Saturday, November 04, 2006
Mundo de Fieras - Friday 11/3/06 ( 2 hours)
El Coyote (still –appropriately-- in the Gorilla mask) is dangling crippled Little Lui over the side of the flat-roofed apartment building in a crazy and desperate attempt to scare off Gabe and the others below. In the end, Coyote throws the crying, screaming Lui (finally some peace and quiet for the viewer?) over the edge to everybody’s horror and escapes during the confusion. Gabe rushes over to the edge of the roof where Little Lui is literally hanging on by his fingertips. (Darn!) Gabe grabs his son and with a great deal of effort pulls him up one arm at a time from the edge and out of danger. They embrace and Mariangela runs over to hug them both. Leo and the”Bowry Boys” try to grab El Coyote on the way up to the rooftop thinking he might be coming down the opposite way towards them, but Coyote’s gotten off the roof a different way and has escaped. Little Lui and Gabe thank Mariangela for risking her life so valiantly against El Coyote. Gabe tells her he’ll never forget her brave acts.
Back at the manse, Paulina, Diana and Pedro are waiting for news when Gabe and Lui appear unexpectedly at the front door. Everyone is cheering and smiling. Jos glides down the main staircase, making her entrance, and laying it on thick faking such happiness at seeing Lui returned safe and sound, even though she finds out that Mariangela risked her life saving him. She is adamant, though, that the other woman is not to come back to work there. Lui bellows again at the thought of not having Mariangela as his nanny, and he takes the blame for leaving Mariangela’s side at the little fair. His mother tells him not to take the blame for her (this time I actually agree with Jos), but Gabe jumps in saying Jos is being unfair to the woman. Jos disagrees, saying she was the one who lost him and puts and end to the argument just as Frederico and Clemente come out to greet “their” grandson.
Back at Candy’s place, Leo patches up Mariangela’s cut arm and offers to help her find another job away from La Señora Cervantes Bravo. She accepts his offer and thanks him for his aid and he takes her to see her mother at the Altzheimers hospice.
Dolores pays a visit to Demian’s house, introducing herself to his wife, Regina. She tells her she may remember her from the hospital with Mother Remedio, though she was dressed as a nun. Regina remembers her then and asks if she’s given up on her vocation. Dolores says she’s no longer with the group since things in her life took her in a different direction, and they go into the living room for tea. Regina says if she’s an associate of Mother Remedio, then she’s happy to assist her with whatever Dolores might need.
At the hospice, Mariangela and Leo are told that Aurora has entered the final stage of the disease. The doctor also calls Clemente to tell him the bad news. Clemente laments that he cannot be there with his daughter for this.
Little Lui begs his father to convince his mother to allow Mariangela back as his nanny and Gabe says not to worry. He promises to try.
Jos has returned to her bed upstairs and has the boy’s toy tiger with her. Miriam enters saying she’s heard they found him. Jos reminds her she’d said there would be no reason to worry so much. Then she explains jealously how her son and Gabe were so excited over the fact that the fool, Mariangela, had risked her life to save him. At least for now, Mariangela was away from them all and her mother has to help her keep the woman out of her house and away from her husband. The problem is that now everybody will want the heroic Mariangela to come back.
Dolores explains to Regina that since she and Regina had gotten on together before, and since she didn’t know anyone else in the city to look to for help, she thought to come to see her about finding work. Regina ask why she didn’t know anyone else here in the city and Dolores confesses that she has spent the last 20 years in jail for a crime she didn’t commit. She needs a job she says, but Regina would be in her right not to believe her. Regina asks whether she has a trade and Delores tells her that she was taught to be a seamstress in prison, but before that she was a nurse. Regina hires her on as Demian’s personal nurse immediately and sends her upstairs to Demian’s bedroom to check on him.
Paulina calls Juan Cristobal to tell him her little brother was found safe and sound. He is happy to hear the news and ask her if she’ll consider taking him back, but she refuses. She is angry at how he left her so suddenly and then cheated on her with Karen. She demands an explanation. He says he can’t explain the gory details, just that he never deceived her and never stopped loving her. That isn’t good enough for her and she hangs up.
Gabe is thanking Nicolas for being such a good sidekick and trying to find out who was behind the kidnapping when Pau walks in. They all hug and she mentions that the doctor who was going to operate on Little Lui has left the country and nobody is able to say when or if he’ll return. (Hey, if that is what it will take to get him to stop that hi-pitched blubbering every time you talk to him, I’d move heaven and earth to track that physician down!) So there will not be any operation. Gabe is upset and worried how he’ll explain this to his son, again.
At Demian’s house, Belen is running after Tiberio asking him why he’s changed his attitude towards her. (She must think forcing her to get drunk on their dates is so-o-o sexy.) He says he’s got too much to do to discuss it now. Suddenly, Dolores appears in the hallway and Tiberio is speechless. She explains she’s been hired as his father’s nurse and excuses herself to go up and see her “patient”.
Gabe again asks Jos to allow Mariangela to come back because their son is anxious to have her back. She refuses his request and says it is her final word.
Regina joins Dolores upstairs and explains he’s had a nervous breakdown, that he suffers from these fits regularly, but the past few years the attacks come more and more often. Then she leaves to call the doctor and tell him she has a new nurse for Demian.
