Caray, Caray!

Santa, I have been a very good girl this year and I want two pairs of the white pants that repel mud, that's really all I want for Christmas except for Sofia's tears to dry up for once. Oh, you're not Santa? Well that's a shame, I had a longer list. Would you mind forwarding this to Santa?

At Nervous Crises R Us Hacienda, we get a repeat of threats and counter threats about the Monster Mom with Feo, Damian and Sofia; while off in the other side of the mirror aka in the deep jungle, Doctora HotHips wonders what more indiscretions and violations of her Hippocratic oath it will take to keep Juan ignorant and stupid. Oh wait, he's already stupid so just ignorant of his identity will suit her.

At the Evil Eyes R US Medical Clinic, the herbal self flagellations don't seems to be working today on the Brujo. He threatens the frightened parents that if they mention the doomed Doctora's name again, the baby will suffer.

Doctora Hot thinks the Juan's trapping was just the misfortune of his stepping into a trap met to provide protein for a great dinner. Juan is sure the animal trap was set just for him.

As he strides down the stairs toward the door, Dr. Matasanos threatens Sofia that she is meddling with her mother who only has a nervous condition which will be fine in the morning given the two mickeys he slipped her. Sofia insists that she will call the cardiologist her mother has been seeing to get a second opinion of what is really happening to her mother . Damien tries interfere, Sofia heads out to get help from Rosendo in fetching the cardiologist who apparently doesn't have a phone either, and Damian and Feo square off with the echoing, I never threaten in vain. NeverrrrrrrrrJamasjamasjamas. Damian watches, peering around a door as Feo threatens Doctor Matasanos not to be too helpful to Gabriela and finally someone hears all of Feo's threat. Watch this come back to nettle Feo.

Juan avers, I don't know who I am. He asks Doctora about her family. She lost her mother young and her father was wonderful always laughing, he is a doctor like her. Dad dedicated all his life to her making her his princess. She doesn't know what happened, it all changed and Dad wasn't her supporter any longer. He's gone?? asks the innocent Juan who hugs the distraught Doctora.

Feo replays the damning cobarde labeling from Damian and promises himself revenge. The Cardi doctor magically appears with Rosendo in the blink of an advertisement while Damian and Sofia cuddle on the love seat waiting for him. Doctor Cardi wants to know who Sofia is, when Sofia answers, her daughter, he pounces with, do you know that you and her other daughters are the main cause of her illness and angst? Feo moves in to show the good doctor up to his wife, smiling smugly. Juan tells the doctora how much he likes her and...

Doctor Cardi declares that Gabi's pressure is dangerously high she could have an embolism at any moment. Don't aggravate her, you could kill her, he says to an abashed Sarita. Feo smirks again. See, See!

Doctora tells Juan, you don't respond to my kiss but you don't reject me. If I don't recover my memory, it would be easy to love you in the end but now If I don't respond to you, if i don't feel comfortable, I need to move on without your reproaches. Doctora is sure he will come to love her.

Doctor Cardi says, to Sofia that if she is so concerned for her mother, why do Gabi's daughters make their mother suffer so. Clearly he is playing the tape somewhere in the back of his head of Gabriela sitting in his office insisting that all her health problems are caused by her disobedient daughters. Damian defends Sofia, saying if the Dr knew her devotion he would never say such things. Dr Cardi, says you are trouble like my daughter is trouble. Sofia asks him if he always supports his daughter or only judges and condemns her. Dr. Cardi (Dad of HotLips) frowns in doubt.
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Things happened and now I don't see Leonora (aka Dr. Hotlips or Hothips). Sofia rejoins with, but she is the most valuable thing you have. Do you want your daughter to life in your shadow? Can't you look for her and tell her you are proud of her Doctor Cardi frowns a lot. Sofia gets back to her favorite subject. I suffer so from the evil of a man who took my daughter from me for his egotism like yours. Unlike poor me, you have the luck to be able to seek and find your daughter What if yk\ou had her stolen for all your life? Dr. Cardi is suddenly moved by Sofia's wonderful words. She shows Dr. Cardi the picture of Juan on the wanted poster and when he wants to know who is this big hunk of a man (actually I would ask that). The next morning the Dr. either still at the Hacienda or coming back again, but it is now light. He says thanks to Slofia for her wisdom and words. She repeats her little lecture that he can't lose his daughter for pride and arrogance (soberbia) and needs to seek her.

Silvestre tells Capricho and Juan about seeing the man searching for his brother (Juan's, we aren't sure where Caprichio's brother is.) Why didn't you tell me? whines Juan. Because Hotlips said not to, admits Silvestre. Juan says I might have a brother, what the f... (Just Kidding)

