Caray, Caray!

There are a couple of overlap scenes that I will skip.

Then, Azul and LF are talking about starting a new family. Silvana overhears from the hall. They are in the hospital, I guess, but I don't know why Silvana is there. She smirks triumphantly.

Gloria goes to see Chucho and asks him to save her from herself. Efrain and Julio joke about something, like he can't keep her away with a baseball bat.

Azul cries to LF how awful her life is--her family abandoned her. Her husband loves someone else. If you still love me, she says, I will be Azucena for you. With Silvana still listening, LF proposes marriage. Azul smiles goofily, Azucena style.

Diego suddenly shows up, and Silvana feigns illness and quickly takes him away so he won't hear anything of Azul. Chance number 1 for someone to catch on--chance lost.

Gloria tells Chucho she needs forgiveness for having done a bad thing. She seems to be going through her whole history of having been an actress and abandoning her daughter.

Silvana now discusses her relationship with Diego. She wants to take it slow. They will have separate bedrooms. She will not bother him. The baby needs family.

He says he's not in love with her, but she is a good woman (idiot!) and the mother of his child. Silvana now says she doesn't want to hurt Caty. She will back off and leave Diego in charge of the little moppet. Wow, that's great, Diego says. He also mentions Frijolito, and Silvana's radar goes off. Danger, Will Robinson, Danger Danger.
No, it's okay--the Little Bean will be in the slammer for two years. She breathes a figurative sigh of relief. Why is Silvana being so nice here? She must be up to something.

MS is now talking to LF. She spurts out "Jesus Mary and Joseph, why are you with that woman and her child?" Now, I'm not Catholic, but would a nun really say "Jesus Mary and Joseph"? Anyway, she does seem meanspirited, too. LF defends his actions, in that poor Azulcena has been abandoned, etc.

Silvana is now talking to Diego about returning to her career.

Lidia is in her office with Efrain. He tries to be the apologist for Tavo.

Mario and Ceci are out together, when Mario receives a call from LF about Azul's pregnancy problem. They'll rush over to help. Maybe now Ceci will see Azul.

Tavo is now at Clemi's house with the whole family assembled. The doorbell rings, and it's Efrain bringing Lidia over for a surprise proposal. A long boring speech occurs, which I fast forwarded through. Now they are back together and getting married. Who cares.

Oops, chance number 2 fails. Ceci decides not to meet Azucena--it wouldn't be right while she is ill. She'll wait. Mario fears it's because she doesn't want to see LF, but she assures him that's not the problem.

Silvana calls Bruno, the Perez Hilton of this show, to give him the scoop that she and Diego are getting married. But Diego doesn't want much publicity, and he won't be interviewed. Manuel worries that Azul will see the story on the news. Don't worry, Silvana tells him. She's been poisoned with the idea that Diego doesn't love her, and since Frijolito is in jail, the secret is safe.

LF, Azul and LF's mom have a coffee klatsch. Mom is still very negative to Azul. Azul says she is going to call herself by her new name, Azucena. LF wants to confront Diego, so they can straighten things out so the baby is legit. It's not clear if he wants Azul and Diego to get divorced so the baby will be LFs, or he wants it to be Diego's legitimately. Whatever, any talk of his contacting Diego sets of a bad reaction by Azul. He must not let the past intrude! He agrees not to contact Diego.
Chance number 3 gone!

Diego goes to tell GSD, Emilia and the others about his impending nuptials. They are underwhelmed.

Cut to Silvana in a restaurant. She is entertaining the waiter with her discussion of what she is going to eat since she's now eating for two.

Silvana has another discussion with Bruno.

LF and his mother keep arguing. He decides to call a lawyer.

Azul wanders around outside talking to a nice Holstein. Maybe it was better not knowing the past, she says. LF comes over and kisses her tummy. The cow moos.

Chucho now interrogates Silvana about Gloria. He says he knows something is not right with Gloria, and it's all Silvana's fault. Just as he leaves, Manuel comes in. Silvana scolds him for showing up at an inopportune time. He says too bad--he needs money. No way, she says.

Mario now calls LF to say he is getting married. LF tells Azul. She is very excited--can't wait to meet the girl.

Silvana calls Gloria to get her to go shopping for maternity clothes and a wedding dress.
Silvana then tries to get Manuel to go see Lidia and to leave her alone.

Azul sees the news of Silvana's wedding on TV. Oops. She decides she's going to sleep with LF.

Silvana is trying on clothes with her mother. Somebody videotapes her surreptitiously. Gloria is ecstatic about the baby, etc. Silvana coyly asks if she has decided to keep helping. Why, says Gloria. Silvana reveals that Chucho came to see her. If Gloria reveals anything, Silvana will go away and Gloria will never see her again? This part is not clear to me. Help, anyone.

Manuel shows up at home and complains to his ex about Lidia. How could they not invite him to the wedding? Well you're a creep--remember?
She reminds him that Lidia forbade her to contact him. She got married on the spur of the moment and it was only a civil ceremony. Now she is on her honeymoon.

Ceci and Mario go for a ride. He has blindfolded her. They stop on the side of what looks like a bucolic interstate highway with lots of traffic going by. He lets her out and removes the blindfold. How romantic!

(I'm from the hippie generation, and I really don't understand the new cult of over-the-top weddings and elaborate ambush marriage proposals. (we already had one earlier in the show with Lidia). I especially find blindfolding creepy. There's a lot of pressure on men to come up with these original ideas. They're so "original" that certain venues now have made it into a business. For example, at NYC's Rockefeller Center skating rink, according to an article I read the other day, they will now clear the rink every hour for someone who rents the rink for a surprise proposal. This is so popular it goes on all day, apparently. Well, that's my rant for today. I was married at City Hall.)

Anyway, Mario reblindfolds Ceci and takes her into a wooded glen for a real proposal. Ceci says yes.

Meanwhile, Diego and his family are assembled in a restaurant for dinner. Mario comes in drunk. There is an altercation. Silvana says that she couldn't find a nice wedding dress, and she wants Diego to make one. Everyone looks uncomfortably impactado.

Finally, Ceci and Mario go to see LF and Azucena. At the very end of the episode, Ceci spies Azul kissing LF. She is impactada. Aha!

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