Caray, Caray!

Sofia is trying to convince Justo that it is a good idea to find out the truth about whether or not Santiago is Jorge’s son. She insists that he’d have rights, he would inherit the power, etc. Justo argues against it, he says it would be a scandal, Sofia says whatever. Finally she says if he doesn’t talk to Ofelia, she will do it herself.

Camila goes to her room and the Disney sounding love theme plays. She smiles and dreams of kissing Ric. Her flashback tells us more of what happened when they were making out, Ric wanted to hit a home run but she shut him down. He is upset, but then she tells him that she loves him, loves him for real. He’s so happy to hear that that he forgets his blue balls and they talk about how love doesn’t follow reason, bringing two people as different as them together. Lots of smiling and kissing.

Outside Mario tells Ric about his conversation with Ascanio. Ric tells Mario that he told Camila the truth about his cofres full of gold and jewels being stolen. Camila says the money isn’t important, but to Ric it is. So much bloodshed over all the years, he wants his money back. Mario says they’ll find it. As they ride off, we see LaFont across the plaza watching them.

Inside the palace, Mateo and whoever the guy with the fruity moustache is are telling Jorge that they talked about it and they want their cut of the loot after all. I see this becoming a problem later on. Does everyone remember Goodfellas, where they heisted a bunch of cash from an airplane and the whole gang made a deal not to spend any of the money for six months or a year or something? Then just weeks later one of them is driving around in a new Cadillac and his wife is wearing a new fur, which of course brings trouble down on all of them. That’s what I see happening here. One of the gang is going to crack and bring the rest of them down with him. Jorge explains again why he won’t share the jewels, only pay in cash. LaFont shows up and Jorge tells him what they are talking about. Gonzalo then starts whining that he doesn’t get a cut, he was only not part of the assault because Jorge himself sent him away. Jorge starts stirring the discontent by saying that if he gives a cut to Gonzalo, he has to take it out of Mateo’s and Uriel’s shares. Uriel snorts and says of course not! LaFont tells Gonzalo that they’ll find something to make some more money, don’t worry. Gonzalo then tries to convince them that there are not two Ricardos, only one. Alberto LaFont says let’s go find out, Ric has returned, he just saw him in the plaza.

Mario goes back to the bar where it always rains, El Cielito, to feed the old guy booze and find out more local gossip/history. He is trying to find out who Francisco and Pancho might be. Mario explains his interest as wanting to know what’s going on if he is going to live here. The old guy doesn’t believe him but says he doesn’t care as long as the booze flows. He gives Mario the rundown on Jorge’s group of loser friends. He says there is a Pancho de la Vega, but he is ooold and not part of Jorge’s crew. The guy with the most money is Alberto LaFont, Jorge’s right hand man. Word is he steals from Jorge but Jorge doesn’t care. Mario smiles and pours more wine. This old guy has the same vault key as Elaine from Seinfeld.

Alone, Jorge and LaFont review Alvaro’s funeral. Jorge is suspicious now after visiting Salvatierra. He says the disappearance of the boys and the death of their mother all doesn’t seem quite right. LaFont says if Alvaro doesn’t have heirs, maybe Jorge should asks Spain to take over that land. Jorge says not a bad idea. I see now how this can bring Claudio in direct conflict with Jorge now. They sit down to play chess, LaFont recaps his discussion with Fran and Lis and his suspicious about if there are one or two Ricardos. Jorge asks if the other group of people robbing the caravan were pirates, LaFont says he thinks so but doesn’t think Ric is their boss. Jorge agrees since it was Ricardo’s cofres that got stolen. Jorge asks if he thinks Ric really is a pirate, LaFont says he doesn’t know, but regardless he is dangerous.

Fran and Lis ride in a carriage, saying that LaFont sure asks a lot of questions. They arrive at the house and Lis gets all wheezy when she finds out that Ric is back. Ric is busy writing his history of the pirates of the Caribbean. Somehow writing this makes him realize that Jorge must be involved with the caravan robberies. Lis enters. She asks him about where he went, he is vague. She wants to know why he is acting weird. She keeps asking for him to confide in her, he keep saying ah, don’t worry about it. Lis says “uh there is a rumor that you are engaged to Camila.” Ric confirms it and Lis starts whining and crying. He tells her to knock it off, he won’t let her talk bad about Camila, which she continues to do, saying that Camila first trapped her father and now has trapped him. Ric can’t listen to this and leaves, Lis cries some more. I don’t like watching Lis cry any more than Camila, but at least we don’t see Lis quite as much so now that she is the show’s designated cryer, we don’t have to see so much of it.

Fran is lying down with herbs and a wet towel on her head, she must be having a migraine. I imagine spending all day with Lis would make me feel the same way. Lis whines, Fran rolls her eyes, Lis then says that with one word she could ruin Ric. Fran says you would never do that! Lis says who knows, auntie, who knows.

Some guys are practicing with their swords in front of Ric’s house, I guess this place is really out of the way or that would raise some suspicions. Ric and Mario discuss Lis. Ric says he doesn’t know if she will betray him and her hate for Camila is strong. Mario says that a woman with all those things in her head could do anything. He fills Ric in on Jorge’s band of idiots. He thinks that those losers themselves are the organizers of the caravan assaults. They know the area, they have the weapons, etc. Ric has a letter delivered to him, Jorge has invited him over for a drink.

