Caray, Caray!

Camila has rightly told Santiago off, asking him how it’s ok for him to get married and knock up GRita but she isn’t allowed to move on. He tries to make her feel guilty by asking if she forgot him so quickly (um hello dude WIFE AND BABY?) and she sheds a fake looking tear.

Sofia is playing with Ursula’s daughter when Fortunata sweeps in and announces that Alvaro Fernandez de la Cueva, Ursula’s fiancé, has arrived. I like how they already call him her fiancé even though they haven’t actually met yet. Sofia reluctantly says goodbye to the little girl and goes to greet the Don. Fortunata then goes to tell Ursula that HE has arrived and she says “Ricardo?” No, the other HIM. Ursula reluctantly gets up to go meet him.

Alvaro tells Sofia his sad story about how his poor nephews, who were the heirs to his title, ‘mysteriously disappeared’ (the sound guy lets us know that something is fishy with that) and that his wife, their mother, then died of a simple fever after being so sick from missing them. Sofia is impactada. She asks how the kids disappeared, he says that they just were out one day and they were gone. Were they killed or kidnapped? He doesn’t know. Yeah right.

Jorge and La Font the rooster dig through the cofres of gold. La Font wants to keep a little bit of it, specifically a nice necklace of pearls he found. He looks at it with a look of lust normally reserved for women. The actor who plays La Font is also very good at acting with his eyes, he is very convincing when he is lusting, hating, or disbelieving. Marcelo is still the master of the stink eye, though. I don’t think we’ll see anyone perform that look better than him. The boys go back upstairs and are summoned to come meet Uncle Alvaro. Before going, they discuss how it will be difficult to sell the booty as it could be recognize. La Font doesn’t seem pleased at the whole ‘someone else marrying Ursula’ bit.

Out in the living room, Fortunata leads Ursula in to the room. Ursula has an enormous pink feather sticking straight up from the top of her beehive, like some kind of lavender Indian. Fortunata tells Uncle Alvaro that Ursula has a seven year old daughter, he tells her that she looks much to young to have a daughter that age. Ursula, who seems to be doing a Lis imitation and focusing on nothing, says she was married at age 16. Uncle Alvaro doesn’t seem to care about this, he is really checking her out good. I suppose back in the day with business arrangement marriages, actually getting hooked up with someone even remotely pretty is cause for celebration, he can’t believe his luck. Jorge finally arrives, he introduces himself and La Font. Jorge orders wine for all, then gets Uncle Alvaro to tell his story. He also asks how the kids disappeared. No answer right away, but the sound guy chimes in again with some music of doom.

Santiago comes home and whines to Ofelia about Camila getting married, he tries the whole “something’s not right about that guy” bit to cover his jealousy. Then, he explains that he ordered Vasco to tell Ines that he won’t marry her. He says he’ll never allow Ines to marry that loser Vasco.

Speaking of Vasco – he wants to write the ransom note for the ED card, he asks Bernabe (who I referred to previously as ‘the 4^th Musketeer’ because I couldn’t remember his name) to write the note, as Camila would know Vasco’s handwriting. Bernabe says no, Vasco says why not, Bernabe says “you know I can’t read or write!” I thought this was going to be an after school special, but they move on. Bernabe will hold the quill and Vasco will move his hand to shape the letters. I was impressed, they came up with that pretty quick and it’s a good idea.

Uncle Alvaro says he can’t stay long, he name drops the Virrey, he has an appointment or something. He asks if Jorge goes to the capital much for parties or whatever, Jorge says he prefers to have his own parties, where everyone kisses HIS butt rather than him having to go around kissing OTHER butts. He actually said that, in so many words. Uncle Alvaro asks where he should stay; Jorge insists that he stay at the palace. Sofia leaves to make preparations. The rest of them drink some more. Ursula looks not at all displeased at her prospects here.

After leaving the living room, Sofia says to Fortunata that Uncle Alvaro doesn’t seem like a good guy, he just fell into his title (like anyone who is born an heir isn’t just as lucky?) Fortunata says what’s wrong with luck, and he’s friends with the Virrey! Sofia, along with me, rolls her eyes.

