Caray, Caray!

This is Diego Rivera's version of an escuincle, the hairless dog of ancient Mexico. It is a detail from his mural in the National Palace in Mexico City. Escuincle is used today to describe children kind of like English would say snot nosed kid or brat, not really an insult or said meanly. Escuincle is one of my absolutely favorite Mexican Spanish words.

We begin the night reliving the hysteria of Oscar's pinning by the beady eyed tractor, or Beady Eyed Darth Ricardo Uribe, pick your favorite transgressor. The doctor pronounces, perhaps a bit early, that Oscar will probably be disabled. Juan shows up to have a word with Gabriela. The fountain drips accompany Juan's tearful prayer for this to not be.

Ruth, Eva, Sofia and Raquel do a shout out at the bottom of the stairs at the entry way that seems to function like Grand Central Station with almost constant traffic. Juan doesn't want Tio Vicente to tell Oscar the truth of his condition in the time honored tradition of keeping the patient as ignorant as possible. Even Oscar says this isn't certain when he hears the truth. By the memory of their dead parents and little sister, Juan swears Oscar will walk again. Oscar's resolve quickly turns to visions of a beggar's life on the streets. The Reyes pile on the bed and do the Reyez hands in a pile swearing.

Across town, Eva is picking herself up off the attractive Mexican tile floor looking almost as disheveled as Raquel with her wig atilt. Raquel stops the action by declaring she will tell the real truth for once and all, just then Gabriela appears having been listening in the shadows and says she is waiting to hear this big truthy truth but Raquel is full of fantasies so she doubts she will reveal anything real.

Then there is the little matter of Sofia having Feo arrested. Gabriela shouts and growls that Feo must be released and then rants that Sofia is taking the only man who ever loved her (go ahead guess, I don't know why she suddenly shifts her interest back to Feo) Sofia is getting right sassy with her mother lately and spouts, Feo never loved you.

Ruth is taking this truth we heard last night very badly and rides off on her houre, squats in the field crying and raging about having been abandoned and sold like a dog, and Papa rushes up to console her. They growl and rant together in a father daughter duo for a few minutes. She will avenge herself against her mother, Sofia even her beloved beady-eyed Papa. Looks like they are both still mad that Sofia made a fool of Ruth back in junior high at that fateful dance. Some of these revenge motives are just too deep to discuss here on C2

Rigoberto goes over the tractor and discovers the cut fuel line. No one else is working at all.

Ricardo shows up to sneer beady eyed with Gabriela and show his fury that she messed with his princess daughter. He also now knows that she made up the Jose Roble Reyes love affair and that Jose had actually rejected her. She quickly demands that he used to love her but he professes to hate her as strongly as he used to love her. They vow to be enemies and mutually pledge to destroy each other. She kicks him out of her house and he shows his machismo once again insisting he will go when he feels like it. She promises him that she is keeping something back and when he finally finds out what it is, it will destroy him.

Feo is in the jail and the tables seem turned when his former victim (sorry I can never remember his name) gets to taunt him a little from the other side of the bars. Feo still has his swagger and boasts how easily he will spring out of here. (Gee, I hope Rosario gets to sing him a little lullaby soon).

Juan shows up in the busy entry to the hacienda San Agustin and demands to talk to Gabriela and not hear her tricks and lies. He pinches her arm as she tries to go upstairs and insists she tell him who killed his parents, she must surely know. She smiles that Cheshire cat smile that she reserves for anyone that can talk meaner than she can. Admiration with a sneer.
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Juan says she is the one who knows who killed his parents. She also knows that the snake belt did not belong to Bernardo, oh yes it did she sneers. Sofia saves the moment. Where was Juan that he just now is coming to check on daughter MJ. He tells her of Oscar's injury and they go off hand in hand to see him. Gabi sneers behind the stairs.

Ricardo shows up in the casita to tell Raquel they are leaving. They will leave San Agustin and continue pursuing "their" Reyes Hacienda but first Ricardo pledges to recover those important but missing papers. Feel the drama build on these papers?

Ruth has a lonely meltdown moment of shame while she replays the Eva is your mother tapes in her head.

Rigo comes to the Reyes hacienda to tell what he found when he inspected the tractor.

