Caray, Caray!

A beaten up Constancio, wearing a neck brace, sits in what appears to be a wheelchair as Damien holds a press conference calling Connie’s attackers cowards. After the press conference, the neck brace is off and Connie’s on the attack. He is up and about and throwing things at Damien, threatening to kill him. Damien tries to play all innocent, asking why Connie is doing this. Connie just rants and throws more things. Perlata tries to intervene, but Connie ends up ordering both men out. Damien scampers out, glad to have his skin saved.

At the mansion, Karla is trying to gather info for Andrea and she gets caught by Braulio while she’s listening at Regina’s door.

Inside Regina’s room, Al and Mili are telling her of their plans to get married in secret. Granny gives the couple her blessing and is told she’ll be the only guest.

Alone in his office, Connie gets a phone call about Damien. The person isn’t too forthcoming with information, but does say the word “casino”. This gets Connie to thinking.

Luciana takes a call from Perlata.

Socorrito and Horacio lament over how terribly Lina’s mother has treated her. The couple decides they need to support Lina.

Meanwhile, Lina is crying on the shoulders of Mili and Gloria. She’s upset with how Roxanna treated her and when Gloria offers her comfort, Lina lets the cat out of the bag and tells Gloria that at least her mother is looking for her, to ask for forgiveness. Gloria is confused and Mili tries to get Lina to shut up. Gloria realizes her friends have been keeping some important info from her. Upset, she takes off.

Luci orders Brau to go pick up her dress---she’ll need it for the dinner party she’s planning for her and Connie’s anniversary. The majordomo questions why he’s being sent on a errand and Luci tells him he’s the only one she trusts with the task, and besides she knows how much he likes her clothes.

At the office, Bobby is summoned by Connie. He wants to know how’s it going with Damien. Bobby says “good”. Connie asks him for a favor---tell him what’s going on with Damien’s bank accounts. Bobby says he knows nothing and Connie says he believes him and hopes that Bobby’s telling him the truth (the last bit was said in a mildly threatening manner).

Mili follows Gloria out to the garden. Mili wants to explain, but Gloria has no interest in talking. She tells Mili she’s got no mother, no friends, nobody!!

Bobby goes to Damien and tells him he wants the account Damien set up in his name cancelled. Damien tries to talk him out of it, to no avail. Damien promises to take care of the matter the next day. Bobby leaves, Perlata enters—while taking a call assuring the person on the other line that “they know what to do.” With no other option (his words, not mine) Damien asks Perlata for his help with hiding the money. Sure, Perlata says, but at a cost of 20%.

Karla is rubbing Luci’s feet (is this really a maid’s duty?). Karla tries to pump Luci for some info, but Luci’s not talking---she’s too preoccupied. Valeria comes in and says she needs to talk. She gestures for Karla to be dismissed and Luci sends the maid off. Val asks her mother to send her away for a couple months. Luci questions they why of it all, and Val says she needs to get away to clear her head before she does something stupid in the name of love. Luci agrees.

Back at home now, Connie meets with Padre Manuel. He tells the Padre that he wants to take care of Mili. PM thinks this means that Connie is wanting to spill the beans that Mili’s his daughter, but that’s not what Connie has in mind. Mili and Regina come into the study, Mili acts quite properly when greeting the priest and Regina is glad that her lessons have taken hold. PM tells Mili that Connie’s got something to tell her. Connie sends the priest a dirty look (that’s got to be some sort of sin---cardinal, venial? --who knows). Connie is at a loss for words and Regina prompts him on, she wants to know what he’s got to say to Mili. He tells them that he’s decided to help Mili with her school expenses and Regina thinks that’s very generous. Mili says “thanks, but no thanks.” She doesn’t want his help, she’ll work for the money to pay for her education. Mili leaves and Regina tells Connie she’ll work on convincing Mili to take the help.

Brau is just outside the dress shop. He drops something and at that exact moment a gunshot is fired. Luckily, it misses Braulio.

Connie tells Padre Manuel that he’s not ready to tell Mili he’s her daddy. PM questions Connie’s motive. It is because of his political career, he can’t dirty his reputation (methinks he’s got/done enough things to mar his image already). Padre Manuel defends Mili and says she’s not a dirty mark!

Val fills Rocky in on her plans to leave. He asks her not to go. She says it’s a done deal. He asks if she’ll write to him, she says nope.

Lina tells Mili she should accept the Belmonte’s money for school.

Gloria comes back from her pity party and Mili tries talking to her again. She lets Gloria know that she just found out and hadn’t thought of a good way to give her the info on her mother. Gloria thinks Mili betrayed her and Mili stresses that in no way could she betray a friend like Gloria. Gloria tells Mili she has no interest in getting to know this woman, as far as she’s concerned she abandoned her and therefore Gloria no longer has a mother.

Horacio and Socorrito have a little snog in the kitchen. They are interrupted by Braulio’s return. He’s in shock, but manages to tell them that he was at the point of death.

Luci receives the news that her plan failed, but is assured that the problem will be resolved. Perhaps she and Perlata need to hire some goons who aren't quite so incompetent.

Val packs and admits to Pilar that she’s leaving because she’s got feelings for Rocky. Pilar wants to know why the Belmontes all have things going on with the servants.

Gloria goes to see PM and tells him that she’s got no interest in meeting her mother and she just wants to be left alone. Just then her mother shows up and Gloria pretty much tells her the same thing.

Rocky loads Val’s things into the taxi and says a very teary-eyed goodbye.

It is the next day and Connie is upset to hear that there will be a dinner celebration for his and Luci’s anniversary. He says the last 20 years are nothing to celebrate, in fact to him the party will seem like a funeral.

Luci sends Braulio out again. This time for flowers. He tries to tell her he’s not comfortable leaving the house, but she’ll hear none of this. After he leaves, Luci places a call to Perlata.

Damien goes and asks Al for some money. Al informs him that Connie put out a directive---no Belmonte Enterprise money should be given to Damien. Damien tries to pit Al against his father, asking his nephew to ignore Connie’s orders. Al won’t do it and Damien gets angry.

Gloria tells Mili about what happened with her mother. She asks Mili why does she cry so much when she doesn’t care.

Connie meets with someone (a goon perhaps?) and gives him money to fix things.

We later see this someone—I guess he’s a foreman-- in Al’s office with a whole bunch of workers. They are refusing to follow Al’s orders, they insist that they only answer to Constancio. Al tells the that he’s the new president, so they better get back to work or they’ll be fired. They complain some more and Al tells Andrea to call down to personnel and have their walking papers drawn up. The men leave the office and the foreman tells Al that there will be consequences. Yeah, where I work, insubordination is a fireable offense, think those would be the consequences.

Connie spots Bobby, Damien, and Perlata outside the bank. Later he gets Bobby to get in the car and demands to know what’s going on.

Rocky overhears Luci on the phone, she's learning about someone's death (I think a relative of Val's friend Barbara). She mentions the cab ride to the airport and Rocky jumps to some very big conclusions and thinks it was Valeria who died. He runs out of the house in grief.

Brau goes to the flower shop. A masked man comes in pointing a gun at him. The shopkeeper clobbers the masked man over the head with a clay pot.

Mili visits Al at work. They make lunch plans, but before they can leave the workers come back into the room. They complain about how they’ve been fired when they’ve got kids at home, a sick wife, bills to pay, etc. Mili is upset that Al’s responsible for these men losing their jobs!! END OF EPISODE

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