Caray, Caray!

>> Ok, so we last left JC getting the horrible, but somewhat predictable news, that he has Leukemia. He is in shock… and as a side note, he actually does a pretty good acting job in this episode… all his scenes deal in some way with this ailment and for a novela actor he does a really good bit of acting, imho… anyway, I digress…

>>Rogelio’s Office<<

>> Tiberio, from here on out known as Tib, want’s to know where Rog got his money for the stocks he’s buying from Dam… He gives Tib some excuse about his salary, which Tib doesn’t buy and then says he’s got his secrets.

>> Desperate for money, Miriam tries sell off some more of her jewelry but to her shock and horror they are also fakes! The jeweler is p-o’d that she has come to him again with worthless junk… she just can’t believe it and is incredulous.

> JC cries, Dolores comforts him, he literally balls. He tells Dol and Leo that he doesn’t want his mom and Pau to find out about his illness. Leo says it’s better if they know but he won’t spill… Leo says a “medula” (bone marrow, I think) transplant from his mom is what JC needs but with her heart condition he thinks there would be complications. (I don’t know why they ruled out his Dad, Dam… I don’t even remember them bringing him up… anyway,) JC says NO WAY, he won’t let his mom risk her life for measly him

>> Joz, dressed in a school-girl getup (red-plaid skirt, white blouse with black fluffy tie) waltzes into Dam’s office and compliments him on his steps to making the company into one enterprise… apparently he must have a “plan,” I’m guessing to take over or something, wink-wink, just a guess… he laments about MA having to sign off on anything like that, Joz suggests running the idea by goody-goody Regina… he smiles, she smiles and they make evil-lusty goo-goo eyes at each other…

>> Dolores wipes off tears before she walks into MA & LD’s room in the mansion. MA notices Dol is teary and asks her about it… oh, nothing, you get to work and leave the little munchkin to me, she basically tells her… MA heads out… Dol thinks - what Regina will do when she finds out about JC’s Leukemia?

>> Meanwhile, JC is lying to Pau about his condition being anemia…. They hug and kiss in slow motion and he looks mournful.

>> Back at the office <<

>> Dam comes into MA’s office, he wants a cordial relationship, and she looks suspicious. He asks about little LD’s health… She is short with him, he says he just came by to give her a little visit, then he skeedattles. She thinks to herself that he’s up to more than just saying “hey.”

>> JC ruminates about his will to fight for his and Pau’s love as he watches her work. Leo calls – interrupting JC's thoughts- to tell him they want to start the radiation (?) treatment. He can’t talk, because Pau is there, but agrees quietly to meet him.

>> Gab remembers his last conversation with MA – she refusing to admit his paternity of LD… MA, in her office, also is remembering their conversation, que coinkidink…

>> Regina goes to see Dam – he shows Reg his “balance sheet” she says it looks good… He says he’d like to make the two constructoria’s into one big happy family constructoria… she loves the idea of a peaceful harmonious family business… (We’ll see about that!)

>> MA, Joz & Gab meet in his office. He says if they can talk some investors into financing the company they can be the leaders in their industry – he’s very happy and all excited. He wants all of them to meet with the prospective investors for a lunch meeting that afternoon. MA says she can’t possibly, he lecturers her about her responsibility working there… Joz says he shouldn’t make her… MA says she’ll go.

>> Silvestre goes to see Leo and tell him he and Elsa kissed and she didn’t reject him. Leo says she’s gonna work for Otilia, Silvestre thinks Gods been listening. They are all happy and smiley.

>> That was a nice segue so now we’re in Otilia’s office where she tells Elsa that, thanks to Candy, she has a job there… she’s very stern with her and sends her off to go learn her job.

>> MA thanks Candy (por telefono) for watching LD while she goes to this luncheon. Candy is happy to do it. After the phone call, MA does some thinking but I can’t read my notes, so I’m not sure what she was thinking about… maybe Dam letting her have it about her job responsibilities. Anyhoo…

>> Regina goes to see JC in his office, he gives her the lie that he has anemia. Some sort of sexto-sentido is going on and she can tell something more is up and lets him know she would do anything for him, even die. He tells her not to worry… she thanks God that she has him as a son. He has a pinched look on his face as they embrace.

>> Meanwhile, Miriam is fuming about her fake jewelry and has her four servants lined up. She tells them she’s been robbed, she thinks it’s them and she’s gonna have them sent to the big house for the rest of their lives. Some of them start crying… Mayaya steps up and says she saw Rogelio in Miriam’s bedroom getting jewelry out of her safe but she didn’t want to overstep her bounds and cause trouble by telling anyone… Chappito(she skinny boyfriend) steps up and says it’s true, Mayaya told him about it too… Miriam paces back and forth thinking, Rog is gonna PAY!!!

