Caray, Caray!

I typed this up in a hurry sorry for typos, I'll come back later to clean them up......

At Esmeralda’s ‘grave’, Almudena faints and Diego catches her. Mariangel does a fantastic job of acting concerned for her aunt. Mangle appears to be somewhat anguished. Is she dead, she wails and for good measure, Mangle starts to pray. They rush Dena to Agapito, our jack of all trades. Aga checks her out and tells Diego that his stepmother has a weak heart. Thankfully, Aga’s got some good drugs and he administers one to Dena. Afterward, he pulls Diego aside and says that he’s done all he can, the rest is up to Dena. If Dena doesn’t snap out of the depression, it very well could be the death of her. In the background it appears that Mangle is listening in on this conversation, but I can’t be so sure.

Maria Pia cries out that she still loves Fernando. Alejandro seems impactado and gives us acting face number 10 to let the audience know this. Maria Pia begs for forgiveness because it is the truth, she does love FS even with all of the terrible things he has done, she still loves him (I know just how you feel, Maria Pia). Meanwhile, Fernando is just laying on the ground and Arturo Peniche gives us the more sub textual performance, but we (a savvy audience) can tell that his Fernando is deeply moved by Maria Pia’s confession. MP starts to cry and actually throws a bit of a pity party for herself, she states that she doesn’t deserve anything, blah, blah, blah. Alej takes the time to let Fernando know that he won’t be making a shish kabob out of him today, because he won’t get blood on his sword for the love of his sister. However, that doesn’t mean I won’t kill you somewhere down the road. Alej orders Fernando to steer clear of Maria Pia. Alej’s going to take care of his sister now and if FS so much as comes close to her, Al will have to kill him if he tries.

Sgt/Pvt Garcia (SAM) is excited to hear that Esme’s alive. He almost shouts out the news to the entire cantina. Auggie tells him to keep it down. SAM’s bewildered. Didn’t they witness Esme’s funeral and burial? So who’s in the grave?, he asks. Auggie fills SAM in on what he knows. He tells SAM that Montero is holding his wife, but no one can know. SAM thinks it is cruel to not tell Dena because she is suffering so much. Oh yeah, and they should tell Diego because a love like his for Esme’s is a rare thing. Auggie is insistent. They have to keep it quiet and he gets SAM to swear on is mother that he won’t tell a soul.

Ricardo Montero pays a little visit to his wife in la casa escondida. He starts off with his usual taunting, but espies the bottle of wine Auggie left for Esme. He goes nuts and knows immediately that Auggie has been betraying his orders. Monty tells Esme that Auggie will pay with his life. Esme insists it wasn’t him, but Monty’s no fool he knows it has to be Auggie.

Fernando returns home and is walking on cloud 6---she finally admitted she loves him. He’s stunned that she revealed the secret she’s been guarding in her heart for so long. Now she won’t be able to run from me, he says, he won’t allow it. He really needs to hear the adage, if you love someone set them free……

Heading home in their carriage, Mangle mentally rehashes Monty keeping Esme alive. She gets angry and thinks that Monty will have to get rid of her sister!!

Alej tells Maria Pia that Fernando won’t be bothering her anymore. She tells him that she can’t keep running from him anymore and she doesn’t know what to do. She decides she needs to face her life and that she’s going to return to the hacienda. Alej wonders why she’s not going back to the convent.

Auggie lets SAM know that he’s got some money hidden, he won’t say where he got the money, but if anything were to happen to him, SAM should get it and use it to care for his wife and kids. SAM tells Auggie to be careful.

Esme rages in her basement cell. She’s upset with Montero and swears he’s going to pay for all of the innocent people he’s killed.

Auggie heads toward Monty’s hide-away and comes across three of Monty’s goons. Ever the brave man, Auggie pulls out his sword and faces off against three pistols.

Mangle and Diego share a drink. She tries to play the role of concerned wife asking about her husband’s former lover. She can’t carry it off. She comes from an new angle and says that her baby is growing and all it is going to need is love from both parents (yes, studies have show that fetal alcohol syndrome can be prevented---not by not drinking, as you might think, but rather by the love of both parents, so pour me another one Diego). Diego isn’t falling for her clever little tricks. He wants to hammer out the details of their separation. He tells Mangle that he’ll make sure that she’ll have money and that she won’t be socially ostracized. Mangle throws her glass and storms out of the room. She heads upstairs and proceeds to have a hissy fit. She wants it all!!! (I’m sure she’s talking about the money).

