Caray, Caray!

Leftovers from Friday---Al’s following the family tradition and drowning his sorrows. Mili wants to talk to him, but he insults her—calls her a liar and reminds her of how he treated her so nicely all the while she’s messing around with his cousin. She tells him to stop because he’s saying things she won’t be able to forgive. Al laughs at that, she forgive him? He calls her crazy and she says it is him who’s crazy and she runs off. Hugo fills Andrea in on what happened with Mili and how Al, of course, thought the worst of the situation. The two evil powers agree to continue combining their efforts to wreak havoc on our protagonists.

Mili’s in the dorm, crying over Al. Lina walks in and asks her friend what’s wrong. Mili starts to spill out the whole story. Lina doesn’t see why Al would be upset if she and Hugo were talking. Mili lets her know that she was in a bathrobe, with lingerie on underneath, and on Hugo’s bed. Lina wants to know if Mili slept with Hugo and Mili is affronted. No, she insists, we weren’t doing anything. I was just posing for Hugo---he’s a painter. Lina says you really can’t blame Al for jumping to the wrong conclusion, she’s having a hard time herself wrapping her mind around the idea that Mili was almost nude and in Hugo’s bed—and nothing happened. Mili says that Al should have trusted her.

Al meets Bobby in a restaurant. He’s still drinking and Bobby’s concerned that Al’s started so early (because it is only a problem if you start drinking before noon?). Al tells his friend that he discovered Mili in Hugo’s room this morning. Bobby says well they’re friends. Al tells him that Mili was in Hugo’s bed, wearing only a bathrobe.

Braulio searches through Regina’s things to find out where her mysterious outing is taking place. He has no luck. When Regina returns home he questions her whereabouts. Regina is amused and wants to know what Brau is digging at. He asks if she’s found his sister and keeping it from him. Regina says that if she were to have found Rosario, of course she’d tell Brau.

Val and Sergio are snuggling and are caught by Constancio, who’s none too happy. Val tells her dad that she and Sergio are novios. She leaves the men alone to talk. She goes to talk to her mother about Connie’s reaction and Luci tells her that it is natural for Connie to be suspicious of a man involved with his daughter. Meanwhile, back downstairs, Connie wants to know why Sergio was messing with his secretary and now is messing with his daughter. Sergio sets Connie straight---he thought Val was his secretary. She went along with the pretense because she wanted to find out if Sergio was interested in her or her family’s money. Sergio assures Connie that he’s got serious intentions toward Val, but they will not interfere with his working on Connie’s political campaign.

After the commercial break, Perlata has now joined Sergio and Connie. The men talk their political mumbo jumbo. Damien interrupts and Connie leaves to talk to him. Perlata and Sergio plot some. Sergio tells Perlata that he wants to marry Val----with the kind of money that the Belmonte’s have, he’s going to be set for life. Perlata asks how Sergio can marry Val if he’s already married. Sergio answers, well he’s married "for now". This makes me laugh!!! What a good way for the writers to mess with Snotty Spice!!!

Drunken Al finds Mili in the kitchen and offers her money (mil pesos) to sleep with him. Mili doesn’t understand what he’s asking and that he’s insulting her big time. Al takes her confusion as her means of asking for more, he ups it to dos mil pesos. Mili’s still confused. Al demands to know how much Hugo had to pay for the pleasure of sleeping with her. Mili starts to cry---tears of rage and pain---as she realizes what Al’s insinuating. She throws a glass on the ground and stomps out of the room (at this point I wonder what the Belmonte budget must be for replacing dishes, breaking them seems to be a popular release of anger). Al tosses the money to the ground after she leaves (will Karla find it? I hope not).

Sergio leaves and Connie pumps Perlata from some info on the lawyer. He tells Connie that he need not worry, Val is in good hands. Sergio’s got a good future. When Perlata leaves, he runs into Damien and invites him to come play some poker. Damien jumps at the chance to throw away even more money that isn’t his.

Mili serves Regina dinner and they discuss how Claudio was a fraud and Damien’s involvment in the whole scheme. They talk about Regina’s anguish over not finding her grandchild. Mili tells Regina that Claudio’s appearance must be a sign from God that Regina is close to finding the child. Mili urges her to keep looking, God won’t allow her to keep suffering.

Al, in his room, looks at the necklace he’d given to Mili (you know the bling bling “M”) and then snatched from her neck. Andrea walks in the room. Al scolds her for not knocking and she says if she were to have knocked he wouldn’t have let her in. She makes a move on the grieving Al, telling him that the servant isn’t worth it. Al rejects her and tells her that he’s not interested. She storms out and swears to the audience that she’ll get him back.

