Caray, Caray!

We open with our missing Marfil calling Andres for help. She wants him to come to the convent right away.

Nancy is showing Lala an article in the paper about the big beso. The paper has turned the photograph around so it looks like Diana and Max are standing up instead of his having trapped her on the ground. The headline reads: Enemies in business are lovers in real life. She is having an affair behind the back of her husband. Max is also a married man. Lala tells Nancy to hide it from Diego at all costs--throw it in the trash. Does anyone want to bet that Diego will find out anyway?

Diana is getting ready for work. Lala comes in to talk about the picture. You know, she says, you are like my daughter, but why do you do this to Diego? If you don't love him, do you have to humiliate him? Diana asks how she knows, and Lala tells her about the newspaper. I guess Diana hasn't seen it yet. Diana begs her not to tell Diego. Lala says she threw away the paper, but reiterates her question about what Diana is doing to make her son suffer. Diego doesn't believe Diana.

Pancho is looking for football scores and he sees the picture. He says he's going to tell Diego right away. Let's hope he puts on his shirt before leaving the house.

Lala and Diana continue their discussion. Diana swears she is not cheating. Lala asks if the photo is a montage. Diana explains that Max trapped her and took advantage (aprovechar).
Lala reiterates that Diego won't believe her, and he is humiliated, being a pobre prostrate, bedridden and defenseless invalid. It's terrible that he still has hopes.

Diana says she is sorry that she could not love Diego. Lala says it's better that she not make him suffer--he's jealous and apt to do something crazy. Diana flashes back to her hubby's death threat.

Larry is at Pilar's bedside. Pilar is asleep, and Dr. Rene is trying to offer words of wisdom. He is dubious that Gaby could have pushed Pilar. Larry says that Yolanda said that too. But "I don't know what to think," he says, nicely summing up his general intellectual abilities.
Rene says he shouldn't blame Gaby. Just then, Pilar wakes up and thanks him for coming. She needs everyone's support at this terrible time.

Pancho is showing Wife #2, better known as Paola, the picture of the big beso. Paola can't believe he's going to show Diego. It's my brother, he says, he has to do it. But Max is her brother--and she's worried. Pancho declares again that he's muy macho, and no woman is going to make a laughingstock of the Brothers Blank (I don't think we know their last name!).
Pancho leaves, and Paola quickly calls Max to warn him. Dimwit Drip laughs and is glad to hear of the picture. Paola asks why he kissed Diana. Oh, the motivation is quite rational: to make Diego mad, because he assumed the paternity of my son. I want him to suffer. She tells him to take care, because Pancholon is on the warpath.
Good, says Max. Diego will learn to suffer for having tried to pass as the father of his son. He took everything from me (despojar).

Over at the fabrica, Caramelo is arranging her jefa's desk--in a pleated white miniskirt and a maroon blouse. Caramelo's wardrobe is slightly more modest now, but she's sticking to the microminis. Might I point out that a white skirt with a dark shirt is always a bad idea . . .
Emilio says she certainly came in early after that late night. Caramelo says she's very reliable (cumplidora). How'd he like the party? Phenomenal, no? He says that he doesn't understand Max and Diana--they act like children, with their crazy love-hate relationship. Caramelo is laughing about Camila, but then realizes her gaffe, as Emilio looks hurt--after all, that MDH is his sister . . . I also wonder about Emilio's hair. Why doesn't he get a haircut? He is always dressed in a nice suit, but his hair hangs down three inches over his collar in a greasy flip. This is a very misguided style.

Yolanda is talking to Max about Larry. He's being very mature about the loss of the baby. But she does not trust Pilar. She's afraid he'll marry her anyway now. Max thinks Larry will get rid of Pilar now, but Yolanda says that no, Pilar is making herself the big victim to manipulate Larry.

Back at the factory, Emilio is now laughing at his sister's situation. Caramelo is relieved. Now he looks serious. He wants to ask her something. Please don't stop smiling--your smile is too pretty.

Nancy lets Pancho in. She notices he's brandishing a newspaper, and she's worried. Pancho goes to the pool, where Diego still wants his bro to give him a massage. I'm finding that idea grosser and grosser. Thankfully for us,Pancholon does too. He wants his brother to open his eyes and divorce his cheating wife. If you don't do it, I'll kill Max. He wants Diego to stop wearing horns.

Over at Iggy's, he's pacing back and forth and making Camila crazy. He's worried about tomorrow, when he will have his medical license hearing. (Odd, we haven't heard about that storyline for a while.)
Silvia barges in with guess what--yes, the same newspaper. And an orange wig.

Isabel brings breakfast to Andres, but he is preoccupied--with revenge! He tells how he is going to make Debora and Iggy pay!

Back at Iggy's they all exclaim over the photo. Somehow, Iggy sees this as a great opportunity to get back at everyone. He is hoping that Marfil will pull the eyes out of "that nurse." Camila won't have to lift a finger to get Maxi Maxi back, I think is the idea.

Diego is now seething: Diana didn't tell him that Max was at the coctel. Pancho repeats that he must get divorced. No way, that would make her happy, and she'd run right to Max. Never! Always the gentleman, Pancho wants Diego to give her a beating.

Diana and Caramelo talk about keeping the paper from Diego. Too late.