Dolores sits on the side of the bed and watches Demian. She tells him he’s apparently not the god he supposes himself to be, lying prostrate and so defenseless. Suddenly he opens his eyes and begins to strangle her, but Regina arrives just in time. His wife screams for him to let loose of Dolores; he’s killing her! Finally he wakes up and says he didn’t realize what was happening. He just saw this woman there and reacted. Regina then explains Dolores is to be his live-in nurse until he recovers.
Karen takes delight in letting Pau know that she and JC went to eat together and says they had a great time (even though in reality, he rejected Karen’s advances). Karen reminds her step-sister she intends to win over the affections of JC since Pau has dropped him. After all, they are still first cousins. Pau wonders why JC is playing with her emotions like this.
Regina calls JC at work to tell him his dad is doing better. He leaves for home immediately.
Gabe gets Mariangela to walk with him a bit outside to chat. He asks her to return to the manse for Luisito’s sake. (Come on, who’re we kidding here?) She tells him she thinks it’s best if she doesn’t return. (Again, she has more sense than he does.) He won’t give up and convinces her to go for coffee with him to talk it over.
Upstairs, alone with Dolores, Demian tells her to stop this farce. She tells him she warned him she’d fight to get close to her son again. She says she’s ready to turn into a wild animal if necessary. He looks at her, takes his medicine and frowns, resigned for now.
Jos tells her son (hiding behind that stupid toy tiger) that she was laid up in bed the entire time, worrying and waiting for them to find him. She hopes he’s learned his lesson and next time she tells him he cannot go out, he should listen to her. He agrees then asks her not to get angry, but can he have Mariangela come back? Jos goes crazy and screams that she never wants to hear that woman’s name again! Just when will he understand? JUST WHEN?
Gabe asks Mariangela if she is sure this is what she really wants. (They are trying to avoid the obvious reason he wants her to come back and that she wants him to want her to come back.) She assures him that she’ll miss his son, but she wants this and it is for the best.
JC confronts his father in the bedroom about why he deceived him. He asks why it was necessary to lie to him about being Gabe’s son and why he refuses to accept that he is his son. Demian lamely tries to blame Regina and says she’s the liar. JC says he knows his mother to be honest and kind and a respectful wife. Regina walks in on the two of them, and Demian asks her to admit that she cheated on him and asks what she feels for him. She tells him what she feels for Gabe has always been chaste. She never cheated on him with Gabe, but she feels nothing for Demian. He’s never given her anything but tears and suffering. Demian yells back that he’s given her everything at her feet. She says it was all material possessions, but never a bit of affection. Then JC says he and his mother are leaving his house for good. The two turn and leave. (It’s a scene in slow motion...so, ok, this is a big life-changing decision for the two of them and for Demian.) Demian is frantic and decides he will not allow Regina to leave his side.
Tiberio is in his father’s office downstairs, saying that one day all of this will be his. He starts thinking back to when Rogelio taunted him earlier in the day about not being more than a foster child to Demian; and that he would not be handed over the keys to the famiily business and that it would all be given to JC. Tiberio sits down at the desk and says to himself, “We will see. We will see.”
Candy is aggrieved to hear that her best friend, Aurora, is in the final stage of her disease.
At the cafe, Gabe admits they shouldn’t feel guilty about what suddenly developed between them romantically, but he will do his part to maintain control of his emotions and keep himself apart from the two of them if she would just come back to tend to his son. He asks simply as a concerned father.
Belen and Simona ask Regina if she is really leaving the house, and when she answers yes, they say, they will leave also. She says she’s taking nothing and leaving all the jewels and things and she will send for her to come as soon as she’s settled in to her new place. At that moment Demian appears at the top of the stairs and asks her to wait.
Gabe walks Mariangela back home and leaves. Frederico then appears suddenly out of the shadows and tells a confused Mariangela that she is not to return to the manse. She has already caused enough pain to Joselin and he is not going to permit her to hurt Jos again. If she knows what’s good for her she’ll take him at his word and stay the heck away from Gabe and his family. Then he leaves.
Tiberio tries to assist Demian, but he pushes him away. Demian gets down on his knees, literally, and begs for Regina to stay with him. He tells her life will have no meaning without her there and that she has to understand how difficult it has been for him all these years knowing that she never loved him, knowing that she loved his brother instead. He weeps and says through his tears that neither of them has been happy. (JC and Tiberio are weeping. Regina is weeping. Heck, I was even weeping, Demian was so convincing.) He would have given everything he has for her to love him instead. He again begs her not to leave. “Give me another chance, I’m begging you. Give me another chance!”
[end of first hour]
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At Gabe’s place, Rogelio finds his wife, Diana again in Pedro’s room, sitting with Pedro on the bed and talking. He tells her it doesn’t look right and she should go. She leaves and he turns around and warns Pedro off again. Pedro tells him he may have Diana convinced he’s changed but not him. Rogelio tells him not to meddle in something that doesn’t concern him. Pedro for once, speaks up and says if Rogelio makes Diana suffer again, he’ll have to answer to Pedro. Rogelio makes fun of him and warns him not to mess with him.
Regina follows Demian back to his office and says she’ll stay but only under certain conditions. She is not going to offer love and will do anything for her son. She will not stand for his yelling or his humilliating her any longer. He will have to accept her son as his and deal with him as such. He is not to even hint at his being Gabe’s. If he doesn’t accept then she has no reason to remain there and he’ll never see her again. He comes face to face with her and stoically accepts. Regina is stunned at this.
