Caray, Caray!

With a tip of the sombrero to Terry McMillan, I am still in a state of euphoria over my splendid trip to northern Spain and still grateful to Bridget for producing three fine recaps to keep this FELS nightmare, I mean telenovela, sailing along on the CarayCaray waves of delighted viewers. But on with tonight's action: Who is that handsome man on the white horse willing to pay whatever to graze his horses on the hacienda pastures just when the KingKidz need some ready cash? How convenient, as Dana Carvey used to say in his ChurchLady snidely way. And why is Verizon's La Llorona more attractively dressed than the FELS tear making machine, Sofia? But I digress into the mysteries of the universe.

Uncle Alejandro swears he will seek revenge himself is Feo is lying about the missing baby. But he is still saying it behind bars.
Feo plans his empire of a well run hacienda all under his absolute control, [why hasn't it worked yet if he has such talents?] Let's get to the hacienda and tell everyone of our wedding. No, the horny one wants to continue to boogie in the bed, Feo swears his only motive is her tranquility and health.

Sofia is slow but Jimena seems nearly comatose as she blinks at the news that Oscar has returned. Not even the Llorona can move her with the news that Oscar returned but without Juan and without my daughter. I won't be conquered, I am going out to look for my daughter. The dark forest would be a good place to start, lets wait until dark.

Damian has the luck to meet Quintina on the road with her wagon bed and horse while he is on his horse. Her confidence has been abused, she flirts outrageously. Damian promises to defend her against whatever.

Sarita comes in to ask what's the progress with Sister Sludge, aja Jimena. Sofia assures Sarita needs to regain her desire to love. Sarita sneers back that she has never lost her love.

Sofia has worked out that it is really their papa's fault, if he hadn't defrauded Libia, then she wouldn't have died, the Reyes wouldn't have come to seek revenge, the sister's wouldn't have fallen for these bricklaying, breadbaking hotties, the baby wouldn't have been stolen..... Let's go walk in the dark.

Damian is questioning Q about the lovely woman in the fog who he wants to meet (nooooooooo, Damian) Q tells him he has run into La Llorona, no kidding.

We get a bucket of tears in the girls bedroom to illustrate the truth of this naming. Sarita confesses that she can't forget her love for Franco. On the other side of town, Eva has to listen to Ros echo the same I'll never forget my love for Franco. Eva advises her to love someone else? Someone will surely come along.

Franco and Oscar work in the new bakery, oh I guess this is the kitchen of the hacienda, and discuss the disappearance of Juan. He's not dead, he's dead, he's not dead....

Damian offers a sherry (jerez) to a man I don't know who seems concerned for Damian's well being...... He says he has the feeling that here he will encounter the peace that has escaped him so far (don't put money on it honey)

Oscar appears in sombrero in the bedroom of sleeping locobeauty. It hurts him to see her so and he feels he is to blame. Here is a rose of crystal just like I gave you before. I can't stop thinking about you I have to get over it, If you still don't want to see me, I only want that you get well, that you return to the happy smiling girl you were. [I agree she's the only one with a relatively sunny disposition. Perhaps she was the one left on the hacienda steps in a basket]
******************
Franco has turned into a really productive guy. Ros comes to see him because she has been thinking so much about him and his suffering and she comes to offer her friendship. He needs a real friend just now who will listen to him about his love and suffering and his true love which he has lost. She had something else in mind from the look on her face.

Abuelo has the inside track on the honey moon pleasures of Feo and Gabi while Sarita and Sofia seems genuinely surprised. The pretty maid Natalia comes for Jimena's dinner which she takes up to the bedroom and surprises Oscar who is still kneeling at Jimena's side. Oscar begs her not to sound the alarm that he is there. Natalia says she won't say anything about him. He kisses the comatose one and gives her a blessing while Natalia looks on sweetly.

Sofia snuffles over some baby sweater and decides she will go out into the dry ice forest once again looking for her lost baby.

Oscar returns to the luxury digs with Franco looking really comfortable in this new found hacienda living. Sofia breaks in to claim they are hiding Juan and her daughter.

