Caray, Caray!

We open with the race car driver all of a sudden deciding he wants to take boxing lessons and showing up at precisely the training center where Moni trains (because of course in this huge city there is no other place he could have gone and we all know this one simply must be near his million dollar home and equally close to the pueblo where our poor barrio folks train…and it ..oh never mind). Moni sees him and ducks behind Don Cesar prompting him to wonder why she is so affectionate.

Gabi approaches Sal about the red floss, she yells at him first saying this changes everything, but she likes the change and tells him he has free range to do with her what she will. Of course just then wifey dearest comes in and wonders que the hell. She ends up insulting Gabi and asking for a divorce before she wanders out and thanks Jero on his way in for opening her eyes to them being lovers.

The next scene is at the new school where it looks like Aldo and Conni’s sis Katia will get to see each other all the time because she goes there to. Conni tells them, ok they are signed up, but Dani is missing. Luisa comes back with her and she has the cutest little kitty cat. I hope she’s not squeezing it tooo tight, poor little thing. She wants to take it home but Conni says she’s allergic and can’t stand for the thing to be around and pulls (ha, pun) the old pulling of the ear trick to make her drop it. Luisa of course doesn’t like this physicality one bit and yells at Conni.

OK this woman can never redeem herself in my eyes. Anyone who dislikes a cute little kitten like that bleeds ice. She is first on my horrible death list for this novela. Gouge her eyes out I say…


Moni tells Estre Mau showed up.

Turns out Mau shows up to find her. She says he can’t come unannounced. The end result is he sees her with a raspberry and thinks she’s being smacked around by her boyfriend. He demands to know if it was the guy he saw her with and she swears Beto is her brother. That makes possible abuse much better indeed. Of course on cue said bro knocks.

Sal and Gabi argue about the “incident”

Beto shows up and comments on her hair and asks for money for the boss. Mona hides Mau who hears everything and thinks it’s strange that a brother cares about his sis’s hair.

Back at the house Mau hears Aldo laying into Conni and wants to know what happened. He learns what Conni did to Dani, but he sends the kids off for dinner and pretty much lets her off easy by telling her the kids don’t hate her she just needs a little patience. She smells him and wonders where he was. He says he with with Tano and on the weekend they’ll go like a family to the Kartodromo.

At said Kartodromo Mau tells Tano of his concern that Mona is being beat. The abominable snowman, club version, shows up with Rolu nemesis and sours the scene a bit. Later Mau wants to know why she brought him and she tells him he’ll have to get used to him because one day she’s going to marry him. Mau tells her the only reason he’s with her is to annoy him, she’s blind. She gets all offended and upset that he thinks she can’t get a guy to like her for who she is. They end up agreeing that he’ll tolerate the hellman if she’ll be careful with him. She loves her primoguchis.

Cesar tells Mona he’s arranged her first fight. Beto is all excited because this means he won’t have ot go to work like she just asked of him. She’s not sure she’s ready and thinks she wants to wait for some more training. Beto keeps interrupting and Cesar tells him to stuff it and only she can say when to fight.

Club music as we watch everyone zip around the course at molasses speed. Whooo hooo!

Estre shows up to the gym and sucking out all their testosterone and spilling it all over the floor.

She ends up listening in to Don C’s call to Mau telling him he’s got someone ot teach him boxing classes. And so she finds out why he was there.

Back at the track, Everyone is hungry but Danni is begging for another lap. He takes her then Rolu comes up fast behind them and stops short in front scaring her. This almost leads to a fist fight. Mau gets one punch in before everyone freaks out and Rolu backs off. Tano takes his chance to yell at Xime too that Rolu is using her. She says who are you to me, we are nothing. He says yeah, but you still matter. Rolu says his course is nice, too bad his cars are toys.

Back at the gym Estre tells her of the boxing lessons, and pitches that if she doesn’t love Beto she should give Mau a chance.

At mau’s home he puts the kids to baths and fends off Con who wants to hang with him for a little bit. He tells her to go, he’s tired and wants to go to bed. She says ok, if that’s what you want. No sooner does she exit stage left then he is calling Mona who is in her pjs to go eat dinner.

WE then get a montage of him singing in Garibaldi square very much off key “si nos Dejan” and they eat taquitos and all. He’s not a singer, but I suppose I can cut him some slack, it might be a bit much to ask an Argentino to sing mariachi. Oh well. Clearly they have a great humble time together.

Uh oh, ice veins Coni calls and hears from Tere he’s gone. She gets mad at Tere and can’t believe he’s not home. They fight about respecting each other.

We see Mona and he eating esquites con tuetano (essentially corn and cheese and toppings) wandering on the street. He wonders if her bf likes these things.

Coni makes a pact with the devil Jero to get rid of Mona. He just wants payment of the flesh, she doesn’t go for it though and leaves.

On their walk home they talk about the rich and the poor and who doesn’t like who and he tells her he’s going to learn boxing, where her brother does, but she knows nothing about it. They kiss each other on the cheek…so cute.

Moni is looking at a photo from their outing and Estr runs up and wonders where the hell she’s been because they had to take Nieves to the doc.

In the other house who’s waiting for Mau but ice veins when he gets home. He says he had an emergency. For some reason that satisfies her and she has absolutely no interest in knowing what it was. He cares for her of course. They kiss and she thinks he was eating esquites. Alright this I'm starting side with Conni, but not really because she hates kitties....

Back at the barrio the chicas are off to work. Beto checks out Paula just a little too much.

Conni and Xime are going somewhere and Consti is trying to get out of a parking space. They argue about what she is going to do to get the monkey off her back. She says she’s going to see someone who can take care of it for her. Xime tries to talk her out of it, that she is Jero but with a skirt and these things always turn out bad. Just then it looks like they almost run over Beto. He says hello and Conni gets a scary smile.

Mau goes to the barrio. He’s not looking for Mona, he seeks Este to get intelligence on Mona . She has to go to an audition, but he wants to know if the boyfriend hits her. Ester tells him no way. Later Estre calls and tells Moni what happened.

Moni all angry goes into Mau’s office and busts him why is he following her. He denies everything. She leaves him the envelope with the picture of them. He opens and wonders what she is doing with tests. She realizes she took the wrong envelope.

Xime and Con are having lunch and Xime knows that guy was the avenger. She starts teasing her. Just then said avenger shows up. Conni asks for him to do a big favor. She notes that he is a fighter used to punches. She tells him there’s someone annoying her. He asks who does he have to kill? Kill she says? And that’s it for tonight…

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