Caray, Caray!

Alina is screaming in Jose’s face, wanting to know who the letter (the letter that started this whole drama; the letter that Alfonsina lied to Don Loco about, telling him it was for Soledad; the letter that is rock solid, better than DNA, evidence that Soledad had sex with Jose and got pregnant with Alina, despite the fact that Alina and Jose are about the same age) was actually written to. Thelma doesn’t want the truth to come out, it would give Alina her proper name and status back, so she keeps yelling about how rude it is to be yelling at Jose while he’s on the verge of death. We need Red from Shawshank Redemption to narrate just for a second, to tell Jose to get busy living, or get busy dying. Emiliooo says he will go watch the door, so that Don Loco won’t burst in before Jose spills the beans. After Emiliooo leaves, Thelma REALLY screeches at Alina to lay off of Jose. It hurt my ears. She hit a screech that is normally only attainable by two-year-olds at the grocery store. Jose wants water, Thelma encourages Alina to give him water, I think she knows that drinking water almost killed him last time. Do we have any idea why drinking water would kill Jose? What kind of sickness is that? I’ve never heard of someone getting shot, then being denied water. Is he one of those aliens from “Signs” or what? Anyway, Alina gives him some water and he doesn’t immediately react. Thelma keeps a close eye on the proceedings.

Santos says it can’t be true that Max raped Rosita. Rosita tells him not to do anything. Santos dramatically sweeps half the table onto the floor and says she can’t ask that of him! Rosita just cries and says she didn’t want to say anything because Max is Santos’s father. Santos says he doesn’t deserve to be called father and proclaims that he will kill Max, in a very dramatic way to make sure we know he means it.

Mexico City – Malena wants Mariana to go home and get some rest, but Mariana refuses. Malena says it isn’t fair that Mariana is all alone, Mariana says she isn’t alone, she has her (Malena) and Dr. Love, too. Malena says something derogatory about Jose, then says that she’s glad Jose didn’t catch up with Mariana when he went to Sierra Escondida. Mariana is impactada, “What? He went there looking for me?” Ooops nice one Malena. She recovers by telling Mariana everything she overheard before, that Jose fathered a child while he was gone. Mariana is impactada again.

Santos has wasted no time. He stands in the middle of a trail with his gun in front of him, pointed at Max, who is sitting on his horse. They stare at each other. Wow I know this show jumps around but that was a new record. We’re already moving on to the next scene.

Santos’s juggy mom is making shrimp cocktails with her boobs hanging out. For all the sexy and trying to be sexy women we’ve seen on these shows, I don’t think I’ve ever seen one with their boobs half an inch from bursting free like Santos’s mom. The funny thing is that she isn’t supposed to be any type of vixen or anything like that at all, she’s supposed to be some grown man’s MOM. Like a potential GRANDMOTHER. And they have her neckline about three inches above her waist again and again. It just seems strange. Anyway, for some reason she is using ketchup in the shrimp cocktails. Maybe it is cocktail sauce in a squeeze bottle, but it looks like ketchup. She squirts a bunch on the table by accident, perhaps to show us how distracted she is with what’s going on with Santos. Her friend Chela asks what’s up, Hottie Mom says she got a bad feeling in her chest, like her son is in danger.

Her son is still pointing a gun at Max. Max teases Santos and Santos threatens to kill him. Max laughs and gets off of his horse. He tells Santos that he sees his hand shaking and walks right up to the gun and takes off his hat. Whenever Max is in some dramatic scene, he takes off his hat or it falls off. He tells Santos to go ahead and shoot, show what kind of man he is. Santos tells him that he’ll be sorry about what he did, Max says he doesn’t think so. “This isn’t the first time I’ve done that, go ask your mom about it.” Santos’s hand is shaking so much I’m surprised the gun doesn’t go off by accident. Santos thought bubbles his mom’s voice telling him the truth about Max being his father. Max screams at him to kill him already! Santos starts blubbering like a baby and lowers the gun, Max tells him he doesn’t have the balls to do it. Literally Max said he doesn’t have the pants to do it, but that must just be how they say it in Mexico. Max punches him, which knocks him down, the keeps picking him back up to hit him again, over and over, cursing him out the entire time. Finally he throws him off the trail into the corn field and draws his own gun. He changes his mind puts the gun away, saying Santos isn’t worth the bullet. He’s going to teach him a lesson with his hands. He rolls up his sleeves and moves in on Santos, who is still lying on the ground. He’s about as big a wuss as Elias, he goes down in a heap immediately in a fight. At least Elias doesn’t cry at whoever he’s mad at first, Santos didn’t even get any good yelling out at Max. Not his finest hour.

