Caray, Caray!

Lead in from Margaret's recap: 'Santos/Jacinto is creeping around La Rinconada. He finds the open carriage and hides inside when he hears people coming. It’s Jaime and Castulo. Jaime props a shotgun against the carriage and they converse about the missing Emilio. Vera shows up and tells Jaime that she’s made his favorite mole. Castulo says “Let’s eat!” and runs off to the house. Jaime says disgustedly to Vera, “Who invited him?” They leave the shotgun behind. Next, Angel and Ifigenio come up to the carriage. They are talking about their search when suddenly Santos/Jacinto stands up and grabs the shotgun, saying “you don’t have to look any farther for me, I’m right here.” Angel and Ifigenio are surprised AND impactado to say the least.'

Santos accuses Angel and Ifigenio of plotting to kill him. Castulo, Vera and Jaime hear the commotion from inside the house and the men run out to investigate. Santos tries to shoot the rifle but in his amnesiac states forgets to take the safety off. He looks at the rifle with a big question mark over his head. Castulo runs up and punches him unconscious. Angel coughs and orders Santos to be locked up.

Alina tells Don Loco that he should see a shrink about his psychosis problem. Loco wants her to pretend to marry Orlando to make mummy happy. She agrees because she's Duhlina. Don Loco says he's capable of bad things so she'd better do what he says, in fact he killed CaptainValtierra. This annoys Duhlina and she repeats that he is completely sick, but OK, she'll go with him.

Orlando sees them leave together. "Aha! Don Loco has been hiding her," he says to his bored horse.

Braulio, Carmen and Rosita are in anguish waiting for Castulo to return with word about Santos. Rosita announces that she'll agree to marry Don Super Porky because then he'll tell them what he did with Santos.

Luba sees Adela and Nora head-to-head about something. She calls them a couple of macaws and asks what's the chisme? Are they afraid of her or something? Afraid because they might know something about The Cofre? Luba gets all witchy woman with Adela, tells her she can smell a lie, takes a big sniff and backs Adela into the chicken coop. Maybe it's a lie she smells, maybe it's just chicken s**t. Nora blurts out "I know who has your cofre!"

Nora says the man with cofre threatened her not to tell anyone and then rode off. Adela aks what's the big mystery with the maldito cofre anyway? After all her previous squawking Luba says, "Nothing, what do you care?" But then she starts pumping Nora for the details. Who is the desgracio who has her cofre? Nora spills the beans, it's Don Loco's administrator, Hugo. Luba grabs her amulet and curses.

Cut to Hugo gloating over my grandpa's old lunch pail, I mean The Cofre. He wonders how much Don Loco will pay to keep his dignity, his position, to not return to the hell from whence he came?

Carmen spends a lot of time basically telling Rosita that marrying Don Max is a bad idea. They cry and hug.

Duhlina and Soledad have a happy reunion.

Gaspar and Tonki get bored waiting in the cave for Alina so they decide to go to La Rinconada to see if Gaspar's little cub has been born. Then maybe they'll stop by El Meson to throw back a couple of tequilas and catch the floor show. Just kidding about the last part.

Cut to the squawling baby and Thelma pacing the floor. She's screaming at the baby to shut up. I've never had a kid and even I know that won't work. Pick up the kid beeyatch, that's my advice. But Vera arrives to save the day. Of course the second she picks up the baby he quiets right down. Thelma looks constipated and tells her to take the brat outside.

Soledad asks Alina if she has forgotten Emilio. "Sure Ma, he's all in the past," Duhlina lies. Don Loco does the Cheshire Cat smile and says Duhlina's looking forward to her marriage to Orlando.

Emilio's anxious because Duhlina hasn't returned. Luba smokes a spleef and tells him to chill.

After visiting her mom Duhlina is hanging around the living room. Alfonsina sashays in, "Who the hell are you?" "No, who the hell are YOU?" answers Duhlina. "I'm the future owner of the hacienda," says Alfonsina. Then Duhlina sees the heart necklace on Alfonsina, you know, the one Hugo found and gave to her? Duhlina yells, "It's mine and give it back right now!"

