Caray, Caray!

In the Taverna, Hugo politely asks Arturo to go outside to settle their differences so as not to disrupt the entertainment. Arturo refuses. Hugo escalates the situation by challenging Arturo to a duel to the death. All this time, Soledad has been standing in the doorway out of Hugo's sight. After the challenge, Soledad comes forward and asks Hugo not to take on Arturo. Hugo tells her that this is a man thing and she should go home to her baby. Arturo says, "Yes, go home, put on mourning and get ready to bury your husband." Arturo takes a swing at Hugo who knocks him down. At this point, Hercu-less takes the opportunity to hold Soledad at gunpoint. Boris and Hugo threaten Hercu-less to free Soledad, Guillermo stops one of Arturo's men from shooting Hugo and the whole Taverna erupts into fighting. Hugo, Boris and Soledad escape from the Taverna. Arturo sends his men after them. Boris provides covering fire while Hugo and Soledad escape. In the confusion, Hercu-less carries Rebeca off over his shoulder like a cave man.

Ester and Antonia argue about whether Antonia should have told Soledad that Ester threw Lucas out. Ester says that she has had enough of Lucas's drinking, philandering and crazy behavior. Antonia says that if anything happens to Lucas, it will Ester's fault.

Alberto, Rebeca's coachman, takes Lucas to Rebeca's house. Jeremias wakes up Enrico and sends him to save Lucas from danger. Jeremias says that Lucas is important for finding the treasure. That motivates Enrico. Enrico tells Lucas that Rebeca is a bad person.

Hugo decides that the safest place to hide out with Soledad is in the famous cabaña where Hugo and Soledad first made love and where Hugo saw Soledad kissing Alcides. (I thought that cabaña had been destroyed by an explosion? There isn't even any smoke damage.) Paquito sees the carriage and knows where they are going.

Being in the cabaña provokes Soledad to have a flashback of her night of passion there with Hugo. Hugo says that Soledad seems very thoughtful. She says that she has been in this place before. "Yes," says Hugo, the night of our wedding," and has a flashback to seeing Soledad kissing Alcides disguised as Hugo. Hugo says that their baby was probably conceived in that night of passion. His says his memories of it are vague but he thinks she enjoyed it. Soledad says that she doesn't remember. "You felt guilty about betraying the memory of Hugo, right?" asks Hugo. "I don't understand why," says Hugo, "my brother was dead and we were married." Soledad says that she doesn't know why he is asking about all this. Hugo says that he wants to know if Soledad gave him (Alcides) her heart that night. Soledad says that she doesn't want to talk about it. She just wants to go home to her baby. However illogically, Hugo concludes that her response proves that she was his, only his that night.

Back at the Taverna, Arturo is instructing his men to search the forest for Hugo and Soledad when Paquito comes in and tells Arturo where to send his men. Arturo makes Paquito lead his men to the cabaña in spite of Paquito's concern that Alcides will find out that Paquito betrayed his hiding place. "You are on my team, now," says Arturo, "and this is war."

Hugo keeps Soledad from lighting candles that would betray their presence in the cabaña (although there seems to be plenty of light in there already - maybe there is a full moon ;-) )
Hugo goes back to his cross examination of Soledad. He says that he knows that he (Alcides) and she lied to Hugo to get his fortune and even had a daughter together but he wants to know if she ever loved him (Alcides). Soledad refuses to answer except to say that her marriage with Alcides was hell. "Would you rather have lived with my brother Hugo? Did you really love him?" Alcides/Hugo tells her that he spied on them when they were together and she seemed so in love. What were her feelings for Hugo? Naturally, just as she starts to answer, the bad guys open fire from outside.

Hugo wants to go out there by himself and lead the bad guys away but Soledad won't let him. "Why are you trying to help me?" he asks and she says that she won't let him be killed. They huddle together inside while the bad guys shoot every glass lampshade and bottle in the place. In crawls Boris, who has found an unobserved way out of the place through the basement.

Hercu-less brings Rebeca back to the house and starts groping her saying that he has missed her and he is sure she wants him back. The coachman interrupts to say that Lucas is waiting for Rebeca. Hercu-less, the nitwit, is consumed with jealousy. He goes to kill Lucas and in the fracas, Enrico and Lucas escape. However, Rebeca overhears Enrico says something to Lucas about being important to getting the treasure.

Back at the Taverna, Eloisa is giving the performance of a lifetime to Arturo saying that his vendetta against Alcides has shown her that he isn't the family man she thought he was, etc. etc. Arturo says he can be that man if Eloisa is by his side (gag). She agrees to marry him on condition that he calls his men off Alcides and there is no bloodshed. Arturo agrees but he wants to sample the merchandise right away. Continuing her Academy Award winning performance, Eloisa, with the aid of hatpin, manages to convince Arturo that she is a shy virgin. In a post-coital chat, Arturo says that he is so happy that he is first man she has been with and she says that she is happy that that he is the peace-loving guy she fell in love with and makes him promise not to continue his feud with Alcides. He agrees. (So much lying is going on here, that somebody's nose should be getting longer.)

Lucas and Soledad return to the Obragon house and Ester reluctantly agrees to take him back. (What could be a greater punishment for him than having to look at her and Antonia every day?) Soledad announces that she has made a decision about going back to Alcides.

In the Elena and Guillermo show, Elena agrees to stay with Dr. Max as his assistant but she doesn't like the work. The police come for Dr. Max to treat the wounded from the melee at the Taverna, including Guillermo. Guillermo ends up blind from a blow on the head. Dr. Max agrees to let him come back to his place. Guillermo stumbles into the room of the Cabinet of the Dead Wife that he thinks is a cabinet full of money. It probably wasn't that smart to try and rob it when you are blind. Dr. Max surprises him, whips out his trusty sword and says he is going to kill Guillermo.

At the House of Sadism, Beatriz gives a cheery good morning to Alcides but he doesn't respond and appears to be dead. (Presumably, Alcides isn't really dead. Could he be having a catalepsy attack as Margarita suggested?)

Two of Arturo's men didn't get the order to come back to base and now Arturo is worried that something might happen to Alcides and he would lose Eloisa. Unaware of this development, Hugo enlists the cooperation of his employees in protecting the Hacienda and Boris supervises arming them. And because Hugo is a good guy, he tells his men to make sure that they are careful and don't risk their lives. As badly as these guys shoot at each other in a gunfight, they should have no worries.

Eloisa shows up at the Hacienda to tell Hugo what she has done for him. She has agreed to marry Arturo and even slept with him just to get him to call off the feud. Hugo is impactado. "Why?" he asks. "Because I love you and I don't want him to hurt you," responds Eloisa. At this moment, Soledad shows up with the baby and Ursula and announces that her and her baby's place is at his side so she is moving in. The credits roll.

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