Caray, Caray!

Soledad and Lucas-
S: I didn’t know you were capable of confronting mama that way. And you did it for me. Forgive me.
L: The only one who should ask forgiveness here is me. You know, daughter, for many years, I have permitted your mother to make all the decisions in this house. And to avoid arguments, I let her mistreat you.
S: For a while, I thought you agreed with her about having me marry Alcides and that’s why..
L: That’s why you decided to run away.
S: Yes, I was very angry. Papa, I understand what you are doing for me but I don’t want to leave my mother alone.
L: She can still change her mind. She has to understand that a house or position are not what is important. (He pulls the covers up on the still fully dressed Soledad) Tomorrow, we will go to your Aunt Antonia.

S: Papa, thank you. I know that if Hugo could see you, he would thank you for all you have done for me and our baby. Thanks for your help and support. I love you.
L: And I love you. (He leaves.)
S: (sighing) Hugo. If you were here, everything would be so different.

At Dr. Max’s, Hugo is barely able to climb the stairs to get out of the amphitheater leaving the sleeping/fainted Burkes behind.

[What is the matter with Hugo? We learned earlier that absent the medicines from Germany or keeping his body temperature up in the thermal chamber, a person with catalepsy like Hugo gets terrible pain in his muscles when he wakes up from an attack. Hugo had a very long attack here without anything that would lessen the effect when he woke up so he is in bad shape. In our timeline from Episode 12, it’s early Monday morning.]

The next morning, Soledad and Lucas are getting ready to leave. Úrsula wants to go with her but Soledad says that Ester can’t be left alone. She says that she doesn’t want to leave Úrsula but she is sure that they will be together again soon. Úrsula asks if Soledad is going to see Don Hugo at the cemetery. Soledad says that she plans to stop there on her way out of town. Lucas asks Úrsula to call Ester to say goodbye. Úrsula says that Ester went out very early without telling anyone.

Ester and Alcides in Hugo’s house-
E: You have to help me and keep her here. If Soledad doesn’t marry you, Manrique will take the house. Please lend me the money and I will convince Soledad to marry you.
A: Doña Ester, my inheritance is in probate. I can’t spend any of it.
E: There must be a way.
A: I will find a way to get the money.
E: Thanks Alcides. I knew that I could count on you. You are the son I never had.
Alcides escorts her out. We see that Paquito has overheard the conversation.

At Dr. Max’s-
Dr. Max: How could Hugo de Medina be gone? Dead men don’t walk! You are useless. You weren’t even capable of digging him up.
G: Of course we were capable of digging him up. I myself put him on that table.
H: It was the worst thing that I have seen in my life. What I saw in front of me was like a living cadaver or a dead cadaver, I don’t know.
Dr.: Hugo de Medina alive? Could it be that Hugo suffers from …?
H: Could it be that Hugo was resurrected? Is that it?
Dr.: Shut up! Go after him. He can’t have gotten far.
G: No señor. The deal was to bring him here.
Dr.: If Hugo de Medina opens his mouth, everyone will know that we dig up corpses from the cemetery and we’ll hang. Get going!
Los Burke leave.

Hugo staggers through the woods, falling repeatedly. He falls and lying on the ground says, “I have to tell her I’m alive. I have to tell her I’m alive.” He gets ups and staggers on.

Alcides and Duarte-
A: Duarte, I’m glad I ran into you. I’ve been looking for you. I have a very important and sensitive matter to discuss with you.
D: What is it?
A: It appears that Boris was attacked last night. I say “it appears.” He was carrying a large amount of my brother’s money.
D: That’s not surprising. He was Hugo’s confidential employee.
A: He was absconding with it. You should arrest him.
D: I will arrest him but I need to have proof that he did it.
A: I will get the proofs but I suggest that you act as soon as possible so that he doesn’t escape.
Paquito has overheard this. He follows Alcides but Alcides is waits for him and asks at gunpoint why Paquito is following him.


