Caray, Caray!

• Sofia expressionlessly listens as Eva says "my great love was your father." She drops a cup, though, so I deduce she is impactada.
  
  
• What a festival, it's bigger than the NC state fair, somebody suddenly arranged for ferris wheels and carnies and everything, all to celebrate the safe return of Juan and Sofia?
  
  Juan takes Pablito and his gramma Delfina around the fairgrounds and Juan buys stuff for the kid and cuddles him on the ferris wheel. It's cute. With Juan's subtle assistance Pablito wins a clay triceratops, I've never seen a prize that nice at the fair.
  
  There's a fake marriage registry at the fair - Oscar struts up to Jimena and Tweedle, tells Tweedle to buzz off, and suggests: "Let's get married." They kiss behind his sombrero.
  
  
• Somewhere on the grounds, Furd accosts Sofia (she's dressed in a long black nun-like outfit), calling her an egoist who only thinks of herself "but I did everything for you, my only sin was to love you... you'll live tied to me as long as that's what I want."
  
  As usual Furd gets threatening, just then Juan arrives and gets threatening right back, just then Father Bouffy arrives and says "ENOUGH, Furd, you weren't invited to this event, so leave!"
  
  The little foursome breaks up - Juan and Sofia grin and don't kiss (what would the neighbors think?) while Tadeo tells Furd: "You're so brave with a gun in your hand, hiding in the shadows, with your face covered." "I'm tired of you." "Well, God's getting tired of you." "Careful little father, one of these days you'll encounter your worst enemy hiding in the shadows..."
  
  
• I will have to read back and find out why Gramps is sitting alone in his wheelchair by the waterfall near Libia's shrine. (There was some other novela where a guy in a wheelchair - and even maybe in a coma - escaped a speeding car and threw himself to safety by the side of the road.) He likes Libia's sanctuary and promises not to disturb her peace. He eats something sort of dry and crackly.
  
  
• Since Juan's pockets were no longer available, Pablito was broke and reduced to staring longingly at the hotcakes until Rosario came along. She bought him two - one was for the dog - Pablito tears into the pancake not really listening as Rosario explains: "I have a son, he's younger than you." "He's lucky to have a mom - mine is dead," says Pablito around a big mouthful of pancake.
  
  Pablito accidentally bumps into Moustache, poor Moustache was just having a riotously happy time throwing darts and now Pablito wrecks his throw. So naturally Moustache makes with a fist to pound the lad - luckily Franco appears and pounds Moustache.
  
  
• Can't Juan button his shirt even to go to church? He and Sofia kneel at the altar and improvise their own whispered wedding ceremony. They cross themselves, no kiss.
  
  
• At the Bad Love Bar, Rosario has a new, even skimpier outfit. Furd says "I saw you hitting Franco, good girl, now we can celebrate the fact you have respected my orders." "Where's my son," Rosario starts up. He laughs, sends the dresser out of the room, and says "You deserve a prize, so I'll have your son brought in tomorrow." Then he starts trying to rape her and we don't know if succeeds.
  
  
• Father Bouffy thanks Juan and Sofia for being willing to help out on "Their Day." They work at the free food distribution booth. The other Reyes show up, and Pablito and his grandmother and all are in high spirits.
  
  Franco runs over to see Sarita and asks why she's mad, she says she saw him with Rosario. He's such a jerk! His comeback: "(a) I never promised you anything; (b) I know you love me, I see it in your eyes, don't be weird." He grabs her and kisses her ugly. [Blegh I would not put up with these awful kisses of Franco's.] She melts for a minute then slaps him.
  
  Tweedle comes up, Franco hits him. You brute! Calling to the crowd in general, Sarita announces: "That guy beat up my fiance whom I'm going to MARRY VERY SOON!"
  
  The fake police arrive, nothing much happens, there is a folklorico dance and fireworks including THANK YOU VIRGIN MARY light up the sky.
  
