Caray, Caray!

We begin with Azul in Inez’s room with Caty saying that Inez was like a surrogate mama like she was for Caty. Ceci comes in with Arnoldo and tells Azul that she filled him in. “what did you tell him?” asks Azul weirdly, “what else, the truth..” says Ceci a little taken aback.

Switch over to Ivan and Eva on the terrace at her hotel. Ivan tells Eva that from the bugs at Mo’s office he’s learned that Mo is in the hospital (I thought he had people on his payroll to tell him stuff like that). Anyway, Eva already knows since Diego told her. Eva is concerned because Mo can’t die at this critical moment in their project. Ivan says that GSSD took a bunch of stuff regarding Mo’s medical history from the mansion and he didn’t or couldn’t stop him…Eva interrupts that it doesn’t matter. Mo must not die before they get more information about the origins and progress of the disease for her father. (Boris, that is. I think it’s the first time that she has referred to him that way since the confession which struck me a little odd.) Ivan says he’ll take advantage of the fact that everybody’s distracted with Mo in the hospital to put more bugs in, including in the lab. Eva says she’s going to the hospital to see how things are going there. Ivan tells his guys via the microphone to get going on the plan.


Back at the hospital, in the waiting room, Caty, Azul and Ceci are sitting around waiting when Leo and Andres (who looks ghoulishly bad now from all his beatings) come in. Leo announces that Chamita (?) the nanny went to eat and dumped Caty and so there’s no one to look after her. Azul gives a puzzled look and says that Ceci and she can watch her. Andres says Ceci’s going to be busy because *they* have to talk. Leo purses her lips but doesn’t flinch much so I am guessing this is planned. Azul is like, whatever, I’ll watch her. Now it’s Ceci’s turn to purse her lips. Azul, Caty and Leo walk off. Andres takes her hands in his.


We get a rehash of the confrontation between Lidia and the Hospital administrator about her wanting to see Mo to get a better lawyer for Piero and the Hospital Lady telling her that since she’s not family to Mo, she can’t see him. Just then, Azul walks up and the lady nastily tells Lidia that Lidia can talk to herbecause she’s Mo’s PROMETIDA (fiancée) emphasizing the word, for the benefit of Diego as well who has just happened by. Azul catches the end of the conversation and looks stricken. Lidia asks if she’s still his fiancée and Azul starts to say no but Caty is there and chimes in that YES she’s his fiancée and that she’s going to marry her Papa and be her mommy….etc. Azul looks stricken some more and tries to shush her and Diego starts to walk away. Azul begs to talk to him but he rushes off dragging Lidia with him. Caty is upset that Azul is upset. Just then Chamita rushes up and Azul dumps Caty on her and runs after Diego and Caty promptly starts crying.

Back at Casa de Diego’s family, the only ones left are Manuel and Clemencia who are fighting. Manuel is ticked that Clemi told Diego where Lidia went. Clemi says she did it because she was angry at Manuel for allowing her to go to the hospital and not relying on Diego. Manuel doesn’t trust Diego’s desire to help. He’s sure that once Diego finds out that Piero is a lying scumbag, he’s going to try to persuade his sister to leave him. (OK, I added the lying scumbag, he actually said, “his past.”) Clemi looks at him like he’s nuts. “Our daughter can’t be married to a criminal!” Manuel pretends that their marriage vow is sacred and it’s a done deal. And he warns her not to tell Diego about what she knows about Piero.

Back at the hospital Diego is chastising Lidia about being there and trying to get help from Mo instead of from him. Lidia complains that the crappy lawyer he sent says that Piero can’t get out of jail for 72 hours. Diego wants to know why but Lidia doesn’t really know, she says they told her it’s the law but she knows that’s not right. She wails that Piero is going to spend the rest of his days in jail with such an incompetent lawyer. Diego tells her that he will find out what the problem is. Lidia bitches some more about Piero having to spend so much time in jail. Diego says he’ll find out and that he’s sure that if he’s innocent, he’ll be out sooner than she thinks. Lidia tells him that she doesn’t want him involved and she wants to know why she can’t ask for Mo for help. “Because Azul left you and ended up back with him?” she demands angrily. Of course who should be lurking around the corner but Azul looking stricken again. She starts to approach and then who should pop in but Eva who runs up and kisses Diego. Azul runs away before anyone sees her.