Soledad and Lucas-
L: It hurts me not to be able to say goodbye to your mother, but it was she who made that decision.
S: Papa, I know how important she is to you. You will miss her, right?
L: When we met, she was different, gentle and humble. I believe that over the years she has changed but even so I still love her.
S: Papa, you should go back. Don’t worry about me.
L: No, Soledad, if I take this decision it’s not because I don’t love your mother but because I think that it is the best for everyone. Like you, I think this separation will help me. I will be fine. You’ll see.
S: I hope so.

Paquito and Alcides-
P: Please don’t point your gun at me.
A: You haven’t answered my question.
P: I only wanted to talk to you.
A: To accept the offer I made to you?
P: Not exactly. Let me ask you a question. Why do you want to harm Boris? What has he done to injure you? I inadvertently overheard what you said to Inspector Duarte but you are completely wrong. Boris bought the property on the orders of your brother.
A: How do you know that?
P: Very simple. That beautiful hacienda belongs to friends of mine. What do you gain by this? Why do you want to injure your brother’s most faithful servant?
A: I don’t want to injure anyone. I am simply looking after my own interests.
P: I understand. Now I will make you an offer. I have a counterproposal, if you will. When you pay me, I will write the article you always wanted but I need more money for my silence, you understand?
A: For your own good, I hope that you know how to keep your mouth shut.

Hugo is still stumbling along in the woods. He falls. At that moment, Soledad’s carriage passes by. He calls to her out loud and psychically.

Soledad orders the carriage to stop.


Lucas asks what is the matter. “I thought he was ... No, it’s nothing,” she says, “Let’s go to the cemetery so I can say goodbye to Hugo before I go. Let’s go.” The carriage continues on. Hugo keeps staggering forward.

Boris is in bed and Marina is taking care of him-
M: Some men wounded you when you were returning and I rescued you.
B: Yes, I remember that.. but I also remember… but I must been dreaming.
M: No, I also told you that Señor Hugo died.
B: (desperately) Tell me that he hasn’t been buried! Please Marina.
M: We buried him, Boris, yesterday afternoon. You have to be strong.
B: (sobbing) Nooo! Noo!

Still in the woods, Hugo rests leaning against a tree. Guillermo comes up behind him and hits him with a big stick. Hugo falls down unconscious. Los Burke reassure themselves that Hugo is really flesh and blood and then they drag him off to Dr. Max’s.

Boris and Marina-
Boris tries to get up.
B: I have to go to the cemetery.
M: No Boris, don’t be foolish.
B: Marina, you don’t understand.

Alcides and Manrique:
M: I assume you are here to pay the debt that your future father in law owes me. Isn’t that so?
A: I have come to warn you about the danger you are running with your business right now.
M: Danger? What kind of danger?
A: Soledad doesn’t want to marry me so it seems that the Obragóns will not pay the debt.
M: That doesn’t bother me too much. I have the house to pay off the debt.
A: Hurry up because the Obragóns are leaving the city very soon.
M: Then I should pay them a visit.
A: You should teach them a lesson, Manrique. A lesson about not playing games with you.
M: Alcides, what is your sudden interest in giving me advice?
A: I am getting back at them because they fooled me. They made me believe that Soledad would marry me.

At Dr. Max’s-

Dr. Max is reading from a book, “Dr. Ernest von Chirac had made and extensive investigation of this disease...”
Helena and Guillermo enter carrying an unconscious Hugo. They put him on the examining table. [Poor Hugo is on one of Dr. Max’s examining tables for the third time but this time, Dr. Max knows his secret.]
Dr.: I can’t believe it. In front of my eyes is one of the great mysteries of nature.
H: I didn’t know you believed in demons, doctor.
Dr.: Hugo de Medina isn’t a demon. On the contrary, he is very fragile. He suffers from a strange disease called catalepsy.
G: What is that doctor, cataluky?
H: Don’t be an idiot, Guillermo. Catalepsy is strange disease about which little is known. Those who suffer from it mix up colors, white for yellow, red for black, (to Dr. Max) isn’t that right?
Dr.: You are ignorant, Helena. Those who suffer from catalepsy appear to be dead. The patient’s breathing is imperceptible and the heart beats as infrequently as possible. I never imagined that you suffered from catalepsy, Hugo de Medina.

