Caray, Caray!

Hi all, I'll be filling in for the next three Tuesdays until Cheryl and Willa join you on 7/8. Look for Ferro on Mondays now joining our Querida Enemiga team.

Soo, we're off.

We start with Jimena giving Oscar the stink eye while he hugs Rosi.

Ofelia yells at Franco for meddling Rosi into a problem that it’s his fault. He plays dumb (pretty well too) that he doesn’t know what the problem could be. Ofelia begs him to just leave already.

Sofia whines to Grandpa Augustin about her Ma, etc. G-Pa tells her when happiness knocks you have to open the door, go with Juan and marry. Forget your Ma, it’s your life.

Jimena bawls on the bed, Sarita comes in and sees this and Jimena tells her what she saw, that Rosario is not only betraying us with Franco, but also with Oscar.

Oscar tells Franco about Rosario being upset and looking for you but she didn’t say anything, she left.

Whine, whine, why is he betraying me, Jime continues. Sara says well they showed up in a mysterious way here to work by themselves, uncontracted by the engineer and they never said anything so she thinks they are hiding something. Maybe what they wanted was to hurt us somehow. Jime says well they did, he broke my heart.

Doc shows up to Sofia with something important to tell –he must have gotten his latest installment from Gabi. He tells Soph Ma is worse everyday and she could fail at any minute with any upset.

In the testosterone house the manly men are eating pan and extolling their own virtues after G-Pa thanks them again for protecting him from his evil daughter. Only Quintina injects some estrogen and calls them her trustworthy babies.

One thing though G-Pa is not settled with. He wants to know why they showed up armed at the hacienda that day? What were they up to?

Sofi by a tree day dreaming. She’s hit by a branch and discovers very well carved and painted initials FR and wonders whose they could be. Hmmm...a clue to lost lands perhaps?

Eugenia is crying to bro Uribe that she knew this would happen one day because they are not equals. She swears she’ll leave tomorrow am. He tells her he loves only her, but she knows he’ll never disobey his family. He begs her to please not do this. Clearly she refers to his impending boda. Guess they are an item, but wait didn’t he just show up from Europe all sophisticated and citied? When did he strike up with the peasant girl?

Gpa doesn’t give up and asks again why they showed up armed. This time they are in the field of brawn. They agree he’s earned their trust, so they tell him that the map they showed him identified that their parents were really rich and owned land. Juan doesn’t remember because he was very young, but they killed his parents for those lands. Gpa promises to find out where that hacienda is, and most of all where the killers are.

We return to a cock fight, and this time it’s really the birds, even though Feo is there, and we are treated to mariachi music while Feo hands over a check because his cock wasn’t the best. His buddy (Lopes from La Fea) keeps urging him to stop betting already. Feo tells himself his only solution is if G-Pa signs or dies.

Back at the bakery Padre Tadeo wants to speak with Gpa and he says Gabi won’t listen, but Gpa interrupts him he knows, Oscar and Jime want to marry so he gives his blessing, but he also knows that Juan and Soph are in love. Tadeo says, yeah about that there’s something bad. Can’t say much, but yeah, Soph’s in danger around Feo. Juan over hears this.

Juan shows up to ask Sophi if she’s ready to go. She says something happened, her Mami Evil is worse. He says he hasn’t changed his mind and walks away.

Rosi wrapped in white calls after Fran in the square and tells him that they have her son and she needs his help.

Soph plays with plants smiling gleefully while girl music plays, all of sudden macho music plays, Juan rides up on horse and says - you come with me. She hops on very skillfully and they are away on Capricho the horse.

Meanwhile Rosi between tears tells Fran about her son and that it’s not Armando’s, that the father is dead. He was an outlaw and his own posse killed him, but she loved him, so helped him with his illegal doings and so she’s been living in fear of being turned in since that day and ending up in jail.

Matron Uribe gives the boys the rings they are to marry with. That’s pathetic. They dost protest, but she says you marry or you are disinherited, so there. They are subtly impactados.

Speaking of rings, Oscar gives Jime a family heirloom ring and tells her how much he loves and respects and honors her and wants her to have this ring as a symbol of loyalty and fidelity and to firm up his proposal. Dissed, she says she doesn’t want the ring or the love and gives it back. He wants to know what her problem is.

Sofi says she can’t go. She says, nice dream but can’t happen because I can’t abandon the monster while she’s so sick. Juan tells Sofi she has to go with him or he’ll go alone and she’ll never see him again. He begs for her answer again.

She doesn’t answer. He says fine, he’ll accept her decision but he’ll never forget her and will love her for always. Bye. Hasta Nunca. Ok, she calls after him and Vicente begins and she swears he can’t go, she’ll die, so she’ll go with. And there are hugs and more Vicente.

Oscar now on the hot seat wonders what happened. Jime acts as if he should know and calls him a cynic, and he is way wrong if he thinks she’s like Sara and she will compete with no one and stomps off.

Gabi calls after Sofi and can’t find her. A servant shows up and Gabi tells her to make sure that none of the workers come up to the house because today is a special day with an event that no one should miss.

Eva finds Jime crying and learns that Oscar is two timing her. Eva doesn’t believe that is possible. Sara runs in to find her still crying and tells her that she really needs to forget about that bricklayer and mentions her suspicions again. Sara believes that Eva knows something. She demands Eva say whaty and Eva hedges for a bit. Gabi bursts in and wonders if they’ve seen Soph and of course they haven’t.

