Caray, Caray!

Pancho and Caramelo are going over the Diego/Diana debacle in the parking lot. Caramelo wants him to stay out of things that aren't his business. Peyote comes up.



At the mansion, Lala, Diego and Nancy are talking to Emilio about the guns that Emilio is going to buy.
Diego wants to know if Diana is at the fabrica or the hospital.
Lala warns Diego to cut it out. Her warnings are likely to have as much success as her earlier ones.


At the parking lot, Camila and Paola continue their bitch-slap fest. He's my husband! No, he's my husband! Maybe they should play chin champu, like Fernando and Omar fighting over their desk chair.
Pancho takes charge in his macho way: He tells Paola that Caramelo is his wife, and he's not going to divorce her--take it or leave it.

Caramelo calls Paola a vaga (lazy good for nothing) and a drug addict. You were born in a "cuna de oro," gold cradle, but you are more "chusma," low-class, than I. (the definition of chusma in my dictionary is "rabble" or "mob"). Not to be cowed, Paola has a better way to get back at Caramelo--while Caramelo has been living at the mansion, Paola and Pancho have been making love every night. While you would expect that the Macho Man might want to advertise his talents, in this case he wisely opts for discretion. He tells his fierita to hold on and not spill all their secrets.


Suddenly Diana shows up in the parking lot, and she makes some command decisions. She tells Paola not to come back. Pancho asks who she is to tell his wife what to do: Well, she's the presidenta, you know.

Andres now for no good reason suddenly flashes back to the attempted assault on Gaby. He thought bubbles the uplifting idea that he should be celebrating the death of Debora, but no, he really wants Gaby.

Camila is wearing a green bandana halter over a white mini skirt. She is visiting Max in the hospital, but since he can't see, she needn't bother dressing up. She promises to be his lazarillo (blind person's guide; according to the dictionary, perro lazarillo is a guide dog.)

Max laments the eternal darkness, he will not see the beach, people, he can't stand it.

In the hall, Diana is talking to Yolanda. Diana is there to help. Yolanda tells her that Camila is trying to take advantage, but that Diana shouldn't worry about Max. Diana comes in, and Max is glad. Max says that when he hears her voice, he can see her as he saw her the first day she came to work at the mansion. That would sound very romantic if it weren't emerging from the lemon-sucking lips of our hero, whose thespian efforts are further hampered by the giant bandage.

Diana says they'll go to a specialist. Max objects that she can't leave Diego, the cripple. But he wants to kiss her and he can't live without her. The Diana theme rises.

Cut to a scene of Gaby in the shower. The window opens, and Andres comes in the bedroom. This is just sick, and I can't really recount this in detail. Andres awaits her coming out of the shower.

Back at Lala's, Paola is berating Pancho for kissing Caramelo. He tells her who's boss--Caramelo is his wife and he'll kiss her any time he wants. He's macho! There's some arguing about how she was at the fabrica looking for Emilio to get money for drugs. He says she is touching bottom, and she says it's because he won't divorce Caramelo. Pancho then is about to hit Paola, but Lala stops him.

Cut to Gaby's room. She comes out of the shower and Andres grabs her.

Diana comes home from work and plops on the sofa while Diego sits nearby in his wheelchair. He wants to know where she was--and he doesn't want her to tell him she was at the factory, because he won't believe it. Gaby and Caramelo came home a while ago. Well, they're not president, our presidenta tells him. Don't give me this baloney, says Diego--you were at the hospital. Now you want to tell me you are working as a nurse again?
You were with that blind imbecile!

Diana tells him not to talk like that about poor Max, but Diego says he'll call him a blind imbecil as many times as he likes. She's nothing but a cualquiera and he wants her to stop humiliating him. (Vocabulary digression: they keep using the word "burlarse" in this context, which the dictionary says means "make fun of," but that can't really be right. It's used more to denote humiliating or making a laughingstock of him. In English we would use the phrase "making fun of" if we were disparaging the person's own attributes, say, when we call Diego a chipmunk or sneer at his paintings.)

Bruno and Marfil are talking about Debora. Octy comes out and overhears.

Camila is back at the hospital bed for more stolen kisses. She tells Max she's going to take him out of the country for treatment. She's searching the internet for the best places!

