Caray, Caray!

We open with the detective agency of Corso & Toscano with girl Friday Ceci, speculating on why Leonarda would have gone on vacation without her clothes, makeup and perfume.

Next it’s over to the love shack (thanks Chris!) where Diego is telling Azul that she’s the only woman who ever clouded his reason. I guess that is supposed to sound romantic and not scary. He grabs her and tries to make her listen. She realizes just then that he was the one who staged the kidnapping on the road. She tells him he’s too late, she’s already married and he declares that she’ll always be his. He mentions the bombing at Cocoyoco (which I guess is Mo’s house’s name) and she’s impactada for half a second and then returns to disbelief. He shows her the wounds to back up his story. He tells her that Eva died in the explosion. She’s momentarily impactada again but then refuses to believe again. She tells him that Mo was at the wedding the whole time and before that they were at the other house together. “It proves he didn’t do anything.” Diego swears, on his mother, that Eva is dead. Azul then begins to taunt him that with Eva gone, he doesn’t have anyone to protect him and give him expensive gifts. She accuses him of only going after her because Eva was dead.

[I am sorry, but that’s really really low! Diego, you may be an idiot, stalker, whatever but even you don’t deserve that kind of comment.]

Diego gets mad and screams at her that he wishes he could have had a relationship with Eva because she DIED for him, because she loved him. Azul then launches into her poor poor me routine. “if you loved her so much then why did you kidnap me? The only thing I feel for you is hate. (desprecio).” Diego accuses her of lying. She insists she hates him. She was trying to forget him and rebuild her life and now he’s come back to destroy her. Diego is stricken and does some nose wrinkling. Azul walks away.

Silvana, Isela and Gloria are negotiating over the bathroom since they need to dunk the feverish Ivan in a tub of cold water. Gloria agrees to help them carry in, she lifts his feet with oven mitts for some reason.

Mo is with Andres seething over what Diego and Azul might be doing at this moment. Andres suggests that he tap Boris for his underworld connections to suss out where Diego might have taken Azul. Mo says he will, but first he wants to check on something. Turns out they were waiting near the Cocoyoco and Jacinto gives them a report that Eva’s body has been located and another one, which although unrecognizable he says must be Ivan. Mo asks him if he’s sure. He says there’s another guy’s body too, Exijilo (?) (Maybe the other guard that came out with Jacinto to fight with Diego?) Mo asks about Diego “You let him get away!” Jacinto says he doesn’t know, they left him in the room next to the lab right before the bomb went off, but he must have survived the explosion and left afterward. Mo is livid and huffs a bunch of stuff I couldn’t understand. Jacinto promises to locate Diego and Mo orders him to clean up Cocoyo so that nobody would know a bomb went off there and killed people. Lucky guards.

Ivan wakes up in the cold bath with the three women in bathrobes standing around him. It must have been quiet a shock. Maybe he thinks he’s dead. Is this hell? He’s not happy. He tells them to leave him alone. Gloria makes a sarcastic remark about his ingratitude. Finally Gloria and Isela leave and Silvana stays and explains that Diego left him there under her care. So he’d better treat her nicely.

Beach bums Azul and Diego slept outside under the stars. Before you think that’s too romantic, I should add that they seem to have slept about 100 feet away from each other. Azul in her now sandy white wedding dress. When she wakes up, Diego is absent mindedly poking holes in the sand with a twig or something. He’s hidden from her from behind a pile of sand. Since she doesn’t see him when she wakes up, she strips off her gown and goes for a swim in her wedding night lingerie. Diego watches with an pervy grin.

At Anibal’s office, Anibal is on the phone talking to Isela. She’s filling him in on the events of last night. Clemi comes in and Anibal finishes his conversation with Isela and hangs up. Clemi apologizes for arriving at work late because she couldn’t sleep last night for worrying about Diego. Anibal breaks the news to her that Diego kidnapped Azul after the wedding and nobody knows where they went. Clemi is impactada and clutches her chest.

Meanwhile at Casa Moran, the police have arrived, asking about Diego and Lidia answers the door. She’s impactada when they tell her he’s wanted for kidnapping.