Diana and Rogelio argue about her background as a stripper again. He, the older son of a Cervantes Bravo, married below his station and he was so drunk he didn’t know what he was doing. He simply can’t get that out of his craw. Diana finally suggests they get divorced. She doesn’t want to hold him back against his will. There’s still time to separate.
Regina lets JC know that she has decided to stay there after all. JC says she can count on his support whatever her decisions. He isn’t going to judge her.
Tiberio admits to Demian that he was surprised to see him beg Regina to stay. Demian says he wants her with him and there are times in life when one has to yield when it is most convenient. Tiberio asks him then if this was all a farce, but Demian just orders him to go and let him rest.
In Jos’s bedroom, Miriam and she are discussing what Dolores must be planning. They hope she’s resigned herself to not being able to come around Karen. Jos then says as an aside that she didn’t kill Edgar. Miriam gets angry and reminds her that the two of them agreed to get rid of him, even if she didn’t do the actual murder. Jos asks who was it then that took care of it? Miriam says Demian was the one who actually set things in motion. As she tells Jos the story she remembers Demian and herself 20 something years ago beginning to plan it all. (She looked pretty dowdy back then!) She was complaining about Edgar having lost all their money over some careless business decision. Demian was looking to get rid of Dolores because she was becoming a nuisance to him. He is saying that they could take care of both of them at the same time.
Dolores the next day is coming in the house at the same time Tiberio is leaving. She’s dressed in her whites, including stockings and a cap. (Man, when was the last time you saw a nurse formally dressed in whites and with a cap? It s almost as if she’s a refugee from a skit on Sabado Gigante! ) He accuses her of chasing after him again. Dolores, though, quietly insists she is there as Demian’s personal nurse. Tiberio disagrees and says she is looking for something else and he’s going to be in charge of finding out just what that is.
At the hospice Mariangela thanks Clemente for attending to her mother. He says that they were good friends long ago. She says she would have liked to have had a father just like him. She leaves and he sits at Aurora’s bedside and professes his deep love for her and says he’ll never forgive himself for abandoning her all those years ago.
Juan Cristobal kisses Pau at the office and she gets angry at him for playing around with her feelings. He swears he loves her and won’t stop till she believes him, but she says she knows he tells her one thing and then goes out with Karen. She stomps out of the office and slams the door.
Gabe invites Jos to a restaurant for lunch so that they can discuss something very important. (This is a stupid idea. The woman has a screw loose and he wants to chance a scene in a public place with her?)
El Coyote finally reaches Demian on his cell and tells him what happened with Little Lui and why he was forced to let him go. Demian tells him to stay low until they are able to see each other again. Dolores comes in and tells him she’s sticking around till he has recuperated whether he likes it or not. Then she orders him to take his clothes off because she’s going to give him a sponge bath. He raises his eyebrows at this and just stares at her. (Shades of Sabado Gigante!)
Gabe tells Little Lui the sad news about the doctor not being able to do the operation after all. He tells his son how he is to blame for the car accident that prevented him from having a normal childhood. LL tells his father not to be so hard on himself. They will simply wait till the doctor comes back and he can operate then. (Ok. That makes too much sense.)
Pedro and Diana are discussing Little Lui’s rotten luck at not getting his operation. They begin talking about Pedro’s being a poor relation and Rogelio’s always treating him like he was ashamed of him because of his humble beginnings. Diana tells him he grew up without luxuries, but he is a great person and never to forget it.
Dolores is giving Demian his sponge bath. He teases her about still being sexually attracted to him. He finally can’t stand it any longer and he grabs her, knocks her backward and her over his lap and kisses her. This shocks Dolores. She fights him off, grabs her bowl of water and--runs out. He is laughing at her and says to himself that if she wants to play on his turf, she is going to lose.
In the study downstairs, Dolores realizes that he’s stirred her feelings up again. She prays to God that she is not tempted by Demian and her desire once again.
At the restaurant Gabe finally asks Jos to give him a divorce. She stands up shrieking to everyone there that this thankless slob wants to leave her for another woman. He stands there trying to explain to her his reasons, in front of God and every customer in the place. She (mercifully for the other customers) finally runs out of the place, repeating she’ll die first, or he will, before giving him a divorce!! She stands in the middle of the street daring a car to run her over. Somehow Gabe pushes her away and prevents her from getting hit. He tells her she really needs to get professional help and to be in a psychiatric clinic. She tells him she’ll die before giving him a divorce. He should be in jail for killing the child they were expecting. Jos sees a cab, then, at the end of the block and runs toward it. As luck would have it, it is Leo’s cab and he’s just left off a fare. She jumps in and says just take her anywhere, but get her out of there. Take her far away from there, now!
He starts up a conversation with her, realizing who she is and that she doesn’t recognize him at all. He asks if he can help her but she refuses anything from him. She tells him not to involve himself and that it's none of his business. She keeps repeating that nobody can help her; she is just such a loser, she is so unlucky.
Candy tries to console Don Clemente He’ll get through this difficult time with Aurora. He confesses that he cannot do right by one daughter without hurting the other. Candy tells him God knows what a kindhearted man he is and will show him the way.
