Caray, Caray!

The show starts with Diego picking up Diego, Roommate, and Gaspar the fabulous designer from LA, he wants to take them out to get some nice dinner. Roommate is worried about something to wear, Gaspar the fabulous says he’ll fix him up.

Mo interrupts Andres and Leo’s getting busy (BLEAH) to rip Andres a new one, as 5ft detailed yesterday. Mo threatens to put them both out on the street if they don’t get their acts together. Something is up with Leo, I think she may be a victim of a bad facelift or something. She looks like a mannequin come to life. Something is just off there.

GSD talks to Arnaldo. Arnaldo says maybe he and Azul haven’t been very fair with GSD and Ines. GSD talks about leaving Ines, maybe he’d be happier, he still has this great job, etc. Arnaldo tries to dissuade him, not sure why. GSD says he’s not too old to find another woman, right? Well well well. He has shared lusty glances twice with hoochie-clothed Emilia and he’s already planning to dump his 15 year girlfriend for her. Emilia is the hotter of the two and so far Ines is far bitchier, so based on that I see where he’s coming from, but his problems with Ines at the moment are entirely his own fault, so I don’t know what to think here. Arnaldo still tries to tell him that he should stay with Ines. GSD says he’s just soooo tired. Arnaldo says GSD is just tired from keeping everything inside, he’ll be ok. He kept repeating “vas a estar bien” over and over, it reminded me of Robin Williams telling Matt Damon “It’s not your fault.”

Andres is back in his suit now, he’s pulling a suitcase behind him. Leo unfortunately is still in her bedwear. She wants him to stay, now isn’t a good time to take a vacation, he isn’t in the right frame of mind. He says it isn’t a vacation, he’s leaving for good. Mo doesn’t trust him the same way any more. She tries to tell him things will be ok, Diego and Azul will be gone, Andres says no way, they aren’t going anywhere. Leo tries to calm him down, but Andres says Mo told them on the first day, if they fail they are gone, and he failed. Leo starts fussing about what she’s going to do without him. She starts crying and all that, they start to make out but he pulls away and says please don’t make this harder. She wants to be with him, he says they’ll always be together. Whatever that means.

Arnaldo reports to Azul on his discussion with GSD. He tells her that for the first time GSD seemed emotional, Azul asks if GSD was drunk. HA good one Azul. Arnaldo feels like the wall between him and his father is coming down. Azul isn’t ready to forgive just yet, no matter how much Arnaldo says he was nicer and all that.

Abuelo is eating with his roommate and Fabulous Gaspar, Abuelo is worried about Diego. He thinks he’s in over his head, he’s suspicious. DUH. Nobody just walks into that kind of money. Abuelo wants to know what’s up but doesn’t want to ask Diego anything, he doesn’t want to upset him. Gaspar says his boss from back in LA is ready to open his boutique in Mexico, he’s inviting Diego, Mo, Azul, all the people with mucha lana to come to the opening. Then he grins with his cartoonishly huge teeth, I was waiting for him to then take a bite out of the table or something. That grin took me by surprise, it looked like something from a horror movie.

Azul comes to see Mo in his office, Leo follows soon after with coffee, everyone is nervous. Leo says she’s fine and slumps out. Mo says she has been like that for a few days since Andres left. Azul asks if Mo fired Andres, he says he left because he failed in something. When Azul asks how he failed, Mo turns ugly in a hurry and snaps at her that it’s nothing important. What a dick.

Diego’s mom calls Mo looking for Diego. She ends up telling Mo thanks and all that for all his help. He says he’s going to send a car to pick them up so they can all have lunch together. After Mo hangs up, Diego arrives, Mo tells him the news. Then Mo says he’s going to show GSD his new workplace. Azul asks isn’t he going to work in the new lab? Mo says no, he has a new place for him. Mo leaves, Azul and Diego are alone again. For the 100^th time. Azul looks good with glasses. They discuss how they don’t understand why Mo invited his parents, she goes off to see what Leo is preparing for the meal. Diego’s cell rings, it’s his woman. She is very suspicious of the whole meal thing, he invites her to come and she loses it. She says he just wants to show her off to Azul (why is she mad about that? Before she was mad that he DIDN’T tell Azul about her) and that she can’t go, Mo killed her son. Diego tries to calm her down, but Morticia says he’s in love with Azul and she can’t put up with it and hangs up on him. Diego looks lost. Well, he got himself into this mess, I’m not feeling tons of pity for him.

Mo and GSD meet in the same room that Paco was discovered in. I’m guessing that Mo is about to show him the super secret virus room. Mo puts a document in front of GSD, some sort of confidentiality agreement. GSD wants to know what’s going on, all he sees is a reception area and a door, what is this business that is going on anyway? Mo says to sign the paper and then he’ll know everything. GSD signs the paper without reading it. Mo opens up his little laptop and dramatically puts in the code to open the door.

Morticia whines to Gloria about Diego and Azul. Then she whines about what she’ll do if she loses him. Gloria just tells her everything she wants to hear.