At Mo’s new house, Chonita is with Caty who is refusing to eat. Mo comes in and Caty wants to know about Azul. Mo tells her not to worry. Azul will be coming….er…later. Caty wants to know WHEN. Mo tells her that the police will be bringing her home soon. He hugs her and thought bubbles his worry that Diego will fill Azul in on all his evil deeds and turn her against him.
At the Love Shack, Diego has Azul’s dress and Azul who has returned from her swim is fighting him for it in what looks like her bodice and panties. She makes him give it to her and slaps his hand away telling him not to touch her with his disgusting hands. He insultingly says that if Mo can touch her why can’t he? Way to go, guy! Call the woman a slut, that’s the ticket! She slaps him and says that Mo is the one who is going to be angry at him if he finds out that he touched her. “The hands of a criminal!” she ends. Diego shouts that Mo is the criminal. Teeth clenched in rage, He tells her that Mo murdered his Abuelo and Paco. “And you, knowing it, slept with me!” Azul is more incredulous than impactada. She says she doesn’t know what he is talking about. Diego continues on his tirade that she claimed to love him, but where was the love when Andres and Mo were doing their killing. Azul thinks that Diego brings up Andres because of Ceci’s story about killing Andres’ uncle. Suddenly Diego realizes that he was talking about the murder of Abuelo, while Ceci was talking about the old murder of the uncle (supposedly in self defense). Azul asks him for proof and Diego, the dunce, mentions Eva’s name (she had the proof) and Azul gets all bitchy and won’t let him finish. She charges that Eva probably killed them and blamed Mo and Andres. Azul goes on a tirade about how she’s tired of Diego’s lies. She finishes up by calling him crazy.

Ceci and Andres are in the sack at Andres’ place. He’s in his pjs under the covers and she’s on the outside, awake, so no hanky panky there. He wakes up and they begin talking. Ceci tells him that when she was rummaging around in the closet at Mo’s she noticed that all Leo’s stuff was still in there. She remarks on how odd that is and how Julio and Arnaldo thought so too. Andres claims he never noticed. He suggests that Mo gave her a bunch of money so that she could just leave on her trip and buy all new stuff. He turns around as if to go back to sleep but on his face is a look of worry that she might be on to him.

Anibal at the office has calmed down Clemi a bit. The phone rings, it’s Lidia. She’s freaked out because the police are there. Anibal tries to relate this calmly to Clemi, but it’s no use. Clemi faints from the shock.

Piero and Manuel are walking in field. Piero tells Manuel that the job he wants him to do is to contract some construction workers to build something. When Manuel asks what, Piero tells him that he doesn’t need to know. Manuel says, he just needs enough info to tell the workers what kind of job it is. Piero says, OK, then, it’s going to be a lab, but don’t tell anybody. Manuel responds that he’s an accountant, he’s never contracted labor before but he’s game. He’ll try to get some guys who are on their way to crossing the US border because they’ll want to make some fast cash and they won’t ask a lot of questions. Piero is pleased with this idea. His cell phone rings. It’s Mo. He tells him to use his connection with Diego’s family to find out where he took Azul. Mo hangs up abruptly.

Mo is knocking back brandy or something amber from a decanter in his office. He thinks about Diego and Azul getting it on and throws the glass at the wall.

Ceci’s on the bed in Andres’ room with Andres on the floor in his unsexy PJs doing pushups. Ceci complains that Mo’s shut up in his office and she wants to go ask him if the police have any leads. Between pushups, Andres says that they found the wedding car had been ditched and he figures that the police must have some other leads stemming from that.

Piero and Manuel are now driving and Piero asks Manuel if he has any idea where Diego is. Manuel says he doesn’t know and laments that Lidia had to deal with the police. Piero is surprised that he cares so little about his own son. Manuel points out that Piero is no saint but Piero says that he was unjustly accused but Diego has committed a real crime. Manuel says, whatever, Diego is on his own. He’s not going to stick his neck out for him. Piero makes a deal with Manuel that if either of them find out anything about Diego, he’ll bring it directly to Mo, because Mo will pay VERY well for any information leading to them recovering Azul. Manuel at first says no, he’s not going to turn in his own son. Piero says, no worries. The point is getting Azul back. If they do that, it could be settled quietly, without the police. Manuel agrees to that. [The next bit was too hard for me to understand with the car noise. ]

Anibal has called a doctor to the office. The doctor warns them both to be careful that she is not to have any more shocks with her heart history. He writes a prescription and hands it to Anibal and leaves.

Clemi wants to go home and Anibal offers to take her.

At the beach, Diego and Azul are now fighting on the beach. Azul is still wearing the boyshorts and camisole/dress bodice and carrying the dress. In front of a audience of sea birds, Azul says that she’s going to leave. Diego tells her that she’s not going anywhere and anyway why does she want to go back to that criminal. Azul says that Mo has fulfilled every promise he’s ever made to her, in contrast, Diego’s a liar and breaks his promises.

