Caray, Caray!

(Roughly episode #47 on esmas.com)


Diana’s on the phone with a mystery person, asking for help and for him or her to come to her house.

At the hospital Macarena tells Paloma she’s going to get well, like she’s never seen, and from now on things are going to be different. She promises that Pal isn’t going to have problems with money, she’ll be able to study wherever she wants. Just trust me. . .it’s time for all the lies to be over and for the truth to come out. Paloma doesn’t understand. Macarena says she discovered things that are going to change their destiny.

Cristobal is on the phone with Padre Benito (from his old church) saying that Macarena is alive, there was no suicide, I’m not a killer. Padre Benito hopes it’s clear to Cris now why God sent him to Real del Monte--he wanted you to find peace once and for all. Cris wants to know why did Carlota lie, why didn’t Mac look for him? The padre advises Cris to pray and ask God for guidance to be able confront his past and resolve his doubts.

Liliana is at the dance club dancing with some guy--he tells her that he wants to get to know her better, and she agrees to his suggestion that they go out alone.

Ines and Angelica talk about Ange getting a new job--she needs something with a flexible schedule so she can finish writing her book. Ange thinks maybe she can do some private therapy sessions for awhile to get by.

Orlando and Camila are drinking wine and laughing (she seems kinda giddy), she hadn’t realized how much she needed this evening. They start dancing, he tells her that he loves her, and they kiss.

So, it turns out that the mystery person is Ines, who has arrived at Diana’s house. Diana doesn’t want Emiliano to hear them. . .

Ines: We had agreed that Gudelia would never reappear in either one of our lives.

Diana: And you think I want her to come back? For me Gudelia died, but not for him. And now Orlando is here, he’s Emiliano’s boss.

Ines: I told you that you couldn’t disappear off the face of the earth like you wanted, that sooner or later life was going to make you pay for all that you did.

Diana: What do I do? How do I hide from Orlando? You have to help me.

Ines: How? I don’t even know. I only know what you told me about him. If it wasn’t for that day that we met in that place where you went to drown your sorrows, in order to try to be different, we never would have been friends.

Diana: We kept a secret for a secret. You didn’t want your parents to know that you worked in that nightclub as Diana, the queen of the town. And since I needed to disappear as Gudelia, I took your name when your parents were about to discover you.

Ines: And that favor cost me dearly. I think it would have been better that my parents find out about my real job. In the end it was no sin to sing there. On the other hand, you were about to commit the worst of sins.

Diana: But I didn’t do it.

Ines: Because you couldn’t, it was too late. I can’t help you Gudelia, that man knows you’re here. Why don’t you leave town? The divorce is the perfect pretext for leaving.

Diana: No, I don’t want to leave Emiliano or Rafael.

Ines: It’s the only solution I see. Run away, or confront Orlando, for whom it won’t be hard to put two and two together [atar cabos] and reach a conclusion.


Camila is back at her house wondering why she feels like she’s being unfaithful to Rafael. But she liked being with Orlando last night.

At the hospital, Dr. Rodolfo checks Macarena and says she can go home now; he offers to take her. Rufi leaves to get the house ready for them.

Macarena is getting ready to leave when someone comes in--her back is to the door and she thinks it’s Paloma so she says “Let’s go.” We hear Cris saying, “That’s what we were going to do the last time that we saw each other, remember? Go away together, Macarena.” Mac turns around and they have a tearful embrace.

Mac: You’re here, you’re alive! It’s like a miracle.

Cris: I also thought you were dead.

Mac: Dead, me? no. Only my heart from thinking you were dead.

Cris: They told me you had taken your life because of me. All this time I’ve been tormenting myself believing that I was a killer. And it was all a lie.

Mac: But who told you that I had killed myself?

Cris: Now I know that I should have checked for myself, but everything fit--you didn’t arrive at our meeting place, later I went to your house and there was a black bow over the door, you weren’t at the burial.

Mac: The one who died was my father. He died the night that I was going to go with you. Carlota discovered me and called my father. I tried to explain that if I was running away with you it was because he was never going to accept you.

Cris: You should have let me talk with him. It’s true that I didn’t belong to a well-to-do family, nor did I have money like he had wanted, but I was a man with good intentions.

Mac: I knew it, but neither he nor Carlota understood that. My father became enraged and suddenly got a strong pain in his chest and had a heart attack. All this time I’ve been burdened with his death on my conscience.

Cris: And I with yours.

The reunion is interrupted when Paloma comes in and calls him “Padre”, rendering Mac even more impactada than she already was, so he reveals to her that he’s a priest.

Dr. Rodolfo is in the hospital hallway talking with one of the ladies from church who has come to ask about Mac and why she fainted. He explains that Mac’s health isn’t good, due to the ups and downs in her sugar levels. What can we do to take care of her? Rodolfo says she needs to avoid scares and strong impressions or shocks (too late for that, doc), that they have to do everything possible to make her feel calm and at peace. He talks about sweet Mac is and that loves her not just as a patient, but also as a woman, and the church lady is thrilled to hear it.

Camila knocks at the Espinosa house when Rufi arrives home and gives her the news about Mac being in the hospital. Camila wanted to chat with Mac, and Rufi thinks Mac also has a lot to tell Cami.

Paloma talks away without noticing that Cris and Mac are looking at each other longingly with weepy eyes. She mentions that Cris was going to marry Natalia and he explains that he tried to remake his life with her (after years of agony over thinking he had lost the woman he loved most), but couldn’t. And he decided to dedicate his life to God. Paloma also spills the beans about Rodolfo and how she wants Mac to marry and be happy some day, and Cris is surprised to learn that Mac never married.