Don Loco and Soledad are riding in the carriage. She says they are going too fast, they’ll be killed. Don Loco says she can’t die, she has to witness the death of her lover. Soledad screams at the driver to slow down, Don Loco overrules her and tells the guy to keep the pedal to the metal.

Malena tells Mariana how she overheard Jose telling Arcadio about his affair. Dr. Love shows up and tells Mariana she has to come right away. They go into the girl’s room and Mariana cries a lot. Marianita’s machines are beeping the right way for her to still be alive, but she’s out cold. Mariana pleads with her to stay aline. She stands up and loses it, she grabs Dr. Love and shakes the shit out of him, screaming at him to save Marianita. The girl wakes up and sees some of it and calls for her mamita. She tells Mariana not to cry. Mariana doesn’t listen of course and keeps crying. Big shocker there, right? A novela, a hospital, a dying child, it is the perfect storm of crying.

Orlando and Emiliooo patrol outside the door of the hacienda. Orlando says Don Loco is sure to come armed, Emiliooo says he’s strapped too. They are in their uniforms, I would expect that they are supposed to be armed at all times when wearing them. Well, they are engineers and not infantry or something, so maybe not. Orlando asks if Emiliooo is capable of killing Don Loco if he has to, Emiliooo says anything to keep him from killing Jose. Alina has to know that she is the legitimate daughter of Don Loco.

Soledad begs Don Loco not to do it, Don Loco spits venom and hate in return. They continue on. Same old thing.

Jose is now convulsing from his mysterious water allergy (this still sounds wacky as hell to me, who foams at the mouth from drinking a little water? I mean, in any situation ever? I’m not a doctor so I could be wrong but I’ve never heard of anything like that) and Thelma gloats that Alina is the one who gave him the water. “Happy now?” she says. They scream at each other and alternately Alina screams at Jose to tell her about the letter. He comes to a bit, asks who she is, she says Alina, remember me? Jose is out of it and sees Mariana and his baby daughter instead of Alina. He starts going on how Don Loco has to know that she is his daughter, he keeps calling her daughter. Thelma says, “See? SEE? There, he said it.” Alina says no way, he’s talking about someone else. She tries to get Jose to clarify, but instead he kicks the bucket. Alina screams at the top of her lungs. Lots of screaming today. We go into commercial, it looks like we have new in/out of commercial scenes. Jose running through the forest, pre-buzz cut, and Alina and Emilioooo making out, but this time in a different place than before. Ok we’re back. Alina yells at Jose some more and she and Thelma scream at each other some more. Thelma really digs into her, “You don’t like being the daughter of a caporal, huh? You want to be the daughter of Don Loco, huh? Well you AREN’T. Get over it. Get used to the idea that your mother is a slut.” Alina doesn’t like this, obviously, and slaps the Thelma into next Tuesday. Hey wait – Jose is groaning and moving around. I thought he croaked. Alina screamed like he was dead, not like he just passed out again. The fake dying is starting to drive me nuts. When someone does die, like Blanca, I can’t believe it until a week goes by without them popping up again. Or until we see them put into the ground. Thelma calls Alina “Estupida!” and glares at her while Alina cries like my son when I tell him he gets no TV for the rest of the day.

Don Loco and Soledad walk towards the door to go in to the hacienda, Orlando and Emiliooo prepare to try and keep him out. Don Loco says he has unfinished business with Jose, but Emiliooo tells him that Jose is dying and needs to be left alone. Don Loco demands to enter, Emilooo says no. Orlando pleads with Don Loco to just go away, don’t make it worse. Don Loco says he’ll do anything to go in and pulls a gun on Orlando. Orlando puts up his hands and steps aside, to reveal Emilioooo with his gun drawn too, pointing at Don Loco. They stand there pointing their guns at each other. Don Loco says he’ll shoot. They stare some more.