In the cab, Jos opens up her heart to Leo without realizing it. She tells him that her sin is loving her husband too much, and that there is another woman who is taking him from her.
At the church, the two padres are discussing the appearance of the woman who left Leo abandoned at the church years ago as a baby. Father Anselmo thinks he should and will confront her about that night.
At the same time Ingrid is telling Miriam that the priest from that night long ago must have recognized her when they were in the churchyard waiting for news about her grandson. Would’t it be something if "he" were there that night also, just a few steps away? Miriam shudders at the thought and tells her friend to be quiet about it. Just then Leo appears at the doorway with Jos. Leo explains that he is Candy’s son, the taxi-driver, and how he found her daughter arguing in the street with Gabe, distraught after running away from him. Miriam rudely refuses to shake his hand or to thank him. “You took too much bother with her. -- Ingrid! My wallet! -- How much do you want?” Leo refuses money and leaves. These two feel something strange after their meeting but both brush it off. Ingrid follows Leo and watches from behind a stack of clothes as he gets into his cab and leaves. Jos then informs Miriam that Gabe and she were arguing because he finally asked her for a divorce.
Dolores goes back upstairs with Demian and starts adjusting his pillows. Demian grabs her again and kisses her. He tells her he know she likes it just as much as he does. (Truth be told! And that silly little nurse's cap hasn't moved an inch with all that rolling around!) She asks him how he dares to do this right under his wife’s nose. Regina is such a good woman. He answers that she doesn’t know anything about what his life has been like. Sure he loved her, but she’s forced him away. Dolores says, “Yes, just like you did with me!” She assures him that the only reason she is there is for Tiberio and walks out. Demian thinks to himself, “Dolores, you are still a really attractive female!”
Nic tells Gabe that Demian still hasn’t returned to the office, but Gabe says Tiberio will see to things. Nic wonders why Demian is so attached to Tiberio when his son, JC, now an engineer, should be heading his construction company. He also asks what Pau is feeling now regarding JC. Gabe says she’s assured him it is all in the past and Nic says, that is good. Now he doesn’t have to reveal to her that she was really adopted. Then Gabe asks Nic to start divorce procedings for him and Jos.
Miriam scolds Jos for losing control like that. Jos screams back that she couldn’t exactly help it. After all, who would have thought he would ask her out to lunch just to ask her to give him a divorce? (She has a point there!) She will never give it to him, either! Miriam asks her daughter if she is ready to do anything at all to ensure he doesn't divorce her, and Jos answers “Absolutely anything.”
Regina suggests to JC that perhaps if things are too uncomfortable at his current position, being so close to Paulina everyday, that he should consider coming to work for his father instead.
Candy and Leo discuss Jos’s cab ride and he admits he felt sorry for Jos. She seemed to be all alone in the world. In fact, he feels as if he’s known this woman all of his life, but he cannot understand why.
Jos goes in to visit her little boy and tells him that his daddy has asked her for a divorce and she starts to cry.
Regina confesses to Dolores that she has been so unhappy all these years with Demian. “I shouldn’t be telling you this.” She says that perhaps it is because she trusts her. Regina suggests Delores encourage her to tell her all about it sometime.
Candy serves Diana lunch, but Diana suddenly feels nauseous. Candy asks if she might be pregnant. Diana is surprised at the thought. (Momma never told her the facts of life or the signs to watch for?)
Miriam and Rogelio are meeting at a restaurant. She tells him that they like the same fine things in life. There is soon to be a storm kicked up in the household, since his father has asked Jos for a divorce. He needs to choose sides. He can leave without the luxuries he has been accustomed to having or he can join forces with her against his father.
Gabe comes in to see his son and Luisito tells him that he doesn’t love him anymore because he’s leaving his mother.
Back at the manse, Paulina, Diana and Pedro are waiting for news when Gabe and Lui appear unexpectedly at the front door. Everyone is cheering and smiling. Jos glides down the main staircase, making her entrance, and laying it on thick faking such happiness at seeing Lui returned safe and sound, even though she finds out that Mariangela risked her life saving him. She is adamant, though, that the other woman is not to come back to work there. Lui bellows again at the thought of not having Mariangela as his nanny, and he takes the blame for leaving Mariangela’s side at the little fair. His mother tells him not to take the blame for her (this time I actually agree with Jos), but Gabe jumps in saying Jos is being unfair to the woman. Jos disagrees, saying she was the one who lost him and puts and end to the argument just as Frederico and Clemente come out to greet “their” grandson.
Back at Candy’s place, Leo patches up Mariangela’s cut arm and offers to help her find another job away from La Señora Cervantes Bravo. She accepts his offer and thanks him for his aid and he takes her to see her mother at the Altzheimers hospice.
Dolores pays a visit to Demian’s house, introducing herself to his wife, Regina. She tells her she may remember her from the hospital with Mother Remedio, though she was dressed as a nun. Regina remembers her then and asks if she’s given up on her vocation. Dolores says she’s no longer with the group since things in her life took her in a different direction, and they go into the living room for tea. Regina says if she’s an associate of Mother Remedio, then she’s happy to assist her with whatever Dolores might need.
At the hospice, Mariangela and Leo are told that Aurora has entered the final stage of the disease. The doctor also calls Clemente to tell him the bad news. Clemente laments that he cannot be there with his daughter for this.