Hugo’s house-
Inspector Duarte comes to detain Boris.
B: What are you talking about, Inspector?
Inspector: Señor Alcides has accused you of taking money from his brother.
B: That’s ridiculous. Don Hugo sent me to buy a property with that money. (He has trouble standing)
I: And the documents evidencing the transaction?
B: They are in the saddlebags of my horse.
I: In that case, I have no alternative but to ask you to accompany me.
M: I’m sorry. You can’t take Boris from this house. He’s very weak.
I: Don’t interfere.
Paquito comes in, “What is going on here! Inspector, mind your manners. What are the police doing in this house?” Marina says that the police want to arrest Boris for something he didn’t do.
Boris takes the opportunity to escape when the police are distracted.
Paquito: Inspector, what happened? The prisoner escaped? What a pity.

Obragón house:
Ester responds to a knock on the door and Manrique and his men barge in. He orders them to take all the stuff in the house. Ester yells at them to stop; they have an agreement. Manrique says that their agreement is broken because she didn’t do her part. She let Soledad leave town without telling him and Soledad doesn’t want to marry Alcides. Manrique tells his men to take the furniture first.
E: I promise you that when my daughter comes back she will marry Alcides.
M: I can’t wait any longer. I’ve been very patient with you but no more.
E: (tries to stop them.) Over my dead body. (Manrique’s men hit her and push her to the ground.) (to Úrsula) Go for help before they take everything in the house. (Úrsula leaves.)

Dr. Max gives Hugo an injection to keep him asleep for a while. He prepares to go out. Los Burke ask him not to leave them alone with Hugo again. Dr. Max says that Hugo is drugged. He can’t do anything to them. He says that he has to go out for more sedatives. In order to study Hugo, he has to keep him sedated. Los Burke ask Dr. Max when he plans to pay them for bringing Hugo to him. Dr. Max says that he won’t pay them a dime. They start to leave. Dr. Max says that they are all in this together. If they don’t want to end up on the gallows, they need to make sure Hugo doesn’t escape again.

Cemetery-
Soledad and Lucas are surprised to find Hugo’s grave all messed up.


Soledad says that she has a premonition, she can’t explain it. She believes that Hugo isn’t there anymore. At that moment, Úrsula comes running up to say that Manrique is taking everything from the house. They all leave to return to the house.

Arturo and Doña Gladis visit Beatriz in the asylum-
The doctor says that her emotional state is very delicate. She had a crisis the night before. They had no alternative but to sedate her. She was very violent. Arturo asks the doctor if he knows what caused her crisis. He asks if she mentioned Hugo de Medina. Arturo says that when he told Beatriz earlier that Hugo was dead, she was very upset. The doctor replies that he doesn’t know what caused Beatriz to have a crisis. All he knows is that she was saying over and over that she knows who did this to her. Gladis says that Beatriz came to the sanatorium to get better and that doesn’t seem to be happening. She asks if he doctor knows what he is doing. Gladis tells the doctor to do whatever is necessary to make Beatriz better and she orders that Beatriz not be restrained.

A desperate and crying Boris arrives at the cemetery with a shovel-
B: Don Hugo, please forgive me. Don Hugo.. I should never have left you! All this is my fault .. please.. forgive me. I have to do this. I have to do this. I am sorry but I have to do this. I have to dig you up, Don Hugo. I only hope that your death didn’t have anything to do with your catalepsy, Don Hugo.

Marina is crying and talking about Boris with Paquito-
M: It’s not fair about Boris. First Don Hugo dies and he can’t go to the burial, then he is attacked and now he is arrested.
P: Why are you so sure of his innocence?
M: Because I know him. Because he is an honest man who has worked for many years in this house, because he was Hugo’s trusted servant, because he is incapable of doing this. Please, help him, Paquito.
P: Of course, dear but stop crying. I can’t promise anything but I will try and help your man. You love him a lot, right? I need to think. Bring me some tea. (Marina leaves) Many interesting things are happening in this city, Francisco Javier and you are going to make them work to your advantage.