Alfredo (yes, I’ll call him that now, since right now he’s neither smoking nor a scientist at the moment) runs into Leo in the corridor. He wants to talk to her about Mo’s condition. He’s REALLY REALLY BAD and she has to help provide him with information. Leo tells him that if Mo can just get a blood transfusion, he’ll be OK. She adds that if Mo doesn’t make it, they are all in trouble. Alfredo says the doctors want his medical history before they will do anything and she has to give it to them. She reminds him that his medical file has a lot of secrets that would cause a lot of trouble if they were known. Alfredo says that if she doesn’t, they are going to contact the ministry of health to investigate this “mystery illness.” He goes on to speculate that maybe they’d be better off if they were all known because then they would be able to work on a cure for everybody. Including her. Leo’s eyes widen and she reflects that she’s always hoped for a cure for Mo, but now she really wants a cure for herself. Alfredo pushes her but she goes back—She says “Maybe if I keep quiet, the cure will be found someday. But if I talk, Eva Santoro will kill us all.” Alfredo dismisses this and tells her that they can solve that problem later. The problem now is saving Mo’s life.

The doctor shows up (the same guy with the deep voice who played General Ochoa on Duelo) and Leo hands over a folder. Alfredo tells him that she has all the information. Leo follows the doctor to his office.

Alfredo walks on to find Chamita and Caty. He asks where Azul is and Chamita tells him that she went to the reception desk. Caty chimes in that Azul was VERY SAD!! Alfredo is all like, “so did she look sick?” Caty doesn’t know but she looked VERY SAD! (Chamita, please do your job and take that whiney kid home! No wonder they don’t like kids in hospitals.)

Ceci and Andres are catching up over coffee in the hospital cafeteria. She is just giving him the report of what happened when they discovered Mo on the floor at the apartment. She finishes up by noting that he’s got some rare disease. Andres gets jumpy wanting to know why she would say that. Ceci says, “well, because nobody seems to know what’s wrong with him.” Finally she asks him why his face looks all mashed up. (Frankly he looks so awful, I don’t know how she can stand to look at him and why other folks in the cafeteria aren’t all staring at him. Even in a hospital with sick and injured people he looks really nasty.) Andres claims that they fired a guard at Mo’s mansion and he got all violent about it. Ceci expresses surprise but Andres says nothing. She asks if the guy was one of those ones who treated her like a criminal when she showed up looking for Azul. Andres assures her that it was “one of those new guys.”
Over at Mansion Malicia, Ivan and maybe Jacinto (can’t really tell) are all decked out in the bunny suits in the lab planting the bugs. Ivan is ticked that they can’t find any lab notebooks or any written notes. They see a computer on the desk but they can’t get into the files because they don’t have the password.

We cut back to the cafeteria with Ceci and Andres. Ceci complains that she really doesn’t know Andres at all while Andres is still claiming that he loves her. She tells him that he needs to see her as a friend first, that’s the normal progression of a relationship. Andres is all puppy dog “Yeah, OK!” he moves closer to her. “But when I’m this close to you, I can only think of kissing you.” She moves in for the kiss and “Ouch!” Love hurts when your face is all bruised! This tender (literally!) moment is interrupted by Leo who does her quick dragon-lady glide into the room. She’s not pleased when she sees what the kids are up to. “Andres! I need to talk to you. ALONE!” Ceci gets up with Leo never even looking at her. Ceci rolls her eyes and leaves. ( Is it just me or with the pink shawl and pink scarf does Leo look like she’s kind of swaddled in pink? I guess it fits her barely restrained evil personality). Leo sits down next to Andres who isn’t happy. You wouldn’t know though because his face is all puffy. He and Leo are now a perfect pair of expressionless masks.

We cut to elsewhere in the hospital where Azul and Alfredo finally meet up and Azul is in tears over Diego’s dissing of her and how he now thinks that she’s still engaged to Mo, thanks to the hospital administrator lady and Caty. Alfredo says he’ll talk to Diego. Azul complains that he’s with Eva. Alfredo says no worries. He’ll talk to him.

Back to Leo and Andres. Leo is chastising him about not being more careful. Especially now that Diego knows that he murdered his grandfather and his best friend. Andres says nothing and prefers to fight with his napkin. When she starts picking on Ceci, he pipes up that he’s hanging with Ceci because she’s Azul’s best friend and that she knows a lot of stuff that can help them. Leo isn’t buying it. She makes fun of the kiss.

