Caray, Caray!

• "Any man would give his life to be with you," whispers Aaron to his sister-in-law Isa. There is heavy petting and, no doubt, more.
  
  After [insert your particular speculations about what took place], Isa asks "Now what?" Aaron: "Life continues." "It was crazy..." "No reproaches, Isa!"
  
  She helpfully delineates the situation: "How can there be no blame when I've just shagged my best friend's husband, my own husband's cousin?!" "We needed each other. I liked finding your passion - we share a secret. Let's not lose the moment." They kiss, she wants more but he pulls away with these parting words: "You'll sleep like an angel tonight."
  
  Because Isa skipped the acting lesson on "emoting," her face is completely passive as she says: "What a stupidity I just committed."
  
  
• While Aaron is cavorting with Isa, Hilario is thought-bubbling about his own roll in the hay with that very same straw-haired lady of the manor. "She is the wife of the patron" he reminds himself out loud.
  
  "What, are you praying?" asks SanJuana as she bounces in. I can see the underwire in her ultra-pushup bra again. She bounces into his lap oblivious of his dark mood. She soon accuses him of changing, he admits it. "Have you been with another?" His silence is the answer and she bounces up and down and yells a lot of things that weren't in my dictionary.
  
  Rod clears his throat a lot as he interrupts. "Am I interrupting?" SanJuana bounces out.
  
  Rod says "she sounded jealous." "I told her she's wasting her time on me." "She's pretty, yes?" "I don't love her." Of course this is Rod's favorite subject and he eagerly advises: "It doesn't matter how pretty a woman is if your heart belongs to another! Struggle for your love!" I guess this is some heavy-handed irony, what? Heh.
  
  Ofelia knows about Hilario's boinking of the Massa's wife and reassures her poor son: "You'll get over it - you were just her little adventure."
  
  So SanJuana goes to the witch again and gets an amulet. "Put it somewhere hot, and make sure nobody but you touches it or its power will flow into their hands."
  
  She puts it in a salt shaker by the stove. Ofelia moves it ("why did somebody put this salt shaker here?") SanJuana moves it back, Ofelia moves it again, this time she randomly shakes it and it doesn't sound like salt so she opens it and takes out the amulet and puts it on and soon Roman comes in and is overcome with lust and they rush into the pantry and make out, and Hilario finds them. That was today's comic relief.
  
  
• At work next day, Videgaray and Aaron discuss Mariana's competence and her feisty spirit ("She even fought with your cousin.")
  
  Apropos of absolutely nothing, in the middle of a sentence, Aaron picks up the phone and without preamble barks, "Lower the price of our tequila by thirty percent!" Videgaray is aghast. Aaron: "This way we'll snag our competitors' best customers." "But you can't do this, it would be disloyal to our union." "In case you haven't noticed, I find your presence uncomfortable, and in fact, you're useless." "But it will affect our industry..." "Shut up! I decide! I'm the decider!"
  
  
• Minerva calls Aaron from home. Fedra is with her and tells Aaron about Rod's turning down the invitation to the Congress.
  
  Team Aaron of course wants Rodrigo in the city, far from the hacienda when the day laborers roll in, so he won't see Gaviota - as Minerva summarizes: "If Rod gets with Gaviota, she might get preggers pronto and then Aaron will never forgive me."
  
  They decide they'll get Granny to pressure Rod into going to the Congress. To condense many tiresome conversations into a few words: "Rodrigo, you'll go!" "No I won't!" "Yes, you will!" "No, I won't!"
  
  He gives in, partially because James points out: "Gaviota won't come back on the 21st of March. To her, that's a terrible day, it's the day you broke your sacred promise to her and married Isa." "Hmm, I never thought about it that way. Yeah, if she comes, it will be for my grandfather's mass."
  
  Isa shows up all impactada from her illicit boinking and hugs Rod, making her special impassive face behind his back. (The producers may think they can hide her dull, paralyzed features with a lot of black eye makeup but I'm wise to them.)
  
