Caray, Caray!

• Maite's extended lecture, delivered to Guillermo's mother, about homosexuality (it's nobody's "fault" and we should love our children and wish them happiness just as they are) took up 1/4 of the show. At the end Guillermo showed up and there was a lovefest.
  
  
• Sergio overhears Josefa and Jose Maldonado having their usual argument ("Jose, you should tell Maite she is your daughter." "No, she's too upset about her daughters, maybe later..."). Sergio promises not to spill the beans.
  
  
• Valeria has developed some backbone. She shows up at the hacienda, the now-recovered baby Pedrito in her arms, and declares with uplifted chin that she will be taking care of the child from now on. Jacinta is not happy to see either of them.
  
  
• Remedios and Octavio will rue their decision to tell Federico that Octavio is his father. Federico now yells at Octavio: "Where were you when I was growing up, why did you disappear so long? I've figured it out - you wanted Doña Jacinta to think I was the son of her husband, and include me in her will, which she has done, but you will not get a cent." He leaves muttering that they'll pay.
  
  
• Another public service announcement: a bouncing little undergrad comes up and lets Professor Octavio know she will trade her Favors for a better grade. He tells her, "Actions Have Consequences," and suggests she study harder instead.
  
  
• Unibrow holds Juanita's son - his grandson by the defunct asthmatic Daniel. Evidently Juanita (who was always the smartest of those three girls) has been helping Unibrow with the wine business in Europe, and now is living with him in a location to be disclosed shortly.
  
  
• The brown-nosing biddies show Jacinta a magazine picture: Andres with a floozy actress hanging all over him. Jacinta waves it triumphantly in Valeria's face. Valeria acts all steely and unconcerned, but later swears to the camera that she's more determined than ever, now, that Andres will never know about his son.
  
  Later, Andres, loitering in the convent courtyard with his shirt mostly unbuttoned and a great deal of chest hair showing, actually sees Valeria in her nun's habit. She gets away. He confronts the nuns and they admit she's been living with them. Without exactly saying so, they allow him to believe that Valeria has taken vows. "I've lost her."
  
  
• Finally one of the countless arrangements of roses which arrive at the restaurant for Maite has a note: "Sorry I haven't been able to tell you my name. I will help you get your daughter back. Come to see me at Las Barricas."
  
  So Maite puts her hair up (it looks nice) and goes to Las Barricas, where she encounters - yes, you guessed it - Unibrow! Looking like an undertaker in his black suit, evidently rich now, but as ugly and harsh as ever. She's furious that he lured her there and stamps out without listening to anything he has to say.
  
  On the way out, she meets Remedios, who tells her Valeria is back! and living at the convent. When Maite goes to find her at the convent, though, she's already on her way back to the hacienda. Maite turns on her heel and steams off.
  
  
• Federico is ragefully boozing when Jacinta comes in and says: "I don't tolerate men who drink." He doesn't believe her when she reiterates that he is a Valladolid.
  
  Their conversation is interrupted by Maite's explosive entrance - she isn't going to be intimidated this time, and she won't leave till she sees her daughter!
  
  Jacinta tells Federico to get out, tells Maite: "You Will Get In Here Only Across My Cadaver," insults her, they slap each other, Jacinta chokes Maite and says, "You'll Cry Tears Of Blood!" Just then Valeria arrives and is surprised to see this scene. She tells Jacinta, "This woman is my friend," but Jacinta says: "No, she isn't your friend, this so-and-so is your mother."

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