Caray, Caray!

We open with a meeting at Mansion Manicomio between Fedora, Paco and Rodrigo. I will compress these scenes into one summary: Paco is jealous, and there is figurative male head-butting between the two men. Fedora stands in the middle, glassy-eyed head tilting back and forth at each. (Diana clearly inherited this trait.) Paco is finally forced to leave. Eventually Rodrigo leaves too. Fedora drinks.

Over at hospital Telemiami, the doctor and nurse take off Mummy's bandages. (Many scenes compressed here.) Debora asks for a mirror and the doctor refuses. She grabs a shiny tray from the nurse and looks in it. We see the reflection. Debora is horrified to see that one side of her face has a big fat fake scar on it. Later we see her talking to herself about how she is so disfigured, she will never be able to get back with Max if she can't compete with her sister and Diana in the looks department. Get in line, sister--that cow Fiona has moved ahead of you now! (I say cow because Fiona is displaying the boobage in the most ridiculous way. She is wearing a low-cut black corset that rivals any costume of Alicia Ferreira.)
At the end of the episode, Debora flees the hospital, and the doctor and nurse are mystified. They never had her real name or address--they just knew her as "Raisa."

At the office, Diana and Max have a talk about the baby's custody. She is angry because Marfil called her and told her that Max is going to ask for sole custody. He has no right! Sure he does--she did the same thing with Diego. That was different, she says. No, it wasn't, he says.

In the next room Gaby receives a call from the divorce lawyer--the divorce is final. She is impactada.
On the beach, Larry, in revealing swim trunks and no shirt, receives the same call on his cell.

Diana comforts Gaby. The violins of sadness play. They are strangers, they never consummated their marriage. Diana wants her to move on. Gaby announces she is going to marry Kiki. Diana does not think this is the right way to move on.

Larry and Rene rehash the Gaby situation. Larry says he's going on a trip when his novela is finished. Rene says he can't because Yolanda and Rene are planning their wedding! Lunkhead ends bymaking one of his most sage observations: "I am the biggest idiot in the world."

Kiki comes to see Gaby at work. She tells him about the divorce, and he is happy--they can get married right away. He tries to kiss her, but she isn't having any of it. They talk about how he is going to teach her to forget Larry.

Fedora is drinking when Lala comes in. She says she needs it because Paco makes her nervous. Lala asks about her date with Rodrigo. How did she know there was a dinner? She could just tell. She is encouraging Fedora to stop drinking and to start fresh with Rodrigo. Forget Paco and should go out with that good looking Rodrigo. Fedora says she didn't notice. Lala doesn't want her to miss the best years of her life.

Fiona and Eddy come back from dinner with Iggy and Camila. Camila has very little to do but stand there now. She is, what, fifth in line in the Max sweepstakes? Fiona's cell phone rings, and it's Max trying to make a date. She tells "Susy" that she can't talk right now, she'll call later. Max chuckles about why she's calling him Susy. I'm not sure he understood why she was doing it.

In the factory, Max tells Diana that they had Bruno's cremation. Marfil calls and wonders why Max isn't home. She is wearing a dignified black mourning costume. He says he's coming home.

Diego is mumbling to himself about things would be great if Marfil takes Max far away. Nancy walks in, and he is furious at the interruption and lays into her. Then he thinks better of it, given that she is his only ally. He stands up and apologizes. She tries to dissuade him from his silly revenge plot and fake paralytic act. She will love him. He kisses her. Just then , Silvia walks in through a conveniently unlocked back door! She spies them kissing and says nothing, beating a silent retreat.

She then runs in fast motion downstairs and out of the mansion to the office to tell Diana! Here she comes to save the day! (She should be wearing the Wonder Woman costume.) (I am so excited about this turn of events that I almost forget to say that Silvia is wearing her orange wig today.) Silvia gets to the office and tells Diana that she has a nuclear bomb: Diego can walk. They prepare to run back to the house, but Max interrupts. They leave without telling him what is going on.

Rene and Yolanda console Larry about Gaby. Yolanda looks so much better without that awful pulled-back hair. She must feel better, too, as that hairstyle looked painful.

Fiona goes to see Octavia. They have an elegant tea in front of Octavia's coffee table adorned with giant glass fish that complement the plastic fish elsewhere in the room. Fiona confesses her marriage is a bore, and her husband only makes love to her once a week on Saturdays--when he remembers. She confesses to having affairs. She wants to get Max back. Octavia would approve, but she likes Marfil too. But she realizes that Max doesn't love Marfil and so Fiona would be a better choice to get Max away from that blasted nurse Diana, the mother of his son. Fiona is filled in on the baby out of wedlock, etc. Is she pretty? Fiona asks--yes, but she is "mas de monton." ("More of the mountain?") (I am not sure what this idiom means--I cannot find it in my online dictionary, but it is not good. It seems to mean "just like so many others." Anyone out there know? Is there anyone out there even reading this? ) So she gives her approval for Fiona to try to steal Max away. Fiona is sure she can make him forget Diana.

Larry and Gaby have a quick meeting where they part and afterward she cries and says "I love you, Larry." Please, put these two out of their misery!

Back at Casa Naco, Caramelo is joining Lala and Puncho for breakfast. Lala says Caramelo is always welcome. They tell Lala that Caramelo is going to move back in--they will be like newlyweds again. Lala says no dice--she will not have Caramelo taken advantage of by her shameless son. He must shape up and get a job and move out to his own apartment. Caramelo for once gets some backbone: She tells Puncho that his mother is right, so when is he going to get a job.

Finally we get back to my favorite event of the day: Diego goes down! Diana and Silvia come home and confront Diego. He is in the wheelchair and denies what Silvia saw. She's just crazy, he says. Silvia leaves, and Diana has a momentary hesitation where she seems to believe Diego's claptrap. I was kinda hoping that Silvia would sneak around through the front door and come up behind Diego and dump him from the wheelchair, but no.

Diana goes to talk with Gaby. They weigh the possibilities: Maybe Silvia got it wrong. But she doesn't seem like a liar, Diana says. And wouldn't it be great if Diego can walk? Diana can finally divorce him and be with Max. Oops! Just then we cut to a scene of Max kissing Fiona. There is more boring stuff between them.

Back to the action:
Silvia is back to confronting Diego. He starts choking her and demanding that she keep her mouth shut. There is a great deal of shouting. Fedora walks in and sees all! Yay! Diego tries to justify his actions, but Fedora isn't having any of it. Diego glares and shakes his head from side to side in his patented self-righteous injured-party look. Credits roll!

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