Caray, Caray!

Max and Coral dance into the house, he decides to serve drinks and compliments her. He lets slip a comment about a ‘muchacha’ and Coral’s ears perk up, “oh is there some girl Emilioooo likes here?” Max falls back into standard guy who is about to score mode and tells her “uh no no whatever forget about that, focus on the drinks here.”

Emilioooo finds Alina at the fair, this exchange (ending with Emiliooo forcing a kiss on Alina) was at the end of yesterday’s recap, I’ll spare you a rehash. After the kiss, Alina pushes him away and tries to pretend like she didn’t care about it. She does look nice in this dress, amazing how well Gaspar figured out her size. Emilioooo says they will spend walk and have fun together, she disagrees and yells for help. Nobody helps her and Emilioooo the ass laughs at her about it.

Coral is telling Max how she became a dancer and how Emiliooo found her there and he’s so great etc etc. Whatever. Then she tells Max that she knows she is just a good time for Emiliooo and she doesn’t ask for anything more from him.

OH for crying out loud, friggin Don Loco sneaks into Soledad’s room in the dark AGAIN. She tells him she isn’t afraid of death, he says no, death would be rest and she won’t be allowed to rest. They have the same conversation as always, he accuses her of the DNA test to turn him in and run off with her lover. I swear to God and I just don’t want to take the time right now to go back and read the recaps, but didn’t this scene happen already? Are they just replaying this conversation in the dark in Soledad’s room once a day or what? Jeez give me a break already. He makes threats, she whimpers, he leaves, etc, same as always.

Emilioooo tells Alina, in about 500 words, “ok come with me and have fun, quit giving me a hard time, let’s go dance.”

Angel is running through the forest holding his chest, he sits down and has a wonderful coughing fit and says he can’t run any further. But wait! He has to save his Florecita and finds strength to get up and run some more. He’s just like a superhero, or a pro wrestler. Just when you think he is done, the crowd chanting “hulk hulk hulk” gets him up again.

Max tries to get into Coral’s room when he walks her up there, she shuts him down. He says Emiliooo is lucky. She asks “why, because I love him?” He says “no, because of HOW you love him.” What he really means, I think, is “That kid is so lucky because he gets to just use you for sex and you accept it.” Outside the door Max twirls his moustache and walks away, seemingly not too upset that he got denied. Hey wait – isn’t this house full of hookers? Can’t he find some action somewhere?

Rosita and Santos look for Flor at the fair.

Gaspar walks into a tent where a play is being performed.

Emilioooo tries to get Alina to drink but she won’t. She isn’t talking because he told her to stop insulting him and she has nothing else to say. He wants to toast, she says no way. He says she hasn’t seen that he is capable of hitting her in the head. What? Drink with me or I’ll hit you in the head? What the hell? I don’t even know what else to say about that so we’ll move on.

Apparently this threat worked because when we come back from commercial, she’s doing a shot of tequila. She coughs like she never tasted it before and says it’s awful. He says the first one is always bad, have another! Wow it’s just like parties in college. She says no. Ok, so it’s not like parties in college. Emilioooo’s friends show up and I notice that sun is shining in, wasn’t it night time? They want to sit down but Emiliooo says no, he wants to be alone with her. They leave and he forces her to get up and dance with him. Some locals (do we know who this couple is?) see the crowd and start talking to each other. The husband says that it’s shameful how they brought all the hookers here and look how that guy is treating our Florecita! He wants to do something but his wife stops him. Emilioooo has a (not orange) flashback of dancing with Alina way back when. Back in the present day they both look miserable. Alina has a flashback of the same thing, hers is a little more orange. This all illustrates that much more how messed up these two are.

Back in the locked room Orlando finally wakes up. He tries to get out but of course he can’t. He yells for someone to open the door.