Little Lui begs his father to convince his mother to allow Mariangela back as his nanny and Gabe says not to worry. He promises to try.
Jos has returned to her bed upstairs and has the boy’s toy tiger with her. Miriam enters saying she’s heard they found him. Jos reminds her she’d said there would be no reason to worry so much. Then she explains jealously how her son and Gabe were so excited over the fact that the fool, Mariangela, had risked her life to save him. At least for now, Mariangela was away from them all and her mother has to help her keep the woman out of her house and away from her husband. The problem is that now everybody will want the heroic Mariangela to come back.
Dolores explains to Regina that since she and Regina had gotten on together before, and since she didn’t know anyone else in the city to look to for help, she thought to come to see her about finding work. Regina ask why she didn’t know anyone else here in the city and Dolores confesses that she has spent the last 20 years in jail for a crime she didn’t commit. She needs a job she says, but Regina would be in her right not to believe her. Regina asks whether she has a trade and Delores tells her that she was taught to be a seamstress in prison, but before that she was a nurse. Regina hires her on as Demian’s personal nurse immediately and sends her upstairs to Demian’s bedroom to check on him.
Paulina calls Juan Cristobal to tell him her little brother was found safe and sound. He is happy to hear the news and ask her if she’ll consider taking him back, but she refuses. She is angry at how he left her so suddenly and then cheated on her with Karen. She demands an explanation. He says he can’t explain the gory details, just that he never deceived her and never stopped loving her. That isn’t good enough for her and she hangs up.
Gabe is thanking Nicolas for being such a good sidekick and trying to find out who was behind the kidnapping when Pau walks in. They all hug and she mentions that the doctor who was going to operate on Little Lui has left the country and nobody is able to say when or if he’ll return. (Hey, if that is what it will take to get him to stop that hi-pitched blubbering every time you talk to him, I’d move heaven and earth to track that physician down!) So there will not be any operation. Gabe is upset and worried how he’ll explain this to his son, again.
At Demian’s house, Belen is running after Tiberio asking him why he’s changed his attitude towards her. (She must think forcing her to get drunk on their dates is so-o-o sexy.) He says he’s got too much to do to discuss it now. Suddenly, Dolores appears in the hallway and Tiberio is speechless. She explains she’s been hired as his father’s nurse and excuses herself to go up and see her “patient”.
Gabe again asks Jos to allow Mariangela to come back because their son is anxious to have her back. She refuses his request and says it is her final word.
Regina joins Dolores upstairs and explains he’s had a nervous breakdown, that he suffers from these fits regularly, but the past few years the attacks come more and more often. Then she leaves to call the doctor and tell him she has a new nurse for Demian.
Dolores sits on the side of the bed and watches Demian. She tells him he’s apparently not the god he supposes himself to be, lying prostrate and so defenseless. Suddenly he opens his eyes and begins to strangle her, but Regina arrives just in time. His wife screams for him to let loose of Dolores; he’s killing her! Finally he wakes up and says he didn’t realize what was happening. He just saw this woman there and reacted. Regina then explains Dolores is to be his live-in nurse until he recovers.
Karen takes delight in letting Pau know that she and JC went to eat together and says they had a great time (even though in reality, he rejected Karen’s advances). Karen reminds her step-sister she intends to win over the affections of JC since Pau has dropped him. After all, they are still first cousins. Pau wonders why JC is playing with her emotions like this.
Regina calls JC at work to tell him his dad is doing better. He leaves for home immediately.
Gabe gets Mariangela to walk with him a bit outside to chat. He asks her to return to the manse for Luisito’s sake. (Come on, who’re we kidding here?) She tells him she thinks it’s best if she doesn’t return. (Again, she has more sense than he does.) He won’t give up and convinces her to go for coffee with him to talk it over.
Upstairs, alone with Dolores, Demian tells her to stop this farce. She tells him she warned him she’d fight to get close to her son again. She says she’s ready to turn into a wild animal if necessary. He looks at her, takes his medicine and frowns, resigned for now.
Jos tells her son (hiding behind that stupid toy tiger) that she was laid up in bed the entire time, worrying and waiting for them to find him. She hopes he’s learned his lesson and next time she tells him he cannot go out, he should listen to her. He agrees then asks her not to get angry, but can he have Mariangela come back? Jos goes crazy and screams that she never wants to hear that woman’s name again! Just when will he understand? JUST WHEN?
Gabe asks Mariangela if she is sure this is what she really wants. (They are trying to avoid the obvious reason he wants her to come back and that she wants him to want her to come back.) She assures him that she’ll miss his son, but she wants this and it is for the best.
JC confronts his father in the bedroom about why he deceived him. He asks why it was necessary to lie to him about being Gabe’s son and why he refuses to accept that he is his son. Demian lamely tries to blame Regina and says she’s the liar. JC says he knows his mother to be honest and kind and a respectful wife. Regina walks in on the two of them, and Demian asks her to admit that she cheated on him and asks what she feels for him. She tells him what she feels for Gabe has always been chaste. She never cheated on him with Gabe, but she feels nothing for Demian. He’s never given her anything but tears and suffering. Demian yells back that he’s given her everything at her feet. She says it was all material possessions, but never a bit of affection. Then JC says he and his mother are leaving his house for good. The two turn and leave. (It’s a scene in slow motion...so, ok, this is a big life-changing decision for the two of them and for Demian.) Demian is frantic and decides he will not allow Regina to leave his side.
