Caray, Caray!

It’s going to be tough to follow up on Sylvia’s excellent recap but here goes.
Big let down on the bull cliff hanger. The bull paws the ground aggressively but doesn’t charge. After staring at it transfixed for a second or two, Andres gets on his horse, pulls Valeria up behind him and they ride away. Not very exciting.

Victor and Guillermo have a little conversation wherein it is revealed that they both used to swim and they both like old motorcycles. Guillermo expresses his admiration for Victor’s adopting an orphan with Maite. Victor says, “Enough about me. How many children do you have?” Guillermo reveals that he has no children, he doesn’t want any children because he doesn’t plan to get married. He asks Victor where he rides his motorcycles. Victor says that he rides them on the track or in various places and Guillermo says maybe they could go out motorcycle riding together. This conversation was accompanied by significant looks.

Well, the bull didn’t have to charge. It did the job of getting Valeria and Andres back together. Andres swears on the rosary that Valeria gave him that he will never cheat on her. Now that all that is settled, Andres wants Valeria to meet his parents – without telling Unibrow who she is until he gets to know her.

Veronica is in a restaurant with Jacaranda in her extremely withdrawn personality (Veronica, that is). A very cute guy is checking her out. Jacaranda encourages her to catch his eye. She does. He comes over and asks to sit at the table. We hear the noise and the music and Vera appears. Within seconds of meeting this Alejandro, she is all over him. Carlos comes to the table and regards sexy Veronica quizzically.

Jacinta and Federico are walking in the garden discussing Sergio. If he is really ill, Jacinta won’t throw him out. “But suppose he’s faking it” asks Federico. Jacinta says that they must check out the doctor that Sergio said would verify the diagnosis. Federico says that he will take of this in his brown-nosing way. Meanwhile, Sergio is listening to the conversation and smoking behind a wall. It looks like he was fibbing about being at death’s door.

A big long scene between Remedios and Octavio with no fewer than three sepia pointless recollections of incidents when Adolfo and Federico were children. The upshot is that Octavio suggests that maybe Remedios would like to teach in an elementary school. He will look into this.

Back to the restaurant with Vera-nica, Alejandro, Carlos and Jacaranda. Veronica is flirting outrageously with the very cute Alejandro. She asks for his phone number and he gives it to her and leaves just as timid Veronica comes back with no memory of a cute guy being at their table. Veronica says that the same thing happened in Canada. Carlos wants to know what happened in Canada.

Manola is consulting with Gustavo’s doctor. “Is there any chance that my husband is going to improve?” she asks. The doctor says there is hope. The most recent tests done on Gustavo were very promising. “Has he made any movements at all in his extremities?” asks the doctor. “None at all, unfortunately,” Manola lies. “How strange.” responds the doctor. He goes on to tell Manola that when Gustavo can move his extremities, he needs intensive physical therapy. Manola’s thought bubble is that she has to act quickly before it is discovered that Gustavo isn’t going to die.

Maite is moping that Valeria is having another birthday separated from her. She vows that this will be the last time they will be so separated.

Jacinta is in her bedroom holding something that looks like a big piece of glass. Whatever it is, her father in law gave it to her and it is very precious. Adolfo wasn’t worthy of it but now she plans to give it to Federico when she tells him about the Valladolid blood running in his veins.

Meanwhile, Federico thinks, “who would have thought that one day he would have almost taken the place of Adolfo Valladolid.” He has a sepia memory of trying to one up Adolfo as a child. Then he goes through the “if’s”. If he is Pedro’s son, that would explain why Jacinta treats him so well and if he is a Valladolid, then his son, Rodrigo, is one too and would have a claim on both the Zamora and the Valladolid properties.

The prize for figuring out that Veronica has multiple personalities goes to Carlos who explains it to Jacaranda.

Manola tells her parents and Rodrigo that Gustavo needs to go to a clinic in the US that specializes in care for people in his condition. Rodrigo looks thoughtful, which is quite a stretch for him.