  
• Furd threatens Dr. Matasano (how I LOVE this word) at his crooked asylum. "Furd, I swear we looked for the old dude everywhere!" "Don't joke with me, find Gramps or else!!"
  
  
• We know where Gramps is. Pablito is dancing for Gramps by the Libia cave shrine. He gives Gramps some bread. Gramps chews thoughtfully: "I recognize the sweaty, chest-hair-infested, unsanitary taste of this loaf. Juan Reyes made it." "Oh, I know the Reyes brothers!" "You know them too? Great, they can help me! Go get them, but don't tell anybody else I'm here!"
  
  Pablito runs off to the bakery, no Reyes boys there, he can't tell Quintana, he runs off, having broken the Libia Sacred Picture Frame.
  
  
• Juan visits Sofia in the convent, he couldn't go to work without seeing her, "If your hubby will not let you go I'll rob you away." Sofia is hopeful about the letter from the ecclesiastic authorities annulling her marriage and makes the fatal mistake of saying, "The letter will come and then we'll be happy, I swear." Kisses.
  
  Well naturally, the letter comes and turns down Tadeo's request. Sofia cries. "All my hopes hung on this annulment - I swore to Juan we'd be happy." Tadeo: "Sofia, I promise, I'll get proofs for those old fogies so you can be free." "Thanks, but I don't have the strength to wait for them. I won't give up Juan."
  
  
• Furd has one of his most wonderfully revolting scenes as he tries to first wheedle and then strongarm Sofia into coming home from the convent. He sinks to his knees saying, "Look, I'm begging you on my knees, give me another chance." When she says no he gets ugly.
  
  He tells her Gramps has disappeared and she has to come home to help search. This gets her panicked and she is going to leave except the Mother Superior says: "You can't leave without Father Bouffy's permission."
  
  Furd gets impatient and shakes Sofia; she snaps out of it and realizes she doesn't want to go anywhere with him. He grabs her and is going to drag her home anyway but a doughty army of little nuns in white block the way. He decides he can't knock all of them over so he leaves and complains to Moustache.
  
  
• A pointless scene: Gabriela yells at the Reyes brothers, the cabana is still not finished, they're always late to work, Juan is a bit insolent with her. Eva: "Can't you thank him for saving Sofia?" "Sofia got what she deserved." Juan: "Too bad you can't love your daughters." "What do you know, you are a simple laborer." "I am a laborer, but I labor with love, so nya nya. You old poor-people-hating puritan, let me work."
  
  
• Father Tadeo prays: "Father, I can't break my sacraments, but Sofia's life is in danger." He sits down to write. Oscar busts in and asks for a list of addresses for all the local asylii, or let's just say old folks' homes. He wants to find and spring Gramps.
  
  
• Furd complains to Moustache: "Everybody is against me, and I need Gramps' signature or I can't get any money, I need his money, and as for Sofia, I'll force her to come back and she'll pay for all the wrongs she's committed against me - I'll use Gabi to do it." Moustache complains, he doesn't want to be sent to fetch Rosario's son yet again. Furd hits him. "Hey, I'm not your enemy, the Reyes are, we should kill them." "Yes, we'll kill them all at once in one trap."
  
  
• Sarita, who really needs something to do, is reading poetry in the garden and throws the book down when she sees the name Rosario. Franco sneaks up and gives her some more bully's kisses, saying he knows she loves her. I would find this a particularly annoying combination. "Go away, leave me alone, be happy with that Rosario of yours. You're just jealous of me and Bonito."
  
  
• Juan and Eva worry about gossip, but he says he can't sacrifice his love for Sofia and cruelly parries: "Eva, surely you don't want her to end up like you, do you? Abandoned, alone and sad?" He restates his plan to steal Sofia.
  
  Furd arrives with a stick or whip or something in his hand. "Don't get between me and my woman." "Don't mistreat her." "I don't mistreat her."

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