Carlota calls home from her hotel room and Rufi reports that Mac is in the hospital, she fainted yesterday. Carlota looks pleased by this and comments that despite Rodolfo’s treating her, she got sick. Rufi thinks Mac is definitely going to get better, forever. Carlota just smirks like Rufi is crazy.

Diana is in the plaza when she sees Orlando coming her way--she ducks behind a newsstand until he leaves. Ines comes up behind her and they hurry off to Diana’s.

Cris sees Mac and Paloma off from the hospital. Mac wants to continue talking with Cris tomorrow, but Rodolfo wants her to stay home and rest. Cris offers to come by the house but Mac thinks it will be better if she seeks him out once she’s recovered. Paloma bids Cris goodbye with another Meaningful Hug.

Diana complains that she can’t even go to the corner without Orly seeing her, she’s going to have to be hide in her house. My new hairdo was all for nothing. What am I going to do, and without Rafael? Ines wants to know what he has to do with this, and Diana wails, “everything!” If they divorce she won’t have anyone to protect her from that madman (energúmeno). She decides she can’t sign the divorce papers as long as Orly lives there, it’s too dangerous.

Romina is talking with a friend at school who asks if she already knows that Angelica was fired.

Orlando and Emiliano are in the office having a little chat about their love lives--Emiliano comments that Romina hasn’t come looking for him; he’d like for her to find someone that makes her happy. And how’s it going with Camila? Orly answers that it’s going well. He thinks maybe Romina is jealous of having to share her mom with him, so he wants to win her over and wonders if Emil can help him with that.

Romina goes to gloat over Angelica as she’s packing up her things. Ange says knows Romi is behind her getting fired. No, it’s your fault for being meddlesome (entremetida). Ange insists that she wasn’t mistaken about Romi, but R doesn’t care what she thinks.

Rodolfo and Paloma bring Macarena home and surprise her with balloons etc. She wonders how Pal was able to buy everything, and Pal confesses that she used some of the money Carlota had left for their expenses.

Emiliano tells Orlando that he thinks Romina hopes her dad comes back so her parents can get back together. German drops by with some paperwork for Emil’s and Orly’s business partnership--I guess he’s the only one who does any work there--to inform them the notary is waiting for them to sign. Orlando invites them out to dinner to celebrate and is going to invite Cristobal too. He comments that at least Emiliano and German don’t compete for any woman, because before Cris was a priest he always got along with (or flirted with, I’m not sure what he was saying) the woman Orly liked. But they had an agreement to never go out with the woman that the other was interested in. German looks uneasy and guilty during all this.

Camila reads the card Orlando sent her—it's been a long time since I’ve had such a wonderful night. From now on we can walk together like the couple that we are.

Rodolfo checks Mac again before leaving the house and declares that she’s doing well. Once he’s gone, Mac actually asks Rufi to shut the door--a first in this show, no?--and fills her in on her meeting with Cris at the hospital. He didn’t abandon me, he left believing I had died. Mac agonizes that now he’s a priest and belongs to God. Rufi thinks they still have a lot to clear up, especially how they came to believe the other had died. Mac believes she has the answer--only one person wanted them apart, Carlota. And Cris’s obituary, you think she made it up? Rufi asks. Mac vows that if she confirms her suspicions, Carlota’s whole world is going to crash down on her, because it’s not just the stuff with Cris, it’s also the issue of Paloma’s inheritance. Rufi warns her to be careful but Mac declares that she doesn’t care and assures herself of an anvil delivery by saying “even if it’s the last thing I do in this life.” If she caused this much harm, she’s going to have to pay.

Cristobal talks with Padre Mateo about the Espinosa family and mentions that he met them (as well as Paloma’s parents) years ago. Mateo says it’s a tragic family; Mac and Carlota are pious and have dedicated themselves to Paloma.

Carlota’s lawyer informs her that the detective found that Cristobal isn’t dead, and she’s very pleased, she wants to talk to Cris.

As Angelica sadly leaves the school she runs into Paloma, so she explains why she was fired. She warns Pal to be careful with respect to Romina, but Pal doesn’t believe Romi is a bad person. Paloma asks if they can continue to see each other, not as teacher and student but as friends. Of course, replies Ange. Romina was spying on them the whole time.

Orlando and Emiliano finish signing the paperwork, and Emiliano thanks him. Orly says he sees in him the son he never knew, and E wants to be deserving of that honor. As Julia said the other day, oh the IRONY.

Romina and Paloma briefly discuss Angelica’s departure, then Romi changes the subject to ask if Emiliano was worried about her when she was in the hospital, and if Paloma thinks that E is in love with her (Paloma). Paloma insists that she doesn’t care what he feels and that she would never go out with him. I know, because that would be betrayal, Romina replies, and among sisters, we don’t do that to each other.

Cris tells Orlando he thinks he’s going to need his friend more than ever now--he found Macarena, but he wasn’t ready for this revelation. Orly is amazed that Cris has found her here when he had just decided to bury his past. Cris is very nervous about talking with Mac again, as doesn’t know what other surprises he’s going to find. Sigh, the irony (and agony) of it all.

Rafa watches Camila walk Joel out from her store and give him a goodbye hug; he looks confused/annoyed.

Rodolfo brings a huge boquet of roses to Macarena. He’s ready to leave Real del Monte for the capital so Paloma can live with them while she studies, and so Mac can get away from Carlota forever. He asks her to marry him.


Previews: Mac says she has to resolve things from her past, things that can’t be postponed.

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