Caray, Caray!

Flor sits in the edge of the forest watching Sergio, trying to figure out how they can get past him, he keeps a strict vigil of Soledad. Just then, the answer comes by in the form of Nora. I think it’s Nora, right? The cute girl who gave him the drugged cocoa before? She is carrying a large jug of water and Sergio asks if he can help her with it. Yes, Sergio is a helper. As long as you look like Nora. She turns down his help at first and while he flirts she tries to back him down, but then sees Flor gesturing from the trees. She rightly assumes that Flor wants her to get Sergio out of the way so she can get in to see Soledad, so she changes her mind and lets Sergio help. He says something to her that I didn’t quite understand, something about people yelling if something happens, then he leaves with the jug. Nora frantically motions to Flor for her to go into the house.

Thelma is still puking all the time apparently. Singing Aunt offers to get the doctor but Thelma just starts yelling about how she is carrying the baby of an idiot. Singing Aunt says it isn’t his fault but Thelma just starts ranting some more. She is sure that the baby will be defective or deformed. She keeps saying she will give birth to a monster.

For some reason Flor is standing there talking to Nora and calls her by name, so my memory wasn’t completely gone, instead of just getting up into the house already. Nora tells her that Don Loco is still locked up, then tells her to hurry up before Sergio comes back. I think now what Sergio said before, since Nora is still standing here, is that he wanted HER to yell if anybody came near the house and he would hear her.

In Soledad’s room, she is playing her catatonic role while Don Loco rants. Uh oh, Flor is about to bust in on them together here, that will be today’s action. Don Loco tells her that he said a thousand times that Alina is alive, he came to see how she was before he left. She snaps out of her coma to tell him that he is a killer and she hates him. She repeats it over and over, I hate you! He grabs her head and says, “Listen – I did not kill your daughter.” I wish he had just said it to her, he would have sounded like Bill Clinton, “I did not kill your daughter, Miss Lewinsky.” Flor opens the door at the other end of the room and sees Don Loco there. Don Loco says “Adela, don’t come in.” Whew close call. Don Loco says one more time that he didn’t kill Alina and gets up to leave while Soledad keeps calling him “Killer! Maldito!” on his way out. Flor tries to hide in another hallway, Don Loco calls for Hugo to come get ready to leave. After he goes the other way, Flor runs up the stairs to Soledad’s room.

Angel is out of bed but coughing, keeping watch over Emiliooooo. Thelma barges in, Angel tells her to get out, Emiliooo is doing better but if he wakes up and finds her there he could freak out and die. She insists that she can stay, he finally says do what you want, but keep your mouth closed, your voice might kill him. Ha.

Soledad and Flor hug, they are glad to see each other, etc. Flor says she was about to marry Emilioooo when Don Loco shot him. Soledad says he is capable of anything. Soledad says she will help Flor, but Flor says what can we do? They pledge to stick together.

Thelma, who had very clearly been told to shut her mouth, is babbling on to Emiliooo when he moans. She says, out loud, “I better do what Angel said, he’s right.” She gets up and leaves while Emiliooo starts moaning for Flor.

Luba is in the room with Singing Aunt, waiting for Thelma. Singing Aunt keeps telling her to leave, but she says she’ll wait. Finally, to spare us from any more of this amazing verbal sparring, Thelma walks in. She asks what Luba is doing here, Singing Aunt answers like a kid tattling on a sibling, “I told her that you were looking in on Emiliooo but she insisted on waiting here.” Thelma tells her to keep her voice down, she might wake Emilioooo. OH sure now you care, a minute ago you were chattering on straight into his left ear. Luba tells Thelma that Gaspar told her what happened and about the baby. Thelma tries to say it isn’t true, but Luba yells at her. Thelma looks away and looks slightly impactada.

Mexico City – Mariana is having coffee with Doctor Love (Great name). She is telling him about her missing boyfriend and how Marianita keeps asking for him and it breaks her heart. Dr. Love asks if she knows where Jose is, she says she doesn’t want to talk about it any more. He graciously accepts and offers her more coffee. If she knew that Jose was off bonking drug runners, she might accept a little more than the coffee.

