Caray, Caray!

• We open with Nidia gloating over the pain she caused her onetime rival Ana by returning Ana's paintings. (Ana had supposed them to have been purchased at the gallery by strangers impressed by her talent but now realizes they were all bought by her doting lover Samuel. She fears nobody else will ever want her art and decides to quit painting.)
  
  Alirio admires Nidia's thirst for vengeance but warns her again it may have unforeseen consequences. Nidia retorts she doesn't just want Ana to lose, "I want her licking my shoes."
  
  
• Ana is so disheartened she wants to take Nidia up on Wednesday's offer to "Take this one-time offer: a big wad of cash and leave town forever." The idea incenses Paula.
  
  
• Marely continues mocking Juan for his constant stream of lies and suggests: "if you want people to trust you, don't lie." He continues to promise her work. She wonders how he's going to tell everybody that the marvellous Fernando is not a wealthy impresario but a chauffeur. "I'll fix it." "With more lies?"
  
  
• Marely can be quite sarcastic, thus our tenderhearted Juan's a bit depressed. "One day honey over flakes, the next day nothing."
  
  He perks up as he arrives at Paula's door after "four days without my strawberry-mouthed beauty," but she's wretched too. She tells him the seminar was fine, it was "other stuff" that got her down. She asks how things have been going for him. "Mas o menos (more or less) trending towards menos..." "Is there anything I can help you with?" "Yes, you can sweeten our bitter problems with your sugared kisses," he thoughtbubbles, but is silent until after the commercial. Then he thinks: "She's bitten by the little ant of curiosity, it's the right time to ask..." Out loud: "As a matter of fact, Licenciada, I have a cousin who needs work urgently, her father died recently, she's a hard-worker..." "Well, as a matter of fact, Juan, I need a secretary/personal assistant urgently, can the cousin come interview this very day?" Of course, exults Juan.
  
  
• Also exulting is Pastor as he tells Yvonne he'll explode if he doesn't share the joy of his weekend with Juan (blackmailed, owing to his urgent need for a salary advance, into nigh-constant attendance upon the little fellow). She wants to know if they got busy, but Pastor loftily informs her there are things more important than pleasures of the flesh. "He was a tender angel, he came upon me when I was drunk but didn't take advantage, what a gentleman, he put me to bed... he went out to lunch with me and Mommy." Yvonne is incredulous, he didn't run away from the harpie? "No, he was patient... He's so sensitive, I'll have to move forward with feet of lead, I love the slow fire of seduction."
  
  
• While Pastor is waggling his rear end, slowly, as some sort of visual aid (isn't this the waggle bees use when showing other bees where to find the clover?), Cesar Luis comes up from behind and asks him to come in his office. "Here is a giant heap of boring educational materials I got at the seminar. I want you to educate yourself with it in case my wife Monika grills you - I told her you were there with me." Then Cesar says he'll explode if HE doesn't share HIS problems. He begins. (Yawn.)
  
  Gaitan: "You've always liked fresh meat here at the office. Is it just sexual this time, another of your usual conquests, or are feelings involved?" "I'm in love with Paula!" "Did you get busy?" "A gentleman never remembers things like that." "If you want a helpful diagnosis you're going to have to tell." "OK, OK, we did it...
  
  "And now I want to ask Monika for a separation, but she tells me she's pregnant. We never wanted kids! I'm so confused! What do you think?" "I think you should continue on with both of them for a while..." "But my passion is burning me!" "That's when men make their worst decisions. Give it time. On the one hand, there's stability, and Monika is a great woman. On the other side, there's adventure, the unknown... Divorce would be a financial disaster. If you're not completely sure, don't make a decision you might live to regret."
  
  
• Juan arrives in the vehicular underworld and cheerily asks Fernando, "How're they hanging?" (uvas=grapes) Fernando grumpily asks for the money Juan borrowed. "Did we breakfast with the scorpions?" (Get up on the wrong side of the bed.) asks Juan.
  
  He calls Marely and tells her to come for her interview. Marely jumps up to get dressed and Yadira decides she'd like to go too, she wants to see Fernando. Marely says they don't work in the same place and men don't like to be bothered at work. "If you try to give him a surprise, the one who is surprised might be you!" Yadira knows there's more to this but can't squeeze it out of her little sister.
  
