Caray, Caray!

Amparo and Francisco talk over Ferns problems. They wonder how she can stand it all. She is strong they decide. Carola comes in with Raul with what is supposed to be a bloody mouth, but instead looks like he has lipstick smeared all over his face. He tells his parents that he has some news they aren't going to like. Sanson is back and he wants Juan to pay his debt by taking his wife Renata.


Cesar and Bertha arrive home from the funeral. Cesar is sporting a pair of sunglasses that make his eyes look like those of a snake, or say... Eurotrash. He keeps them on even though they are inside. Bertha tells him that she is worried about what Nuria will say. She also worries that the nuns will involve her in their problems. Guapo calls Bertha on her cell phone and tells her that the nuns did not report her to the police. Bertha tells Guapo to find Nuria and make it so she can’t and won’t be able to talk. He is told not to fail. After she hangs up with Guapo, Bertha tells Cesar that she needs to get the kid (Enrique) back. She wants him to help her think of how to get the kid back. Sanson enters the apartment and Bertha calls him another pet name, Espartaco (Spartacus). Sanson gets visibly upset and tells her to not make him feel obliged to hurt her by her inability to say his real name. She dares him to try; he won’t live to do it. Sanson gives up on the Bertha issue and turns to Cesar to let him know that he has been to Luis Alberto's place. LA is not there, and there are only some clothes and boxes left. Cesar tries to reach LA by phone, but LA doesn’t answer. Hmmm. What could this mean?


Lilliana reads a letter to herself in her house. She reads that the gun was acquired in Stuttgart and used to kill two prominent cardiologists, one in Stuttgart and one in Düsseldorf. She calls Al telling him she needs to talk with him urgently. He has just arrived at Miranda's so he suggests meeting for coffee, which I'm sure Miranda would appreciate. Lilliana doesn't like that idea. Al asks if she is calling about Sophia's phone call. Lilly doesn't know what he is talking about. Al fills her in about Sophia's phone call. Lilly doesn't like hearing what he has to say and quickly hangs up, upset, rubbing her temples (not quite like Bertha) and crying.


Fernanda and Miranda talk over Fab's condition in the empty kitchen. Miranda sits on the counter next to the stove as a tea pot steams directly in front of the screen. Is it a message that someone is about the go off like a tea pot? The women are worried about Fab and how he is handling things. Miranda declares she won’t leave Fab alone. Alejandro walks in. He wants to know what they are doing in the empty house. Miranda tells him the house is what they are used to and it’s all they have left. Fernanda exits when she hears Miranda say she wants to talk to Al about their divorce. Al asks for her forgiveness and she talks on about how she believes a divorce is for the best. AL gets a little irate and yells at her Who is the divorce best for? You? ME? Fab? He forces her to kiss him. She seems to melt into his arms but they part. She looks at him saying that was their goodbye kiss. Miranda splits and Al is left leaning on the counter looking like he will die. Charo comes in telling Al she has something important to give him.


Next scene after the commercial break we see Al talking on the phone to Lilliana in his office. Vicente and Luciano are there also. Al tells Lilly that Charo was upset and that they need to get her out of the house. Al tells Luciano and Vicente about Charo and how he doesn’t want anything to happen to Charo like what has happened to Nuria. He tells them how Charo is scared and nervous but he asks for Charo to come into the room to share her story, never mind that she is scared. Charo tells them she was scared that Bertha and Cesar threatened her and hurt her. She has a green memory to Cesar holding her by the neck after Gonzalo was killed. Vicente wants Charo to report this to the judge so Al will be declared innocent. Instead Charo snaps and yells at the men telling them she won’t say anything!


Father Santiago and Miranda walk the grounds outside his cathedral. They discuss how the nuns were able to get away with their sordid little school/convent for so many years. Santiago believes Cesar and Bertha are behind it. He tells Miranda how he can’t believe Charo kept quiet for so long. He asks Miranda about Alejandro. Miranda doesn't want to talk about Al. Perhaps her silence has something to do with the car alarm that is going off in the background ruining this whole scene.


Lilly rushes to Sophia's school. She sees Sophia on the concrete school yard and runs to talk with her. Sophia runs around the gate to jump into Lilly’s arms while Sophia's friends watch through a large iron gate. Sophia's friends start to taunt her by saying she is a liar because Sophia doesn't have a father. Just as the girls say this Alejandro walks up saying he is sorry he is so late. All the eyes turn to him. Sophia tells the girls here is my Papa! AL and Lilly look at each other.


Santiago gives Miranda a letter to read when she is at home and not distracted. Pam arrives and hugs Miranda, apologizing for being away. Santiago wants to know when Pam is going to get married in the church. Her civil wedding is two days away. Pam says that Luciano wants to marry in Italy with his family for the church wedding. Santiago is happy just as long as she gets married in the church and not with just a civil wedding.


One of Sophia's friends runs out to ask if this is Sophia’s father. Sophia, in Al's arms, pipes up that Now no one can make fun of her anymore. Sophia runs off to play and Al comforts Lilly by saying that these are just the hopes of a little girl, these feelings will pass. Al tells Lilly that Charo won’t report anything because she is scared. Lilly thinks Charo might be in danger either at Miranda's or his house. She wants Charo moved somewhere safe, to her house, to protect Charo.


Raul whines to Francisco why can't he talk with Erika? As he is talking Renata arrives, wearing THE HAT. She tells them that Erika has left to Canada with her sister and that Erika won’t return. What is up with Canada and these telenovelas? Erika is pregnant. Everyone looks at Raul as if he knocked her up. Renata calms them down saying it was an old boyfriend of Erika's who did the deed. Erika had always liked this guy even though her parents had forbidden her to go out with him. They reconnected and Voila she got pregnant. Amparo rubs Rauls back as he sobs. Amparo tells him that a woman who cheats on her partner is trash and not worth anything. Right Renata? She turns to glare at Renata.


