Caray, Caray!

JC runs after Paulina when she is leaving the hospital. He says that he can’t give her up. Paulina asks him not to make things more difficult. The ties of blood will always be there between them. JC responds that they are not the first or the only couple to have this problem. They have to fight to find a way to be happy. Paulina continues to protest and JC grabs and kisses her. While they are in a clinch, Demian drives up in his Hummer, gets out and says to JC, ‘This is how you take care of your mother?’

Gabriel stalks off when he sees Leo and MA kiss. MA finally pulls away from Leo [for an unwelcome kiss, she certainly let it go on a long time] and tells him that he is a nice guy but she doesn’t love him. He is crushed. With tears running down his cheeks, he tells MA that he is sure that if she gave him a chance, he could make her love him.

When Demian finds out that Paulina is Gabriel’s daughter, they yell at each other and Paulina leaves. JC goes after her and they have the same conversation again except that this time Paulina says that they can never be together not only because they are first cousins but because their fathers are mortal enemies.

Regina calls Gabriel from the hospital. He says that he hopes she is better. He can’t go to the hospital anymore because of Demian but he hopes that she knows she can always count on him. After the call, Regina has a thought bubble with music – she continues to love Gabriel with all her heart.

Leo first asks MA if she thinks he is not good enough for her love. Of course not, she responds. Leo then asks MA if she loves another and her answer is forestalled by the arrival of Luisito. Leo tells Luisito that MA won’t accept him as her novio and asks Luisito to help him with his suit [gag].

In a really lame scene, Rogelio taunts Tiberio about being illegitimate and having no chance to inherit Demian’s empire, which will go to JC. [There is definitely something extremely weird about the actor who plays Tiberio. He acts like he is playing a robot with the strange facial expressions and jerky body movements.]

JC tells Regina that he prayed to the Virgin for her to recover. Regina sees sadness in her son’s eyes and he tells her that he has fallen in love with daughter of his father’s brother. Regina is impactada. JC tells her that he knows he must renounce his love for Paulina but he doesn’t want to.

Gabriel has a fantasy about marrying MA but then he remembers that he is married and she is free to do whatever she wants. Nicolas comes in. He has concluded that it was Demian who ordered an explosive to be put in Gabriel’s car. Nicolas says that Demian is crazy – crazy with ambition, hate and jealousy. Nicolas says that he will find out who set the bomb and bring them to justice. At this point, MA comes in with two cups of coffee. It looks like MA has made another conquest. Nicolas is impactado – what a beautiful girl, he says. Gabriel tells him that she is Luisito’s teacher.
Joselyn is lying in bed stroking a picture of Gabriel. She has a flashback to a scene where she and Gabriel are kissing in a pool and then she is literally rolling in the hay with some other guy. [Are we supposed to know who this is? I thought maybe it was Edgar and I went back and looked at the boat/murder scene but I don’t think so.] Then we have such a close up of Joselyn that you can see right up her nostrils. She murmurs that no one is like Gabriel and I guess she has put it to the test.

Candelaria tells a sobbing MA that Gabriel is not for her. He is married and has children.

Miriam’s fashion show was well received in the paper. She curses Ingrid out for not bringing her freshly squeezed juice. She gets a call on her cell phone from someone who I assume is Karen, saying that she is in NY on her way home. We then see Karen in an airport and she sees in the newspaper the news that Regina is in the hospital [must have been a slow news day.]

Nicolas and MA have a stilted conversation in the hall while Joselyn watches from the stairs.

Demian tells Tiberio to deduct the payment for the botched murder from Chacal’s account. Tiberio wants to give Chacal a second chance but Demian says no. Meanwhile Dolores has showed up in her nun outfit and hears Demian call Tiberio, ‘godson.’ Dolores asks if Demian recognizes Tiberio as his son. Demian says that for the time being, Tiberio only knows that Demian is his godfather.

Federico comes in to tell Miriam that Otilia is getting a divorce and he wants Miriam to pay for the divorce or he will tell everyone that Joselyn is his daughter and not Clemente’s. He also wants Miriam to divorce Clemente and marry him. He grabs Miriam and starts kissing her when a studly guy comes in. ‘Did you leave me for this guy?’ he asks.

Dolores tells Demian that he betrayed her because he promised that he would tell Tiberio who he is and Demian hasn’t done do. Demian admits it but says that he has raised Tiberio to be his right-hand man and he is very proud of him.

Chacal is packing up to get out of town. Coyote walks in. Chacal chews him out for coming in without knocking and throws him out at gunpoint.

Leo tells his buddy that he really likes MA but she is only interested in having him for a friend.

Pedro is trying to raise Paulina’s spirits but she isn’t interested. She asks Pedro if he has ever been in love. He says that love isn’t for people like him but for people like Rogelio. Paulina assures him that he will find someone.

Soraya says that it is hard working all night in the cabaret and since her son, Jorge, left home, she has lost all enthusiasm for life. Diana says that Jorge left many years ago and nobody has heard anything from him since. Soraya responds that a mother never stops thinking about her children and Diana will understand when she has a child. Diana says sadly that Rogelio has told her that he doesn’t want children in general and her children in particular.

Tiberio sees JC in the hall at the hospital. Tiberio didn’t know JC was back in Mexico and seems less than pleased. Meanwhile, Coyote reports to Demian that Chacal is preparing to do a flit and Demian says not to lose sight of him while Demian is preparing to recompense him as he deserves.

Chacal apparently has enough time before getting out of town to ask Elsa right out in the street to go with him. Her interest in him depends on how much money he has and he says that he has enough to support her for her whole life. She tells him to come for her in the evening. Coyote, meanwhile, is watching this.

In a scene that is above Luisito’s acting capabilities [at one point he looks at the camera, which is a no no], he tells his Papito that Leo has asked him to help get Leo and MA together. Gabriel does not respond to his son’s enthusiasm.

Leo comes into Candelaria’s kitchen in about as much rage as he can summon and forbids Elsa to go away with Chacal. Not surprisingly, Elsa responds badly to being ordered about by Leo. She is nasty to MA. Later Candelaria tries to comfort Leo who says that he will fight to the end to win MA’s love.

Joselyn apparently is going to put the old saying that the way to man’s heart is through his stomach into action. She puts on an apron (!) in the kitchen and sniffs a tomato. Later, Joselyn has set up a candlelit dinner on the terrace for Gabriel. She tells him that it will be just like their honeymoon. While Gabriel takes a call on his cell phone, Joselyn puts a powder in his wine.

One of the cabbies recognizes a fare as a famous musician, Carlos Cuevas. [I looked it up. He is a real musician- pianist, keyboardist arranger and vocalist.]

After drinking the drugged wine, Gabriel is staggering around. Josleyn tries to get him to make love to her but even in his drugged state he isn’t interested.

Chacal waits for Elsa to sneak out of the house while Demian lurks in a doorway.

Candelaria and MA are about to go to bed when, you guessed it, Leo and his buddies have Carlos do a serenata for her. [I had to fast forward through this it was so embarrassing.] MA is pleased. She has never had a serenata before.

Chacal sees Demian and starts to leave on his motorcycle just as Elsa comes down the street. Demian smiles, presses a button and blows up Chacal’s motorcycle. Elsa screams and the credits roll.

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