Mo is trying to get Leo to buck up, she just complains about Andres being replaced. Mo says he isn’t trying to replace him. He tells her to do what she has to do, she says she always does. She talks back a little and Mo snaps back at her to do what he orders. Then he kisses her on the cheek and leaves.

Gloria wants to take Morticia out to Garibaldi (someone explain to me better what that is, my wife says it’s an area of Mexico with lots of Mariachi, but it’s not a nice place) but Miss Gloomy doesn’t want to go. Eventually she agrees to go but only if she doesn’t have to sing. Gloria starts singing, it’s better than Singing Aunt from Duelo, thank God.

Diego’s parents arrive at Casa Malicia. They are impressed with the house. Diego’s mom tells Mo that Diego’s girlfriend was going to come but something came up. Mo says “I didn’t know you had a girlfriend, did you finally work it out with that girl of yoru dreams?” Diego and Azul just “um uh” and they move on. Diego hints that he argued with Morticia but doesn’t want to talk about it. Diego and Azul exchange looks while drinks are poured. Diego finally says that his girlfriend is not the same woman that he was dreaming about before, his mom pipes up to say that his girlfriend is sooo awesome. Yeah right. She’s psycho and she went into this with Diego with her eyes CLOSED. She knows he loves someone else and used sex to snare him. Whatever. Clemencia goes on and on about how great she is. Caty shows up, everyone loves her, kids always melt the ice in a room. Clemencia says she’s a teacher for orphans or something, Caty says “for kids with no mom, like me?” Then she says Azul is going to be her mom, more looks between Diego and Azul. Azul says Diego talks about his mom a lot but when she says “what does he say?” Azul has no answer. Somehow Diego and Azul end up alone in the other room and start bickering, Azul wants to know if he fought with his woman and wants to know how she suffered so much, Diego tells her to butt out. Manuel finally comes in to unwittingly break it up. He tells Azul that he wishes Lidia could have come, but she’s having a bad time now. Everyone else enters the room and they start talking about Lidia and Paco, then about how Paco is missing. Mo and Leo listen intently. Diego’s parents say how it is strange that Paco hasn’t even contacted Diego, they were best friends since they were kids. Diego says yes, he can’t believe he hasn’t heard from him. Manuel says he didn’t like Paco for his daughter anyway. He turns to Mo and says when Caty is older he’ll understand. Mo nervously drops his glass on the ground, it shatters. He looks quite discombobulated. He obviously didn’t realize Paco’s relationship to everyone. Leo calls the maid to clean up. Azul tries to change the subject by saying Paco is sure to turn up and everyone will be happy. Mo asks Clemencia if she would like to live outside the city,, in this nice air, she says yes, Mo says Diego will surely help her with that sooner or later. Leo whispers in Mo’s ear and Mo excuses himself. Manuel turns to Azul and tells some bad joke about her name, I didn’t catch it. Diego asks why they didn’t name him Azulado? His mom tsks him.

Mo goes into his office to find Piero talking on his cell phone, evidently to Lidia. He is telling her that he’s sure she wants to see him again, then he says that Paco won’t ever come back to her after what he saw. Mo moves quietly so he can overhear the conversation. Piero is conveniently facing away from the door to allow this. I guess Lidia hangs up on him, then he discovers Mo standing there. He tells Mo that it was the dumb girl he was telling him about before. Mo asks her name, Piero says “Lidia Moran.” Ominous music. Piero says he wanted to end it, but he can’t stay away from her. Then almost as an afterthought, he says ‘yeah I know I’m an idiot.’ Mo asks him if her family knows what’s going on, Piero tells him about when Manuel threatened him and when Abuelo caught him feeling Lidia up at the house. He disregards them as immaterial people. Mo listens with interest. He reminds me of Bertha from Heridas here, always filing away information for a later date. Piero changes the subject back to their agreement. Mo says he sent him an e-mail, uh oh Piero says he didn’t check his e-mail. They talk business, Piero wants to know if Mo told him what type of business it’s going to be, Mo says it’s private. Mo asks him to leave by the back door, he’ll explain later. Piero accepts this without question, I would have wondered why.

The meal has ended, now it’s dark out and you can hear crickets. Diego’s parents thank everyone, Mo walks them out. Diego and Azul somehow end up alone AGAIN. Diego wants to know if she’s leaving, she says no, she’s staying because she has things to do tomorrow. He actually asks her if she’s going to sleep with Mo. These two need to grow up. Mo returns, Diego leaves. Mo and Azul agree that Diego’s family is great. She immediately says she’s tired and disappears. Mo looks after her suspiciously, then goes to the lobby of the super secret virus room. He gets a phone call. He tells the other person that tonight no, his girlfriend is there and also he wants a peaceful weekend. He hangs up, then looks at GSD through a camera and tells him that’s enough, go home. GSD wants to stay and work, finally Mo orders him to leave. He heaves a sigh and gets up to leave. I wonder – normally GSD can’t go 30 seconds without a smoke, yet somehow he can work in a sterile environment for an entire night without a smoke break? I don’t buy it.

