Saturday, January 06, 2007
Mundo de Fieras 1/5/07
At the construction company offices, Rogelio tells Tiberio the news. Rogelio is bitter about his dad and says he could care less and Ti laughs. Ti suggests Rogelio play the part of the grieving son so that he might be able to take advantage of the situation to gain back some of his shares in the business. Otherwise he could find himself left out and no more than a simple employee or "servant" at best. On the otherhand, Ti adds, he might find himself left out on the street with nothing. Rogelio frowns and rushes over to the hospital to wait with the others and play the grieving son at Jos and Miriam's side.
Cortito comes into the kitchen to tell Mayeya the news about Gabe. She and Lil Lui have been playing cards so she and Cortito distract him from finding out the truth about his father.
Jos calls Juan Christobal and he takes Paulina with him to the hospital and explains along the way.
Leo races to the hospital to see if he can help his maestro with the surgery.
As the surgery progresses, Gabe's subconscious begins to think about each of his children and of Mariangela. Then, Dr. Arias screams that he is losing the pulse and pressure just as Leo enters and takes the crash cart and begins trying to rescuscitate Gabe by applying electric shock to Gabe's chest. Gabe is approaching the brilliant white light of the vast unknown and Great Beyond. Leo screams at Gabe in between shocks to listen to him and to fight to return to them all. Suddenly, during the flight, Mariangela is awakened from a nap with a tug at her chest just as in the operating room Gabe's heart monitor's lines all go flat. He's flatlining! He's dead! (He's flatlining and secretly I am wondering if and hoping that they are really writing him out of the show so they can introduce somebody much more Mariangela's age and more appealing at this point. Heck! Demian and Regina's middle-aged antics are much more amusing and enjoyable than this silly storyline! --Alas, no luck.) Gabe is eventually rescuscitated and his heartbeat begins to register on the monitor again. Leo has managed to bring Gabe back to the world of the living. (Did we ever doubt he could and would, really?)
Leo returns to the waiting area and informs everyone there that Gabe has survived but is in a coma. He might be there a few hours, or days, or weeks or even months. Dr. Arias adds that some people never come out of their comas. (Thanks for public service announcement #999.)
Elsa is apparently going through changes since her rape the night before. She comes on a surprise visit to see Candy at home. She is sad and withdrawn. Her clothes and hair are plain and simple this time, and she is wearing no make-up at all. She tells Candy she simply wanted to see her and Elsa does not argue or act snide with her mother for once.
Regina confides in Demian that she is worried for Paulina since losing her baby, and she is in particular upset with Tiberio for continuing to reject Dolores' attempts to reconcile with him. Demian promises to speak to Ti about this and rectify the situation. She kisses him (again to strains of Percy Sledge's "When a Man Loves a Woman") and thanks him .
Paulina goes in to sit by her father's side and ask him to fight for his life. His children need his strength, his fatherly advice and his love.
In the hospital waiting room Nic takes advantage of the time to ask Dolores to allow him to stick with her. He doesn't want her to become distant. He explains he's talked about his intentions to Tiberio. Dolores admits that her son has a heart of stone. She says she tried also, but he is not moved by anything she has done to express her love as a mother to him. However, as a mother, she has not lost all hope of reaching him some day somehow.
Regina takes her turn sitting at her old beau's side, asking him to fight for his life and not to worry about the kids or the business. She tells him she'll take care of everything for him. While Regina is inside alone with unconscious Gabe, outside in the hallway, next to his door, a bating Jos tries to enrage Demian about Regina's being alone with Gabe. Demian laughs at her. He knows the game she's playing. "You think I'll be jealous? Ha! You're trying to upset me because I wouldn't loan your mother money." Jos mumbles her response. (In fact, all during the first half of this episode Edith was mumbling her lines. Perhaps the prima dona thought it made her sound more sexy and sultry, or maybe she was just hoarse from yelling petulantly on set in between takes, but all it did was impair the production.) "I didn't want you to be surprised later is all..." she answers. Demian just smiles knowingly.