Speak of the devil – Jose is telling Felicia that it was a mistake and he shouldn’t have done it, she tells him what is done is done and it can’t be changed. She says she knows that Jose doesn’t love her, but she loves him.

Thelma is all worked up. Luba tells her to calm down, does she feel all right? Luba offers to bring some herbs to help her feel better. Thelma actually accepts the help. She says sorry, but just hearing the name of Luba’s son gets her all worked up. And sorry, but he didn’t really impress her much. Luba says he is considerate and good. They agree, I think, for Luba to tell Gaspar that the baby is Emiliooo’s. After that, Luba starts telling about Gaspar’s story, does she know of the Devil’s Cave? Gaspar thinks that Thelma is his munequita from there. Thelma says she wouldn’t go there, but she has heard of it, uh yeah, you know, I’ve heard of it. She looks extremely guilty, I’m not sure that Luba is believing her. Luba says that Gaspar gets obsessed with all the pretty girls he sees, she promises that he won’t come back to bother Thelma any more. Thelma begs for him to not come near her, she gets so nervous. Luba tells her to take care and leaves. Out in the hall Luba takes a deep breath and says, “It’s her! I saw it in her eyes! She is the munequita from the Devil’s Cave.” Ok, I guess she wasn’t believing it.

Thelma is getting ready to leave for some reason, Singing Aunt says “How can you go out like this, feeling like you do?” Thelma is worried about Gaspar showing up after Emiliooo wakes up. She is going to get an abortion. Or she said she’s going to go ride a horse to damage the baby so it won’t be born, something like that. I got a bit lost here but I think the deal is that Thelma wants to be rid of the baby. She is married to Emiliooo now, so I guess it has served its purpose.

Don Loco and Hugo are drinking at a bar. Hugo wants to party all night but Don Loco says he doesn’t want to stay here around these miserable poor people, this place sucks, so does this town. Hugo says not for long, rumor has it that there will be a military base here soon, they are going to build a proper road, now Sierra Escondida won’t be so far away from everything. Hugo is thrilled with the news. Don Loco is not. Just then Granillo the gay waiter comes out and says “Ladies and Gentlemen-well more men than ladies, right? Hee hee. I present a goddess, a woman of fire, the one the incomparable, Coral!” Unfortunately, we don’t get to see Coral dance this time either. When they show her skimpy outfit I’d certainly like to see more but they always cut away. Ah well.

Alina tells Soledad that she hopes Luba can cure Emilioooo. Soledad reminds her that he is married now, Alina doesn’t care, she loves him. Yada yada yada. Adela comes in to warn them that Don Loco is returning soon. The ladies hug and Alina runs out.

Thelma is riding a white horse through the forest in the dark. Of course, who shows up, but Gaspar. He starts going on again about “munequita” and she tells him to let her go, you imbecile. Not very nice. What do you expect riding around the forest in the dark?

Alina just went next door to visit Emilioooo I guess, not back to the cave. She watches Emiliooo while Luba goes for some more herbs or something. She whispers all sorts of lovey crap to him while he sleeps. He wakes up a bit and says “Flor are you there?” She says yes and he says “I knew you would be here, you are my wife. You’re my wife, aren’t you?” She doesn’t answer, he says he remembers the padre about to marry them, he wants a kiss. She says no, you’re sick. He says whatever give me a kiss. He has a dream that he was married to Thelma, she tells him to forget about that. He wants a kiss again, so she kisses him. His breath must be on a whole new level of stink, but she doesn’t seem to care. He is glad to have her by his side. She tells him to rest and sleep. He realizes that his dream was the truth. He would rather die. She tells him it was a dream, that she is his wife. Oh great, nice work Flor. He proclaims his love for her again.

Thelma beats Gaspar with her riding crop, he wants her to kiss him again like in the Devil’s Cave. They struggle and she passes out. He picks her up and carries her off. The camera focuses in on her jewel that fell on the ground, it is the same one that Emiliooo gave her waaaay back when, the one she talked about to her aunt.