Mo’s collapsed on his desk with an empty bottle of something. Maybe golden Tequila since I see something that looks like agave leaves on the label. Burgay comes in and points out that Mo’s drunk and still in his wedding outfit. Mo tells him to get out and leave him alone. Mo wants to know what he wants. Burgay says that he’s talked to Boris and he’s come to kiss Mo’s ring. So to speak, to accept his authority. Mo asks if he accepts that Eva and Ivan are dead. Burgay says that Boris confirmed it. Mo’s happy that now he knows that he’s the head of Boris’ Latin American operations. Burgay congratulates him. Mo tells Burgay that he’s planning a meeting for all of the operatives and he’ll let him know when to call it. Now he wants him to get out. Burgay can’t resist handing him today’s paper which has the headline “Scandal at the Mauricio Duarte wedding: Ex-boyfriend kidnaps the new Mrs. Duarte.” Mo goes into another rage and hurls the paper at the wall. He curses Diego. I think that’s the gist of it, it’s a little hard to understand Mo when he’s both drunk and talking between clenched teeth.

Back to Azul and Diego. Diego tries the “your mouth says no but your eyes say yes” line. She actually starts falling for it. Then she lashes out that she’s not like Silvana or Eva. He seizes on this to pronounce her jealous. More proof that she still loves him. She points out that he’s keeping her prisoner. He says he will until she changes her mind. She pushes him away but he’s obviously made progress.

Over at Silvana’s it’s also morning. Silvana is talking to Ivan and trying to get him to eat. He notes that she watched over him all night and he thanks her saucily for the bath. Silvana smiles and says, well, yeah. She says that despite his tone, she thinks the bath did him much good. She tries to give him the food and he pushes it away. She tells him that she knows that he doesn’t want to be touched, she’s not doing it because she wants to, but he needs help. She walks out. Ivan has an orange flashback of himself offering to kill Silvana for Eva as she was another rival for Diego’s affections. Ivan tries to sit up painfully.

Piero and Manuel arrive at Casa moran and Piero immediately gets a slap from Lidia. She dumps on him the info that Clemi gave her about him and Lucia at the now infamous Toscano-Duarte Wedding. Manuel restrains her and tells Piero, it would probably be better if he left. They have enough problems with Diego. Piero leaves but not before once again protesting his innocence and telling her she’s wrong about what happened. Manuel tries to calm her down and asks her to tell him what the gossip was from the wedding. But first, they’ll have to find out what these gentlemen want. He turns to the two policemen who have witnessed this entire drama. They look at eachother as if to say, this is quite the drama house. Wait until Anibal shows up with Clemi.

Isela, Gloria and Silvana are eating. Silvana says that she’s taking care of Ivan only because Diego asked her to. Gloria makes fun of her devotion to Diego and says that they are the ones who have to put up with Ivan’s bad manners. She adds that if Ivan weren’t such a cutie (un bonbon) she’d be complaining. [yo habia cantado cuatro frescas—dicho anybody?] Actually she is complaining. And she finishes up by complaining that none of them has yet to try the bonbon. They realize that nobody has checked on him in awhile.

Back at Casa Moran, Manuel is telling the cops that they don’t know where Diego is. Anibal arrives, carrying Clemi, who appears to have fainted again.

Back at Silvana’s, the girls rush in to check on Ivan and find him on the floor. He’s alive, writhing in pain. They help him back into bed. Gloria goes into a tizzy about how he’s going to have to accept their help getting to the bathroom etc. etc. until Silvana tells her to shut up. Isela asks Ivan if that was what he was trying to do, go to the can, when Ivan interrupts her and says what he wants to do is leave. Gloria for once starts making sense. She tells him flat out that he could go to the cops, or the hospital, which is a little bit longer road to jail but it gets there all the same. Ivan grimaces in pain but clearly the words have struck home.

Anibal is juggling Clemi who has recovered from her faint. She says she can walk but Anibal says she’s too weak. Manuel complains and Anibal tries to get Manuel to carry her. Manuel ever the gentleman tells him to set her on the armchair. Lidia comes over to her her aid. Manuel blames Diego, for all the stress his mother is under. Anibal tells him to shut up but Manuel says it’s true. The police have never been in this house until now. [Actually, he’s wrong, they came to pick up Piero didn’t they?] Manuel rags on Diego some more. He tries to get Anibal to leave. Clemi thanks him and leaves. Manuel asks Clemi if she’s OK while she’s still half passed out. Smooth.
Back to a brooding Diego and Azul who is pacing the floor like a caged animal back at the “Love Shack.” Azul points out that kidnapping her was the only way that he could get her to be with him. Diego doesn’t respond and she calls him a patan, [help me out here—worse than jerk but not exactly evil. A bad guy?] Diego tries to argue that he did it for love but Azul isn’t buying it. She brings up how Diego has not only taken her from Mo, but from Katy, who needs her as much as Mo. At Mo’s name, Diego goes ballistic and throws her on the bed and gets on top of her. He hisses into her ear that Mo needs her because of his illness, right? Well, he says, that’s nothing more than blackmail. Azul says it’s not. Mo’s sick with a fatal illness. He’s going to die. Diego, impactado, finally gets off of her.

