Caray, Caray!

Dolores is reacting to the news that Esmeralda is dead. She is worried about the fate of the de la Vega family (we start out of the gate with ulcer number one).

Garcia/SAM tells Juan that Montero ordered Pizarro to be executed.

Mariangel is rolling around on her bed wondering what really happened to Esme and gloating about how now she’ll have the de la Vega fortune.

Diego goes to see Al and asks him what’s up with Esme. He tells Al that he found a letter from Esme in his stuff, so he knows that he loved her, but when he heard that she died he didn’t know how to react because he cannot remember her. He asks Al if the baby she was carrying was his. Al feels guilty for not filling Diego in on all the details, he tells him that he thought it was best to give him the info little by little. Diego is upset. Diego leaves and Al mutters about the sad state of affairs and how there is so much sorrow.

Auggie is in the prison trying to help the ‘iron’ masked Esme drink some water.

Laisha is getting harassed by the soldier accompanying her to the gitano hideout. She tells him she needs some privacy to take care of some ‘personal’ stuff and he refuses because he doesn’t trust her. So she squats down in front of him and out jumps Renzo from behind a bush. Renzo knocks out the soldier and off he and Laisha run…..

Piza, following Monty’s orders, talks his loyal soldiers telling them what a great job they did and then he pulls out two pistols and shoots them.

Sister Suplicios/Nutty Nun (still like Nutty as her name) is out walking and sees Camba in a courtyard of some sort and he is flogging himself. Nutty has a flashback to when she did the same thing to herself. She mutters that he is the same as her, I think she might be putting the pieces together about where her little demon friend went after he was excised from her body.

Jonas goes to visit Padre Tomas and they discuss Sara Kali/Mercedes. Jonas tells PT that it is a lie that SK is the true queen of Spain. She is only important because she was the governor’s wife. Jonas asks PT to keep SK hidden in the Mission, there is no way that Monty would suspect her being hidden there. PT agrees.

Fernando and his band of merry men are rallying to go fight Monty and his men. One of FS’s own asks what chance they have of defeating Monty when his numbers are so high and their’s are so low. Fernando says that they will cut off the head of the serpent and that should take care of it. The soldier points out that Monty has a personal guard, and FS comes up with a plan to get Monty and his guard isolated from the rest of the soldiers.

Monty visits Esme in prison. He offers to remove her mask, for the price of her sleeping with him. She tells him that she’d rather die first.

Al gets his men ready, they are also going to take on Monty and his men. Al asks Juan about SAM and Juan brings Al up to speed on the chisme of Pizarro’s death. Dena begs Al to not go fight this war. Al tells her that he has to do this.

SAM is riding his donkey and talking to her. He plans on leaving town and going to his uncles, who is a farmer. He comes across Pizarro. Piza tells SAM that there were only blanks shot at him, that Monty did it to test Piza. Piza assures SAM that he has the same plans as always, to save the queen from Monty and he asks SAM if he is still with him. SAM says sure.

Diego finds Bernardo and demands to know the truth about Esme. Diego lets Bernie know that he knows that Esme was pregnant, but he wants to know why she was killed.

Renzo is angry with Laisha. He feels that she was going to betray SK. Laisha says she was tortured, but the gitanas were freed because she made a deal with Monty. Laisha blames Esme for all of this, and then she brings up her trump card, Miguel died for Esme.

Maria Pia goes to talk to Padre Tomas, while she is there Jonas arrives with Sara Kali, wearing a hood for a disguise. PT tells Maria Pia that SK has come to the Mission for a spiritual retreat. MP feels bad that she interrupted and she leaves.
Esme talks to her bebé, daddy will come and save us soon.

Mangle talks to her bebé, you are going to be so useful for me, we’re going to be rich.

Fernando and the merry men arrive at the hacienda and come face to face with Al and his troops.

Monty mutters about his plans to get Fernando’s money. Zorro pays a little visit to Monty, demanding to see Esme’s body. Monty wonders why Zorro wants this, but says there is no way he’s going to show Zorro anything but his sword. The two start their swordfight, Monty has his hand on his hip like he’s fencing, strange. Monty shouts out for his soldiers to come back him up. Zorro punches Monty and in come the soldiers. Some wacky antics ensue, Zorro pulls the rug out under their feet and knocks them all out cold.

Al points his sword at Fernando and calls him the murderer of innocents. Al goes on to say that he knows why Maria Pia refused to marry Fernando and that Fernando killed Regina/Purina. Al punches FS. FS orders his merry men to stay out of it, it is between him and Al. Al punches FS again, FS doesn’t fight back. Al punches him again. FS admits to the two groups of men that he killed Al’s wife, that to him all Indians are the same, but if he knew that Al’s wife was in the Indian camp, he would not have attacked it out of respect for Al and his woman. Al gets angered by this little speech and pulls out his pistol and aims it at Fernando.

