Caray, Caray!

• Yesterday we left Rodrigo and his wife yelling. "I can't love any woman who isn't Gaviota!" "I'll never give you a divorce!"
  
  After he stamps out she thought-bubbles: "Jimadora, you'll pay for my tears. Don't come back or you'll find out who you're dealing with."
  
  He moves into the guest bedroom: "No more pretending!"
  
  Isadora, in her luxurious bath, thought-bubbles: "I am the wife, that's my weapon."
  
  
• Rod is rivalling Gabe (famous dolt of Mundo de Fieras) in the puzzled, stymied close-ups department. He also resorts frequently to a teeth-revealing snarl of frustration.
  
  Rod used to be a student at Oxford or Cambridge or something, but every drop of blood has drained out of his brain towards the humid zones.
  
  He has assembled a team of seven men, headed by James and historian-boozer Crispin, to go around all the fields in Mexico to find Gaviota.
  
  (Isadora crashes the initial meeting, fruitlessly trying to prevent this project. "I hope you find her dead, that maldita whore!")
  
  Problem is, Rod doesn't have a picture of Gav and, in fact, doesn't know her actual name or her mother's name either. "I just know her as Gaviota! She is Gaviota!" (Someone sagely remarks: "Hmm, that's gonna slow things down.")
  
  Rod's IQ has plummeted to a barely measurable level. He gets out his magic marker and scribbles a picture of her and they show it around in various locations. Mute extras stand awkwardly and shake their heads, no, we haven't seen her. James points out they're seeking an aguja en un pajar (a needle in a haystack).
  
  
• Meanwhile, of course, Gaviota and mom have gone to Mexico City, carrying their paddles. They do some sightseeing, pray to the Virgin to find them a place to live, and, after dragging their butts around for hours (this is no way to treat your ma who is recovering from typhoid fever), are befriended by a stranger who helps them find a room.
  
  Clarita can't imagine what kind of work Gav will find, but Gav reminds her: "I learned a lot from the nun." She dresses up extremely nicely! She gets a newspaper and starts looking for work but everybody wants to see her papers, documents she doesn't have, and recommendations from previous jobs. They are not impressed that she speaks "English, French, and a little German."
  
  Gav hocks or sells their agave paddles, which grieves Clarita ("so many memories"). Gav says they'll never work in the fields again. There are discussions of the way their lives are mirroring the telenovelas - the rich guy falling for the poor girl, the poor girl going to the city to get rich...
  
  With the money they get from the paddles they buy - fabric for curtains? Questionable choice in my opinion, food might have been a better choice.
  
  Luckily, in short order kindly neighbor Doña Jose says: "I'll take you to the hotel where I work," gives a personal recommendation, and Gav gets hired as receptionist over the objections of the personnel manager. (The hotel manager: "Where are we gonna find somebody as sexy as this?")
  
  They window-shop at a wedding store and Gav thought-bubbles: "I'll never wear a wedding dress."
  
  
• SanWanna is gossiping to Roman, Hilario and the mom about Rod's move into the guest bedroom. "Stop gossiping, stop meddling, and stop wearing the Missus's perfume." Roman warns Hilario: "I know you're going out with SanWanna, don't let it affect your work." The oversexed vixen, she grabs Hilario again! Is this subplot ever going to amount to anything?
  
  
• Aaron is kissing his secretary. She is wearing a spandex business suit, I didn't know you could buy those!
  
  Phone rings, it's Minerva with the latest gossip about Rod.
  
  Then Aaron fires the secretary. Then a guy named Videgaray does an 'as you know' with Aaron: "Aaron, as you know, you've fired four secretaries in a month." "None of them meet my standards of being intelligent, competent, able to divine my every intention, and incredibly attractive."
  
  Then they discuss the fact that Isadora's father, owner of the textile business, is in terrible financial difficulty. Aaron figures this will be useful information.
  
  Minerva and Aaron go to Granny's house (Sofia is there too) and thoroughly rat out Rodrigo. Granny is aghast: Rod loves a fieldworker who was also a whore in Europe, and he wants to divorce his wife? Never!
  
  Aaron is deputized to call Rod and get him back to Mexico City on some business pretext. Granny says "if he divorces, it puts all our fortunes in jeopardy." (I don't know why.) They also discuss the Duarte's financial difficulties.
  
  Later Granny thought-bubbles to her dead husband Amador: "Oh no, why this same cruel story again? I know that long ago a jimadora stole your affections, and now your grandson too!"
  
  
• Isadora asks Hilario to get her a horse. He waves her past Rodrigo's horse, saying it's half wild, but while he's off getting her a more suitable one, she's up on the bronco and away.
  
  Hilario gets his dad and they pursue in the truck. They see the horse galloping off and find Isadora on the ground with a picturesque little streak of blood on her forehead. They carry her home and get the doctor.
  
  When the doctor is feeling her robust pulse, Isa's eyes snap open. She tells him she faked the whole thing and wants him, the doctor, to tell everybody she's seriously hurt. "But I'm an actual real doctor!" he splutters. She holds cash in front of his face and it clears his conscience. He tells everybody she's quite hurt and Rod is summoned home from his supremely stupid project.
  
  Isa pirouettes in front of the mirror thinking: "My false accident will put you in my power!" Minerva and Aaron show up. Trophy Whore Barbie hops back into bed, assumes a sickly expression, and complains: "You guys deceived me, you told me I was the first woman in his life, but it wasn't true, there was Gaviota!" Aaron: "It took us all by surprise." They promise to help her.
  
  
• We conclude with Gaviota pouring over a bunch of old books - "my treasures" - in the dark apartment. She plans to study accounting and business and eventually be a corporate executive. (Hey, I just recap, I didn't invent this stuff.)
  
  Her mom asks for a song but Gav says, "No, singing reminds me of the mezcalaras and they remind me of Rodrigo and his betrayal. Part of my heart is dead and until that feeling passes I can't sing."

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