La Font, of course, doesn’t like Don Alvaro either. Back in the privacy of Jorge’s office, La Font says the guy is pretentious, among other things. Because he, of course, is so perfect right? La Font says he lied about some stuff too. He said that Salvatierra is a poor area, he isn’t so high and mighty like he says. Jorge says whatever, as long as Ursula likes him. La Font says sure, then you’ll get that male heir you want. Changing the subject, Jorge says the cofres of gold and jewels are surely stolen. La Font says not necessarily, some business people will transport goods by caravan or other routes. Jorge says that the coins are from various places, so the owner is a business person or a thief. Then he says can you imagine if this was all the money in the world that this guy has? Now he’s poor! Poor Ric is right. He’s broke and doesn’t even know it yet. I guess he could just sail to Africa and spend two weeks and get rich again, just like last time. Jorge asks if anyone was left alive from the assault on the caravan. La Font says no. Then, La Font asks if he can keep the necklace of pearls. Jorge teases him that he wants it as a gift for Lis.

Camila shows up at the mill and runs into Bernabe leaving, he is nice to her but acts very nervous. Guilty conscience maybe. Camila goes inside and Vasco is staring out the window, sitting on his ass. “Working hard, like always!” my wife opines. Good one. She tells him that she has come to talk about Ines, who told Camila the whole story. Vasco says it was a mistake, etc etc.

Ursula admits to Fortunata that she kind of likes Uncle Alvaro. Fortunata just can’t shut up about how great he is, being friends with the Virrey! Gag me. Fortunata tells Ursula that if she marries this guy, she needs to stop fooling around, like with Vasco. She says she’s going to get back at both of them, Vasco and Ricardo. Fortunate wants to know what she’ll do, but Ursula doesn’t say.

Vasco keeps whining that he needs time to think. About what? Back then, you break the seal you buy the product. Simple as that. For some reason, maybe because she’s a big softie, Camila gives him FIVE days to think about it. Five days? Are you kidding me? He has been ‘thinking’ for two days already at least and has made no progress. Five days will just give him time to get that much farther out of town. Camils tries to convince him that Ines is a great catch and that Ines loves him. He says he knows. Why is he resisting so much? I guess because he doesn’t want to be responsible, it’s the only answer. He wants to go out drinking and whoring as he pleases. From what I’ve seen, being married doesn’t stop any men from doing those things, so what is he worried about? He can continue to be himself and as long as he doesn’t hit Ines, she won’t see him for who he really is, and he’ll be fine.

Manuela comes to the mill as Camila is leaving, she tells Camila about Ric’s new house and that she has been hanging out with Lis. Camila says whatever, Manuela says she knows the whole story and understands why Camila doesn’t like her. She doesn’t understand, though, why Camila is so down all the time, having a family and friends and men who love her, etc. She tells Camila that she only has one friend, Ursula, who isn’t really a friend, but at least her father wants her to spend time with Lis. She doesn’t know what’s in it for her father, but she’s happy to have another friend.

Lis is smelling the flowers. Fran approaches, all upset that the other whore, the first whore Camila’s friend, is going to come to nurse that ‘troglodyte’ (her word, I laughed) that is injured in the house. Lis freaks out and grits her teeth. She confronts Mario, who doesn’t back down. Mario basically says we need Pablo to live, Ric gave him orders and he follows orders by his code of honor. Lis says fine, but why Jimena? Fran starts in on the whole stealing the inheritance bit, Mario says whatever, he’s doing what he needs to do, the end. He stomps off, Lis turns into the incredible hulk and starts breaking stuff. Fran tries to calm her down. Of course we realize that Mario has one more reason to bring Jimena, because he luuuuuuves her.

