Caray, Caray!

Part two is now added and posted below, thanks for your patience.

Esmeralda is found in the woods by Capt. Pizarro. She tells him that she started off for a walk with her horse and at some point he got scared and ran away. She’s been wandering around lost for hours. Pizarro tells her that he knows she is lying. He knows that she had something to do with the gypsies attacking Callao Prison and freeing Sara Kali. At the mention of her mother’s name, Esme seems shocked, but covers right away. She tells Piza that she has no idea what he is talking about. Piza doesn’t back up an inch, in fact he pushes forward. He demands that Esme tell him where her mother is hiding. He tells her that all who helped SK escape will be punished by death. He adds that includes her and pulls out his sword and puts the tip to her neck. Now, tell me where your mother is hiding.

Sara Kali is sitting along a pathway with the gypsies, still not hiding too well. She is trying to tell them that she should turn herself into Montero in order to free the women he has taken as prisoner. Laisha likes the idea. Renzo and Javier don’t. Renzo tells SK that they all are willing to risk themselves for the queen, the women too. Laisha attempts to protest but Renzo stops her. Just then Jonas and some other gypsies find them (because they are hanging out in the open, not concerned with being found by Monty’s men). Jonas tells them he’s glad he found them, he was worried about them—ulcer number one for the episode. He and Renzo rehash Esme running off as a decoy for the bounty hunters. They rehash a little about Laisha being released to bring the gypsy men a message. Jonas isn’t too concerned about the women and he tells SK there is no need for her to turn herself into Monty. He’s got some men in place who will rescue the women, meanwhile their most important task is to find Esme. They agree that some will take SK into hiding and the rest will look for Esme. Immediately Renzo jumps into the search party camp. SK pulls Renzo aside and asks him to find Esme and to take care of her. She also tells him to remind Esme that the necklace she is wearing is all of SK’s fortune.

Diego is still in the cave, asleep in the bed. Padre Tomas is watching over him. Diego hears Beyonce’s “Amor Gitano” and has a dream of a dancing woman. She’s dancing in a flamenco style, and we never see her face. By all indications it looks like Esme. D wakes up and PT reintroduces himself. D is still confused and wants to know where he is. PT tells him they are in a cave. He explains that they are hiding because there is a powerful person who has accused D of doing something he didn’t do. PT fills D in on a little bit of his personal stats---his name, who his father is, etc. Diego wants to know more—is he married, does he have children. PT decides it is best to avoid all that right now. He tells D to rest and they’ll get to all that later. Diego tells PT about his dream and how he felt some peace having they dream woman near. PT mumbles something about Esme and how he hopes she is safe.

Mariangel and Fernando are struggling over the gun. Mangle is telling him to let go of it. You would think FS would have learned that fighting over a loaded gun is dangerous, but I guess it is a lesson he hasn’t quite learned. Mangle is able to yank it away from FS and she demands to know why he was trying to kill himself, what led him to this point. There is some honest concern here on her part, I didn’t think she was capable of caring for someone other than herself. Fernando tells her that he is responsible for killing the woman that he loves. Mangle says something about that damn woman, Maria Pia. FS says he doesn’t deserve to live and Mangle replies that MP isn’t worth it. FS tells her that she cannot understand, she has never loved like he has loved Maria Pia. He goes on about how happy he was to get her back and how they were going to finally be together when MP found out his secrets. Mangle asks what secrets, but FS ignores her. He goes on about how now MP looks at him with hate and he starts to cry. Mangle tells him that MP is not worth any of his tears. FS looks at her softly and says that he loves her and goes to give his daughter a hug. NOW give me the GUN, he demands. They start to struggle all over again for the gun. It accidentally goes off, but doesn’t hit anyone. The housekeeping staff runs into the room, screaming. Father and daughter still struggle over the gun. Several of Fernando’s soldiers come running into the room and they are able to subdue him and break up the struggle.

Alejandro and Juan are still watching the de la Vega hacienda. Al rehashes to Juan about how Fernando had mistreated the Indians in the past. He tells Juan that he overlooked that, trying not to judge his friend too harshly. Al wants to know why FS didn’t tell him about killing Regina---I think that’s pretty obvious, how do you tell your best friend that you murdered his wife and all her family. I mean how do you start that conversation? Al tells Juan that he needs to go to the city. Juan warns him that Monty has it out for Al and would be looking for him. Al doesn’t care, he needs to talk to Fernando.
Tobias has been released from prison. He is getting a massage from Catalina. They rehash how Piza wants Tobi to impersonate Zorro. Tobi is concerned that this could be dangerous.

