Caray, Caray!

Rafael tells Camila that it’s hard for him to look at her as a friend and business associate, so he’d rather not do it anymore. He’s sad that what she feels for him isn’t strong enough to fight all the obstacles in their way and thinks that if she loved him like he loves her, she wouldn’t leave.

Romina is in her new house and thinks to herself that she has everything except Emiliano—she’d trade all of this for just a little of his love.

Emiliano asks Padre Juan Cristobal about Gabriel.

Paloma arrives at Gabe’s place for her art class (he’s standing on his head, against a wall).

Crazylota wears her lace shawl while cutting and pasting letters into a note that accuses Natalia and her (alleged) lover, Cris, of killing Alonso. She includes the pictures she took of Nat and Cris together.

Cris assures Emil that he doesn’t have to worry—Gabriel needs to share his artistic legacy before . . . before leaving, so his interest in Paloma is strictly professional.

We finally get a Gabriel scene without his theme music playing—all the theme songs are just so tired now, IMO. Anyway, Sandra shows up and asks if she can join the art class, but Gabe says no because Pal is at a higher level and he has an agreement with his dad that she advance as quickly as possible; she requires all his attention. Pal tries to protest but he puts his foot down because he’s the one who makes the rules. But he says that Sandra can come to one of his other classes.

Liliana talks with her boyfriend (whose name I forgot) about her graduation. German butts in and asks who Pal is going with--would she go with him? Lili’s boyfriend tells him to ask Pal himself and leave Lili alone or else.

Joel tells Monica about his older brother Victor, who had Down’s syndrome, and how he was loved and accepted by everyone. Monica asks him to help her completely integrate (is that the right word?) her son into her life and the world at large.

Gabe gets annoyed with Paloma for not concentrating enough, she’s got to get these techniques down ASAP. She doesn’t understand what’s the big hurry. He replies that time doesn’t stop, and we can’t waste it—I know what I’m saying.

Out in the street, Rafa runs into Luz, the lady he met at the convention. She offers to listen to his tale of woe re: Camila.

In Houston, Orlando shops for baby stuff.

German is waiting for Pal outside her house when she walks up muttering to herself about Gabriel, just in case we viewers haven’t gotten the hint yet that she doesn’t like him. The way they keep hammering us with this makes me think Pal will eventually grow fond of Gabe, a la “When Harry Met Sally.” Anyhoo, German asks if he can be her date for graduation but she declines, because of his relationship with Lili. Romina sees them talking and calls him after Pal goes inside. He gloats about wanting Pal and laughs at Romi when she doesn’t believe him.

Carlota agrees that Rufi can stay, but she’s only doing it for Pal, so that when she leaves town, she’ll remember how much Carlota loved her.

Cris comes to see Natalia. Yvonne calls Dr. B. to ask that he recommend something to calm Nat down; he says he’ll come to the house himself to see her.

Pal and Rufi celebrate in the kitchen. Rufi comments that only God could separate them, but Pal hopes not even him, because she already told him that she couldn’t take one more death (sounds like an anvil to me). Pal promises Felipa, who has been in the background looking sad all this time, that she’ll get Padre Cris to help her find a job.

Camila and Monica walk with Joel and they decide to leave the next day. Joel then starts talking about his brother and Monica’s son but Camila can’t hear him because her theme music drowns him out.

Luz dispenses advice to Rafa: pain is inevitable, but suffering is a choice. You have to ask yourself, what are you going to do with that pain? Are you going to suffer the rest of your life? Better to accept that pain and decide to move forward. Don’t look back, nothing is forever. Rafa doesn’t know if he can, but Luz encourages him to try.

Pal is on the phone with Liliana discussing German—Lili says she has no problem if Pal wants to go with him. But Pal isn’t interested in him and doesn’t want to go out with a friend’s ex because she learned her lesson with Romi and Emil. Lili admits that it would have affected/hurt her if Pal had gone with Germy.

Emiliano throws a pity party with flashbacks to various encounters with Pal, then envisions Pal and Gabriel having good times together. Romi enters and informs him the house is ready and they move tomorrow. Emil decides to go to bed—if it were up to him he’d just dedicate himself to his job and sleep, that’s it. For some reason he gives her a kiss on the forehead before heading upstairs.

Joel tells Rafa about Cami’s decision to leave the convention, and is he going to do anything to stop her?