Camila arrives at Santiago’s house looking for Ines, GRita appears and says Ines must be off with Paco. Camila says ‘uh thanks’ and turns around to leave quickly. She doesn’t want to deal with GRita any more, obviously. I don’t blame her. GRita catches up with her and says she is happy to hear of her engagement to Ric. “I imagine that when you’re married, you’ll move far away from here?” Nice thing to say to your sister. Camila says they haven’t discussed that yet. GRita says that with his business he’ll be all over the place right? Camila says “You want me to leave, right?” GRita says yes, because she wants things to get back to normal with Santiago. Camila says the thing with Santiago is over. Now he married GRita and they are having a baby. GRita asks if she still loves him. Camila starts to answer, then just says “Enough already. I’m sick of all your crap and your attitude sucks, so get over it, be happy, and leave me the hell alone.” Yeah! Finally! I would have thrown a few curse words in there too, telling her what a bitch she was, but I guess Camila is too polite for that. GRita actually says fine, you’re right, I’ll get over it. She then warns Camila to beware of Lis, because she is in love with Ric.

Lis is still going completely crazy, now she has to know if Ric has had sex with Camila yet. She says they are going to go over and ask her. She thinks that Camila has bewitched Ric with sex.

Uncle Alvaro sniffs Ursula’s hair, very creepy. I imagined him thinking “MMmmm I love the smell of hair that gets washed monthly.” Gross. They discuss what their married life would be like. They will live in Salvatierra, she can visit San Fernando whenever she wants. She’ll live like a Queen. They kiss and Fortunata, who is totally watching the whole thing from around the corner, spies on them. She runs inside to tell Sofia that they are kissing. Sofia, who is potting plants, doesn’t really care. She is only concerned with Ursula’s daughter. Fortunata wants to know if it’s ok for her to move away with Ursula, Sofia says sure, whatever. Fortunata dances around, imagining that she’s going to be going to parties in the capital. “It’s a dream!” Sofia, along with me again, can’t believe what she is seeing.

At the forge, Santiago is very pissy. Ascanio asks him what the problem is. Santiago again tries to mask his jealousy as concern for what kind of person Ric is. He tries to pump Ascanio for information, Ascanio doesn’t want to tell him anything more than “he’s a normal guy.” Ascanio tells him to forget about them. Whatever Santiago thinks, Ric is still the best person to protect Camila from Jorge. Santiago says what about Jorge? Ascanio says don’t be stupid, he knows the whole story. Santiago says if either Ric or Jorge hurt her, he swears he will kill them. Ascanio tells him again to stop being stupid and just worry about his wife and baby.

Camila comes home with apples for Claudio, Chismosa Cleo tells her she has visitors, Lis and Fran. Camila stifles an eye roll and groan, then goes to see them. Inside, Lis asks what is up with her and Ric, she doesn’t want to answer, which is an answer in itself. Lis tells Camila that Ric can’t ever have a relationship with him because he can’t have a wife, because he is an adventurer. Did he lead Camila on with talks of a wedding? Camila says yes, and really, it’s none of your beeswax. Lis then says yeah well he’s a PIRATE! Camila says yeah, I know. The wind is completely taken out of Lis’s sails. Camila says Ric was the captain of the boat that took her to La Mariana in the first place. Lis says if you know that how can you trust him? Camila asks, don’t you trust him? Lis says for her it’s different. Camila says for her it is different too. Good one!

Outside, Lis is falling apart crying while Fran tries to hustle her home. I’m sure she thought her pirate revelation was going to rock Camila’s world and it fell flat. Fran insists again that Camila bewitched Ric.

Camila stands by the window and wishes for Ric to come home. On his way home on a boat, Ric also comments that a voyage has never felt so long. Just then, the lookout calls ‘Land, ho!’

Ascanio goes to see Justo about a room, Justo says fine, and you can pay me whatever you think you should pay me. He can move in right away. Ascanio says he’ll wait until Camila’s fiancé comes home, he doesn’t want to leave her alone. Justo likes that attitude. Gosh, but that Ascanio is a swell fellow. Tip top.