Tiberio is in his father’s office downstairs, saying that one day all of this will be his. He starts thinking back to when Rogelio taunted him earlier in the day about not being more than a foster child to Demian; and that he would not be handed over the keys to the famiily business and that it would all be given to JC. Tiberio sits down at the desk and says to himself, “We will see. We will see.”
Candy is aggrieved to hear that her best friend, Aurora, is in the final stage of her disease.
At the cafe, Gabe admits they shouldn’t feel guilty about what suddenly developed between them romantically, but he will do his part to maintain control of his emotions and keep himself apart from the two of them if she would just come back to tend to his son. He asks simply as a concerned father.
Belen and Simona ask Regina if she is really leaving the house, and when she answers yes, they say, they will leave also. She says she’s taking nothing and leaving all the jewels and things and she will send for her to come as soon as she’s settled in to her new place. At that moment Demian appears at the top of the stairs and asks her to wait.
Gabe walks Mariangela back home and leaves. Frederico then appears suddenly out of the shadows and tells a confused Mariangela that she is not to return to the manse. She has already caused enough pain to Joselin and he is not going to permit her to hurt Jos again. If she knows what’s good for her she’ll take him at his word and stay the heck away from Gabe and his family. Then he leaves.
Tiberio tries to assist Demian, but he pushes him away. Demian gets down on his knees, literally, and begs for Regina to stay with him. He tells her life will have no meaning without her there and that she has to understand how difficult it has been for him all these years knowing that she never loved him, knowing that she loved his brother instead. He weeps and says through his tears that neither of them has been happy. (JC and Tiberio are weeping. Regina is weeping. Heck, I was even weeping, Demian was so convincing.) He would have given everything he has for her to love him instead. He again begs her not to leave. “Give me another chance, I’m begging you. Give me another chance!”
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At Gabe’s place, Rogelio finds his wife, Diana again in Pedro’s room, sitting with Pedro on the bed and talking. He tells her it doesn’t look right and she should go. She leaves and he turns around and warns Pedro off again. Pedro tells him he may have Diana convinced he’s changed but not him. Rogelio tells him not to meddle in something that doesn’t concern him. Pedro for once, speaks up and says if Rogelio makes Diana suffer again, he’ll have to answer to Pedro. Rogelio makes fun of him and warns him not to mess with him.
Regina follows Demian back to his office and says she’ll stay but only under certain conditions. She is not going to offer love and will do anything for her son. She will not stand for his yelling or his humilliating her any longer. He will have to accept her son as his and deal with him as such. He is not to even hint at his being Gabe’s. If he doesn’t accept then she has no reason to remain there and he’ll never see her again. He comes face to face with her and stoically accepts. Regina is stunned at this.
Diana and Rogelio argue about her background as a stripper again. He, the older son of a Cervantes Bravo, married below his station and he was so drunk he didn’t know what he was doing. He simply can’t get that out of his craw. Diana finally suggests they get divorced. She doesn’t want to hold him back against his will. There’s still time to separate.
Regina lets JC know that she has decided to stay there after all. JC says she can count on his support whatever her decisions. He isn’t going to judge her.
Tiberio admits to Demian that he was surprised to see him beg Regina to stay. Demian says he wants her with him and there are times in life when one has to yield when it is most convenient. Tiberio asks him then if this was all a farce, but Demian just orders him to go and let him rest.
In Jos’s bedroom, Miriam and she are discussing what Dolores must be planning. They hope she’s resigned herself to not being able to come around Karen. Jos then says as an aside that she didn’t kill Edgar. Miriam gets angry and reminds her that the two of them agreed to get rid of him, even if she didn’t do the actual murder. Jos asks who was it then that took care of it? Miriam says Demian was the one who actually set things in motion. As she tells Jos the story she remembers Demian and herself 20 something years ago beginning to plan it all. (She looked pretty dowdy back then!) She was complaining about Edgar having lost all their money over some careless business decision. Demian was looking to get rid of Dolores because she was becoming a nuisance to him. He is saying that they could take care of both of them at the same time.
Dolores the next day is coming in the house at the same time Tiberio is leaving. She’s dressed in her whites, including stockings and a cap. (Man, when was the last time you saw a nurse formally dressed in whites and with a cap? It s almost as if she’s a refugee from a skit on Sabado Gigante! ) He accuses her of chasing after him again. Dolores, though, quietly insists she is there as Demian’s personal nurse. Tiberio disagrees and says she is looking for something else and he’s going to be in charge of finding out just what that is.
At the hospice Mariangela thanks Clemente for attending to her mother. He says that they were good friends long ago. She says she would have liked to have had a father just like him. She leaves and he sits at Aurora’s bedside and professes his deep love for her and says he’ll never forgive himself for abandoning her all those years ago.
Juan Cristobal kisses Pau at the office and she gets angry at him for playing around with her feelings. He swears he loves her and won’t stop till she believes him, but she says she knows he tells her one thing and then goes out with Karen. She stomps out of the office and slams the door.
Gabe invites Jos to a restaurant for lunch so that they can discuss something very important. (This is a stupid idea. The woman has a screw loose and he wants to chance a scene in a public place with her?)