Larry and Rene talk about how Larry should forget his trouble and concentrate on his career. Rene says Lunkhead is young and can have more children. But Lunkhead remembers that Gaby doesn't want anything to do with him, and Pilar can't have children. Oh, well.

Max barges into the office. Did I mention that he is wearing an outfit coordinated with Caramelo's? Yes, white pants and maroon shirt. And an ugly bluish sweater underneath. I think this is a new blue sweater. Max tells Diana that he likes the factory, he likes walking the hallways (pasillos) and seeing the workers (obreros), and he wants to return! I don't think he even worked one day at the new job he got with the competitors.

What is Maxi's brilliant motivation: He wants to make sure that the mother of his son is not cheating with all those single men who are buzzing around her gorgeous glassy-eyed presence, especially that MDH Alvaro Ferrer. If she agrees to his conditions, he won't go to court. He wants visitation and a job at the factory.

Iggy goes over to the homeless shelter and greets "Marfil." Well, you've been very distant since we came back, he says. Maybe you're Debora. No, I'm Marfil, she responds, toning down the usual shriek just a bit. Iggy says he wants to show her a very interesting photo, but of course, if she's too busy . . . Now she's interested. Look, Max and your friend Diana are kissing. Uh-oh, that lousy piece of lint (pelusa), she says. That nurse still wants to steal my husband. Debora starts trying to shred the paper while her shrieking rises in volume. It appears that she might just take off . . .She swears that she will destroy Diana.

Back at the convent, our favorite actress has changed into her chaste Marfil nightgown and removed her makeup. She's fuming about getting back at Iggy and her sister. Just then, Mom Superior comes in. She asks Marfil if she knows Diana, who was also there after the plane crash. Yes, of course, they were friends. Oh, then you'll be glad to know there was a man looking for her here--he was very much in love--his name was Max. (Slowly I turn, step by step, inch by inch . . .)

Speaking of the white-shoed wonder--he's still camped out in front of Diana's desk, continuing the fight over Alvaro Ferrer. She wants him to stop watching her--the only one who should watch her is her husband. She's not Max's property. Finally, she agrees he can have his old job back. Hasta manana, boss, he says. Then he thought bubbles: Good, now I can be near her every day and begin to win her back.

Iggy has returned from his mission and rehashes with Camila and Silvia. He bets that "Marfil" is right now on the way to the factory to start trouble.

Indeed, she steps off the elevator and demands to see Diana. Come out, you husband stealer, and show your face. Everyone tries to get her to calm down, and Emilio has to hold her back. She demands to know how Diana could kiss her husband in public. After they throw her out, Diana tells Beatriz to warn security not to let her in again.

Gaby, Diana, and Caramelo arrive home from work. Diego demands that they leave him alone with his wife. Diana says she has to bathe the baby and doesn't have time to talk.
He says she's not going anywhere. The girls leave, with Caramelo's tush visible beneath the edge of the skirt. Diana crosses her arms and tries to look imperious.

Diego wants to know why she didn't tell him Max was at the coctel. Gee, I don't know--because you are a raving lunatic? He begins to announce his hate for her. All his love has turned to hate. She says that she knew a marriage without love would not work. She reaches out for him, but he says don't touch me. I thought you were a decent girl, but you're a flirting qualquiera. I'm just a poor crippled cuckold. I hate you! I will make you suffer as I have.

Max comes home, and "Marfil" lambastes him for kissing that piece of lint. He tells her to cut the c--p, because everyone knows they are separated. Tomorrow, he says, he is going back to work at the factory.

Cut to another montage of city scenes with Karen's favorite helicopter shadow.

It's morning at the factory, and Max barges into Diana's office wearing his best lemon-sucking smirk and--you guessed it, fans--a new periwinkle blue sweater. Diana is wearing a very businesslike gold lame getup. But no obi today, surprisingly.

Diana tries to get him to stop barging in from one door--he has to come in the other door. It's not clear what the difference is or how he would get to the back door. He says he'll go wherever he wants. He then reports that he has already founds some errors in some invoices for Barcelona. She thanks him and dismisses him. Yes, jefa, con permiso. (Wow, it's just like Fernando and "Dona Lety.") They return to bickering about the door. She says he can come in the back door if he knocks and waits for permission to enter. He says he will be glad to take orders from her.

Meanwhile, a big surprise. Fedora goes over to the bar, and Paco is surprised to see her. She says she didn't come to see him personally, but she needs him as a witness in the big custody battle. (this part isn't clear, because she keeps advising Diana not go resist Max, and we think they aren't going to court, but then she's preparing for the big showdown anyway. Anyway, I suppose that Sonya Smith has a contract to appear in every episode, and we saw her very little today.)

She wants him to tell the truth, which will explain why Diana was justified in hiding the paternity and making Diego the official father. Because Max had not believed her, she was justified, right? I don't see how Paco's testimony would help here. It seems as nutty as all of Fedora's other legal strategies.

But now Big Lunkhead has his chance. I hate this distance, he says. But he created it himself by marrying her worst enemy, she says. More rehash about if only he had known, bla bla bla. They start to kiss, and guess what--here comes Octy--wearing a brown leather backless halter. Hola, Sweeney Todd is calling--he's missing his apron. Everyone is impactada.

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