Caray, Caray!

Since nobody has put up a parking spot for the Thursday recap while Carmel is away, I volunteer. My shift key is on the fritz so you'll have to bear with the occasional channeling of e.e. cummings.

This episode revolved around alina being dead. At the end of the episode she's still dead although luba, coral, gaspar and then later adela, [who tells soledad] believe she's just pining for the fjords. Or is she? After waiting for the funeral party to depart and then dispatching a tearful Emilio--luba mashes a bunch of leaves in his face that we are supposed to believe have soporific powers--they go to the trouble of digging her up, trying to wake her up at graveside and then failing that, refilling the grave and replacing all the flowers on top of it. They haul her lifeless body back to the cave. While luba is trying to wake her up, Adela comes in and luba tries to explain to her what's going on. Adela gets all weak kneed and luba mashes a bunch of leaves in her face to keep her from passing out. Adela rushes over to hacienda montillano to tell Soledad the good news. we left them on their way back to luba's cave. Soledad escaped during an altercation between hugo, who had been discovered while trying to strangle alfonsina, don loco and adela beans sergio on the head with a log. luba better hurry up with the wakey-wakey or Soledad is in for another dissapointment. I am guessing that sleeping beauty can only be woken with a kiss from the prince so Emilio will have to be found and told. Alina may have to pine for the fjords for another episode or two.

Emilio got all the best scenes in this epi. He cried some more at the funeral. He was a pallbearer at the magnificent funeral procession. [So was Angel. Somebody explain that to me. I thought he was supposed to be dying.] He stood, on horseback in a clump of trees from afar when the gravesite ceremony was taking place. He showed up there after everyone had left and cried some more until luba knocked him out. After they had replaced everything and gone, he woke up and cried some more. Then he went home and asked Thelma for a divorce. While they are arguing, he goes to the wardrobe to get the baby a blanket for some reason, out pops the whip that Thelma had said before that she had never had. BUSTED.

Don Loco is finally feeling the heat. He knows the military is probably on it's way to arrest him. He thinks Hugo his trusted employee was trying to blackmail him with a secret he himself doesn't know, he's about to kill the guy. He knows Mariana is back in Mexico City with Malena. He plans a locomania tour, first to Veracruz to deposit Alfonsina [and, until he shows up in se, to kill the traitor, Hugo]. Next, it's over to DF to grab up Mariana and bring her back to an empty house in SE. Maybe he's thinking Sergio can take care of her. Then, he plans to flee the country. He wants Soledad to go with him. She tells him she's not going anywhere. She'd rather he just kill her now and get it over with. DL is starting to realize that the jig is up and says then he will just stay there. This is looking like a shootout, fight to the finish.

The military is on it's way to arrest DL, we've seen the jeeps ascending the mountain.

Santos tries to intervene to rescue Don Braulio but both Don Braulio and Ifigenio turn him away.

The SA believes Vera's theory that Thelma paid Luba to poison Flor. Thelma actually accepted responsibility but said that she paid Luba not to do it, afterward. SA doesn't buy it. SA has also figured out that Max has gotten Don Braulio in a jam so that he can get into Rosita's pants. She has smartened up, that one.

That's all I can remember at the moment.

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