Caray, Caray!

Juan is all charged up and smiling after getting to spend time whispering sweet nothings in Sofia’s ear earlier. At the stable he tells his horse (why doesn’t this guy ever have a best bud to talk to?) that he is worried that Sofia seems to be sick.
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The next morning Oscar is telling Franco he’s really anxious to get married. Franco says he has no intention of getting married because he’s still going crazy over his two women and wondering which one of them to pick. Juan is off talking to his horse, uh-gain, about Sofia and how really pretty and so caressably cuddly she looked the night before. Capricho doesn’t mind ‘cuz at least he’s getting a good bath and probably a couple of carrots out of the deal.

At the hacienda Eva comes in to wake up Sofia. Sofia slowly opens her eyes and says she doesn’t know why she is still so sleepy. Excitedly she tells Eva that she dreamed that Juan was there last night talking to her, and that he kissed her and told her over and over that he loved her. (When the guy you dream about kissing you looks like Eduardo Yañez, I figure there’s plenty of reason to stay stuck in the sheets a while longer, pondering the possibilities.)

Back in town the Reyes Brothers come to the church for mass. Padre Tadeo turns around and smiles when he sees them. Of course, Tadeo can’t help but notice since Juan has come in wearing those jingling jangling spurs of his and they jingle-jangle all the way down the aisle to the altar. (Yeah I suppose they’re sexy, but it sort makes you of wonder if the women in the back pew rolled their eyes because of the noise or because there was more than a whiff of horse puckey on them when he came in.) Each brother asks for their own brand of help from the Almighty in their pursuit of Luh-h-h-v-v: Juan asks to be forgiven for speaking so harshly to Sofia before and he asks that their love might triumph; Oscar wants his love for Jimena to be blessed and the Lord’s protection for the two of them; Franco wants to know who he’s supposed to choose, but he doesn’t want to hurt either Sarita or Rosario because he loves them both equally despite the fact no one believes him.

After church the Reyes brothers apparently have headed over to the police station. All of a sudden they’re there getting the forensics report from the sheriff. Juan reads through it and sees that it notes that when Libia’s body was handed over to them she had suffered a head injury. The sheriff said they believed that it came from her slipping and falling into the water, but Juan disagrees and says he believes Libia could have been clubbed in the head instead.

In front of her market Hortensia tells Quintina about the night she drove Libia to Don Bernardo’s wake. She says the girl was hurt and felt deceived because she never knew Bernardo Elizondo was married, and to find out he was dead on top of everything else doubled her pain. The worst part was, though, the way his widow surely mistreated and humiliated her. When she came out of the house Libia was acting all crazy and distracted.

In the meantime, the three brothers go back to the river to investigate a bit more about how Libia might have died. Juan says that the river is too shallow there for LIbia to have drowned, but Oscar says to remember it had been raining a lot and would have gotten much deeper. Franco says that it would have been muddy and slippery too. Juan answers that it could be, but then it might not. So Franco asks if they killed her then why and what for? After a bit of discussion they determine that if the Elizondo’s knew she was pregnant that it wouldn’t suit them to have the baby live, particularly if it was a boy (because, as they forget to remind us, Gabriela and eventually Sofia/Feo would lose half the inheritance and properties Bernardo left the family if his lover had a son). The Reyes’ agree that this could be reason enough to want to get rid of their sister permanently.

Back in the bakery Don Augustin tells Quintina about Bernardo and the young girl he fell in love with. He says it was painful to see her at the wake and to watch, helpless in his wheelchair, at the way his daughter mistreated her. He tells her then that he would like to find out if Libia had a family. Quintina gets nervous when she hears this and stutters a bit then says she’s certain she was an orphan. Juan comes back about then and after rushing a greeting to him she races off.

Juan tells Augie that he believes Sofia is sick. Pablito shows up for a visit and Juan shows him how to make bread, creatively using pieces of the dough to teach him how to read. Franco comes in and since Juan needs to take care of deliveries to the convent he has Franco teach Pablito a bit more of the alphabet.

In another room Augie is telling Quintina that he’s worried about Sofia because she’s gotten sick. Quintina offers to take him back to the hacienda in Hortensia’s truck to visit her. Since he’s itching for a reason to tie Gabi in knots again he says fine and they head out.

