Caray, Caray!

Paula pours her heart out to the Santo Niño de Atocha; Juan overhears her confessing her love to him, begging the Santo Niño to tear the love out of her heart. Their eyes meet. He knows she spoke the truth because she wouldn't lie to the Santo Niño. They have the Marely-doesn't-deserve-this talk. Again. Paula tells Juan she's always loved him and he kisses her hair.

Ivonne tells Fer he's acting like he's got a screw loose. He says she's making him crazy because she's not explaining her situation. He needs to know if she's going to marry him.

Yadi compliments Kike on his new leaner self. He gets dreamy-eyed and says Julia taught him many things about food, business, every day when he got home the table was set. (Gag me with a spoon but I think we get his drift.) Yadi frowns, it's in the past right? Kike admits he and Julia were never novios, he didn't have the courage. Yadi smiles and asks if he did it for her?

Juan nibbles Paula's nose but she weeps and pulls away. More of the We-can't-hurt-Marely talk. Paula tells Juan that if he tries talking to Marely about them she (Paula)will never, ever accept him.

Ivonne tells Fer she doesn't want to get married until her cancer treatment is over. He wants to get married NOW. She recalls her Dr's words, that she might never have kids, so she tells Fer the answer is No, she's not going to marry him, happy now? He says "Too bad then, I'm outta here!" She cries a little.

For some reason Yadi is now calling Kike "Ricky". She fawns all over "Ricky" but he gently pushes her away. He says things between Julia and him aren't over, in fact he's in love with her! (A big cheer from the recapper. Yeeeehaw, dump the witch!)

Nidia tells Delirio for the first time in her life she can finally be with the man she really loves. She begs him to go to the divorce lawyer with her. She tells him, if you love me set me free. (I think I read that once on a wall hanging back in the sixties.)

Kike begins to tell Yadi his tale of woe regarding Julia, then he stops, commenting that maybe he shouldn't be saying these things to her. She uncharacteristically tells him it's OK, the truth is always the best.

Delirio, reeling from a broken heart, staggers away from Casa Cachón. Two toughs step out of a car and ask if he's Alirio Perafan bladiblah de la Rocha? They force him into the car. Where's Tonki when you need him?

Nidia, Marely and Angarita are discussing Delirio. Nidia says if she's said it once she's said it a million times, marriage without love Does Not Work! Marely looks uncomfortable and unhappy.

The ruffians have Delirio trapped in their car and they're holding a gun to his head. They want their money NOW! He says he no longer has it and shows them a bank statement he happens to have in his pocket. No matter, they say, he must have an account under a different name and he'd better tell them about it now or it will be time to pay the clown! (Pay the piper?)

In his office, Pastor counsels a weepy Ivonne. What daftness caused her to tell Fer she wouldn't marry him? She eventually admits it's because she can't have children. Pastor points out that not all people need to have kids; he's sure Fer loves her the same with or without kids. Fer has forgiven her and helped her through so much already. Don't break up over this!

To save his own skin Delirio throws Gutis under the bus. He tells the toughs that his ex-partner has all the dough. Kinda handsome bad guy (he looks familiar) says Delirio better be telling the truth, he doesn't want them to give him toasted pig skin (bump him off, thank you vocab list) do they?

Pastor tells Ivonne that he'll stand by her even if they're thrown together from the Latin American Tower. She says he's the best friend ever. She hems and haws and says there's something she's always wanted to know...when and how did he know he was gay?

Juan visits Nidia Michaela in the hospital and tells her she's got a tummy like her daddy. Kike pouts a little and says she should have a fine chassis but instead she's a diesel like her dad. Juan convinces a tired Kike to go out and have a beer with him. After he leaves Yadi sadly comments to Nidia Michaela that she handed him to another on a silver platter.

Pastor tells Ivonne that when he realized he was gay it grabbed him like a lightning bolt in the wilderness. He met an Italian guy, Giovanni Bannini, and...Black out! It was hard for him to accept he was a homosexual, it took him years to admit it, but with therapy and especially a lot of reading he finally accepted it. Reading? Ivonne is interested.

Juan calls Fer to meet them at the bar. When he tells Kike that Fer is down in the dumps Kike comments that Juan has a wounded face too, what's up? "My eternal torment" sighs Juan. Paula finally admitted she loves him; on one side the sun rises and on the other is Marelycita and now he feels as lost as a fly in the metro.

Paula tells Ana that she plans to deal with the Juan situation by going away, far away, so she'll never see Juan again in her life.

Juan tells Kike he really does love Marely and he was convinced he could be happy with her. "I was convinced, I was convinced," mocks Kike, "You're ruining her Juan!"

Ivonne writes down the title of a book, or maybe it's a bookstore, for Heriberto and sends him off to do his research.

Juan and Kike are in a noisy dive bar getting loaded. Juan insists that Destiny is a woman, just analyze the case of Juan and Paula, back and forth, back and forth (duro y dale, not sure exactly what that means but probably back and forth is good enough). Suddenly Destiny abandoned him! Exactly, says Kike, together but upside down. Kike tells his love-sick tale about Julia, he was on the verge of confessing his love but then her ex showed up. That's what Juan is trying to tell Kike! Kike says it's their own fault for having dreams and illusions. That's what Juan is trying to tell Kike!

