Caray, Caray!

• There's Damian's pixy smile as Anibal is forced to accept his return to the business.
  
  Fer says she wouldn't be defending Damian if she weren't convinced of his innocence. Gonzo apologizes to Damian on behalf of the corporation.
  
  Anibal makes a last protest: he likes Vladimir, who has replaced Damian. Damian sez, you don't have to fire him, and besides, over time you will learn that I'm honest. Anibal objects, Damian pretends to leave, Gonzo calls him back and they shake. Damian: "Oh, one thing - we need a month for our honeymoon."
  
  Fer is not pleased about that. Anibal squeaks: "You just came back and already a vacation?" Damian's about to dig in for a fight when Fer announces, loudly, that she doesn't want to go on a honeymoon with him. She stomps out slamming the door. Damian follows. Gonzo is confused.
  
  Anibal says that marriage is not their major problem, the business is - and he begs his father not to put Damian in charge of finances, "It would be insanity!"
  
  
• When we last saw Fr/Ed he was at the end of his rope. "It doesn't matter that she was faithful so long - now, she's married... I can't face her!"
  
  Esteve says Fer is an important ally to "Franco" so "Eduardo" is just going to have to suck it up.
  
  Gardenia bounces in, all happy and cheery. "Last night I received these letters, Gardenia - did you leave them for me?" No, no, she says, in fact she swears on her word of honor and then, "Oh noes! I left milk on the stove" and she rushes out.
  
  For some reason they believe her and suspicion next settles on - Fernanda! Esteve postulates that she figured out Fr/Ed's real identity and left the letters to punish him. But how did she get them? Bla, bla, bla.
  
  
• Let's get Aurora out of the way. She is still sulking and won't tell Santi what's going on. He has found them a nice little place to live, just as she asked!
  
  "But you said you'd stay for Fer!" "Fer won't mind, I can still help her without being under the same roof, and we won't be very far away. Let's go see it right now!"
  
  Aurora says she can't - she has a date with Barbara to go shopping. Boy, is she a lousy liar. Barbara calls the witch and says Aurora's coming back in and must be pressured into telling everything - specifically, how she ended up with Rebeca Sanchez' handkerchief. The witch sounds willing to help out.
  
  
• Artemio Bravo thinks Babs is getting over-confident and the reappearance of Lili could spoil everything. Babs is confident she has them all in her fist and she'll prevail.
  
  
• Damian says he deserves an explanation. Fer yells that after he was gone so long without a word he has a nerve, pressuring her.
  
  Gonzo comes in, Damian backs out, bowing subserviently, love his pink tie. Daddy asks, "Daughter o' mine, what's going on? Is it because of Lili? Well you don't have to worry, because Obregon has reappeared and, as 'we' expected, has demanded money, but the important thing is, Lili is ok."
  
  Fer, knowing that in fact Lili is installed in a luxurious condo with Martina, chokes and doesn't know what to say. As her dad continues like the moron he is ("Barbara and I will take care of everything") Fer becomes more tongue-tied and finally runs out to her car and wishes it was Fr/Ed calling her, but it's Erica, so she doesn't answer.
  
  
• Yanking his mind from the Fernanda miseries, Fr/Ed remembers: Father Bosco told him only Silvestre the blacksmith, Martina's pappy, can solve the mystery of Ana Gregoria, mother to Artemio Bravo. Time to make a visit to the forge.
  
  
• Oh dear, your slack blog mom hasn't been paying the slightest attention to the subplot involving Vlad and these anonymous suits at Prisila's family's company and so I didn't catch what they were going on about when Vlad visited over there - hope somebody who's been paying more attention will fill us in...
  
  
• Damian tells Barbara they have to talk. She yanks him into her office. He asks why he should keep cooperating with her, she points out that if she changes her mind and denounces him again, he'll go down. He sees he's trapped. Her plan: he must catch his virgin bride making the beast with two backs with Franco Santoro so as to destroy her.
  
  Damian doesn't like hearing that his wife is in love with Franco, and he doesn't like this plan much either: "Well, Barby, you're just as putrid as they come!" "Yes, I am, and your knowing that will save us a lot of time! Anyway, I've put some money in your account, certainly not $3 mil, but a goodly sum."
  
  
• Erica isn't pleased that Fer isn't answering the phone. Her mother comes in with DELICIOUS YOGURT IN TWO FLAVORS. "Oh, this yogurt is so delicious!"
  
  They laugh that Fer is probably sleeping late after a night of love with her recently resurfaced husband. "Oh, I hope so," Erica chirps, "I want her to be perfectly happy, as I am with Franco." Her mother enumerates Franco's virtues. "Yes, ma, he's perfect, and - he loves me!"
  
  
• Fer goes to her old stamping grounds, looks at the tree where Eduardo watched her communion, remembers her kisses with Franco and his saying he wanted to marry her. "It was just words, lies."
  
  
• Martina and Fr/Ed visit Silvestre at his forge. She fusses, "Dad, you aren't supposed to be using your hammer!" "I'm old but not useless." They kiss, she leaves, he greets Fr/Ed and asks him for a little help. The actually helpful help Fr/Ed absent-mindedly provides is a giveaway...
  
  "Don Silvestre, I'm investigating the history of a woman by the name of Ana Gregoria Bravo - Father Bosco said you'd know about her..."
  
  Fr/Ed is half-heartedly pretending all these people are strangers to him but Silvestre points out: "In this village, there's only one person who could ever put his hand to my work, take metal from the fire - Eduardo Juarez! He was a good kid, and his mother, what a woman, I loved them a lot, a mountain." He teases Fr/Ed some more and then Fr/Ed confesses and they embrace. "I'm sorry about the lies." "Don't apologize, just tell me why you're hiding!"
  
  They thrash through the various miseries, Fr/Ed sez: his mother dying and the sequestration of Lili and all, it's enough! It has to end!
  
  We get this much of the story: Ana Gregoria worked at the hacienda until she was thrown out at the age of 15. The reason became evident: she was pregnant. She left town, she came back with dry, haunted eyes, and then there was a curse on the town, the cows didn't give milk and didn't give birth, then she left, and nobody knows what happened to her and her child.
  
  "And who was the father of the child?" Fr/Ed naturally asks.
  
  Sorry, you'll have to wait for some future episode to find the answer.

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