- "My people? I only moved here after my daddy married my mom. No one even cared about me until I blew up in a car wreck"
- ―Rafaela
Rafaela Moreno is a spoiled woman who tried to do everything in her power to get her mother back from prison.
History[]
Rio[]
Driving Blind[]
When a shipment of mind-controlling formula blew up, Rafaela asks Layla and Rocha where her formula is. She mentions how she was going to be able to get out of Rio using mind-control, but blames Layla and the man for ruining everything.
Rafaela quickly showed she had a temper when hitting a man for getting her the wrong skirt.
Rafaela tells Layla and the man, Rocha, that she knows how to solve the problem they had. However, she was interrupted when a man walked in. Rafaela quickly hid as the man handed Layla a skirt, which Rocha ordered. Layla was confused, as she had not asked for that skirt, but said it was fine. However, Rafaela came out from hiding furious because she did not want an A-line skirt. The man was pleased to see her at first, but was soon frightened by the tone she was using and started getting hit by Rafaela. Rafaela sprayed him with the formula, and ordered him to obey her commands.
Rafaela asks Layla to open a door, which Layla remembers the code to. Once they get in, Layla is told she must race someone, winner getting to live, while the other is killed. This is punishment because she had blown the formula up. Rafaela wanted to make sure she could drive under pressure.
Rafaela found out Layla was faking being under her control.
During Layla's race, she is crashed into by the other driver, who appears to only want to kill her. Layla tries slowing the other driver down to no avail. As the race moves on, Layla is able to barely pass her opponent. She is met by Rafaela, who congratulated her. However, since she had driven differently from the mind-controlled driver, she was able to figure out Layla was faking being mind-controlled.
Layla was grabbed by two men, and Rafaela revealed the person who had beaten her was Ms. Nowhere. As soon as Tony's crew saw this, they were ambushed by many people.
An Echo of Nowhere[]
Rafaela and Ms. Nowhere have the crew and Gary reunited. Gary pleads with her, but is not able to convince Rafaela, who asks her people to get rid of them. However, Frostee tells Rafaela that if she gets rid of them, she would never be able to stop the formula from exploding. She gives him 24 hours to work on it in order for them to live.
In order for him to neutralize the formula, Frostee asks Rafaela for 10,000 bananas. Rafaela also asks him for his necklace.
Rafaela mentions she is happy to leave Rio after she had almost been killed. However, she also says she is not executing her plan for revenge. She is asked what she thinks about people who have venerated her memory, but she refuses to let those people be called "her people," as he had only moved to Rio after her parents married.
The Patroness[]
At Rafaela's base, Frostee is testing the formula per Rafaela's orders. She orders the tanks to be filled up in the new tanks immediately, and sends Frostee back to the group.
Tony and Layla are brought to Rafaela, who is trying a new outfit on. She takes a selfie with the gang, and tells everybody it had been a year since she had been "killed". She sprays Tony and Layla and is able to manipulate them.
Rafaela told Tony and Layla her plan before the race.
Rafaela brings the formula to the annual race between the favelas, and tells Tony and Layla that she would leave the people racing poor. She tells both of them her plan is to spray everyone with the formula after the race, during which, people would never know she was racing.
Before the race, all the competitors get ready. Rafaela orders Tony and Layla to keep everyone off her tail so she could win the race.
During the last lap, Rafaela orders Layla and Tony to line up behind her so she could win. However, they do not follow orders, and reveal they lied about being mind-controlled since Frostee made an antidote based on his favorite drink: Yoka. She called Rocha, and told him to release the formula, but was shocked to learn everyone had escaped.
Rafaela was able to make the formula explode and consume Rio, taking it under her control.
During the race, Layla had reached Rafaela, who thought they were friends until Layla reminded her that she had been under the influence of the formula. Soon after, Rafaela was able to shoot at a building and flip Layla's car. Tony asked her if she was alright, and she confirmed she was. Tony took a shortcut, and got in front of Rafaela in order to stop her from getting to the truck with the formula. This caused Rafaela's car to soar and lose control when it landed. She was able to reach the truck, however, causing a big explosion.
She revealed she was alive to all of Rio, and declared everyone would follow her orders. The first order she gave was to capture Tony and his crew.
