Caray, Caray!

• We review the heartbreaking scene of Lili telling lil' Fer: "I saw Eduardo!" and begging piteously for her freedom until she gets shot up with more drugs and lapses back into dreamland.
  
  
• Leaving the insane asylum for their next cheerful destination (Mom's tomb in the chapel), Pop Elizalde and lil' Fer commiserate about poor Lili. The chauffeur (Barbara's stoolie) listens as Fer tells her dad "Lili mentioned Eduardo." "Who?" "Have you really forgotten?" Dad sez Lil is confused with childhood memories.
  
  Fer: "Those were the happiest times of our lives. You should never have sent him so far away just because of a kiss, it was unjust. Who convinced you to do it?" "It doesn't matter... anyway, he was just a peon." (Hiss.)
  
  
• In a field, Jacinto tells Eduardo: "Your mother was right, you should go back to the U.S., we can't overcome Barbara's evil."
  
  Eduardo asks after his beloved horse, Amanecer - "He's dead and buried under a tree." They see a couple kids ("they're the grandsons of Don Clemente") with a couple of horses - Ed borrows them and they ride off to an empty farmhouse.
  
  Ed decides he will rent the farmhouse under a false name and stay in the area, both to facilitate avenging and because he missed his home the entire time he was away. He had a great job after he graduated business school and saved a lot of dinero. Jacinto protests, you're in trouble because Barbara hates you.
  
  Ed: "I'll kill off Eduardo Cruz. I'll rent this farm, furnished, and you'll help me."
  
  They take the horses back to the boys and Ed pays well for the rental. One of the boys calls him Señor Fuereño (a guy from someplace else) to Eduardo's grim amusement.
  
  Finally, Ed asks Jacinto to get all the contact info for everybody in the Milk Group. "I'll explain later, just do it!" Poor Jacinto.
  
  
• Margarita is worried - and in no way convinced by Jacinto's lame succession of lies, fabricated hastily to explain away the time he's spending with Eduardo. Jacinto is definitely in over his head.
  
  He finally tells his wife about the expired powdered milk he saw in the barn. She says, either we denounce the Hyena or we leave this place. She walks out, he wanders around hitting things in befuddled exasperation. He sits to put his head in his hands and sees an Elizalde business card. Maybe it will help Ed/Franco with the venging, so Jacinto grabs it and leaves, telling Margarita he's going to see the "old trout" and after that, to take care of the horses. She reminds him of her ultimatum: "I'd rather lose this house we struggled for than to lament a tragedy."
  
  
• Later, Jacinto runs back to the barn - "How odd, it isn't padlocked..." - and breaks in, all the milk is gone.
  
  
• Well, that's because the many bags of milk were moved to a hiding place in a bodega somewhere.
  
  
• Gardenia once again overhears Barbara having a suspicious phone call (and wearing a black dress with white bacilli crawling over it). Barb to Gardenia: "Tell my husband I'm at the beauty parlor." Barb leaves and immediately Gardenia picks up the phone, writes down the number Barbara just called, and sticks it in her bra. Wow, she's turning out to be a good spy!
  
  That stoolie chauffeur reports to Barbara about Lili's yelling scene at the manicomio and Barbara's very pleased to hear about it. She tells the chauffeur to give the wedding dress to Fer. The chauffeur flirts with Gardenia, but she's disgusted and calls him a gossip.
  
  
• At the chapel, Daddy Elizalde and Fer silently brood about the poor dead wheezer-that-was, Montserrat, and also about Lil in the loony bin. It was sad to lose Montserrat, but the loss of Lili is a continuing torment, Lili has spent 15 years in hell.
  
  
• And just at that moment, Lili is curled up in bed shaking in her coma. In comes her geezer friend (how can he just come in like that) and says: "The White Queen is sleeping. But some day she'll wake up with the power to start a fire."
  
  
• Eduardo calls his redheaded friend Steve in the States (from the "Telephone and Cheese House") and asks him to collect all the information on the Elizalde's finances and businesses (which the two of them had assembled for a report on Latin American companies) and send it to him under a false name (to be announced).
  
  While they talk, Ed is absent-mindedly fishing what looks like a driver's license from behind the pay phone. That was fortuitous, wasn't it? He half-heartedly tries to give it to the cheese lady but she isn't interested in taking it. He sees the name is Franco Santoro and decides that will be his new alias. He calls Steve again and gives him the name.
  
  
• Daddy Elizalde advises Fer: "Yes, it was sad, and Lili had a crisis, but chin up!" Gardenia arrives with the wedding dress. "Where's my wife? I thought she'd wait for us." But evidently she's gone to the, ahem, beauty parlor.
  
  
• Damian arrives unexpectedly, saying his boss is out of the office so he can play hookey, he wants to take Fer to lunch.
  
  He gets a call on his cell. He says it's from one of his engineers but it's actually Barbara in her car: "Get Fer out of the house and keep her away all day, she mustn't find out Soledad is dead."
  
  Well, when he gets off the phone, first thing Fer sez is, "Let's go see how my nana's doing."
  
  Her daddy is surprised to hear Soledad's been ailing - way to stay in touch with your loyal life-long servant, dude! "Yes, she had pneumonia but she's better," Fer cluelessly explains. Damian says they can visit Nana later.
  
  
• Barbara reports to Artemio Bravo about the bad milk hidden in the bodega. She wants to denounce the Elizaldes immediately, so Gonzo can go to jail (and she won't have to share a bed with him any more), but Artemio says no, he wants the Elizaldes ruined financially, their accounts zeroed out. She protests but he tells her not to disobey. "Destroy the milk, it's hundreds of tons, there will be millions of dollars of losses!" He then asks about Soledad's son. "It appears he's forgotten his mother!"
  
  
• Oh, it was hard to stay attentive during the thrilling conversation about milk politics Priscila has with her brother in his office. Well, first, Priscila and her brother put his company's new milk (with 50% more calcium) in their coffee. "Mmm, tasty!"
  
  Desultory gossip follows ... some of the milk tzars are innovating, mother is in Scandinavia, dad is playing golf, what's your imbecile husband doing with powdered milk, you know our dad has been waiting for you to have a child so as to cement the milk industry alliances. "I'm working on it." He cruelly points out she's been working on it already for seven years.
  
  
• Anibal is just telling a protesting Engineer "Tonight's the night for processing the expired powdered milk!" when Barbara comes in and semi-casually cancels the whole plan, blaming it on Priscila's family having found out: "They'll denounce you." "No, Priscila wouldn't..." "You think she's more loyal to YOU than to her family?"
  
  Barbara paints a picture of dreadful scandal which would certainly implicate Pop Elizalde. Anibal sputters about the millions of dollars of losses. Barbara: "I have a plan for later. In the mean time, dump the milk tonight. And watch out for your wife."
  
  
• Eduardo is in the very mall where Damian has, coincidentally, brought Fer for lunch. Ed is busy making plans for his new identity, starting by sweet-talking an official young woman into accepting his photo id even though he doesn't look anything like the picture and then getting some new credit cards and a cellphone.
  
  
• Damian gives Fer the honeymoon tickets. He's planned a trip to Hawaii, Polynesia, Borneo, New Guinea, they'll be away for almost four months! Fer is shocked, that's so long, she'd rather go for just three weeks. He resists but then says he is so crazy in love with her he must do everything she asks.
  
  String players stroll over and serenade her, he gives her a pair of pearl earrings surrounded by flowers. "A symbol of our love."

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