After the commercial Duhlina leaps at Alfonsina and rips the necklace off of her. CAT FIGHT!!! Sergio breaks it up and tell Alfonsina to lay off or the Patron will get mad. Alina dashes off with the necklace and Alfonsina thinks wicked thoughts.

Santos is tied up in some room at La Rinconada. Castulo unties him and Santos says "Thank you Jaime and thank your wife too." Castulo is all "Que?? I'm single." You can see the cogs and sprockets turning in Santos's pea brain, but he doesn't quite put it all together. He heard the real Jaime talking to his wife Vera, so he asks Castulo "No wife, then you're not Jaime?" Oops.

Don Maxi lays on his bead twirling his moustache and dreaming of Rosita. Someone wiggles the doorknob. It's Singing Auntie all dolled up. She's wearing a silk something that's slit all the way up to Canada. She bats her eyelashes and makes a kissy face to the empty hallway.

Malena, whom we haven't seen in a while, packs her bag and leaves for Escondidaville to look for Dr. Love and Mariana. I wonder in what manner she will manage to get herself killed?

Castulo somehow manages to get Santos to believe that he really is Jaime, he just told a little lie somewhere along the line. Suddenly there is a knock on the door. It's Braulio! Castulo tells Santos to keep quiet.

The girls at El Meson have laid a trap for their odious boss. Edelmira walks into the room and they all jump her. One of them strangles her with one of the bondage props, or maybe it's just a curtain chord. "Let go of me you bitches," she gurgles as they wrestle her to the floor.

Don Loco tells Alfonsina that he plans to move Mariana to an asylum the next day. For some reason Alfonsina decides to mention the cofre. Maybe she's just fishing around. Loco's eye bug out and he grabs her throat. What does she know about the cofre?!? He throws her around the room by her hair. He mentions Luba and Alfonsina thought bubbles that Luba must know The Secret of The Cofre too.

Thelma leaves her bedroom to visit el baño. Gaspar sneaks into the room and sees the crib but no baby. He looks everywhere, under the covers, under the crib, in a plastic bag (!) but nada. Vera knocks on the door and Gaspar skedaddles out of the room.

Sergio escorts Duhlina back to the cave. After he leaves Orlando comes in and grabs her. This time she fights back. She slaps him hard. Ooooohhhh, he's one of thooooose...he smiles cuz he likes it. He tells her he really only wanted to marry her to get revenge on Emilio. That's right, he's always hated Emiliooooo, bwaahaahaahaa!

Castulo tells Braulio he needs more cash to find out where Santos is. They bicker a bit but Braulio ends up giving Castulo a wad of dough before leaving, almost hitting Castulo in the head with his gigantic hat. I'm thinking the Mexican charos probably don't make love with their hats on like some of their American counterparts are reputed to do.

Coral and Granillo congratulate themselves on the night's big take. Coral's fabulous dancing gams = lots of lana. Too bad Edelmira didn't see all the money the customers were throwing around. Where could she be anyway?

EEEEEEEK!!! They find Edelmira splayed out on the floor. Coral turns her over and there are big welts and fingernail scratches on her face. Serves her right if you ask me, but Coral is impactada. "She's dead," she shrieks as Grani buries his face in Edelmira's armpit and sobs.

Whoa nellie...Don Maxi Pork and Auntie Opera are in bed! Fully clothed of course because this is Escondidaville. Oh wait a minute, she's crying because he won't do the horizontal bop with her. She says at her age she doesn't have much time so they need to get on with it. They play the How-old-are-you-You-have-to-guess game. He loses that game but manages to convince her that he's still not recovered from his fall off the horse. She agrees to wait and smooches him all over his face.

Thelma is ranting as usual when a smug Orlando enters with Duhlina in tow. Duhlina says she has no idea where Emilio is. Thelma rants some more and says Emilioooo has to come home to see his new baby. Duhlina smiles at the baby and it looks like he waved back at her. Thelma yells at Alina to stop coming between her and Emilio. Angel walks in and hears.