Tchau, Uggos[]
Rafaela visited the Cardoso turf, where she mind-controlled the man she ran into, ordering him to give her the Cardoso's money. Rafaela got all the money, and ordered the house to be blown up.
Rafaela got to the plane on a boat, and was chased by the teenagers until they were stopped by Beto and Lucas, who threatened to blow up the dock if they got anywhere near. Since she saw the teenagers approaching her, Rafaela ordered Rocha to call the shore patrol so they did not ruin their runway.
Layla and Tony raced after Rafaela, and saw Cisco and Echo take control over a shore patrol ship, which allowed them to keep chasing after her. They were able to jump onto the plane's wing after a torpedo hit them, and barely made it inside, where they were met by Rafaela and a bunch of her crew, which they were unable to overcome.
Rafaela told Tony and Layla she would probably drop them off over the Atlantic and then find her mother, who was the real brains of the family and mastered brain control. Tony found out her mom was the one who tattooed the formula.
Rafaela also told them that now thanks to Ms. Nowhere's codes and the plane, she would now be able to release her mother from prison. However, Frostee was able to voice and visually record her and edited the clip in order to command Medina to land the plane. Since she lost control, she frantically tried looking everywhere to turn the command off, but was tased by Layla.
Gary and Ms. Nowhere managed to plug everything in, and Frostee was able to also display a video of Rafaela telling Rio to dance instead of fighting.
Because of all this, Rafaela's plans were ruined and she was taken into custody.
The Giant Haboob[]
Rafaela was in an icy prison, complaining about the cold, and is told to quiet down by a guard, as well as another prisoner. On top of the prison, bombs are set, while Rafaela asks her fellow prisoner if he thinks about her while he meditates. He tells her that he thinks about infinite nothingness, but Rafaela tells him that that is all there is to see in the prison. The bombs explode, and the prison collapses, pulled away by a boat steered by Cleve Kelso. Rafaela is left behind, however, so she breaks out of her cell.
Cleve greets Matsuo, and tells him he wants him working again, but Matsuo tells him he never wanted to see him again. Cleve reminds him that he owes him, and tells his guards to set him straight. The guards click a button under his right shoulder, and a bionic arm grows, which also messes with Matsuo’s mind. Rafaela reaches the pair of men, which Cleve likes, so he offers her a job.
The Dead End[]
At the Southwood Defense Complex in Nevada, Rafaela and Matsuo greet a soldier and manage to get in. Matsuo tells Rafaela everybody would know where they were after breaking the door, but Rafaela brushed it off, since men always ran after her. Matsuo mentioned he hated working with her, but proceeded and set off the alarm. Matsuo and Rafaela walk into a vault where Rafaela finds a glove that boosts her strength, which she likes. Matsuo finds a Yamashiro No Daijyo Kunitsugu Wakizashi, which he finds cool. They are surrounded by the military, but in the end manage to escape with help of their new-found tools.
The Empty Well[]
Rafaela gave Cleve a guiding system he needed.
Rafaela and Matsuo approach Cleve, giving him a guiding system which he gave to a young boy who wanted to exponentially increase the cloud generator’s power. Cleve mentioned how that would make his village happy since it would get a lot of rain. Cleve told Rafaela and Matsuo that Ziri is like the son he had never had, having disowned his own five actual children. When Cleve mentioned Tony Toretto was after him, Rafaela was surprised and mentioned she would have her revenge on the group.
Sandocal was selling the group’s cars, which started shooting at the villagers. Rafaela walked up and told him he would buy them, and told him he would help them defeat Tony. They soon raced towards Tony and the rest of the crew.
The Hunt[]
Sandocal was under the impression that they were supposed to capture Layla and the rest alive, but Rafaela said that would be boring.
The group is pressured by Rafaela and Matsuo, so Echo tells them to put some distance between them. Layla and Tony decide to flip a dune buggy, which causes all of Kelso’s group to crash. However, they are soon able to move past the crash.
Rafaela sends two men after Cisco when she hooks on to his dune buggy, but Tony goes to his rescue, and the two men fall. However, Matsuo got closer to them, which makes Tony slow down and face him head on. In the end, he manages to spin Matsuo out of control, which angers him.
Echo realizes the were going to have to face them head-on since they were not able to lose them. Each of them was able to outsmart different drivers, such as Layla tricking Sandocal into crashing into Rafaela’s car.