Dolores lectures Dena about not eating.

Selenia and Olmos discuss the potion she’s making for him. She tells him that the tears are the most important ingredient. She also lets Olmos know that it will take 111 days to take effect. This doesn’t make Olmos happy.

Diego goes to find Mangle. He tells her he didn’t mean to insult her, but they need to find a way that is best for the both of them. Mangle says that he needs to get over Esme because life goes on. She says she went to Esme’s grave to ask for forgiveness from her sister, because the two of them had their differences. Mangle, angling again, says to Diego that they are still alive and she makes a move on him. He steps away and says just think about my offer.

Auggie faces off against the three goons and they have him backing up. Suddenly, out of no where, there is a suspicious hole in the ground---freshly dug and just about the size of a grave. Auggie gets backed into it and the three men each get off a shot at close range. I’m saddened, but a little hopeful that these men have bad aim just like everyone else in this show or perhaps Auggie will have a miraculous recovery like both Maria Pia and Sara Kali (both shot at close range) or like Diego and Tobias---both shot while being Zorro, then there was Renzo’s recent gunshot wound, and didn’t Esme get shot in the arm---am I leaving anyone out? However, the thugs put an end to my hopes by throwing the dirt on Auggie’s body…there’s no Agapito near by to dig him up. So let’s pause for a moment in memory of Aguirre, he was a man who didn’t always make the best choices, but he had a good heart.

Monty fills Pizarro in on discovering that Auggie was feeding Esme. They’ll need a new guard now. Piza asks what’s up with Auggie (dare I think he looks a bit concerned? This can’t actually be for Auggie, it must be because of the snafu to his plans). Monty tells Piza to choose a guard loyal to him and get him to guard Esme. Piza leaves the room and starts to have an asthma attack. Someday, he swears, I’ll be the one in charge and I’ll give the orders for your execution, Montero.

Diego rehashes with Alej about what happened with Dena at Esme’s grave. Alej fills Diego in on what happened with Maria Pia and Fernando.

Maria Pia tells Padre Tomás that she’s leaving the convent. She knows Fernando is bad, but she loves him and she admitted it. PT says I thought you were trying to get rid of that feeling, but love is like that sometimes you can’t shake it. PT wonders what this means about the vows MP took. She tells him that she’s in limbo (not the Catholic kind) because she’s not a wife to God nor can she be one to Fernando.

The Marquesa gives Fernando a warning. She lets him know that she knows about him keeping Sara Kali/Mercedes locked up for so many years. He’s going to eventually pay for that. Feranando says that if the Marquesa thinks that Mercedes could have taken the Crown, she’s sadly mistaken. No one in court would have taken her seriously, she’d have never lasted there.

The Queen is talking to el Duco (who looks rather handsome today, I didn’t recognize him right away). She’s upset because her Council won’t let her go to America because of potential danger to her personal safety. Well, she decides, she’s the queen and she’s got absolute will. If she wants to go, she’ll go, Council be damned.

Piza brings SAM on board with the Esme hiding. SAM does a fairly good job at acting like Esme being alive is brand new information. Piza promises that SAM will get promoted back to sergeant when this gets over. Piza tells SAM that Auggie failed and they both know how Monty deals with people who fail.

Olmos reports to Mangle about the de la Vega assets and how the property is distributed. Mangle figures with the child she’s good for about half the money (based on what logic, I couldn’t really tell you). She flashes Olmos some leg and he tells her that she got a letter sent over from her father’s house (the one he had forged). He offers to go get it for her. Mangle finds out that it is a letter from Santiago’s sister.

SAM gets Auggie’s family out of town.

MC goes to see Monty and tells him that he’ll be punished for the rotten things he’s done, but mostly for the death of Esmeralda. Monty says he’s gotten no complaints from his superiors. She says she’s leaving, but that he’ll be watched while she’s gone. Monty tells her to have a nice trip. She assures him she’ll be back and leaves. Monty mutters to himself that he’s sure she won’t.

