Caray, Caray!

Silvana and Emilia are in her office. Silvana says she feels strange, maybe because she imagined "it" would be more difficult, that she wouldn't be able to go on. "The truth is that I'm surprised by how good I feel." Emilia asks what she doubted, her strength? Silvana says maybe and that now she feels supported but it keeps hurting. Emilia tells her it will take time. Silvana says she knows, but today she felt relief. She thinks that at some point she'll feel less anxiety and she'll be able to feel other things again. Emilia beams at her.

Lidia and Boss Man are rubbing noses again. Puh-leeze! Where's the igloo? Paco, who apparently is Lidia's boyfriend, walks up and greets Lidia with a kiss. He's come to fix the computer. Boss Man and Lidia look like they are going to need cold showers muy pronto.

Another repeat of the "suit scene," in which Azul now has "plenty of time" to check out Diego's wares. I suppose this is to remind us that these two are destined to be together after the inevitable six months of separation required by telenovela format. Diego is looking quite hot in his tux, as he's undoing Azul's hair clip and wrapping her in red satin. He then removes her "serious" glasses. You can all but see their hearts throbbing in their respective chests as their voices get breathy. "Can you imagine this now? Impressive!!" The scene then goes into slo-mo. Azul gets flustered and piles the red satin on the table, thus killing the mood. Diego deducts the jacket is for a boyfriend. Suddenly Azul is in a terrible hurry. One of the tailor dudes interrupts and Diego excuses himself to deliver a garment. He asks Azul to wait a little while. Azul looks pained as a piano plays a plaintive solo.

Paco is telling Boss Man the computer has a virus. He says something else that I don't understand, but then he tells Boss Man he loves Lidia. As he goes back into Boss Man's office, he tells Lidia "I love you!" Lidia looks uncomfortable after all the "we-didn't-do-anything-wrong" antics with her married boss.

Diego says something about taking off the jacket and goes to change out of his tux. While he's in the dressing room, we see a sliver of him taking off his shirt and pants. We then have a nice shot of him in his boxer briefs. Azul is taking all this in as well, and is caught spying by the saleswoman who got attacked the day before by the mannequin. Ultimately Diego walks her downstairs and is interrupted by a call. The saleswoman says the call has to do with his mom or dad, but doesn't know. Seems strange to me, but at any rate, it's Papa. He wants to know if Diego has seen Mama. Diego wants to know why the heck he's calling. By now, Azul has taken her items and left the store. It sucks to be Diego right about now.

Mama is talking to her doctor. She's really worried about her Diego. He and Papa are at each others' throats. Perhaps Diego's return was a mistake. Doc tells her not to worry, he's sure Diego is going to be just fine.

Morris is trying to butter up GSD (Grouchy Scientist Dad, according to yesterday's recap), Azul's father. Morris says how much he loves Azul, blah, blah, blah. He then mentions something about families helping one another and gives GSD a huge check to run Morris' lab. "Just think, you won't have to worry about financing! Just think about it…" GSD takes the check and grunts as he's tucking it away.

Azul is telling her roomie Cecilia all about Diego and how hot he is. Cecilia points out he's a salesman. Azul replies she can't help but imagine him naked. Cecilia starts hugging the tux Diego was wearing and asks if Azul plans to go back. Azul says she has no reason, and she wants someone stable like Morris, but then Cecilia says "You have to go back. It's missing a button!" Oh no, what's a love-struck fiancée to do? Commercial.

Back at the shop, tailor dude is asking Diego if he wants to join them for lunch. Diego tells them he'll catch up. Diego's cell phone rings and it's Doc, presumably calling about Mama. Diego asks if it's serious. It's hard to tell from Diego's response what the Doc is saying, but Diego says he'll manage it. I think the Doc wants Diego to come pick up his Mama.

Roomie Cecilia is poking fun at Azul, "I can tell you're still thinking about HIM!" Azul begs Roomie to leave her in peace. She's not about to give up a solid relationship with Morris. Apparently she has to go to a grand opening of a restaurant and Morris apparently hates to go to those things. Roomie volunteers to go with Azul and Azul is all smiles now. Hugs all around!

