Caray, Caray!

I'd help if I could ,but my allergies have kicked in and I can't remember what happened to me yesterday..let alone Friday on a telenovela. I can tell you that I think I spotted our Annndresss in the preview for the new telenovela ''Passion''...he's wearing a white wig , but I'm pretty sure it's Marcelo...I recognized his voice. Sorry I can't help except to say that I'm pretty sure Azul was moping.
 

Sorry, I already erased mine. Too bad you didn't let us know yesterday. I did watch it, and like susanlynn, I can't remember a thing. It seems like a big blur. A lot of rehashing or filler type action.
 

Sorry from me as well! I'm currently sitting in a hotel, where I'll be for the next 6 days. We don't even get Univision as an option. And to think I had hopes of getting caught up while I was away.

I won't be able to recap Thursday's episode either, and to date, no one has been able to volunteer. Any takers for this Thursday?

I wasn't able to even watch. I hope I didn't miss Aahndres!

Good luck with the DVR!
 

Karen, we'll pitch in on Thursday with fill-ins. Don't worry. I hope you don't miss the end of Acorralada, though, what with Ultimos Capitulos.
 

I will do my best to fill in a good portion of this coming thursday, assuming that my dvr is fixed/replaced. I'll do my best.
 

O.K. Folks, I'll give a try to filling in what happened on Friday.

Meeting at Mo's Mansion at High Noon with Eva, Burgay, Mo, Ivan, Diego & Azul. The topic of the meeting is why Azul & Diego want to jump ship. Burgay asks if they have gotten a better office elsewhere. Diego blurts out that he's grateful for everything the evil trio has done for him but feels there are many strange and suspicious goings on in this company. Just then he gets a phone call from Efraim who, per the bribe/threat from Ivan, tells Diego that guess what? The person he got Ivan confused with is in his garage right at that moment. So, it was all just a big mistake. Diego looks baffled and unsure, but he returns to the meeting to say that he will not be resigning after all, as he thinks everything can be cleared up. Azul sticks to her guns and walks out, saying that Mo would not dare make her fulfill her contract. What Mo is she thinking of? Burgay & Eva tell Diego they have plans for him to go to Germany so they want him to take an intensive course in...English. Who knows? He's not happy about having to work in Germany as he does not want to leave his family. It may be that Eva is just testing him. As the meeting winds down, Silvana arrives for her interrogation, I mean, visit with the Moppet. Eva sees her there and demands to know if she is there hoping to see Diego. Eva then goes back to speak to Mo and tells him she knows that someone tried to kill him. She won't tell him how she found out, but she says Mo knows who did it and why. He really doesn't know yet, but Eva suddenly starts talking pointedly about Silvana and how very sad she is. Hint. Hint. She then walks out. After Silvana goes up to the Moppet's room, Mo. tells Leo to keep an eye on her.

Azul goes to the lab to tell her father she quit but the guard refuses to let her in and Mo won't intervene. Azul goes to see Emilia to tell her what's going on and also that she is angry at Diego for not fighting for their love by qitting with her. She fears that Eva is taking him away from her. She then refuses to take Diego's calls for the rest of this episode. And yes, she is at her mopiest today.

Diego goes to see his parents to tell them he may have to go to Germany, Papa and Mama are canoodling on the couch, so I guess all is forgiven. They tell Diego of Lidia's wedding plans and he jumps for joy, thinking that Paco has returned. He is dumbfounded and not happy to find out who the groom is and that the nuptials are so soon and asks if Lidia is pregnant. Good qestion, under the circumstances.

Andres and I ..I mean Ceci are having a meal in a "nice" restaurant and Ceci while liking the restaurant coquettishly tells Andres she would have preferred to stay at home since they were alone as she had been hoping to do "something else" that night. Our boy then says, "but we do have to go out once in a while". I'm with Ceci. The restaurant's not going anywhere, what's the rush? She then asks him about his back, which he claims is almost all healed. He repeats the story of the vines scratching him and changes the subject. He tells her of how he met Mo and how Mo helped him and Tia Leo when they were penniless and now they live as one happy family. Ceci isn't buying that and asks why he allows Mo to mistreat him and Tia Leo to "dominate" him. That's the word she used, I swear. Ceci then asks how Leo's husband died. Andres is so startled by the question he spills his wine all over the table. Ceci stares at him strangely.

GSSD is at Emilia's apartment having wine. She blabs about how Azul quit and wasn't allowed to come to speak to him at the lab. They talk about his work and he says he believes he has made a major discovery regarding the toxin, and hopes all of this will benefit humanity. Not with that crew he's working with. Emilia then says enough already with the work talk, let's adjourn to the bedroom. GSSD smiles rougishly and says, "to rest, right?" Ha ha.

Favio tells Silvana he'll always be there for her in her quest to find out the true story of Mo and her son's death but warns her not to expose herself to danger at Mo's house.

Diego goes to Efraim's house to try to shake his story about confusing Ivan with someone else. Efraim sticks to his story but is visibly upset. He claims that the person at his garage is a karate expert and that's why he knew the KGB manuever that Ivan also used on Diego's neck. just a coincidence. Later when Gaspar comes home, Efraim nervously asks him if he knows Eva's bodyguard but he won't explain why. Gaspar is puzzled about why Efraim is so upset.

Ceci goes to the boutique and winds up getting a job there from Julio as a hostess. Arnaldo isn't sure she is chic enough to work there at which point she impishly disses Arnaldo's cowboy boots and goes off with Julio to select some fancy gear.