Inspector Duarte comes to the cemetery in response to reports that Miguel, the watchman and gravedigger, has disappeared. He sees Boris digging up Hugo’s grave.

Manrique’s men are loading up a wagon with furniture. Ester begs Manrique to give her a chance to pay the debt but Manrique doesn’t believe that would ever happen. Soledad, Lucas and Úrsula coming running up. Soledad argues with Manrique about his right to do this but he pushes Soledad to the ground. Lucas attacks Manrique but Lucas has what appears to be heart attack and falls to the ground.


Soledad sends Úrsula for a doctor. She asks Manrique if he is happy about what has happened. Manrique refuses to leave without being sure the debt will be paid. At that moment, Alcides arrives with the police and tells Manrique that he is acting illegally. He can’t take the Obragón’s stuff without an order from a judge. Soledad thanks Alcides and goes inside with her father. Manrique tells Alcides that now he understands what this was all about. Alcides has used him to look like a hero to make points with Soledad. Alcides replies that the ends justify the means.

At the cemetery, Inspector Duarte tells Boris to stop what he is doing. It is a crime and he has an arrest warrant for Boris. Boris faints.


The doctor says that Lucas has to rest. He has had a heart attack but he is stable. The doctor tells Ester and Soledad that from now on they must keep Lucas from being agitated or upset. It could kill him. The doctor leaves.
E: You realize Soledad, that this is all your fault. I begged you to help us and you didn’t. You thought I made the whole thing up and now look at what has happened.
L: Don’t blame her, Ester. Come here, daughter.
S: Forgive me, Papa.
L: None of this is your fault. Go away from here. Tell Jacinto to take you to your Aunt Antonia.
E: Lucas, please. Those men nearly killed me. What more does it take for you two to change your minds?
S: Mother is right. You are close to my heart. I care about you and I can’t abandon you. I can’t do that. Forgive me.
L: You can’t stay here and suffer. You have the right to give your child a peaceful life.
S: Now I understand my destiny. It’s time that I did something for you. Mother, tell Alcides to come in.

At Dr. Max's Helena and Guillermo want Dr. Max to pay them and leave. They are arguing across a corpse covered by a sheet. “I don’t like what the doctor has in mind for Don Hugo,”says Guillermo, “He’s going keep him sedated to do who knows what.” Helena suggests that they tell Alcides that Hugo is alive. He will give them a lot of money for saving Hugo’s life. Guillermo is impressed with this idea. On the examining table next to the one they are standing over, Hugo manages to say, “No. Alcides, no.” Los Burke come over to where he is. “Help me get out of here,” begs Hugo, “Help me.”


Lucas begs Soledad to leave before it’s too late. He swears that he will take care of her mother and solve all their problems. Soledad says that she won’t leave him alone. Alcides comes in and asks Don Lucas how he is feeling. “Alcides,” says Soledad, “I have asked you to come in here because I have something to tell you and I want my parents to be witnesses. My family is the most important thing to me and for them and for their peace of mind, I have decided to marry you.
A: You will not regret having accepted me, Soledad. I have always loved you.. always, always, always. And I’m sure that with time and a little luck, you will feel the same for me.
S: That will never happen. I will marry you but my heart will never be yours.
E: Don’t say that, Soledad.
S: I will never feel for anyone else the love that I felt for Hugo, mother. No one can replace him.
A: It is too soon to talk that way. With time and a little luck, you will love me.
S: Never! If I marry you, it is only because of what has happened. I will save my parents’ house and you can say that I am your wife. But never - do you understand - never will I be yours.
E: You have to do your duties as a wife.
L: Leave her alone, Ester! Soledad is sacrificing herself for us. My child, it’s your life, your future. Don’t sacrifice it this way.
A: Your father is right, Soledad. My intention to make you happy is irrevocable but I won’t force you to do something you don’t want to do.
S: Papa, a little while ago, you were ready to sacrifice yourself for me. I can do something for you. Even thought it’s painful, what is important is that you are ok, that you get better, that my baby is born into stability.The rest doesn’t matter. (to Alcides) I will marry you Alcides if and only if you accept my conditions.