The newly sexually aware Gaspar is still in the front row but the play has ended and now some hot chick is dancing on stage. I’m not sure what kind of show it is supposed to be, she is wearing a regular evening dress and is dancing like someone would dance at a bar with their friends. It isn’t some stripper show or anything, just some woman on stage dancing. Gaspar of course loves it, he takes big swigs from his bottle of booze. He gets up on stage, saying “Munequita!” He grabs the woman and she screams for help. A bouncer comes after Gaspar but he uses some Lucha Libre moves on him and throws him into the crowd. Finally a second bouncer comes to help and they are able to subdue Gaspar and drag him off. The lady was wearing a reddish/orange dress, a similar color to Thelma’s dress from that day at the whorehouse, so perhaps that is why Gaspar got confused. Personally, I think he is just insanely horny.

Alina and Emilioooo are sitting down again, he is putting down shots while she looks bored. She takes his glass away, he is drunk as hell. He wants to dance again, she tries to resist but can’t. The local guy stands up, he won’t let his woman stop him from doing something this time. I thought he was going to say something to Emilioooo, but instead they just leave. Maybe he is going to go report what is going on to Don Loco.

The two bouncers have hats that look like police, maybe they were more official ‘security’ than just bouncers. They are bringing Gaspar into jail and throwing him into a cell. He is passed out drunk so they just call him an idiot and lock him up.

Angel arrives at the part of the fair where they have the carnival games that are a ripoff. The guy who has the rifle shooting stall tells him that Emilioooo was forcing Florecita to dance with him and that made the locals angry. Just then a posse of locals passes by and Angel asks what they are up to. The carnie tells him that they are going to get their guns and rid this place of those who bring scandals to their little place. Angel is a bit impactado, he looks stressed. He doesn’t cough, however. Maybe he is getting better.

Gaspar wakes up and complains that his head hurt and cries out “where am I?” A cop comes up and tells him, “jail, stupid.” Cop #2 comes by and says they are all taking up arms to go defend Florecita, come on! Boy, for being trapped in a cave, Alina has managed to make friends with the whole surrounding area.

Orlando sits on a bed and swears vengeance on Emiliooo for locking him up. He throws a little temper tantrum.

More locals run around the fair getting ready to fight, Angel walks over behind some bales of hay and takes something out of his pocket. I think he is going to set the hay on fire to protect his brother. Why would he be carrying matches around? I’m sure he doesn’t smoke, what with his cough that has suddenly, mysteriously, disappeared.

Alina has had enough and wants to sit down. Emiliooo tries to kiss up on her a bit and hold his face close. Just then the posse comes into the bar tent. This is the poorest excuse for a posse I’ve ever seen. For all the guys that have been running around, we get this small band of losers to come defend Flor’s honor. Emiliooo’s friends try to say they don’t want a problem. Posse leader says they should have thought of that before they bothered ‘their’ Flor. Emilio, who is apparently drunk now because he is sporting the official drunk guy shirt-tail hanging out look, tells the guys “ok then your problem is just with me.” Lots of guys puffing their chests out. The friends say they will leave, Emiliooo says no way, we are going to stay. This reminds me just a bit of when Fernando was drunk at the bar on La Fea a couple weeks ago. I haven’t been watching that much any more, but I did see that there was an ENTIRE EPISODE devoted to Fernando being drunk at a bar. They are dragging that show along as slowly as possible these days.

I was right, Angel is starting a fire. Luckily for him, the hay was apparently completely soaked in gasoline or something because the match he was using would barely stay lit, but the pile of hay went up in an instant. There was even some blue flame, showing that there were some highly combustible chemicals involved. Angel is apparently new to this crime thing, since he stands there looking at the fire for a second instead of just getting out of there. Everyone inside the tent next to the pile of hay starts screaming “Fire Fire!” even though the fire is OUTSIDE the tent they are all sitting in and they haven’t seen it yet.

Angel runs into the bar tent and announces that there is a fire, everyone runs out. Emiliooo asks him “what are you doing here?” They both run out in search of Flor. They both find her at the same time and both try to take her away from the other one. Lots of arm pulling. Angel is oblivious to the fact that he is the third wheel, he keeps saying that he will go with them while Emiliooo tells him that he and Alina are going somewhere else, not the hacienda, Angel keeps insisting that he come along to take care of drunk Emilioooo. Emilioooo is impactado, “You? Take care of ME?” He punches Angel in the face and leaves him on the ground, while he is admiring his punch Flor runs off.

