Caray, Caray!

[Wow, it’s been a long time since I recapped—June 11th--and I haven’t even gone on vacation yet like Chris. Thanks for the break, Univision. Also I got today’s Episode by tivo’ing Juan Querendon. It’s a crazy mixed up world here, just like in Duelo-land!]

We come into the picture in Veracruz with Hugo, Alfonsina and Tito, down in the basement where Alfi was formerly tied up and now we have Don Loco, knocked out cold and tied up in a chair. DL’s Sleazy Lawyer who Alfi just shanked is quietly bleeding out on the floor. Hugo and Alfi are trying to decide what to do with DL. Hugo, who has a nosebleed, thinks they should just let the cops come and find DL to take him to the madhouse, so that he can suffer there the rest of his days. Death is too good for him. Alfi, who wanted to kill him is down with that only she wants to scram outta there before the police come, since she’s wanted for murder as well. Hugo says fine but where’s the money. Tito, asks for his cut but Alfonsina says he didn’t really help that much and they both boot him out of there. Alfi grabs the money in a bag from a drawer and they vamoose.

At Coral’s mansion in Puebla, Alina wakes up to a creepy scraping sound. She’s alarmed but goes to the door to see who it is. WOOHOO! IT’S TONKEY!!! Tonkey has been missing Alina and he wants to play. Alina tells him he’s out of luck. She has to shower and get ready to go to class . She wants to be an excellent nurse so that she can help people and when she graduates, she’ll be able to go reunite with her mom.

Back over to DL who is alone with Tito, who is waving something under his nose to revive him. He wakes up . He fills DL in BEFORE untying him. Smart one, that Tito. Tito tells him that Hugo and Alfi have fled in a car.

Next we’re in Sierra Escondida. It’s the creepy administrator guy who won’t do a lick of work, Lauro (?) from Rancho Viejo who has arrived at La Rinconada. He meets Vera, who seems to be in charge of everything there now since Santos is AWOL. She tells him that Santos is in San Mateo and the owners are not in residence. Lauro tells Vera that Luba and Gaspar are at “his farm” Rancho Viejo. Vera beams with excitement.

Back over to Coral’s in Puebla Coral’s in her peignoir and Alina’s in her whites. Coral remarks that “boy it’s early.” After a brief exchange, mentioning Soledad’s absence, Alina takes off. Coral says out loud, “Who could have thought that I’d look on her like a sister.” Not sure if she’s referring to Alina or Soledad.

In Veracruz, Alfi and Hugo have stopped to dispose of the sleazy lawyer’s body. They drag it from the car and push it off a steep slope. Hugo remarks to Alfi that when they get to Puebla, they will split the money and go their separate ways. Alfonsina smirks and using the element of surprise, comes up behind him and pushes him off the slope. He rolls over the SL’s body and ends up nearby. Alfonsina runs back to the car to discover that Hugo has locked it and pocketed the keys. Alfi must make her way down the slope to Hugo’s body to get the keys. She rolls him over and roots around in his pockets and finds the keys. As she turns to go, he comes to and grabs her by the ankle. Ewwww! He looks like a horror movie zombie with his eyeball hanging loose from it’s socket. DISGUSTING!

Finally, we’ve made it over to wherever the flood is and Emilio is helping. Emilio wakes up in his tent and finds Karla fully dressed next to him, asleep on the bed. He’s annoyed. “Again? She won’t give up!” he complains.

Back to the dramatic scene on the cliff with Alfi and Zombie Hugo. Alfi grabs Hugo’s gun and screams at him to let her go. She shoots him and scrambles away. [Note to Hugo: Ya shoulda had a semi automatic, not a revolver. You could have pocketed the magazine with the keys and kept them separately. With a girlfriend like Alfonsina, best not keep a loaded gun within her reach. Oh well. Oops.]

Vera and Lauro, who has made himself at home at La Rinconada are still talking about Luba and Gaspar. Lauro tells Vera that the owner of Rancho Viejo has let them stay on the farm as workers. Vera chimes in that she must not know that they are responsible for the death of the young girl, Florecita. Lauro nods solemnly and say, sure, he’ll be happy to make sure that Vera and her merry band of villagers can get into the ranch so they can come and burn Luba and Gaspar alive. At just that moment, Orlando who apparently has been staying at La R. while searching for Luba and Gaspar, shows up and asks what’s going on. Vera is impactada.