The housekeeper, or whoever she is, is staring at a painting while Andres is typing on the computer. She says, "Tranquilo" to no one in particular. Suddenly, Morris bursts into the room screaming at Andres, "What did Benjamin want?" Andres said something about Benjamin's "calling" and "bad intent." Morris tells Andres to take care of Benjamin. Morris doesn't care about Benjamin; he only cares about Benjamin's projects. I guess Benjamin is the guy who got fired before GSD showed up. Housekeeper and Andres look impactados after Morris leaves. Housekeeper (Andres' mom?) tells Andres to be calm. "Don't fail Morris!" She then creepily kisses Andres' head. Between her actions and the 'mysterious music,' something is truly wrong with this picture.

Paco comes out of Boss Man's (I just found out his name is Piero) office. Piero is so impressed with Paco's computer savvy that he's going to recommend Paco to a friend who needs a lot of computers for a business. Lidia promises to give the potential client's name and number to Paco. Paco is all smiles and refers to Lidia as a doll. He says, "…como me apapacha" which isn't in any of my dictionaries. What does this mean? After Paco leaves, Boss Man and Lidia exchange flirtatious, knowing glances. . .

Diego goes to pick up Mama from the hospital. He is carrying a bouquet of yellow flowers. Mama wants to know how he found her, and he says something about her not being in class and the clinic calling (or did he say he was psychic; I'm not sure). Now he starts asking if she's feeling bad. What she needs is lots of kisses, as he starts kissing her head and face. Ick. "Don't you worry about me," says Mama. She then says she's more worried about him. Diego says, "Don't worry about ME. I've got PLANS! You'll see!" Playful bantering back and forth and he ends by sticking an ice cream cone on her chin. Laughs all around.

Hey, a scene I truly understand! Azul is in the shower with her eyes closed. Sure enough, she starts thinking of Diego in his skivvies at the shop. She then fantasizes about him being in the shower with her. You get the picture. Right in the middle of this reverie, a male voice asks if she needs help. It's Morris, who's come to join her. Azul forces a smile and tries to make the best of this buzz kill.

Diego is frantically looking for a receipt at the store. We all know which one. The woman clerk asks what he's doing. Finally he tells her he's trying to find the name of the woman he tried to help the other day. The saleswoman can't remember. It was a strange name, "a fruit? a color?" She can't recall. She strains herself thinking, at Diego's urging, and finally comes up with "Azul." Now Diego wants to know her last name. He needs to find out the last name of "the mother of my children!" The die has been cast.

Azul is out of the shower and asking Roomie, AKA Cecilia, to go back to the store with the suit jacket. The address is in her purse, and HIS name is Diego. Cecilia doesn't want to go, "You're the one that has to go; you're the one in love with the sales dude, not me!" At this point Morris walks in and wants to know what Cecilia is talking about. Morris looks mad and Azul nibbles on her thumb nail. Dramatic music plays

Diego now knows Azul's last name and is frantically going through the phone book looking for Azul. "How many Azul Toscano's can there be?" Apparently he hasn't considered the possibility that she may not have a listing in her name. Oh well, love is apparently blind and dumb. The saleswoman knows perfectly well Diego doesn't want to call just for business. "You're in love with that woman!"

Morris is pressing Azul for what Cecilia was talking about. Azul says Cecilia didn't sleep well. Case closed. Morris changes the subject. He talked to GSD and GSD is about to give up.

Ominous music plays as Andres approaches a Cute Little Girl at a grade school. The Cute Little Girl is Benjamin's daughter. This can't be good! He walks up to her and says he's a friend of her daddy, Benjamin. He hands her a lollipop and tells her to tell her dad that "Andres says hello." Benjamin arrives just after Andres leaves and Cute Little Girl gives them the message, "From your friend Andres." She shows him the lollipop and Benjamin freaks out. He snatches the lollipop, picks up Cute Little Girl, and whisks her away while Andres lurks across the street in his car.

Azul is at GSD's house. She wants to know what's bothering her dad now. GSD tells her about Morris' visit. He thinks Morris is tricky and too good to be true. Azul says Morris just wants to help. She then asks if GSD will accept Morris' offer. GSD wants to think about it. He's also going to consult Aunt Inez. Azul is disgusted by this, "Why do you always have to ask her opinion about everything? Can't you make a decision on your own?" GSD replies, "She's family." This goes on awhile longer until Azul leaves.

A phone rings and GSD has to root around to find it. It's Diego asking for Azul. GSD says she's gone and he doesn't know when she's going to return. "Who's this?"

