Caray, Caray!

Castulo has followed Jaime to Flor's hideout. "You won't escape me now," he mutters. Jaime and Flor take off on Jaime's horse with Castulo in hot pursuit.

Castulo catches up with them and orders Jaime off his horse at gunpoint. Jaime grabs Castulo's horse while Flor escapes. Jaime's lucky, Castulo merely bonks him on the head with his gun instead of shooting him in the chest like he did that other guy. Castulo gallops after Flor. I wish Castulo weren't the rapist because I'm thinking he looks mighty fine on that horse of his, not to mention the camera keeps doing long butt shots of him. Ah well, he's bad, he'll probably get worse before the night's out, and he'll eventually get killed so I might as well look elsewhere.

Thelma, fwapping her riding crop, congratulates herself in front of Orlando for her plan to trap Flor. Divide and conquer, she says, is the way to get the servants to accuse each other of betrayal. They'll try to save Flor and Castulo will know what to do.

Santos tells Rosa he's going to talk to Soledad. Rosita is to keep Tonki with her.

Vera and Ifigenia figure out that Thelma and Castulo set a trap to find Flor through Jaime. Vera sends Ifigenia off to find Jaime.

Thelma brandishes her riding crop and congratulates herself in front of the Singing Aunt. Thelma says her greatest wish is that when Emilio returns Flor will be dead. Auntie looks more than a little concerned, "And what's going to happen with Orlando?" Thelma says the estupido has her in his hands. Her eyes dart around the room like a viper's.

Cañaveral Montellano - Don Loco interrogates a couple of the workers about Genaro, the guy who tried to rob and kill him. They say they saw Genaro talking to Señor Hugo in the cantina. There was something going on between them because they spoke in low voices.

Santos finds Jaime sprawled on the ground. Jaime tells him what happened and Santos rides off after Flor and Castulo. I'm starting to get confused, not to mention exhausted, with all this running and riding around.

Don Loco races through the cane fields on his horse and says that Hugo has some explaining to do. A commenter mentioned that when this guy rides he keeps yanking the horse's head up. Not being a rider I never noticed it but it's true, he keeps yanking, yanking, yanking. If I were the horse I'd wipe that jerk off on the nearest branch.

Ciudad de Puebla - Emilio and Angel are in the specialist Doctor's office. The new doctor guarantees that by means of "high tech methods" they have deciphered the nature of the virus that affects Angel's lungs. The Valtierra brothers are skeptical. It's not that they don't believe the good Dr., it's just that they don't want to get their hopes up. None of that, the doc says, they must have faith that they'll find a cure, but Angel must keep a positive attitude for good measure. "Hear that?" says Emilio, "We'll cure you and you can get married to the woman who still loves me and doesn't have a clue that we are arranging her future for her." Maybe not those exact words.

Some young guy whom we haven't seen before says to an old guy "You're getting married uncle? At your age? I'm worried that you're marrying an opportunist who only wants your money." OK, so the old dude is Celso, Coral's sugar daddy. Celso asks Dario (the nephew) since when has he cared about his welfare? He only visits him once a year if that. Celso suggests that Dario himself is only interested in the inheritance. Dario acts deeply offended.

Coral arrives and "Don Celso" kisses her and introduces her as his future wife. Dario's mouth does funny things; I can't tell if he hates Coral, if he's thinking "I want me some of that sweet thang" or both.

Santos rides around aimlessly looking for Castulo and Flor.

Adela visits Luba in the cave. She tells Luba to be careful of Sergio, he's that one that shot the engineer. Luba gets her mean look on and says, "If that killer shows up I know how to frighten him."

Whoa...cut to a close up of Alphonsina's bulging breasticles. She pokes 'em out in front of Don Loco as he rides by, but Don Loco says he has some business with Hugo and can't talk. After he rides off she mumbles, "The devil take you. What happened? How has Hugo not managed to kill you?"