  
• There is still trouble with customs. Aaron decides to fire his customs guy and Patricio shows up in about five minutes with a new one who "has friends" and will be able to facilitate everything. Aaron boasts he'll soon be exporting more tequila than ever before and all must go flawlessly.
  
  Another guy shows up - some video is being made (an infomercial?) about Turquoise Tequila. Aaron needs somebody he trusts to go to the hacienda and help get the most evocative shots of the agave fields etc. He tells Gav/Mariana to go and she says "No!" and he says "Yes you will!" and she says "No I won't, I quit!" and he says "No, you don't! I decide around here! I'm the decider! Elvira, buy her ticket! Mariana, what's your problem? Are you thinking of jumping ship to one of my competitors, do you want a raise?"
  
  In the end, though, she wins! She doesn't go and he yells a lot about how he trusts her and she can't quit - and he sends Quintana instead. Wow, she got Aaron to stand down! Pretty good!
  
  Not only that, but after Quintana leaves for the airport Aaron opens a goodie bag and takes out a cellphone and PDA for Mariana. "While I'm away so much on business I'll need a manager here. She suggests Videgaray but he pish-tushes, "he has no vision, he's just a bureaucrat, no, it will be you." He gives her somebody else's office and tells Elvira to take orders like a good little viper of a secretary. Then he says Mariana will have to get a nice new car, they'll deduct payments from her salary.
  
  Elvira calls Minerva and rats about all this, counseling Minerva not to have another screaming fit just yet, it won't be effective. Minnie decides she'll wait till everybody's together for the grandfather's mass. And THEN have a screaming fit. There's a good idea.
  
  At the end of the day Gav goes home to Mommie and reports on all this and her promotion and car etc. and they both bounce up and down, giggle and bounce, giggle and bounce.
  
  
• Sofia is all happy saying goodbye to Team Aaron - she's going to the stylist and then to the airport to pick up James.
  
  James is at that very moment on his way to say goodbye to Meliton, he's packed his bags etc. and said goodbye to Rodrigo using his extremely poor English.
  
  Well, Meliton isn't home -- but Acacia is lying on her bed in fetal position as she is wont to do.
  
  "I've come to say goodbye, but first I want to know, are you in love with your uncle?" [I almost laughed writing that - how could he say that line with a straight face? -- Ed.] "If not, why do you tolerate this?"
  
  "He deceived me. When my aunt died, he swore to take care of me and send me to school, but instead he raped me and made me his woman." "We need to denounce him to the authorities." "No," she says in a very methodical manner, "eventually he'll have to die, and all these mountains will be mine, I inherited them from my aunt." "He has to pay!" "No, just go." "Let's go together, I'll protect you."
  
  "No, I won't leave here -- but if you leave, I'll burn your crop." "You're blackmailing me? If I stay silent, you make me an accomplice in this shameful situation."
  
  She crawls to him and whispers, "Stay, I need you to stay." He hugs her.
  
  So he doesn't go to the city. Sofia sits on the floor and sobs and curses. Meliton is surprised but pleased that James has changed his mind about leaving; he says he'll have Acacia clean James's room, but James says no, he'll be staying elsewhere.
  
  
• At Aaron's office, Granny is insisting that all must attend Amador's second-year-post-death mass. Gav says she'll help organize it. Aaron doesn't wanna go, he's too busy, but he gets nagged into it. Rod doesn't wanna go either and the nagging is not being effective.
  
  So Aaron puts Gav in charge of nagging Rod. She gets him on the phone and adopts her hoarse disguised voice. She has no luck convincing him to go - he yells NO and hangs up on her. He thought-bubbles: "That Mariana Franco is irritating." Gav seethes: "This is the real Rodrigo, what an egoist, what could be more important than his grandfather's mass?"
  
  Rod croons to his grandfather's picture: "I know you'd want me here working the harvest, and besides - my Gaviota will come!"

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