Jose has come to again and continues to think that Alina is his daughter while Thelma rants on and on. Alina cries some more, she’s very frustrated. Jose passes out again.

Coral is saying goodbye to the crowd at Edelmira’s place. Granillo is pouting. They all say they’ll miss her. Coral’s goodbye is very short and she bails without even waiting for a response. “I’ll miss you too bye.” Edelmira says they need to find someone to take her place. Granillo starts blubbering, it’s actually pretty funny.

A worker comes out of the cornfield and finds Santos left for dead. Santos tells the guy that Max did it. He manages to whine about how useless he is while being rescued.

Chela and Santos’s mom talk about Santos, Max, and Rosita. Nothing new.

Max is at Rosita’s house, she screams at him to leave. Max says that with him, she’ll never want for anything. Money, house, last name, whatever. He tells her that she knows the baby she is carrying is his. She doesn’t want anything of his. He says that if she says no, he’ll deny the baby and she’ll get nothing. He leaves and she cries.

Castulo talks to himself and says that Rosita marked him up pretty good, he touches the scratches on his chest, but it was good so it doesn’t matter. I guess we didn’t know the real Castulo before, we’re seeing another side of him. He is surprised that Max is taking credit for the rape.

Back at the hospital Juanito the singing boy shows up with a flower for Marianita, he finds Malena in the hallway and tells her that he wants to tell Marianita that he’s going to sing on TV again, he’s going from here right to the studio. Malena tells him that the girl isn’t doing well, maybe he should leave the flower with her. Juanito cries and says he has to see her himself. Malena says ok, but don’t let her see you crying. Juanito gives a little speech that I didn’t quite understand all of, but it was very sweet, like he always is.

Don Loco and Emiliooo continue to waggle their guns at each other. Don Loco manages to convince Emiliooo (because Emilioooo is an IDIOT) that they should both go in, together, to see Jose. Orlando just about flips out, he can’t believe it. This is the first, and probably last, time that I agree with Orlando. WTF. Emiliooo and Don Loco put their guns away and turn to go in, Emiliooo tells Orlando that Jose has a lot of things that he and Don Loco both need to hear. Orlando pretends to be upsent until they leave, then he smiles. Ah, it turns out I don’t agree with Orlando after all, he was just kidding that he didn’t want Don Loco to go in.

Alina begs Jose again, etc etc. I’m getting tired of typing that. It’s like when Don Loco used to go to Soledad’s room every night. I’m glad Don Loco is coming too, just to get something different. Jose still thinks Alina is his daughter. Yawn. Let’s move on PLEASE. The screen flashes back and forth between Jose and Marianita, both on the verge of death.

Mariana takes Marianita’s hand and cries some more, the girl wakes up and says “Mamita” then her eyes roll up and she keels over, dead. She BETTER be dead this time. Oh crap that sounds bad. I mean if someone is going to die, they should stay dead. The scene changes to Jose, who lolls his head over to the side and dies at the same time. Again, if someone is going to die, die for real dammit. Alina thinks he’ll wake up again, but Thelma, from ACROSS THE ROOM, says “no, he’s dead.” What? How does she know from 15 feet away? She can barely even see him through Alina sitting on the bed shaking Jose to wake him up all this time. Does she have some kind of death radar or something? She was as sure of him being dead as she would be of the sky being blue. Ridiculous. Every scene with someone dying, or fake dying, in this show ends up being completely wacked. Not just the death or fake death, for two minutes everyone else is even more out there than usual. Alina cries some more and screams at Jose to wake up. Thelma tells her to leave him alone. Right, because Thelma is the sensitive and considerate one, right? Right. Alina cries some more. We go back to the hospital and hear the flatline on the heart monitor. Mariana looks at Dr. Love, he just looks away and doesn’t try to revive her. I expect that like next week or something, she’ll magically be alive again. Maybe not, since we got the extended crazy mother screaming death scene. We see a little scene from heaven, or a cloud, or something, of Jose and Marianita running towards each other at last, Marianita with a full head of long hair. At least they are happy, everybody who is still alive is miserable. Mariana holds Marianita’s body and cries some more. Dr. Love, who is so sensitive, tells her that she needs to leave the girl here and leave. Mariana keeps yelling at her to open her eyes. The door opens and Dr. Love tries to stop Juanito from coming in, but he must be infected with the same wuss disease as some of the other men on this show, a sick 10-year-old boy overpowers him and gets into the room. He cries and cries, he’s upset that she isn’t here any more to see him on TV. Dr. Love says that she isn’t gone, she’s in heaven and she’ll watch over them from there. I know this isn’t the time for something like this, but wow does Juanito need braces. I’m afraid to even say it out loud, but I noticed it so I have to comment. He’s crying and crying (great acting job, especially for a kid, his crying is way more genuine than when the adults cry) and all I can think of is that you could put a finger between his front teeth. I know, I’m going to hell.

