Caray, Caray!

Wow I just opened up the word document from the last time I recapped, it was the night Liliana was kidnapped trying to get back into the manicomio while the three stooges spent 20 minutes talking before going outside to look for her. That feels like a year ago. On with the show –

Anibal puts on a great act of being so nice, a loving husband, polite and friendly to the help, then announces that the baby is a boy! His name will be Vladimir! I was waiting for someone to ask why that name, since they all knew Vladimir Sr. at work and how he got fired, etc, but they were all too stupid to ask. Well, not Fernanda, but she is keeping her mouth shut about everything now.

Gardenia shows up at Jacinto and Margarita’s house to find Flor there, the two Lactos employees (Gardenia even makes the lame Lactos uniform look sexy) accuse each other of being the more chismosa. After Gardenia yells at Flor for wanting to tell Fernanda about Fr/Ed’s true identity, Flor says “yeah well SHE WAS KISSING EDUARDO” and runs out to go back to work.

Anibal is cracking me up with his nice guy act, it’s the first time I’ve ever enjoyed his character. Pris gets a call, Anibal takes the phone and sees the caller ID and asks out loud, “why is Damian calling you?” She then HAS to take the call since she got called out, she tries to hint to Damian that she can’t talk right now. He demands help from her to get out of some of his problems. She says she’ll talk to him later. Fernanda asks what Damian wanted, Pris says to tell her about his marriage ending. Fernanda says “oh I didn’t realize you two were such good friends!” Busted.

Fr/Ed wants to tell Fernanda that Lily is ok, but Esteve wisely says it’s a bad idea. It is a bad idea, because then he’d have to tell HOW he saw her, etc. They discuss whether Fr/Ed should just tell Fernanda everything about his deal with Barbara then, so she can know about Lily. Fr/Ed says his plan is to rescue Lily, then run away with Erika to start over somewhere else. Esteve says the only way he is going to win back the total confidence of Fernanda is to tell her everything about his deal with La Hiena.

Barbara pretends to care about Fernanda’s marriage trouble, she tells Gonzalo that perhaps Fer and Damian should go to couple’s therapy. Gonzalo says no, butt out, he promised to stay out of it so she should too.

While Fernanda is giving instructions to another servant to clean Santiago’s room but leave it the same for when he returns (someday), Tomasa tells her that she has two visitors, Erika and Flor. She goes to see Flor first, who tells her she has to tell her something URGENT. This guarantees that it will take forever to actually tell. She will tell her how urgent it is 50 times, but then not actually tell her. I’m having Querida Enemiga Alonso/Lorena flashbacks.

Barbara tells Damian by phone to string his marriage along for a few more months. He says he has tried everything but can’t do it!

I was right – since Flor took so long telling Fernanda how urgent her news was, Erika got bored and came looking for Fernanda and interrupts. Fernanda then tells Flor to wait, even though she knows Flor has URGENT news, while she goes to hear what Erika has to tell her. While Flor is waiting in the main room, Barbara comes down the stairs. Flor hides under the stairs so Barbara doesn’t see her.

Erika’s big important news is to deliver Fernanda’s wedding invitation. Fer doesn’t really care. She ends up telling Erika that she and Damian are through.

Damian is at his cousin Jacobo’s office, he grabs him by the shirt and tells him to fix this legal problem, he refuses to go back to jail!

Fernanda doesn’t want to get into the Damian story with Erika, it’s a long story.

Loavely calls Camilo to tease him and try to lead him on, he blows her off and hangs up. She vows revenge. Martina rolls her eyes, as do I.

Since Fernanda said she WASN’T going to talk about Damian, of course she talks about Damian. She says there is zero chance of fixing the relationship, that’s why she gave up on it. She feels good now. Erika leaves, now it’s Flor’s turn. Flor tells her AGAIN how urgent it is, then gets up to close the door, then wastes more time. Of course, the door bursts open, it’s Erika again, and look who’s here! Franco! Fer obviously doesn’t care. Fr/Ed’s phone rings, it’s Jacinto telling him that Flor is going to tell Fer his true identity. Fr/Ed mildly panics. He hangs up and very smoothly gets the group separated, sending Erika with Fernanda to get some blueprints from the Lactos office and offering to take Flor back to work himself. Flor looks worried.