Tio Vincente and Franco talk more calmly with Oscar now, it is nice when there aren't five or six screaming people pressing on the patient's bed. Oscar counts out his awful destiny of losing his parents, his sister, the love of his life and now he can't swagger around to fix all this. He can't get Jimena back if he is in a wheel chair. He is disillusioned with life, he loved JImena so much but now he has lost her forever. He sinks into his pillow with eyes shut but hears JImena's voice as she enters to tell him that he has not lost her, she will be his love forever. The room full of relatives look on with knowing and relieved smiles.
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Sofia hopes that JImena's arrival will calm Oscar. They are all hopeful. Rigo shows up at the dispensary to tell them he checked around and the fuel line (manguera = pipe or hose) was cut.

Back in the patient room Jimena swears she will never abandon Oscar but he tells her to get out he doesn't want her pity, Get out. She loves him and is ready to demonstrate in every way how she loves him.

Juan shows up to scowl into the cell at the jail, Feo asks with some irony, to what does he owe the honor? Juan accuses him of cutting the line and injurying his brother. For once Feo's feigned innocence isn't feigned but just like the little boy who cried wolf, his innocence so hard to believe.

Ruth the tormented shows up to ask Eva how she could be her mother and Eva tells her of the love making in the one night stand with a married man she loved. Ruth slings around whore like insults. Then Eva lights the real fire cracker, and your papa was.....drum roll...... Bernardo Elizondo. Noooooooooooooo puede ser! Ruth's biggest bubble is bursting. How can she not be the beady eyed spawn of beady eyed Darth Uribe? (I remember what color Bernie's eyes are do you? Clue? Perhaps)
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Forgive me but you are the daughter of Bernardo, Eve says tearfully, but then Eva says everything tearfully. You have no idea how much i despise (despreciar) you. she stomps off.

Gabriela is having a bitchy moment with the old village girls (and I use that term loosely) when Coyote shows up and suddenly butter wouldn't melt in Gabi's mouth (as my Mom used to say). The dashing Coyote sweeps the thrilled Gabi off to chat.

Juan discusses his visit to jail with Sofia and seeing the truthiness in Feo's eyes when Feo said he didn't cut the tractor line. He thinks he was telling the truth and it must have been Beady Uribe who did this dastardly deed. The two geniuses plan a trap to catch whoever comitted this crime. We'll get back to you on details.

In his jail cell Feo still gets to smoke big stogies as he lays back on his tiny bed while he plots the destruction of the Reyes.

In the rainy cab of Rosendo's SUV Sofia demands that Rosendo tell her the truth that he really must know who wore the snake belt. She is sure his silence is to protect them all and he confirms that. He is afraid of what will become of them if they know the truth. Go figure, but no one can arm themselves ahead of time either.

Oscar has an attack of hysteria maintaining his determined rejection of pity. Now we know that Oscar has only had a couple of hours to form his hardened opinion of his state but he is vociferous from his little white bed. Just then Juan shows up with his million dollar smile sporting a shiny new wheel chair as if it were a shiny toy for a sick child and really makes Oscar yell his rejection of this or any help. (Maybe his is hoping to be assigned to one of the nuns, they do such an admirable job with the babies, maybe they are equally skilled with grumpy disabled men.)
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Sofia adds her support to JImena and Sarita hugs Jimena too. She asks if they have seen Franco. Jimena tells him that Franco is suffering greatly too. The fountain drowns out Juan's swearing that they are Reyes and they will persevere and conquer all adversity, or something like that.

JImena suddenly brings a suitcase down the stairs and tells her mother she is going to be with Oscar. How can you go be with that bum? Excuse me mother but I am not asking permission.

Feo sits in the jail and sees a shining light on a wall where no fixture is present. He collars the poor sap in the cell with him and says, you see that light, right, you see it! No, poor sap sees nothing.

But Rosario begins to speak from the bright light telling him that he will pay for all his crimes. (thanks Rosario you gave me my wish).

Gabriela comes in yelling about JImena's departure in front of the tender baby and the tender nun. Sofia smartly gets her out of the room to tell her she admires what Jimena is doing. Then she demands that Sofia spring Feo from the jail. Sofia is disposed to let Feo sit out his time for his crime. Gabi's next trick is to say if Sofia will retract her suit and Feo is let out, Gabriela will exchange something valuable. Sofia isn't so gullible as she used to be so insists on proof before she will assist her mother. What valuable thing is offered? So who was it that killed the Roble Reyes? Gabriela actually keeps her promise and says it was Ricardo! Ricardo Uribe. (Guess she really is mad at him...)

Next time we get a repeat the revelation of the real killer and oh oh, Gabriela is toting a gun and pointing it at Ricardo.

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