Caray, Caray!

Remedios, wearing so much makeup her eyes look like black blotches, is leaving the hacienda forever. She tells Valeria to seek her in times of trouble.

Sergio's friends tell him his sister Jacinta is a saint, an angel. Well, maybe she's like a bee's nest - dangerous on the outside, sweet on the inside. With the heavy-handed irony we have come to expect, Sergio tells them: "She is more traditional than I am, and opted for a life without complications."

I guess Andres snuck out of some evening church service to go see Valeria and was spotted by Jacinta and Federico, who have become inseparable. He has a problem - his dad will be displeased that he's dating the grand-daughter of Serial-Killer Granny, and Serial-Killer Granny will be displeased that her granddaughter is dating the son of the man she tried to put in prison for life.

Jacinta is most indignant when she's told, after sending bossy orders towards Remedios via Valeria (saying, "Remedios always serves me"), that Remedios has flown the coop. Jacinta and Federico, now joined-at-the-hip, spend the rest of the episode brooding and complaining about Remedios, that ungrateful hussy whom Valeria tries to defend - "she has a right to seek happiness!" Fed&Jaci loom over Valeria furiously, like a pair of wolverines, their faces filling the screen, and tell her to butt out.

Elsewhere, Nutria, Unibrow, Daniel, and Andres perch uncomfortably in stiff tableaux. Andres gets a call: his bullfighting contact has an opening for him due to an injured performer. Andres lies to his family, saying he has to go out of town to take care of a vineyard client. Later he tells Nutria the truth and she shouts a lot, but he says he has to followwww his dreammmmm.

Remedios and her withered beau Octavio go to church. She doesn't know if she can be happy with him. He has arranged their wedding for the following day. The priest says she has a right to happiness. She tells the priest, and us, about her love of Pedro. It was on the very night Pedro had planned to leave Jacinta that he was fatally gored by a bull. Accidentally. "Padre, will I be happy with Octavio?" This question does not get answered.

Andres tries on his green toro outfit and then hides it so Unibrow won't see. He tells Nutria everything and she says she won't rat him out.

There is an unbelievably dull party. Jacaranda - who has been cheated out of her rightful pelf (earned fair and square when she murdered her husband) - is now selling her designer clothes to raise some dough. The point is supposed to be that most of our characters show up there and recognize each other etc. Manola and Maite (now ycleped Maria Theresa) are catty in a dull way. Manola reveals that Unibrow & Co. have moved to town, and also that Maite cannot count on Gustavo's helping her win back Valeria as he, nebekh, is practically a vegetable. "Señorita" Maldonado presides, more plastified than Cher, more plastified than Joan Rivers, more plastified than - Phyllis Diller! (Google these people if their names don't ring a bell.) In comparison to everybody else there, Victor is a breath of fresh air.

Unibrow, wearing a chartreuse shirt, gives an illogical reason why Andres shouldn't be a bullfighter. Is it because Andres will probably be gored, stamped, and killed? No! It's because bulls remind Unibrow of how badly Jacinta treated him when he was taking care of her cattle.

Federico smokes and monologues that he's an "orphan" now, and that since his mother has abandoned him for her withered beau, he will cleave to Jacinta, making her forget she ever had a son of her own, and he will run her hacienda, and he will run Gustavo's as well. It's a wolverine lovefest when Jacinta comes in and says "I'll never abandon you, you're like my son." "You're my mother now." Aww.

Valeria has found the note Andres left her in the saddle room; again she sneaks off to see him at night having, again, wheedled Juanita into covering for her. So while Valeria is kissing Andres under the security light where anybody could see them (and then, later, they move off to a horizontal surface (uh-oh)), Jacinta is telling Clotilde to go fetch that very same errant escapee! Following the sound of the piano being plunked in desultory fashion, Clotilde finds - not Valeria, but Juanita instead! Valeria is not there to be fetched! Uh-oh!

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