Cecilia arrives at the store and Diego doesn't say another word to GSD. We can hear GSD say, "Hello? Hello?" in the background. Diego then hangs up on GSD. Cecilia tells him about the jacket and it's clear Cecilia is checking Diego out. At first he doesn't recognize the suit, until Cecilia says her friend bought it. She then says she and her friend were talking about him. "Nothing bad, I hope." says Diego. "Aren't you going to ask about my friend?" "You mean Azul?" asks Diego. "Aha, so you know her name!" exclaims Cecilia. Diego makes some lame excuse about it being an unusual name; that's why he remembers it. Cecilia says she and Azul are going to a party at a restaurant that night, in case Diego would like to meet them. Diego says he's busy. "So, if her name is Azul, what can I call you? Green?" "No, Yellow," replies Azul's feisty friend. Somewhere in this exchange, Diego asks if Azul has a boyfriend. Cecilia smiles knowingly, but never answers the question.

Papa and Mama are fighting about her keeping secrets from Papa and hiding the fact she was at the doctor. Abuelo walks in and breaks the stand-off, while the doorbell rings. Papa goes to answer the door. Paco walks in, all smiles and full of energy. He refers to Mama and Papa as his in-laws. He's had a great day and did a good job for Lidia's boss. He's bringing a couple of bottles of good wine, apparently in celebration of his good fortune.

Housekeeper is now massaging Andres' shoulder and pointing out how tense he is. "Morris always makes me tense!" says Andres. Housekeeper says they owe him their Unconditional loyalty. Andres then asks, "And him? Is he loyal in the same manner?"

Lidia and Piero are back at the office, standing millimeters apart. Lots of breathless talking. Piero asks about her boyfriend Paco, to which Lidia replies, "He's very distracted." They talk about almost getting caught by Paco when they were standing so close to one another when Paco arrived. "You mean like this?" as he closes in on her again. She gives him this doe-eyed look. Suddenly he bashes her in the mouth, about breaking her teeth, in some really disgusting lip lock. Ugh! He about swallows her chin!

Morris is calling Azul. "Does the most beautiful woman in the world have plans tonight?" Azul says she is going with Cecilia to the opening of a restaurant. "And you didn't think to ask me?" asks Morris incredulously. "I figured you wouldn't want to go." Morris has some things to take care of first, but he'd love to go with her to the grand opening. Uh Oh!

Azul walks up to a very nice home and rings the door. We see feet in sandals going towards the door. It's one of the good people from the telenovela, Peregrina! Apparently this is Tia Inez. Azul can only stay a minute, but they need to talk. Azul tells Inez about the great opportunity her father's being given, but her father isn't particularly interested. It would earn him a lot of money and prestige if GSD would work for Morris. Inez reminds Azul GSD isn't interested in money; all he cares about is his investigations. Azul begs Inez to convince GSD to take the job. "You know how much influence you have over him!" Inez doesn't really want to get involved, but will do what she can. Azul thanks her and runs out.

Morris is telling Andres he likes the way Andres dealt with Benjamin. He sent the message clearly and with class. Music of doom plays in the background. Commercial.

Inez has come to pay GSD a visit. Inez mentions that Azul came to see her and told her about the job. GSD isn't sure about "what's-his-name." They talk about Inez competing with Azul, which I don't understand. They then mention Azul'a mom, Inez' sister, "may she rest in peace." GSD shows Inez Morris' offer, to which Inez asks 'what's a GSD to do?' GSD replies, "Go to the bathroom!" Why do all the characters smoke in foreign telenovelas? Do cigarette companies sponsor telenovelas?

Azul leaves a voicemail message for Cecilia. Morris has agreed to go to the gala, so Cecilia is now off the hook!

We now see Azul and Diego getting ready for the grand opening. Diego tries on about 50 shirts. While all this is going on, their love theme plays in the background. Finally we see them heading out their respective doors.

Diego comes to say good-bye to his family. Everyone is hanging out in the kitchen, laughing and having a good time, except Papa. I believe Mama says Diego is psychic, since he showed up at the clinic with flowers for her. Papa, the pessimist, says Diego showed up because the clinic called worried. Papa then storms out, taking a bottle of wine with him.

Silvana is moping in her bedroom, clutching a pillow, when Emilia walks in with tea and some drugs. Emilia tries to talk her into coming down to dinner, but Silvana isn’t interested. She tells Emilia she (Silvana) wants to see her son tomorrow.

Andres skulks into the room of some house where Housekeeper is waiting. "Lo vas a matar, verdad?" she states. Did she just calmly point out that Andres is going to kill "him"? Is Housekeeper's name "Leonarda?" Is she even a housekeeper? Help please!

Credits roll.

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