Caray, Caray!

Fermin just told Pamela that her father is dead. She says that can’t be! When they guy claiming to be her father came back, he looked just like the photos she and her mother had, but now with white hair and a beard. She kept reassuring her mother that it was really him. Fermin says whatever, I needed to tell you, I need someone to back me up to say that I’m not the one committing fraud here, that we didn’t know he was using false identification. She says she will help him. Then she wonders why this guy is pretending to be her father, what, to get the money and then kill her and her mother? Fermin says I hope not, “I have a wife and kids, I don’t want to be involved in something like that.” Apparently he doesn’t care what happens to Pamela and her mother, just his own family. Pamela says that the first thing to do is confront her ‘father’ and find out who he really is. Did he do something to her real father?

Fernanda is praying at Santiago’s church and crying. She tells him that she has lost her daughters and it’s Bertha’s fault. She then goes on and on about a pain in her chest. I know that the feeling of loss would account for this but there was such an emphasis on her chest pain – is this a hint at some health problem in the future? Probably not, it’s just some extra drama. He tries to compare her situation to the Virgin, how must she have felt when she lost her son but still survived it? Fern says “but she is the Virgin, I’m not.” He says they are both mothers and that’s what is important. She tells him that all three daughters know who she really is now. “Great! The hard part is over, everything forward will be in your favor.” Fern explains that now they hate her, especially Renata, and Miranda now despises her. Santiago says to not worry about Miranda, she’ll come around. And what about Florencia? Fern feels sorry for herself some more “Flor doesn’t want to know anything about what happened.” Santiago says if she keeps trying to communicate with them they’ll come around and lose their hate.

Bertha is trying to play innocent with Alejandro, asking “what else do you want to know? I’ll explain everything!” Al still has the drunk signal/untucked shirt tail going. He tells her that he doesn’t want any of her explanations, and furthermore, she never meant ANYTHING to his father. “He never loved you. He only spoke of you once or twice, and when he did, he spoke as if he despised you, like I’m talking to you now.” Bertha tries to look hurt. I don’t know if she’s putting that on for him or if she’s stupid and thought Alfredo loved her. It might be the second one, she has this strange idea that men like her when they don’t. Hell, the only regular action she was getting for a long time had to get drunk first to face her. Daira and Luciano are watching from the other room, Daira says “I’m not sure he’s in the best state to be negotiating with Bertha.” Luciano says “with her, there is no negotiating.” Daira agrees. Bertha whines to Al, “why are you treating me this way, like garbage? You don’t have the right and that’s not what I am.” She says she only ever offered him love and he misunderstood her. “No Bertha, you only offer pain but I’m looking for happiness. And that happiness can only be given to me by Miranda.” Bertha starts crying and calling Al names. She goes on about their love causing wounds or something, at this point she’s just being like one of those people that get unhinged when they get dumped. The only appropriate response is “whatever.” Al says something about the wounds being “heridas de amor” and she doesn’t understand. I thought with that being the name of the show I should put that in. Bertha cries some more and swears that Al will regret this, he should take that as an open declaration of war!

Fern explains to Santiago what happened when they tried to confront Bertha. He says that’s how it is with the devil, he/she can twist words around. He says next time someone has to be in charge, to keep order and keep Bertha quiet. But who, says Fern, who can keep Bertha quiet? Santiago says someone with knowledge of the law to run things like a trial or something like that, to keep order. Fern says “well what then, I’m sure we’re not going to have a policeman there?” Santiago says of course not. He thinks he knows the perfect person but doesn’t say who. He asks her if she looked at the papers from Tomasa. She says yes, nothing more. Ominous music.

Daira and Luciano tell Al he should have been more diplomatic. He says no way. The other two are a bit afraid of her declaration of war. Al says he isn’t afraid, because that’s what she wants. She wants her victims to feel fear so she has them in the palm of her hand. Daira says they need to be alert for her first strike. Al says yes, and when that comes, then they’ll know what they are dealing with. Then he flops down on the sofa to finish sleeping off his hangover.