Kike is drunk and philosophical. He says Destiny is a deep hole, in fact it's like the legs that carry them into a deep hole and later the hole gets even deeper, really really deep. Fer shows up and announces he told Ivonne to get lost. (Mandar la goma, thank you vocab list!) Juan thought bubbles that they were all wound up and soon confused by alcohol until their heads overheated.

Delirio and the bad guys bust into Gutis's rathole garage. Gutis is nowhere to be found and Delirio claims Gutis has played a dirty trick on them all, ha ha. Bad guy with hair says the guys in charge don't understand tricks, they only understand money. Either Delirio coughs up the dough or he dies. Bald bad guy giggles and says it will be easy. He scares Delirio one more time before they leave Delirio quivering in a sad heap.

Fer orders the tres amigos another round but Kike excuses himself, he must be reshponshible. Kike staggers off and Fer and Juan graduate to tequila. Salud! Venga!

In the hospital Yadi reveals to Marely that Kike is in love with Julia. Marely knows exactly how that feels and says she doesn't know if she should break her engagement. Why, asks Yadi, because the soup lacks flavor? (I might not want to know what that means - le falta sabor al caldo.) Not just that, Marely says, she's tired of Juan's bad vibes and doesn't know if she can be happy with him.

Juan and Fer are full-on drunk. Juan wants to give up women and Fer wants a woman who deserves him. (Be careful what you wish for.) They sing drunkenly and badly to the annoyance of the other customers. A drunk guy tries to change the music but Juan tells him to stop. Drunk guy calls Fer a blockhead with a blockhead grandma. Fer punches drunk guy and a barroom brawl ensues.

The fight continues through the commercial. Uh oh, drunk guy breaks a bottle and starts swiping at Juan. No, not the mullet! The barkeep calls the cops as Fer tells Juan he doesn't care for violence.

S2 (CL pretending to be Sandro) is meeting with a businessman in a classy bar. He tells the guy that he is the legal rep of the widow Farell and is personally making sure that everything is in order and ensuring that all her husband's shares get transferred to her name. Apparently this guy is going to purchase all of Paula's shares in Farell, he's been wanting to get ahold of them for some time. S2 congratulates him on soon owning half the company. The guy's name is Sr. Timado and he'd love to meet Paula in person to thank her. S2 tells him no way, sorry but that's impossible.

Paula weeps and Ana makes a cup of tea.

Anga and Nidia cuddle as Pastor looks on. After Nidia leaves Anga asks Pastor "Why so blue?" Pastor admits it's...it's...Heriberto, he returned to Farell. Anga insists operation or no if that infeliz bothers Pastor he'll split his head like a melon. Pastor says Heriberto seems changed, he's friendly and he begged Pastor for forgiveness and since Pastor's heart is like cotton...sigh. Anga advises Pastor to keep his distance but Pastor says there's one problem, he still loves Heriberto.

Heriberto is at the bookstore trying to buy a book on homosexuality. The obviously gay bookseller cheerfully tells Heri he's read it and it's very good, like no other. He'd be glad to recommend others to...Guapo! Heri blusters it's not for him but for his brother! (Baby steps, Heri, baby steps.)

Delirio shows up at Farell looking for Juan. Rosi tells him everybody is gone and she's going too, he can come back tomorrow. "There may be no tomorrow for me," he dolefully sighs. Sniff sniff.

Paula advises Ivonne that she shouldn't be so negative, her recent tests were very favorable. Ivonne says she has other reasons to be sad, she's afraid to be happy. Paula tells her not to wait, if only she'd confessed her love to Juan sooner she wouldn't be in this mess. Ivonne picks right up on it, "You mean you finally...?" Paula admits she confessed her love to Juan.

CL comes home to a stir-crazy Sandro. Cl reminds Sandro he'd better not step foot outside these four walls because soon the torture will end and Sandro's life will be better than he ever imagined. All the money that Sr. Faustino Timado pays for Paula's shares will be for Sandro.

Ivonne tells Paula it's all in Juan's hands now. He'll defend their love tooth and nail and he'll clarify things with Marely, right? Paula says no, that's precisely what she does NOT want. Marely doesn't deserve...oh never mind, it's the same old yada yada.

Over at the jail it's pandemonium. The barkeep says somebody's got to pay! Juan blames the drunk guy. Drunk guy's friend says it was because Juan and Fer couldn't keep a tune. Juan and Fer decide to prove him wrong by wailing as loudly as possible. They look terrible, shirt tails out, and Juan looks like Joe Cocker when he sings. Soon the crowd, cops and all, join in with a rousing chorus - "Forget the past, you no longer remember yesterday, forget the past, you no longer remember yesterday". Whoop whoop, Juan whistles, Fer plays air guitar, and any resemblance to reality is purely coincidental.



Jugaretta = Dirty trick
Mala ondas = Bad vibes (Lit. bad waves)
Pagar el payaso = To pay the piper? (Lit. to pay the clown)
Relámpago en despoblado = A lightning bolt in the wilderness (unpopulated zone)
Sale el sol = The sun rises (not "the sun sets" as one might think)
Zafarsele un tornilla = To have a screw loose, act irrationally (Lit. to dislocate a screw)

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