Eva and Diego are talking over the Mo situation and she asks him what his sister was doing there. Diego explains that she wanted Mo’s help because Piero had been transferred from the lockup to the regular prison and Diego’s lawyer hadn’t been able to stop it. Eva’s eyes widen and she asks if she can help. Diego says no. Eva makes like it’s an affront that she doesn’t want her help. Just then Alfredo comes in to talk to Diego. Eva and he make small talk about how yes, even though he’s not in the lab, he’s always working…she finally leaves when Alfredo mentions that the topic is Azul. Diego of course looks pained.

When she’s gone, Alfredo explains that it wasn’t Azul that caused him to stick around working for Mo. Diego isn’t buying this explanation. He thinks that Azul put him up to trying to make nice with him and he tells him to stop right there before he loses the little bit of respect that he has left for him. Diego takes off and Alfredo looks like he needs a cig.

Meanwhile, Azul and Ceci are catching up. Ceci remarks on how much has happened this afternoon. They compare notes on how both Diego and Andres are beaten up and Azul wonders if they fought eachother. Ceci tells Azul the story that Andres told her, about the fight with the employee. They argue about how much Azul is responsible for the impression that she cares for Mo. Azul expresses worry for him and for Caty. Ceci does a funny Leonarda impression when she suggests that if something happens to Mo, poor Caty will be left alone with Leonarda.

Andres, Leo and Eva are now sitting in the cafeteria drinking coffee. Leo is asking Eva about her concern for Mo and Eva is all business. And she’s worried that Mo’s disease will be investigated by the hospital and the authorities and blow the operation wide open. Leo wants Mo to be moved to Houston. Eva tells her to keep her informed of his progress. The next minute she’s laughing at uglied up Andres and wants to know what happened to his face. Andres is more than a little ticked and complains that she knows very well what happened. He’s sure that she told Diego that he killed abuelo andPaco. Eva gets huffy that he shouldn’t be asking for explanations from her. Leo starts to get a little worried and puts her hand on Andres’ arm. Eva laughs again and says, no biggie. But she’s not happy about having to put up with his stupidity. She leaves, patting him on the head.

At the reception, Azul, Ceci and Alfredo talk to the administrator who tells them that blood donors are needed for Mo. Azul starts to volunteer and Alfredo is all NO WAY because she’s too weak, has been fainting, etc. Ceci volunteers and Alfredo. They need 5 volunteers. Azul wants to know how Daddy’s talk went with Diego. Alfredo looks uncomfortable.
Switch over to Manuel and Clemi’s where Silvana and Clemi are drinking tea or coffee and chatting. Manuel is lurking in the shadows. Clemi is reflecting that she wonders where she went wrong that her children are in such problems. Maybe Manuel…Just then Manuel shows up to complain that she’s blaming him again and storms out. Diego arrives and wants to know what Dad’s crabbing about now. Same as always is the reply. There is an update about Mo and Silvana wants to know if it’s possible that Mo will help Piero. Diego doubts it. Mo is too bad off to worry about Piero. Silvana looks pensive.

Meanwhile, Piero’s ex Lucia is getting into her house from the street. Suddenly Lidia flys at her and complains that it’s her fault that Piero is in jail. Lucia challenges her and tells her that if Piero gets out, it will be because she gets him out and then he’ll return to HER. (Why? Why would she want that bottom feeder back?) She grabs Lidia by the neck and marches her out of the house. Lidia looks crazed with anger and grief standing outside the house.

Alfredo tries to explain to Azul that Diego is confused and upset. Ceci walks up and complains that her arm hurts from the blood-drawing. Alfredo tells her to quit complaining and leaves. Ceci points out that it’s *she* who has been the one to help out her fiancée. Caty starts whining that she wants Azul to take her home. Azul turns absently to Ceci and asks her to take Chamita and Caty home since she needs to stick around.

At Diego’s house, Diego is explaining to Silvana that Eva told him that Andres killed Abuelo and Paco. Silvana is distressed. She knew all along that Mo and his henchmen were capable of this and worse.

The doc, Alfredo and Leo are having a conference in a hallway. Azul walks up and wants to know everything. At first Alfredo tries to keep the information from her but she insists. And thus she (and we all) finds out that (1) Mo is suffering from a fatal and mysterious blood disorder (2) it’s progressive in breaking down the bodies defenses (3) he’s suffered from it for years. (4) If a cure isn’t found soon, he’s going to die. Azul is impactada into the commercial break and not in an attractive way.

