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Happy/sad news, y'all... just two more installments to go after this one, and then we're truly done.

Missing Recap 33: The Fly/Honey Diet
Lety once again tells Fern his company's in good hands. He touches her face again and he moves in for a kiss again. Suddenly they start dancing a tango-like dance while they discuss the company; yep it's time once again for Fantasy Island Lety-Style. She tells Fern she supports him unconditionally and he tells her his love is as big as the sea. The real Fernando has to ruin it all by snapping his fingers to wake her up wanting to know que the hell is she doing?!

Marta is sadly eating her pathetic little lunch when Fern walks by and, surprised by how small it is, asks her what she's eating. She tells him while he asks about what she usually eats. He then notices how skinny she is and compliments her. But, like so many other characters on this show, suddenly his evil twin takes control of his body and he begins to berate her for eating at her desk. He takes her dish and pours the food into his mouth and walks off, leaving Marta in an emotional downward spiral.

The cuartel are chatting in the bathroom (what a surprise, huh?) and Marta joins them. They're talking about their huge lunch and Juana says she doesn't feel well and we're treated to yet another Pepto Bismol commercial, this time it's Sara with the bottle handily in her locker, extolling its virtues. Commercial over, Marta asks them to stop talking about their fab lunch because hers was tiny and Fern ate it all. They go back to work (hee hee, I love saying that when y'all just KNOW it's not true! These guys wouldn't know real work if it actually bit them in the butt!).

Saimon comes dancing off the elevator and showers the cuartel with compliments and mail. Jaz walks up, calling Saimon's name, and his drool spigot starts running. He stops what he's doing and goes to talk to her while Lola does her usual, now-boring freak-out thing. Jazmin wants to know if Saimon's talked to Fern yet, which he hasn't. She pouts. She pushes him to please talk to Fern, and then complains about the cuartel. He calms her down and flirts more. She relents and flirts back and he leaves happy. He dances back into the lobby and continues with the mail. Lola gives him hell, telling him not to talk to Luigi about Jazmin. Personally, I'm wishing someone would tell this woman the old saw about getting more flies with honey than with vinegar. Oh well, I guess this is where she's supposed to "grow" by the end of the show. During this whole conversation, Alicia comes in off the elevator.

Efren comes into reception and PM sends him upstairs. He looks worried about what Lola will do. He gets on the elevator, crosses himself, and prays. The feas tell Lola to try to talk to Efren calmly instead of getting her usual freak on. I guess they listened to me and gave her the flies/honey/vinegar speech. When he gets off the elevator in the lobby, Alicia laughs at him and Saimon growls at him. Lola chugs a mental margarita and is calm while the cuartel chant mantras in the background. He says hi to everyone and is surprised by Lola's calmness. Jaz walks in and he begs her to stay back, not wanting to start anything. He gives Lola a check, explaining that it's short (no wonder he crossed himself). She tells him it's ok and he can give her the balance later. He's happily impactado and makes his escape while he can, barely speaking to Jazmin. She looks at the cuartel, gets scared, and runs off. Naturally, once they're both gone Lola can't contain it any more and releases her inner Psycho B*tch Queen from Hell.

Saimon's back downstairs when Luigi comes in with the dancers. He asks to talk to Luigi, but Luigi says no and gets on the elevator. PM makes fun of Saimon.

The cuartel are all laughing (I told you they wouldn't be working) in the lobby when Fatima comes in looking for Fernando. Lola tells her Fern isn't there and she wants to know if he's with Marcia and Marta tells her Marcia's at her in-laws house (ok one, F & M aren't married yet... two, that's some personal info to just be handing out to any random visitor. Oh well, that's our fun-filled unprofessional cuartel). Fatima thanks them and leaves, and Lola comments that Fern's gonna be dead if Marcia finds out about her.

Back at the senior Mendiolas' nest, Teresita gives Marcia a gift and they chat about the wedding and other stuff. Humberto comes in and asks about the company and Marcia tells him everything's just peachy keen-a-reno. Humb's upset because he hasn't heard anything from Fernando and again Marcia placates him.