Over at the nursing school, the Nursing teacher tells the class that there has been a change of plans. The nursing students are not going to the old folks home for their service. Instead, they are going to the flood zone where there is a rotavirus outbreak. It’s more dangerous and so she tells them they are free to back out. She smiles when she sees that all the students are re-volunteering, including Alina.
In the flood zone, Emilio and Karla are putting on their boots in Emilio’s tent. Emilio is like “Give it up already, Karla, I’m not into you.” Karla tries to wheedle him that she thought he didn’t look so great yesterday and she just wanted to check on him. She saw him there asleep on his cot and decided to just hop in bed with him. I wouldn’t buy that explanation and neither does Emilio who gives his sucked on a lemon face. He doesn’t want an argument; he just wants her out of his tent. As soon as she leaves, Rodrigo comes in, face contorted in fury. He chortles that Emilio hasn’t wasted any time with the ladies. What would Alina think if she knew that he’d just got outta bed with a new lady friend? Emilio looks unhappy. BUSTED!

Now we’re back with Alfonsina scrambling up the hill. She’s huffing that Hugo was a hypocrite for trying to kill her. Now she got him back. As she crests the hill, who does she meet up with? Don Loco. Don Loco thanks her for having saved him the trouble of killing Hugo. He grabs her and throttles her, telling her that he will have his revenge for her ruining his marriage. Alfonsina begs him to spare her and then proceeds to knee him in the groin. She breaks away and runs to the car. Ooops, dropped the car keys! DL tells her she’s trapped. She runs off and nabs the horse that apparently DL got there on. While she steals the horse, DL grabs the keys and gets into the car.

Back to Emilio and Rodrigo. Rodrigo is still riding Emilio about his womanizing ways. Emilio argues weakly that it wasn’t so. Karla’s just a friend. Rodrigo laughs that off and complains that Alina refused his offer of marriage but wait till she finds out how faithful Emilio has been to her. Emilio is probably supposed to be impactado but you wouldn’t know it.

Back to the climactic scene of Alfonsina escaping Don Loco, horse vs. car. DL sticks a nice engraved silver revolver out the window and starts shooting at Alfi. Eventually, she’s hit and falls to the ground.

Emilio and Rodrigo are still tussling over Alina and Emilio’s apparent lack of faithfulness to her. Rodrigo says although Alina has rejected him, he’s still going to “protect her” by finking on Emilio.

Alina, back in Puebla, calls Coral and tells her that she won’t be home for supper. She’s heading out with the nursing students to the flood zone. Coral tells her to be careful in the scary flood zone.

Over at La Rinconada, Orlando is confronting Vera and Lauro about what he heard about Luba and Gaspar. Vera lies (badly) and claims that Lauro is looking for Luba because he knows she’s a curandera and he’s sick. Lauro catches on quickly that Vera doesn’t want Orlando to know what’s up and agrees that that is why he came. Lauro and Vera leave. Orlando is left standing there like an idiot, musing about how odd it is that everybody is looking for Luba and Gaspar. He will continue his search in nearby areas for them

Rodrigo and Emilio are still pissing back and forth about Alina. Emilio is fed up and complains that he’s done talking. He has nothing to explain. He doesn’t want to go any further to save Karla’s reputation. [Yeah, I did a double take and replayed that when I heard it too.] Emilio stupidly says that when he left Puebla, Rodrigo and Alina were engaged. [That item doesn’t really make him sound innocent.] Rodrigo says that it didn’t take him long to jump in bed with the first woman who crossed his path. Just when things are heating up, Frank comes in and says they’ve got to go.

At la Rinconada, Vera sees Ifigenio coming downstairs carrying off a rug [what? Is he going to sell it on ebay?] and she explains to him and to us that Santos is off taking care of his sick mom and Jaime is out of town for two weeks [no reason given]. But guess what? She’s found out where Luba and Gaspar are! She’s talked to a guy from Rancho Viejo who knows that they are there. Ifigenio is all ready to run over there, torches ‘a burning but Vera tells him that Orlando overheard her conversation with the Rancho Viejo guy and undoubtedly, as a representative of the state, he will want to have Luba and Gaspar turned in to the authorities, not burned at the stake by the villagers. They’ll have to be stealthy. Vera will make sure that Orlando is occupied and then Ifigenio can go and round up a posse.


Out in the boonies, Don Loco is tracking the wounded Alfonsina. She gets up and tries to run away. It’s hard to see where’s she’s been hit, maybe the hip or the back. She doesn’t get very far when Don Loco drives up and hits her with the car. She falls on the ground again, panicked. DL jumps out of the car and mumbles “Here’s where you pay, you disgrace!” He whips out the revolver and shoots her in the forehead. Goodbye Alfonsina!

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Back in Veracruz, Tito is now being interrogated by the cops who are trailing Don Loco. Tito tells them that he left pursuing Hugo and Alfonsina who had stolen a bunch of money. He doesn’t know where. When the cops leave, Tito says to himself that he hopes Don Loco caught up to them—“They didn’t give me my money.” Geez, what a cold-hearted little bastard!