A bit later Augie arrives at the hacienda dressed (miraculously) as a bull-fighter and chases Gabriela around like she’s the bull when she comes downstairs all fake smiles to “greet” him. She becomes enraged when, afterwards, he pointedly tells her that he refuses to sign any documents, which means there’s no milking the cash cow for her and Feo.

As Franco and Pablito go over vowels, Pablito mentions that while he was hiding nearby he saw the man from the fair who hit him. The man, he says, is keeping a little friend of his locked up in a shack nearby and they beat the little boy a lot.
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At the hacienda Sofia cheers up when she sees her granddad dressed up in another one of his crazy costumes. He tells her that what he wants most is to see her happy, and that she made the wrong decision to return, but that there is still time to put things right. Sofia isn’t quite sure she understands him.
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Franco has Pablito take him to the little shack where Luis is being held. He realizes the boy is Rosario’s son. He approaches the old woman just as she’s about to hit Luis again and scolds her for hitting a child. Suddenly Armando drives up, gets out, and asks him what he’s doing there. Franco, thinking it’s Armando’s kid, asks him what kind of coward allows somebody to beat his own child.

That night back at the bar, Armando tells Fernando that somehow Franco found the shack and now knows where they’re hiding Rosario’s child. Armando says Franco thinks it’s his and he didn’t bother to tell him otherwise. Eva’s also been hanging around looking for Rosario and now that Franco knows where the child is, they better put a stop to all of this or there’ll be Hell to pay.

Fernando finds Rosario in her dressing room, throws her around and then threatens to kill Luis if she ever gets near Eva or Franco again.
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Franco tells Oscar what he learned about Rosario’s son and says he can’t believe she’d ever allow such a thing. Oscar advises him to remember what Juan told him about mothers and to ask Rosario herself what’s going on.

Sofia is back in bed again and an attentive NoneFer Nando brings her some more of his bedtime rufie-tea. (The way this guy always likes to knock a person out first makes you wonder that if, along with a bit of incest, necrophilia isn’t also one of his many endearing charms.) As He-Man leaves Sofia’s room he thinks to himself that tonight absolutely nothing is going to stop him from ravaging her. However, unbeknownst to Nonefer, Sofia drops the cup on the floor before she can drink any of the tea. She looks down at the broken cup and starts thinking dreamily of Juan and smiles. She lies down on the pillow and immediately falls asleep. (Ok. So am I being anal or was anybody else going nuts because she totally ignored the obviously nasty mess on the floor??? As the hubster put it to me so delicately at the end of that scene, “The girl may be pretty and sexy, but there are just some things a guy can’t overlook. Is Juan really sure he wants to be married to a slob like that?”)

Outside Sofia’s balcony, meanwhile, Juan is getting ready to climb the rope and sneak into her bedroom. Jimena comes out and notices him. Just then Rosendo comes outside. Jimena makes a quick save by telling Rosendo that she’s left her purse in the stables somewhere and sending him off to look for it.

Above her Juan has entered Sofia’s bedroom. (Good thing he’s still wearing his boots.) He strokes Sofia’s hair and face and then kisses her. Sofia eventually wakes up and they make love while Jimena stands guard at the bottom of the grand stairway inside the house. Rosendo comes inside to tell her he couldn’t find the purse. Just then Fernando walks onto the balcony above them and asks him why he’s not out standing guard and tells him to get back outside. Fernando then makes a move toward Sofia’s room but just then Gabi comes out of her bedroom and asks him what’s the matter.

Fernando says he was going to see if he could offer Sofia anything else. Gabi tells him not to bother. As long as Sofia keeps treating him so disrespectfully, she says, he shouldn’t do another thing for her or she’ll just go on humiliating him. He agrees and goes back into his bedroom. Jimena starts breathing again as Gabi shocks her back to reality and tells her to go to bed.

In his own bedroom, the scheming Fernando is now steaming and in full Snidely Whiplash mode, knocking over things and cursing because he’s been foiled again by his meddling old
M-I-L. He calms himself down eventually with the mantra, “When she’s asleep I’ll enter Sofia’s room and she’ll be mine. She’ll be mine and nobody else’s.” Of course, back in Sofia’s bedroom, Juan is the one in Sofia’s bed and HE is the one telling Sofia that she is HIS and only HIS.