In the waiting room, Leo suggests Paulina and JC say nothing to Mariangela about Gabe. He wants Mariangela to take full advantage of her designing course to better herself since she cannot do a thing for him in his present situation. In a corner on the other side of the room, Jos, Rogelio, and Miriam agree they want Mariangela out of the picture for as long as possible. Miriam tells Rog that Karen is advising them of all Mariangela's movements.
Back later that day, at the company offices, Rogelio suggests with his dad out and gravely ill, this is the time to recover a strong position in the business. Ti says he'll be happy to put in a good word with Demian for him --when it is advantagious to him and Demian of course, and for a price, as nothing in life is free.
That night at Demian's Nic, Dolores, Demian, Regina, Pau and JC sit and chat over Gabe's condition. Dolores tells them all, as a nurse, that coma patients may not lose their ability to hear. Regina suggests they all keep Gabe's mind stimulated by talking to him during their visits there. (PSA #1000). Regina tells the others then that she will think up some excuse to keep from letting Mariangela find out the truth for now and says she hopes that Mariangela believes it. (For the second time I find myself saying that this should be Mariangela's decision to make and nobody else's. Treat her like the adult she is, people!) Rog and Ti show up and Demian explains that he and Nic had planned this get together to facilitate a meeting to discuss the management of Gabe's construction company during his abscence. Ti suggests Rog handle things, but Regina tells Rogelio and Tiberio that she will be taking charge of the day-to-day management of Gabe's construction company. She had promised this to Gabe and that is that. Demian is a bit miffed and unpleasantly surprised at this because this throws a wrench into his plan to secretly substitute second-rate materials in Gabe's construction projects while pocketing the difference in cost when switching the quality materials into his own projects, but he says nothing. Ti is left with his mouth open and Wiley Coyote Rogelio again has steam coming out of his ears.
Jos looks in at unconscious Gabe and thinks, "Well Gabe, you see what happens to people who defy me. Too bad you won't be joining Mariangela in Paris. You are going to be in that bed forever. You are going to be mine again." (Crazy, sick, malicious broad.)
That night Candy tells Leo about her visit earlier in the day and how happy she is that her daughter (the real Elsa) will be coming back to her soon.
Elsa is back at the club dancing for now, though. She goes through the motions with her pole dance, but there is no excitement. After every move she stops to take a drink. She is pretty drunk and when she finally finishes the performance, El Mastín (who's secondary job is pimping out the club's dancers) says she can get as drunk as she wants now that she is obliging with his customers' "extracurricular activities". Elsa lets him walk her over then to another big, fat, ugly palooka's table. He sits her down and Elsa let's the huge hog slobber all over her neck.
The next day Paulina tells Little Luis what's gone on with their dad. Regina calls Mariangela up and tells her that Gabe had something unexpected come up with the business and would be postponing the trip over. She had no idea when he'd be reachable even. Regina has also asked Otilia to let Diana and Saroya know not to tell Mariangela anything about Gabe.
During the next two weeks Nic hires a private investigator and is frustrated to hear from him that not a single clue has turned up to suggest who might have shot Gabe. There are no witnesses and no one has made any statements to the police in the two weeks since the shooting.
Joss continues her exotic dancing at Ti and Rogelio's club. All the pigs there, including El Mastíf and Tiberio, are mesmerized by her beauty and her ...charms.
This lying thing works with Mariangela for a couple of weeks but then Mariangela calls up Regina and asks her for the truth about Gabe. She is tired of evasive answers. Regina has no choice but to tell Mariangela the truth and asks her to return to Mexico as soon as possible.
Karen calls up Jos the next morning and informs her mother that Mariangela now has the truth about Gabe from Regina and has just left on a flight to Mexico that very morning. Jos says it doesn't matter as Gabe is probably going to be in a coma the rest of his life anyway.
When Mariangela gets back to Mexico the morning after, Regina takes her to the hospital.
That same morning Jos is feeling sick and refuses her breakfast. Miriam wonders where her daughter has been and why she's been coming home so late each and every night. Jos pretty much tells her mother to mind her own business.
Mariangela enters Gabe's room, takes his hand and tells him how much she loves him. She also tells him that she is pregnant. A tear drop falls from the corner of an unconscious Gabe's eye.
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