Back at the club, everyone is loudly applauding Coral’s dance. Again, unfortunately, we don’t get to see Coral in her skimpy outfit. Hugo tells Don Loco, why don’t you have a little fun? There are lots of pretty girls here! Don Loco tells him no way. He is still upset about the highway. Hugo says it will be good, but Don Loco says not for him. He will lose his tight grip if the place isn’t so remote. He is worried about Soledad, she has gone crazy. Hugo says to send her to a doctor in Mexico City, but Don Loco won’t do it because she could tell about everything he has done to her and Alina. He says he wants to keep Soledad here, if she is crazy that’s fine, but she’ll be crazy here with me. This guy has a whole box of screws loose.

Gaspar rides the horse, holding Thelma, swearing that he will cure her, she’ll be all better.

Alina’s aunt Blanca and uncle (I can’t remember his name) in Puebla discuss the same highway. They think it is great news. They think that Don Loco won’t be happy, now that his workers can easily get to San Mateo to work. They decide to go tomorrow to see about Alina.

Alina and Emiliooo lay in bed and kissy kissy etc. Luba overhears and clears her throat to break them up. She tells Flor that her kisses healed him better than her herbs. Flor says not to tease but Luba is serious. However, now that he is better, they don’t have to come at night any more, they have to leave. He wouldn’t be happy to find out he was in the hands of a medicine woman. Flor, of course, doesn’t want to leave. Luba wants to give him one last potion, Flor asks to do it herself, Luba tells her to hurry up already, she gives it to him.

Don Loco has the look on his face that he gets when he’s about to have a flashback, but nothing happens. Hugo notices too, he says what’s the deal? Don Loco says nothing. Edelmira asks if he liked the show, he says yes, where is the dancer? Edelmira offers an introduction but Don Loco says he’s not in the mood, it’s time to go. Hugo whines, he wants to stay.

Max gets his coat on, he is going to go look for Thelma, Singing Aunt thanks him for helping. As he goes to leave, Gaspar walks in with Thelma in his arms. Singing Aunt says, “What did you do to her?” He says nothing and amazingly they believe him. Max tries to take her away to put her in bed, Gaspar insists on doing it himself. Singing Aunt must not have really believed Gaspar after all, she keeps asking him, “What did you do?” on the way up the stairs. Gaspar puts her on her bed. Max asks where he found her, Gaspar says at the river. Max thanks him and says he can leave now but Gaspar says no, he won’t go. Gaspar still has the bandage on his arm where he got shot. Singing Aunt wakes up Thelma with some smelling salts. The first thing Thelmas sees is Gaspar, she starts screaming at him to get out and then she says she’ll kill him. Jeez get grip lady.

Luba has some thoughts while Flor fusses over Emiliooo in the background. Luba decides that she has to find out if Thelma is the woman from the Devil’s Cave.

Elias is his name! The uncle, that is. He is visiting part of the construction zone for the new highway. Apparently building a highway consists of walking back and forth with pieces of wood on your shoulder, because that is what everyone in the background is doing. The guy in charge says that the military engineers will be on site tomorrow and then he says Emilioooo’s name. Elias says he knows who that is, he didn’t realize that Emilioooo had a hacienda here.

Luba tells Flor to go get the ‘teniente’, is that Orlando? They hope Thelma doesn’t come in before then. Flor leaves and immediately through the other door comes Thelma. Luba tells her that he is all better. Luba tells Thelma not to come visit him anymore because he thinks he is married to Flor and if he finds out the truth he’ll die. Thelma actually just says ok and leaves.

Flor arrives at Orlando’s room and tells him that Emiliooo is better. Orlando is very nice to Flor, is he trying to get her for himself too? I can’t remember now. I think yes, just to stick it to Emilioooo. She tells him not to say anything about being married to Thelma, Orlando agrees. I’m sure he’ll tell Emiliooo right away, now, to try and kill him. Oh, in fact when Flor leaves, Orlando tells the empty room just that. He can’t wait to see his face when he finds out he’s married to Thelma.