Rebecca visits Cesar and Bertha at his apartment. She gossips to them about this and that until Cesar asks why is she there. She tells them that there are rumors from people about Bertha living at Cesar’s place. The people are saying that Bertha is Cesar's lover and that cant be possible true, right? They all laugh with Rebecca laughing nervously. Rebecca stumbles on saying that Bertha can’t please a man at her age much less a man of her Cesar’s age. Bertha tells her that she understands why Julio always had a look of dissatisfaction on his face. Rebecca stands up telling Bertha not to be gross, she is trying to protect Berthas reputation. Cesar is a man but all the people are talking about Bertha, not him. Bertha kicks Cesar out to keep the talk going with Rebecca, woman to woman. Cesar leaves and the women stare each other down. Bertha starts the new discussion by saying the only old woman who can’t satisfy a man is Rebecca. She is not Cesar’s lover right now but he lost his virginity to her. Everything that Cesar knows about the art of love he learned from her, she has been his teacher. His Maestra.

Commercial break that ends with the screen flashing images of Bertha and Cesar with the words hate and vengeance scrolling down. Vicente tells Luciano that he is ready to go to London. He is sure that the same documents that Gonzalo had will help him get the information they need. Lilliana walks in and the men ask her if it is true that she wont be returning to work there anymore. She tells them that is right. Do either of them know of Bertha taking a trip to Europe 8 months ago? Luciano faintly remembers Bertha leaving and asks why Lilly wants the information. She tells them about the two prominent doctors who were killed with the gun.


Nuria and Luis Alberto talk while they both lie on a bed fully clothed. Nuria is crying asking where will we go?! LA promises Nuria that they will be safe in Brazil. Nuria cries asking why she can’t tell anyone goodbye? LA tells her she can’t because he wants them to be safe and start a new life where no one can find them. Nuria worries about how they will survive without money. LA tells her that Cesar doesn't have any money but he does, Yo si! He smiles at this thought.


Al and Miranda fight over Charo living at Lillianas house. Miranda puts a gold necklace on the baby. Al asks Miranda where did it come from?! Miranda thinks Nuria must have given it to the baby, the baby was wearing it when he was returned. AL tells Miranda that it was Lisania's necklace. Look there is an inscription on the back with Lisania's name and birth date! Where is Nuria?! I need to know where this necklace came from! Fab comes into the room from buying diapers. He walks up to Miranda who is holding the baby. He kisses the baby and the three of them look like a happy family. Al, however, is left standing by himself. You can almost see the anger steaming out of his ears.


Bertha and Rebecca continue their conversation. Rebecca tells her that she has heard enough. She thought they were friends. Bertha tells her to sit back down, and be quiet, she isn't finished yet. Rebecca tells Bertha that she is bad and cruel, you are really an ugly person, without scruples and shame (Verguenza). Bertha snickers. "Shame. How dare you talk to me about a word whose significance you don’t know. You are more cynical than me. You talk of shame when you let Gonzalo support you and your kids for years. You talk of shame when Fab dropped Miranda and you were incapable of going to help her, for not even one day. After everything her father gave you! You talk to me of shame when you haven’t presented yourself to your son who has just become a widow. In place of seeing him you come to talk about what the people murmur. . . because I live with Cesar. You are cynical or an idiot or both. How dare you try and reproach me!" Rebecca sits through this tongue lashing making little uncomfortable faces taking it in. She finally stands up and tells Bertha how easily she hurts people, and agrees that Bertha is right in everything she said. "But get this, without wanting to Darling Bertha, you have opened my eyes. Listen to me well, at least I was loved by a lot of people, my children, Julio, and Gonzalo. In exchange you have never awoken the love of anyone except for your dog. And that is because he can’t speak and tell you who you are. Like I told you, my son is a man and he can do what he wants, but you, you are trash. I swear to the whole heavens that is how you will be treated." Bertha starts to rub her temples in the way she does when she is sweating something out. Bertha doesn’t like what she is hearing. She weakly tells Rebecca to leave and that she is going to regret it. Rebecca turns to face Bertha and tells her that she "can have a 100 men in her bed but at the end of the day, at the very bottom of her heart, she is recognized as simple and vulgar. Bertha is just a Messalina (Messalina is a reference to a loose Roman woman) with pretensions to be a lady." Rebecca flips her mophead and flounces out of the apartment with Bertha looking like she could melt away.


Amparo chews out the crying Renata. Renata, who has lost the hat, claims she is leaving Juan because they think differently. Amparo points out that Renata is just a pass of time for Cesar. Renata insists that Cesar will give her whatever she wants, the life she is used to. Amparo argues how a person can’t take material things to their grave. Blah Blah Blah. The boring conversation ends with Renata telling Amparo that Juan doesn't deserve her because she was with another man. Juan can never forgive her. Cry Cry Cry. Amparo is shocked and Renata leaves with her tail between her legs.


Miranda enters Gonzalos old office. She caresses his large green leather desk chair. She cries as she talks to herself about missing him. She wants him to give her strength to continue. Blah Blah Blah. Vicente calls by phone and Miranda tells him she is looking for the papers she needs for a bank loan. (Didn't one of the previous shows tell us that no bank will give a San Llorente or AL a loan? So why is she applying for one now? How is this possible?!) Lilliana enters like she is looking for someone, certainly not Miranda. The women stare at each other and make excuses on why they are both there. Finally Miranda tells Lilly to sit, she wants to talk about her husband, about Lilly and about Sophia. Why, Miranda asks her, are you using your daughter to blackmail Alejandro?!