Unibrow is talking to Mario, the bullfighter friend of Andres. He is going to buy some wine. Andres comes in. Unibrow is surprised that they know each other. The bullfighter guy says that he and Andres share an avocation. Oops. Unibrow doesn’t know about Andres fighting bulls. Andres says that wine is their common avocation and oh by the way, did you know that Mario is a “matador?” Unibrow didn’t know. Andres says that they won’t discuss bullfighting since Unibrow is against it. “I am not against the ‘fiesta brava’ says Unibrow. I just don’t want my son involved in it.

Manola and Nicolas bamboozle Rodrigo into believing that Gustavo has to go this clinic in Houston this very night.

Jacaranda lets slip to Veronica and Maite that her friend Carlos is a psychiatrist.

Mario’s father is a big connoisseur of wine and he is going to place a big order with Unibrow’s vineyard. Andres says that people should drink locally produced wine. Mario invites Unibrow to dinner but he has another engagement. Andres accepts so that he can “work out” the details of the order. Unibrow buys this and leaves. Andres explains that his father is totally opposed to bullfighting and that’s why he hasn’t told him about what he has been up to. Mario thinks Andres should tell his father about his activities.

Juanita explains to her brother Baldo about the Daniel/Valeria problem. Baldo says she should forget Daniel but she can’t, of course, anymore than Baldo can forget Veronica. Love stinks.

Jacinta is giving orders for the preparations for the Valeria’s 18th birthday party to her staff. Cleotilde unwisely says that she misses Remedios who could organize a party down to the last details. Jacinta says that no one is indispensable and proceeds to say nasty things about how ungrateful, etc. Remedios is.

The gossipy ladies encounter Remedios. They are bitchy and she is evasive. The plot does not advance.

Manola and Nicolas hustle the nun out of Gustavo’s room pretending that he is about to leave for the clinic. Manola has to conceal the fact that Gustavo is squeezing her hand. When the nun is gone, Manola tells Gustavo that he going someplace where he won’t be able to interfere with her plans again.

The restaurant staff assures Maite that they can run things while she is away in Aguascalientes. Jacaranda can help too. Of course, says Jacaranda, but she is so depressed from losing her husband that she has to see a shrink and blah, blah blah. Maite buys this load of crap and suggests that Jacaranda come with them to Aguascalients. Jacaranda is pleased. This is what she wanted.

Vera and Violeta discuss the possibilities of the birthday party. Since Andres won’t be there, maybe Valeria will hook up with Rodrigo. That would leave Andres for Vera. But wait, Rodrigo is cute too and he will inherent money. “You can’t have both of them,” wails Violeta but Vera wants whatever Valeria has.

Andres tells Nutria about the bull fight. Surprise, surprise, she thinks he should tell Unibrow but Andres wants to wait until he has more success so that his father will see that this is his profession not a hobby.

Gustavo, wearing what appears to be football (American) helmet and trussed up like a chicken is about to be loaded into an ambulance while Rodrigo says goodbye. He is not happy about this arrangement but Manola and Nicolas put on a good show.

Federico is once again wondering about his parentage. Nothing new.

Jacinta is scourging herself when Sergio comes into the room. He sees the whip and says that he can’t believe Jacinta has sufficiently grave sins to require such penitence [if he only knew!]. Predictably, Jacinta responds that everyone is a sinner and should do penitence. She goes on to threaten Sergio that if he tells anyone about her unusual religious practice, she will throw him out on the street.

Valeria is thinking that here is another birthday without [guess] her mother! Why did her mother abandon her? Was she a bad person like Jacinta says? The appearance of Andres interrupts her thoughts.
We see Gustavo being put into a bed. For our benefit, Manola and Nicolas explain to one another that this isolated abandoned house is the perfect place to get Gustavo out of the picture.

That is where the TiVo stopped.

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