Caray, Caray!

JC goes to see Paulina to tell her that he still loves her despite everything. She tells him to leave.

Pedro and Diana are searching for information on Luisito on the internet. Paulina comes in and says that JC came to see her. They wonder why he has changed his mind about seeing her.

Meanwhile, JC wonders how he can tell Paulina the truth about not being her half brother.

Gabriel and Nicolas go to see Demian and Regina tells them that Demian is ill, in bed and sedated. G&N go and see Demian lying in bed asleep. G&N come to the conclusion that they must have been mistaken about Demian being involved in kidnapping Luisito. [Like he couldn’t have hired someone to do it, dummies?]

Priest #1 tells Priest #2 [I can’t remember their names] that last night he saw the woman who abandoned Leonardo as a baby come to the church. Priest #1 one doesn’t know whether to tell Leonardo and Priest #2 advises him to pray for divine guidance.

In a nice dialog-free sequence, Leo, MA and the other cabbies drive around trying to find Luisito.

Luisito tries to keep up his spirits by telling himself that his father would want him to be strong.

Paulina is told that the doctor who is going to operate on Luisito is leaving Mexico immediately thereafter so that if the kid misses the scheduled surgery, he will be on his crutches for the near future. [What, the kid can’t get on a plane and go where this hot-shot doctor works?]

Gabriel tells Nicolas that seeing Demian so ill was painful for him in spite of all the evil things that Demian has done.

MA, Leo and his buddies report their failure to find any trace of Luisitio in the neighborhood. Up on the balcony, Coyote listens to see if they have made any progress. A kid who saw Luisito get snatched by the man who made balloon aninals, says that he wouldn’t be able to recognize the man because his face was painted white like a clown.

Gabriel goes into Joselyn’s room where she is lying down [with all her makeup on]. She asks if there is news and Gabriel says, no. Josleyn blames MA and is angry when Gabriel defends her. The phone rings. It is Didier. While he looks at his bandaged leg, he tell Jos that she has won a battle, not the war and he will get revenge. When Gabriel has left, Jos calls Didier and makes threats.

Karen slinks into where JC is working. She plays on his sympathy and concern about Luisitio to get him to ask her out to lunch. At lunch, JC rejects Karen’s advances and she points out that JC and Paulina are still first cousins.

MA sits at a table remembering when she promised Luisito that she would never abandon him. She tells herself that she has failed and asks Luisito’s forgiveness.

Candelaria congratulates Clemente for giving up drinking. Clemente says that he gave it up when he met MA. Candelaria asks if there is news about Luisito and Clemente says that he is waiting by the phone for info from Gabriel.

Elsa goes to see Coyote to remind him about his promise to give her lots of money. She warns him that she won’t wait too long. Coyote wonders what to do with the kid since he can’t reach Demian.

Regina tells Tiberio that Demian is still sleeping from the tranquillizers he was given and that what happened was not Tiberio’s fault. Tiberio goes to see the sleeping Demian. Tiberio says to himself that it would be so easy to kill Demian now as he sleeps. He could suffocate him with a pillow and everyone would think Demian died in his sleep. Tiberio hold a pillow, approaches Demian… At the last moment, Regina comes into the room, sees Tiberio with a pillow but he is using it to prop up Demian.

Gabriel kneels in church sobbing helplessly and asks God, ‘why my son?’ Priest #1 comes and asks if Gabriel wants to talk with him. Gabriel says that he does want to talk; he can’t take any more. The priest urges him to tell him everything. Gabriel says that he got married (civil ceremony) and at first everything was fine, then there was the accident and his marriage turned into a living hell. The priest says helpfully that however bad things are now, there is always light at the end of the tunnel. Gabriel goes on to tell the priest that his wife is emotionally unstable and jealous. He doubts that she loves him or ever did. And now, to lose his son; it’s too much. He doesn’t know if he is alive or dead. The priest assures Gabriel that everything will turn out ok.

Now that Delores has taken off her habit, she can’t find a job. She could be a seamstress or a nurse but she’ll take whatever she can. Delores thinks that Regina might help her. She is a good woman and a mother.

Federico tells Miriam that Otilia thinks that Miriam tried to run her down with a car and furthermore, when he was with her, someone did try and run her down when she was crossing the street. Miriam says that Otilia is crazy and that instead of worrying about a crazy person, Federico should worry about his grandson, Luisito, who is missing. Federico didn’t know about this. Miriam suggests that Federico go and be mean to MA, who was responsible for losing the child.

Once again, Rogelio runs into Tiberio in the lobby of Demian’s company and once again he taunts him for being a nobody that Demian has taken in for pity and that soon his place in Demian’s confidence will be taken by JC.

Federico comes to see Joselyn but she has taken to her bed. Clemente is there and thanks him for being such a good friend to the family. Clemente says that he is destroyed because Luisito is HIS grandchild, the son of HIS daughter. Federico looks guilty.

Gabriel runs into MA in the church.

Coyote brings Luisito food and yells at him to eat. Meanwhile, one of the denizens of the courtyard of Candelaria’s place [I don’t know her name] remembers that she was supposed to take food to an old lady, Dona Tomi, who lives in the ‘tower.’ She brings the food and the old lady says, ‘Did you hear any noise upstairs?’ ‘No,’ says the food bringer. ‘I didn’t hear any noise in the abandoned rooms in the attic.’ ‘Well,’ says the old lady, ‘I heard noise there all night.’ The penny doesn’t drop on the food bringer.

Meanwhile, plucky little Luisito says that he has to try and escape from the room where he is being held. He crawls out of his room and finds a crutch in the outer room. He tries to use it but he falls and makes noise that the old lady and the food-bringer downstairs hear.

Coyote catches the kid who then screams for help. The food bringer hears a child’s voice. You see the wheels in her brain turning so slowly – a child’s voice coming from a supposedly empty attic. What could it mean????? Finally, the food bringer figures it out. She runs and tells MA and Gabriel that she has heard a child upstairs. They burst in on Coyote who is threatening Luisito with a knife. Holding the kid as a hostage, Coyote tries to escape. There is much running about with the kid screaming while Coyote, who is in a werewolf mask, yells, ‘Shut up!’ Coyote manages to cut MA with his knife. Gabriel chases him up onto the roof. Coyote dangles Luisito, still screaming his head off, over the side of the building while a bunch of useless types watch from below. The episode ends as Coyote lets or appears to let the kid fall.

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