Caray, Caray!

• Fer cries a little listening to the tape of her sister saying she's never coming back.
  
  
• Lili explains to Cero: "La Hiena said it would keep my dad calm if I said this! And it's true, I don't want to go back, let's you and I stay here together." Cero: "But Barbara knows where you are." "But I feel safe here." "You think the son of Ana Gregoria will take care of you."
  
  
• In a repetitive set of scenes, Fr/Ed feeds Barbara's line to Fer: that they should not get the police involved, it will just complicate things, better they should find a private specialist who could listen to the tape and ascertain if Lili spoke under duress and if she's really ok. Fer is shocked and upset he is taking this position. They both seem to think it's Obregon who has Lili.
  
  
• Cero reads Ana's words to Lili: "For fear, I didn't go back to the hacienda, sure that Cristeta would have told my mistress what she saw in the workroom. I didn't even dare write what happened. A few days ago the mistress sent Soledad to find me, but I pretended I was sick and said I'd be back when I felt better.
  
  "Yesterday I saw "el patron" in the horse ring, but I didn't approach him - I didn't dare look him in the face, I would die as I died in his arms."
  
  "Then, Ana Gregoria was in love with Grampa Jerónimo?" Lili breathes wonderingly. "Yes," says Cero, "but the question is, was he in love too, or was it just a caprice?"
  
  Cero reads a little more - Ana is hiding in a cave, cold and frightened. "Her hell has come sooner than we imagined." He asks Lili if she's upset for Ana, or for her own hell. "She should never have gone back to the hacienda," Lili whispers, "like me."
  
  
• Daffy hears the tape. And finally he has an opinion of his own: it's time for the police. In a repetitive set of scenes, Daffy gets madder and madder and yells at Barbara that he will not agree to keep this in the family - because "we the inept" haven't been doing very well. She gets more frantic and he gets more determined. He yells at Flor to get the police on the phone, but the guy is out of his office.
  
  Later, Barb lays it on hard, trying to get Daffy to back down, but he is adamant, he will call the police. She tries her fake tears, she yells and says "you said we were a partnership and would decide everything jointly! You don't care about my feelings!" He says he's tired of being manipulated. Flor rings - there is a milk engineer to see him. Barb flounces out.
  
  
• Barb yells at Fr/Ed that the police must be kept away. Fr/Ed reluctantly agrees to enlist Fer's help in dissuading Daffy from going to the police.
  
  Fr/Ed starts pressing for the answer to an obvious question: "When did you see Lili?" Barb says she won't answer, "for my stepdaughter's sake."
  
  
• I was so bored by that scene, it was a relief to get out of the office to the horse ring, where Cam is riding in circles and Luffly is bored in the bleachers. Esteve calls and she tells him Cam wants to hold the wedding reception at the horse club. Esteve: "Have you forgotten we're teaching him a lesson? I want to be sure you don't go too far!" Luffly assures him she's on board with the plan, hangs up, and cheers Cam with fakey little nasal squeals.
  
  "Say hello to Kayser," Cam says proudly, and tells her to hop on board. She makes up some lie about falling off a horse when she was little. He says if she's going to marry an Arabian prince, she'll have to ride, so "get on, princess." They start to kiss, she pushes him away - she can't give him [the delicious surprises she has planned] here in the horse ring.
  
  
• Damian and Pris make a peevish pair. While Vladimir, somewhere, cuts a picture of Prisila out of a brochure and strokes it, saying "I love you, my angel," Prisila - who earlier called Fer, to the latter's surprise, asking if she could help at the artisan cheese fair - says she'll spy for Damian at the fair, Franco is sure to be there. She admits Damian has fulfilled his half of the bargain, Vlad hasn't been badgering her.
  
  Damian irritably lists all the things that are getting in his way: the cheese fair, the trouble with Aurora, the kidnapping.
  
  Pris hands him some contraceptives. She talks about exchanging them for sugar pills so Fer will get pregnant. Dam says Fer is a virgin, they haven't had sex yet. Pris says "Then she's not in love with you, accept it! When a person rejects sex, there is no love, I'm in a position to know that." He says he'll reconquer Fer and she will be his wife till the end of time.
  
  They talk a little about Rubiel and his visit to Lactos. Damian thinks his crooked cousin Jacobo will fix everything.
  
  
• Fer is surprised when Franco (in a particularly doting mood) comes into her office; she'd thought he'd left the building. She asks that he and Esteve come to the cheese fair, and he says they'll be there. She thanks him for his support. She cries, she's so sad that Lili doesn't want to see the family any more. "Now what did you come back to tell me?"
  
  "Fer, please help convince your dad not to involve the police!" She frowns.
  
  "If the police get involved everyone will find out I sprung Lili from the loony bin, and they'll lose confidence in me and I'll have to go - and I don't want to be separated from you. I want to be with you. I came back for Lili, but now I want to be - near you -" he takes her hand, "I want to be at your side. I can't forget what happened out at the country house. All my happiness is to be with you."
  
  "Why do you tell me this exactly now?" she asks, clearly moved. "I've been shouting to you in silence, but now, my fear of losing you forces me to say, I love you - " holds her hand - kisses her! [Nice kisses.] They kiss some more. Then -
  
  "Erika," Fer points out. And then we have the usual, "yes, well YOU are married." "yes, well YOU are GETTING married." He says he's profoundly in love with her (Fer), and piteously suggests, "I know all this, I love and respect you, just - let me stay close." "Till you marry Erika?"
  
  He admits he doesn't love Err but he's going to marry her anyway because he promised to when he was feeling so lost. "... and Damian mentioned a kid..."
  
  "We'd better change the subject," suggests Fer. Franco reiterates, he will do what it takes to get Lili back. Fer says she'll do what she can to deflect Daffy, because, "I don't want to lose you either." They cry in each other's arms.
  
  "We can't go through all this again. We're not kids, this isn't getting us anywhere." They are pulling themselves together when who should bop in unannounced but Errika! She's come to ask Fer to help her pick out wedding invitations because Fer has exquisite taste. Fer and Franco exchange pained looks as Errika twines her hand in his and gives him kisses.
  
  They tell Errika about Lili's kidnapping and lamely explain Fr/Ed is on the job trying to get Lili back.
  
  Fr/Ed bolts and Errika says cheerily, "If you weren't my best friend I'd think you were hitting on my fiance!"
  
  Fer tells Errika she needs to leave for a while. She goes to Daffy who is huffing and puffing with rage, he yells at Flor but it's really Barb, he admits, he's angry with, nobody obeys me! He really, really wants to call the police.
  
  Fer tries to calm him down before he does anything and quietly says she, too, thinks it's best not to have the police involved.
  
  
• Barb goes to Purificación to talk to the nuns - she asks for the Mother Superior.

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