At the Elizalde country house, Barbara arrives to meet up with Damian (I don’t remember hearing them plan to meet there, but they are both there). The little girl asks Barbara if she knows where grandpa is, he hasn’t been seen in days and they are thinking about calling the cops. Barb remembers kicking him down the hill. She lies to the girl and says he told her he was going to go visit some relatives. The girl immediately believes her and goes back inside. Barb asks Damian how Fernanda found out about his legal problem. Damian says for sure it was his cousin.

Eduardo tells Flor that if she reveals his identity, she will be putting Lily in danger.

Jacinto and Margarita sit and worry.

Ed wants to know why when the Elizaldes, Camilo and Anibal and Barbara, all lie and cheat and manipulate nobody says anything, but when he, the son of the cook, has a secret all of a sudden all must be revealed? He rants on about class unfairness for a bit. He says he no longer wants revenge but by the time he realized it Franco Santoro was in place and it was too late. He has to continue on to save Liliana. He doesn’t think he’ll ever tell Fernanda the truth because she’ll never forgive him. Flor is convinced to not tell Fernanda about his identity.

Erika suggest Esteve as a galan for Fernanda, Fernanda hits her and says NO WAY. Dang huge diss on Esteve. He’ll have to comfort himself by rolling around with 10/10 Venus. Poor guy. Erika confesses that Fr/Ed doesn’t seem to be forgetting about his past love like she had hoped he would, she’s becoming a bit worried about it. Of course Fernanda is interested in that but can’t say anything.

Flor tells Fr/Ed that if Eduardo were to show up and offer his love, Fernanda never forgot him and would go against anything her family said to be with him.

Damian is sure that Fernanda hasn’t said anything to Barbara about Damian because she must have some plan.

Fr/Ed remembers his talk long ago where Fernanda said she would feel hate for Eduardo if he showed up again. He tells Flor that Fernanda would not welcome Eduardo anymore, she would hate him.

Fernanda is sure all will turn out ok with Liliana, Erika shouldn’t worry about it. Erika says again that Fernanda will need a man in her life, then confesses that she is just DYING to hit the sheets with Franco. Fernanda is aghast! The things you think about Erika! Puhleeze, like she hasn’t had daydreams about it for weeks. Or a week. Or however much time has actually passed on this show.

Flor begs Fr/Ed to help Fernanda defeat Barbara, Fr/Ed says that’s what he is doing. She says that even as Franco Santoro, he owns Fernanda’s heart – her eyes light up whenever he’s around. He says even that way isn’t possible, the truth will come out some day and she would never forgive him.

Barbara tells Damian to find a place to hide out, he is under her protection. This, obviously, doesn’t comfort him. She wants everything cool for a bit while Gonzalo puts all his stuff in her name, she doesn’t want anything to mess that up. Damian is worried she will screw him over like she did before. They decide again that Fernanda won’t say anything to anyone, especially Gonzalo, because she must have some plan. Damian asks why he doesn’t just disappear now, Barbara says she needs his help with something.

Aurora sings to herself… dammit I thought I had won the lottery and had an Aurora-free night. She tells the nun that she’s so happy, she did the right thing by completely denying a very kind, loving, and generous man the right to know his own child. How thoughtful and Christian of you Aurora! Ugh.

Barbara tells Damian to go to the convent and pretend to be Santiago’s best friend in order to get Aurora out of there.

Tomorrow – hopefully Barbara will have a good excuse as to why she is interested in Aurora, surely Damian will want to know. I’m sure she won’t tell him that she once shot him in the leg to get RID of Aurora, now it was all a waste. Also – Fr/Ed finds out that Damian is out of the picture.

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