Caray, Caray!

Dragon Lady takes her leave of Diego by the hotel room door. She kisses him on the cheek.

He calls someone on the cell to complain that no one told him Santoro was a woman. I’m not sure if it was Burgay he was talking to.

Mo Calls Burgay. They talk about GSD’s failure to achieve results even though he worked all night. Mo calls Azul to tell her to get there early before 10 am and make sure she looks great. Azul is PO’d.

Arnaldo is meeting with his old boyfriend. BF (Julio? what is his name?) says he really cares about Arnaldo. Arnaldo can’t yet forgive him for what he did. I don’t know what he did. Does anyone? BF asks how it went when Arnaldo came out to Pop. Arnaldo says that he thinks his father always suspected he was gay and didn’t say anything. Now that the suspicions were confirmed, things are terrible. BF seems to want to make up. Arnaldo seems to need more time.

Now it’s morning. Diego brings Santoro to the compound. Azul is pissy when she discovers Santoro is a woman. Santoro wants Martinis at 10 AM. Burgay takes Diego over to the bar to show how she likes them made (shaken not stirred?). Diego serves Santoro, and she is very flirty. Azul is not happy.

GSD comes in, and Santoro wants to talk to him alone. Santoro comments that Mo has a pretty girlfriend. When GSD goes out with Santoro, Azul stomps out of the room. Mo asks where she’s going, and she says she has things to do. She says he is deceitful (tramposo). He says she is acting like a stupid child. She says that woman is odious! He says something about how her father signed a contract and if he doesn’t fulfill it he could go to prison. (This is a bizarre threat. I can’t believe Mexican law is so different from U.S., but you can’t go to prison for quitting your job here–they abolished slavery awhile ago!)

Now for the conversation between GSD and Santoro. I found this a little confusing even though I replayed it a few times. I think she said she wanted results by Friday, and he said that was impossible. Then he asked her where the epidemic was that they wanted to stop, and she said it was somewhere in Africa, but she wouldn’t tell him where. He wanted to go to Africa to check it out, since that was the proper scientific method. But no–she wanted to avoid a worldwide panic. Everything must be secret. She’s a business woman, not a scientist. Once they have the formula, everyone in the world will want it. She won’t tell him what this is really all about, but she assured him it was legal. Look, just tell me what you need for this project–money is no object. Just don’t ask any questions. If you find the formula I will put you in charge at the highest levels of science? (I really could not make any sense of the last sentence). Music of doom swells!

Diego asks Burgay how one woman could be so young and beautiful (?) and yet so powerful. Burgay suspects there is something between Azul and Diego and tells him that he must not act on it. He will not permit anything like that while this project is pending. Just then Mo walks in. What won’t you permit? Burgay covers–he was just telling Diego that he won’t let anything interfere with the project.

Santoro asks Diego if he is afraid of something. or of her? She mentions to Mo that she noticed his pretty girlfriend left. I missed something else here.

Burgay and Mo rehash. Burgay lords it over Mo by reminding him of his superior contribution to the enterprise: Mo says he found Toscano and Diego. Burgay reminds Mo that Mo had offered Diego a terrible salary and Burgay was responsible for getting him on board. Diego is going to be extremely valuable now. Santoro would cut heads if there are no results, but Diego is the perfect distraction (he actually said sedante, or sedative). He buys us time. He’s worth his weight in gold.

Azul is complaining to Ceci and Arnaldo about Mo. She can’t believe the way all the men were kneeling before the odious Santoro just because she’s beautiful (?). Ceci asks why she’s so angry. She seems to say that she was hit in the liver (I guess in the gut), when she saw Diego. So she’s jealous. Yes a little. Diego is the problem, they all say. Just when she was going to call off the wedding, she’s now seeing that Diego seems to be running off with yet another woman. (what a pair!).

Now they change the subject and discuss Arnaldo’s meeting with BF. Azul asks if he’s going back with him, and Arnaldo isn’t sure. They quickly change the topic back to Azul and Diego. Ceci recommends enjoying pizza and a DVD to forget.

Meanwhile, Diego takes Dragon Lady back to her hotel. She asks him in, and he coyly demurs. She tells him not to be stupid–she’s not going to do anything. Do you think I’m going to put on a see through robe and go in the hot tub? No, just come in. He looks both ways behind him in the hall and then ducks in quickly. End of show!

(BTW, I am not recording the coming attraction scenes because the recording has to be set to run over by five minutes. I don't like to do that because it then interferes with recording other shows that start at 9 PM. So I will not be able to report on each day's coming scenes.)

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