At Dr. Max’s-
Hugo: I have a proposition for you.
Guillermo says to wait and he goes and gets Hugo some water. [This is the first unselfish act by Guillermo towards Hugo and you can imagine how thirsty Hugo must be after nearly 48 hours without a drink. Later, we will see how Guillermo’s respect and admiration for Hugo separates him from Helena.]
Hugo: If you help me get out of here, I will give you a lot of money.
Helena: No, you only cause us problems. It would be better to tell Alcides.
Hugo: No. Alcides knew that I was ill and had me buried alive.
Guillermo: That’s horrible! That man is very bad.
(Helena pulls Guillermo aside.)
Helena: Dr. Max told us to watch him. We can’t start talking to him.
Guillermo: You yourself taught me that you should always listen to a business proposition.
Helena: We don’t need to have a business transaction with that man. (She realizes that she no longer has the ring they stole from the judge’s grave. Hugo calls Guillermo.)
Hugo: I owe you my life. I will pay you a lot of money.
Guillermo: Our future will be secure.

Gladis tells Arturo that Beatriz seems to get worse every day. He replies that it will take time for her to recover from what Hugo did to her. Gladis says in that case, she wants to take a house in the city to be able to take care of her daughter. Arturo says that he will take care of it. He tells Fabio to stop the carriage. He tells Gladis that he is going to see Dr. Max about hypnotizing Beatriz again. Gladis is scornful. She doesn’t believe in such things. After Arturo gets down from the carriage she curses Hugo de Medina and says that she hopes his soul is burning in hell.

Leaning over Hugo, Helena tells Dr. Max that Hugo has been telling them some strange things such as that Alcides had Hugo buried alive. Helena gives her diagnosis that Hugo crazy or is delirious. Dr. Max says that he has to keep Hugo unconscious. He is very strong and might try and escape. He approaches Hugo with a syringe. Hugo grabs Dr. Max’s wrist.

Dr. Max demands that Hugo let him go. He orders Los Burke to help him. At that moment Arturo is heard banging on the door and asking for Dr. Max.

Alcides and Soledad-
A: All right, Soledad, it will be as you say but I have conditions too. The first is … we will be married tomorrow.
E: That’s too soon. We just buried your brother. Can you imagine what people will say? It would make my daughter, you and our family look bad.
S: That is fine with me.
A: Second, we will live in Hugo’s house, Hugo’s former house because now it belongs to me and the third is that the child you are expecting will be registered in my name as if it were my child.
S: This is Hugo’s baby. Even if people point at me in the street, I won’t deny it.
E: What is the problem? He will have the last name of Medina either way and no one will know…
S: Mother, this isn’t about names. Hugo is the father of my child and that’s the end of the discussion.

Arturo keeps banging on the door. Dr. Max manages to free his wrist from Hugo’s grip. He puts down the syringe and goes upstairs to deal with Arturo. He tells Los Burke to tie Hugo up.

Alcides and Soledad-
A: Hang on here. Let’s stay calm. Soledad, what is it you want? Do you want the child to receive part of Hugo’s inheritance? That’s not a problem. Marry me and then you will get it.
S: Have some respect for me and my child. I’m not interested in Hugo’s estate. It’s a question of dignity.
A: What about my dignity? The whole city will be laughing at me for bringing up a child that isn’t mine. If you won’t accept my conditions, I won’t accept yours.
E: Soledad, Reconsider. What does it matter whether people think the child is Alcides' or not? He will still be your husband.
L: No! Don’t do it! It’s one thing to sacrifice yourself for us, it’s quite another to deny the truth to your child.
Lucas clutches his heart and gasps for breath.
A: Don Lucas, calm down!
S: Papa!
The credits roll.

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