The anonymous farm work and Rosita lay Santos down on Rosita’s couch, the worker tells her how he found Santos. Rosita says Max is a coward, Santos says he himself is the coward, he couldn’t kill Max. Rosita says no, that’s not true, but she’s just being nice. Santos totally wussed out. Santos tells Rosita “We’re going to get married. We’re going to say that I’m the father of the baby.” He doesn’t ask, he just tells her. Well, then AFTER that he says “I want to marry you Rosita.” You got it backwards dude. Rosita looks like she tasted something bad. I don’t know if she is touched or disgusted.

Thelma puts the sheet over Jose just as Don Loco enters. He asks where that desgraciado is, Thelma tells him that Jose is dead. “He’s dead? I didn’t get to kill him!” Don Loco mumbles to himself. Soledad asks Alina if it is true that Jose is dead. Alina says yes and Soledad starts crying. Don Loco, of course, says “That’s why you’re crying, right? Your lover is dead and he’ll never return for you?” Soledad says no, she’s crying because he died before telling the truth. Thelma, because she’s so helpful, says no, he did talk before he died. Alina interrupts and says he didn’t say anything! Thelma says yes he did, you heard it yourself, he called you daughter. HIS daughter. Don Loco is muy impactado. Soledad shakes her head no, but Don Loco looks as if he has gone completely over the edge. Alina protests that he was delirious, he didn’t mean that. Thelma keeps twisting the knife, saying that he said it over and over, of course he meant it. Emiliooo tells her to be sure what she’s saying. Thelma tells Alina that she can’t deny that he called her daughter. Alina says no, she can’t deny it, but it was obvious that he was delirious! Soledad pleads innocence, Don Loco says he never had any doubt that Jose was Alina’s father. Thelma tells Soledad that Jose mentioned her too, he said that he didn’t deserve her because they are from different classes. Emiliooo tells her to shut it, but Don Loco says whatever, it’s all clear now, Alina is not his daughter. Alina cries on Soledad’s shoulder. Don Loco just looks a little constipated, almost like he’s let down that he can’t carry on his crusade of torture any more.

Rosita says it isn’t fair to Santos to marry her for the baby, he says it’s fair because he loves her. Santos wants the baby to have a real father, not like him, the son of Max Valtierra. They tell each other lovey things and start making out. She doesn’t seem to mind all the blood. Gross.

Soledad swears she never cheated. I know this is the central plot to the whole show, but it’s getting boring. This is the 3,958^th time Soledad has sworn she was faithful. Let’s turn the page. Don Loco grabs her but Emiliooo tells him to let her go, he won’t permit that he hurts her. Don Loco tells Alina that he’ll leave her here with her dead father.

Vera and one of the guys, maybe it’s her husband, are talking about when she gave water to Jose. The decide that Thelma wants Jose dead so he can’t tell the truth and give Alina her proper status back.

Alina begs Emiliooo to let her out, he says no, she has to wait until Don Loco has cooled off. Thelma leaves. Orlando, Emiliooo, and Alina come to the amazing realization that Don Loco is, well, loco. He is sick with jealousy. It took a few months, but they finally figured it out. Alina wishes that Jose was alive to tell the truth. Emiliooo says he already did, Thelma heard the whole thing. Alina asks him if he, too, believes all that crap about Jose being her father?

