Caray, Caray!

Thelma tells a coughing Angel that if Emilio dies everything will be hers. That's one way to make an impression on your new brother-in-law.

Luba and Flor hear Don Loco approaching the cave. Luba pushes Flor into the back as Don Loco enters in a rage. Luba says she knew he'd be furious about what happened, (the wedding), but she couldn't do anything to prevent it. That conceited Emilio set a trap for them and they fell into it. Don Loco says "Oh you wish I'd believe that, you liar," and gives her a smack. Flor eavesdrops as they argue.

Luba tells Don Loco to calm down then she tells him her story...first he (Emilio) sent Gaspar on an errand, then when Luba and Flor were alone his servants took them by force to La Rinconada. Don Loco keeps shouting "damn it" throughout her story. Luba continues...that guy (Emilio) said he would kill la mula ("the mule" which is what Luba calls Flor in front of Don Loco), if they didn't comply. Don Loco ponders for a second, and agrees that wouldn't do because it would thwart his own revenge. But there's one thing he doesn't understand and Luba's going to tell him right now. How is it that Flor was wearing her mother's wedding dress, how, damn it?? It must mean Soledad knew about it. He starts to choke Luba in retaliation.

You'd think Thelma would be in a good mood because she finally got to marry Emilio, but noooo, she's a bigger bitch than ever. She tells Angel she got to marry Emilio because she's carrying his child. She gloats, too bad for Angel her son will be the legitimate heir. Angel says unlike Thelma he doesn't care about an inheritance. Spoken like a true artist. He says she's a thief, a thief who has robbed Emilio of his right to marry whom he chooses. Thelma doesn't give a damn about his opinion, tells him he's contagious, and stomps out of the room. Good riddance.

But wait, there's more, she returns and tells him to pack his bags because if Emilio dies she'll sell the property and she doesn't want to see Angel ever again. He has a coughing fit and nurse Susi arrives to calm him down. "Please brother, don't die," he gasps. He wants to see Emilio.

Don Loco and Luba argue forever. He makes threats of dire punishment against all of them, especially Soledad. Luba asks Don Loco what he intends to do with "la mula." He tells her "Don't think I'm convinced by your story, God only knows if you were paid my Emilio." Luba acts outraged, "When have I failed you boss?" He waves his whip in her face and stomps out. Flor comes out of hiding and hugs Luba. "What's he going to do to my mother, what horrible punishment is he thinking up for us?" she asks. Luba says she doesn't know, but it will be very bad.

Orlando is having a one-sided conversation with the unconscious Emilio, "It's the end for you, you're going to die, but not the way I would have wished. You'll leave the world without suffering. I won't have the pleasure of seeing you tied to a woman you don't love. Damn! It's going to make me sick to have the tell the world how incredible you were. I hope you burn in hell!"

Nurse Susi helps Angel into the room in time to hear Orlando conclude, "...don't you die on me, damn it, don't you die!" Angel puts his hand on Orlando's shoulder and says, "Emilio is strong." Orlando is impactado, "Uh, were you there, did you hear everything?" Angel says yes,but obviously he wasn't and didn't, because he, who formerly loathed Orlando, says that Orlando is nothing like Thelma, the whole world knows what kind of woman Thelma is. He has to get her away from Emilio. Orlando holds out his hand and says he will help in any way he can. Snake.

Thelma's aunt sings and talks to herself in the mirror. She imagines she's getting married. She "sings" Ave Maria and Thelma rushes in and shrieks for auntie to shut up. She's on edge because she argued with Angel. She goes ballistic when Auntie tells her she hasn't had a chance to get rid of the red dress. Thelma says she's going nuts, she can't stop worrying about that imbecile (Gaspar). I REALLY wish they would stop calling him imbecile. And we've already learned about ten ways to say idiot.

Cut to Gaspar running and yelling for the doctor. He intercepts the carriage, he has something important to ask the doctor. He has money and can pay. He asks the doctor to help him. His munequita doesn't like him because he's an idiot, can the doctor get the idiot out of him? Please?

Mexico City - The new doctor tells Mariana there are some alternative treatments he'd like to try on Marianita. He wants to help them. He puts his hand on her arm in a very undoctor-like way and says she made a most pleasing impression on him from the first. She tries the old, "Oh you should meet Marianita's dad, he's MUCH more pleasant than I am" line. The doctor is surprised and asks if she's married.