Back at the fair, there is a big fire and people run around a lot. The cops run into the jail, which is filled with smoke, to let Gaspar out of his cell. Outside, it still looks like only the pile of hay is on fire, but everyone is acting like it is the great Chicago fire. How did smoke end up in the jail from this little fire? A lot doesn’t quite make sense here. Also, why did everyone run from the bar tent when the fire wasn’t near that place?

Flor/Alina runs into the cave screaming for Luba, who is sitting right there. Luba sits her down. Flor tells Luba about what happened with Emilioooo. Flor immediately starts making excuses for Emiliooo, “he must have a wound on his heart” or whatever. Hey Flor, maybe he’s just an ass and was so nice to you before because you’re hot and he wanted to get you naked. Just a thought. It might not be ‘true love’ because a man is nice to a pretty girl. I’m just saying. Luba sends her to her room, wondering where Gaspar is.

Emiliooo staggers into his room, moaning about Flor. He falls on his face on the bed.

Gaspar staggers in, Luba goes off on him for not being home. He says he was in “La Carpa,” which as far as I can tell means he was in a fish. Is that a slang term for jail that some online resources aren’t familiar with? I’d ask my wife, but she gave up on this show long ago and isn’t even home right now. She tells him to go find Angel and see if he is ok.

Alina begs the dog for forgiveness. She mumbles to herself a bunch of worthless stuff, including whining about Emiliooo and about how she is in love with him. How do you inspire that kind of loyalty in a woman for real? If I didn’t treat my wife well, she wouldn’t be sitting in a cave thinking how much she still loves me, she would be calling me asking where this month’s alimony check is.

Ominous music means something bad is happening, oh yes, there is a snake sneaking up on Angel, who is still laying on the ground unconscious. Emiliooo must be able to kill with a single punch when he’s sober, if he can knock somebody out for over an hour even when he’s drunk. Man this snake is HUGE. It slinks up towards Angel’s face.

We get to see Alfonsina getting doused again coming out of the commercial, I’m ok with that.

Gaspar arrives in time to pull the snake off of Angel and throw it into the woods. Whew. He tries to wake up Angel but can’t, so he just picks him up and throws him over his shoulder.

Flor is pacing in her cave, in a nice little nightshirt. Where did she get that, I thought she just had jeans and a t-shirt and now that dress? She must have a closet we don’t know about. She talks to herself some more about Emiliooo. I can’t bring myself to try and write the details here, believe me you didn’t miss anything. She has a memory of him being manly or something. At the end she says if Emiliooo can’t accept her the way she is now, then she won’t tell him that she is really Alina Montellano. Ok, fine.

Gaspar brings Angel into his room, Max shows up and is freaked out and says to call a doctor. Emiliooo must really have quite a punch!

Emiliooo wakes up for a minute to complain about his head hurting. Orlando pounds on his door and tells him to open up. He tells Emilioo that he owes him something, our hero says he doesn’t understand anything, what are you talking about? Orlando wants to know who locked him up, Emiliooo just tells him to quit talking so loud. Orlando then says he knows it was Emiliooo who locked him up, so he could go to the fair with Flor. Ok then genius, then why did you ask who did it? Emiliooo looks at Orlando in shock, perhaps he is amazed that his complex plan was discovered so easily.

The servant tells Max that she called a doctor. Max tells her to get Gaspar something to drink, she wants to give him breakfast, he deserves it, no? Max reluctantly agrees. He tells her to makes sure she tells Emiliooo about Angel.

Emiliooo admits it was him that locked up Orlando, “But don’t be mad, you would do it too, right?” Oh sure then it’s all ok. What is a little incarceration between friends, right? They have a little pissing contest, trying to make each other feel bad. The servent comes in to tell Emiliooo about Angel. He has the nerve to act surprised. I suppose we are supposed to believe that he doesn’t remember anything. After they leave, Olando says he is glad, he hopes Angel dies so Emiliooo will suffer.

