Caray, Caray!

• Cute business with Oscar tiptoeing through the hacienda behind Don Aug's wheel chair, eyes rolling, reminding me of Bugs Bunny. They manage to find a Very Important Box, jimmy the lock, steal the Very Important Papers, and avoid Gab's eagle eye on the way out.
  
  Oscar takes home the Very Important Note that fell out from behind a huge portrait when he was trying to hide in the curtains, and reads it by the bedside lamp with his pants down around his knees, as Jimena sleeps with a cute little frown on her face. The note was Bernardo's and says, merely: "If you are my evil son-in-law, you will sleep with the fishes some day. If you are not my evil son-in-law, know that my son-in-law is evil, and that I have hidden Very Important Papers that will prove it, so go find them."
  
  So then Oscar pulls his pants all the way back up, and hides the note in his boot, and then there is an odd cut and the pants are halfway down again, and then he falls out of bed and wakes Jimena up and says, "I was just taking off my pants." Editors asleep at the wheel?
  
  
• Franco has taken Sarita to the Tumbao bar to hear cousin Pedro's last appearance as featured singer. She keeps insisting she never drinks, but Franco gets her to "bottoms up" a few times and she gets cheery. They flirt and flirt, "just as friends."
  
  Rosario watches, pouting, from across the room. When Pedro's set is over, he comes and gives her a kiss and says he noticed she's still in love with his cuz Franco.
  
  
• Furd discovers his important papers are missing, then he looks behind the big portrait and discovers there is no Very Important Paper there any more. Wait! He KNEW there was a letter back there condemning him for evil behavior, and he just left it there?
  
  He searches junk shelves in some closet and finds two darling little cans with big skulls on them and the word "POISON."
  
  
• Oscar shows the important letter to Juan, who reluctantly agrees it would be best if Oscar snuck around some more and found the substantiating documents.
  
  
• Juan goes to town, to a booth where a lady is selling Native Garb. He searches through the dresses but none are dowdy enough to please Sofia. Finally he spots an ugly white one and practices kissing it. He buys it happily and takes it home and gives it to her: "Here! Here's your wedding dress." Instead of being irritated, she is all happy and holds it up against herself and there is all smoochy smoochy...
  
  ... but Furd glides, ssssnakellike, across the threshold to announce that he will not, after all, give Sofia a divorce: "It's no longer in my best interests." He glides out and Sofia immediately cramps up. "In one instant our dreams are destroyed." "But we have each other, and our baby..."
  
  Later Sofia shows the dress to her sisters and says she won't be bitter, she'll save it till she can use it. They hug.
  
  
• Gab tells a photo of her dead husband Bernardo: "You're dead but you still torment me. Sofia, the one most like you, the rebel, well, she will NOT inherit the hacienda. Furd promised a solution and he never fails me." She strolls to Bernardo's tomb, just in case he'll hear better from there, and rehashes rancorously. "I can't deny the will was quite a joke. How I hate you!"
  
  
• At the Bad Love Bar, Armando gloats a bit: "Furd, looks like Bernardo got the last laugh." "We'll see. I've got a great surprise for tonight, a blow. Of course," he continues with a non sequitur, "I hadn't expected that Ricardo Uribe would be coming back so soon." "I can't understand why you mess around with his wife, he's so violent!" "I did it to siphon money out of that ridiculous Raquel, and also for vengeance, I already told you it was he who ruined my family." Armando says Ricardo is as cold as Gabriela, Furd better watch out.
  
  
• Since I haven't watched this show for a month, I don't know why Quintana and Don Augustin are sitting in Pablito's classroom, dressed in school uniforms like the other children. They are inciting paper-airplane throwing. They get in trouble for cheating on the quiz. Quintana has to go to the front of the class and dance with donkey ears while the charming sound of a donkey is heard. The teacher accuses them of being latoso (annoying, tiresome, a pain in the neck). Pedro rats them out at home and Jimena is amazed her grand-dad got in trouble. Quint got in trouble too, for not paying attention "and for fainting in the director's arms." ???
  
  
• Juan goes to the big city and meets with officials and looks at deeds and maps. He comes home and, under the famous tree, reports that the lands were always Robles Reyes lands and no contrary ownership exists. Also, there was an "ojo de agua" (eye of water, a spring?) on their property which went through Augustin's land.
  
  Juan flashes back to his dad teaching him to ride a horse. He and Franco agree one must be soft, but show who is in charge - learn to recognize danger, and be cautious and intelligent. Good luck with that.
  
  Furd is watching through binoculars and tells Rosendo, who's grumpy about it, that he doesn't want Juan and Franco (grueso y filoso, he calls them - Thick and Sharp) around.
  
  
• Raquel gets a note: her hubby isn't coming back just now, she'll have to deal with things herself, but he'll send a friend to help.
  
  
• Gab asks Eva where she thinks she's going. Off to visit Rosario. I told you, she isn't your daughter. Yes, but I love her like a daughter and she loves me, and all your daughters love me and I love them, it's as if I had four daughters and you don't have any. HEH. Gab thinks they all need to suffer because they made her suffer, and Sofia needs to be purified for her sins, and "they all think I'm alone, but I have Furd, he'll do anything for me."
  
  (In the closet, Furd gazes at his poison.)
  
  
• Setting up for the big climax... Sofia is all excited about her knitting, Juan is all excited about baking Sofia bread. They leave the kitchen for a moment and that's when Furd sneaks in and sprinkles poison on the flour. Juan comes back, takes off his shirt, kneads the dough, and makes the bread, which looks like giant gingerbread cookies with icing.
  
  Most of the characters we are supposed to like sit at the table, anxiously waiting for the chocolate so they can start eating the poison bread.
  
  "They'll all die" is Furd's thought bubble as he gets home and pours himself a drink.
  
  At the bakery, Sofia takes a bite.

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