Pamela and Fermin continue talking about her ‘father.’ She says she’ll talk to Alejandro Luque, he can help us! Like he’s Underdog or something. “Crap we have some random problem, who can help? I know – Alejandro Luque. He can fix anything.” Like the old Life cereal commercials – Alejandro is Mikey. This shows that Pamela hasn’t been brought up to speed by Miranda that today they hate Al. I wonder if she gets a daily report on whether Al and Miranda are on or off. “Today’s forecast – Al is ok but don’t get too close. Tomorrow – We hate Al.” Fermin’s phone rings and he answers it. His secretary tells him that the government agents who came about the false IDs before are back, can they come in or should they wait until Pamela leaves? Extra-ominous music. Time to go to the old conversation style –
Fermin: When I’m done here I’ll come out for them.
Secretary: They said it’s urgent.
F: Tell them I am with a CLIENT and they’ll have to wait. If they have a court order they can come in, otherwise they have to wait.
S: They said they’ll wait.
Pamela confides in him that she and her mother don’t know where the money came from, basically they don’t know anything. Fermin says they might be in quite a situation here, Pamela says further “I don’t have the slightest idea what may have really happened.” She is afraid because now this guy is in her house and she doesn’t even know if it is her father or not. Fermin says he’ll investigate and help when they find out more. She thanks him profusely and he says no problem, now he has to figure out how to put off the agents waiting for him, she says she doesn’t want to deal with them either. They thank each other and Fermin goes off to distract the agents so Pamela can leave.

Florencia tells Fab that she’s going to die, so she doesn’t want to spend time learning details about stupid things from the past, she wants to use her time to try and do something. Fab says “You’re totally right, tell me what you’re going to do.” Flor says it is sooo important that Bertha doesn’t know what they are going to do or she will finish them off. Flor is also sure that Bertha killed the doctors in Germany, there is no limit to what she will do to reach her objectives. Renata arrives. Flor says she’s fine, but how are YOU Renata? Renata cries. Some more.

Miranda is doing some math, wearing her work clothes. One of the other ladies brings in Gabino, turns out he and some of the others want Naty to leave. It takes forever to get out of him why, he finally says that the things that she does with the chocolate make them think she’s some sort of witch. This whole scene is funny since the lady who brings Gabino in keeps hitting him in the back of the head to get him to talk. Miranda is stunned, like everyone else is all the time about everything.

Fern says that the stuff from Tomasa doesn’t mean anything since they don’t mention Bertha by name. She thinks Bertha got away with the perfect crime. Santiago says no, the devil makes mistakes, he knows who her granddaughter is and who has her.

Al says that he needs to talk to Gonzalo and tell him what he suspects, to say that his father was shot in the back. I have to mention that Al looks good as new here, cleaned up and in clean clothes, though it appears that about five minutes have passed. Luciano says they should go talk to him right away. Luciano gets a call and after listening says “are you sure? Maybe we’ll fly to Italy today.” Al says please for the love of God Luciano, no more bad news. They all looked concerned and look around at each other for what feels like five minutes.

Santiago says he can’t tell her but he knows the truth, it was confirmed by Mother Superior. He also knows that someone else is investigating and finding out the same thing. Fern knows that it must be Bertha and that the perfect way to disguise it is to register the girl as her own daughter. He says that Nuria’s birth name was Norma. They don’t know how to prove anything, though, so they aren’t sure what to do. Santiago says that because they can’t prove anything, the can’t tell Nuria yet. Fern thinks that they can get Bertha to confess, but of course not she’s crazy. Fern thinks that Miranda is the only one that can help but she won’t talk to her right now.

Luciano tells Al and Daira that Bertha’s lawyer called and said that Bertha took over all of Al’s businesses and investments, he only has left what is in his checking account. Luciano runs off to get his laptop, maybe he can transfer some funds out before it’s too late. Al rants and raves.

Miranda tells Gabino that he’s crazy, Naty isn’t some witch, she just prepares the chocolate with love and that’s why the other women are so inspired to work. Then she asks if any of the men have tried the chocolate. Gabino says no. Miranda gives him a look that says “Well then?”

Flor tells Renata to imagine one day in their mother’s life, Renata says no that’s dirty! She ran off with another man! Flor says no, she didn’t. Flor remembers everything about ‘that night’ perfectly now. She tells about how Fern was crying and Bertha came in and took Flor and insulted Fern. Then she heard Gonz from the other room say “tell her I’ll kill her daughters too” (that part is new, we haven’t seen that before). Flor tells Renata that she thinks Fern is being honest with them. Renata still thinks Bertha is a saint, she’s so wrong. Flor says that she is dying so she has no reason to not seek the truth, it’s all she has left. Renata swears to not ever give Fern a chance, never ever.

