Caray, Caray!

Also, have you HEARD what Marichuy did to Amador and why? Yes? Too bad, you’re going to hear again.

So, from yesterday, Juan Miguel is sitting in the parlor with the family (and fake family) ignoring Estefanía while she prattles on about her party. She demands his attention and asks whether he liked the book she gave him; he says he barely managed to leaf through it. She suggests they could read it together. I’m sure Juan Miguel would love to put her on one plane after another to go find it…

Marichuy enters the room and Juan Miguel looks alive finally. Ceci has to prod her to go say hello, as she is acting a bit shy. So she goes and hugs him…and they embrace tightly, and smile…and hug some more awhile longer while Stef glares and everyone else starts to wonder whether they need to leave the room. Eventually they break off (because Stef loudly says the coffee is getting cold), and Mari asks how his trip was and tells him things are fine for her, although it hasn’t all been roses (I think? I have trouble understanding her even when I replay it four times). They have a brief private chat about the stars (sweet nothings, basically) until Stef rudely interrupts.

At Vicente’s loft, Amador is still pretending to be blind and Vicente helps him move around. Amador mentions that Mari called him and is going to come visit every day. Vicente looks like he’d like to give Amador another blow to the skull, and tells him that Juan Miguel is back. Amador blanches briefly, then gets back to his macho posturing and says good, he needs to have a word with that curaloco about what Mari did to him.

Stef wants to know what JM and Mari were talking about, and they say it’s between them, none of her beeswax. JM changes the subject by asking Mari how she’s been doing. She says she thinks she’s been behaving pretty well, and Patricio scoffs at that and says he’ll have a word with JM later, which earns him a glare from Ceci. Stef sticks up for Mari while simultaneously belittling her, saying, “what can we expect? She’s never lived with decent people before.” Mari objects that she didn’t come from the jungle, and JM smooths things over by saying that he brought Mari a gift.

Vicente tells Amador that Nelson called and said that Beatriz is in the hospital, dying. Amador is muy impactado as he reflects on their post-lust fighting.

Mari opens the gift; it is the angel snow globe. She doesn’t know what it is and has to be told to shake it, and that it’s just to look at. Anyway, she loves it, and smooches JM on the cheek.

Amador denies any responsibility for Beatriz’s state, and says she’s long been addicted to sleeping pills. Vicente tells him if she dies he will be in big trouble. From the rest of the artistes, I would guess, if not from the police. I actually agree with Amador that it isn’t his fault she’s crazy enough to want him, but he doesn’t have to be such a prick.

Cande, Padre Anselmo, and Adrian discuss Mari’s run-in with Amador. They ain’t putting up with that slimeball. The Avengers are on the case!

JM has brought little gifts for everyone else, too. Stef is delighted with the perfume, and tells him she will wear no other perfume from now on, and she will wear it the night of her party, which will be such a special night, especially for HIM. He looks confused/freaked. I hope that perfume really, really stinks. Mari gets the attention back on her by giving him the roses from the vase on the table. He thanks her, laughing, and quite understandably decides it’s time to flee this experimental theater of the absurd. Stef clings to him as he tries to make his escape and asks if she can count on him for the party. He says sure, but I don’t think he knows that he will be playing chambelan.

As he drives home, JM tries to talk himself out of falling for Marichuy. How long can he fight it?

Mari sits in bed clutching her two most prized possessions, the picture of Juan Miguel and the snow globe, and calls Rocío. Rocío asks whether she told him about Amador, and she says she wanted to but didn’t know how (also, how could she possibly tell him without telling Stef, when Stef won’t take her hands off him?). Roc says it’s better that Mari tell him herself rather than letting him hear it from someone else, and Mari tells her how she was coerced into agreeing to see Amador every day, and she worries that if Patricio finds out he won’t believe her after the way he found them in the driveway. If Patricio ever paid ANY attention he would have noticed that Amador was attacking her in the driveway, as well. They discuss the whole sordid affair while Isabella eavesdrops.

Isa runs off to report to henchwoman Stef. They are delighted and make plans to report to Pat first thing in the morning.

Vicente visits Rocío at the castle and they say stuff we already know.

Next morning, the villainous vixens join Pat at breakfast and act very distraught to have to report such distressing news. He is impactado. When they tell him what’s up, he says he can believe that and more. He sends Martirio to summon Ceci and Mari to his office, and tells the dastardly duo to come with him. The deer must have the morning off, because the cat is playing on the lawn instead.

Martirio comes to Mari’s room and actually yanks her by the arm by way of summons, just like they teach in mayordoma school, I’m sure. As they walk they make a point of being snotty to each other and each saying she wouldn’t want to be in the other’s skin.

Adrian shows up at Vicente’s and totally sees Amador looking through the books through the glass door as he knocks. Amador puts on the dark glasses and makes a show of feeling his way to the door.