Thelma looks at her stomach in the mirror, "The more I grow the worse I look." More like the crazier and meaner she gets the worse she looks. Also, notice how even Orlando, who used to sniff around Thelma ad nauseum, can hardly stand the skank?

Don Loco bursts into Hugo's office. It always cracks me up, that split second when his head is right there next to the life size portrait of himself. He takes out the account books and starts looking through them.

Castulo and Flor are riding on his horse. She manages to struggle free but he jumps on her and pins her to the ground. He says he'd like nothing better than to spend a little time with her, heh heh.

Castulo doesn't get far during the commercial break. Flor yells "Let me go let me go!" Suddenly a rope is thrown around Castulo and he is dragged off of Flor. Can it be???

Yes, it's Santos the wimp! He knows how to lasso! He's on his white horse and he drags Castulo around behind him. But wait, what the??? He actually allows Castulo to stand up and get free. Santos you magnificent dumbass, you complete and utter asshat! You're a wimp and now Castulo's going to kick your skinny behind.

They grapple while Flor whimpers. Of course Castulo immediately knocks Santos out, practically with his pinkie. Castulo grabs Flor and threatens "Do you want to go with me or shall I kill him right now?"

Emilio and Angel are back at their place and encouraged by the good news. For some reason Emilio plans to write a letter to Thelma. Angel says "Tell her to take care of Flor." Oh, the bitch is taking care of Flor all right.

Mexico City - At the hospital Dr. Love tickles Mariana's tootsies with a little brush. He's testing her reflexes, or torturing her, or satistying his foot fetish. Who knows? Mariana moves her foot! Dr. Love is thrilled. OK, foot fetish it is. He says if she keeps exercising she'll be the old Mariana in no time. Would that be the old Mariana who loved Jose? Or maybe the old suicidal Mariana? Her eyes bulge out and a large tear rolls down her face.

Santos wakes up, "Flor, Flor! Damn that Castulo." He ineffectually staggers off into the woods.

Hugo walks into his office to find Don Loco rummaging through the account books. Don Loco says he's looking for the list of peons on the payroll. Where in the devil is it?

Castulo hauls Flor into the great room of La Rinconada where Thelma and her riding crop await. Flor says Thelma has no right to keep her there by force. Don Maximo arrives, sees Flor and smiles, "so you came back, eh?" "Not voluntarily," she snaps, hands on hips. Don Max shrugs and walks off. He's not going to get involved with these crazy women.

Flor tells Thelma not to blame Jaime or anyone else, she escaped on her own. Thelma tries to slap Flor but Flor grabs Thelma's arm. Nice one Flor! She yells "Don't even think of hitting me!" Thelma scowls and backs down.

Angel and Emilio have a stupid conversation about Emilio's relationship with Coral. Emilio wants to convince Angel that he feels nothing for Alina, but since Emilio is completely expressionless throughout the conversation who knows what he thinks?

Thelma calls all the servants out to the great room so she can accuse them of betrayal. Flor again insists she left on her own with nobody's help. "This is how I treat the treasonous," Thelma yells and THWAK!! hits Jaime across the face with her crop, leaving a big gash on his face. Vera, Jaime and Flor are triple impactada.

Well, Thelma has caused quite the uproar. Flor grabs the crop and tells Thelma not to hit others when it's Flor she wants to beat. Doesn't Thelma have the guts to deal with her directly? "Why," Thelma taunts, "so you can play the victim and run to Emilio's arms?" Castulo arrives and says the truck that Thelma ordered is ready. Castulo and Thelma grab Flor and rush out. Singing Auntie stands, hand over her mouth, horrified at the wretched behavior of her niece.

Adela brings a tray of food to Soledad while Sergio is on guard. The two women speak loudly and clearly while Sergio eavesdrops from behind the door. "DID YOU SEE LUBA?" enunciates Soledad. "YES, EVERYTHING IS FINE," answers Adela slowly, with perfect diction. Soledad clears her throat, "AHEM, AND HOW IS...?" Adela shooshes Soledad but it's too late. Sergio mutters "Aha, that witch has something to do with the enginer."

