Caray, Caray!

DB takes the lying route once again. She tells Santos that the man in the picture is not Sapo. Santos says that the photo is of Fidel Castell who visited her when she was in jail. DB denies knowing Castell and denies that he visited her in prison. Santos asks why he doesn't believe her. DB says that is simple. He has never believed in her. "You would doubt the Our Father if I recited it," she says. DB tries to jolly Santos into a better mood.

Marisela asks Genoveva if she is sure that this is an alcaraván calling and Geno assures her it is the same call that was heard for Gervasia and Cecilia. Marisela momentarily gets carried away with speculating how beautiful her and Santos' baby would be then she says that it would be horrible to be pregnant at the same time as her mother and by the same man. Geno says that it would be horrible to be pregnant by a man named 'Pajarote'. Marisela agrees that is horrible, "Instead of babies, you'd have chicks (pichones).


The terneras discuss how Genoveva, serious as a funeral and who never does anything wrong, could have gotten herself knocked up.

Poor Néstor has received a beating. Sapo asks if he has learned his lesson not to stick his nose where it doesn't belong. Néstor says that he understands. Sapo says that he had better not write anything, good or bad, about him again. Next time he won't get another chance.

DB tells Santos to lighten up. Santos tells her to stop wasting her time flirting with him. He came to ask a question and once again he recieved lies from her. Santos asks about Eustaquia. DB tells him that Eustaquia would love to see him. Eustaquia is trying to get mud out of Juan Primito's ears.
She tells JP that he has to take a bath; he smells terrible. She threatens to get out of bed and scrub him with a wire sponge until he bleeds. Santos comes in and tells JP that he never visits him any more or brings him mangoes. Aren't they friends anymore? JP runs out to get mangoes.
Santos asks how the most beautiful old woman in all the llanos is. Eustaquia replies that she must be ill because Santos has never complimented her before. Santos says that up to now he showed his bad upbringing but from now on he will correct his error. Eustaquia sends DB out of the room to get some tea. When they are alone, Eustaquia says that she doesn't have much time left so she will get right to the point. Will Santos return to DB? "Why do you ask me that question," says Santos, "when you already know the answer?" Eustaquia says that he should have compassion for an old woman and at least he could tell her a little white lie (mentira piedosa). Santos says that he cares very much for Eustaquia but he won't tell her white lies or that he will return to DB.

Néstor gets dumped by the side of the road.

Eustaquia tries to get Santos to promise to take of DB when Eustaquia is gone. Santos tells her not to manipulate him. She knows that it is over between him and DB. "For you, yes," replies Eustaquia, " but not for her." Eustaquia tries to convince Santos that DB has changed and that her pregnancy is making her bloom and turn into the person she was before the rape.

When Santos finds DB, she is looking at the newspaper. Once again Santos accuses her of hiding things from him and she denies it. Santos says that she has to take care of herself, if not for him then for the baby and if she doesn't want his help, he will leave. DB begs him not to leave but at that moment, JP comes in and asks when the 'girl of his eyes' will return to Progreso. Santos says that he doesn't know and leaves.

Marisela tells Genoveva that they have to find out the truth. She wants them to go to the hospital and get a pregnancy test.

Pajarote is getting some juice in the kitchen at Altamira when the spectral Genoveva appears and says that even though the won't admit it, he is in love with her. Pajarote denies it and yells at her to leave him alone. He tosses his glass of juice at the vision and leaves. Carmelito wonders what his going on with their friend. María Nieves says that he doesn't know but Pajarote has a screw loose ('se le zafó un tornillo').

Dr. Arias tells Cecilia that Toñito has an allergy or an insect bite. Cecilia goes overprotective mother on him and insists on taking the baby to San Fernando to see a specialist.

DB shows the picture of Sapo to Eustaquia. Eustaquia says that if Sapo is in San Fernando and is with Gonzalo, then he has seen Marisela. DB thinks that Sapo might use Marisela to get to DB just like Meléndez did. Melquíades thinks that it is very strange that Gonzalo is with Sapo.

Marisela tells Gonzalo that she and Genoveva need to go to the hospital to see Lucía. Gonzalo lets them go but knows that Marisela is lying.

DB tells Melquíades that they have to find out whose side Gonzalo is on. Melquíades offers to take care of the Gonzalo problem but DB says that he will come with her to San Fernando and then see what they want to do. Eustaquia urges DB to hide until the danger is over and her baby is born. DB says that she won't leave without Santos. She believes that little by little he is coming back to her and now this happens. She tells JP to take care of Eustaquia while she is gone.

Sapo is annoyed that he let himself be photographed with Gonzalo. Now all his enemies will know where he is and all his precautions were for nothing. Facundo suggest doubling the guards at the house and Sapo agrees. He says that he can't trust his own shadow now.

Néstor staggers into Andrés office in Progreso.

Antonio sees Marisela and Geno at the hospital. He asks what they are doing there. Marisela finally comes out with a very unconvincing story that they are there to find out their blood type.

