Caray, Caray!

• We start with the standoff between Fern and Lety - she promises to cook the books for the big meeting but insists he comply with his promise to break his engagement. Fern tells her he's in love with her, and she says, "Me too," but after he leaves she furiously dusts off her chair and phone to eradicate his presence. He broods in the next room: "I'd really love to do as I promised."
  
• Alicia had asked Tomas to call her back while Ariel was in the vicinity and her voice drips with honey as she enthuses loudly for all to hear: "Oh, it was all so wonderful, the music, the car, Le Noir - where are you, sweetie?" "In my office [that is, he's huddled over his laptop in the corner of Lety's kitchen]." "Oh, I thought you'd be out playing golf."
  
  We later hear Alicia tell her father: "He's a horror, but he can help with my financial problems."
  
  She calls Tomas yet again, "apologizing" for having burdened him with her financial worries. He says he'll be her Department of Solutions. She says she's feeling remorse about Lety. Tomas, the squid: "If I don't feel remorse, you certainly needn't." Alicia calls him a bonbon and suggests they go out again. Ariel is impressed.
  
  After they hang up, Tomas dances around the kitchen with his little laminated picture of Alicia, but wonders where he'll get the money for another luxury-filled date.
  
  Ariel asks Alicia, again, for a full length picture - wear black, it's sexy - he'll pass it along to his office mates. She says she doesn't need them, her life is "stabilizing." He says: "You're so ingenuous, don't you realize you will end up the same, poor, struggling for survival ... in about two days ..."
  
• Several times we are reminded that Ariel is going to pick up Fern's parents at the airport the next morning - they are coming for the big meeting - and Humberto (Fern's dad) is worried about that bottom line (the one Lety is supposed to be massaging) - and Ariel intends to withdraw his money from the business.
  
  Omar king of repetition reminds us: Conceptos doesn't have the money because it's in hock to Filmo Imagen. He and Fern keep asking each other what to do. "Why don't you ask your guru lover, Leticia?"
  
  Fern says he actually does want to cancel his wedding. Omar nixes the idea. They go out to lunch.
  
• Ariel asks Marcia what she's found out about Lety's boyfriend - she says, "I found out he works at Filmo Imagen, Fern says it's a good company." Ariel will investigate further.
  
• Luciano and friend, arriving for the Sport Wind ad presentation, greet Ariel, who decides to stay and watch the show.
  
  Luigi is asleep - he took too much valerian for his nerves, so Lola has to carry him out to the presentation. The commercial they spent so much money and time on in Munich is lousy but the clients, luckily, think it's great. The phone rings - Conceptos won the Golden Lion in Cannes! General rejoicing! (Except Ariel's eyes get slitty with annoyance.) The adrenaline wakes Luigi up, all are jumping up and down. Luciano congratulates all and says he loves the commercial; on the way out he tells Alicia she's sexy.
  
• Fernando scurries right off to Lety's office and picks her up in the air, "We won! We won!" He doesn't seem to notice how sad she looks, what's the matter with him?
  
  As he kisses Lety, Marcia storms into the tiny office. He's pinned between the two of them. It's awkward.
  
  He tells Marcia it's natural to celebrate with the employees. "You went straight to Lety!" Marcia storms out. He rushes back into Lety's office but she's still sad. [Lety was monosyllabic and frozen-faced through this whole episode.]
  
• Luigi pulls Alicia and Marcia out of the meeting and says this is the perfect time for the final fitting of the wedding dress. Marcia demurs, she has 1000 things to do. Luigi says this the last and only time he has - after this, he'll have to be choreographing for the dancers and sewing their clothes. As if to prove his point, the dancers arrive.
  
• Marcia slyly asks Fern about Mario Rivera at "Le Maison" the previous night and lets him get all wrapped up in his lies before saying: "Our Spanish friend told me! You were there with Lety! And Lety was very affectionate! You're lying to me!" "No, I don't lie." (In the next room, eavesdropping, Lety says - "You lie about everything.") "Don't insinuate I'm jealous! It's ok if Lety is at your business meetings, but it's not ok for her to go where you and I go, where all our friends are, you have to put her in her place!"
  
  He says, "I didn't do anything. Do you really want to be fighting like cats and dogs when my parents are coming tomorrow? I can imagine the dark panorama your brother has painted for them!" They talk about Ariel, then she changes the subject and shows him the precious wedding invitations. He won't look at them and shoves them back in her arms.
  
  So Marcia marches into Lety's office and says, "please take care of these invitations to **MY** wedding." Fern: "No, she's very busy working on numbers for the meeting." "No, it's no problem, Doña Marcia." Marcia leaves, triumphant. Fern: "Lety, you don't have to do it, I can imagine how you're feeling." Lety's only feisty retort of the evening: "You don't have the slightest idea how I'm feeling." She gives the job to Simon, who notices he and Paula Maria have not been invited, and neither have the cuartel, and Lety says she has no intention of going.
  
• Tomas tells Lety's dad he's doing very well with his investment in a trout farm. Dad says, it'll go bust like the investment in Australian bushes, he'll lose his shirt. He calls Tomas a trout.
  
• The cuartel calls Le Noir and finds out Alicia was actually there the night before - with Tomas Mora! So, fortified with some of the tequila they keep hidden in the bathroom, they crowd into Lety's little office and tell her. Lety doesn't look very interested.

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