Caray, Caray!

In case we forgot what was going on, today is the wedding, and we begin by showing Candy talking to Barb in the ladies room in front of a sign saying the floor is slippery (resbalado), Barb asking if Candy wants to be in Mari’s place, Candy not wanting to, because Santi doesn’t love the bride. Barb can’t believe that in this day and age, a man would marry without love, just for obligation. Then (after showing us a cleaning lady to remind us about the floor), Mariloca has her little conversation with Raúl, overheard by Candy, in which Mari is tired of Santi, of his whole family, but while Raúl suggests calling the whole thing off, Mari won’t, asking Raúl what’s the worst thing that ever happened to Santi? Raúl remembers that Santi’s brother died, and his wife Paulina left when the baby was first born. That’s it, says Mari. Santi was abandoned, but he still had Rocío. However, he’ll never know my baby. I’ll get married, and then as soon as the baby is born, I’ll leave, I’ll disappear. Don’t know if I’ll ever come back, but I assure you, Santiago will never know the baby. Candy is impactada, and as Mari leaves to go to the wedding, Candy scurries to get out of the way, slips (unbeknownst to the others at the Institute), falls and knocks herself out on the floor.

Alicia is all dressed up for the wedding, and has come to Pat’s hotel room to ask him to accompany her there. Pat doesn’t want her to invade his space, and doesn’t want to go to the lousy wedding. Ali says they were both invited, she doesn’t want to go alone, what can she tell everyone? Pat doesn’t care, he’s not going, and when Ali begs him to come home, he won’t do that either. She leaves, disappointed, and Pat looks distressed about the whole situation, too. Notice, however, that he is dressed very elegantly, in a dark suit, white shirt, and orange-gold tie (does he always dress up, even on weekends, just sitting around the hotel room?).

It’s a beautiful day for a wedding (I’m a little jealous about their incredible weather). Outside the church, Charly (wearing a suit but white tennis shoes) is camcording the abandonados and Santi. They’re joking with him. Zamora, in mariachi gear, asks Santi if he knows the difference between marriage and divorce. Marriage is all rice, but divorce is all pa’ella! (paella is a Mexican dish, but pa’ (para) ella means “for her”. A little more clowning, and the guys head inside.

At the Institute, Candy has come to, is sitting in a chair as Barb and Lulu make sure she’s okay. She is, but she flashes back to Mari’s threat to abandon Santi, to hurt him.

There’s a brief conversation between Arturo and Pat. When Pat reminds Art that everyone makes choices, Art thinks he chose (elegi) well, he chose to be rich and powerful, but now he has to live with some of the things he did. While he was making money, he had no time for conscience. But things have changed. He wishes one’s conscience could be disposable (desechable), but after age 70, nothing is disposable. Then are you truly regretful (arrepentido) about what you did? asks Pat. Not about what he did, but about putting Pat in the middle of this. And now the papers are in the hands of a nut (Alicia).

We see Santi alone on a bench outside the church, meditating. Isabel sees him, asks if he’s nervous. No, but he certainly is conflicted. Isa knows what he’s thinking, but assures him she won’t make trouble, she’ll be the happy suegra to Marissa, he just has to be brave. As she leaves, he thinks all the guys were right (kidding him about how wrong it is to get married), he’s heading to the matadero (slaughterhouse).

Inside the church, we get a Charly-Cam view of all the guests, looking terrific, making funny faces at the camera. One of the best things about a telenovela wedding is that you get to see all the characters together, all dressed up, hair done, happy. Well not everyone is happy. Chayo’s grumpy on one side of the aisle with a smiling Barb, Lulu, Ceci and Soledad, and Ed’s a matching grouch across the aisle with the guys. Meño and Gregoria are pensive, and Paulina looks annoyed. We also see Beto, Zamora (on the girls’ side), Donato with Tina and Hortensia, and Isabel walking to the front row to join Jaime and be greeted by a gleeful Lucía, Rocío and Chava.

