Caray, Caray!

• Esteve eggs Fr/Ed on, assuring him Fer will be eager to make things right, and she doesn't think like her torpid (heh) brothers, so ask her out already!
  
  After getting a safe installed in a closet in order to protect his precious stuff, Fr/Ed asks where his mother's things are. Jacinto sez they're in Gardenia's closet.
  
  Then Fr/Ed calls Fer and asks her to come over for dinner. She reminds him their relationship is just biz, so why not meet at the office? He sez no, there are special things, only about you, which must be told in a private way.
  
  She gets all hot and flustered when he turns up the sexy. We don't get her answer.
  
  
• Vlad tells Prisila: Anibal interviewed him for only five minutes, asked only two questions, and then gave him the job. So now Vlad can spy around and find the papers pertaining to Prisila's squandered fortune.
  
  Pris sez, I complied with my end of the deal, now tell me: who told you about all this?
  
  Vlad is such a pathetic liar. He tries to distract her, first with a french fry and then with chocolate, and then by calling her gordita [which means little fatty, and I myself would not care for that endearment one little bit.] Pris persists and says, "It WAS Damian wasn't it! He's your best friend."
  
  She hammers away and Vlad stammers away and finally he very unconvincingly says, "It wasn't Damian it was uh, uh, uh, Flor! But she thinks the world of you so don't make trouble for her." Pris doesn't believe him and flounces out.
  
  
• Gardenia is curious to see what Fr/Ed has in the small bundle sent from America. She is surprised he has so little stuff. "Oh this isn't all my things, it's just the most important things..."
  
  He shows her a pic of him with his mommy; the letters from mommy; a picture Margarita drew for him; one of those Lone Ranger mementos from Jacinto; and - and - of course, the letter Gardenia wrote him. "See, the letter you gave me the day I left, I kept it all this time, now do you believe you are very important to me?"
  
  She cries and reads it: "... and when we're big we'll be sweethearts - and your ma will live with us till she's way old - don't forget me." She cries some more and asks if it was really important to him. "Yes it helped when I felt so alone. I didn't forget you. But understand, not all loves are equal. The soul chooses - and my soul chose that you would be my little sister. I'd give my life for you." [This was a very sweet little speech.]
  
  She asks about Fer. "She was the love of my childhood, but it's over, she's married." "But her husband abandoned her." "But she's married." I think Gardenia said, "but things are different in Gringolandia...?"
  
  He changes the subject and asks her to bring him his mother's things. He tells himself after Gardenia leaves (as if we could have forgotten): "Oh, how I long to find Fer's old letters."
  
  
• Santiago and Aurora do a lot of sweet gambolling about on the fake grass. He spouts about princesses and castles, and having her ride a horse to the wedding; she says she'd rather walk, and moans, oh how she wishes she had some family to walk her down the aisle at their wedding.
  
  He suggests they invite Dominga. She shudders at that notion, but thinks Dominga knows where her mother is.
  
  Oh well. Santi and Aurora say they'll be in love till they're way old and cuddle on the Astroturf some more.
  
  From his ogling-post in the giant ferns, Cadmilo looks up Aurora's skirt. He puts his sunglasses up and then down and then up again to see which way results in a more penetrating perspective.
  
  If Becky were still recapping she'd point out there's an anvil over this sweet scene...
  
  
• Relatives? Anvils? Be careful what you wish for. Turns out Aurora left her (white) pocketbook in the dining room, so of course Barbara rooted through it. She found coins, opens Aurora's lipstick(?), then of course finds the "R. S." handkerchief, breathes, "Rebeca Sanchez," folds down into a chair muy impactada into the commercial, cries, stuffs the handkerchief into her (black) pocketbook and rushes off to see Cigarman.
  
  Cigarman asks where she got the handkerchief. "From a girl who's at the hacienda. You gave this to me when I was 15 years old!"
  
  Cigarman refuses to answer any questions, suggests theft and coincidence. Barbara entions the girl's name is Aurora and Cigarman is impactado. "Yes, and she's 20 years old, the age my child..." "Your child died at birth!"
  
  Rebeca: "Then how do you explain her having it?" "Somebody who was in my service... you don't get to make any requests or demands. I'll investigate." "You told me there were no remaining traces of Rebeca Sanchez!" "OK, I was wrong. But I'll correct it. Just get her out of the hacienda and I'll take care of her." She wrinkles her nose and leaves. He swears furiously and slams the table.
  
  
• Dominga is dumping Aurora's laundry all over and swearing when - ruh roh - Cigarman calls. He asks her where Aurora is, but before she has time to make up a lie he says: "I know where she is, she's at the Elizalde hacienda, go get her." "I'm so embarrassed. I'll get her back and then bury her in stone and mud." [It went by sort of quickly, I'm not sure if she actually meant bury her or just lock her up again.] "Do it, or you'll be the dead one."
  
  
• Aurora comes back in the dining room and is glad to find her pocketbook. Cadmilo appears, he is SO disgusting, he tries to whine his way into her good graces, obtain her sympathy: "Nobody loves me around here, only mama loved me, but now you're great, it's so nice to have somebody to talk to, you can count on me for anything."
  
  Santiago enters and hugs his fiancee. Cadmilo: "Oh you two are just the sweetest thing." He's surprised to hear they're getting married but makes a show of being nice. Santiago is suspicious.
  
  
• Villa Madero: Fr/Ed has come to find Jairo in the Bad Love Bar. Jacinto joins him so he doesn't have to beard the lion alone. [Why is Fr/Ed wearing this dumb striped shirt? My brothers wore these shirts when they were 8 years old.]
  
  A whore shows them into Jairo's office. Jairo's tippling because, well because he's a drunk but also because Cigarman has just threatened him hard, croaking "You've got twelve hours, no more, to tell everything that Manzanares investigated."
  
  Jairo bluffs to himself that he's not afraid but jumps guiltily at Fr/Ed and Jacinto's entrance.
  
  He tells them he's very busy. Fr/Ed: "Yes, your time is pretty full, what with all that violating of houses and women. Something of mine is lost, and I think you have it. I'll come to the point, you and Lucio and Manzanares robbed me and almost raped my assistant, then you killed Manzanares." "What are you saying," Jairo manages feebly.
  
  "Jairo, you have too many problems not to cooperate, homicide's no small matter." "Collaborate? You're not the police." "No, if we were the police you'd be in handcuffs."
  
  Jairo pulls a gun and waves it around in a couple of scenes and refuses to tell them anything. "Don't shoot the only person who can help you, I haven't filed a complaint, what was taken from my house?" Jairo suggests he'll make problems for Silvestre and Fr/Ed says he'll be a dead man if he does.
  
  They leave, Jairo staggers, it appears this was all just so Fr/Ed could find out if Jairo knew about his real identity. Conclusion: no! And neither does Cad, because if he did, the Hyena would know too. Fr/Ed has dodged a bullet, or quite a few.
  
  
• Silvestre is discharged from the doctor's care with Margarita to take him home. This is the doctor who's sweet on Martina and he sighs thinking about her. And why do we care about this?
  
  
• Martina is trying to interest Lili in crocheting but Lili, sitting on her insane asylum bed with her legs pulled up tight, just says "Eduardo, Eduardo..."

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