Fern and Lety are at the bank talking to the manager. He's concerned about how much debt Conceptos has built up and F and L are trying to calm him down. Lety shows him a presentation that I think is probably just bullshite and the banker agrees with me and continues to worry. He wants to know if Humberto is aware of all of this, and Fern tells him not to worry about Humberto because HE'S in charge of Conceptos now (poor Conceptos). They discuss the possibility of a scandal should the public find out about all the debt.

Back at Casa Mendiola, Marcia's trying to call Fernando but can't reach him. Teresita asks Marcia if she's worried about where he is and if she's jealous. Marcia denies the jealousy and says Fern's just with Lety so there's nothing to worry about, which makes Teresita laugh. Just then Ariel comes in with hugs and kisses for everyone. He wants to know where Fernando is while they all chat, then he breaks the news that Fernando's going to be presenting the Bella Life commercial tomorrow. The 'rents act shocked, which surprises me because I thought they knew that and it was, in fact, one of the reasons they flew out from London. But heck, what do I know?

Luigi is still working with the dancers, preparing for the B.L. Launch presentation. Jazmin is still dancing along in the wings. Luigi's happy with how it all looks and he lets the dancers all go home.

Fernando and Lety enter reception and Saimon runs up to them wanting to talk, while Jazmin and Fatima hover in the background. Fern tells him he has to get to his parents' house and can't chat and leaves. Jaz whines.

Fern and Lety discuss his parents and the bank. I think he asks her to give his parental units the same presentation she gave to the banker. Just then Fatima comes in and Fern asks Lety to go to her office. When she's gone (but you know she's got those big ears planted at the door listening), Fern asks Fatima what she wants, and she says "you". He mentions Marcia and she tells him she knows Marcia's not there in the office and she wants to spend the night with him again. He says he can't, he has to get to his parents' house. She flirts and insists and he's trying to resist. She climbs onto his desk and starts kissing him and what's a handsome young studmuffin to do? Meanwhile, Alicia is talking to Marcia on the phone, telling her about Fatima, and Marcia tells her to go in and find out what's going on. Marta overhears and tells Lola to call Lety and warn her, which she does. Lety goes out to Fernando's office and yells out his name loudly so they'll stop kissing. Lety and Fernando then start playing tug-of-war with Fatima across the desk. Alicia walks in and Fatima jumps off the desk and all try to act like nothing's happening. Fatima leaves and Alicia tells Fernando that Marcia's waiting for him at his parents' house. He tries to give her some bull explanation but she just cuts him off and says he doesn't have to explain anything to her, Marcia's the one he has to worry about. She leaves as Omar comes in asking how things went at the bank. Fern tells him as Lety goes back to her office. Fern tells him about his close call just now with Fatima, and Omar warns him that she was involved with a married man once and created so much trouble with his family and his work that he got fired.

Saimon once again hits Luigi up, saying he knows a great dancer and starts extolling all her virtues like she's Pepto Bismol or something. Luigi, who knows but asks anyway, wants to know who Saimon's talking about and of course he says Jazmin. There's a lot of chat about it, but ultimately Luigi says uh uh, nope, no way no how, nyet, etc. He tells him Jazmin's a crappy dancer, and of course she comes walking up just in time to hear that. Luigi also mentions the Lola/Cheque thing and I'm shocked because it sounds like he's actually supporting Lola. See, like I said, more flies with honey... if she'd have just ASKED Luigi not to use Jaz instead of ORDERING him... Anyway, Luigi leaves and Jazmin runs off crying with Saimon following.

Fern, Lety and Omar are again rehashing finances. Lety gives Omar more grief about the contraband and how much money they lost on that and Fern tells her to calm down. Meanwhile, to save space I won't start a new line, Jazmin is crying and Saimon is trying to calm her down. Everyone's tossing "calmate"s and "tranquila"s all over the place in Conceptos these days. Meanwhile, back at the office, Lety goes back to her office, then leaves. Omar continues to lay seeds of doubt in Fern's mind about Lety, saying it's going to take a year or more to pay off all their debts, and therefore Fern isn't going to reach his stated goals and will lose the presidency, and if that happens Lety will be the true owner of Conceptos.

Meanwhile, Lety's chatting with the cuartel down in reception and I couldn't care less and fast forward.