Azul asks Leo if she knew and Leo responds with a terse, “Yes.” She asks the doctor if there is anything that can be done. The doctor says they are doing all they can and it’s in God’s hands. She starts crying Alfredo comforts her and leads her away. The doctor, Quasimodo, I mean Andres and Leo stand there, looking glum.

Switching back to Silvana and Diego at Diego’s house, Diego is complaining that “Everybody at the hospital thinks Azul is Mo’s fiancée. “ Silvana counters that she thinks he’s exaggerating. Diego says “Caty told everybody that Azul is going to be her mama.” Silvana defends Caty, telling him that it’s not Caty’s fault. She lost her mom and she needs someone to give her that love. Diego agrees that Caty isn’t to blame. Azul is. He repeats that Azul is going to marry Maurico. I thought Azul was going to be the mother of my children. Silvana tells him that she hates to see him like this.

Back to the hospital parking lot where Azul and her Dad have taken their discussion outside. Azul is now in the anger stage about Mo, complaining that she had a right to know and it’s wrong that she had to find out about his illness this way. Alfredo tries to dissuade her and suddenly she turns on him asking him if HE knew about this too. Alfredo, who is an incredibly bad liar says no. Azul doesn’t buy it. She gets angry and walks away. He tries to stop her but she heads for the little toy car Mo gave her where apparently Ceci, Caty and Chonita? Cholita? Have been waiting all this time. She gets in to drive and Arnoldo shows up saying he’s leaving too. Alfredo asks about “your aunt.” Arnoldo says she’s the same. Alfredo sees that Azul is not looking so hot so he persuades her to get out of the car and gets Arnoldo to take Ceci, the nanny and Caty home. As they pull away, Alfredo tries to do damage control. He tells Azul that he only learned about Mo’s illness recently. Azul still doesn’t believe him. He finally tells her that that’s why he went back to work. To find a cure for his disease. At first Azul thinks this is worse, that he knew from the very beginning that he was working on a cure for Mo. But he tells her that he knew he was working on a cure, just not that Mo was infected. Azul finally accepts this, it’s the truth after all. She dissolves in tears saying that Mo can’t die, not this way!

Back to Diego and Silvana. Silvana tells him he should talk to Azul again, clear up what’s going on, if she really is going to marry Mauricio. Diego says no way, to have her spew her lies again? He’s not going to talk to her again. Silvana smiles and says, “Yeah, I’ve heard that line before.” (So have we all…) Diego swears that this time he means it. Silvana gets up from the table, she has a dinner date with Flavio and tells him that as she said at Paco’s wake, she’s serious about helping him get Mo and his henchmen and bring them to justice. Diego doesn’t want her to be put in harms way. She’ll go back to see Caty. Next the subject turns to Lidia. Silvana originally came over to talk to Dona Clemi, who needed to unburden herself to somebody over Lidia’s travails. Piero’s still in jail. Silvana says she’s glad that Diego’s helping out with the lawyer. Diego remarks that his sister is just like his dad and that although he loves her, they couldn’t be more unalike. He wishes she had never married “that guy.” He further speculates that Lidia really loved Paco but let herself get seduced away by Piero’s money. He admits that something similar happened between him and Eva. He was impressed with her power and he didn’t see what he was getting into. Silvana asks why he doesn’t just leave his job. Diego says no, he’s there until he can get justice for Paco.

Leo and Andres are back in the hospital cafeteria drinking some more coffee. Andres is puzzled as to why Eva showed up at the hospital. Leo explains that undoubtedly she wanted to make sure that “we knew we were responsible for not allowing the information about Mauricio’s condition to leave the hospital.” Andres tries to figure out who now knows about Mo’s disease. It instantly comes to him. Azul. Leo says that the only one to blame for that is Alfredo and they will have to be sure to tell Mo, who will not be pleased at all by this development. Andres nods.