Marfil tells Octy that she was the victim of Debora and Bruno--they stole her identity. For two years she languished, yada, yada, yada--we know this whole story. One thing I got to see for the first time--a scene from the very beginning where Marfil was shot by the swimming pool and fell in, thereby starting her coma.
Octy asks Bruno if all this is true. Bruno crumples into a pathetic heap.

Pancho and Lala are standing up and fighting over Paola's head. Paola looks really drugged out. Lala calls him a perfect vago, or lazy bum, essentially. You don't work, and I have the right to meddle in your affairs. I suffered with your father and Diego's (it seems there were two different fathers), but neither of them ever put a hand on me! She tells her worthless son that he is a swine and a coward and she hits him! Paolo softly manages to say "Lala."

Back at Psycho Mansion, Diego is forbidding Diana to go to the hospital.

Gaby and Andres are fighting it out in the bedroom. Gaby pushes him away and pulls out scissors.

Back at Paco's, Marfil is filling Octy in on more of the substitution. Finally Bruno breaks down into a complete sniveling wretch. She says she had to do it because Max was going to divorce Marfil for Diana. She had to hold Marfil's place. She never thought Debora would fall in love with Max. She never thought the sisters hated each other so much. (at this point, I still don't think Marfil knows that Bruno is her mother. Can anyone confirm?)

Lala now throws Pancho out of the house. He's a swine (canalla), a coward (cobarde), etc.
She tells Paola that both Paola and Caramelo made a mistake in marrying her son. Lala leaves, and Paola picks up the phone and calls Andres. No answer.

Diego and Diana default into the usual fight about Max and who is the real father of the baby.

Andres grabs Gaby again, but she escapes and opens a drawer and, as luck would have it, finds a gun. Emilio must have quickly stocked those bedrooms. She fires and hits Andres right in the chest. And at first he just stands there and doesn't move, or even slump. He sort of looks down at the wound. I'm ready to think that the gun was firing blanks, but then he remembers that he's supposed to fall down and collapses.

Downstairs, everyone exclaims that they heard shots (tiros).

Fedora runs to Gaby's door and, finding it locked, reaches for a key that's conveniently perched on the doorframe above the door! (Come on, does anyone hide interior door keys over their doorframes? Most interior doors don't even use a key.) She walks in and sees Gaby standing over the body.

Back to the Bruno rehash. Octy asks Bruno how she could have done it. Bruno says she thought it was a good idea at the time. Marfil continues the tale, including the attempted transfer to the manicomio in the middle of the jungle. They want to know where Debora is now. Marfil tells them that she is dead, that she burned up in the fire. I'm beginning to think that Debora might really be dead this time. Andres too! Maybe there will only be a few short weeks more of this show!

Gaby is explaining to Fedora that Andres was trying to rape her. She was looking for something to defend herself with and she opened the drawer and just happened to find the gun! Fedora says she'll take the rap. She's not going to let Gaby go to prison. Finally Darth Gaviota tells the truth--I am your mother! Gaby is impactada.

Everyone else comes running in--(except Diego, of course), so it's all the women of the house, including Granny M and Granny DS. Before they come in, Fedora repeats that she is Gaby's and Diana's mother, but she doesn't have time to explain. They have to get ready to face the others and stage the scene. The women come in, and Fedora tells Caramelo to call the police.
It's like a Lifetime movie of the week, the way the women array themselves across the room. Diana checks if Andres is dead, and she actually has a tear in her eye. This must mean something about her memories of the jungle. One thing missing here--no one tells Diana about her mother!

Back to Paco's house. Bruno is bringing down the house with what must be the singularly worst performance ever seen on this show, and there is plenty of competition. She is on her knees, "crying" hysterically, and raising her hands to the sky. Octy is looking on impassively.

Now we go back to the hospital, lest we forget our bandaged hero. Camila is continuing her plans when Yolanda and Larry come in and shove her to the side. She rolls her eyes. Max, however, now asks to let her stay. Out of the blue, he announces that he wants to marry Camila. Yolanda tries to stop him from succumbing to Camila's pressure, but he says no, she must respect his decision. (wasn't he planning to be with Diana about 10 minutes ago? What about his hijo?)

Diana asks Gaby why she killed Andres? Why didn't she just shoot him in the leg to wound him? Fedora orders Granny DS taken to her room. Granny leaves but not before saying that this deed is a disgrace. Now Fedora wipes prints off the gun and prepares to meet the cops.

Credits roll.

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