Speaking of the occult, Juan strolls with the Doctora in the woods when he suddenly hears a woman screaming, Juan. The look on his face is straight out horrified as a thought painfully pierces his brain, that name sounds familiar, or a woman screaming at me sounds familiar. Perhaps both?
******************
Doctora tries to stroke him as a Mom and her truculent son come out of the bush and we know which Juan is being sought. But Juan still sounds so familiar says the big J to his companion.

Sofia playing La Llorona to the hilt accuses F and O of hiding Juan and begins a search of the new rooms. The hacienda is so much bigger than the bakery of old that it takes some time. She looks really suspicious at the pantry then strokes the raw bread buns provocatively then angers, then saddens, then cries, lots, Franco and Oscar watch her come back and don't seem surprised that she can't find Juan here. They try to comfort her as she can't stop crying.

The Doctora continues walking with Juan who still has no shirt or shoes as she looks for an opening to jump him. The Evil medicine man is warned that Juan's good works are going to spoil these villagers and they won't like being beaten so much. Is it the same or another shaman that chants Nahuatl words, but the brujo scene is offset while the doctora and Juan discuss the good that the vaccines will do for the poor villagers. Suddenly a woman begins to give birth and Juan wants to get Silvester. Not flustered at all the Doctora calmly prepares to assist the woman giving birth and Juan turns into an instant birthing coach telling her when to push and when to breath. The miracle of birth and a perfect baby in seconds amazes Juan as it does the viewer. Juan begins to withdraw but they push the baby into his arms, Doctora acting like it might serve as a stimulating sex toy, no that can't be it.

Sofia hugs the sweater and cries for her baby. Juan hugs the baby who cries, the real mother begins to say my daughter, my daughter, echoed by Sofia while Juan has some kind of memory or second sight of Sofia in her drab black, snotting on the white baby sweater. [Egad, I hate this stolen baby plot devices, they really upset me and I know that JudyB doesn't hold truck with them either. Especially since we know that Feo let little Luisito live in a cardboard box with a crazy drunk woman who didn't appear to feed him well, what could he be subjecting a helpless newborn to? They could at least show us that she is okay.]
********************
The honeymooners return in a euphoric breathlessness to a pouting Sofia and Sarita who sure haven't been getting any good nookie like Mom has, and Abuelo says he is not surprised considering the ambition of Gabi's new husband. Gabi announces the wedding and the inevitable news that Feo is now lord and master of the entire hacienda.

In the market Eladio speaks for the family giving excellent news that Rigo is getting better. the former friends of Gabi who flirt with him until Natalia shows up and he passes the ladies over to greet the his gift from God. She tells that Gabi returned and has married Feo. Now he is the master of the entire hacienda. She promises Eladio she won't keep any secrets back from him.

Mom with her special mom touch drops the limp hand of Jimena coldly letting it thump lifelessly onto the bed, what a bother, then criticizes the crystal rose which she assumes Sarita has brought in and demands Jimena, Jimena. When Mom leaves, the sombrero shadow on the wall tell us all is seen by an adoring Oscar. He gives her kisses and words of his constancy to love her back to life.
**********************
Franco has the plow and the oxen team under good control. Q arrives with her horse and wagon bed barely under control. But Q comes bearing a five course lunch while they discuss that the missing Oscar has gone to see the comatose Jimena. Q has big plans for their money making scenarios, Franco says sometimes she worries him.

Abuelo and Pablito make a brief appearance about nothing important.

Gabi looks at Juan Jose Robles photo and remembers how handsome he was she dreamily says he was her first and only love. She remembers telling Franco how much his father loved her only and not his mother. She then at least tells herself it was all a lie. But Feo loves her and she chants his name in a sexual swoon.

Meantime Feo gets a nightly chance to menace as he shows Oscar divorce papers that Jimena supposedly signed and demands that he act with pride and sign them too. Oscar doesn't want to believe it but why does he sign anyway. Was that a universal macho challenge or what?

Next: Sofia gets to act out her La Llorona role in the dryicy dark of night. Let's see more horses, huh? Damian is apparently going to pursue LL and show us some really nice horses so I guess we get both.

WORD OF THE NIGHT: Jerez = sherry. Also the town of Jerez in southern Spain where the most prestigious sherry is distilled and aged to perfection in oak barrels.

Labels: Fuego