Rafaela got her car working again and picked Matsuo up. She shot at Layla and Sandocal, but Layla managed to get them both out of the way. Tony and Cisco managed to send their car crashing straight into Rafaela’s which shook her.
The Bedouin Shield[]
Ziri is glad since if his plan works, a storm would be able to form, and his village would be able to grow crops. Rafaela mentions that the plan sounds nice. Cleve agrees and tells them that he is creating something he likes to call a tornado-cane. A storm begins forming in the desert as he says this.
After a bit of bonding, Rafaela was convinced she and Matsuo were now dating.
Later, Rafaela asks Matsuo how he got his arm, and he tells her that he was a nuclear scientist in one of Cleve’s power plants in Japan in which he was nearly killed by a meltdown, but was saved by Cleve and was sent on missions until Ms. Nowhere captured him. Rafaela shares that Ms. Nowhere had captured her mother, which made Matsuo realize they shared a dream, which Rafaela mistook as the two of them dating.
Ms. Nowhere and Gary are trapped by Cleve, Rafaela and Matsuo. Cleve tells her that Tony and his crew had been flushed out the night before. Cleve orders Rafaela and Matsuo to torture the pair of spies.
The Eye of the Sahara[]
Matsuo and Rafaela discussed torturing Ms. Nowhere and Gary.
Ms. Nowhere talks to Rafaela, asking her where she got her ideas from. Gary congratulated them on making the weather machine, which the government had been trying to do for years, but was told to be quiet by Ms. Nowhere. Rafaela told Ms. Nowhere she thought they could have both been best friends, but when she arrested her she realized it would not be possible. Matsuo tells them they would torture them and Rafaela told Ms. Nowhere her plan of giving her a manicure and not letting her post it online, which Matsuo found ridiculous since he believes a better torture would be to chop their hands off.
Matsuo and Rafaela reach a deal: the former would be allowed to beat them for an hour if the latter could shave their heads and give them lopsided winged eyeliner. However, as they begin painting Gary and Ms. Nowhere, they are interrupted by Cleve who tells them to stop.
RoboCleve[]
Ziri is working, and is nervous when Cleve tells him the satellite had started working again. Cleve and Rafaela told him he was busted, but Ziri tried defending himself by telling them that the people at the wreck were innocent. Cleve told him that he no longer needed him, since he could now launch the satellites on his own in order to take down the world's largest cities and bring everybody's attention to the Sahara. Rafaela and Matsuo handcuffed Ziri so he would not interfere. Cleve told the two to take Ms. Nowhere and Gary to the desert so that Tony's crew could rescue them.
Rafaela and Matsuo did as they were told, while Gary and Ms. Nowhere realized they were being used as bait. Ms. Nowhere told Rafaela they were talking about her since she was so smart, but told her that Cleve was using her.
Tony received a hologram of Rafaela dancing when she baited them into freeing Ms. Nowhere and Gary.
The crew got a hologram on their watches of Rafaela dancing. She told them she had Gary and Ms. Nowhere hostage and still alive. Gary started singing along to Rafaela's song, but she was interrupted by Cleve who told Tony that he could either save them or go after him.
Rafaela and Matsuo saw the two planes arriving, and made them explode when they neared the van. Cleve celebrated as his rockets were prepared. Ziri asked him why he was doing what he was doing, and Cleve told him that he wanted the world to be balanced in his favor. He was interrupted at the sight of the crew with Ms. Nowhere and Gary using motorcycles and heading towards him, however. He ordered his guards to find Matsuo and Rafaela.
Rafaela and Matsuo returned to fight the crew, while Cleve was baited by Tony. Ms. Nowhere told Frostee and Ziri to hack the rockets while they fought. Frostee complained that he was always thrown into action immediately, but was helped by Ziri as well.
As Matsuo shot at them, Tony was able to deactivate his arm, finally awakening him. Rafaela punched Tony far away from Matsuo, and managed to turn his arm back on which poisoned his mind once again.
Layla managed to trip Cleve's giant suit, while Rafaela pinned Ms. Nowhere to the ground.
Matsuo was finally awakened when his arm was cut off, which Rafaela did not like.