Azul lies on the bed a bit longer with her chest heaving. Diego asks her if it’s true, that Mo’s deathly ill. Azul says, yes he has a terminal, incurable illness. Diego is still unbelieving. He thinks it must be a trick of Mo’s to get Azul to marry him when she loves Diego. Azul is crying now. She says that every time, Diego deceives her worse than the last time. She can’t take anymore. Diego begs her to understand that Mo is just manipulating her but she won’t listen. Azul says that she has proof of Mo’s illness but he has no proof of what he’s trying to convince her.
At Casa Moran, the police are telling the family that the sooner they find Azul and Diego, the better it will be for them. Lidia says that they know nothing and Clemi says that they’ve said all they can say. Manuel walks them to the door. The lead cop warns them not to hide info if they get it or it could go badly for them.

At Silvana’s , Silvana is changing the bandages on Ivan’s wound. She sees that Ivan’s walkabout has reopened the wound. She tells him she’s going to call the doctor back. Ivan tells her not to call anybody. Silvana says she’s responsible for him and she’s the one at risk if he dies. Ivan accuses her of doing this for Diego. She says yes, but she’ll still be the one going to jail. She goes on a mini tirade about how she wishes Diego loved her with the same intensity that she loves him. Ivan sees that they’ve both been screwed (at least figuratively) by Diego. He grimaces some more.

Back to Casa Moran. Clemi frets about where Diego might be. Manuel says they can’t do anything. He jokes that they should make a public announcement “Diego—please come home.” Lidia complains that he shouldn’t be joking at a time like this. Lidia tells Manuel to take care of her mami, she heads out the door to talk to Diego’s friends to see if she can find anything out.
Ivan wants to know where Diego is too and asks Silvana. Silvana tells him about the kidnapping. She makes a face, but Ivan laughs. He’s loving this. Diego stole Mo’s bride. Good for him. Silvana tells him he stole her AFTER the wedding but Ivan could care less. The point is that he’s struck back at Mo. Silvana is still not happy and Ivan apologizes that he can see this isn’t good news for her and her hopes for a romance with Diego. Silvana says that she’s not just taking care of him because of Diego. She couldn’t let him die…”even if he were the worst person in the world.” Ivan looks nervous, since that’s a pretty good description of him.

Ceci has brought some clothes to Arnaldo who has just gotten out of the shower wearing only a towel and is showing off his manly, if gay chest. Ceci remarks on his hot bod. Julio comes in and agrees with her that he’s quite handsome. Ceci agrees and does a little wolf whistle. Down girl, down! He’s taken.

Azul and Diego are at an impasse. He’s facing away from her, she touches his back and pleads with him to let her go. She’s married now. Diego is now on pretty thin ice. Now is argument is that even if Mo really is sick, if he gets cured, she’ll be stuck for life with a guy she doesn’t love. Azul tells him to stop. He’s not helping. She cries some more. He starts talking about his Abuelo, who lovingly took care of his wife when she had cancer. He watched her die slowly and it took everything out of him. Diego says that he wouldn’t wish that on anyone. He tells Azul that she will need a lot of love to take care of Mo. “What will happen with you, if you don’t love him?” Azul says that’s exactly what she promised Mo. To make him happy for what is left of his life. Diego counters that she’s promised to be with him without actually being able to love him. “Isn’t that more cruel to him?” asks Diego. Azul says, that’s what I’ve decided to do. She wipes away her tears and argues back that it’s the height of selfishness that Diego can’t show a little pity when confronted with illness and death. Diego is done. He has a gulp of what looks like coconut water. Azul is hot in her polyester wedding dress. Diego offers her a drink, then, a fan. She wants to swim in the ocean again. Diego flops on the bed and tells her to go ahead. Azul demands privacy while she undresses. Diego says what’s the fuss, they’ve already done it. Diego suggests they swim together. He starts undressing. Azul fusses but then she smiles.

Emilia and GSD arrive at Mo’s. they learn from Chonita that Mo is still shut up in his office, drunk, hungover or whatever. Chonita goes to get them some coffee. GSD says he’s worried about the progress of Mo’s illness with all this going on. Emilia remarks that with what he has, he can’t let himself go like this.

Azul insists that she is going to build her own shelter on the beach for privacy. She brushes past Diego and goes outside.

Lidia arrives at Efrain’s and demands to know where Diego is and tells him that the police have been to her house. Efrain looks uncomfortable. Leave it to Lida to go right to the only guy who actually knows where they are.

Azul tries climbing a palm tree in her wedding dress. I guess she’s trying to get palm branches for her new shelter. Diego, now wearing a sleeveless shirt (I thought he was going swimming) comes upon her and starts laughing. She bitches that “what, is he going to watch her every movement now?” (fiscalizar) She isn’t getting very far.

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