Zorro in the Fox Cave tells Bernardo that he was able to hit Monty where it hurts.

SAM visits Esme and tells her that he’ll take good care of her. She asks about Auggie and SAM says that he’s sure some bad things have happened to Auggie. Esme cries and blames herself. SAM says that Esme can count on him and he’ll help her in any way he can.

Monty is ticked when Piza tells him that SAM is Esme’s new guard. Piza says that SAM wants to get back in Monty’s good graces, so he should easily be controlled. Monty’s not so sure, SAM’s been known to talk to Diego. Piza says SAM will keep his distance from de la Vega. Moving on to a new subject, the two men discuss the explosives experts. Monty wants them killed right after they do their job, he doesn’t like to leave witnesses around. He goes to get the money to pay the men out of his secret room, he moves a wall sconce and reveals his secret chamber. However, there is no money in the room, just a big ‘Z’ on the wall. Monty is livid. END OF EPISODE

Monty freaks out!!! He wants to know how Zorro got in the secret chamber. He goes on ranting and punches out the first soldier/guard who responds to all his yelling. Piza says he’ll send some men out to search for Zorro, he can’t be too far away.

Out riding in the countryside, Zorro has a flood of memories of Esme.

Esme tells SAM she doesn’t believe that Pizarro is truly on her side after all that has happened. SAM says that Piza thinks that helping Esme, the queen’s daughter, will advance his career. Mid sentence SAM starts yelling at Esme that she’ll get no food from him. It is just for show because Monty has arrived. He tells SAM to leave him alone with his wife and SAM looks worried *ulcer 1.

Mangle reads the letter and she’s too sad to finish it. Olmos offers to read it for her. He’s got his hanky handy. Mangle wonders if the letter is to let her know that Santiago got married. Nope, Olmos says, it is to inform her that Santiago is dead.

The Marquesa says goodbye to Alej and says she’ll miss los de la Vega. She warns Alej to be careful, just because Fernando and Monty are on their best behavior now, that won’t always be the case. She tells Al she’d hoped to find Mercedes while she was here, but she didn’t. Al says he’ll keep an ear to the ground and if he finds out her whereabouts he’ll let MC know. MC does a fair bit of fawning over Dolores and Dolo cries because MC is leaving.

Piza plots with the explosive experts on how they are going to blow up the carriage. The TNT guys say that they can make it look accidental because there is a lot of mining in the area where the carriage will pass through. Piza says there will be serious problems if the carriage doesn’t blow up.

Esme asks Montero about Auggie. Monty asks about Zorro. Esme says she’s not talking and Monty seems happy because now he can torture her some more. He tells her that he’ll kill her baby first, then he’ll kill her, slowly.

Zorro hands out money to the poor all the while thinking that he’s doing this for Esme.

Renzo and Nutty Ana Camila (NAC) talk about Esme and his love for her. NAC says his heart will heal and that life gave him another opportunity.

Monty gives SAM his rules for watching Esme. He tells the thugs to keep an eye on SAM and that SAM should be searched for food before going into the house. SAM wonders if he’ll get out of this mess alive.

Mangle cries and rants and cries. Finally she faints and Olmos uses the hanky for her tears.

Maria Pia says her goodbyes at the convent. Nice words are expressed from the nuns. Padre Tomás looks on sadly. Maria Pia expresses regret about how everything came down. Just a note, have you looked at PT’s hair….I was just wondering how they do that, because I’m sure that actor really doesn’t have hair like that…do you think he’s bald and it is a little toupee ring, or something? (Man can you tell I’m getting sick of these Maria Pia and the nun scenes).

Prudencio gossips to Fernando about Maria Pia being spotted leaving the convent in her street clothes. Fernando says that he knew she’d leave, he knows her better than he knows his own self. Soon, he adds, you’ll be in my arms again.