El Coyote finally reaches Demian on his cell and tells him what happened with Little Lui and why he was forced to let him go. Demian tells him to stay low until they are able to see each other again. Dolores comes in and tells him she’s sticking around till he has recuperated whether he likes it or not. Then she orders him to take his clothes off because she’s going to give him a sponge bath. He raises his eyebrows at this and just stares at her. (Shades of Sabado Gigante!)
Gabe tells Little Lui the sad news about the doctor not being able to do the operation after all. He tells his son how he is to blame for the car accident that prevented him from having a normal childhood. LL tells his father not to be so hard on himself. They will simply wait till the doctor comes back and he can operate then. (Ok. That makes too much sense.)
Pedro and Diana are discussing Little Lui’s rotten luck at not getting his operation. They begin talking about Pedro’s being a poor relation and Rogelio’s always treating him like he was ashamed of him because of his humble beginnings. Diana tells him he grew up without luxuries, but he is a great person and never to forget it.
Dolores is giving Demian his sponge bath. He teases her about still being sexually attracted to him. He finally can’t stand it any longer and he grabs her, knocks her backward and her over his lap and kisses her. This shocks Dolores. She fights him off, grabs her bowl of water and--runs out. He is laughing at her and says to himself that if she wants to play on his turf, she is going to lose.
In the study downstairs, Dolores realizes that he’s stirred her feelings up again. She prays to God that she is not tempted by Demian and her desire once again.
At the restaurant Gabe finally asks Jos to give him a divorce. She stands up shrieking to everyone there that this thankless slob wants to leave her for another woman. He stands there trying to explain to her his reasons, in front of God and every customer in the place. She (mercifully for the other customers) finally runs out of the place, repeating she’ll die first, or he will, before giving him a divorce!! She stands in the middle of the street daring a car to run her over. Somehow Gabe pushes her away and prevents her from getting hit. He tells her she really needs to get professional help and to be in a psychiatric clinic. She tells him she’ll die before giving him a divorce. He should be in jail for killing the child they were expecting. Jos sees a cab, then, at the end of the block and runs toward it. As luck would have it, it is Leo’s cab and he’s just left off a fare. She jumps in and says just take her anywhere, but get her out of there. Take her far away from there, now!
He starts up a conversation with her, realizing who she is and that she doesn’t recognize him at all. He asks if he can help her but she refuses anything from him. She tells him not to involve himself and that it's none of his business. She keeps repeating that nobody can help her; she is just such a loser, she is so unlucky.
Candy tries to console Don Clemente He’ll get through this difficult time with Aurora. He confesses that he cannot do right by one daughter without hurting the other. Candy tells him God knows what a kindhearted man he is and will show him the way.
In the cab, Jos opens up her heart to Leo without realizing it. She tells him that her sin is loving her husband too much, and that there is another woman who is taking him from her.
At the church, the two padres are discussing the appearance of the woman who left Leo abandoned at the church years ago as a baby. Father Anselmo thinks he should and will confront her about that night.
At the same time Ingrid is telling Miriam that the priest from that night long ago must have recognized her when they were in the churchyard waiting for news about her grandson. Would’t it be something if "he" were there that night also, just a few steps away? Miriam shudders at the thought and tells her friend to be quiet about it. Just then Leo appears at the doorway with Jos. Leo explains that he is Candy’s son, the taxi-driver, and how he found her daughter arguing in the street with Gabe, distraught after running away from him. Miriam rudely refuses to shake his hand or to thank him. “You took too much bother with her. -- Ingrid! My wallet! -- How much do you want?” Leo refuses money and leaves. These two feel something strange after their meeting but both brush it off. Ingrid follows Leo and watches from behind a stack of clothes as he gets into his cab and leaves. Jos then informs Miriam that Gabe and she were arguing because he finally asked her for a divorce.
Dolores goes back upstairs with Demian and starts adjusting his pillows. Demian grabs her again and kisses her. He tells her he know she likes it just as much as he does. (Truth be told! And that silly little nurse's cap hasn't moved an inch with all that rolling around!) She asks him how he dares to do this right under his wife’s nose. Regina is such a good woman. He answers that she doesn’t know anything about what his life has been like. Sure he loved her, but she’s forced him away. Dolores says, “Yes, just like you did with me!” She assures him that the only reason she is there is for Tiberio and walks out. Demian thinks to himself, “Dolores, you are still a really attractive female!”
Nic tells Gabe that Demian still hasn’t returned to the office, but Gabe says Tiberio will see to things. Nic wonders why Demian is so attached to Tiberio when his son, JC, now an engineer, should be heading his construction company. He also asks what Pau is feeling now regarding JC. Gabe says she’s assured him it is all in the past and Nic says, that is good. Now he doesn’t have to reveal to her that she was really adopted. Then Gabe asks Nic to start divorce procedings for him and Jos.
Miriam scolds Jos for losing control like that. Jos screams back that she couldn’t exactly help it. After all, who would have thought he would ask her out to lunch just to ask her to give him a divorce? (She has a point there!) She will never give it to him, either! Miriam asks her daughter if she is ready to do anything at all to ensure he doesn't divorce her, and Jos answers “Absolutely anything.”