Castulo and Thelma drag Flor to El Meson de Edelmira.

Hugo asks Don Loco why didn't he just ask to see the payroll instead of messing up his office? He whips it out of a filing cabinet. Loco peruses it and sees the name he's looking for. He asks Hugo why he lied about firing the drunk who tried to kill him. His name is still on the last day's payroll.

Hugo makes up some lame excuse about not wanting Don Loco to know he loaned the poor sap money. No problem, says Loco, he'll recoup the sum from Hugo's salary, but what he wants to know is were they friends? And don't lie because the truth always comes out! Oh silly Don Loco, you wouldn't know the truth if you captured it and locked it in a bedroom and a barn for the past three years.

Thelma tells Flor she'll stay at El Meson or she (Thelma) will take it out on the servants who are Flor's friends. Thelma goes through the list of why she hates Flor. Same old same old.

Gaspar sits by the river. Nora walks by with a bucket. She's still mad at Gaspar and makes some crack that as long as there are worms (Gaspar?) in the water she's not going in. Gaspar jumps up, happy to see her. He asks her if she's going swimming and tries to kiss her. She says after he put the horns on her? No way! She rushes off while Gaspar stands there with chicken butt lips and closed eyes. "You're not even going to invite me to have some of your delicious little tamales? Nora? Nora?" But Nora has gone. Gaspar kicks the dirt and exclaims at his bad luck. (I got the feeling this conversation was full of double-entendres but I couldn't understand it well enough to say for sure.)

Thelma waits in Edelmira's office. She goes through Ed's jewelry and is surprised that it's real gold. I'll bet she's the kind of guest who would go through your medicine cabinet too.

Hugo tells Don Loco he'll tell him the truth about Genaro, but Loco's not going to like it. His wife Soledad got Genaro to agree to kill Don Loco. Hugo says Genaro was a friend of Jose Gomez, that's how Soledad was able to put Genaro up to killing Don Loco. Loco is impactado. This lie is really going to set Don Loco off.

Luba tries to wake Elias but when he opens his eyes she looks all fuzzy. Sergio storms into the cave looking for "the engineer." Luba turns around slowly, hands on hips, and glares at Sergio like if he says anything to piss her off she'll turn him into a wart on a toad's backside.

While they wait outside for Thelma, Castulo tells Flor he'll help her escape if she'll "be obliging" to him. She slaps him and he scowls. Bluto in a cowboy hat.

Edelmira tells Thelma no thanks, Flor was nothing but trouble before. Most of the guys respected Flor too much to try to manhandle her. Thelma says Flor could be Ed's maid, that would make Don Loco very happy. Edelmira pooches her lips and boobs out at Thelma and says "OK, I know how to take care of her."

Sergio tries to pull Elias off the bed. Luba grabs her big old knife and finally does something besides stick it into her table. She holds it to Sergio's throat and threatens, "There are nights of pains, day of bitterness, the demons are loose and will snatch your soul." Ooh, good one Luba.

But Sergio breaks free and pushes Luba out of the way. She hits her head and falls to the ground. Where are Tonki and Gaspar when we need them?

Dr. Love excitedly tells another cute Dr. about Mariana's reaction. The cute Dr. advises Dr. Love not to get prematurely excited. It could have been an involuntary spasm that means nothing. Dr. Love is muy impactado. Also, he probably already told Mariana she is on her way to a full recovery which would be yet another lie from his worthless lips.

Sergio drags a groaning Elias out of bed. Gaspar arrives! He sees Sergio with Elias, sees Luba, does a quick suss-up, beats Sergio up and throws him out. Poor Elias has reeled and toppled, but Gaspar runs to Luba, "Mama! Mama!"