We are then treated to a romantic montage of them kissing and swimming in the river in another part of town....they are soo happy as Vicente reminds us. Beyond the spurs, like a good lover she asks what he’s thinking. He’s thinking about his brothers and that he owes some of this happiness to them and their support in this flight with her. Liar, no way, she’s wet in see through white. There is no way he’s thinking of his brothers. He continues that he promised them he’d be back soon to help them with their pact for justice.

What is Fran doing sneaking around behind rocks? Oh right, he’s going to save the day, and the little boy. That or drink some tequila in a shack. He sees a skull and throws a blanket and a few things when the other little boy and Mariachi run up and tell him that Armando didn’t take Luis, another man did.

Someone hiding behind the shack overhears this conversation.

We see that Feo takes the little boy and the Hag to Cuetzalan and holes them up in a hotel room proclaiming that they can’t go anywhere. Hag is sick of the little boy and launches a trash bag at him. She thinks she should leave and someone else should watch him - so she's out the door.

Rosario is crying and praying for her son in church. Ofelia was looking for her and tells her it hurts her to see her this way, she’s like the daughter she never had. Rosi takes this opportunity to throw hate at her real mother who abandoned her, and hopefully she never returns because she never wants to see her. Aha, I’m seeing the Eva hate logic now for Ofelia.

The chicas minds are at work and they wonder if Juan has taken Soph, and if so, they are in big trouble. Eva tells Sara she’s wrong to think the bricklayers came to do harm. Jime assures that Juan is so in love with Sofi and would never hurt her. Sara thinks that he’ll do harm to her, after all he’s their brother.

Oscar whines to Padre about Jimena’s rechazos and how much he wanted her for the mother of his children etc. Padre assures him it will all work out and that Jime is just capricious. Oscar spills the beans about Juan riding off with Sophi and Padre is impactado.

More cock fights and Feo is still losing all his money, he says because of his buddy, yeah it’s never the gambler’s fault. Aha, that guy behind the shack was an informant and tells Feo that Franco was looking for the boy. Feo thinks he has to get rid of Rosi then. Buddy tells him not so fast she’s bringing in our only money at that cantina. He says don’t worry it’s only for a few days. Buddy says who really needs to go is the Reyes. Feo says yes, as long as G-Pa lives with them he won’t sign the papers. He says it’s time to invalidate that old man’s accounts. Buddy asks how, and Feo responds to kill him. I get chills, Sargeant Schultz (or is he more like Coronel Klink ?) is my favorite character.

Hacienda workers are now saying they haven’t seen Sophia, or Fernando so Gabi thinks they must be together then, and hopes they return in time for the banquet.

Speaking of Sofi she and Juan are still face sucking by the rio.

Don Agustin (G-Pa) is making bread and Quintina flirts with him when Oscar comes in and tells him of Jime’s rejection. G-Pa thinks something is behind all of this because she loves him. Oscar doesn’t know what it could be, he promises G-Pa, who thinks Oscar might have been a little cavalier, he's done nothing.

Gabi is wandering with Eva swaering everything must be perfect. She also says she thinks Sophi and Feo are together. She begins to greet guests advising them of the engagements.

Over at the Uribe’s Tia Evil is telling the boys to buck up for their important banquet. They say they don’t know anyone anyway and should have had something more intimate to announce this. She thinks they should count their luck. Just then Eugenia runs up and announces she’s leaving. Tia evil thinks she’s unappreciative for leaving before the wedding when there is so much work to do.

Back at the Hacienda Agustin, Sara complains about how Rosi knows how to manipulate men and that she has two of them with one hand on her waist (that is, not hard work for her). Jime doesn’t want to hear any more about Reyes bros, but Sara says well you have to because what if Juan hurt Sophi, she’s worried. Jime says well, Juan is ok, he loves Sophi with all his heart. She says they better hurry anyway and get down to their party because Mami Evil is going to announce to the world their marriages. Sara says told you so that Mami would get her way and that we’ll marry those guys. Jime says yes and it’s all Rosi’s fault.

Franco is still on the hunt for the boy. At the Malquerida, Feo now tells Rosi the boy is ok, but she doesn’t believe it and wants to see him. He says he’s fine, you’ll see him but you have to leave now and go to another town in a little hotel with your boy at least until Franco and Sophia and Eva stop looking for you. She says whatever Feo wants, so she can be with her son. He says he’s not as bad a guy as she thinks and he really doesn’t want to hurt the boy because she fails to obey. She agrees and the obligatory groping ensues.

At the hacienda happy music plays as everyone fake socialises and makes looks and funny nods at each other.

Back at the bar, previous informant tells Franco that he should be satisfied because Rosi has now left the pueblo for good.

Gabi and Tia Evil make the announcement of the engagements. None of the promised four look enraptured with this idea. Tia forces them to handover the rings. They both do so coldly and the girls take them. She yells that they need to put them on for the girls. Sara flashes a giant rock that already looks like a complete wedding set. Jimena has an equally big rock that is put on her middle finger. Gabi continues that the wedding will be in a month!

Seems like there is a lot of interest in more about Ciudad Serdan so I decided to post this satellite link. It's really neat and if you zoom in you can see the parroquia very well. See if you can see shirtless Juan wandering around.

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