Néstor tells Santos that it was Fidel Castell who had him beaten up.

In San Fernando, DB first has a long flashback to her rape by Sapo and the others and then she sees a little boy and asks him to 'give her five' ('dame cinco').

She tells Melquíades that she can't believe that she laughed with a little boy. Melquíades looks like he can't believe it either but not in a good way.

Santos tells Néstor and Andrés that Sapo [for convenience, I referring to him as Sapo although Santos doesn't know for a fact that Fidel Castell and Sapo are the same person.] is a criminal who once tried to buy Altamira using a front man (testaferro) and that he tried to buy all the haciendas around Progreso. Santos tells them that to his knowledge, Sapo wasn't sucessful in buying any of the haciendas and he hasn't been seen around lately. JP comes in and tells Santos that DB just rushed off to San Fernando. Santos is sure that it has to do with Sapo. He says that DB is in danger.

Lucía doesn't want to eat her salt-free diet and Antonio is trying to persuade her when he is called to see the doctor.

The doctor tells him that the results of the tests are not good. Lucía needs to be put on dialysis. Her one kidney is not working properly.

Marisela and Genoveva get their pregnancy test results. They decide to open them at the same time. Marisela is not pregnant but Geno is.

Antonio asks the doctor if Lucía could die. The doctor says that Lucía's condition is very serious. Her pregnancy is putting a strain on her one kidney which has a congential defect [the writers have messed up a little bit, here. Lucía got a transplant of a presumably healthy kidney from her father. She could be rejecting the transplant or pregnancy could be too much for her one kidney but the problem shouldn't be a congenital defect.] The doctor doesn't really answer Antonio's question so he asks it again. The doctor says that they will try to save both Lucía and her baby but she likely to give birth prematurely. The doctor tells Antonio that he is the only support Lucía has when she gets this news and it will be hard for her to deal with the blow especially in her condition.

Genoveva tells Marisela that she was the one who criticized Gervasia so much when got pregnant, she is the one who believed herself to be the most perfect and correct and who laughed at the idea of love. She says that she has really put her foot in it. Marisela tells her not be so hard on herself. She fell in love, that's all. Geno says that she did fall in love but with the wrong man, a man who doesn't love her and doesn't take her seriously. She says that she is a worse slut than Federica. When Geno says that she deserves to die, Marisela gets annoyed and tells her never to say that. Geno asks what she should do when people notice her belly - disguise herself with a gourd (calabeza) for nine months?

DB comes to see Gonzalo. He starts off by saying that he has good news about his future wife. DB interrupts and says that first he has to explain the picture in the newspaper.

Santos goes to Sapo's house and asks to meet with him. Sapo is surprised. Facundo asks how he dares. "He is very bold (guapo), crazy, an idiot or all three," says Sapo. Sapo says that they will amuse themselves and make Santos wait for half an hour to show who has the power. "The mouse is coming right to the mousetrap ('el ratoncito vino derecho al la ratonera')," says Sapo.

Gonzalo makes a joke about how photogenic he is but DB says that she is serious. She wants to know what his relationship with the guy in the picture is. Gonzalo says that Sapo is just a rich investor who in interested in making donations and came to offer his services. DB backs off and says that she since Sapo looks like a mafioso in the picture, she wondered what a refined guy like Gonzalo would have to do with him. Gonzalo says that appearances can be deceiving. DB asks what is his news about Marisela. Gonzalo says that his conquest of Marisela is going full steam ahead ('viento en popa,' literally, 'wind from astern') and in a little while he will celebrate his engagement with the best champagne. "You'd better, ('más te vale')" says DB.

Marisela tries to reassure Genoveva and tells her to stay in the room and get some rest. "All for some balloons and now I will look like a balloon!" laments Geno. Marisela tells her to look at the bright side: she will have a pretty baby. She tells Geno that she isn't alone in this.

The terneras are excited about getting their own houses but but Gervasia is concerned about leaving Melesio alone. The other terneras say that they will visit every day and that is how life works. Children move out. "He who marries wants a house, ('El que se casa quiere casa,' this is a play on words in Spanish where 'casar' means to marry and 'casa' means a house). Pajarote shows up and asks if they have heard from Genoveva. When Altagracia says that Geno just left the day before, Pajarote says that it seems much longer.

Genoveva flashes back to various conversations with Pajarote. Pajarote also has long series of flashbacks about his relationship with Geno.

Cecilia runs into Antonio at the hospital. He tells her the bad news about Lucía's condition.

When Sapo meets with Santos, Melquíades is in the bushes with a gun. He is surprised to see Santos there and wonders if he should kill two birds with one shot. [I don't know much about guns but that looks like a shotgun (double barrels), which fires pellets and has a pretty short range. I think he needs a rifle.]

DB finds Marisela and warns her that Sapo is her worst enemy and is Marisela's enemy too.

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