At Marta's house, Paco gives his daughter a watch and she's happy and leaves the room. Marta gets home and he asks her about the car. She acts all sexy and tells him she's not fat any more and does he like it? He says yes, but where's the car? She tells him she spent the money on herself, on liposuction, and he's very upset. They go back and forth about it; she thought he'd be happy she was pretty, he wanting her to have a car. She shows him a really skimpy negligee she wants to wear for him and he just cries and blows his nose into it.

Now to Casa Padilla, Lety and Tomas talk about the new loan. It's just rehash, nothing new here. They also put themselves down about their feo-ness. Lety locks away the papers as there's more rehash and fea talk, as well as more discussion about Alicia and her baby.

Fern finally gets with his family and greets everyone. There's a lot of back and forth with Ariel about the meeting and Humberto wanting to know how the company's doing and Mom not wanting to talk about it now. It all boils down to Humberto and Ariel wanting a full-on board meeting or shareholder meeting and Fernando wanting to keep it just the small group. Mumsy actually sides with her baby boy on this one and Humb and Ariel back down.

Meanwhile, Lety's talking mushy stuff with her mom, complaining about all the responsibilities she has at work. Mom bucks her up because after all, that's what moms are for (are you listening Teresita?).

Next day Alicia is at the lab for her blood tests. She's very nervous and we learn she doesn't care for needles at all. Meanwhile Marta is crying to the cuartel, including Lety, about Paco's reaction about the car (or lack thereof). Fern comes in and takes Lety with him to his office and tells her about having to have a meeting. He's upset and she tries to calm him down. He asks her to create a financial report that lists their expenses, but also shows the income from the Bella Life campaign. Lety reminds Fern that they haven't yet received any income from B.L., but Fern says that it's necessary for them to make up the numbers. Lety's so impactada by this comment that she forgets to come to attention at the word "necessary".

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Missing Recap 34: Lunch Break
Alicia's getting stuck again, Marta's crying again, and Fernando and Lety chat again. Fern asks her to call Carolina, then goes out looking for Alicia. He eats more of Marta's scant food and starts to ask them to set up lunch, but just then Alicia comes of the elevator, really drama-queening up the sore arm thing. Fern gives her hell for being late and she tells him it's because she had to go in for blood tests for work. Fern tells her to set up lunch in the conference room for the meeting. She claims she can't, using her arm and the baby as an excuse, so Fernando tells Marta to do it. Natch, this makes Alicia want to go ahead and do it, the cuartel all laugh and he tells them all to get to work. When's he gonna learn that telling them that doesn't work and he just needs to fire their lazy butts???

Marta calls the lab pretending to be Alicia and asks them to include a pregnancy test, and tells them to send the results to her (Marta).

Back at home, the embargo lawyer calls F.I. and asks for Tomas. He isn't there and mom pretends to be his secretary and takes a message. Tomas comes in and shows mom and pop his new cell phone, posing with it and stuff. Mom laughs at his cute silliness while pop calls him an idiot. We get a shot of Fernando and Lety rehashing in the office, then we're back to Padilla Central where Robopop and Tomas are working. Pop asks about F.I. and Conceptos and the bank and Tomas gets nervous and tells him to ask Lety about it. Lawyer Sanchez calls back and tells Tomas that he and the appraiser are ready to go to Conceptos. Tomas tries to talk them out of it but Sanchez says they have to do it, it's part of the process. He tells Tomas he'll meet him there and hangs up and Tomas goes upstairs to Lety's room for some privacy to call Lety.

Lety brings some papers to Fernando and then leaves with them, and while she's gone Fern answers her phone. It's Tomas, but Fern says Lety's busy and hangs up on him. Pop comes in and sees Tomas on Lety's bed and gives him crap, but Tomas tells him he's meditating. Erasmo asks why he's so nervous and Tomas gives him some lame excuse, and Erasmo boots him out of Lety's room.

Saimon's entertaining the cuartel out in the lobby, and I skip it. Lety goes back to the office while Fernando and Omar are rehashing about the upcoming meeting and their finances. Lety prepares stuff for the meeting and puts it in the conference room while Fern shows a copy of it to Omar. Meanwhile, Marcia's out front with Teresita and Humberto. They go into Conceptos just as the lawyer and appraiser show up in a taxi looking for Tomas. The 'rents go into reception and greet PM, and Carolina comes in and greets everyone as well.