NAC writes a letter to her family, asking them to give money to the gitanos. For the price of a cup a coffee a day, her family can adopt a poor gitano child and they’ll receive monthly newsletters on his/or her progress. Jonas thinks NAC should deliver the message personally, but she says no seeing her would be too hard on her mother. So Jonas decides to send Javier (oh yeah, another one who got shot and recovered---come to think about it didn’t Jonas get shot when Fernando raided the gitano camp? Or did he just get clubbed with a butt of the rifle?) to Santa Cruz to deliver the letter. NAC says how happy she is to find the gitanos and be able to help them out. Laisha angrily says that NAC can’t buy her way into their community.

Yumi is back (UGH!). Alej sees her riding into the hacienda and seems happy to see her. He goes down to greet her and they exchange pleasantries about family. He tells her that there has been no change with Dena, she’s still broken hearted over Esme. Yumi says she’s got some stuff from her abuela to give to Dena. She heads up and finds Dena in bed. They rehash Dena’s visit to Esme’s grave and how sad she is. Dena says again that she’s going to die.

Mangle is spread out on her bed, dressed somewhat like a go go girl. She rereads the letter she got from Santiago. She gets upset because in the letter he declares his love for Esme and that he’s leaving because he knows that Esme is only a child. Damn you Esme!! You’ll pay for this!!

Alej talks to Diego about how worried he is for Dena *ulcer 2. He starts to talk about when he was younger and a reckless captain, how he found meaning when he met Regina. Diego says he can relate, that’s how he felt with Esme. Alej goes on about how depressed he got after Regina died, but all he had to do was look at Diego and that helped him overcome his depression. Diego gave him the will to live, and Dena needs something like that to help her.

Mangle goes to Esme and curse her out. She tells Esme that she never opened Santiago’s letter until today and how she cried over it. Today she found out that Santiago left because of Esme and now he’s dead. Esme says she’s sorry and Mangle tells her to shut up. She threatens Esme, and how she knows that Esme’s going to suffer because her lover, Montero, will do anything she asks. Esme is shocked to hear that her sister has shacked up with Monty. Mangle slaps Esme and chokes her.

Olmos goes to see Selenia and gives her the hanky with the tears. It is the last thing needed for the potion. He questions Selenia’s powers and asks for proof. Selenia says it’s not good to fool with mother nature!! Actually, she just gets angry and with a flash of her ruby ring, she tells Olmos to take a look in the mirror and see what Mangle will see once she takes the potion. Olmos follows orders and looks. He looks all dapper in the mirror and this is pleasing to Olmos.

Piza finds Agapito and wants to know the truth about Sara Kali, is she really dead? He tells Aga that Zorro told him that Sara Kali is alive. Aga is alarmed that Zorro would talk and he questions Piza. Piza says that it wasn’t Zorro exactly—or at least he didn’t believe it was Zorro, it was someone trying to trick him and find out more about his personal life. He threatens Aga and then leaves.

Tobias is bathing and Catalina decides to make a move. Tobi isn’t having it (familiar ---that’s because we’ve seen this before). Tobi calls Cat a hussy and brazen. Cat is confused, she’s supposed to be this way with her husband. Tobi shoos her away and says to himself that he can’t touch her until he knows that Pizarro’s touch is off her skin.

Maria Pia arrives at the hacienda. She and Diego rehash the latest. Maria Pia tells Diego she doesn’t know what she’s going to do, but she compares herself to the clothes still hanging in her closet----old and forgotten.

SAM finds Esme and they rehash Mangle’s visit. SAM swears he’s got to do something to help her.

MC’s carriage heads out of town. She tells SEC that she loves los de la Vega and wants to protect them always. She also hates Monty and Fernando and she’ll make sure they pay for all the bad things they’ve done.

Diego confabs with his papa. They talk about MC’s leaving and all of her good qualities. Alej tells Diego he’s worried for her (ulcer 3) and Diego wants some clarification, when did she leave town?

Esme decides she needs to escape. She starts to pile up bags of seed stored in the basement. Way up high, there is a barred window or some other opening. She climbs up the bags and reaches for it. Am I the only one concerned because she’s wearing a flowing dress and is dangling above a lit torch?

The TNT guys (all wearing brand spanking new boots) meet with Piza and lay down their powder trail. Piza reminds them they need to be exact, they’ll only have one chance to get it right. On a perch above them, Zorro says we’ll see about that. END OF EPISODE/ Ulcers 3

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