Sanson is telling Cesar at his place that Nuria got a call from Miranda saying that Miranda is going to the hacienda and returning later. Cesar asks how he knows that? Did he find a way to tap her phone? No, he just listened at the window. Cesar is proud of Sanson, they have some conversation about who will pay somebody, or if Sanson will get paid, it sounded like Cesar told him that the experience itself was his payment. I didn’t quite understand it all. Somebody knocks on the door. Sanson opens the door to find Bertha, she wants to speak with Cesar. Cesar laughs at her, he knows that she’s mad about Miranda and Al getting married.

Fern and Santiago are still walking and talking, they discuss how evil Bertha is. Fern vows to make her pay for all the trouble she has caused. Fern flashes back to when Bertha swore to ruin the daughters’ lives if Fern gave her trouble. Now she is worried about the other two, she already caused Miranda and Al to break up. What next? Santiago preaches his usual sermon – patience.

Luciano is having good luck getting the money out of Alejandro’s accounts. He is transferring everything into his own accounts in Nassau. Al says he feels like he’s stealing from himself. Luciano says it’s more like Luciano is stealing from Al, now everything is in his accounts. Al jokes that he’ll have to treat him differently now so Luciano doesn’t take off with his money. Luciano laughs. Al says he needs to de-diversify his portfolio to keep it under control. He might lose everything, but he says that’s better than Bertha getting her hands on one single peso. Maybe I didn’t understand quite right – now Luciano says everything is locked up and he hopes that Al and Miranda have a baby because that child is the only one who can touch the money.

Cesar and Bertha agree to help each other in exchange for a cut of each other’s monetary gain. They have a drink to celebrate declaring war on Al. Bertha says they will start with Lasagna and Daira. Then she says she wants to make Miranda hurt even more than Alejandro. Cesar looks uncomfortable about this, Bertha tells him that Miranda teased him for all these years, married someone else, etc. Cesar gets into the plan.

Another scene at the hacienda, Naty says she puts the spirits of the gods into the chocolate, she’s going to show Miranda how.

Flor reminds Renata that she discovered Bertha lying about going to Germany too, Bertha told Renata that she was buying her houses when she got caught. Renata says that the doctors dying was a coincidence. Juan and Fab enter the room. In spite of this, Renata wants to know what’s going on. I sense her being the weak link here. Flor begs her to not say a word to anyone, to go get Miranda at the hacienda and tell her to come talk to Flor. Renata is supposed to go somewhere with Bertha, so they ask her to be careful and not make her suspicious. She leaves. Fern walks down the hall and she and Renata stop and look at each other. Renata asks Fern, do you know why I always hated school? She was the best speaker in her class and every mother’s day she had to get up and welcome all the other mothers and keep her eyes closed, hoping that when she opened them that her own mother would be there. Fern begs forgiveness. Renata goes on some more about bad things at school because she had no mother. She storms off and Fern cries.

Cesar is crying about Miranda. It’s pitiful. Bertha is crying with him. What a couple of losers. He says that if Miranda suffers, Al has to suffer just as much. She says of course, because his father was so bad to her. Cesar asks, is that why she tried to kill him? She says no, she was trying to kill Fernanda, but I missed! Bertha gets up and goes to the back room; the doorbell rings. It’s Lasagna, bitching that Cesar won’t answer his phone. She tells him that Al and Luciano found a way to take everything away from Bertha. Everyone is impactado.

Naty shows Miranda how to make the magic chocolate. Gabino runs in and gives Miranda a gun and tells her to go straight to her room and lock the door.

Cesar tells Lasagna to leave, it’s not a good time. She says fine, she doesn’t like him when he’s drunk anyway. Bertha says wait – my queen, you can’t leave until you explain what you just said. Cesar says another day, and pushed Lasagna to the door. Bertha grabs one of the swords and threatens to hurt Lasagna unless she explains NOW. Lasagna tells Bertha about the clause in her father’s will. If Al’s wife gets pregnant in less than a year, all the money is protected and will go to the baby when it is born. The important thing is that Al and Miranda have a kid. Bertha flips out at the thought and leaves. Cesar calls her stupid and she should have never said anything to Bertha. He takes off his belt and swings it at her….. I guess we’ll find out Monday if she really likes getting hit.

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