Omar thinks the papers look good. Lety's phone rings again and Fernando complains about it. He goes and answers it again, and once again it's Tomas trying to get hold of Lety. Fern tells him she's busy and to call back, but Tomas tells him it's important. Fern starts giving him hell for bugging Lety at work, but Lety comes in just in time and takes the phone from Fernando. Tomas tells her that Sanchez and the appraiser are going to be there at any moment to do the inventory and she tells him this is a really bad time because of the meeting. He explains that he had no choice and she hangs up and leaves her office. She tells Fernando what's going on and he freaks out. He and Omar start to give her hell about it, but she explains that it's not her fault.

Everyone's still chatting downstairs in reception. Humberto's still worried about the fallout from the Benny Ibarra video (like I said to Ariel, let it go dude!) but Marcia and Carolina tell him the current commercial's coming along really well. Someone mentions that they're just waiting for Ariel to show up, when of course outside Sanchez and the appraiser drive by in their taxi and almost run him over. Ariel joins everyone in reception and Carolina tells them all that the Bella Life commercial is fabulous. Ariel says something rude to her about sex and everyone gives him hell about it. Celso comes in trying to keep Sanchez and partner out and Marcia wants to know what's going on.

Just then Fernando and Lety show up in the elevator. Fernando herds his family into the elevator saying it's nothing and sends them off upstairs. He then sends PM on an errand to get rid of her, then he and Lety chat with Sanchez and the appraiser. Sanchez explains why he's there, that as part of the process they have to make sure Conceptos has enough assets to cover the debt. Fernando tells them to do what they have to do, but to PLEASE be discreet about it. They agree to be discreet and he asks Lety to take care of them. Sanchez asks Lety why she's working at Conceptos, he thought she was in charge of Filmo Imagen, she just answers that it's a long story and leads them off.

Up in the executive lobby, Teresita and Humberto are congratulating Marta on how good she looks. Fernando shows up and herds everyone into the conference room, telling Omar in an aside about the lawyers being there. Meanwhile, Lety's showing them around, reiterating that they have to be discreet because the company can't have a scandal. They again agree to be discreet and she lets them look around downstairs while she leaves.

The meeting starts and everyone goes over the papers Lety prepared. Humberto asks about the men downstairs and Fernando gives him some kind of excuse. Ariel gives Fernando the usual crap and mentions the information he saw on the internet. Fern tells him it's false or incorrect information and Humberto and Teresita get mad at Ariel for always looking for trouble.

Downstairs, Sanchez and the other guy are still looking around. Celso and PM are talking about it, wondering what's going on. Lety overhears them and tells them to stop gossiping, that it's Fernando's business, not theirs, and not to say anything to anyone about it. No Lety, nothing suspicious about that at all...

The cuartel are dragging Marta to lunch and I ignore most of the conversation. They want Lety to come too but she can't; they leave.

Ariel is still droning on and on when Lety comes in and explains all the paperwork. Outside in the lobby, Alicia is giving instructions to the wait staff. Luigi comes in with the dancers and she tells him about the meeting, but he tells her he can't go, he's got too much to do to get ready. In the meeting, Lety's still 'splainin' and Ariel is still giving crap. Humberto (finally!) cuts him off and says he's happy with what he heard.

Alicia enters the room to take everyone's food orders. She hands a menu to Ariel and says something to him about his son. He tries to shush her but goes to the door and brings him in, a little boy dressed in a suit like Ariel's. The kid jumps on him and calls him Papi. The real Alicia snaps him out of his daydream (or daymare actually). He yells at her for no reason and everyone gives him que the hell looks.

At La Comedilla, the cuartel's food gets waved under Marta's nose and they all talk about it. The waiter offers to bring her a salad, but she's not at all happy. More chat I ignore.

Back to the meeting, Alicia's still taking lunch orders. She tries to hand the menu to Omar but drops it. She comes around and hits him and tries to hand him a baby. He says he's in a meeting but she gives it to him anyway along with a bottle, and tells him to feed it. Everyone looks at him and he begs there pardon for interrupting but he has to feed his son. Fernando snaps him out of HIS daymare as he's holding a menu like a baby and singing to it. He tells Alicia what he wants to eat, as does everyone else. Luigi shows up and greets everyone and gives Alicia his lunch order.