  
• Gaitan gives Juan the promised authorization for an advance - accompanied, as usual, with more complacent bull-hockey about mutual cooperation and understanding etc.
  
  
• Pastor's secretary tells Juan somebody's waiting for him. He squeaks excitedly thinking it'll be Marely, but it's Enrique instead (here to get the money Juan owes). Oh no! Now, Juan notes bitterly, all the extras (who are standing around in the background throughout this whole episode doing nothing) will think he squeaked for joy about Kike and his reputation will be further damaged. He gets on his knees and crawls past to avoid his irritable creditor.
  
  
• The Silver Fox enters Paula's lair, closes her shades, and delivers a long repetitive monologue about "lo nuestro" - our relationship. It boils down to, he wants to keep shagging her. He strokes her thigh, guácala! She says "It was a mistake and I don't want to make any more mistakes. Come back when you're a free man."
  
  
• Meanwhile, Monika arrives to give her hubbie a friendly surprise. In classic farcical style, Yvonne is delighted and keeps trying to make sure Monika catches her husband with Paula while Pastor desperately runs interference, hissing to Yvonne that her attempts to get Caesar busted will end in ruination for all of them.
  
  Yvonne, a woman scorned, doesn't really care. She goes into Cesar's office, where Monika is waiting, and is enthusing to her about what a romantic place Taxco is, and it's too bad Monika couldn't get there, and she's getting ready to reveal that CL's companion throughout the banana-tinted extravaganza was - not a short fat guy - but a tall dishy gal with expensive cleavage - when - in swoops the short fat guy! He stops Yvonne mid-revelation and she stumps out frustrated.
  
  Pastor chats with Monika about all the excellent educational materials he got educated with in Taxco.
  
  
• Yvonne warns Cesar, fresh from his nauseating meeting with Paula, that she plans to snitch on him! He mocks, "there's no grief like that of somebody who's sad because somebody else is happy."
  
  "You won't be happy long, cause your wife's in your office." Muy impactado, Cesar orders Pastor to keep Paula occupied for ten minutes. He slides into his office and tries, very poorly, to look all happy that his wife has come to visit.
  
  She says she wants him to go to a doctor's appointment with her in an hour. "Let's go now." "We don't have to, there's plenty of time." "No, the traffic's just horrible! Let's leave right this second."
  
  
• Paula tells Pastor she needs a secretary right away (the previous one was fired at the same time as her corrupt boss) and she has one in mind, Juan's hardworking cousin. For some reason this makes Pastor impactado.
  
  
• Kike mocks Juan, who's now queueing up trying to get his check: "The big executive has to stand in line like an ordinary mortal!" "We have a magical word, DEMOCRACY, here. And we have three basic philosophical principles:
  
  1. Ponte trucha Make yourself a trout?
     
  2. Don't sleep
     
  3. Punctuality.
  Kike sneers: "You're the big right-hand man and the cashier doesn't even know your name?" "She's new, don't embarrass her." Juan is mortified by how tiny his check is and shows it to Kike, it won't even make a dent in what he owes. It's all a stalemate and will be resolved later.
  
  
• Ana kaffeeklatches with her friend Rosario, who has lost her job, along with a bunch of other people at her place of employ (Cachon Transportation), including Alirio!
  
  
• The recently-fired Alirio indignantly tells Nidia he was the brain of the business and they'll end in ruin without him. She says she doesn't care, he'll find something else, but he better not be thinking of mooching off her, and "you better keep forking out, or there's not gonna be a marriage." (apoquinar = "fork out")
  
  He fondly calls her materialistic and says he'll now be a free agent. In the meantime, he emptied Samuel's lockbox and got lots of important papers plus the checkbook (which Alirio claims to have burned, because he's an honest man).
  
  "And did you check that one little detail?" "Yes, Nidia, I did, and guess what - Ana Davila's house is in Samuel's name, so according to the fake will I forged for you, you own it along with everything else! I'm the man!"
  
  Nidia goes into venal rapture, chanting "MIO MIO MIO," (mine mine mine), her personal mantra. She wants to put Ana out on the street. Alirio again warns her not to push her luck, but she can't stop gloating. She calls Ana immediately with the happy news: "I own your house, you'll be on the street soon."
  
  Ana gets a resolute, angry look on her face, and will hold that face till it freezes, or that is, until Monday.

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