Mili goes to Luci and asks for her help with Al. Luci tells her that she’s gotten what she wanted, Al and Andrea to break up. Mili had thought that Luci was on her side, but Luci tells her that she’s an alcoholic, but not an idiot. Things between Al and Mili would have never worked. She advises Mili to find someone new---she’s young and can find someone of her own class to make a future. After Mili leaves, Luci comments about how quickly Mili and Al’s relationship ended.

Mili runs to Regina and begs to be sent back to the Convent. Regina figures out that Mili and Al are having problems. Mili begs for a few days away from the mansion. We next see Mili with Gloria in her old room at the Convent. Mili confides in her friend that she’s hurting and never wants to go back to the mansion.

Perlata loses at poker and Damien seems to have some luck with the cards. I suspect that it is some sort of set up, because Damien strikes me as an easy target and let’s face it, he’s a loser in all sense of the word. The two mean leave the gaming room, and Damien is invited back by the proprietor, perhaps even tomorrow. Damien asks—half jokingly—what time they open in the morning.

At breakfast the next day, Andrea fills the family in on the ‘developments’ between Mili and Hugo. Al loses his appetite and decides to give a little payback to Andrea. He announces to the family that he and Andrea are done—there will be no wedding. Val arrives with Sergio and presents him to her family. Luci tells Val to be careful, a true gentleman is really almost an extinct species. Regina joins the family and tells them that Claudio was a fraud, perpetuated by Damien. Damien tells the family that he was only trying to help Regina and eliminate some of her grief over her missing grandchild. Snotty Spice is just so happy that the naco isn’t related to them, but of course she new that someone so gauche could not share the same DNA with her family. Oh how I wish that Claudio could have stuck around a while longer if only to cause problems for Snotty.

Lina fills Hugo in on Mili’s leaving.

Regina pulls Al aside to talk about Mili. She tells him that she’s gone back to the Convent and that she suspects it has something to do with him. He tells his abuela that he caught Mili in Hugo’s room in nothing but a bathrobe. Regina tells him that she’s sure he assumed the worst. Al defends his position and Regina tries to reason with him. She tells him that Hugo’s wanted to paint Mili and that Regina, herself, told Mili about many nude paintings that are great works of art. Perhaps Al judged the situation too quickly. She urges him to speak with Mili.

Back at the Convent, Mili is asked by Padre Manuel to join in a soccer game. Mili claims she’s tired and PM suspects that something must be going on if Mili refuses to join in a game. Connie shows up at the Convent and Mili’s takes off with Gloria. Connie tells PM that Mili should remain there and not return to the mansion. Connie tells PM that Claudio was a fraud and PM says that he knew. Padre Manuel wants Connie to tell Mili the truth. Mili comes back at this point and tells PM that she’s decided to play. PM tells Mili that Connie has something to tell her and he leaves them alone. Connie asks Mili if she wants to meet her father. Mili says yes, so she can spit in his face. He’s the man who destroyed her mother and her life. Obviously, Connie doesn’t tell her that he’s her father. He listens as Mili says actually she’s not sure if she wants to meet him, she’d rather he be dead because if she were to meet him, she’d want to kill him. As Mili’s talking, she’s getting upset and Connie gives her a hug. You can tell he’s struggling to hide his own pain over the direction of this conversation.

By the pool, Morcky has a fantasy about Val. Really, all I can say is that he could do so much better than Snotty Spice and that’s all the space I’m going to devote to this scene.

Damien is back in the gaming parlor. He loses and gets hooked up with a line of credit. The proprietor insists that Damien sign for the “advance”.

Connie comes back home and has a conversation with Regina about how she’s spending her money. She tells her son that she doesn’t ask how he spends his, so it is none of his business what she does with hers. After Connie leaves, Regina gets on the phone with a doctor and has some cryptic conversation. Did anyone get the meaning of this, or can we assume that it is some sort of plot development that has yet to be fully revealed?

During the soccer game, Mili is distracted and misses a play. PM tells her that it is obvious that she’s got something on her mind. He offers to be an ear for her to talk to, but she says she just needs some time alone to think.

Alone on the cancha, Mili has a flashback to happier times with Al. When her flashback is over, in true novela fashion, Al is there in the flesh. Mili demands to know what he’s doing there and he says that’s quite a greeting. So Mili sarcastically asks how he is and how the family is doing. Al tells her that they need to talk and she tells him that perhaps if he’d have bitten his tongue earlier then she’d have been able to explain things. Al says they still need to clear things up and then Hugo arrives. Al tries to tell his cousin to scram. Mili lets Hugo know that she’s still ticked off at him, however she decides that Hugo can help clear up Al’s confusion. She asks Hugo to tell Al what really was going on in his room the previous day. Hugo tells his cousin that he and Mili were making love. Shocked expressions from both Al and Mili end the episode.

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