Marta is staring at everyone else's plates while they eat. The others all yack at her about staying on her diet and keeping the weight off. The waiter tries to take Sara's plate and he and Marta fight over it. They go back to work, having to fight to drag Marta out of there.

Back to the meeting for more talk, with Carolina explaining how she's set everything up. Ariel spreads his usual sunshine and Marcia yells at him, telling him the commercial is important. Luigi tells them all about the Launch Party Production and offers to give an advance showing to everyone. Lety excuses herself, con permisso'ing every single person in the room.

Out in the lobby, the cuartel come in hatching their usual anti-Alicia schemes. Marta leaves to go to the bathroom. Luigi comes out and asks Irma to go with him, and thanks Alicia for the lunch.

Meanwhile, the lawyers are chatting in an empty office, it looks like the one the computer tech had before he got fired for messing with Lety's computer. Lety comes in and they tell her they have to take pictures of the company and its inventory. She twitches. They leave and she says to herself that they can't go into the studio and embarrass Don Fernando. She chases after them and catches them in the hall and refuses to let them pass, planting herself spread-eagle in front of the doorway to block them.

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Missing Recap 35: Pimp My Boss
Lety's still blocking the door, telling the men they can't enter. They say fine, but they're just trying to do their jobs. She tells them they can look everywhere else but they can't go into the studio because there's an event going on in there. They tell her to calm down, they'll be discreet, and they move on.

In the studio, everyone's watching the commercial. It ends and they clap and sing Luigi's praises. Luigi gives a speech and Humberto's happy and Ariel isn't. Luigi refuses to allow them to argue in his studio and calls in the dancers to give them a preview of tomorrow's show. Omar and Fernando clap a little too enthusiastically for the dancers for Marcia's taste. The dancers do their thing and Fern and Omar notice that Fatima is one of them. She starts playing to Fernando right in front of everyone, blowing him kisses and everything. He acts like he doesn't know what's up with her but Marcia's still pissed. Omar reminds him of the scandal she caused. The show ends and everyone claps.

Down in reception Lety's trying to hurry the lawyers along, and they get on the elevator to go upstairs. Meanwhile everyone's still in the studio congratulating Luigi. Naturally Alicia's fanning Marcia's jealousy flame, telling her how Fatima had been in Fern's office. Marcia calls Fern over and starts in on him, but he just denies everything.

Everyone leaves as Lety comes in with the lawyers. She shows them the studio and they say they're impressed. She leaves them for a minute and they keep looking around. They wander into the dressing room where the dancers are changing and Luigi boots them out. Lety runs up and apologizes and drags them off. Just to prove that they actually are good for something, we get a gratuitous shot of the cuartel all on the phones doing various types of work to prepare for the big launch party. The lawyers watch them work.

Nighttime in reception, Marcia tells Humberto that she hopes he feels better now that he's seen everything for himself. Down comes Lety with the lawyer and appraiser. She gives Fernando their paperwork to sign while making some lame excuse for everyone who's there. Humberto, Teresita and Carolina leave. Marcia wants to leave as well, with Fernando, but he tells her he needs to talk to the two men, so she goes back upstairs alone. Fernando talks to them about how the inventory went and the appraiser tells him he'll get the information registered with the Public Minister while Sanchez congratulates Fern on how nice the company is. They leave as Fernando hands the paperwork to Lety and Omar says something totally innocuous like let's go. This causes Lety to lose it and she totally goes off on Omar. She's going after him physically while yelling about his crappy suggestion for which lawyers to use and how it's all his fault because of the contraband (naturally, totally forgetting just how much of the trouble was caused by Fernando paying in advance for the contraband, and for just plain starting the whole problem with has bad financial plan. However, this is her Tan Divino I'm talking about so of course she'll ignore all that). Fernando holds her back as she continues to try to get at Omar, and he tells her something along the lines of "don't make me call out my flying monkeys". Ok, he actually said Celso, not flying monkeys, but I had to toss in a little humor there and I just love that saying. Anyroad... eventually she calms down as Omar rings for the elevator, which gets there awfully fast considering Marcia just went up in it. He and Fernando back into it slowly while Lety acts like she'd still like to rip out Omar's throat and Fernando's reminding her that Conceptos is now in her hands (again??? How many times is this company "just now" in her hands??). They leave as she stares at the paperwork in her hands, then heads towards the stairs.