Loco tells Hugo never to keep any secrets from him ever again, even to protect him. Oh, and tell Alfonsina to get ready because they're leaving in the morning. Hugo asks "She agreed to go with you that easily? I thought she would be more pig-headed about leaving." I didn't understand what Don Loco said to Hugo, something about Alfonsina making him smile and tickling him? (Soy risueño y me hacen cosquillas.) Well, whatever, it made Hugo scowl and give the scary Gasca face.

Gaspar wants to go right out and get Sergio, but Luba tells him to calm down. Sergio will return to get Elias so all they have to do is wait. She pulls out a brown bottle and says "He'll wish he were dead rather than this." Wow, Luba is fantastic tonight.

Flor tells Edelmira that she'll escape and Ed can't stop her. Edelmira tells Flor this time she's not there for the customers, but to be Ed's maid.

Castulo comes into Don Max's room to apologize for messing with Rosita, he didn't mean anything personal against the patron. Max punches Castulo in the face and calls him an imbecil. He says Castulo incurred a big debt with him and he still wants to marry that girl even though she's used goods. "However I won't maintain your child," Don Max commands, "I want you to be in charge of Rosita losing your kid." Holy crap, what a jerk!

Vera is in the kitchen tending to the wounded servants. Thelma bursts in with her crop. If they try to help Flor she'll have them arrested for stealing. They'd better do as she says or they'll pay dearly. Close up of Jaime's gigantic face welts.

Don Loco tells Alfonsina to get ready. They have to leave because he needs to see his sister in Mexico City. Alfonsina tries to stall for time but Loco has made up his mind. Sex first, then pack the bags!

Thelma lies to Orlando, she says she has no idea where Flor is. Nobody knows. Auntie offers him a drink and a song to calm his nerves. "No thanks!" he says, getting rid of her. He looks around and we can see his cogs and sprockets working overtime. Bless him for that.

Emilio and his military buddies toast Angel's upcoming marriage to Alina and their eventual return to Sierra Escondida. Alina, of course, still has no idea that this marriage is in the works.

Cut to Alina crying (what else) in her old bedroom at El Meson. Granillo comes in and says he will look after her.

Orlando eavesdrops at Thelma's bedroom door, open of course, while Thelma tells her auntie of her plans of vengeance against Flor. "What vengeance would that be?" asks Orlando. Thelma manages to convince him she really doesn't know where Flor is. Maybe in San Mateo? She urges him to look for Flor there.

Rosita, tired of waiting in a safe place with Tonki, decides to go to La Rinconada, home of her supposed rapist, to ask Vera about Flor and Santos.

Things start to speed up about now:

Closeup of Alfonsina's naked back. Of course Don Loco is fully dressed so we know they just had sex. He takes a puff of his cigar...

...Cut to Macario cackling wildly and throwing stuff into his fire, "Nagual salt of the shade, this is your night, drag yourself to the white woman's dreams and mess with her tranquility. Insert yourself in her thoughts (cut to Thelma's anguished sleep), give her fears, suffering and sadness. Ha ha ha!" He throws more incendiary stuff on the fire for a big flare-up.

Thelma cries in her sleep, her auntie wakes her up but she can still hear Macario's curses and cackling. She looks down at herself, touches her humid zones and pulls her hand up. It's covered in blood!

Cut back to Thelma alone in bed. "It was another nightmare," she gasps. "What's happening to me? I'm going crazy, I've got to get out of here!"

Rosita stands on the edge of a cliff. Castulo rides up behind her. Tonki, why aren't you barking?? Castulo frightens Rosita and pushes her off the cliff. She rolls down the hill and hits her stomach on a rock. She weeps in pain as Castulo sits astride his horse high above her in the darkness. Tonki leaps down the hill and tries to wake her.

Castulo, may you go straight to hell and may your nether regions be food for the coyotes for all eternity!

Que mala pata = what bad luck
rejego/a = pigheaded
hacer cosquillas = to tickle

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