Caray, Caray!

• Manola fondles her father's pistol, saying: "Did you know Daniel, Unibrow's son, killed one of our stud bulls with this gun? He was a vet like his dad - his father was away, the bull got very sick and there was nothing to do but put him down. Rodrigo argued with him about it. And just think, you used this very gun to kill Omar." Nicolas: "Manola, you're a sadist. You know I don't like to talk about this."
  
  
• Jacinta digests the news about Veronica being her grand-daughter. "Well, she's a Vallodolid, my blood. I took one daughter away from Maite, I can take the other." She asks about Victor, Veronica's "father," and Rafael insinuates but does not reveal anything.
  
  
• Jacaranda comes to visit her former lover, Nicolas, and greets Cayetano, the betrayed wife, thus: "Why, you look mighty good for a cancer patient." Cayetano is mighty indignant and slaps her husband. He later tells her he made up the cancer story so he could tell Jacaranda: "I can't leave my dying wife." He expected to get praise for this?
  
  Jacaranda says she wants to stay with the Linares family for a while - "Just as a friend." The mom says no but Manola says ok, and it's her place. She asks Jacaranda, later, why she's here - Jacaranda provides insinuation without revelation.
  
  Later Manola discovers her dad babbling in his study - he has found a music box Gustavo once bought for Manola and thinks it proves Gustavo is back from Hades and planning to kill them both. Jacaranda reports by phone to Gustavo: "It worked perfectly! He's completely loco and thinks you are going to kill him." "I don't need to kill him, I'm not an assassin, but I'll see them both in jail."
  
  
• Valeria sits with her baby, wincing when she touches her back, still bloody and sore no doubt from the scourging. Soon Jacinta and Federico decide to send her back to the nuns in Oaxaca and tell nobody where she is.
  
  Andres stomps into the hacienda leaning on a cane. He insists he must see Valeria, but she's in Oaxaca so is not to be found. Federico runs Andres off with a rifle.
  
  Andres complains to his dad who says, "Be patient, my plan is being set into motion." (This is at least the third episode in a row he's said that.)
  
  Maite is convinced that her friend at the hacienda, Artemio the chauffeur, will surely be able to tell her where Valeria was taken. Patience is required. They can't act until they have proof of Jacinta's dastardly acts. The drugs don't count because Maite stole them. There is a lot of false evidence out and about concerning Maite. The case must be built methodically.
  
  
• Dandling little Daniel, Maite speaks a few words in Nuacatl to him, words she learned from Martina, little Daniel's dead grandma, when Valeria was a baby.
  
  
• Victor breaks it to both of Maite's suitors at once that Unibrow has triumphed. They take it well. Guillermo drifts in looking like a ghost. He can't believe Veronica was so cruel, but after a few scenes of Victor suffering because Veronica refuses to see him, Guillermo packs a tiny suitcase, leaves notes for Mommy and Victor, and leaves "forever - and don't try to find me."
  
  Rafael sees him leave, and reports to Daddy. Daddy reports to Vera the Perra, who is pleased with her victory, but not completely satisfied. "Why did papi lie to me? Why didn't he tell me he's gay? He's just as bad as mami. He'll pay." So much for Guillermo's noble sacrifice.
  
  
• Baldo gets tapped for some sports team. He and sister Juanita are celebrating on the field, speaking Nuacatl, when Rodrigo shows up. They aren't pleased to see him, but he makes a nice apology about what a jerk he used to be and they accept it.
  
  
• All over town, invitations are being received by the "best families." Jacinta, Manola's family, the gossipy ladies... "Please attend a reception at Las Barricas, I would like to meet you and introduce you to my future wife." They are not signed, how mysterious! It's the event of the decade!

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