Sofia is once again in the office of the commissary, we don't know which town, and he suggests maybe she should look in all the orphanages. Do you realize how many of them there are. Can you give me a complete list of every orphanage? He looks surprised, there are so many do you plan to look in all of them? (You know the answer to this). As light dawns and the choir chants heavenly, Enya-like music, Sofia suddenly changes her quest to look for all the orphans in all the orphanages in the whole world. She gets hugs from all the cute orphans. Lookng at ones that couldn't be the right age doesn't seem to keep the bells from ringing in her head (or in my head for that matter). An orphanage worker kindly suggests that none of these little tykes are the right age, duh, nor did they arrive in a blue blanket. They are so sorry they can't help her but will do everything they can to help her as they can. They are so, so sorry they repeat these same lines twice. (So you can just read them twice if you like while I get a glass of water.)
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Paddy Tad comes into the bakery to greet the boyz, insists on grabbing the burning hot bread and shoving it in his mouth. Franco opines that It might not be as good as Juan's yet but they continue the fight. Paddy Tad wants their help in a religious matter, Oscar admits that they don't have much money, but asks how can they help while they wait for Juan. Paddy Tad thinks that so much time has passed that it is time to have a mass to pray for Juan's soul that needs to find rest. Franco and Oscar insist he is NOT dead so doesn't need such a mass. Paddy Tad, crying or sucking on his burned lips, tries to reason that Juan would come back if her were alive so he must be dead. He insists that he loves Juan and would not dare suggest this if he weren't worried for the eternal well being of Juan's soul. However painful, they need to accept reality. The boyz and the muzic get really forlorn and sad here. May God be with you and keep you and console y ou. He says as he sweeps out with bread dust on his black robes.

Juan is plenty peeved about why the Doctora hid the facts on the strange man looking for him or for his brother. He yells for her to answer him!!
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Juan feels strange while berating the Doctora. sits down suddenly, she drops instantly to the bed at his side and she feels his forehead although looks like that isn't what she wants to feel.

In the sacred cave the altar of Libia is lit and bedecked with new flowers like the wall of a Beverly HIlls florist, Oscar and Franco have lit so many new candles and they cry in their best black shirts as they seem to accept that the earth they are digging and the cross they have constructed are going to help Juan's soul find rest. Perhaps Juan and the baby are with our parents and Libia now forever.

We switch to a Mass scene with Paddy Tad encouraging the congregation to remember the wonderful Juan as we see flashbacks of his good deeds with all the towns people praying for Juan. Neither the sisters Elizondo nor the brothers Reyes are there. Paddy Tad carries on the formal church Mass while in the cave, Oscar feels fear that they won't be able to keep the promises that Juan made to their mother. They have placed the new cross for Juan and a tiny one with a doll for the baby daughter. Sofia screams her way into the cave saying they have no right! What they do about their brother is their business, but her daughter is not dead. In fact Juan is not dead, she feels it. She touches the doll they have lain on the soil then grabs and clutches the baby cross and the doll. My daughter Maria Guadelupe is not dead. I know she is alive and off comes anoather liter or two of tears. The brothers hug the inconsolable Sofia even though she doesn't actually deserve it since she continues condemning and blaming their brother.

Doctora offers Juan a drink of something tasty and he wants to know why she lied to hide things from him when Oscar came to look for him. She glibly says, to protect him from harm. She launches off on herself quite like Sofia, that she didn't hope to love anyone but here he is and I know you love me and if i just keep you here in the dark you will forget all about lookling for who you are and will stay with me. She seals the deal with kisses that Juan finally cannot resist. and says mi niña a few times. And finally the Doctora admits that this doesn't exactly hit any of her g-spots. She whines about this "mi niña" being really a turn off and Juan again demands to know why she has kept him in the dark.
He wants to know what else she knows about him that she is hiding . She sullenly admits he has also called out Franco, Oscar, Libia, and Mi Nina and talks in his delirium about the woman he loves. SO, he demands, I do love someone , I do have a family. Why are you not wanting me to find my past?
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The cave, Sofia stamps her little feet and says three times, be clear, my hija is not dead she is alive and Juan is a live, my heart tells me Juan and my hija are alive, are alive, are alive. She takes the dolly and the baby cross and goes out. Oscar and Franco say what are we waiting, for he isn't dead. They dig up the doo rag or apron or white pants that show no dirt stains, and rip out the cross and regret the funeral.

The woman whose baby has been cursed, runs up to Silvestre and says her daughter is dying dying. He looks at the baby's lifeless form and declares that they need to find the Doctora. Old nasty and the Brujo are foiled again, holding their useless herbal wands. What if the Doctora saves this sick baby? What are they going to do about us? That baby might live, we better do something or this situation is fried.

Drdaddy/Dr. Cardi looks at the picture on his desk as he rehears Sofia telling him he should be proud of his daughter. He should be trying to find her to keep her in his life . He cries and says he will listen to Sofia, the crying one, and look for his daughter Leonora.

Silvestre and Juan discuss the sick baby and Juan says they have to help the Doctora vaccinate everyone.

Gabriela is awake and boy is she sizzling mad! (What? you expected gratitude?) Were you trying to kill me, she barks in a rare moment of realization. He excuses the well accident as the ineptitude of Rosenda and the Hacienda boys. Here comes Dr. Cardi to see her. How are you? Feo, expecting boring whines leaves. My family is involved in trying to kill me. I am not sure whom you mean by family but it is not your daughters who are fault for what is making you sick.

Sofia finds a travel agent booth to looks for Juan in a market place where she personally interviews all of the inhabitants of this large market turning slowly in circles looking for her daughter. She finds a peaceful shrine and stops to pray. A concerned man comes around the corner to say, we didn't lie to you or trick you. Sofia snaps, I feel like you are all tricking me and hiding and protecting him. The patient man assures her the entire market shares her pain. She sinks to the floor to pray for help from the Virgin.

Next: An interminable continuation of crying but, Caprichio gets an idea!

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