Tuesday, December 19, 2006

HERIDAS DE AMOR - Monday, 12/18/06

Nuria from the hallway listens to the two Sisters of Satan discuss their worry at being found out to be excommunicated nuns. She realizes then that these women are accomplices of Bertha’s.

Juan wakes up that next morning to find Renata has driven off and left him at the resort. (Guess he’ll have to take the bus or hitch a ride.)

Roman pays a visit to Amparo and she delights in showing him how many orders she has gotten from area bakeries and restaurants for her confections. While they talk in the kitchen, he admits to her that he is finishing a pending case connected to Fernanda.

Pamela offers to lend Miranda money to keep the business and the family afloat. Miranda thanks her for her friendship and tells her how worried she is about her sister and finding a market for the chocolate she plans to export.

Some parish women tell Santiago about a school and infirmary that is connected that is in the area. Certain parents have their children there and they had noticed how strange the nuns there seemed. They didn’t wear the normal habits of the Church and although they always smiled to your face, once the doors were closed you could hear them yelling worse than jail wardens. Santiago tells them he will have the police investigate. Once they leave, he says it must be the one where Bertha sent Nuria, so he wants to see it for himself.


Miranda and Florencia have a serious discussion. Florencia asks Miranda to forgive her for taking Fabricio away from her. She tells her that because she took Bertha’s advice she had purposely set out to become happy by way of Miranda’s misery. Dying like this, she thinks, is her punishment. Florencia also asks her to take care of her husband and son and to make sure he knows how much she loved him. She also asks Miranda not to let Fabricio do anything foolish.

Roman suggests to Amparo that she and Francisco think about buying their own little house now that they seem to be financially back on their feet. In particular, it would be a good idea because, in case they all didn’t know it, Cesar de Beltran owns the property all around there, including her building. He says that there are some new places going up nearby and they might even end up neighbors. Roman kisses her on the cheek and leaves then. Amparo thinks seriously about what he’s just said.

Padre Santiago surprises the “mother superior” of Nuria’s former school. He tells her that he’s heard some talk of various schools that claim to be religious schools sponsored by The Church and really are not at all. These parents don’t know the half of it and never bother to investigate these places. These places dirty the good name of The Church and he wants to assure his parishoners that this is not one of these. Therefore, he wants all the information about the operation given to him as he assures her that the police now know of her school and are investigating it. For once, she is impactada and starts to sweat and wring her hands a bit.

Florencia tells Miranda that she is no longer afraid of Death. It just is. Just then, Bertha arrives and asks Miranda to speak to Florencia alone. Miranda warns her that if she does anything to cause Florencia’s death she will see to it that she is put in jail herself. Bertha says she is not going to harm Florencia so she can leave. (NO! Miranda don’t do it!)

Miranda leaves and Florencia sneers at the site of Bertha at her bedside. She tells her aunt, “If I could take you with me I would do it without a second thought.” Bertha’s evil and smiling response is, “Unfortunately, the only one dying here is you, and I am more alive than ever!” Florencia starts to breathe faster as she gets more upset. Bertha begins to press her advantage here and drives the knife in even farther. “Don’t agitate yourself, my dear, you are speeding up your death and I have so much to confess to you!” (I don’t think I have ever seen a character as seriously vile and slippery as that of Bertha, nor played to such perfection.)

Outside her room, Fabricio is pacing and he tries to enter. Fernanda stops him and Alejandro tells him its best to leave them alone since that’s what his sister wanted. Miranda assures him that Bertha has been warned against harming her because she’s told her she’ll put her in jail. (Nice try, but a waste of breath at this point.) He then turns to her and starts to sympathetically caress her cheek. Miranda turns away and suggests it is better if they don’t “start that up”. Alejandro asks her if she thinks she will ever pardon him. She tells him she already has, but adds, “It is not so easy a thing to forget.” He asks her if she means she wants to separate for the length of time it will take her to forget. (Duh!) She just stares at him. (Just what does this self-centered ex-playboy expect?)

Back inside Florencia’s bedroom, she tells her aunt how much she despises her because she is nothing but a monster. Bertha smiles back at her. “Ha! The kidnapping was nothing!” She begins to tell Florencia how she is now dying because she, Bertha, purposely didn’t give her the drugs for her heart condition all these years –“That is monstrous” Then she tells her how she convinced her to take Fabricio away from Miranda so her sister would suffer. “That is monstrous.” Then she tells her how she now will be the guardian to her son’s fortune as the first-born grandchild of Alfredo Luque after getting her to sign him away in front of a notary. “But I didn’t do that.” “--Yes you did and I have the documents.”

At the SOS school the “mother superior”/director is making up some lame-brain excuse not to give Santiago information. Right then Santiago hears the “nun” and Nuria screaming at each other. He demands she hand over Nuria and the baby immediately or he’ll call the police. Nuria is brought to him with the baby when the so-called mother superior refuses to let her go with him. The director says she has Bertha’s authorization to hold her. Santiago clears this up for her immediately. “Nuria is not a minor and she is not Bertha’s daughter. Bertha stole her and then gave her to you!” Santiago says she’s going to be accused of kidnapping as well as fraud. This scares her assistant “nun” into confessing their story. “I am not going to jail for this! This is your doing. Ines was excommunicated from the convent because she was seen as too violent and refused to follow God’s way. So Ines suggested we could start this school with the money she stole!” He calls Juan to have Francisco come to the school in the taxi. He then has him rush the baby and Nuria to Fernanda’s house in case they are not too late to have Florencia see him one last time.

