Caray, Caray!

• Juan goes to see Unibrow, aka Pedro's father (and a terrible mumbler, but I'm not complaining, least we don't have to watch him kissing anybody in this telenovela). Unibrow shows Juan a picture of yore, with Juan's mom next to him (a younger version of Unibrow). Sister and brother. Unibrow says he'll do whatever he has to, to get Pedro to trust him.
  
  
• At the Tumbao Rosario and Eva hug. They've decided even if Gabriela is telling the truth and they are not daughter and mother, they love each other as if they were. Margarita asks, "what if your real mother turns up?" "I don't think about it - I don't need anybody but Eva."
  
  Later Margarita reveals to Eva: "Rosario is my daughter." Eva is, like, impactada.
  
  
• Pedro sulks, waiting for Juan. When Juan gets back and sez he's been to see Unibrow, Pedro the Hairy premieres the night's theme: "I will never pardon him, never!"
  
  Juan says, "Here's some advice: kids can't divorce their parents, he'll always be your dad, and you're lucky to have him, I dream about my parents but they're gone. Listen to your heart and then decide."
  
  
• It's night, thunder and lightning, and as the storm rises the boys storm the hacienda. First, Oscar sneaks in on Jimena who, lying in bed wearing a cheesy white satin ribbon in her hair - the kind we wrap presents with - and hugging her red satin stuffed heart, says audibly: "Oscar, I miss you."
  
  But when Oscar-in-the-flesh comes around the corner, looking handsome and appealing, she says she doesn't want to see him, ever again, he betrayed her. He says he had to do it for his sister, but he fell in love, and he gives her excellent puppy-dog eyes (I would have melted), but she says go away and don't come back.
  
  She doesn't look happy when he leaves, via the balcony - it was hard for him to get down that rope with one arm, I bet - and rides away.
  
  
• Sarita paces, prays, takes out her quill pen and starts a letter to Franco, then stops, paces, complains of the pain of life, she can't find peace, suddenly a voice is heard. Franco is serenading her, she melts and then refreezes, I have things like that in my refrigerator and they aren't a pretty sight.
  
  He sings but to no avail. He should have shaved if he wanted this tactic to succeed; she throws water on him and tells him to leave. He, too, goes out via the balcony on a rope and also rides away.
  
  
• Sofia tosses in her bed. She dreams of Juan, they have a wonderful dreamy kiss, sigh. But it's a dream. She goes downstairs to put water in a flower vase and sees Fernando sneaking out of mom's bedroom. She comes back upstairs, perplexed by what she saw. "He's playing with mother, she'll suffer, I'm sure."
  
  She hears a whinny. It's Juan and his horse staring plaintively up at her window. "We have to talk." She says no, he says he and Capricho will stay all night. It starts to rain. He is like John Cusack (right) in "Say Anything," except he has a horse instead of a car. In the morning they're still there, both man and horse are drenched and shivering.
  
  (You note I feature the horse prominently. Poor thing, out in the rain, he didn't ask for it. On the other hand, my donkey does this too, of his own free will. He spends hours in the rain shivering when he has a perfectly nice house.)
  
  So Sofia finally agrees to talk. He takes her to Libia's tomb and kneels and asks her to forgive him. No dice. He gets mad, "You pardoned your father but not me? He lied to my sister!" No dice. She wants to walk home alone but he insists on taking her.
  
  
• Pedro takes Unibrow to church because it's probably been several decades since he's said confession. So now he'll confess his sins to Father Bouffy. Bouffy says it's never too late. (A PSA in behalf of your local clergy.)
  
  
• Ferd smokes a cigar at the bottom of the stairs. Gab shows up and asks why he's so nervous, is he worried that Sofia's out?
  
  And speak of the devil, at that VERY moment Sofia and Juan show up. And so does Don Augustin. But though the scene looks dramatic, nothing happens.
  
  
• Quintina has painted a clown's mouth on herself with lipstick. She and the lawyer, who appears to be living in, have a real or fake kiss (I can't tell) and she gets a megaphone and very rapidly fills him in on the whole story. He falls asleep during the telling. She misses her "General."
  
  
• Meanwhile her General, playing toy soldiers all alone, misses her too.
  
  
• At the bakery, Juan (the only one who ever works) is thinking of the Sofia bread and, coincidentally at that VERY moment, so is Sofia! Kozmik Synkrony!
  
  
• Gramps tells his daughter how Furd deceived him and will deceive her, too. Gab says complacently, "He has nothing, it's all in my hands." "No, he manipulates you in the name of 'helping' you." "No, it's mine, all mine, and don't come around here or I'll have you thrown out in the street."
  
  Then Gab gives Furd a massage in the study and says "Everything I have is yours." He smirks.
  
  
• At the Bad Love Bar, Armando is handing Rosario a bill of goods, the line Furd sent him with, that is to say: "Make her trust you."
  
  But maybe Armando is a double agent and really means it? "Rosario, let's join forces, I'll protect you." "No, I can't move against Furd, he'll take my son and I'll never see Luisito again. Anyway, you're Furd's dog, why would you change sides?"
  
  "Because I hate him too, he humiliates me." "Wouldn't you betray me?" "No, because I'm tired of him and want him to pay."
  
  
• Juan is still kneading dough, the other brothers come in, they're all despondent not to mention crabby because they've been rejected by their women, Oscar drops more rolls, Franco picks them up and puts them back on the tray (will they at least be sold at a discount?), the lawyer and all nag Juan to remember where his father put his will. Juan figures it out! It's under the tree!
  
  
• Furd brings Luisito into the hacienda, Sofia is happy to see the boy but not happy to see who he's with. "You feel nothing for him, Furd, you're just trying to impress me. I know you were in my mother's bed."
  
  Furd says they have to talk: "Aww, sweetie, if you just say the word I'll come back to you." Sofia barfs (not really). Gabriela comes in and asks what's up. They don't tell.
  
  
• The Reyes Bros. and the lawyer go to the tree and poke and dab at its roots with small, ineffective sticks (they remind me of those wimpy extras wielding agave pikes so unconvincingly in Destilando).
  
  Despite the inadequate toolage, the boys (or, probably, some hapless Televisa studio assistants) manage to make an impressive hole and pull out a banged up antique metal lunchbox and open it with a big knife and guess what, the will is in it, and it's not even water damaged in the slightest! And it names the boys as their dad's sole heirs. (Well, it names Libia too, but she won't be getting her share.)

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