Over at Eva’s hotel suite, Eva and Ivan are having one of their little chats. He’s filling her in on operation --steal info from the lab--. It went well. They put the bugs in. Eva asks about the information and Ivan says they saw no paper notes but they were able to crack the password on the computer and download all the info on to a memory stick. He hasn’t looked at it yet, but he’s got it all. Eva smiles and calls him her “right hand man.” Ivan smiles too. He asks about her trip to the hospital. Eva tells him that Mo is very bad and that he’s going to have to stay there. She’s worried about information about his illness leaking out of the hospital. She told Leo and Andres to try to keep a lid on things but you can see from her expression that she lacks confidence that they will be able to do it. She also reports that she saw Diego there with his sister, who needed Mo to get Piero out of jail. At the mention of Piero, Ivan’s smile turns to an expression of grave concern. Piero is definitely one of the weak points of this operation.

Diego is still at home, on the phone. Clemi comes in with some groceries as Diego hangs up. Diego tells her that he’s been on the phone with the lawyer. Piero is “afichita.” Which I believe means “has a record.” Diego tells Clemi that they have to tell Lidia. She nods. Ominous music sounds.

Arnoldo shows up at the boutique to talk to Julio. They exchange hellos and Julio says, “What, you don’t wanna know where I slept last night?” Julio, says, “No, why would I ask that?” “I’d rather ask how your Aunt Inez is doing.” Arnoldo tells him she’s the same. Julio cheerfully says not to worry, it’ll all be fine in the end. (Odd thing to say about a woman in a coma) Arnoldo says, he’s not worried about that. He’s worried about Julio’s attitude. Julio pauses and says that maybe they should talk about this later, at home. Arnoldo stamps his foot a little and with his arms crossed says no, they are going to talk about this right now! Julio says no, it’s not the time or the place. And besides, he has a dinner to go to. This makes Arnoldo even more upset. “A dinner, where? With who?” Julio smiles a little nastily and says “Arnaldo…If I don’t ask you questions (about where he was last night) please don’t ask me questions.” So much for the loving couple I guess.

Over at Casa de Ceci and Azul and probably now, Arnaldo. Caty’s there and she and Ceci made a fort in the living room with chairs and sheets. Azul walks in and Caty runs over to show her the fort. Azul has a series of orange flashbacks about the doctor telling her that Mo is dying. Azul hugs Caty and fusses over her. Caty goes into a little speech about how Azul and Mo will get married and live happily together when her Daddy gets better. This of course tugs at Azul’s heartstrings some more.

Julio’s dinner date turns out to be Burgay. Julio is telling him that marketing and other advertising costs are his biggest problem in expanding his shop. He’s leery of a partnership though, “with someone like you” because he’s worked too hard to open the shop to start sharing the profits with somebody else. Burgay wants to know what he means by “someone like you.” Julio complains that Burgay doesn’t know anything about the fashion business and also, his outfit really sucks. (Tie looks like a flag, his suit is out of date). Burgay suddenly looks self conscious. Julio says NO DEAL, gets up, thanks him for the dinner and leaves. Burgay is left grimacing at the table, nervously fingering his loud tie.

Back at casa Azul and Ceci—Azul is on the phone with Chonita, telling her that Caty’s going to spend the night there. When she gets off the phone, Ceci tells her that if she’s going to have Caty around, she’s never going to be able to reconcile with Diego. Azul protests that Caty needs her. Ceci counters that Caty has Leo and Chonita. Azul says, it’s not the same. She drops the info on Ceci that Mo has an incurable disease. Ceci is impactada. And she immediately jumps to the idea that Mo could have infected Azul via sex like VD or AIDS. Azul is mildly impactada by this idea but shakes her head and says it’s more like cancer. Ceci is surprised that nobody ever guessed. “Maybe he didn’t know?” Azul says “no, he knew.” “And he hid it from you?” asks Ceci. “Yes.” says Azul.

Andres and Leo are getting home. Andres asks why Eva told him to thank Diego for allowing him to live. Leo speculates that because Eva just wanted to scare him. But she is in love with Diego and his feelings matter to her. Andres complains that he’d rather get revenge on Diego. He sits groaning with pain from his fight injuries. Leo tells him to cool it. Besides, it could serve them and Mo, if Diego has so much influence over her. She puts his head carefully on his chest as he grimaces in pain.

Azul is putting a cover on the sleeping Caty who is camping out in the living room fort. The phone rings. Ceci gets it and hands it to Azul. It’s the hospital.

Cut to Eva and Ivan—Eva is telling Ivan that Diego doesn’t want Andres killed. “So you are changing the orders you’ve given me?” asks Ivan.

Unfortunately my TiVo cut off here.

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