Meanwhile, DL has gone back to where the other two bodies are lying, Hugo and his Sleazy Lawyer, Mauro’s. Apparently he just wanted to have a chat with Mauro’s corpse. He tells him that he’s sorry he has to leave him behind. He needs to get away before the police catch him. His plan is to make Soledad forgive him and to “take her far away.” [Oooh! Sounds like kidnapping to me!] He stops to taunt Hugo’s corpse before waking up hill.

Alina is travelling in an open truck with about 7 or 8 student nurses headed to the flood zone. [What? Army nurses in Mexico wear their hospital whites while on campaign in a rural disaster? I doubt it.] Anyway, It looks like a lonely soldier’s dream come true…eh, Chris? Alina is orange flashbacking the altercation at Edelmira’s between Soledad and her crazy Daddy, when Soledad is horrified to find out that he stashed her in a bordello. She looks sad and the teacher asks her what’s wrong. She thinks it’s boy trouble with Emilio. Alina tells her [over the din of the road] that it’s her mom she was thinking about, her dad is sick, mentally ill of jealousy…made all their lives hell, went to jail, escaped…blah blah blah.

Vera is seeing off Orlando, she’s brought him some food for his trip canvassing the area looking for Luba and Gaspar. She tells him that maybe Luba is being hidden by the priest, Padre Cristobal. Orlando looks intrigued, he thanks her and leaves. Without the food. Vera gets all twitchy-bitchy and chortles to herself that Orlando will spend the entire day getting to the church and meanwhile, they’ll be having roast Luba and Gaspar over at Rancho Viejo. Man, did Vera get a personality transplant or what? Whatever happened to dumb, happy face Vera?


At Rancho Viejo Gaspar and Luba are helping Raquel feed the cattle. All of the sudden, Raquel doubles over in pain. At first Luba tries to calm her and makes her breathe some herbs that she just happens to have with her. She tells her that some women are more delicate than others in pregnancy but that she has nothing to worry about, “You are a female of strong stock.” Then Luba bends down to listen to Raquel’s belly and jumps up impactada—“Caray!” she says.

Back in the military vehicle, Alina has finished telling her tale of woe to the Teacher Nurse, whose name apparently is Valentina. Valentina says she admires Alina even more, knowing her family history. She admires her generosity helping other people when she has other problems. Alina says there’s not too much she can do for her mom right now anyway. Valentina changes tack and tells Alina that if she’s going to be distracted, that will be a problem on this mission, since it’s so dangerous. Alina assures her she won’t be.

Karla, Rodrigo, Emilio head off in a jeep through the countryside to do some more flood management stuff. Rodrigo has come with reinforcements to relieve the volunteers from the community who are tired out and ill. Karla gets out to talk to some of the residents and makes some insinuating comments about seeing Emilio later. After she goes, Emilio tells Rodrigo that he knows what he’s thinking but there is nothing between him and Karla. He stops cold and tells him that they’ve got to work together on this project, put their differences aside because the work is difficult and dangerous and if they don’t pull together, their men and the victims will be at risk. He extends his hand and Rodrigo shakes it.

Finally, we have a glimpse at Claudia’s unhappy home. Recall that in the last episode, Angel brazenly confronted Rosendo over the theft of the dresses from Coral’s boutique and his attempts at assaulting his stepdaughter. Rosendo tells her to get rid of Angel she will be sorry and he grabs her face and tries to kiss her right there. Claudia screams at him and tries to get away.

Back at Rancho Viejo, Raquel is alarmed at Luba’s reaction, listening to her belly. Luba doesn’t want to tell her right away. Gaspar asks if the baby is going to be born soon. Luba says no. There is still aways to go. But…she’s going to have more than a child. She’s having twins! Luba and Raquel are all smiles.
From the sublime to the awful---Claudia breaks away and grabs a pan from the stove. She hurls the contents at Rosendo’s crotch and runs out the door. Hope it was hot, whatever it was.

Next we check in with Soledad and Elias at their hotel in San Mateo. Soledad is freaking out. She’s sure Alvaro will find them. Elias tries to comfort her and even suggests that they go take a walk. Soledad is uncertain that this is a good idea but Elias tells her that yes, this is THE LAST PLACE that her crazy husband would look for her.

Over in Puebla, Coral is talking to Angel at the boutique. Claudia still hasn’t arrived and she’s worried. Angel is concerned too, Rosendo is a piece of work. Coral can’t believe that Claudia’s mother won’t listen to her own daughter, “How can there be mothers like that?” she exclaims and pounds the table for emphasis. At last, Claudia rushes in crying. She says that she can’t go home again. She asks Angel for his help.