Patricio speechifies about how they wanted to defend and protect her and believe she is good, but what she’s done is shameless. Mari is impactada. Pat tells Ceci what Mari has done, and are we about done with hearing all the characters telling each other this same story? Let’s move on. Mari defends herself regarding the “kissing” in the driveway, but can’t deny that she did injure Amador. Tell them WHY, Mari! But she doesn’t yet.

Aside: I just noticed that Patricio has a statue of a horse on the shelf in his office. I thought that was a studly galan thing. JM has a knight-on-a-horse statue on his desk. Ernesto on QE has a horse statue on his sideboard. The hermanos Reyes on Fuego have actual horses. Are they trying to tell us something about Patricio? I’m not a studly galan, but I had a statue of a horse that was a coin bank when I was a little kid, and its leg broke off and my mom threw it away, and I still have not quite forgiven her. Maybe it is her fault I have not had a more heroic life. Also, I just saw a campaign ad and the governor of Washington was blathering about something and there was a horse statue on the windowsill behind her. SUBTLE.

Back to the show: Adrian is apparently not bright enough to notice that Amador is not blind. He tells Am that he is Mari’s novio, and he demands that Scamador leave her alone.

Vicente flirts with Rocío some more, then leaves, then Ornerylia mocks her taste in friends. Clearly she is blind. Vicente is kind of a hottie, and nice besides.

Ceci gets Mari to tell her side of the story finally, but for a judge Pat is really not very good at listening to testimony. He interrupts to yell at her for her insolence, but she finally stands up for herself and yells over him to finish.

Adrián tells Amador Mari shouldn’t have to visit him, Amador is indignant about “what she’s done,” Adrián says he knows it was Amador’s fault, Amador denies that it is any crime to steal a kiss from a young lady, that’s all he was doing, etc., etc. He cries about his “destroyed life” and throws Adrián out, then chuckles about his brilliant scam.

Ceci gets Marichuy to tell the whole story of the attempted rape. Mari is in tears and Ceci hugs her, but Patricio says that doesn’t excuse her crime, and he wants her out of the house immediately. Ceci is angry at him.

Mayita goes to the magic cartoon kingdom. Why does she put the trunks back every time? Abuela tells her that the space can be anything she wants it to be, so it turns into a circus. The episode must have been running short, because we watch the circus for awhile.

Amador smokes his pretentious pipe and goes to make a call. Adrián has come back in and sees that Amador is not blind.

Patricio says he will have to call Juan Miguel to tell him what we’ve all heard a million times now. PLEASE have that conversation off-camera. He tells Mari to go pack her things. Ceci tries to defend her, and then to go with her, but Pat tries to stop her. I wish Ceci would just laugh at him when he tries to tell her what to do. She doesn’t, but she does go after Marichuy. Stef comforts Patricio and tells him he did what he had to do.

Adrián eavesdrops as Amador calls the castle and asks for Juan Miguel, who is not at home. Then he grabs the phone and hangs up. Busted!

Ceci tells Marichuy that she believes her and doesn’t want her to leave. Mari wishes Ceci was her mother. They hug and cry.

Amador tells Adrián that one day Mari will enjoy making love to him. Adrián says, not while I’m alive. Rest in peace, Adrián.

Elsa smokes in the garden and Luisa asks her why she hasn’t gone to the theater. She says the play is on hold because one actor left to go to school, one (Beatriz) is in the hospital, and the director is blind. Luisa says it’s a shame not to see Elsa shining onstage etc., but she would have had to leave when she married Eduardo anyway (Hey! How about we stop talking about the same incident and join Eduardo and Juan Miguel at the gym for a swim!) because apparently married women can’t be part-time actresses. Elsa looks peeved. Her phone rings. “Nelson?,” she answers, but it is Eduardo. Unfortunately, he is just driving his car, not at the gym. He’s dropping by for a visit. Elsa calls Nelson to tell him she can’t see him now because Ed is back. He looks peeved.

Pat is in a hurry to throw Marichuy out. Ceci promises to visit her.

Adrián takes the bus to Pat and Ceci’s and reports that Amador is not blind. Relief for the non-villains. Pat asks whether he can prove it; he says yes. He also backs up Mari’s story. Ceci agrees that she had to defend herself, and tells Marichuy to put her things back in her room. Patricio reluctantly agrees.

Juan Miguel arrives at the castle and gets the message to call Patricio. I don’t think he actually does it.

Stef and Isa rail about this turn of events, and worry that their deceit will be discovered. Then Isa goes to try to pry into Mari’s past again some more and rather rudely. Has no one asked why Isa is living at the mansion? I think it is totally weird.

Juan Miguel and family sit in the castle dining room and Onelia is rude about the present he brought for her, saying she doesn’t use that perfume but perhaps she can give it to someone else. Fortunately, he is interrupted by a phone call. It is a bank representative, calling about some action on Viviana’s account. Juan Miguel tells him Viv died months ago, but the bank man says whatever check thing he is talking about happened only two days ago. JM is impactado. We see Viv shopping.

Avances: Debutante ball prep. And with any luck, we will not hear the story of the attempted rape/blinding again.

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