>> In the meanwhile, Rogelio is collecting his shares that he’s just bought from Dam with the money he collected from stealing and selling Miriams jewels. Dam hands them to him and he’s astonished to see how few all that money bought him. Dam reminds him that his stock is expensive, plus they’re rivals, and anyway, doesn’t Rog remember Raquel, that chick they were both having affairs with back at the beginning of the show. Dam’s mad that Rog was with his girl (which Dam had whacked btw, but he doesn’t mention that) Rog thinks they should just forget about that, it was a long time ago. Dam says “never.” Dolores just happens to walk up to the half open door to hear Dam let Rog know that no one messes with him, (Dam,) and if they do they pay a high price. Dolores scoots off realizing Dam is the same evil guy as ever. JC asks Dol to take him to his radiation therapy later. They hug just as Tib comes around the corner, still out of their sight but can see them embrace. He stomps off looking upset.

>> Miriam paces back and forth thinking about how Rog is gonna pay for stealing her jewels. She picks up the phone to call someone.

>> Rog has just told Tib about how little stock shares he got from Dam. Tib reminds him to forget about it and not mess with his dad (Dam) when Rog’s phone rings… it’s Miriam.

>> Dolores goes to Nick with the news that Dam is the same ol’ evil thing he always was; He says he knows it. Dam just appears to have changed his ways but his evilness knows no limit. Dol says same with Miriam and Joz and postulates that, hey, maybe they’re all in these unexplainable evil deeds together! Nick looks pensive.

>> JC has set up a romantic dinner for Pau, she’s thrilled and they make goo-goo eyes at each other. She says she hopes that life never separates them and he says that her love will give him the strength to confront anything life throws at him. The seriousness of his words worries Pau… He gets a little teary and says nothing is wrong, he just lives for her and she gives him life. They make out.

>> Miriam is sitting at her desk drinking when Rog comes in… Bouncing in merrily he butters her up by asking her what he can do for her? She looks so nice today… blah, blah. She just smiles fiera-like and heads toward him, her face changes to anger and tells him to knock it off, she knows him too well. Then she lays it on him that she knows it was him that stoll her jewels and replaced them with fakes… he’s stunned, she slaps him TWICE – bam, bam… he’s shocked and sore.

>> Gab, Joz, MA and the two investors are at their luncheon. Joz (still wearing her school girl outfit) brings up the health of little LD, a very business like thing to do, they talk about MA being a single mom. Just so happens that the cute investor’s mother was a single mom, too, and he’s got a ton of respect for MA going it alone. He didn’t have a father and a father doesn’t equal love. He can tell from her resilience that she’s gonna do great raising her son alone. Joz can’t stop herself and rubs it in that “her” son is healthy and has nothing in common whatsoever with MA’s son. They all toast, clinking glasses and MA looks upset.

>> Meanwhile, back at the mansion, Rogelio is panicking – Miriam wants her jewels back, PRONTO! She threatens him with prison for the rest of his life if he doesn’t cough them up right away!

>> Back at the restaurant with MA & everyone… The investors are about take off, the cute one with the single mom, heaps compliments on MA for taking on the responsibility of being a single mom. The investors leave then Joz rubs MA's single mother status in a bit more… MA says she accepts the compliment for single mothers everywhere and takes off. Gab watches her go looking admiringly… then he and Joz take off, too.

>> Rogelio barges into Dam’s office wanting his money back for the shares he just bought. Dam says no-way, that’s not how business words. He offers his part in the business he shares with Tibero just as Gab walks in, who promptly demands, “What business with Tiberio?” Rog looks lide he’s about to collapse from the stress of it all… the cat has got Rog’s toung so Gab tells Dam he just came to let him know how the meeting with the investors went and then orders Rog to the principles office, I mean, to his office… and takes off without telling Dam anything about the investor meeting. Rog sulks out of Dam’s office and Dam looks evilly pleased.

>> Miriam has just told Joz about Rog’s betrayal – Joz starts pacing and damning him because of him Miriam had to sell her, Joz’s jewels, she starts to head off to rip him a new you-know-what but Miriam stops her, says she has a plan. She wants to blackmail Gab by threatenng to put Rog in prison for the rest of his life unless Gab give them what they want. Joz smiles evilly.

>> In Gab’s office, Rog tells Gab that he and Tib have “un antro,” the best translation I could find for that is a whole in the wall… so a hole in the wall "what" I don’t know. So I’m not sure if Rog lied about the kind of business they had or not. I think so because usually they call it a “table dance” business. So if anyone knows I would love to find out what that means… but Gab tells him that he’ll give him, Rog, back all his shares if he gets rid of this business… Rog salivates.

>> Leo and JC go into the room where JC is getting his treatment… there are a lot of shots of JC getting his treatment.

>> [sexy music plays] Joz comes into Dam’s office. He looks “hungrily” at her. She has the same hungry fiera look. She asks if he’s talked with Regina (which you would think would sober him up, but doesn't) – he says she loved the idea of consolidating the two constructorias into one (hmmm metaphor here?) Anyway, they move close to each other – she circles him then grabs him… they kiss fiercely… she asks him if he likes her kisses, he grows (or groans or grunts, one of those) then pushes her down and they start kissing furiously, intimating that they… you know…

>> fin -- hasta mañana

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