Caray, Caray!

Mauricio tells DB (in return for putting out her cigar) that Marisela is in the big apple (la gran manzana- NYC) with Luisana. He tells DB that Marisela has no intention of returning to the Arauca.


Meanwhile Santos has found the information about the soil analysis at La Chusmita. He rapidly figures out that DB has been lying to him for a long time. Melquíades tries to get the papers back but Santos says that Melquíades doesn't scare him. Melquíades demands the papers from Santos. "What are you going to do?" asks Santos, "Are you going to shoot me or knife me? Isn't that what DB would usually do?"

Mujica's nephew, Bartolo, spouts poetic nonsense to Altagracia and she swoons with admiration.

Meanwhile, Mujiquita is cleaning out Pernalete's desk. He finds the evidence bag for the ring that was taken from Julian Barreto's severed hand. The ring isn't in the bag but Mujiquita knows where to find it. He goes to Pernalete's house where Federica and Josefa are fighting about the proceeds of their business. He pulls the ring off Pernalete's finger.

Santos tells Cecilia that he is furious but he will only say that is a terrible betrayal.

We also don't see the person who has kidnapped BP except for his thick lips and a strange ring.

In the capital, the doctor tells DB that the fertility treatments haven't worked and she can't get pregnant. She tells him to keep trying until they succeed or she decides to stop.

Mujiquita also finds an evidence bag with the some of the (charred) remains of the body in the jeep identified as Meléndez. Mujiquita doesn't want it but Bartolo puts it in a drawer. Finally Mujiquita finds the evidence bag with the blowgun dart that Dr. Arias determined was used to drug Meléndez in the hotel. Mujiquita handles it carelessly (fortunately, it wasn't a poison dart) and gets drugged himself.

Santos goes to Danger's house and wonders if DB had him killed.

Santos goes to town and comes into Mujiquita's office just in time to hear Dr. Arias' conclusions about the poison dart, Orestes Prieto's death and Melendez' being drugged.

Altagracia tells Genoveva that she wants to marry Bartolo. Pajarote and Carmelito overhear and decide to check Bartolo out for their absent buddy, María Nieves.

Mauricio tells an invisible Marisela about DB's visit.

In a taxi, DB says to herself that she is glad Marisela isn't around because if she were, she would be an enemy and DB doesn't recommend that anyone make an enemy of DB.

Santos is riding and drinking. He tells himself that DB isn't capable of doing something like that.
He flashes back to the day of the flower beauty contest (Concurso de los Flores) when Orestes Prieto died.

Santos goes to see Eustaquia who is putting flowers in a vase. He asks her if it isn't true that pure-blooded Indians like Melquiades use blowpipes (cerbatana) in hunting. Eustaquia drops the flower vase. Santos asks Eustaquia to tell him that DB didn't order Melquiades to kill Orestes Prieto. He demands that she tell him whether Melquíades is a kller. Eustaquia only says that DB adores Santos. She won't answer his question.

Santos shows Eustaquia the papers about the oil. He tells her that the paper is a translation into Spanish that DB sent away to have done. "She and I live together," says DB, "Your boss, who says that she loves me more than anything in the world, has been lying to me since the beginning. Your boss is and continues to be the same as when I met her. She hasn't changed."

BP spills his guts and it rapidly becomes apparent that the questioner is Sapo, the last rapist. I'm not sure if he was involved with Danger before or whether BP recognized him from the picture of the rapists.

Santos tells Eustaquia that Lorenzo was correct in calling DB the "devourer of men" ("la devoradora de hombres"). Eustaquia tells Santos that DB loves him. "She doesn't love," replies Santos, "she owns, she posesses and what she can't buy she steals." He tells Eustaquia that he wants the truth. "It was always under my nose and I didn't want to see it," he says, "Why? Because I loved her. When I saw your boss dying, I understood that this woman that I loved and hated at the same time with the same intensity, this mysterious woman who had such a terrible live, merited a second chance to live and I thought I was the only one who could give her that. My God, what a conceited idiot I am! Me, the salvation of lost causes. Lorenzo told me that a thousand times. Everyone told me and I didn't listen. And now I'm the one falling into the bottomless pit that named DB. Eustaquia, I can't continue to love your boss. I want to save what's left of my life." Eustaquia begs him not to say that. She says that DB will come back and clear up all his doubts. Santos replies that DB will only lie to him again.

On the boat back to Progresso, DB is sure that Marisela is gone and was only an accident in her and Santos' life.

Santos tells Eustaquia that he is sure now that DB was behind Marisela leaving. DB threatened her and she left. Santos says that he will find Marisela. He says that he was so stupid. All this times, DB was laughing at him. She lied to him. She doesn't love him. He says that she's a liar. Eustaquia says that DB isn't bad. She acted out of fear that she would be left alone, that Santos would abandon her. Santos tells Eustaquia that DB will be left alone because all she has succeeded in doing is defraud him. The only thing he feels for her now is a profound disillusion. "It's over, Eustaquia," I am sorry to tell you that from the bottom of my heart I feel that that it's over."


In prison, MN formally asks Antonio for Altagracia's hand in marriage.

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