Regina suggests to JC that perhaps if things are too uncomfortable at his current position, being so close to Paulina everyday, that he should consider coming to work for his father instead.
Candy and Leo discuss Jos’s cab ride and he admits he felt sorry for Jos. She seemed to be all alone in the world. In fact, he feels as if he’s known this woman all of his life, but he cannot understand why.
Jos goes in to visit her little boy and tells him that his daddy has asked her for a divorce and she starts to cry.
Regina confesses to Dolores that she has been so unhappy all these years with Demian. “I shouldn’t be telling you this.” She says that perhaps it is because she trusts her. Regina suggests Delores encourage her to tell her all about it sometime.
Candy serves Diana lunch, but Diana suddenly feels nauseous. Candy asks if she might be pregnant. Diana is surprised at the thought. (Momma never told her the facts of life or the signs to watch for?)
Miriam and Rogelio are meeting at a restaurant. She tells him that they like the same fine things in life. There is soon to be a storm kicked up in the household, since his father has asked Jos for a divorce. He needs to choose sides. He can leave without the luxuries he has been accustomed to having or he can join forces with her against his father.
Gabe comes in to see his son and Luisito tells him that he doesn’t love him anymore because he’s leaving his mother.
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Doing 2 hours worth of Mundo is above and beyond the call of duty. I don't think I've ever seen Univision piggy back an episode that was preempted the previous day.
I'll have to check our Dolores in her nurses' uniform. She seems to like to dress up.
Yeah, you'd think that if Gab was going to ask his nutball of a wife for a divorce, he wouldn't do it in a public restaurant.
I was thinking about the evil guys with one name, 'Chacal' and 'Coyote.' I was surprised that they made this big deal about Chacal having been in the nuthouse with Demian, then setting him up as the master of disguise with the secret room in his apartment and then they kill him off almost immediately. They also just dropped the story about Rogelio's mistress being murdered. Very sloppy writing.
I'll have to check our Dolores in her nurses' uniform. She seems to like to dress up.
Yeah, you'd think that if Gab was going to ask his nutball of a wife for a divorce, he wouldn't do it in a public restaurant.
I was thinking about the evil guys with one name, 'Chacal' and 'Coyote.' I was surprised that they made this big deal about Chacal having been in the nuthouse with Demian, then setting him up as the master of disguise with the secret room in his apartment and then they kill him off almost immediately. They also just dropped the story about Rogelio's mistress being murdered. Very sloppy writing.
Jardinera:
Wonderful recap of two episodes last night. lots of details.
I loved the part where Jossie was hugging and playing witht that stuffed tiger and then it looked like she was trying to use it to try and hypnotise Luisito.
J.R. :)
Wonderful recap of two episodes last night. lots of details.
I loved the part where Jossie was hugging and playing witht that stuffed tiger and then it looked like she was trying to use it to try and hypnotise Luisito.
J.R. :)
Thanks, folks. If I'd known ahead of time about them doing 2 hrs. I would definitely have worked it out with Nora....I agree about the sloppy writing.
That nurse's uniform on Azela just had me giggling all the rest of the evening. It could not have been easy to play those bedroom scenes with a straight face dressed up like that. The Golden Victor awards should go to Cesar and Azela just for getting through them and getting it all on tape without even a hint of a snicker on their part.
As for the tiger, everytime I see it in Joselin's bed I start to think of Linus with his security blanket! It looks exactly like the one I had when I was itsy-bitsy. Cruel as it sounds, I certainly wouldn't use it to hypnotise that kid of hers; I'd use it to stuff his mouth the next time he started to whine and do that high-pitched blubbering of his. I am starting to mute the t.v. now everytime that kid has a scene. I can hardly wait for that kid to reach puberty!!
That nurse's uniform on Azela just had me giggling all the rest of the evening. It could not have been easy to play those bedroom scenes with a straight face dressed up like that. The Golden Victor awards should go to Cesar and Azela just for getting through them and getting it all on tape without even a hint of a snicker on their part.
As for the tiger, everytime I see it in Joselin's bed I start to think of Linus with his security blanket! It looks exactly like the one I had when I was itsy-bitsy. Cruel as it sounds, I certainly wouldn't use it to hypnotise that kid of hers; I'd use it to stuff his mouth the next time he started to whine and do that high-pitched blubbering of his. I am starting to mute the t.v. now everytime that kid has a scene. I can hardly wait for that kid to reach puberty!!
Tiny Time isn't going to need that fancy doctor. Something will happen to Mariangela and he'll be the only one around to save her and he'll walk. Milagro!
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: Monday, November 6, 2006 at 11:03:00 AM EST
Thanks for the double dip of psychosis & bad parenting 102.
Now there is the dreaded nature vs nurture...Is Leo good & asexual cause he was raised by the good hearted Naco or will his inner Fiera come out?
Now there is the dreaded nature vs nurture...Is Leo good & asexual cause he was raised by the good hearted Naco or will his inner Fiera come out?
I wish that they would give JC more screen time. Oddly, he is beginning to grow on me despite his blondness ...he reminds me of a lion. Well, all the other guys on the show are psychotic and/or evil and/or unattractive or [as beckster so cleverly said] good and asexual...so, I guess that JC is the only good , sexual character. ~~~Susanlynn, voting for the good and the sexual and feeling a need to talk to Fab about this breakthrough in self analysis
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