Alba, Tuca Andrada and Ittala Nandi in the main roles.

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After taking the elixir of youth and returning to be 30 years old to escape from prison, Dr. Julia (Ittala Nandi) starts to run the laboratory under the name of Juli (Babi Xavier), saying that she was an assistant to the doctor. The existence of mutants is made public and DEPECOM (Department of Research and Control of Mutants) intervenes to control them, but the organization is split between delegates Fredo (Petrônio Gontijo), who wants the imprisonment of beings, and Marta (Mirian Freeland), who believes in peaceful coexistence. When one is abducted and the other dead, he takes over the Ferraz department (Juan Alba), which promotes a "witch hunt". When inheriting her biological father's fortune, Maria (Bianca Rinaldi) founds the Mayer the league of good mansion to recruit good-natured mutants together with Marcelo (Leonardo Vieira), the great love of her life, in addition to Toni (Paulo Nigro) , Noé (Fernando Pavão), Tati (Letícia Medina), Leonor (Lígia Fagundes) and Janete (Liliana Castro), who has a vision that two chosen children must be saved from evil.

The main rival of the league is Samira (Bianca Rinaldi), a violent mutant created from Maria's DNA and sent by Juli to end the rival, being as powerful as she is, although she is better trained. Gór (Julianne Trevisol) founds the Bandit League against the League of Good, along with other dangerous beings, such as Metamorph (Sacha Bali), Draco (Rômulo Estrela), Telê (Rômulo Neto), Lino (Mário Frias) and Bianca (Nanda Ziegler ). DEPECOM detective Nati (Maytê Piragibe) investigated the mysterious Valente (Marcos Pitombo) - who no one imagines came from the future to prevent the destruction of the world by reptilians - but the two end up falling in love and facing more problems when the police officer becomes a vampire and pursued by the department for which she worked. In Ilha do Arraial, several mutants escape the laboratory and start to face each other, among them Luna (Paloma Bernardi), Cris (Maurício Ribeiro), Iara (Suyane Moreira), Perpétua (Pathy Dejesus), Fúria (Karen Junqueira) and Scorpio ( José Loreto).

Guiga (Eduardo Lago) has to deal with the return of his ex-wife, Viviane (Flávia Monteiro), an arrogant woman who returned wanting custody of her children, Eugênio (Pedro Malta), Angela (Júlia Maggessi) and Clara (Shaila Arsene), to try to repress their powers and make them behave like ordinary children, besides despising Érica (Andréa Avancini) for having created them. Batista (Taumaturgo Ferreira) is also surprised by the appearance of his ex-wife, Sandra (Cláudia Alencar), who reveals that she is leaving pregnant and presents her son, Tarso (Pedro Nercessian). With the rapprochement, the two end up reliving the romance, displeasing João (Raul Gazolla), with whom Sandra was married in the last 16 years. At a certain point the elixir of youth runs out and Dr. Julia returns to her original appearance, revealing that she was behind the attacks by Samira and the Bandidt League, in addition to uniting with the reptilians.