Pat and Arturo continue their chat, Pat assuring his Dad that it looks as if Alicia won’t actually do the blackmail, he and Ali are working this out, but what’s up with you, Dad? Are you having an affair with Gregoria? Of course not, replies Arturo, and explains the mixup from the other day, where Margarita caught him at Greg’s house. Pat’s phone rings, and it’s Candy, Pat must come immediately!

I guess so, as Raúl is now walking his sister down the aisle, giving her away to Santi. Little shots of the various guests reveal their emotions.

Candy is pacing the floor in the restaurant, distraught, as Pat arrives. She tells him they have to stop the wedding. Santiago can’t get married. Mari is doing it for revenge, she’s going to abandon Santi, and never let him see his child. Please help. Pat now has to make one of the most difficult decisions of his life. He loves Candy, but she’s asking him to stop the wedding of his rival! But he can see by her face what she’s feeling. He loves her, but he can’t have her halfway (a medias). Her body is here, but her heart is being torn in half by Santi’s getting married in that church. He realizes she has to stop the wedding. His eyes brimming with tears, he agrees to help her. They rush off to his car.

They arrive outside the church, and she hesitates. Inside, the padre is giving the vows. Mari happily says I do (actually they say accepto – I accept him as my husband, etc.). As the priest recites all the promises Santi will have to make, to love, honor, cherish, in good times, and bad, Santi’s face looks as if these are quite a few things to promise, he’s a little overwhelmed. Before he can answer, some one’s cell phone rings! Hmmmph, you’d think people would know to turn off their cells in a wedding. Santi impatiently looks at the abandonados to just answer it, please, but it turns out it’s HIS phone. With Mari saying no, he answers, and it’s Candy. “Say no, say no, please say no”, she implores, her hand shaking, his mouth wide open. He pauses for a few seconds, as Mari tells the padre to ask him again, and the padre does. Then Santi says “(the patient is) that sick!?” Candy says she’s outside the church. Santi says “They’re going to die?”, as all the guests go Que, queeeee! Santi turns to the priest, tells him it’s a medical emergency, sorry, but he has to go! Raúl demands what’s up, Santi mentions the Hippocratic Oath, Raúl thinks more like hypocritic, Santi walks out of the church (past a smirking Paulina), as all hell breaks loose. Raúl’s in hot pursuit, but Donato extends a toe, and Raúl’s down for the count. In the midst of the confusion, though, we do see sly Alicia seem to sneak out past the guests.

The three kids wonder why Santi walked out, Beto thinks maybe he had to make pipi (of course!), both boys ask Rocío if she’ll marry them, but sorry, she can’t right now, her Daddy isn’t there for them to ask permission.

Santiago rushes to Candy, bends her back with a big kiss, but she’s not on the same wavelength (we also see Pat, gallant but hurting, just off to the side). Santi says he loves her, he loves her, he just needed that push to help him make the correct decision, and she did it! Pat is softly saying adios to Candy a few feet away. Candy says we have to leave, now. But Santi wants to marry Candy, now! They have the church, everything’s ready, let’s take advantage of it! Meño runs up, saying he knew the phone call had to be Candy, but they’d better get out of there, there would be big trouble if they went back into the church. So they do flee, and Meño is happy, but as he turns back to the church, Alicia is looking right at him, she saw the whole thing! After Raúl comes out, Meño says Santi went thataway (the wrong way), but advises Raúl to look after his sister. Meño then confronts Alicia, hopes she’ll keep quiet about this. Alicia’s not so sure, even after Meño reminds her it’s better for her if Santiago goes with Candy (because Pat’s crazy about Candy), Alicia contemplates the power of secret knowledge.

On the bench outside the church, Barb is consoling Mari, Raúl says the wedding was suspended, but the padre can start it up when Santi returns, to which Jaime says “you think he’s coming back?”, Mari faints, everyone’s upset, but Barb sees that Mari is faking, and tells everyone not to worry.