Padre Tomas packs up some of Zorro’s things. He says to himself that Zorro will have to go away for awhile and how the city will miss him. Diego wakes up. PT tells him that he’s got to go get some supplies and check on things. He leaves Diego alone. Diego finds Tornado and admires the horse, but doesn’t realize that T belongs to him.

Piza tells Esme he’s taking her to prison. She hauls off and smacks him. Piza starts to choke her and suddenly Renzo shows up. He and Piza spar. Piza uses his sword and Renzo avoids any hits with his acrobatic abilities. Renzo is able to get Piza to stick the sword into a tree, but he gets too close and Piza is able to elbow him in the face.

Outside the Sanchez home, Al leaves Juan to be on the look out. Oh yeah, and by the way, can I borrow your gun Juan? (This leaves Juan defenseless in case something were to happen, but Al doesn’t at all seem concerned about his employee.) Al knocks down some soldiers at the door of the house, they actually fall down like bowling pins, it made me laugh. He finds Mangle an apologizes to her for entering the house this way. She tells him that everyone is nuts. Now we see Fernando across the room. He is sitting in a chair, staring out into space. His hands are tied up. Al asks why Fernando is like this. Mangle says he went crazy, he wanted to die. She asks Al to leave, but he wants to know if she has any idea where Almudena, Maria Pia, or Diego can be found. She answers that she has no idea about Diego, but the women are at the doctor/dentist/barber/gravedigger’s. She fills Al in on Maria Pia being the patient, but tells him that she has no details.

Maria Pia is awake and talking to Dena. She tells Dena that she would have forgiven Fernando for anything, except a lie. They rehash the almost wedding & the not dead previous wife and Dena apologizes for stopping the nuptials. MP tells her that it wasn’t her fault. MP mumbles some more….she tells Dena that FS isn’t bad in the bottom of his heart. She asks Dena to forgive Fernando and to take care of him.

Esme attempts to help Renzo. She picks up a large stick and tries to knock Piza on his block. No success, Piza is able to knock Renzo down and he repeatedly kicks him. Esme tells him that’s enough, but of course Piza doesn’t listen. Two soldiers arrive on horseback. Things look pretty bad for Esme and Renzo.

Al finds the doctor and asks after Maria Pia. The doctor tells him that things don’t look so good, but it appears that the gunshot was an accident (how he knows this, I don’t know---perhaps we can add forensic specialist to his list of careers). The bullet was in a vital area and if he were to operate she’d lose a lot of blood and would most likely die. Anyway, it looks pretty serious and they should probably start getting ready for the funeral. Al gets a little ticked at the doctor, he tells him that he should be more concerned about his patients’ lives then he is about getting ready for funerals. Al goes in the room, there is a coffin leaning against the wall. He hugs Dena and she rehashes the foiled elopement.

Bernardo and Yumali are still at the de la Vega’s gathering arms. He tells/signs to Yumi that he wants to look for Diego. She says go ahead.

Dolores and SAM are looking out their prison window, they see Esme and Renzo being taken into the prison. Dolo is worried about Diego and Al (ulcer 2), but doesn’t seem overly concerned about Esme (if she only knew that Esme was carrying her precious Diego’s child, then she might show a little more concern). SAM tells her that with martial law, now Monty can do anything he wants.

Piza finds Auggie and Manny. He’s going to give them another shot at proving themselves. They will be responsible for guarding the two new prisoners. Piza goes to talk to Esme, he tells her that Monty is out of town. Piza warns her that he will get the info he wants, even if he has to use the torture chamber as a means to getting it.

PART TWO

Al and Maria Pia talk. Al reminisces about their childhood with their parents---ahhh happy times. Al tells his sister that she cannot leave him and that as a de la Vega she must fight to the end, to never give up (at this point I was thinking to myself that in a way, death is an end, so possibly not the advice he’s looking to give). Al tells MP that he has to leave, but he insists that he’ll see her again. He tells Dena to stay, that he has to go fight Monty and then he tells her that he doesn’t deserve her, he loves her, but he isn’t deserving (talk about a bit of an understatement). They tell each other to be careful and Al tells Dena that he’ll come for her as soon as he can (so let’s see, he’s leaving the wife behind, but will be taking the mistress to battle with him, seems pretty strange to me). The couple kisses goodbye.

