Caray, Caray!

Alina went into Maximo's house to look for Emilio. Maximo confronted her, called her a beggar, and ordered her out. Before leaving, Alina said, "You know perfectly well who I am." Maximo said, "Yes, I know. You are a thief, and besides, in rags!"

In the kitchen, the servants discussed Alina's plight, saying they felt sorry for her but were too afraid of her father to help her.

Jose and Arcadio, still working in the mine, discovered gold. Arcadio warned Jose not to tell the other miners, saying, "It is ours and no one else's."

Adela visited Alina at the cave and told her that Sergio would let her into the house that night to see Soledad. (I find it very farfetched that Alina can repeatedly sneak in to see Soledad, but Soledad can never leave.)

Alvaro (aka Don Loco), napping on a couch, dreamed that Soledad came into the room wearing a nightgown and kissed him. He woke up and said to himself, "In spite of her betrayal, I love her. I have to hate her as much as I hate her daughter."

Emilio asked his mustache-twirlingly evil Uncle Maximo if their neighbor Don Loco had a daughter named Alina. Maximo pretended not to know, saying only that Alvaro was a "strange guy" whose beautiful wife never left the hacienda.

Emilio (once again proving that he gives up very easily) mused that Alina had broken his heart, but "I am better this way. Free, without commitments, and with the women I want." Later he told Angel he would visit Alina's parents, "Not because I'm interested in the girl, but from pure curiosity."

Soledad thanked Adela for helping her and Alina. Adela said, "I believe in you. I know Alina is the boss's daughter."

Alina visited a priest who told her to come to church more often. (In all this time, with so much freedom and contact with sympathetic people, wouldn't she have found a way to send a letter to Emilio or Blanca?)

Elias and Blanca phoned Hugo, who claimed Alina was in Madrid with her parents.

Alvaro found Soledad drinking tea in the living room, dressed in black. He said, "Are you in mourning, or what?" She replied that she'd been in mourning for two years because he had turned her into "a sad woman, a bitter woman." The doorbell rang and Adela came to tell Alvaro he had a visitor: Emilio.

Alvaro ordered Soledad to pretend to Emilio that they were happily married. Soledad said, "I am fed up with your threats." Alvaro said, "Very well. Your daughter will pay the consequences."

When Alvaro came in, Alvaro sat beside Soledad with his arm around her. Emilio asked if they were in mourning and Alvaro said yes, "My wife has been in mourning for two years. Our dear daughter Alina died."

Emilio looked shocked and the word "died died died" echoed in his head. (Of course it never occurred to him before that there might be an actual reason behind Alina's disappearance -- duh.) He said, "Alina died?" Don Loco said, "Yes. A fatal accident snatched her from us."

Emilio said he had known Alina. Alvaro immediately asked Soledad suspiciously if she knew Emilio, too. (Pretty soon he'll be convinced that Emilio is Alina's father.) Soledad said no.

Outside the house, Santos told Alina and Rosita that Angel was "a good person, nothing like his brother." Alina wondered why Emilio had changed, saying he used to be so sweet and affectionate.

Rosita asked Alina if she would try to see Emilio that night. Alina said she didn't know; she would like to clean herself up and look pretty when she met him again. (I thought she seemed awfully lukewarm for someone who had supposedly been dreaming of Emilio for years.)

Santos then approached Adela and said Alina wanted to see Soledad. Adela said it wasn't a good time because Emilio was visiting. Rosita urged Alina, "Go ahead! This is the moment to talk to him!"

Inside the house, Emilio said goodbye to Don Loco and Soledad and offered his condolences. After he left, Don Loco said, "He seemed moved by the death of our daughter." Soledad tried to slap him, but he caught her hand and ordered her out of the room. Soledad said, "Damn you!" and stormed out.

Don Loco said to himself, "Yes, to her I am a cad, a miserable person. If only I could forget. If only I could forgive her. How am I going to uproot this love?"

Outside the house, Emilio spotted Alina lurking in the shadows. She tried to run away (um, why??) but stumbled. Emilio caught up to her and said, "Alina, it is Alina!" She ran away (again, why???) and he didn't follow her (why???)

As Emilio was staring after Alina, Sergio approached him and said, "This girl is nothing more than a vagabond, a thief." Emilio said to himself, "A thief? But she looked so much like Alina. No, no, no, Alina is dead."

Elsewhere: Marianita woke up and found her bedroom lights still on and her mother asleep nearby in a chair. She got out of bed and covered Mariana with a blanket. Mariana woke up and put her back to bed, saying Marianita needed to sleep. (But did Mariana turn the light off and leave the room? NO. No wonder the poor kid can't sleep.) Mariana then wondered again where Jose had been for the past two years.

Meanwhile, Jose and Arcadio walked through the woods in Central America, talking about their gold strike. They stopped to rest for the night. Jose said now he could go home to his woman and little girl in Mexico. Suddenly they were surrounded by men with shotguns.

The men took Jose and Arcadio into some building and debated whether to kill them. Jose said, "We don't have anything against you." One of the men, Jacinto (who seemed to be the leader), said everyone was against them because they were involved in drug trafficking.

Jose and Arcadio promised not to say anything about the men to anyone, but Jacinto didn't believe them. He said Jose and Arcadio would have to stay with them. Arcadio agreed, but Jose protested, "These men are criminals." Arcadio said, "If we don't do as they say, they will kill us." Jose insisted he wouldn't do their dirty work, saying he had other plans. Jacinto told Jose to think it over, then ordered one of his men to untie Arcadio.

Back at the hacienda, Sergio apparently told Don Loco that Alina was outside the house, because Don Loco tossed him a gun and said, "This bastard has not learned her lesson. You know what you have to do." Soledad ran into the room and warned Don Loco, "If anything happens to Alina, I swear I will kill you!"

She went to her room and sobbed to Adela, "He wants to kill my daughter!" Adela assured her, "He only wants to make her suffer. He's not capable of killing Senorita Alina." Soledad cried, "Alvaro is loco! He is capable of anything. If I could escape... If Emilio could help me..." She told Adela that Emilio was a good boy and had once been Alina's boyfriend.

Outside, Alina was sitting under a tree, watching Maximo arrive at her parents' house and wondering why he was there. Meanwhile, Emilio was standing under another tree, feeling guilty for believing Alina had abandoned him. He fell to his knees and cried, "Alina!" then sobbed.

Maximo informed Alvaro that Emilo had been asking about his daughter. Alvaro said he didn't want Emilio to meet Alina. Soledad came into the room and greeted Maximo, who said, "Always so beautiful!" which earned him a glare from Don Loco. (Hmm, maybe Maximo is Alina's father...)

Outside, Sergio spotted Alina and shouted something like, "The boss doesn't have to see you again!" then shot her in the leg.

Words from this episode:
limosnera = beggar
andrajosa = in rags
amargada = bitter woman
arrabatar = to snatch
tierno = affectionate
consejo = advice
canalla = scoundrel, cad
escarmentar = to learn a lesson

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