Caray, Caray!

We start with Ale telling Rafa she’s going to give him an on-site lesson on how to be a businessman.

Marino tells the other vultures...er, employees, that he is going to make copies of Lopez’s list so they can share the clients. They all scatter and try to look busy when Ale and Rafa come in. Naturally, it doesn’t work and Ale tells them they need less talkie and more workie. She singles out Claudia and Rosaura and asks to see them privately.

Marino pulls Nelson and Isabel aside and tells them he’s going to split the list between the three of them. Isabel calls it a little extreme and Marino says she must not want the money because she already has enough to provide for her hijo. I never said that! Isabel gripes. Nelson tells Marino it would better for them to wait to copy it until Ale isn’t around, so they can have more time to decide what to do. He pries the list out of Marino’s hands and puts it back on the desk.

Rafa admires one of the models but Ale snaps him out of it and makes him practice his selling technique with her. Ale pretends to be a family of clients (a husband, wife, and a seven year old) and she critiques how Rafa handles it. (This was really fun; Ale is very good at acting out each part.)

Ale tells Rafa he has to sell forcefully and confidently to assure the customer he can fulfill their demands. Then, she shows him how it’s done by using a flirty voice and two leggy models to help seal the deal. Rafa thought-bubbles that Ale is a little strange but awfully pretty.

Vicky visits Leonor and gives her a huge hunk of meat as a gift since she knows how tight money has been. Leonor doesn’t want to accept it but Vicky says it’s what family does. After all, she feels like a part of the family anyway. Vicky asks about Rafa and Leonor gushes like a proud madre about how well he’s doing. She’s thankful her hijo has finally found stability.

Instead of being happy for him, Vicky mopes that Rafa hasn’t called her. Leonor has to pad Vicky’s ever-fragile ego and assure her that Rafa will call when he isn’t so busy. Unfortunately, Vicky sees the telephone number of the Siglo on a tablet and takes off to call him.

We’re role-playing with Ale and Rafa again. This time she’s a very snappy elderly woman and Rafa doesn’t handle it much better than his first trial. Marino interrupts to tell him Vicky is on the phone. Rafa asks Marino to tell her he’ll call back later. Ale lectures that he should never leave a customer for a phone call. However, Rafa is too busy staring at her lips to be paying much attention to what she says.

Marino snatches the client list and the employees start arguing over how much each person gets from the copies. Claudia wants 50% since she was Lopez’s woman. (For all of half an hour.) Marino says it was his idea so he gets to decide how to split it up. (Very grade school playground mentally. “I saw it first!”) Rosaura says they should split it all up equally but Marino makes no promises. Nelson stops him and says someone trustworthy needs to make the copies with Marino so everything ends up fair. Rosaura nominates Isabel and Marino reluctantly agrees.

Trapito, another employee, brings Ale a cane to replace her crutches. (Everyone better be on the lookout, that cane looks a lot easier to swing around than crutches.) Ale has Rafa practice how to VOCAL-I-ZADO when introducing himself.

Lic. Beltran barges in during this and Ale has to introduce him to Rafa. Beltran takes to Rafa immediately and hopes the many achievements Ale has told him about will help increase their profits. After he leaves, Rafa teases Ale for regarding him so highly to her boss and not mentioning that she hates him. Ale snarks that all she wants is her payment.

Marino and Isabel are at the copy machine and he comes up with a proposition: give 50 pages of the list to the salespeople and keep 20 pages for the two of them. Isabel starts an impassioned speech about honorability; she would never defraud the company that way.

Rafa practices introducing himself again and Ale continues criticizing. She tells him he needs to be more clear and charming, like a caballero or “un sexy boy”. (She did say that and it made me smile.)

Susana interrupts and says a client called looking for Lopez; Ale says to transfer the call to her and declares Rafa’s daily lessons over for the day. She sends him out to practice by himself.

Claudia gets sent to chat up Rafa (to keep him from finding out about his missing list) and he vents a little about how annoyed Ale is with him. Claudia says Ale is bitter and Rafa is surprised because he thought she was only that way with him. Claudia drags him off to get him a cup of coffee.

Claudia asks Rafa if he’s married or has a novia. He says he doesn’t; he likes to be free. “Then who’s Vicky?” Rafa chokes on his coffee and says Vicky is a distant cousin who works in his house.

Nelson runs into the copy room to warn Marino and Isabel that Rafa is out of the office. They grab all the paperwork and run.

Rafa chats with Claudia about his past sales experience and she keeps him distracted long enough for the vultures to rush off unnoticed.

Rafa finally gets back to his desk and calls Vicky. She cries about how abandoned she feels and freaks out when he calls her Vicky instead of Pajarita. (This girl is the definition of clingy.)

Marino emphasizes again that they are going to share the list between them (excluding Rafa).

Vicky keeps sobbing into her phone so her padre grabs it and asks Rafa why he’s making her cry. Vicky blames it on the onions and Rafa has to lay it on thick until Vicky takes the phone back again.

The group tries to send Claudia over to eavesdrop on Rafa’s call, thinking it’s a business deal. She doesn’t want to because Rafa is so darn cute but they convince her to slink over. Rafa struggles to talk to Vicky with Claudia pawing him and has to hang up quick.

Ale tells Susana that the client who called was Carlos Pardo, a friend of a friend from back in college. Ale whines that she wishes she were still as pretty as back then but Susana tells her to cut it out.

Susana asks Beltran if she and Ale can borrow one of the cars so they can go out for lunch with a client who wants to buy 10 of them. He agrees but says Susana needs to take a message to his wife and Rafael should go in her place.

Susana tells Ale about it and she is as happy about it as you can imagine. Ale overhears Claudia and another employee talking about how great Rafa is compared to all the other grumps they work with.

Rosario and Azucena wonder why Jorge hasn’t gotten up yet so they sneak into his room. Rosario is hysterical when she can’t wake him, no matter how much she shakes him and yells.

Avances: Vicky (surprise) whines that Rafa hasn’t called her all day and says it’s “all that woman’s fault”, Rafa and Ale get ready to go to lunch with the client.

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