Jose is sweaty and loading wood in the back of a jeep. The guards step away and Jose thinks he sees his chance to escape. He says goodbye to Arcadio, jumps in the jeep and peels out. Jose is a stud but he's dumber than a piece of kindling, a little planning would go long way. The guards shoot at him.

Don Max is having his "I want your daughter for my very own so make her like me" conversation with Braulio. Braulio squirms and says Rosita will never comply as long as that Santos is around, they're gaga about each other. Don Max says Braulio has to be firm, they are firing Santos from La Rinconada because he helped Don Loco escape. "You'd better prohibit her from seeing him or he'll betray your confidence too," threatens Don Max.

Mariana tells Malena that she told the doctor she was married. "To the phantom Jose? Forget about him," answers Malena. Mariana says Jose is the great love of her life.

Oops, looks like Jose failed to escape AGAIN, he is tied to the chair AGAIN, and Arcadio is tending to his wounds AGAIN. A guy in black with a gun tells Jose there is much to do and he'd better demonstrate he's inclined to help if he doesn't want to spend the rest of his life in the mountains. I don't know why they haven't killed him. Seems to me he's more trouble than he's worth. He won't even have sex with the boss's sister.

Don Loco is in Soledad's room. It's dark. She sleeps. She wakes, "Dios mio!" I fast forward. I see the wedding dress. I stop. He shows her the bloody dress. She gasps.

After the commercial Soledad freaks out, "You killed your own daughter!" She faints. Don Loco tries to revive her. He calls her "my love" and says he loves her. Sicko. He yells for Adela and Sergio to get the doctor.

The doctor tells Gaspar there's nothing he can do for him, his condition is irreversible. Gaspar doesn't understand. Just then Sergio rides up and tells the doctor there's an emergency at the hacienda. "See you later, idiot" Sergio sneers at Gaspar as he rides off with the doctor. Gaspar is distraught, "Nobody wants Gaspar. In the Devil's Cave my munequita wanted nothing else, but she doesn't want me here. Perhaps she didn't recognize me, perhaps she wants to see me, I'm going to look for her again, yes!!" He smiles and runs off. Dang, he's optimistic! And relentless. I'm not sure I could take that level of enthusiasm.

Braulio asks Rosita why Santos helped Don Loco escape. She says of course it's not true, Don Max is a swine, a liar, he invented the story to get rid of Santos. She loves Santos and Don Max can do nothing to separate them. Papa Braulio sighs, he has a long hard road ahead of him.

Thelma is all hormonal or something. She's an uber-bitch. She bitches at Orlando who is continually lounging around in her room. She bitches at the help when they knock on her door. She's not handling her role of Lady Of The Manor very well, so far Emilio's brother and all the servants hate her. Orlando tells her she's the queen of La Rinconada and can make the servants do whatever she wants. Oh ick, he tries to kiss her and she bats him away as they flounce out the door. She's the queen all right, the Queen Bee-atch!

Flor talks to Donkey about her destiny. She tells him she can never return to La Rinconada. Donkey bares his teeth and barks, "Snap out of it, human!" Flor says Donkey is right, Emiliooo needs her now more than ever! She runs out of the cave with Donkey at her side.

Thelma and Orlando have invaded the kitchen. The two guys, I can't remember their names so I'll call them the two boobs and you'll see why, tell her they don't know why she's nervous about thieves, La Rinconada has never been robbed. I guess Don Loco arriving to break up the wedding and shoot the groom doesn't count. She shrieks at them to guard the grounds and shoot first and ask questions later.

Naturally poor Gaspar is sneaking around the grounds and the two boobs shoot him in his bulging bicep. Meanwhile Flor and Donkey are nearby and hear the shot. Donkey barks. Gaspar runs away. The two boobs see Gaspar's blood, hear the bark, and think that they shot Donkey.

Angel begs Emilio (cough cough) to wake up. Nurse Susi convinces "joven" Angel to take his medicine and rest. They leave and Emilio mutters "Flor, I love Flor."

Thelma is sure she heard a shot. She hopes it was Gaspar and she hopes they killed him. "Why such hate Thelma?" wonders Orlando.

Edelmira and Granillo are thrilled. They are doing a booming business thanks to Coral. Granillo buys a guy a drink and Edelmira glares at him, 30 pesos of profit down the drain! We get to see a split second of Coral's rock-hard buns doing a boom-shakalaka to the drums.