Piero comes to Mo's house to get an advance of money to oover the wedding expenses. Mo is very pleased with his progress and gives him a big check to cover setting up a dummy construction company. Turns out Piero has some issues with immmigration and with his credentials as an archchitect, but Mo can help him with all this as long as he marries Lidia so he can insure that Diego can never quit. Piero offers to throw Diego's father into the mix too as he needs work and maybe could be more leverage for Mo. Mo likes this idea but warns Piero not to let the family know that Piero works for Mo. Here is where I was confused as it seemed to me that Piero said he is not married to Lucia and the little girl is not his. That's what it sounded like he said. I need help with that.

Final scene: Andres has a suitcase and is preparing to leave Mo's house. Leo is begging him not to go and also warning him that he and Ceci will pay, as she knows he wants to be with Ceci. He admits that he loves Ceci but is not sure of her feelings for him. Really? Leo says, "you're leaving me to go with her without knowing her feeling? What's up with that?" She then says she always knew this day would come but not so soon. Andres says that it's been like 13 years! He swears his undying love for her and says she'll always be his top woman and hasn't he proven it by saving her life? I guess he means by killing her husband. She says, oh that, that's nothing, you hated him anyway. She ends by saying that she'll totally die if he leaves her as she can't live without him. He takes her in his manly arms and she clings tearfully to him. I'd have played that part for free, Univision.

My Spanish is a little less than intermediate so anyone please feel free to correct anything I may have gotten wrong.
 

Great job, Jestena. As far as I can recall, you are actually correct with what Piero said. He wasn't married to that woman we are all calling wife. Of course, that might be a lie, too. But that is what he said. So he and Lidia could get married immediately.
 

Jestena***Thanks for that great recap. Maybe Tia's husband was abusive to her and a very young at the time Andres killed him trying to protect her. I wonder if Ceci and Andres are both going down for ticking Tia off. As for Diego learning English because he is being sent to Germany...that is how it's often done. I was tutoring a Chinese engineer who was working for an American company and traveling to Germany on business. He and the Germans communicated in English. I also tutored a Mexican secretary who worked for a company with factories in Mexico and here owned by a Danish guy. English was the language the people in that scenario usually used to communicate.
 

What an awesome job, Jestena! Thanks for filling us in. I'm so sad I missed a chance at seeing my telenovio, Aahndres. . .***SIGH***

I was confused about the Efrain and Ivan agreement, so thanks for clarifying it for me.
 

Yeah, Piero is not married to his "wife" because she never divorced her first husband, who presumably is also the father of her child.
 

Jestena - huge gold star for you for coming through in the clutch. I can't thank you enough. I apologize to one and all for the DVR drama at my house, it is driving me nuts. The tech from Comcast is coming tomorrow, I expect to have a whole new DVR box, I think the hard drive in the current one just died, it was making a lot of noise the other day.
Thursday's show had the breakdown of Piero and his 'wife' (I managed to watch that before the DVR died) - like 5ft said, she never divorced her first husband and the girl is his, not Piero's. So, turns out the real reason he wouldn't leave her before wasn't due to the marriage and the girl, it was for the money.
 

Thanks, guys, for the positive feedback. I was feeling out of my depth trying to fill in for Ferro, a real recapper. Sorry I had missed the part earlier that Piero is not married to Lucia. It's very convenient that he won't have to be bothered with pesky little annoyances such as child custody and alimony. But I don't think we've seen the last of Lucia. She looks like the type to want to exact more revenge than just cutting off his money.

Makes sense, Susanlynn, that English is an international business language. I hadn't thought of that. And Klee, I'm sure they'll replay the last scene today so there should be another Aahndres sighting. I'm totally stealing your "telenovio" label for all my novela boyfriends. What has hooked me on Amar is how the twists keep coming fast and furious.
 

Jestena -
Mil estrellas for a truly stellar job! And by the way girlfriend, you just jumped several levels above "less than intermediate". Give yourself a big hug and a huge pat on the back.
 

Nice save, Jestina. I don't know what to make of Piero's assertion that he's not really married to that woman nor, is the little girl his. He sure seemed ticked off when she was screaming at him that she was going to get custody. Before Mo offered to save his bacon. Scam artists like Piero seem to take it one step at a time until the lies start piling up and tripping them.

Whoever edited this show for the US market seems to have decided that we need to end with a 5 minute Leo/Ahndress clinch about 90% of the time. When L & A start into the neck kissing etc. near the end the show, I start doing the dishes or get out the broom.
 

When they start doing that at the end of the show, I go for the MOP BUCKET. And it's not to some cleaning.
 

I think Leo is hawt!!!

Of course that's what happens when you watch the show after chasing tequila shots with a six-pack at the American Legion post....
 

Well, jestena, you came, you saw, you recapped...now we've just got to get you a regular gig :)
 

I finally caught up with the episodes so I can join in the conversation. Thanks for the great recap. I thought I heard Piero say that he wasn't married to Lucia, so I'm glad to hear that I was right. I often am not when it comes to understanding Spanish.

I have to say I'm enjoying this novela. It's a lot more sophisticated than others I've seen. I appreciate the fact that the villains aren't 100% villainous and that the women aren't virginal. Plus, I have the feeling that if mistaken parentage was an issue, they might have actually heard of DNA!

Peggy
 

5Feet Latina,

Thanks so much for your vote of confidence, but I'm going to quit while I'm ahead. I'll stay safely on the sidelines enjoying the recaps and wondering how all of you recappers do it so well week after week. And Peggy, you're right, this novela is far more sophisticated and just different from the usual.