Alicia and Marcia are talking and Marcia walks away just as Omar and Fernando get out of the elevator. Just then Lety also exits the stairs and once again she goes after Omar and once again Fernando stops her. Alicia watches as Fernando makes Lety and Omar shake hands. They hear Luigi talking and go watch the dancers for a minute, then Fernando drags Omar out. Lety starts to dance, at first trying to imitate the dancers but degenerating into her usual spastic dance, and Fernando drags her out too. You can see Jazmin still dancing in the wings, ever hopeful. Fern and Omar begin to discuss how Marcia is jealous of Fatima when Saimon runs up and Lety leaves. Saimon asks Fern to help get Luigi to allow Jaz to dance but Fern tells him though he's the President, Luigi's the director and has total power on whom to hire and Fern can't help him.

It's late and the dancers are all tired and want to stop but Luigi wants to keep driving them. Saimon comes in and motions to Jazmin that he failed in getting Fernando's help. The choreographer asks if they can stop for the night while Jazmin leaves, crying. Luigi lets everyone go after a short speech. Fatima tells one of the other dancers that she's going to nail Fernando.

Speaking of, he and Omar are in his office discussing the embargo. Omar is trying to cheer him up but Fernando says his conscience is bothering him for lying to his dad and the committee. Omar makes fun of Lety but Fernando doesn't like it, so after a couple more cheering-up efforts by Omar, he leaves. Fernando calls Lety in and tells her to either go get Fatima or keep Fatima away, but in walks the devil herself horny as hell and ready to go. She flirts with Fernando and Lety tries to drag her out of the office, but Fatima pulls a fast one and it's Lety that gets locked out. She starts chasing Fernando around his desk and the rest of the office, he's climbing over the sofas and stuff trying to get away from her. She won't be dissuaded, though. He's mentioning Marcia but she doesn't care.

Meanwhile, Marcia and Alicia come walking up to Fernando's door and ask Lety if Fern's in his office. She tells them he's in Luigi's office and they leave. Though he's still protesting, you can tell Fernando's starting to give in. Lety knocks and yells but Fatima won't let him answer. As with all the men on this show, once she starts kissing him, his johnson takes control and he's ready to throw caution to the wind.

In Luigi's office, he's telling Marcia Fernando isn't there and never was. Marcia wants to know where Fatima is and Luigi tells her he doesn't know that either. So we don't ever forget who the sponsors are, boxes of Garnier Nutrisse are prominently displayed all over his desk.

Lety's still trying to get into Fern's office and sees Marcia coming. She finally grows a brain cell as it occurs to her to duck into the conference room to get to his office through that door. Fernando's still protesting yet kissing Fatima. Marcia tries to get in and finds the door locked, while Lety runs in and drags Fatima to her office. She shoves her under her desk as Fernando lets Marcia in, saying he has no idea why the door was locked. Marcia's sniffing around like a bloodhound on a prisoner's trail and interrogating Fernando about Fatima's behavior. While Lety listens in, Fern's denying everything claiming that Fatima molested HIM. Fatima keeps pushing Lety's chair away (with Lety in it), making a lot of noise. Lety kicks her and tells her to be quiet, and you know the jealous little thing just LOVED being able to get that kick in! Marcia asks Fernando if he thinks she's an idiot and he says fine, whatever, look around if you want, you won't find anything. Fatima's still making noise while Marcia suspiciously looks in the conference room and in Fernando's armoire. She goes into Lety's office and looks around there suspiciously. Fern's in his office praying that Lety will save him. He looks in and Lety indicates to him that Fatima is under her desk. Marcia leaves, still suspicious but unable to prove anything, and Fernando pulls Fatima out from under Lety's desk and yells at her for causing trouble. She tells him she didn't mean to but Fernando grabs her arm and takes her out of Lety's office.