And sure enough, Mariloca is not down, she’s just getting started, she bursts into (I think Santi’s) house, telling Raúl he did nothing, just stood there, he tries to calm her down, they don’t know what’s happening yet, she flings open the upstairs window, curses Candy, screams she knows what happened, you don’t really think there was a dying patient, give me a break! She calms a bit, reminds Raúl she had a plan, right? Sure, get married and leave Santiago. Well, she says, she’s not married yet, so the plan’s not over. But your fiancé left. No, it’s not over. Raúl pleads for her to be reasonable, but she tells him to shut up and hurls her flowers out the second floor window. He calms her down, tells her maybe the game isn’t over yet, let’s not show our cards. Can you act sad, hurt? She wipes her eyes and says yes.

After the commercial, Pat, alone, slowly enters the now vacant church. (I’m really feeling for him at this point. He sacrificed himself for Candy). The padre asks if he can help. Pat wonders if he can do a miracle. No, but God can. Pat feels alone. The padre tells how when Jesus was on the cross, there were only three people there, Mary Magdalene, the Virgin Mary and Saint John. Jesus cried “Father, why have you abandoned me”. So he was alone?, asks Pat. No, God heard his call, and from that day, none of us is ever alone. God is always with us. Pat tells the padre he let the woman he loved most in the world go. He had wounded her, but now, all he cares about is for her to be happy. As the padre leaves, Pat looks up at the picture of Jesus, who sacrificed himself as well.

Back at Candy’s house, Santi wants to go back to the church and get married. Candy doesn’t. Santi thanks her for the push, for waking him up, but Candy tells him she did it for him, not for herself, or for them. She explains how she heard Mari say she was going to abandon Santiago, and take away the baby. She stopped the wedding so Santi wouldn’t suffer, so he could protect his son. Are you sure? Candy is completely sure, she would never play around with such a sensitive topic. Santi knows Mari’s a little weird at times, but he can’t believe she would do something like this. He asks for more specifics about the baby, and Candy relates what Mari said, that she would never let Santi know his son. Santi starts to get mad about all this, stands up, but Candy calms him down, you have to consider carefully what you’re going to do. When Santi starts to stroke her cheek, she adds that now is not the moment to think about us.

Santi’s phone rings, it’s Isabel, but he doesn’t want to answer until he knows what he’s going to do. Isa leaves him a message of support, but wants him to come home. She and Jaime discuss the situation, Isa pointing out that Mari already knew Santi’s feelings. Donato enters, muy preocupado, downs a glass of champagne in one gulp, says Señora Alicia is in the study, looking like trouble!

Cut to Raúl and Mariloca in the study, as Alicia tells them she saw Candy and Santiago get into his car. Raúl, nostrils flaring, wants to go to Candy’s house and settle things!

And now it’s time for our mandatory humorous segment. Zamora and Toño aren’t letting their mariachi costumes go to waste. The whole band launches into song outside the house, where there are plenty of empty tables (and filled champagne glasses). Zamora sings about freeloaders (gorrones) and the need to empty the bottles. He pretends Toño is the novia, puts some flowers on his head, and they cut a slice of the wedding cake to celebrate as the musicians call out beso, beso (kiss, kiss)!

Meño is advising Candy and Santi to leave the house, this is precisely where the others will look for them! Santi thinks no one saw them, but Meño tells him that Alicia did. Just then the doorbell rings. Santi wants to confront the situation, but is convinced to go upstairs with Meño, while Candy answers the door. It’s Raúl, demanding to see Santiago. Candy coolly lies that Santi is not there. Raúl tells her that Alicia saw them leave, it was very easy to deduce that Santiago is, in fact here, get him! Upstairs, Santi is also mad, wants to stand up to Raúl, tells Meño that Raúl knew about Mari’s plan, Santi is pretty hot about this. Fine, says Meño, go break his shnozz (rompale el hocico). But that would have repercussions (repercutir) for the matter of your son. It’s better to stay calm, not let them have an advantage (it seems as if this staying calm so as not to let the other side know what is happening is takng place on about 3 fronts tonight). Santi calms down, absentmindedly grabs Meño’s little cushion on the bed, Meño jokes about it.