Coral and Grani cover Edelmira with a sheet. Coral says they need to call the authorities to find the murderer. Grani says murdererS; he's sure it's Soraya, Lupe and the others, he wants to see them all in jail. Coral sees a scrunched up paper next to the body. It's a note saying she's next. Grani prays to the Virgencita of Macarena and locks the door. They grab their heads and fret effusively.

Angel wakes up from his nap and decides to ask Santos why he tried to kill him.

Don Loco tells Soledad that things are going to change between them yada yada. She tries to talk. He shushes her and says he needs her love. She says she needs time. "Not much I hope," answers the nutcase. She thought bubbles that she really hates him a lot. So basically nothing has changed between them.

Emilio has gotten out of bed and is sitting at the table. He still wonders what's keeping Alina. Luba says she will check so off she goes.

Duhlina tells Angel in private that her marriage plans with Orlando are all a farce, then she tells him she knows where Emilio is. He's wounded because her father tried to kill him. She tells him the whole story. Angel coughs and says he will visit Emilio in the morning.

Luba returns to the cave and is impactada that Duhlina isn't there. She asks Gaspar if he was there the whole time or did he sneak off to visit his muñequita? "No ma," he lies. Luba sees through him, curses, and hopes that nothing has happened to Duhlina.

Castulo tells Santos he will help him escape. Not that I mind, but for some unexplained reason he removes his shirt revealing the scars from where he was scratched by Rosita. Santos is impactado and has a series of flashbacks...Rosita saying she scratched the rapist, Castulo admitting he raped Rosita, Castulo threatening Santos. Santos finally remembers that Castulo is the one who tried to kill him.

Alfonsina is leaning waaaayyy over in front of a mirror applying lipstick and displaying her ample bosom. Hugo sneaks in, waves a hidee ho to Mariana, and embraces Alfonsina. She tells him that someone else knows about the cofre...it's the curandera. Hugos says good, then Alvaro will think it's she who is blackmailing him.

No wait, oh say it ain't so, Hugo and Alfonsina decide to do the nasty on the bed at paralyzed Mariana's feet!! Mariana squeezes her eyes shut but Hugo grabs his vest and tosses it over her head so she can't see. I guess it's audio and rump-thumpers only for tonights feature presentation.

Santos kicks Castulo in the nuts, he punches him, then he breaks a chair over his head. Thankfully Santos has not yet remembered that he's a wimp. He takes Castulo's gun and says he's going to kill him. But no, he throws the gun on the ground right next to him. He's not a murderer like Castulo.

Sergio tells Don Loco that everything is in order, he delivered Duhlina to the cave. Don Loco says he'll swing by in the morning to make sure she's there. Now his only worry is Mariana. Early in the morning he'll call Dr. Vasquez and have her committed to the asylum in San Mateo. But hey, someone eavesdrops from behind the banana trees. He turns his head. It's Dr. Love of course. It's nighttime and he's wearing shades. That poor guy can't help himself, he's determined to stick out. Still, it's better than the bowtie.

Castulo tells Angel that the crazy Santos attacked him.

The next morning Luba is still fretting about Duhlina. She exclaims aloud to a pacing Gaspar that nobody knows where Duhlina is just as Don Loco walks into the cave. He becomes enraged, "What do you mean Duhlina isn't here?" He grabs Luba and shakes her.

Emilio tells Nora and Adela he must look for Duhlina even though his leg might get reinfected and fall off. Suddenly Angel enters. He has come to take Emilio home.

Don Loco calls Luba an imbecile. Gaspar butts in and takes the blame, says it was his fault that Duhlina got away. Don Loco backhands him. Gaspar starts to get angry and Loco puts his gun in Gaspar's nose. Lupa pipes up that Orlando is a danger to Duhlina. It's much worse than him wanting to marry her. That guy Orlando raped Dulina!! Don Loco is super slo-mo impactado.


Tomorrow: Don Loco kicks Orlando and aims his gun at him.

guacamayo/a = macaw
desgracio = loser
chisme = gossip

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