Juan rushes out once he returns home and realizes that Florencia is on the verge of dying.

In the meantime, Sofia begs her mother to call Alejandro and invite him over for the day since it is Sunday. Liliana tries to explain he is married and cannot come there any more. Sofia asks for Liliana’s cell phone and runs out of her bedroom. Liliana prays for the intelligence to deal with her child and explain how things must be. Sofia finds her mother’s phone and somehow knows enough to find Alejandro’s number. (How is this possible? I thought the kid was 3 or 4, not 7 or 8!) Liliana the Lady Lawyer is a legal genius, but she apparently hasn’t a clue about what her daughter is doing or how to lock up the keypad on a cell when she is around a little child.

Luciano gets a phone call and tells Alejandro that the man buying his mansion is making an offer. Apparently, he knows Alejandro is in a financial bind and is trying to take advantage of his situation. Fabricio says he will sell the Manglars, but Alejandro refuses. “That is your son’s familial home and I don’t want you and him to be left in a state of poverty.” He tells Luciano to sell the mansion at any price. It doesn’t matter.

Florencia tells Bertha she forgives her. Bertha calls her an idiot and says she doesn’t need her forgiveness nor anybody else’s. Florencia says she will anyway because she now knows that Bertha has never and will not ever arouse the love of a man. “You know why? It is because you are filthy and disgusting and you have the smell of death in your blood! You are not a woman and like that you will never even be desired.” (Finally) Bertha becomes agitated herself and she begins to scream and shake Florencia who, in turn, has another heart attack.

They hear her screams from out in the hall and rush in. Fernanda pushes Bertha out of the way. Bertha tries to sneak out the door in the confusion but Miranda grabs her and tells her she is not going anywhere. Fernanda yells at Florencia trying to get her to open her eyes and respond. Nuria and Charo are walking down the hall in slow motion towards the bedroom with the baby. Fernanda tries to get Florencia’s attention by repeatedly yelling at her to hold on because the baby is coming. Miranda and everybody’s eyes are turned toward the tragedy taking place on the bed while Bertha looks on --and I am wondering along with her-- will Florencia regain consciousness long enough to see her baby? Or will she even have a chance to blurt out to everybody everything that Bertha has just admitted she’d done to her? Florencia does open her eyes just as Fabricio rushes in with little Enrique in his arms and screams at her to look at him. They all start yelling at her to “Look! Look! The baby is here!” She just stares into space and for a single second it appears she’s heard and then her head slides down the pillow, lifeless. With the exception of Bertha, everyone begins to scream and cry, realizing that Florencia is gone.

Fernanda walks over to Bertha and screams at her. “What did you say to her, Bertha!” Of course she answers back, “Nothing, absolutely nothing! We were saying our good-byes. Then you come in and tell her that about the baby. It was your lack of a brain that was the blame.” Fernanda slaps Bertha so hard she might have gone down for the count. “How dare you tell me this is my fault.”

Alejandro gets a call on his cell right in the middle of all this bedlam. It is Sofia and he asks her to get her mother. The little girl says she won’t because she doesn’t want her to cry again. Then she hangs up. (Miranda cannot be a happy camper here.) They all turn towards the bed and one by one, we see their individual grief. Bertha breathes a sigh of relief. She closes her eyes and literally orgasms as she experiences everyone else’s pain. She looks around, a smile of self-congratulation on her face, and exits the room unseen.

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Comments:
Oh, Well Done! What an episode! I don't watch this show but your recap was so juicy.
 

They let Bertha out of the room?? I don't know how they didn't kill her on the spot.
 

Brava! I agree, Bertha is one slippery, vile villain! I loved seeing her get slapped since she is always going around slapping other people. I cannot wait to see her get it at the end.

Thank you for condensing Miranda and Florencia's long, boring deathbed conversation. It seemed to go on forever. Thank goodness Santiago finally showed some spine. I want to think that Florencia saw little Enrique for a split second as she died.
 

Thanks for the great recap. Things seem to be headed toward a conclusion. Will Al and Miranda end up together? Renata and Juan?? Luc and Pamela? Will Daniel and Angel reappear at the end ? [I saw Francisco's son#3 for a split second the other day.] Will anyone ever be able to sit down in a chair again???? Will Bertha and Cesar burn eternally in the consuming , crackling fires of Hades????...Do I care?~~~Susanlynn, anxious for some closure
 

thank you jardinera! you did an amazing job decribing how flo dies... my eyes teared up! too bad i didn't watch yesterday's episode and probably won't be able to watch today's either, so i look fwd to tomorrow's recap.
 

ps: i agree with silvia by saying that i'm also relieved those 'nuns' have finally revealed to be excommunicated from the church. i always wondered what the point of the writer was, because santiago is portrayed as a noble man of God and then we get these horrible 'nuns'...it just didn't make sense to me.
 

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