Diego and parents arrive home, Lidia is there. They explain where they were, at Mo’s house. Lidia says she didn’t find a job, nothing pays enough. Also, Paco hasn’t called. Diego also wonders where the hell Paco is. Clemencia goes on about how wonderful Mo is, Diego walks her off to bed while she chatters on about Leo being so serious, etc. Lidia goes to bed, leaving Diego and his father to drink a couple beers. When they are alone, Manuel says “You’ve got it bad for her, huh?” Diego says “Silvana?” Manuel says “No you idiot, Azul!” He wants to know what’s up with her. Diego says he isn’t saying anything. Manuel prods a bit, Diego finally says there’s something there, but she’s marrying Mo. Manuel says they have to figure out what to do. Diego says Azul can’t decide between them, Manuel says if she marries Mo it will be hard for her to work with Diego. Nothing new here, but it’s strange to hear Manuel suddenly be Diego’s drinking/talking about woman buddy. And Silvana? Diego says he cares about her but doesn’t lover her. Manuel says he better do something now, Silvana is so delicate and he can’t hurt her. Diego says that chasing Azul isn’t really being a traitor to Mo, since Mo hired him for 90,000 pesos per month, minus taxes, minus paying him back, etc. Manuel says this is a good salary, he doesn’t understand. Diego then explains the deal with Burgay, so he doesn’t really work for Mo after all. After explaining that Mo technically can’t fire him, and that the house and everything really belong to Burgay, Manuel says “Damn then take the woman!” Manuel really wants to be a drinking buddy, just listen to him talk. Diego says that he doesn’t want to turn against Mo like that, even if it wouldn’t cost him his job, Mo has been very good to him.

Mo is out at a bar with the same guy who was pressuring him the other day. He’s pressuring him again. Mo says he has certain things that are vital, without them there isn’t any business, kind of issuing a reverse threat. The other guy says “You want me to tell Santoro that? He’ll be here in a couple days.” Mo pales visibly, “Uh when is he coming?” In a couple days, and he wants RESULTS. Mo says he’ll have them and he gets up and leaves.

Gloria brings some bread to Diego’s house early. She kibitzes with Diego’s mom about Diego and Morticia having an argument the day before. Gloria is worried that Silvana will have a regression to her previous extra-gloomy ways. Clemencia says everything will be fine, if they want to be together they’ll be together, if not then no. Gloria says that’s easy for her to say, Diego is sane, but Silvana lost her child and if she loses the love of her life she’ll go nuts again and they’ll all feel guilty. Clemencia says no, and she doesn’t want Gloria coming to her house telling her crap like that. If she is so worried about Morticia, then she should go do something to help her, not come over here and make trouble. Gloria leaves snottily, taking the bread back on her way out.

Azul tells Arnaldo that Diego’s mom was so nice, he laughs and calls her ‘the perfect mother in law.’ (My wife comments that this doesn’t exist, I choose not to take offense. It’s true, nobody is perfect.) Arnaldo teases her some more. The parents are there, and Mo, and nobody suspects anything. She asks him for help, how can she stop feeling what she feels? He doesn’t have any real answer. She says she’s going to talk to Emilia. Arnaldo’s phone rings, he’s getting dramatic news. He says “I didn’t think you would call me again. You’re coming? When? Yes, I think we should talk. Give me your flight number, I’ll pick you up.” This must be the man who broke his heart in Brazil.

Diego arrives at Gloria’s, she testily lets him in. She says Gloria isn’t home, he asks to wait and she says “yes, I’m not going to run you out like your mother did to me.” Diego is surprised to hear this. She tells the story, one-sided of course, leaving out all the fine points. Diego says that the thing with Diego and Silvana is their own problem, Gloria says it’s her problem too. Gloria basically orders him to make nice with Silvana, he says he’ll be with her because he wants to, not because she orders him to. Gloria calls him out on loving Azul. He says he wants to love Silvana but he can’t. Silvana shows up and says he shouldn’t be there. He tries to explain but she won’t listen. He asks what he is supposed to do – she says she knows he can’t quit and she knows that Azul won’t leave. He says yeah, so then what? Silvana says she’ll just have to live in misery. He says he doesn’t want to hurt her. She says she would rather lose him than be close to Mo and his people, they are bad. Diego says he needs her help to not be like them, she says no, he needs Azul, not her. She just needs peace. She asks him to leave and leave her in peace, then says to get out of her life. Well then! He leaves, she cries. I’m sure she’ll be back to gloomy up the place soon enough.

Monday – some blonde woman with drug-addict black eyes shows up (is she Santoro?) at La Casa Malicia and tries to seduce Diego, or something like that. She looks like she doesn’t blink (reminds me of Marcia from La Fea) and tries way too hard to be sexy without really succeeding. We’ll see how that turns out.

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