Marcia is in the lobby telling Alicia what happened and she's convinced something shady was going on. They walk away as Lety peers out the conference room door. She see's that it's all clear and hustles Fatima out. Unfortunately, Alicia is walking back and, though she doesn't actually see Fatima exit the conference room, she's close enough to the door that Alicia knows that's where she came from.

Lety goes back and tells Fernando "mission accomplished" and he thanks her, then she leaves to go to the studio. Meanwhile Alicia tells Marcia what she saw and that Lety must have hidden Fatima. Marcia catches up to Fatima and demands to know where she was but Fatima just blows her off. Marcia is super incredibly pissed at Lety for hiding her and Alicia, as always, just fans those flames higher and higher.

Fernando is worrying about where Lety is when Marcia comes in, sarcastically clapping at his ability to hide a girl. Lety walks in and overhears her complaining about Lety helping him. She turns and sees Lety standing there and starts giving her hell, practically calling her Fern's pimp. Fern tells her to leave Lety alone and Lety defends herself saying she was just doing her job (I guess pimping for her boss falls under "other duties as required"). Marcia leaves and Fernando tells Lety not to worry.

Marcia goes to Luigi and demands that he fire Fatima, but Luigi says he can't do that the day before the show, he doesn't have anyone to replace her with. They go to leave and Fatima gives Marcia a nasty, smug look. Omar comes up and asks what's going on and Marcia tells him and gets all in his face as well. Omar goes into Fernando's office and asks Fernando what happened and Fern tells him, mentioning that Marcia treated Lety really badly.

Tomas calls Lety and Fern and Omar listen to her conversation and they wonder about Tomas and Omar says they need to find out more about him. Lety talks to her parents, more "when ya comin' home" questions and Tomas invites himself to dinner. Fernando tells Omar that he trusts Lety and Omar reminds him that Lety is poor and was once tempted to accept a bribe. There's more back and forth on this, she's shifty, no I trust her, blah blah blah, and in the end Omar tells Fernando to be careful that Tomas doesn't have too much influence on her. Marcia comes in and says she's leaving and gives Fernando just a tad more crap before going. Omar says they should get rid of Fatima but Fern tells him they can't, they couldn't get someone new in time.

Jazmin is dancing for Saimon in reception while PM watches and gets jealous. Marcia comes out and startles them, then leaves. Jaz continues dancing, and it's true that she's terrible. She whines about not getting her chance and thanks Saimon for believing in her (which is sad, 'cause I think the only thing Saimon actually believes in is her boobs). They almost kiss but she just busses him on the chin instead and leaves. PM's pissed and reminds him that she's with El Cheque, but Saimon says he doesn't care, she hasn't rejected him so he can still dream.

Lety brings some stuff out to Fernando and tries to leave, but Fern and Omar say they need to talk to her. Omar gives her his chair while Fern reminds her that only the three of them are supposed to know about the embargo, and he wants to know if she told Tomas about it. She 'fesses up that she did and Fern wants to know why. She tells him she needed him to go with her to talk to the lawyers so she had to tell him about it. Omar isn't happy and wants more info about Tomas, and Lety replies that they should trust him because he's her very good friend. She asks them to please understand, and Fernando tells her ok and lets her leave. Fernando and Omar continue to discuss the situation and Omar is still worried.

Lety gets home and there's some silliness about a fake phone call between her and Tomas, who tells her about the questions dad's been asking. She calms her dad down, then she and Tomas go upstairs to talk. He wants to know what' s up with the embargo and she tells him everything that happened with Sanchez. He's happy when he hears that the paperwork is being filed, which is odd because I thought he was against this all along. They discuss his cell phone a bit and he pretends to call Alicia and my skin crawls at this stalkerish behavior that Lety seems to find so amusing.

At Marcia's pad, she's in bed when Fern comes in and kisses her. She's still pissed and Fern tells her it's not his fault Fatima was flirting with him. She ain't buying and he tells her he's not interested in Fatima and she needs to understand that tomorrow's important and they can't just let Fatima go this close to the show. Marcia says fine, she'll forgive him under one condition, if she can't get Fatima's head on a platter she wants someone else's. Dumbo Fernando asks who and Marcia says she wants the head of Leticia!

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