Downstairs, Candy tells Raúl Santi is not there, and she wasn’t at the church, her sister is a liar. Why would Alicia lie? Because she hates me. I don’t know where Santi is, instead of coming screaming at my door, why don’t you go console your sister, and pushes him out, slamming the door after him.

Upstairs, Santi is telling Meño he’s not a robot, he has feelings. So does Meño, but one has to act with intelligence. They’re standing in front of the closed door, and right after the word “intelligence”, Candy pushes it open, Meño falls into Santi’s arms, and they crash together onto Meño’s bed in a very compromising position. Meño says to Candy “Would you believe me if I said I was just consoling him?” (Ha ha, the Laurel and Hardy music plays, Candy observing with an amused look).

Next we see Rocío, very cute in her orange dress and matching purse, flanked by Beto and Chava, equally cute in their suits and ties, running down the outside stairs into the garden, where they are greeted by the sight of 10, apparently dead cake-faced mariachis. When Rocío touches Zamora’s mustache, he snorts and wakens, causing the kids to scurry off. Donato tries to rouse all the drunks, who apparently took their song about the freeloaders and empty bottles a little too seriously. The kids joke a little more about their marriage plans, still baffled as to where Santi went.

Inside, more hijinks, as Charly is camcording Lucía. He tells her he borrowed the camera from his boss (might actually be Meño, since he calls him jefe), telling him he wanted to be a movie director, and was going to practice at the wedding, but that plan didn’t exactly work out. Lucía remarks that her uncle ran out of that church just like in a novela (lol!). Charly hopes Candy was outside, but for now, he wants to practice his cinematic art on Lucía some more, although she’s not really in the mood. He starts talking to her like a model, telling her how beautiful she is, he pans down her legs, she smiles, tells him he’s a clown, he tells her she’s pretty, she hides, he finds her, he has her pose at the piano, she doesn’t play, but she pretends to, they’re very cute.

At the hotel, Pat is sitting on the floor, arms on knees, chin buried in arms, as Alicia quietly asks if she can come in. She sits next to him, as he laments the loss of Candy, but guesses that Candy is happy now. Alicia agrees, adding that Candy doesn’t love him. Pat feels like a fool, does that make Alicia happy? No, not at all. It greatly upsets her, she wants to do something, anything, to make Pat happy. He wants to be alone. She says okay, and goes to the other side of the room, sits on the sofa, as Pat silently weeps.

Meño and Candy are debating what to do. Santi wants to go home, Candy says she can’t stop him, Meño says she’s the only one who CAN stop him, tell him it’s for the good of his son. Santiago, however, is up and on his way out the door. Candy tells him wait, think about things, for your son, Santiago says that’s why he HAS to go, Marissa’s not a terrorist (we hope!). Candy suggests going to the Institute, when Santi’s phone rings, it’s his daughter Rocío. He answers. But as soon as Rocío asks where are you Daddy?, a raging Mariloca rips the phone from her hand, pushing Rocío away, yelling for her to get out, starts screaming into the phone, where are you, damn you! She runs into the garden, yelling answer me you idiot! She grabs the four-foot high wedding cake and drags it down with all her might, gasping into the phone, “Answer, you bastard, answer!” She knocks over flowers, screaming into the phone, alone in her wedding dress, surrounded by empty tables, overturned flowers, as Santi hangs up, and he and Candy exchange shocked looks.

And that’s it! We’ll have to wait until Monday for the repercusiónes.

I just want to give a special thank you to Paula H., who had already translated several of the key scenes of tonight’s episode, and generously shared her files with me.

Vocabulario:

Resbalado – slippery
Desechable – disposable
Arrepentido – regretful
Matadero – slaugherhouse
A medias – halfway
Gorrones – freeloaders
Rompale el hocico – break his snout, or nose
Repercutir- to have repercussions or effects

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