Caray, Caray!

EPISODE 75 - Jan. 16, 2007:
* Otilia is talking with MA at MA's apartment - Otilia offers to help her with whatever financial and travel arrangements that she needs for her son's health care. Otilia tells MA to pack her suitcases, she will return to pick her up so they can leave immediately. Otilia leaves - MA prays to her home altar.

* Gabriel presses Jossie for details on what happened to Luisito - Jossie tears up and tells him that Luisito suffered a horrible accident and died. Gabriel is so shocked that he can't believe it and thinks she is lying. He runs out of the room, down the hall and into Luisito's room.

* Gabriel enters Luisito's room, sees the boxes, the empty shelves and the bed with no pillow and no Luisito inside and realizes it is true - Luisito is dead. Gabriel hugs the bedpost and starts to cry. He kneels beside the bed, grabbing the bedspread - he cries and wonders what happened and why as he remembers all the happy memories with his little "campeon". Gabriel grabs the photo of Luisito from the nightstand and pulls it towards him on the bed and prays to the photo for blessing and strength. Gabriel cries and wonders how he will be able to go on. (He remembers Luisito telling him he was the best dad in the whole world.) Gabriel sits on the floor crying and lets out a gut-wrenching wail.

* Jossie sits at her desk in the bedroom, thinking about how Gabriel reacted to the news, how to keep him with her forever (and how to use Luisito's death and MA's child to do so.)

* Otilia tells Soraya at the store office what to do with the store and the website and club while she and MA are out of the country. Otilia gives her the phone numbers and itinerary to reach her in case of emergency. Soraya wishes her good luck for the trip. Otilia leaves to pack.

* MA tells Leo and Candy in their apartment about the specialist they found to help treat her son's defect. MA and Otilia are flying her son out tomorrow. Leo and Candy are happy to hear the good news, they are sure with the blessings of G-d and the Santa Maria, everything will be fine and her son will survive.

* Miriam talks with Jossie in Jossie's bedroom about next stage of their plan to keep Gabriel with Jossie - Jossie wonders how they are going to keep Regina, Pau and Dolores from interfering. Jossie also informs Miriam what happened when she told Gabriel about Luisito's death.

* Gabriel visits the Cervantes-Bravo family mausoleum and kneels in front of Luisito's vault. Gabriel prays his thoughts to Luisito and cries.

* Elsa comes home with her suitcase - Candy is excited to see her - she says she promised Leo and is keeping that promise. Candy goes to the other room to get it ready for her - Elsa sneaks a swig of booze while Candy's not looking.

* Gabriel stops by MA's apartment while MA finishes packing. He is sad and distraught about Luisito. MA sits to listen to his confusion. He is so depressed - MA gives him reasons to continue living, for his children Rogelio, Pau and his new little baby with Jossie. Gabriel asks about MA's baby boy - she says he has a defect and she will be flying him to see a specialist in a foreign country. Gabriel wants to go with her and her baby - MA does her best to convince him not to accompany them.

* Regina is confessing to Demian at the office about her worries over Gabriel. Demian is sick and tired of hearing about Gabriel this, Gabriel that, and explodes.

* Tiberio is working in his office - Dolores enters - Tiberio makes a sarcastic remark about Nick not being with her. Dolores tells him that it isn't funny and she's tired of his attitude towards her.

* Demian is furious with Regina's worries about Gabriel - Regina tries to explain and convince him that his brother needs all the support he can get right now - Demian doesn't want to hear any more about Gabriel's needs, and tells his wife that he needs her now also and storms out of the room.

* Dolores leaves the office - Tiberio sits and thinks about what she said when Demian storms in and barks orders to Tiberio - Tiberio is scared and panics as he tries to find the report Demian is demanding at that moment. He can't find it. Dolores watches as Demian scolds Tiberio for his ineptitude and disappointment. Demian leaves.

* In Demian's office, Dolores scolds Demian for his abusive treatment of Tiberio, and tells him he is your son too! you better start remembering that he is your eldest son and start to treat Tiberio and JC equally.

* Gabriel is sitting on the sofa of his condo crying some more and hugging the photo of Luisito - he has no reason to live, he's lost his son and MA.

* Candy and Leo wish MA luck before she leaves on her trip. Candy gives her a blessing, MA thanks them for all their support and love - Leo gives her a baby teething rattle for the little baby. They kiss, cry and say good-bye. Leo escorts MA outside - Candy prays to her home altar for MA's trip to be a success.

* Pau visits Gabriel at the condo. She hugs her dad and comforts him. She reminds him that he has two new sons that need him. He says MA told him that her baby wasn't his. Pau says it isn't true - MA must've said it because she was hurting and heartbroken. They continue to talk about his confusion - Jossie's baby being his - the irony of losing one son and gaining another. He has to accept the crazy reality and learn to live without MA's love. (DUH!)

* Otilia is in the car with MA holding her son as they drive to the airport. MA thinks about her promise to fight and protect him with all her might.

* Jossie talks with Miriam about how she will make MA's son the center of her life and that the pain and suffering MA is going through with Jossie's son is worth it; and Jossie hopes that the kid dies so MA won't have anything to use to get Gabriel back.

* Tiberio waits to see Dolores in the front hall - Dolores has her bags packed ready to leave the house - Tiberio swallows his pride and says thank you to his mom for defending him against Demian's tirade.

* Leo talks with Candy about his idea to open a small neighborhood clinic to help everyone - he thinks of maybe locating it at or near the taxi stand and asks Candy to help him set it up. They laugh when Candy calls him a "half-metrosexual". As they talk, Candy tells Leo that Elsa moved back home. She leaves to check on Elsa in her room - Candy comes back worried, Elsa has disappeared. Leo calms Candy down and leaves to search for Elsa.

* Elsa is in a back alley getting completely drunk.

* Karen and JC are having coffee and talking at a restaurant. JC calls Pau to tell her where he is and that he is with Karen. Pau says she loves him - he loves her - they hang up - Pau is dying of jealousy over Karen and JC.

* Leo and Sylvester are out searching the streets for Elsa.

* Candy is at the apartment praying to the Santa Maria for help in finding Elsa.

* Elsa shows up at the strip club with her t-shirt and blue jeans on - she climbs up on stage and starts to dance around the poles (she is completely drunk.) Leo and Sylvester arrive and pull her off the stage - she doesn't want to stop dancing - Candy shows up also - Mastin (the manager) yells at the group and tells them to leave immediately and that Elsa is fired and to never return. They leave.

* Karen talks with JC about how she never had a real childhood - how her mom and grandma always treated her like an adult even as a little girl - she pours out the sob story really thick so JC believes it (and my stomach starts to churn).

* Miriam and Jossie are still in Jossie's bedroom - Jossie tells Miriam about Karen's plan to separate JC and Pau by making Pau jealous. Jossie says just think of how it will also hurt Regina.

* Regina stops by the condo to comfort Gabriel. Gabriel is still crying and depressed. They talk and Regina listens as Gabriel vents his confusion and desperation. She brings up his two babies - He says only Jossie's baby is his - Regina is shocked and screams that isn't true - MA's child is his, MA was so excited to find it out she told everybody about it being his; however Regina's not so sure about Jossie's baby. He's confused about why MA lied to him.

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