Caray, Caray!

Lots of things happened tonight - but the good news is that Hugo's coming back to town.

Ursula puts out the fire in Soledad's clothing. Antonía says it is her fault - she thought she was in hell - but Ester blames Soledad. Fortunately, it appears that Soledad wasn't burned but after a few minutes she has intense abdominal pain. For some reason, Ester and Ursula have to go for Mad Max leaving Soledad alone with Antonía.

Hugo is unconscious but Boris says that his condition is different than a cataleptic attack. He didn't have any symptoms beforehand, he hadn't had any emotional distress. Boris sends Marina for Dr. Chirac. We see Hugo's dream. He is in a forest being called by a little girl. He asks her what he can do for her (what a sweet smile!) and she asks him not to leave her and points to a vision of Soledad crying out in pain and fear for her baby. At this moment, Hugo wakes up and tells Boris that Soledad is in danger.

It turns out that Dr. Max, along with all the other men in town, are at the tavern for the spectacular. This includes Lucas, who continues to demonstrate his weakness by letting his companions persuade him to have a drink.

Rebeca is worried that Hercu-less will crash the show and create a scene but the tavern owner tells that he will take care of Hercu-less. Sure enough, it appears that you have to have id to get into the show as well as a ticket. Hercu-less has a fake beard doesn't have any id and they are about to throw him out when Arturo ids Hercu-less as his employee and he stays. Arturo also spots Eloisa and Paquito in the crowd. Eloisa has paid Hercu-less to promote her suit with Arturo.

Guillermo is all dressed up in spiffy suit. He tells Margot that he is sad that Helena hasn't come to see him perform. He has always wanted to show her his talent and have her applauding from the front row. Margot says that maybe it is better she didn't come. She would just make him nervous.

Soledad can't understand why her baby is moving around so much. Antonía goes to make her some tea and in the hall tells herself that if it is God's will that Soledad lose her baby to remove the stain from the family - so be it. Well at least she didn't say it to Soledad.

Dr. Max is not in his laboratory but Ester and Ursula find a note that says he is at the Tavern. They also find Enrico at Dr. Max's. Upon being informed (I guess he didn't get the psychic message like he has before) that Soledad is ill, he wants to help. Ester refuses his help but Enrico follows them to the tavern. Helena tries to attend the spectacular but the bouncer doesn't believe she is Guillermo's wife since he never mentioned he was married. Then Ester and Ursula show up. The bouncer won't let Ester in without a ticket even to fetch the doctor. While the bouncer is arguing with Ester, Helena and Enrico slip in to the tavern.

Guillermo's opening act is a big success. There are demands for an encore but Guillermo says he has only practiced on piece. Then the Mysterious Lady performs. Her high-class act is basically a strip tease. However, she has barely gotten started when Manrique, the money lender, runs up and hands Rebeca a bunch of money to perform just for him or better yet to go off with him. This is too much for Hercu-less who punches him out. A wild brawl ensues during which Arturo rescues Eloisa from a lecherous patron and a drunk Lucas ducks out to Rebeca's dressing room.

Dr. Max has left the Tavern with Enrico before Rebeca starts to perform and she sees Enrico with the Obragons . Ester tells her driver to pick up Lucas at the club on the way back but Enrico tells her that Lucas is at the tavern . Ester clearly demonstrates what she considers most important when she sends the doctor, Enrico and Ursula to the house while she stays behind to find Lucas. Of course, she catches Lucas putting the moves on Rebeca but not before Rebeca finds out that Soledad and Enrico are friends and concludes that Soledad has something to do with the treasure. In their carriage, Lucas tells Ester that his conduct was insupportable and offers to leave the house but no such luck. Ester demands that he stay in the house to preserve appearances until Soledad has her baby.

The baby is moving so much that it is causing terrible pain for Soledad. Antonia thinks that it is contractions but all of a sudden the pain and the movement stop. Now Soledad is concerned that she can't feel the baby move at all. Soledad falls asleep.

Dr. Chirac does not know what happened to Hugo but he says that he has heard of out of body experiences like Hugo describes. Hugo asks Dr. Chirac why he inherited the catalepsy from his father but Alcides didn't. The doctor says that inherited diseases are like a lottery. Then Hugo asks if a child of Alcides could inherit catalepsy and the doctor says yes.

Dr. Max arrives at the Obregons and is concerned that he can't wake Soledad up. Ursula brings in, what else, the flower. Waving it under Soledad's nose brings her around (it also brings on a thunderstorm.) Dr. Max can't hear the baby's heartbeat and concludes that the fetus has died. He wants to give Soledad an injection presumably to induce labor or else she will die.

Eloisa lays it on thick and Arturo asks her to marry him. She is ecstatic but Paquito is jealous. Once Eloisa has Arturo's money, he vows to kill Arturo and have Eloisa for himself.

Back at the Hacienda, Helena tells Guillermo to enjoy his 5 minutes of fame and tomorrow
they will go back to their old lives. Guillermo says that now that he has discovered music again, he isn't going back to his old life of robbery. Helena refuses to accept this so Guillermo tells her that he isn't going to help her anymore. We also find out that Guillermo came from a rich family who gave him music lessons since he was a child. He has lost touch with his father, though and he is probably dead.

Hugo tells Boris and Marina that they are returning to the capital right away without even going to Dr. Chirac's lab to pick up some of the flower extract he just got. Hugo has interpreted his dream as meaning that Soledad's baby has inherited catalepsy, they are both in danger of dying and only the flower can help.

(So Soledad gets more suffering on Hugo's tab. At the beginning of the novela, he swore he would never inflict what his mother went through on another woman but he exposes a woman he loves to the chance that she will get pregnant and that the child could inherit his disease. Maybe she would have chosen to take the risk but he didn't tell her. The discovery of the flower may make lessen the effect of the disease but Dr. Chirac did not say it was a cure and as far as Hugo knew when he had sex with Soledad, there was no cure.)

(It would seem that the baby is having an attack of catalepsy in the womb, which is why Dr. Max can't hear the heartbeat. When Hugo and the flower 'bring the baby back to life,' Dr. Max is going to come to the same conclusion as Hugo - that the baby has inherited the disease from its father and Soledad and the baby will be in the evil doctor's crosshairs.)

Monday - Soledad, Ursula and Enrico try to escape from the house and have an accident. Get on the road, Hugo!!!

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