Thelma bends over to kiss Emilio while Orlando is raiding his toiletries. He says Thelma still hasn't told him why she hates that idiot Gaspar so much. Doesn't he know Gaspar is the guy who boinked and impregnated Thelma the drunken slut? Guess not. "No reason," she shrugs, "he's repugnant, that's all. Does he live nearby?" Orlando says he lives in a cave with his mom the witch, and Flor. Flor was put there by Don Loco. Thelma asks why Don Loco hates Flor so much. "Because he's loco," answers Orlando.

Orlando says he'll have to be careful of Don Loco if he wants to conquer Flor. This revelation interests Thelma and they spend the next few minutes taking digs at each other. She says her desire was to be presented as Emilio's wife in Puebla, but he doesn't even know he's married. Orlando says he probably knows, that's why he keep protesting in his delirium, that's why he has no desire to live. This ticks Thelma off, "of course he's going to live, he has to!" Orlando says they only have one recourse but Thelma's not going to like it. Luba, the curandera, is the only one who can save Emilio.

Cut to Luba tearing up strips of cloth to treat Gaspar's wound. She waves some herbs over his arm and wraps it up in dirty cloths, she's some healer. He keeps wailing about his munequita. Luba is sick of hearing about it. She tells him the woman in La Rinconada is Emilio Valtierra's wife. They are married. Period.

Flor returns and is shocked to see Gaspar bleeding. Luba tells Flor he took a bullet. "Is it serious, does it hurt?" she asks Gaspar. He nods his head with fervor, he's liking the attention.

The doctor is in Soledad's room. He tells Don Loco he wants to examine her alone. He gives Soledad smelling salts and she moans, "He killed my daughter. Murderer! He killed her..."

Thelma doesn't want to consult Luba. Thelma says she doesn't need that riffraff, she doesn't need anybody! Orlando asks would she prefer that Emilio die? They bicker some more until Orlando goes to bed. Alone, Thelma kisses Emilio, "wake up my love." He stirs and moans in her face, " I love Flor...Flor...Flor..."

Luba and Flor are commiserating in the cave, wondering what new torments Don Loco has in store for them. Flor cries that thanks to him she has been stuck in the cave for two years wearing the same clothes. Really. She said that. Luba can only imagine what kind of torture Soledad must be feeling, the kind of hell she must be going through without her daughter. Luba is a mother and understands. She gets angry and says one day everything will change, it has to change.

PAY ATTENTION because this is the wackiest scene so far: Coral is leaving Edelmira's place with a wad of cash. She walks out into a dark alley but someone is waiting for her. It's Jerimias, the old dude she beat up earlier. He brandishes a whip and tells her they're going to have a little chat. To Coral's credit, she doesn't look scared (and why should she?) merely annoyed. Suddenly, out of the dark, a feminine voice asks Jerimias what he's doing accosting a defenseless woman. Coral smirks. The camera pans up to reveal the speaker. Holy S**t, I think it's Granillo in drag! He's made-up and wearing a dress, a red wig and a feather boa. Jerimias is clueless, he says he'll play with both of them. Granilla says it will only take one of them to put Jerimias in his place. She yells "Aieeeeee!" and karate-chops Jerimias on the neck then stomps him into the ground. Coral claps, "Ay Ay Mamacita!"

Later, at La Rinconada, the soldiers are talking about getting back to work. Coral and "Grani" arrive. The soldiers are all "Que????" and roll their eyes. Guess the girls are having a sleep-over. I hope Don Max tries to sneak into Coral's room tonight....heh heh.

Don Loco has a flashback to happier times with Soledad. The doctor interrupts the daydream. Soledad's condition is very delicate. He doesn't understand why Soledad doesn't want to get out of bed. He has examined her carefully and can't find any physical wounds. (Ummm, didn't she fall off the balcony earlier? He can't tell? No wonder everybody goes to Luba and Flor for medical attention. This guy sucks.)

The doctor says Soledad has been out of it for hours, she won't move or open her eyes, that sort of apathy is very dangerous. "Your wife believes her daughter has died. She has lost all her will to live!" Don Loco is impactado, but I'm not sure why.

maldita sea! = damn it!
maldicion! = damn!
creida = conceited
tarado = idiot, defect
gentuza = riffraff, rabble

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