Sexy Nurse Suzi is listening to Angel’s lungs with a stethoscope, I think she just wants to put her hands up his shirt. She scolds him for not taking good enough care of himself. She has gone back to her see-through tight shirt again today. The topic turns to Jose, poor Angel who is last to know anything, wants to know what the guy’s name is, Suzi tells him it’s Jose. Angel says why didn’t you tell me before? “I’ve got to find Alina.” Suzi runs after him to tell him to stop running, it will hurt him. Angel you sap. Haven’t you figured out yet that you are always at least a day late? He has the worst intelligence connections of anybody. Jose is dead before Angel even hears that he’s in the house.

Emilioooo doesn’t want to answer Alina. He says it doesn’t matter what he thinks, which obviously, means he agrees with Thelma. Eddie Haskel, I mean Orlando, pipes up that he agrees with Alina, Jose was obviously delirious. Alina doesn’t respond, she just rips into Emiliooo for not believing in her and storms out.

Angel coughs. He now has the hood up on his sweatshirt, he looks like Tom Cruise in Minority Report when he goes to the bad neighborhood to score drugs. Thelma is casually strolling through the house and Angel asks her where Emiliooo is. She says surely with the dead guy. Angel asks who died. Thelma says Jose Gomez, Flor’s real father. The news sends Angel into a coughing fit. She says “Don’t tell me it bothers you to be in love with the daughter of nobody? You yourself are ‘Don’ nobody.” Angel coughs his way down the hall and away.

Alina is outside with Donkey. She says she doesn’t have any hope left. Etc. Where is this daughter he spoke of, or did he just imagine her in his delirium? Don Loco doesn’t want any more to do with her, so whatever, but what will happen with her mama?

Emiliooo tells Orlando to get the other guys to give Jose a Christian burial. Orlando says he’s on it. Orlando makes a comment about Alina, Emiliooo says it’s not her fault. Orlando gives him the full rundown of how she’s not upper class, she’s illegitimate, Emiliooo says whatever, he has more important things to think about. He leaves Orlando there looking stupid. He’s trying to look pensive, but it isn’t working.

Emiliooo runs into Angel and confirms that Jose died. They fight about why Angel cares about any of that. Angel tells him that he did what the general asked him to do, capture that guy, so now Emiliooo will return to Puebla, right? Emiliooo says “That’s just what you want, so you can be alone with Alina!” Angel’s look tells us that that is EXACTLY what he wants.

Ifgenio and some other guy get Jose on a cart and drive off to bury him. Orlando asks Alina if she wants to come to the burial to say goodbye, Alina says no, even though everyone thinks so, Jose is not her father. Orlando starts to walk away and says “I don’t believe he was your father.” Of course she falls for it. “No?” “No.” She whines that Emiliooo doesn’t believe her. Orlando says whatever, he (Orlando) is her friend, she can trust him. She thanks him. He leaves, satisfied.

Emiliooo is mad that Angel wants him out of the way so Angel can get to Alina. Angel says he does what he wants, he doesn’t need Emiliooo to leave, and besides Emiliooo is married. Ah, says Emiliooo, that is your pretext to betray me! Cripes these two are too much. Angel says he should hit Emiliooo for always reacting that way, he (Emilioooo) needs to realize he has no hope with Alina! Emiliooo tells him to go ahead, hit him. Surprisingly, Angel does hit him. It doesn’t knock him down, but it does draw blood. Emiliooo almost hits him back, but changes his mind and leaves. Angel clutches his chest and calls after Emiliooo. He struggles for breath and looks ready to collapse.

Soledad and Don Loco enter Soledad’s room. She begs him to not keep her locked up any more. He asks where does she want to go, to her lover’s grave? She says that all isn’t true. Don Loco gives a little speech about always hoping that it wasn’t true that she cheated on him, etc etc, now he’s never going to forgive her. They go back and forth, she says it isn’t true, he says it is and she hurt him, back and forth, Don Loco even has the nerve to cry about it. He has an orange flashback of Thelma telling Alina that Jose called her daughter. He cries some more. He orange flashbacks Thelma telling Soledad that Jose mentioned her too. In the present Soledad begs to know what Don Loco is going to do to her now.

Monday – Castulo overhears Rosita say that she is pregnant and Thelma decides to see if Gaspar is dead or not.

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