Jonas finds Javier and finds out that Laisha betrayed them. Javier, the chismoso, fills Jonas in on what’s been going on…..Monty freed the gitanas. Jonas thinks that’s strange, He orders Javier to take a census of the gitanos. Azucena/Susie arrives and she is happy. She demands info from Jonas, and he tells her that Esme is dead. Susie is worried about Renzo, her son (ulcer two).

FS demands that Al shoot him and end it all. Al lowers his pistol and tells FS that he can’t shoot him because 1)he’s not a murderer like Fernando and 2)out of respect & love for his wife Dena, he wouldn’t kill her brother. Al says he’ll never forgive Fernando, Al mentions that he’s got to go now, he’s got something to settle with Monty. Fernando says no way, Monty’s mine. FS says he wants to get his governorship back, and Al is disgusted, with all the other, terrible things that Monty’s done FS only care about himself. Al tells FS that Monty killed Esme.

Renzo tells Laisha that he wants to go find Esme because he promised SK that he’d take care of her daughter. Laisha says you’re not doing it because of a promise, but because you love Esme. Renzo admits he loves her. Laisha continues with her pity party and says that she knew love with Miguel, but she failed him. She admits to Renzo that she slept with Monty in order to save Miguel when they had him in prison and Monty went ahead and killed Miguel anyway. Renzo says he understands, and Laisha lashes out and tells him that he’ll never understand, but someday he’ll suffer as she has suffered.

Esme hears the raucous and figures out that Diego has come to save her.

Zorro escapes, and avoids getting hit by the gunfire from Monty’s soldiers stationed on the rooftops. He pulls out his pistols and shoots at the soldiers and then at Monty. He only aims at Monty’s feet, so we are treated to a little dancing from Monty. Gosh, I wish that Zorro would have just made us all happy and aimed a little higher.

Auggie tells Esme that this is all her fault and he’s not going to end up dead like the other soldiers. Esme says this is all due to Monty’s misguided ambition. Auggie tells Esme that she’s his ticket to not dying, he’ll kill anyone who comes down to her cell.

Diego/Zorro meets up with Bernie. He questions how his life ended up this way.

Fernando doesn’t believe that Monty would have killed Esme. Al says that they got the news from Mangle, and why would she lie. FS says he knows Monty and then Al compares the two men. FS tells Al to send his men home, FS and the merry men will take on Monty. Al agrees to go home.

Nutty has gone out to gather flowers and she hears gunshots. Camba comes running past her and she realizes that Camba is being chased by slave hunters.

Renzo and Laisha meet up with the other gitanos. Renzo finds out that Esme is dead and he can’t believe it. He feels as if he has failed and he tells Laisha now he knows what it is like to lose someone you love. He runs off . Jonas and Susie are worried he’ll go after Monty and end up in trouble (ulcers 3 & 4).

Someone comes down to Esme’s cell and Auggie shoots at them, but he has just as bad of aim as every other character on this show. It was Monty. He congratulates Auggie on doing his job and then tells him to go away. He talks to Esme and tries to make her start doubting her mother and Diego. Why haven’t they come for her, they have to know she’s being held in the prison. He adds that Diego must be too happy with Mangle, oh and yeah, he heard that Mangle is expecting a baby. He let’s Esme know that Mangle begged for Diego’s life and Monty agreed. So, Esme should be thankful.

Nutty chases after Camba (not a wise idea when men with guns and snapping dogs are also hot on his trail). She catches up with him and they run together. They tumble down and Camba pulls off Nutty’s bonnet. He looks at her like he’s noticed for the first time that she’s a woman. Camba starts beating himself again and the slave hunters catch up to them. Nutty goes and hides behind a tree and the S/Hs start to beat Camba themselves.

Diego asks Dena to tell him about Esme, but she says it is too soon, she’s still hurting from the news of Esme’s death. Al returns and Dena goes to greet him. The couple rehashes his running into Fernando.

Renzo comes across Nutty in the woods. She collapses at his feet.

Al and Diego (okay, my notes say “D”, so I’m thinking it was Diego, but perhaps it was Dena---can’t remember and figure with the rehashing in tonight’s episode it will be cleared up, but if one of you wants to deny or confirm this, that’d be great) talk about Esme and what would Monty gain from killing her. Al says that Fernando suspects that Esme really isn’t dead, but that Monty is holding her somewhere (wonder where that would be, the prison perhaps?).

Monty comes back to the prison cell, and tells Auggie to leave once again. This time he’s drunk and decides that he’s going to make good on his offer to remove the mask in exchange for a conjugal visit with his wife. She’s not willing to cooperate and Monty starts to force himself on her, telling her that she will be his. END OF EPISODE/ Ulcer Count = 4

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