In San Mateo, Orlando has arrived at the Church. Padre Cristobal is out of town. [OK, we’ve lost Jaime, Santos, Rosita and now Padre Cristobal…instead of SESD now we have Sierra Escondida disappearing disease SEDD. ] Orlando tells the new priest to get in touch with him if he sees Luba or Gaspar. The priest asks why he wants them and Orlando gives some lame excuse. Just then, a woman rushes up to the priest and tells him that they found Luba and Gaspar and that they are at Rancho Viejo. Orlando gives his classic shifty eyed smile.

Soledad and Elias are out strolling in San Mateo. She doesn’t want to talk about Alvaro anymore. She’s done with him. He asks if she is going to divorce Alvaro. She says yes and he immediately kisses her. Although she looks uncomfortable, in the next second, she is telling him that yes, he should have hope, that she will see him as more than a friend. She wants a little more time to divorce DL and then put the whole nightmare behind her. Elias is ecstatic and tells her that he’s waited years for this, what’s a few more?


Over in the flood zone, the nurses have arrived. Karla shows up to give them instructions, like that they have to wear masks so as not to spread the contagion of rotavirus. Valentina goes over to look at some patients and calls out Alina’s name to come help her. Karla is impactada and orange flashback’s Emilio calling out for Alina in his sleep.

Karla goes over to Alina and asks her if she knows Emilio Valtierra. Alina says yes and asks Karla the same thing. Karla says …yes…”we’re goooood friends.” Alina looks puzzled behind her mask but says nothing. Karla looks dissatisfied at her lack of a jealous reaction. She interrupts again and asks Valentina what the experience level of the student nurses is. Valentina tells her that they all have varying degrees of experience but that Alina is a recently registered student. Karla tells Valentina huffily that Alina can’t be permitted to work. It would be too risky for the victims to have someone inexperienced working there. Alina now looks impactada behind her mask.

Next we are at Vargas’ the prosecutor’s office when Dra. Loca walks in. Varga tells her that DL hasn’t tried to kidnap his wife. Just then the phone rings and there’s news—DL has been spotted in Veracruz with a trail of bodies behind him, including his own lawyer. Dra. Loca says now, for sure DL will try to get at his wife and she runs a grave risk if she is with Elias.

At Coral’s boutique, Coral and Angel are comforting Claudia. They are trying to convince her to denounce him. Coral points out that that is why there are men like Rosendo, because nobody stops them. Angel urges Claudia to ‘fess up to the Coral about everything. Claudia finally grudgingly allows that Rosendo was responsible for the robbery of the boutique. Coral is impactado.

In the flood zone clinic, we are still at the standoff between Karla and Alina, with Valentina in the middle. Valentina argues that Alina is the best student in her class and that in addition, she’s an expert in natural medicine. Karla laughs this off and says that natural medicine is inferior to scientific medicine and that people will only be treated with scientific medicine here. Karla insists that Alina leave and be responsible decontaminating the linens and clothing (I think this means she’s got laundry duty). Valentina starts to protest but Alina tells her not to worry, she’ll be fine. She has done this kind of work before. She takes off her mask and leaves. Karla smirks behind her mask. I am sure she’s thinking, SCORE!


Over at Rancho Viejo, Vera has shown up with the villagers and their unlit sticks, rakes and pitchforks. It’s broad daylight anyway so the effect wouldn’t be that dramatic if they were lit. Lauro urges them to be quiet and sneak around so that Luba and Gaspar don’t escape.

Over at the flood zone clinic, it’s not over yet between Valentina and Karla. Valentina reproaches Karla for having mistreated Alina. Karla is now super insulting to Valentina. She says that if Alina didn’t want to do dirty work, she should have stayed home with Mommy and Daddy. Valentina takes umbrage at this, saying that Karla has no idea what Alina had to do to get there and she has no right to be so insulting. Valentina rips off her latex gloves and leaves in a huff to go talk to Alina. Karla looks ticked.

Frank, Rodrigo and Emilio are out in the woods. Emilio remarks that another storm is coming soon, that they’d better get a move on with evacuations. Rodrigo tells Emilio to go report on their progress to General Ochoa. Emilio pauses to thank Rodrigo for all his help. Rodrigo says that although they make a good team, and that he’s grateful for the work Emilio did in helping to find Gaby, they will never be friends, because of Alina. Emilio nods.

Meanwhile, back at the Ranch (Rancho Viejo) Raquel is starting to reconsider whether trying to hold on to the ranch is such a great idea after all. With two kids on the way, the task seems more daunting. Luba tries to encourage her by telling her that with two kids, she should want the ranch even more. The children will grow up strong and healthy in the country instead of the city.

[Sorry, tivo cut off here—Tune in tomorrow, I guess, when the villagers arrive and try to burn Luba at the stake!]

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