Sofia tells Juan never to doubt her and that even though she may be far away from him he’ll always be in her thoughts. They kiss some more and he tells her passionately how much he loves her, that it’s as if he had "fire in his blood."
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At the Bad Love Bar in Rosario’s dressing room, Ofelia is telling Rosario that Fernando’s threat was just another one of his many and that nothing will probably happen to her son. Rosario says she doesn’t think Ofelia knows what she’s talking about since she has no children and wouldn’t be able to understand the kind of extreme anxiety and fear Rosario now feels knowing that her child is in danger. Ofelia says Rosario is like a daughter to her and the only thing she can advise her is to stay the heck away from Eva and Franco and to just put an end to it all already.

Fernando is standing outside his bedroom door, skulking and sulking, lying in wait for the most opportune moment to sneak into Sofia’s bedroom and make his move. He thinks back to Gabi questioning him about whether he truly loves Sofia or whether this has become an obsession for him because of Sofia’s continual rejection. He thinks to himself, “Of course I don’t love her. Yes, it’s an obsession because I cannot have her, and an obsession that is killing me! “and he begins to squirm around, thinking of how badly he wants her. He spies Eva coming up the stairs and hides from view and then he squirms and skulks some more.

Eva now goes into Jimena’s room to ask about the purse Rosendo was looking for. Jimena admits it was the first thing she could think to say to him since Juan was up in Sofia’s bedroom. Eva stops in her tracks as nervous and impactada as Jimena.

Back in her bed Sofia tells Juan that she wanted to die when she thought that the two of them would never be together. He tells her never to think like that again because he’ll always be there for her. He reminds her that she needs to make a decision because they need to be together if they love each other, but Sofia says she can’t and that she feels trapped because of it. He asks her to run away with him again and tells her he’s not the type to sneak around rather than facing up to things openly and he’s tired of coming in there like a thief in the night to see her. He tells her she’s a courageous woman and she cannot allow their happiness to escape them and says again she needs to make a decision.

In town again in the Reyes’ bedroom, we see Franco and Oscar lying in bed in their tighty and very tidy whities. It seems Franco’s out cold, but Oscar is still up and thinking of how much he loves Jimena, but he admits to himself that he loves her money just as much.

At the same time, Jimena and Eva go downstairs so that Eva can distract Rosendo while Jimena waits to see what’s happening with Fernando and to warn Juan. Fernando is still skulking through the upstairs hallways and now works his way towards Sofia’s bedroom door. Inside Sofia’s room Juan is still trying to talk Sofia into running away with him. Sofia refuses again to abandon her mother. He says he’s abandoning his brothers and he will do it willingly just to be be happy together with her. Suddenly they are startled by a turn on the doorknob of the bedroom door.

Sofia is frightened and worriedly begs Juan to leave before they discover him, but instead of running away Juan would rather confront her family once and for all. She persuades him to go eventually and he shinnies down the rope after (stepping in the mess on the floor and) one last kiss. Jimena anxiously watches from the office doorway as Fernando tries to break open the lock on Sofia’s door.

The noise Fernando’s making wakes up Gabi and she asks him if they’re going to be staying up all night or what. He explains that Sofia’s door is locked from the inside and so he thought somebody must be in her room with her. Jimena quickly sneaks outside to warn Juan.


Outside Juan finds Jimena waiting there for him as he drops down from the rope. She tells him to hurry away before Rosendo gets back and then she shinnies back up the rope to the balcony and runs into Sofia’s bedroom. Sofia is surprised to see Jimena run in from the balcony window and keeps asking her what’s going on. In the confusion Jimena tells her there’s no time to explain, and begs her to just to jump into bed, close her eyes and pretend she’s asleep. Then Jimena musses up her hair, puts on a sleepy look and unlocks the door where Mama and Nonefer Nando are waiting. All they see is Sofia still asleep in her bed and a very sleepy-looking Jimena.

Jimena explains that she must have locked the door without thinking when she came in to check on her sister and then accidentally fell asleep. Fernando takes the opportunity to say he’s worried about Sofia and that he’ll stay with her now. Jimena says no, she’ll stay with her the rest of the night, but first she needs to leave a minute to get her robe. Gabi insists Jimena is right and they all leave together. Jimena shuts the door behind them. Sofia opens her eyes and thanks her lucky stars. Outside Juan rides away thinking to himself that he knows now that Sofia truly loves him and he swears he’ll fight to keep her. At the same time, Sofia, lying in her bed and smiling broadly, whispers to herself. “Juan does love me! Oh, I am sooo happy!”