Layla boosted Tony in order to get to Cleve's back, while Gary fought Matsuo, who took him down. Before he could kill Gary, however, Echo took his arm out, which woke him again. Rafaela cried, and even though Matsuo told her he would survive, she mentioned it was the only thing she liked about him.
Frostee and Ziri managed to take the rockets down, and while being attacked by Cleve, Tony managed to press the button on his back, which turned out to only serve the purpose of a light show. He grabbed Tony, and threw him away while the rest of the crew was cornered. Echo realized they might not make it, but at least they had stopped Cleve. Ms. Nowhere congratulated her, and told her that she was definitely worthy of becoming a Nobody. Cleve mentioned that what Echo had said was touching, but he had a backup rocket.
Sirocco Fire Explosion[]
Cleve tells the crew that all their fighting has been in vain since he would launch the rocket and bring devastation to the world. He ordered the crew be sent to the underground cell, and as Rafaela said goodbye to the crew, she was surprised to see that she was sent as well. He ordered Matsuo to be left there, since he would fix his arm and poison him again.
An alarm rang, and Cisco arrived at the compound along with Sandocal and the Bedouins. They broke in, and it was revealed that Cisco had been found by Falafel and Salem and Kareem. Cisco convinced the Bedouins to take him to Cleve along with some help such as Sandocal and Ziri's brother.
At the compound, a fight ensued. Rafaela managed to break free and escape, and Tony asked Ziri how they could take the rocket down. Frostee realized there was a manual override at the top. Tony decided he would go to the top of the rocket using a motorcycle, which he struggled to ride, and fell off. However, he started climbing while being chased by Cleve. In the end, Tony managed to hang on to the rocket, but was still chased by Cleve.
Matsuo was able to knock Rafaela out when he awoke from his mind control.
As the crew battled the security, Rafaela managed to knock Cisco to the ground, and as she was about to shoot him, Matsuo took her out with a shock gun, and helped fight the rest of the security.
After the battle, the group depended on Tony, who Frostee told only had thirty seconds to override the rocket. As Tony was getting ready, the rocket lifted off which only left him with the option of finishing the mission. He was able to disable the rocket, but started falling from the sky, same as Cleve.
The team started saying their goodbyes, but Tony was caught by Ziri's drones and was saved. However, when the rocket blew up, a fire tornado started forming and was moving at over 100mph. The crew raced towards it in order to stop it, and Frostee thought he could use Ziri's pressure drop in order to stop the tornado. The spy racers were able to divert the storm from a town, but soon saw the tornado was going after them. Ziri concluded that the person who was steering the tornado was Rafaela.
Layla's car was caught by the fire, and she had to eject from it; soon after, Echo had to do the same as her car was destroyed. After Echo, Cisco's car was attacked, so he and Frostee had to eject. Tony was the only one left in his car, and Frostee told him the way to stop the tornado would be to drop an explosive into the tornado so it reached an ionizer.
After finding a dune, Tony used it in order to attempt a big jump over the tornado. He sent an explosive down the middle, landing it on the ionizer, and taking the fire tornado down. After this, Rafaela managed to escape.
Mexico[]
Chasing Phantoms[]
As a thunderstorm rages over the skies of London, Ms. Nowhere talks to Tony Toretto's Crew as they prepare to go and arrest Rafaela, who is aboard a nearby private jet. They successfully get inside and look for her, but come up empty handed. Rafaela surprises them by being outside the airplane as she activates her parachute. Back inside, Frostee directs everyone’s attention to the bomb that Rafaela left behind on the plane as a trap. The gang all successfully manage to get out before the plane explodes. Tony finds Rafaela still falling down to the ground with her parachute, and the two engage in an aerial fight. Eventually Tony lands on top of Big Ben, and from there Rafaela ends up pushing him down, and he falls onto the nearby river.
Off the waters of Fiji, Rafaela once again evades capture on a jet ski. She eventually circles back and throws bombs at Tony and the rest of his crew. Which in turn forces Mrs. Nowhere to have the team fall back and retreat.
In the sewers of Paris, Mrs. Nowhere tells the team over the comms to stay on high alert. Rafaela surprises the team when she becomes visible again after having tripped Tony over, who fell into some sewage water.