Flor seems to have the run of the place, now she runs into Angel, who invites her into his room. She seems uncomfortable to be around him. He feels better, tomorrow he’ll leave. She tells him that Emiliooo is better, he asks then why does she look sad? Because she can’t come back, of course. She says bye, he says why goodbye? When he feels better he’ll come see her. She just looks at him and says “Goodbye, Angel” and walks out. Jeez you bitch, you don’t have to marry him but you don’t have to be rude. Angel thinks that he has to find a way to get her to forget her love for Emiliooo.

He workers are discussing how glad they are about the new highway. Don Loco arrives and cracks the whip for them to get back to work. Max rides up and says that Emiliooo is better, he wonders how he’ll greet Don Loco when he sees him? Don Loco, full of bravado as always, basically says “whatever.” He says that every man will stay away from Flor. Max says Emiliooo is out of the way, he’s married to Thelma, and that woman is a fiera! Ha ha ha! Max is a great villain, he has the moustache, the way he talks, everything. He even has the laugh. Max says he has two things to talk about. First, if Santos comes looking for work, turn him down. Don Loco says ok. Second, he wants to discuss the new road. Don Loco says he needs to go to San Mateo and see who approved this stupid idea. Max says it isn’t from San Mateo, it is federal. There is nothing Don Loco can do about it. Don Loco says “We’ll see.”

Thelma is packing, again. She wants to stay with Singing Aunt in case Gaspar comes back, and also she is supposed to stay away from Emiliooo. She tells how Emiliooo thinks he is married to Flor. She goes off to lie down. I wish I had as much free time as these people do. They are tied up with their personal dramas, but for the most part nobody has any responsibilities at all. It makes me sick. I’d love to be able to say in the middle of the day “I need to rest” and then just go lie down.

The little bald boy brings Marianita a flower. Marianita is asleep the whole time, but wakes up to say thank you. She feels bad but Juanito gives her a rousing speech about how they have to get better and run and play. He doesn’t want he to die, but he also doesn’t want her to get better and leave and forget about him, he wants to go with her. Hey, how does this kid just get to walk into a dying girl’s hospital room anyway? Mariana comes in and asks what he’s doing there, he said he came to see Marianita. Mariana sees that he is crying and gives him a hug.

Santos is going to join the road construction crew but Rosita doesn’t like the idea for some reason. She is basically being whiny, she thinks Max can hurt him somehow even on the road crew. Santos says that if Max does anything at all to him or her, he’ll kill him. He swears it, he will kill him.

Flor walks with Donkey. All right I noticed something – when she was in Emiliooo’s room and had a blue shirt on over her t-shirt, the t-shirt was way low cut to show lots of great cleavage. Now that she is just wearing a t-shirt, the collar is way up at her neck. Didn’t she say she only had the one shirt? This shirt is pleasantly tight and all, don’t get me wrong, just that the difference between shirts is obvious, are we to believe they are the same shirt? I need answers. She says she’s going to go away with her mom and forget about Emilioooo forever. Right, whatever. Just like a smoker who will quit tomorrow.

Elias tells Blanca that they have to wait a couple days to travel to Sierra Escondida, then the new cabanas will be built and they’ll have a place to stay. Right now, Don Loco won’t invite them to stay with him, right? She agrees.

Don Loco is back in his office ranting about the highway. He calls for Sergio, who runs in. He asks why Sergio didn’t tell him about the highway, Sergio says he was on his way to tell him right now. Suuuure you were. Don Loco says he pays him to tell him what every fly on the hacienda is doing. Don Loco tells him to find out everything he can about the highway, they have to find a way to interfere with the construction.

Emiliooo is sitting up and has some pajamas on, the doctor says the danger has passed but Emiliooo needs to take care of himself. On the way out, the doctor sees Angel and tells him to take care too. Orlando is also there, wearing a very manly pink shirt. Emiliooo says, “Where is my wife?” Orlando says, “Your wife…..” Emiliooo says, “Yes, my wife, where is Flor? Isn’t she my wife?” Angel says yes, of course, but the doctor said he had to rest up first, right Orlando? Orlando says of course, Angel is right. Emiliooo says they are up to something, he wants to see Flor. Ominous music plays as Angel and Orlando look at each other with trepidation.

We see on the preview for Monday’s show that the secret wedding to Thelma doesn’t stay secret for long.

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