Manuela gives La Font the latest dish. Stinky guys in Ric’s house, along with an injured guy, he was in a caravan that was assaulted. La Font wants to know who or what he saw, but the guy hasn’t woken up yet. Manuela starts to tell him about the inheritance thing, but he already knows about it. Manuela says she ran into Ascanio and would his freedom be lost if Camila’s marriage to Tim is voided? La Font says yes. Then he gets suspicious of all this Ascanio talk and wants to know how/when/why she saw him. He basically calls her a slut and wants to know if she is sleeping with Ascanio. She says of course not. He says if she is fooling around like that he’ll bury her alive. I love you too dad. What a louse.

Uncle Alvaro and Jorge walk through town, finalizing the business of the marriage. Jorge plays ‘mine is bigger’ by talking about how important he is. He shows off by breaking up a crowd of people yelling about something. Finally Jorge asks if he likes parties or whatever, Uncle Alvaro says he likes everything. EVERYTHING. What does that mean? Does it mean he also likes drugs, or also likes gambling, or also likes MEN, or also like assaulting caravans with his face covered but with his trademark hair proudly displayed? What does that mean? Whatever it means, Jorge likes it and they decide to go drinking.

Ursula tells Sofia that she is going to marry Uncle Alvaro and move to Salvatierra. Sofia says fine, but she wants the little girl to stay here with her. Ursula says fine without hesitation. Lots of love there. Fortunata says, “how can you ask her that? She is her mother!” Sofia says no, she has never been. And why is Fortunata getting upset after Ursula just said ok so fast anyway?

It’s night and Vasco is drunk. Bernabe wants to go extort Camila now, Vasco again wants time to think. They argue.

Jimena and Mario, the old married couple, tend to Pablo. Mario complains about Lis and how she is in love with Ric. Jimena says never mind her, but then wants to know if Ric really loves Camila. She says never mind, he’ll just say yes, since Ric is his boss. Mario decides to tell her the story of that night when Ric couldn’t sleep because he was so in luuuuuuuve with Camila. Jimena says really? Mario looks sad, she wants to know why. Mario says that love makes pirates weak. She says, is that bad? He says when survival is at stake, then yes, it’s bad. He says something about risk and they are about to kiss when Pablo wakes up moaning. Jimena very comically slams down the rag she had in her hand to go see what he needs. Mrs. Ferro and I both laughed out loud at that one, I guess she really wants her some Mario. Mario runs to the bed and tries to pump Pablo for information on the assault, Pablo says he saw them. Mario wants a description.

After getting to land, Ric buys a horse.

Uncle Alvaro and Lis walk through the square with an entourage of armed guards. I guess this was normal enough, but it’s funny. They are trying to act normal, but they have guards with rifles thisclose to them, right in their faces. They parade past Justo’s store, where Vasco glares at them. Ursula smiles at him for a long time in passing, twisting the knife.

Chismosa Cleo is telling Camila all about Uncle Alvaro and how Ursula is going to marry him. Camila says great, she couldn’t care less. Claudio starts coming down the stairs, so I was waiting for Cleo to say Alvaro’s name so we could have the impactado end of show moment, but she doesn’t. Camila gives her the night off so she can go the plaza that night and ogle the prometidos with everyone else. Camila tells Claudio that Ursula is getting married, but she doesn’t know the guy’s name. Claudio is bored. She suggests that he go to the plaza too to see what the hubbub is all about. Uh oh, Monday should have some good Claudio pissed off scenes.

Ric rides hard to get back home to his woman.

La Font tells Jorge that the engagement is the talk of the town. Jorge says whatever, as long as Ursula gets married. La Font changes the subject and says that he thinks the cofres of gold and jewels belong to Ric. Of course we knew that, but how did he figure that out?

Outside, Gonzalo shows up. This guy is a troll. He barges into Jorge’s office to deliver the news that Dr. Bonerficio died and he couldn’t get a new ED card. He also delivers the news that Lis has a cousin that is a pirate, who is also named Ricardo, just like the Ricardo that’s in town. Coincidence?

The song that plays when Camila dreams of Ric, something about ‘suenas de amor’, plays at the closing credits. This song annoys me for some reason, it sounds like it’s from a Disney movie. I guess it’s the Ric/Camila love theme.

Monday – Ric returns, swears that if Jorge touches Camila he’ll kill him.

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