Later, the gang is on a high speed chase and hot on Rafaela’s trail. Cisco asks Frostee if they are in Switzerland, Iceland or Greenland. But Frostee doesn’t know for sure, and just says they are on some kind of land. Eventually, Rafaela launches a bomb on some nearby boulders that fall onto the road. Fortunately, Cisco’s car is able to plow through them with ease. Just when they think they have her cornered, Rafaela drives her car off a cliff, gets out of it and successfully jumps into a waiting helicopter for another escape.
In Shanghai, Tony tells Rafaela that they picked up her scent when she crossed the equator, and jokes that she probably should cut back on the perfume. Still invisible, Rafaela responds that perhaps she enjoys this game of cat and mouse she has playing with Tony and the rest of his friends. He eventually tells the wanted criminal that the building they are in is surrounded by agents. Rafaela cackles as she jumps out the building and tells Tony she will see him later; leaving him fighting a bunch of assassins he hired. Eventually Cisco, Echo and Layla come to his aid and tell Tony to go and stop Rafaela once and for all. Rafaela and Tony engage in another one on one hand fight, but eventually, Rafaela is successfully apprehended.
As Mrs. Nowhere and Gary watch Rafaela being taken back to prison inside the back of a police car, a drone drops a letter with a message for Mrs. Nowhere. According to the letter, Rafaela was Mrs. Nowhere’s hundredth high-profile arrest. As a result, she is getting an official agency-sanctioned employee gathering in her honor.
The Siege[]
Sometime later, Echo realizes that the explosions outside have stopped. But Ms. Nowhere is able to hear a deep rumbling, and realizes the cops have a blowtorch at their disposal. Echo realizes this means they are likely going to get through. Which in turn means they will be shipped off to some remote ice prison or something similar. She then voices her fear of possibly having to bunk with Rafaela.
Homecoming[]
Snowed In[]
Tony, Frostee, and Cisco try to tell Ms. Nowhere that General Dudley is not the person that stole the weapons from Incineration Day but she doesn't beleive them and says it's a likely story. Then Ms. Nowhere gets a call from the agency and says that General Dudley actually isn't the thief. The spy racers ask who is and Ms. Nowhere says it's Rafaela and that she's in Berlin.
Rafeala's Raf-Venge[]
Rafaela is shown driving in a German Police car, knocking lots of officers out of their cars. She looks through her weapons briefcase and sees that 'her stalker' Tony Toretto is coming after her. She uses a fiery weapon but Gary realizes that it's going to blow up her car. Tony tells Rafaela that she needs to jump out of her car. She doesn't listen, but finally obeys and jumps into Tony's car. She then starts laughing at her own pun of 'Sorry to Drop in'. She then asks Tony why he's so love obsessed with her and he tells her for the last time he's not. So she starts whacking him with the weapons briefcase. Then she jumps on top of the car and uses her glove that she stole in Season 3 to blast Cisco out of his truck. She then is about to do the same thing with Frostee when he says he'll just go and uses his drone-suit to fly away. Rafaela then steals Cisco's truck and starts driving it. She rams into Layla's car and asks her if she remembers when they were besties. And Layla says that she brainwashed her but Rafaela says that she shared makeup and that's forever. She then escapes as the hauler picks up Cisco and Frostee.
The spy racers then go to Rafaela's prison in Berlin and ask the guards how she may have escaped. They say that they did not know so then Ms. Nowhere suggests that someone helped her escape. The guards said that she got a letter from a record preducer saying that they wanted to make Rafaela into a star for her song from Season 3 with Gary and Ms. Nowhere. So they kept writing back and forth. Than last night Rafaela started turning into a bunch of different clones. She harms all the guards and escapes. The guard says that she's just so annoying even the way she says hi.
At that moment, Rafaela walks into the Record Studio in Berlin and says her annoying hi. She says that she's ready to get her record deal. Then they all say she's even more annoying in person. Then, they play the video of her singing and start laughing at her and it. Saddened, she begins sobbing in Cisco's truck. However, she then proclaims that a new outfit always makes her feel better before bursting into the studio again in a crazy outfit.
Relationships[]
Ms. Nowhere[]
Rafaela really thinks of Nowhere as her best friend when she put her under mind control.
Trivia[]
- It remains unknown if Rafaela reunited with her mother.
- She was the main antagonist for Season 2 of Fast & Furious: Spy Racers. She also returns in Season 3 as the secondary antagonist and in Season 4 and Season 6 as a minor antagonist.
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