In prison, Esme worries (ulcer-3), she says to Renzo that she is concerned for her unborn son, that his life is in danger. Oh yeah, I believe that Pizarro mentioned something earlier in the episode about cutting the baby out of her, what a nice guy. Renzo tries to console her, that Monty won’t let anything happen to his son. Esme decides it is ‘to tell the truth’ time and tells Renzo that the baby isn’t Monty’s, it’s Diego’s. For some reason, this seems to shock Renzo…so I guess it was less shocking to think that she loved one man, married another and then immediately got with child with the man she married….somehow I think the Diego pregnancy makes more sense, but then again I’m in the viewing audience.

Bernardo finds Diego. They have a little bit of a communication problem, as amnesiatic Diego doesn’t understand Bernie’s signs. He tells Bernie to write it down. Bernie fills Diego in on what kind of man he used to be…..one who loved poetry and women. He was an attorney and abhors violence. In fact, he doesn’t even know how to use a sword. This news bums Diego out. He calls himself a loser with a capital “L”. I think Bernie was wise in trying to keep Diego from acting in a manner inconsistent with the public image of Diego de la Vega, but I wonder if this will actually lead to more problems (cue foreshadowing music, and of course know that I’ve seen previews for tonight’s episode).

Olmos finds Mangle. She asks him why he left her alone and she fills him in on FS’s attempt at committing suicide. Mangle explains why Fernando is restrained and she blames Maria Pia for the whole thing. Meanwhile, Fernando has absolutely no reaction, he’s just sitting in the chair staring off into Lord knows where. WOW, another great performance, IMHO. Mangle decides that Olmos is like ask Jeeves, she wants to know if Fernando is going to recuperate. Olmos doesn’t give a committed answer. Mangle begs FS to get better and return to her, otherwise she’s alone. Olmos reminds her that she still has him, and Mangle doesn’t laugh.

The gypsies are ambushed and at first all we see are the assailants’ rifles. Javier gets shot, it looks like only in the shoulder, so he should be able to recover I would think. Jonas gets everyone to head for the trees. Two of the gitanos carry Sara Kali (I’d think this would make her more of a target for shooting practice). We are shown that the shots are coming from two soldiers who happened upon the gypsies. One says he’ll hold down the fire, the other should go for help.

Hermana Carola is talking to Padre Tomas who’s stopped off at the Church. They rehash what’s going on with Sister Suplicios/ Nutty Nun and how the Cardinal has called in a man to complete an exorcism. In the almost nunnery, Nutty is questioning who this man is standing beside her bed. Brother Aaron doesn’t answer, but starts to chant something and begins to sprinkle holy water. Camba is watching from a hiding spot. NN demands that BA look at her, she starts to thrash in the bed and it almost looks like she’s freed herself from her restraints, but I’m not sure. She demands again that he look at her, and then she starts to use the creepy voice, “look at me” and then “save your soul Aaron” Meanwhile, if hiding Camba could speak, I’m sure he would say he’s worried since he’s got the worried face on (ulcer-4).

The doctor/dentist/barber/gravedigger goes to see Fernando. He tells FS that there has been a miracle, since we don’t know what hat he is currently wearing, it is anyone’s guess to what kind of miracle he’s referring----doctor= Maria Pia has had a recovery, dentist= Novocain has been invented, barber= the mullet has gone out of style (not that it ever WAS in style), or gravedigger= pine is on sale so he can make a fortune off of his coffin sales.

Yumi meets up with Al. She gives him his uniform. He tells her it is time for justice and now he is going to show Montero what kind of soldier he used to be….makes me wonder if he’s going to be like those guys who go back and put on their football uniforms from high school. Will it be too tight, with gaps at the buttons? Will Al think he’s still operating at the same level he was years before and push himself too hard and end up with some sort of groin injury (poor Yumi, if that happens)?

Montero has returned and is paying a little visit to the little woman in prison. She acts all happy to see him, she even gives him a hug. Esme cries to Monty about how terribly Piza has treated her, she goes on about how she has no idea what he’s accusing her of doing, etc. Monty says yes, Piza should be reprimanded for not following orders. He asks Esme if she would like to know what his orders were, and he goes ahead and tells her that Piza was suppose to kill her, so he will be punished. END OF EPISODE/ Final ulcer count is 4.

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