Dr. B. checks Natalia and says her blood pressure is low; Cris counsels her to try to relax. The phone rings and Cris takes the call—it’s the police and they want them to come identify a body the next morning. Nat cries that it can’t be Alonso.

Rafa asks Camila if he can do anything to prevent her leaving. No, she answers. He asks for one last hug and they embrace, both crying. Luz sees this from afar and looks sympathetic.

Natalia, Yvonne and Cris are in a room that seems too dark for anyone to properly identify a body, but Natalia recognizes Alonso immediately and starts sobbing.

Carlota is still in bed when Rufi brings her tea. Rufi asks about her visit to the doctor, claiming that she’s asking out of worry, she notices Carlota’s been a little pensive. Carlota says she is fine and asks for the newspaper. She thinks to herself, “patience, patience. Is it known already that you’re dead, Alonso?” She flashes back to pushing Alonso in front of the truck. “You thought that I would be in your place, but now the one who’s really cold is you. You don’t know how useful you are going to be to me that way.”

Natalia continues sobbing. The police say that it appears to be an accident, that Alonso was run over outside Pachuca, but they haven’t been able to locate any witnesses. Nat can’t believe it that he’s dead too—first Inaki, now Alonso.

Carlota doesn’t find the news she’s looking for. She has to investigate what Alonso said to her—it could be very dangerous for her. She wonders who Alonso might have told about the will.

Joel asks Rafa if he’ll go back to Diana but he says no, of course not. He fell in love with Camila, and it was his turn to lose. Now he feels dry and withered up inside.

As they drive home, Monica asks why Cami doesn’t go back and tell Rafa she loves him if it hurts so much to leave. Cami replies that she realized love isn’t everything. Monica disagrees, she thinks that love makes miracles happen. Cami recounts how that didn’t happen with Samuel—she loved him deeply but was unhappy with him. Monica suggests that was because Sam didn’t love her, but she thinks Rafa does. Cami thinks maybe Rafa just came into her life to show her that she could love again. She loves Orlando, but in a different way from Rafa.

Orly continues his shopping spree, this time looking for a ring for Cami.

Nat, Cris and Yvonne walk down the hall with Nat asking why did this have to happen, what was Alonso doing in Pachuca? She thinks she should go back and look again, because maybe she made a mistake and it’s not really Alonso, and runs back to the body. Cris tries to console her and pull her away; he says that the body is Alonso, he recognized him. Nat doesn’t want to accept it.

Emil tells Romi he can’t take time off from work to move her stuff to the new place that morning; he suggests they use the company’s truck and maybe a couple guys can help her move everything. She insists that she’s in a hurry and is dying to leave her mom’s house, but Emil isn’t having it and leaves. Romi takes out the photo of her and Pal as kids and looks at it.

Cris talks with Nat about how he understands her pain, because of Macarena. Nat cries that it’s not fair, because Alonso came back so they could start over. That’s how it was for Cris and Mac too, they were just about to begin a new life together when she died. He thinks in time Nat will be able to understand things. She asks if he has made sense of Macarena’s death yet?

At school, Lili and Pal talk about continuing their friendship after graduation and promise to be friends forever. When Pal gets called away by one of the nuns, Lili looks up a number on Pal’s phone and types it into her own, which Sandra sees. Pal returns with the news that the mother superior wants her to give a speech at graduation, but she’s not happy about it because Mac and Emil won’t be there to share it with her. Pal heads back to class while Lili ducks into the bathroom.

Lili calls Emil (who’s in a meeting with a client) to warn him that German is after Pal. After she hangs up, Sandra confronts her: did you do that for Paloma, or for yourself? Could it be that you’re dying of jealousy? It wouldn’t be fair if you were playing with my cousin like that.

Pal sits in class listening to classmates talk about their dates and looks sad.

Luz runs into Rafa and Joel at the convention and asks Rafa for his factory’s contact info—she likes their designs and wants to take them abroad. While Joel goes off to chat with someone, she asks what Rafa’s plans are. He was going to rest a bit but she invites him to come with her—she doesn’t say where but that it will be such a good time it’ll even get rid of his tiredness, or something along those lines.

On his way out, Emil ltells Angelica that he’s leaving to find German, blah blah blah. Gabriel just happens to be walking by as Emil exits the building so he stops Gabe and says they have to talk about Pal. Dun Dun DUN!

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