Rutilio comes into Don Loco’s office, Don Loco tells him that word on the street is that Rutilio knows who is trying to help Alina escape. Rutilio looks like a kid in the principal’s office. He pleads innocence and ignorance. Don Loco says whatever, I know who it is, it’s you! He smacks Rutilio in the face with his riding crop.

Oh yeah now we’re talking – Some swimming pool somewhere with at least one bikini girl walking around. Blanca approaches Thelma, who is wearing way too much clothing to be sunbathing, though that is what she is supposedly doing. Blanca tells Thelma that Elias is back in Canada. Thelma says she is getting married soon, to Emiliooo Valtierra. Blanca is impactada. How do these two know each other, anyway? And although it looks like a warm day, Thelma is showing a little evidence of being cold. Maybe Emiliooo needs to show up with some jacket or her to wear or something, like he did when Alina had a similar problem back at the party, oh so long ago.

Flor is helping the manual laborers out in the field. She must provide medical help, she is telling one guy to go home and rest. They rehash Flor’s night with Emilioooo.

Rutilio and Don Loc are riding horses, Rutilio is still pleading innocence. Don Loco tells him to shut up. Have they been doing this the whole time since they were in his office? Don Loco says Rutilio will see what happens to those who disobey. He will take back land that he had given Rutilio for his family, and la familia Rutilio will have to leave. Rutilio finally admits that it was Santos that helped Flor and begs Don Loco to not hurt his family. Don Loco says you had the chance to tell me and you didn’t, tough noogies.

Emiliooo the doctor notices that Angel has a fever. He and Max act concerned. All this from getting punched in the face? Max thinks that Angel just got drunk. Emiliooo says he doesn’t drink, but Max says there is always a first time. Angel stirs and says “Don’t hit me Emiliooooo.” Max says “you hit your brother?” Emiliooo the loser says “I don’t know, I don’t remember anything!” He has an orange flashback where he DOES remember. “Oh yeah now I remember.” He acts contrite and tells Max what happened. He says if Angel dies he’ll never forgive himself. Then he has an orange flashback to forcing a kiss on Flor. He tells Max he was acting like a crazy man, what have I done?

We are back to the pool. Why isn’t Thelma wearing a swimsuit to catch sun? What a ripoff. She is telling Blanca that she has been with Emiliooo for a long time. Blanca says she has a goddaughter that also had something with him, but apparently it was nothing serious. Thelma says “apparently not.”

Don Loco tells Sergio to tell Santos that he wants to talk to him. He asks Sergio if he thinks Soledad is trying to escape, Sergio says she is sad and misses her daughter. Don Loco then goes on about how much he loves/loved Soledad. WHATEVER.

Marianita is playing with some other kids at the hospital. A little boy sings a song and she is mesmerized. They are playing some game, he takes his hat off and they realize they both lost hair and decide to be friends. Her mother is with the doctor about her treatment, I can’t really tell if things are going well or not. I think yes. Her chemo is going ok.

Emilioooo’s buddies are talking to Orlando about what a tool Emiliooo is and what happened the previous night. Orlando is pleased, again, that Angel is suffering. When buddy #1 asks him if he is happy about it, though, he pretends not to be and calls buddy #1 crazy.

Don Loco tells Soledad to get ready, they are leaving. To go see Alina. She is pleased. She doesn’t seem to suspect that he will find a way to make it uncomfortable for her, which I’m sure he is planning to do.

Alina whines to Rosita some more about Emilioooo. They make plans to go to the church together. They talk about Angel’s condition some more too.

Adela and Soledad discuss the trip to go see Alina. Soledad says she is sure that Don Loco is trying to make her suffer. But she doesn’t care, she gets to see Alina.

Orlando is pretending to be helpful to Emiliooo. Emiliooo sends Orlando to go find Gaspar so he can talk to him. Emiliooo begs Angel for forgiveness. He goes on and on and on about Flor and Thelma, a bunch of the same old thing.

Go Bears.

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