Caray, Caray!

• Octavio is taken to the dean's office and faces the two bouncing undergrads - one who accuses him of trying to trade sexual favors for a better grade and the other who claims to have witnessed said discussion. The dean believes them and fires Octavio. Federico congratulates the girls on a job well done and gives them cash. The "witness" feels a bit of remorse but not much.
  
  
• Unibrow listens as Theodoro tells him: (a) Federico is as much to blame for everything as Jacinta; (b) Theo now suspects Jacinta is responsible for the death-by-burning-building of Theo's wife Martina and Maite's aunt Griselda. Unibrow's vengeance plan has now progressed to - accumulating information about the Jacinta's finances. That's pretty gripping.
  
  
• In a hotel, Veronica and Victor meet Andres with the Bonbon on his arm. He describes her as his "good friend." Victor remarks later that Andres doesn't look very happy.
  
  Veronica can't understand why Maite is living with the nuns and is not at the hotel. "What aren't you telling me, dad?"
  
  She understands even less well when she and Victor arrive at the convent and Maite isn't there. The nuns have been wondering where she is, and so has Unibrow. All knit their brows. "Maybe she's gone to see Valeria, who is still sick." "Maybe she is checking for proof that Jacinta is drugging Valeria!" A flash of Vera the Perra is seen: "Valeria, Valeria, Valeria, everybody always loves Valeria best. Why isn't mom here for ME?"
  
  
• Remedios and Maite have indeed gone down the tunnel and into the hacienda. Remedios intends to distract Jacinta; she barges into her room just as Jacinta has drugged the tea and dropped the poison-wrapper into the trash. They have one of those needling, bitching shouting matches of yore.
  
  Maite sneaks into Valeria's closet again and watches Valeria coo to Pedrito (whose presence had been begged and wheedled out of Cleo) and call him "hijito." "My grandson!" Maite thought-bubbles, then she has to watch as Jacinta barges in, yells at Valeria for being with the baby, makes Cleo take him away, and then forces Valeria to drink the poisoned tea, just as she forced Maite to drink it two decades ago.
  
  I don't know how Cleotilde, Jacinta's maid, can still be saying "I believe you are the most pious, charitable woman I have ever known" after listening to Jacinta say (a) "That snotnose baby is nothing special, he's probably the product of sin, who knows what blood runs in his veins" and (b) "I will kill Maite if she comes back. If she comes in here, she will never leave alive." The chauffeur Artemio, having full knowledge of the poisonings past and present - due to his eavesdropping last night - stays silent.
  
  
• On the way out, Maite sneaks into Jacinta's boudoir past said dozing dragon, starts to open the nightstand, but then sees the emptied poison packet in the trash. She picks it up and stands there, staring, instead of shoving it in her pocket and splitting. I'm sure tomorrow night Jacinta will wake up and see her still standing there like a dummy.
  
  
• The phone rings in the night. Nicolas picks it up - it is Gustavo! "Did you forget my voice so soon? I just called to say I will be putting things in their place - you and Manola won't escape the vengeance of a dead man!"

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