Justo goes to see Ofelia and starts asking her questions about Santiago’s parentage. She is offended and he begs forgiveness, saying that Ofelia forced him into asking. I guess that’s true, just like Jorge, if La Senora asks you must comply. Ofelia looks uncomfortable.

Vasco goes looking for Bernabe, he isn’t home. He is looking for ‘something’ that Bernabe had promised to return but he never showed up.

Ofelia is quite pissed at Justo. He keeps saying that Sofia made him ask, she yells at him. He asks about Ines, she angrily tells him that she’s at HIS house taking care of Paco. He asks forgiveness about ten more times and leaves. Ofelia sits and wonders why they want to ruin Santiago’s life.

As Justo leaves, he runs into Vasco. Justo gives him crap for not talking to Ines, Vasco says that’s why he’s here, to talk to her. Justo gives him a lecture, saying that she’s at HIS house taking care of HIS son, he needs to go talk to her and apologize and promise to be a good husband. Vasco sighs and says fine.

Vasco finally talks to Ines, he isn’t very nice. He promises to try and be a good husband, but he’s going to still go out with his friends. She asks and whores too? He says why not? She slaps him. During the conversation Ascanio walks by and then hurries on to his room. Ines cries a lot, she is a very ugly crier, she wishes none of this happened, Vasco keeps blaming her for pressuring him, she shouldn’t have said anything. We know of course that she was just worried about being pregnant. Vasco finally tries to calm her down, but keeps telling her that this didn’t have to happen, if she hadn’t said anything. She says she loves him and he says he loves her too, but not the way she wants. In time, who knows, God willing.

Camila is getting her gold ready to go pay off the blackmailer, Jimena tries to talk her out of it. Finally Camila says she’s going, Jimena can stay home if she wants. Jimena says of course she won’t let her go alone. Camila rules out having any man, like Ascanio, hide to watch them, the card said to come alone. Camila calls chismosa Cleo to give her the keys. Of course Cleo wants to know what’s going on and is met with “JUST GIVE ME THE KEYS.” Cleo forks them over and does that annoying waving her hands around like a little old woman thing. I love the tics people get in these Estrada productions, though as I have said before, my all time favorite was Antonio de Guzman’s super girly hair flip.

Ric is practicing his pistol quick draw when Lis comes to see him again. Is he leaving? Yes. To see Camila? No, Jorge. She starts whining some more and wants things to be like before, when they spoke to each other with love and care. He tells her then the story of how he met Camila, on the boat to La Mariana. They recap her story with Santiago and his marriage to Rita.

Camila and Jimena are out on some path in the dark, waiting for the blackmailer to appear.

Ric and Lis discuss Camila some more, he says he feels guilty for what happened to her. Is that why he’s marrying her? No, not just for that. He says he’ll try and keep Fran’s name out of the thing about Tim getting Bermejo to frame Ric. He tells Lis that Camila knows that he is a pirate. If so, then why doesn’t he tell her his real name? He says he will, but not now. She asks if he really loves her, he says yes. She gives a huge ugly sob. She starts in on the same old thing, that it isn’t fair that Camila gets to keep Tim’s money. Ric reminds her that giving it back makes her a servant. She says she’ll give Camila her freedom. FINALLY – Lis is willing to try and negotiate a little bit. Unfortunately, it isn’t enough, as Ric reminds her. As the will read, if she gives the money back it all goes to the masons anyway, not to Lis. The only solution is if the marriage is invalidated, and the ED card has gone missing. She asks if he stole it, he says no. He tells her not to worry about money, he’ll always take care of her and Fran, he won’t abandon them.

Lis holds her doll and cries, Fran rants on saying that she believes everything Ric tells her, but at the same time she needs to get the idea of Ric out of her head, they aren’t ever going to get together. Lis ugly cries on and on and on and I’m sick of it. Way too much of that from her today. Fran tells Lis that LaFont wants to get together with her. She lists his qualities, that he is educated and rich. Lis says if not Ric, then she’ll never get married with anyone. Well, good luck with that. Just look how happy Fran is living her life alone!

Ric goes to see Jorge, Alberto is there too. They start asking him questions about his trip to La Mariana and his engagement with Camila, Ric smoothly answers questions, lying when necessary. Ric drops the bomb on them that Pablo survived, LaFont looks a bit uncomfortable at that. Ric says his stuff is still missing, his very valuable stuff. Ric says that this doesn’t seem to be the first time a caravan was robbed in Jorge’s land, doesn’t he know what’s going on? Doesn’t he have a personal guard? Jorge says yes, and he was about to explain, they are his PERSONAL guard, not guard for the whole area. That sounds like a poor explanation to me. LaFont takes over and starts trying to trip up Ric on the whole ‘two Rics’ question. Ric finally says that yes the other guy is named Ricardo too, wow what a coincidence. It’s a common name.

Camila and Jimena are still waiting, Jimena wants to leave. Suddenly a robed figure appears and points at the ground. Camila says no way, drop the card at the same time, the figure says no you first, then me. She sets the money down. He grabs it. He says “Are you sure this is the amount I asked for?” Camila turns her head and looks at him, then says “Bernabe?” dum dum DUMMM. Turns out Bernabe is a horrible blackmailer.

Tuesday (George Bush State of the Union address on Monday night, fun!) – Camila finds Vasco and wants to know where Bernabe is. He claims to know nothing about it. Also, Jorge says that Ric and Camila must have his permission to get married.

One final, off topic item – my son is in a drawing contest for a highway safety calendar, here is his picture -

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