Caray, Caray!

We open with Luisito drowning in the pool while his mother listens to her iPod and reads a magazine oblivious to his cries. In the nick of time, Mariangela comes in and rescues him. Joselyn gives MA a dirty look.

Diana is released from prison on the testimony of Soraya. Gabriel scolds Rogelio for cheating on his wife. Rogelio says that Diana was just an exotic dancer so no big deal. Gabriel says that if you had these scruples, you shouldn’t have married her. Since you did, she is your wife and my daughter in law and you’ll treat her accordingly. Rogelio asks who else knows about Diana’s past and Gabriel says that only he and Nicolas know and they won’t blab.

Joselyn gets rid of MA and then gets Luisito to blame himself for falling into the pool and to promise that he won’t tell his father about it. The kid agrees and apologizes to his manipulative mother.

In one of those jolly scenes among the pobres, some old guy seems to give Leo his car while the home boys approve. Mayeya appears (she left home after the fiancé fiasco). She is looking for an address where she has an job interview and the old guy offers to take her. It also appears that the local lads are planning a surprise party for Leo and the old guy will go get MA to attend.

MA brings Gabriel some coffee while he is standing around grinning like an idiot. He tells her that he has found out that his daughter is engaged. MA is the first person he has told even though he just ate dinner with the rest of his family. He doesn’t know why he told her except that she seems to be a good listener. Then Gabriel notices that MA is feverish. [Extremely rapid onset of a cold from jumping into the pool.] Gabriel insists that she go lie down in her room while he calls the doctor.

Joselyn sees MA coming out of the room where Gabriel is. When MA tells her that she brought coffee to Gabriel, Joselyn is outraged that she was alone with him. She slaps MA and throws her out of the house telling her never to return. As MA walks down the steps of the house, it starts to rain heavily [can pneumonia be far behind?]

In the taxi with the old guy, Mayeya explains that she needs to get this job because she doesn’t want to go back to her pueblo. All of sudden, old guy has a heart attack or something. Mayeya has to take over driving. Somehow she and old guy manage to switch seats. [No mean feat for two normal sized people in a VW bug much less for an obese person.]

Gabriel goes looking for MA to tell her that the doctor is coming. Of course, she isn’t in her room. Looking for her, Gabriel encounters Joselyn who first pretends not to know where MA is, then is outraged that Gabriel went into MA’s room and then admits that she threw MA out. Joselyn is obviously crazy because she is surprised and annoyed when Gabriel goes out after MA.

In Barcelona, JC spends all his savings to buy some piece of jewelry, probably a ring, for Paulina. Meanwhile Karen is hogging the mirror as the half-sisters get ready to go out so that Karen can meet Paulina’s fiancé.

Leo arrives at his surprise party and all the guests throw something like rice on him. He is told that someone has gone to fetch MA to the party.

Gabriel is driving around in the pouring rain looking for MA. Finally he finds her. He tells her that he will protect her, etc. etc. and they kiss. [Thunder crashes – at least wild beasts don’t snarl] MA says that there can’t be anything between them. It’s not right. Gabriel is married. For his part, Gabriel swears that what he feels for MA is sincere and good.

Mayeya crashes Leo’s birthday party to report that she took the old guy to the hospital and he will be all right. Leo and Candelaria invite her to stay at the party but the jealous would-be girlfriend of Leo is not as gracious. Candelaria remembers that the old guy was going to bring MA to the party. Leo says that he will go for her. Meanwhile, Candelaria invites Mayeya to rent a room from her.

Finally, it has stopped raining on MA and Gabriel. Leo arrives and takes MA away.

Karen is not as interested in meeting Paulina’s novio as she appeared because she leaves Paulina to party in downtown Barcelona. At a restaurant, JC again proposes to Paulina very romantically with a diamond ring in a bunch of roses and a cake. She accepts again. They swear their undying love for one another. Since they are engaged, they decide to tell each other their names. Paulina says her name is Paulina Lamp [JC already knew the part about her name being Paulina. He referred to her by name in the jewelry store.] He tells her that his name is Juan Ashtray. [Except for the fact that we know that their family relationship is going to be a problem, it is ridiculous that these two would not tell each other their names.]

Leo brings MA to the party but she is already sick so she immediately goes to bed.

Gabriel yells at Joselyn for throwing MA out of the house and goes to sleep in the guest room.

Paulina and JC get hired to work on the same project – he as an engineer and she as an architect.

Karen has picked up some guy and calls her sister to say that she won’t be joining them for dinner. JC is happy with that – more time for him alone with Paulina.

Leo gives MA medical attention and pronounces her on the mend. He returns to the party while MA tells herself that even though she knows it is wrong, she loves Gabriel. In the guest bedroom, Gabriel is having the same thoughts about MA.

JC and Paulina continue to wander around scenic parts of Barcelona swearing that their love will overcome all obstacles making it certain that they will have problems almost immediately.

Rogelio is nasty to Diana and says that he will never stop reminding her about her past.

Joselyn tells her mother that she will pretend to act like a sane person around Gabriel but she will be pursuing her own plans behind his back.

The next morning, it’s all useful activity amongst the pobres. MA seems to have recovered from her illness and braided her hair in that amazingly elaborate way all by herself. She tells Candelaria that she is going out to find work. On the way out, she encounters Joselyn. Joselyn pretends to apologize for her behavior of the previous evening and ask MA to return to the house especially for Luisito. She then goes to see Gabriel and tells him that she has asked MA to return to the house.

Karen runs into JC on the street and puts the moves on him. He resists feebly and then gets that deer in the headlights look that men in novelas get in the presence of evil women.

Delores is lighting a candle in her cell when she is summoned to see the warden. The warden tells Dolores that her sentence has been reduced for good conduct. She will be released in the morning. She is impactada.

Finally, Karen encounters JC and Paulina together. She tells them that they are first cousins and cannot marry. They are impactados as the credits roll.

[I thought I had read something about cousins marrying so I googled it. See the Discover.com article below. First cousins are permitted to marry in many US states and many countries in the world.
http://tinyurl.com/zdcmu ]

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