Caray, Caray!

We have an epidemic of anvils tonight. The question is not if they will drop, but when.

Pardon me, I missed the first few moments; please let me know if I omitted anything important. Apparently Cris shows up at the funeral and is sent away. She gives her flowers to Albieri. Instead of upsetting Leo with them, he hands them off to Luisa. At the funeral Leo asks Albieri why he hasn’t tested that mole on Lucas’ back yet. Leo tells his staff to make sure Cris comes nowhere near the funeral.

Jade dances with joy when she sees Lucas in the house. Ali welcomes him but warns, he must neither speak to nor get close to the women of the house. Ali calls Zoraida to take Lucas to his room. Hey! She’s a woman! He’s not supposed to talk to her or go with her! It’s like when I was little and my mom warned me not to talk to strangers, but she made me talk politely to her acquaintances I had never met, IOW strangers. The world is a confusing place when you’re 5.

Lucas grills Zoraida: what happened, why did Jade leave me waiting (for, like 3.42 minutes)? Zori totally ignores his questions, shows him his room, and quickly leaves. Zori tells Jade she was nuts to agree to help her escape; what would she say on the day of judgment. Ali mentions to Jade that her medical exam will be Thursday. What exam? Why, proof of virginity, of course. Latifa says it avoids problems – they have proof, just in case there is no blood; that sometimes happens. Without the certificate, they would be sent back to their family and could never marry again.

Leo can’t stand the funeral any more, so he leaves and torments himself once again with Diego’s parting scene. Inside, Albieri observes that Leo had such high hopes, but they all ended with that coffin.

Nariza harangues her brothers some more. She says they’ve been bewitched, but I only see one witch here. She says soon their wives will order them around (just like she’s trying to do). She can’t believe the girls won’t be cut (FGM), but the brothers insist that Ali knows the Book inside and out, and if he says it’s not required, it must be true.

Osvaldo is pleading with Dora. He was afraid to tell her the truth because he was afraid he would lose her, and he hoped that over time she would love him even if he couldn’t have children. He tells her he took a vow for her, that he would light a candle as big as she is. That moves her. To the bed.

Luisa asks her coworkers why Leonardo left his own son’s funeral. Good question, indeed. A mysterious quiet young redhead shows up. Rosa finds out that she’s Marisa, the one whose birthday party Diego was heading for. Rosa says her picture was in Diego’s room, and he liked her very much. Marisa is surprised. Plenty of girls wanted Diego, and she didn’t think she had a chance.

Cris goes to the church and arranges for two masses to be said for Diego. Vicky tells her she should also have a novena said, because Diego went to his grave hating her, and his soul cannot rest so it’s tormenting Leo. Cris talks her way out of Vicky’s accusations. She’s sure Leo will want her at his side to get through the days ahead. Osvaldo lights his giant candle to his saint.

Said buys a big gold necklace for Jade; he wants her to be the most gold-laden woman in Morocco. He gets a letter saying that Uncle Abdula in Cairo died. Poor Uncle Abdula. Nariza couldn’t care less, until she finds out he left them an inheritance. Then she can’t contain herself. But there is one condition.

Ali gives Lucas a Koran. He gave one to Lucas’ padrino when his novia died (Lucas corrects: he’s Diego’s padrino, not mine). Ali says that if Albieri had read the Koran, he wouldn’t be working against Allah. He continues, God makes man and determines the length of his life. We cannot escape destiny.

Albieri says that no one ever looked at him with the love and admiration Diego showed. Diego thought he was a genius, when he’s really just a second-rate geneticist. Instead of achieving his dream of cloning humans, he’s duplicating cows for Leo Ferrer. He says he feels so alone. Luisa assures him, he’s not alone. She’s with him. She loves him and she always has. She takes hold of his face and gives him a big kiss. Albieri looks away, uncomfortable. “I don’t know what to say.” Big awkward moment. Albieri says he’s unable to love. The things he loved all died, and he can’t love something else because it will die too. He blames himself for leading her on (he must not watch the show very carefully). Luisa says she has enough love for both of them. After some awkward moments they decide to pretend this never happened. Albieri goes for a walk, and Luisa packs up and leaves.

Jade finds Lucas in the ruins, in the love nest he has made from rugs and curtains. She was afraid he had forgotten about her when he didn’t show up. He says he’ll never forget her. Ali has been talking to Lucas about death; they fear he knows what is happening. Jade says that if they are to escape, they need to go directly to the airport and get out of the country. Jade is sure they are each other’s destiny, and nothing can change their destiny. Nothing can separate them (there she goes, forging another anvil). In the next scene they .. well, what do you think you do in a love nest? (Hmm. This could wreck havoc with Thursday’s virginity examination.) Afterwards, Lucas says they might die for this, but they’ll die together. Jade says that if they have to die for this, she’d die a thousand times for the chance to live her life with Lucas. If that’s not the stupidest thing a novela character ever said, it’s darned close!

Rosa brings tormented Leo his tea. Cris calls and asks for Leoncito. Rosa yells at her, “There is no Leoncito here. This is the zoo!”

Back at the house, Said tells Ali that a condition of the inheritance is that he go to Cairo tomorrow, so he would like to postpone the wedding by just a bit. That sounds fair to Ali, and he concludes that Mohammed and Latifa will marry on schedule, and Jade will marry when Said returns. Latifa and Jade enter. Said asks permission to put his engagement present on Jade, the gold necklace. He flatters her and tells her he plans to cover her with gold, but Jade just cringes. Lucas enters, and Ali is delighted to introduce him to Jade’s future husband. Lucas, not so much.

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