Caray, Caray!

Ferro wrote: I apologize profusely, readers, but I am quite under the weather and won't be able to put up a recap tonight. Whoever wishes, please feel free to leave comments with what happened tonight, tomorrow if I feel better I'll copy anything recap-ish into the main post. Sorry again and thanks for understanding.
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Ferro, I hope you don't mind, I hope I'm not being presumptious, I'm writing an emergency recap. This is bare-bones, and I'm just writing what I caught on the first pass. Readers, don't be afraid to correct anything I heard wrong, or to add any important points I missed. It ain't pretty, but it's functional.
-Paula

At Rene’s grave, Lucio threatens Gardenia, waving his gun at her. She is beside herself in panic. Grasping at any hope, she tells him, “I have a secret about Franco Santoro.”

Margarita and Jacinto. Margarita misses Gardenia, because she has stayed away since they fought. Jacinto leaves the house to go find Gardenia and make things right.

In her room, Aurora changes into her jammies. Cad quietly opens the door a crack and leers at her in her undies. He says under his breath, “You’re not bad at all.”

Ed is reflecting on his day. Fernanda was right there so recently, and already he misses her. He says aloud that he loves her so much.

In her room in the big house, Fernanda almost hears him. She is fretting about what she will wear for their meeting/date tomorrow. Smart Nanda shows up and points out that Dumb Nanda sure is worried about looking good for a business associate. Admit it, she says, you want to please him. Dumb Nanda claims it’s just because Franco knew Ed, and talking to him makes her feel closer to Ed.

Damian with his mama. He tells her he’s innocent, and the Elizaldes set him up. She says he should go to the police. He says the family would make sure he takes the fall, and he’d go to jail. Mama says Fernanda loves him. Dam demands to do things his way, and orders his mama to keep silent about him.

Lucio with Gardenia at the grave. She tells him that she has an important document about Franco. Lucio keeps terrorizing her with the gun, and she’s sure she’s about to die. Just then, KABLAM, Lucio gets a shovel to the head, thanks to Jacinto, and falls into the grave next to Rene. But it looks like he’s still breathing.

Ed considers his course of action. He recalls that Ciro told him the white king’s head will give him the weapons he needs for battle. And the letter from his mother has his mission. His mission is to free Lil, and in the process he will free Ciro. It was his mother’s last wish. He needs Ciro’s money so he is equipped for the battle. He cinches up his calzones and determines to accept his mission. The first thing he needs is his passport to get the money, but when he looks for it, he discovers it has been taken.

Jacinto takes Gardenia back to the house. She’s crying a lot. She’s overwhelmed because, had Jacinto not shown up in time, she’d be dead right now. She tells them about her very bad day. The three men abducting her, Rene breaking into the house, Lucio tried to rape her, Rene saved her, and the shooting.

Fr. Rumpole, at his desk, realizes that it’s midnight and Rene still hasn’t arrived. Something must have happened to him. Yeah, I’d say.

At Jacinto’s house, Margarita and Gardenia make up. She tells them she found the passport on Rene’s corpse. She’s angry because Margarita and Jacinto kept the secret from her. Jacinto says it’s a matter of life and death. What do they do now? Margarita wants to go to the police. Gardenia wants to go to Ed’s house. Jacinto says it’s a dangerous night. When Lucio comes to, he might try to kill her again. Nobody’s going nowhere tonight.

In the morning, Lucio uses his gun to convince Tomasa to go waken Barbara. Barb tells Luc to get lost. “We talk when I want to talk, not when you want to.” Luc pulls the gun on Barbara and orders her to listen.

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Lucio wants money from Barbara. She tells him she doesn’t have that kind of money at the house. He waves the gun in her face and says that if he doesn’t get it he’ll shoot her. That helps her remember that there is money in the safe in the library.

At Las Animas, Ed is ostensibly doing his morning work-out. He’s actually doing what Japanese Anime calls Fan Service - content that has nothing to do with the plot, but it gives the audience a thrill. But hey, I’m not complaining! Maybe it was meant to be educational. An anatomy lesson on all the upper body muscle groups.

Tomasa comes into the kitchen to say that Gonzo is up and he’s in the library. Lucio swaps hostages. He says if Barb doesn’t come back in five minutes, he’ll kill Tomasa. Barb pretends to care.

Margarita can’t believe Gardenia’s going back to Las Animas. Isn’t she afraid Lucio will find her? Gardenia is determined to ask Ed why he never answered the letter she wrote him when he got sent away to school.

Ed comes to breakfast. Steve reports that Gardenia never came home. Ed reports that his passport is gone. Steve thinks Camilo took it when he broke in, but Ed says Jacinto was with him the whole time.

Erika comes to invite Franco to go riding to the club. Ed says he has an appointment. Steve asks if Franco has told her about the party yet. Steve says that she was the first one Franco wanted to invite. Ed squirms. Erika asks if she’ll be going as his pareja (date? partner?). When Erika leaves, Ed is mad at Steve for creating problems with Fernanda. Steve says it’s strategy – it will wake up the jealousy and show how she really feels. Ed is ready to call off the party, but Steve tells him the party is no game. It’s an important battleground in their war.

Lucio keeps threatening the crying Tomasa, while Barbara is upstairs lazily brushing her hair. When she comes down to the kitchen, she says Gonzo was in the library so she couldn’t get to the safe. Instead she gives him a diamond necklace and says this should keep food on his table for ten years.

Gardenia comes home. (I’m not sure I understood this scene.) She’s ready to leave her job because he never gives her any work to do. He says she’s there in case he needs her. Her job is to wait. With fire in her eyes, she asks, “What is Eduardo Juarez’ job?”

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Ed and Fernanda have a date in the barn. The barn won’t be used for the community center – the look Ed gave Fernanda was so hot, the barn caught fire!

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