Caray, Caray!

• As we saw yesterday, Camila looked great in her widow's weeds, love the dress. Soon she's in white and she and her musketeers are eating in a nice tent which I'm informed is on a ship -- must be a very placid sea. They toast their future life. That kid is really good looking.
  
  
• Cap'n Ric goes to visit his mom, pursuant to her two hysterical letters. This time she's dying for real.
  
  Evidently her mind has been going, she's quite obsessed with Camila and what she says again and again is: "That whore shouldn't end up with your father's money, you have to get it back," and he says, "but I'm rich now, I don't need that money," and she says, "it's a question of honor," and I'm thinking, "Oh no, not a deathbed promise," and a few scenes later she says, "You better get it back, find her! Or what am I going to tell your dad when I meet him in heaven, that you're a coward?"
  
  Ric succombs to the pressure and promises; Mercedes croaks. I will not miss her.
  
  Lisa tells Ric a twisted anti-Camila version of the saga and thanks him for the treasure chest. "What chest?" She and her aunt can't decide if he's just being coy or if somebody else did it - it was really a lot of moolah.
  
  
• Cami & Co. have crossed the sea and reached the village. As Santiago watches from his blacksmithing shop (maybe he smells Cami's pheremones), a mystery coach glides by. Unveiled, it proves to be the Rolls Royce of carriages and our musketeers, dressed very nicely, disembark at Camila's house. She asks the others to go find a couple hotel rooms in town, she'll sleep, of course, at her own house here. She wants to go in alone.
  
  
• Camila's daddy Justo dabs awkwardly with a mattock in a pristine garden. [There are no weeds so I don't know what he's chopping. Those fake cabbages got planted there by the props guys five minutes ago. --Ed.]
  
  Embraces, emotions, what's happenin', we thought you were dead, etc. Everybody is fine. The maids are happy to see her. Paquito is now Paquote (ie he's gotten all big). Your brother is fine. And my sweetie Santiago? Uh, he's recovered nicely. Rita? Uh, she's fine too. At the mention of Rita everybody looks awkward and flees.
  
  Camila starts telling her long adventure to her dad. I sent a letter, we didn't get it, oops you can't trust the postal service.
  
  Finally the dad has to tell her - Rita and Saintly are married. Camila vents vigorously for the rest of the episode thusly: "I went through so much to come back to him, four years, but he and Rita just cried a little and then found consolation with each other, they didn't wait even one year, they betrayed me."
  
  There's lots of crying, dad feels guilty, he tells Camila not to look at her sister Rita with snake eyes because (all in unison now) "we thought you were dead." She says she's going back to the hotel where her friends are. She smiles a bit when her sweet daddy says "the sun has returned to my life."
  
  
• Meanwhile Saintly tells his ma he feels strange, between shame and joy. "Must be something you ate," she suggests.
  
  She tries to distract him: "We need to find your sister a husband, how about Vasco?" "Not that dog! I love him but he's a tarambana (scatterbrain) and he's still boning Ursula."
  
  
• Ursula tells Vasco - who's slipped in the back way as usual - that somebody's ratted them out and they better not meet for a while, and she also tells him her ma and pa are trying to get her hitched. He doesn't like that idea, she says "Well, I certainly can't marry you," he doesn't like that either. They kiss and make up.
  
  Next morning on the way out he's spotted by a serving lady, but no problem, ogling him she's like, "Ooh, chomi chomi" and assumes he's been making an early morning delivery of clothes for the charity giveaway.
  
  
• At night, Saintly has been taking a whiz outside. (Shades of Alborada.) Rita mentions his promise to get an indoor bathroom arrangement of some kind. They've just been at a baptism, so she asks him if he wants kids. "I always wanted children," he says looking off sadly into space. He gets in bed, she touches him tenderly, they make love. He has his eyes closed.
  
  
• In the square, Ines and the kid gape at the rich strangers. Ascanio (is that his name? He previously of the white nylon wig?) is struck by Cupid's Arrow when he gazes upon Ines. Cami's musketeers settle into the hotel. The guys will share a room and the money chest will stay with them.
  
  Later, Jimena (I really like her, she's quite the modern girl) is making the bed when Camila drips in the door sobbing. "That's just how men are," Jimena responds to the dismal news but even this practical girl is speechless to hear Saintly tied the knot with Camila's own sister!
  
  After the commercial Jimena consoles her soggy friend: "OK, suffer and cry, but with your dough you can have any man you want. He can't have loved you that much." "Maybe he did it out of desperation." "Don't make excuses for him. You could have gotten home by boning that chomi chomi Antillano but you didn't, you stayed true to your man." "That's true, I did." "But he didn't." "That's true, he didn't, but I've loved him since childhood, hablabla..." "Try hate, it's a good remedy!" "Nooooooo.....!!!" (cries more)
  
  Jimena suggests that they take off for Spain, but Camila says she wants to stay in her village, her home. She says they'll buy the nicest house in the village. Jimena is babbling about that, Camila is not listening.
  
  
• Justo comes to see Ofelia and we are treated to a gratuitous mirror-boob shot of the shapely matron. [Those might even be real ones.] She is impactada into the commercial. Then Ofelia and Ines do a rehash. "Oh, my brother never forgot Camila, this is a real tragedy," Ines informs us helpfully.
  
  
• Ofelia asks Ines to take Rita home and impart the good news: sister Camila, former true love of Rita's husband, is alive... Meanwhile Ofelia will break The News to Saintly.
  
  So it goes. Rita sinks to the ground crying in misery and saying Noooo Noooo Nooo. Way to welcome your sister home. "How did she take The News?" she asks Ines. "Well, she was surprised and angry." "She has nothing to reproach me for!" is Rita's defensive response. (By the way - Vasco, on hearing the news, references Judas betraying Jesus.)
  
  
• Meanwhile Ma takes Saintly herb-gathering. In the bushes, he points out those are some useless weeds she's collecting, what's really on her mind? "I just wanted to know how you're doing." "Ma, we live in the same house, you know how I'm doing." "I mean, inside, for instance." "I feel at peace with myself and God." "Well, how do you feel about Camila?" "That God took her."
  
  "And what if he didn't? What if she's back? What would you do about Rita?" It all starts to penetrate. And we have another tearful extravaganza.
  
  Saintly commences stomping/limping into town, wearing his unflattering red apron, his mom hangs on his arm begging, "Don't do this, you're married!" "Well, she was married too, Justo told me she's a rich widow." "But that was different..." "She didn't call, she didn't write..." He's mad and defensive.
  
  He goes to the hotel and stomps up to the room wherein Jimena is still babbling about the future casota and Camila is still not listening. Jimena tries to keep him out but Camila sez let him in and gives the "how could you betray me" speech and he gives the "I thought you were dead" speech. "I SHOULD have died." They hug and cry. His wedding ring is displayed prominently. "Forgive me," he sobs.

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