Tuesday, February 23, 2010

El Clon, Tues., Feb. 23 - One twin down and one to clone

Paula and I exchanged nights this week so I am doing Tuesday's episode and she is doing Wedneday's.

We start where we left off yesterday - Lucas in the desert and Diego a crispy critter in the wreckage of the helicopter. A vase leaps off the shelf in front of Rosa, which seems to be sum of the psychic announcements of Diego's demise.

Albieri returns to his lab. He is told that Luisa is at his house taking care of Diego.

The fire trucks arrive at the crash site.

A caravan finds Lucas.

Semi-conscious, Lucas sees Diego's face in one the caravansieri.

This blue Bedouin head dress seemed familiar to me so I went back to the first episode and sure enough, there is Lucas on the camel ride that he, Albieri and Diego took when they first got to Morocco. At the time, I wondered why Lucas was wearing native dress. Even more interesting, this scene is labeled as taking place in the 'Sahara Desert, Morocco.' Albieri says that they need to get on a plane and the next scene is labeled as taking place in 'Fez, Morroco.' So, as is common in novelas, this distant place suddenly moved to a mere horseback ride from Fez. Tighten up your beanies, folks.

Albieri returns to his house. While he babbles to Luisa that they have enough knowledge to clone a human but no one will dare to do it, at least publically, because of the taboo, he finds Luisa's clothes in his closet.

Poor Albieri is embarrassed and doesn't know what to do. Luisa tells him that she felt that someone needed to take care of Diego and lies about having work done in her house. He tells Luisa that he will sleep on the couch in the living room. He says that he wants her to be comfortable. He leaves the house as soon as he can.

Zoraida, in a red outfit

that makes me think of the apple in the fruit of the loom guys,

helps Jade escape from the house. She goes to their meeting place but of course, Lucas isn't there. She waits. Lucas, meanwhile, is being carried on camelback.

When the caravan camps for the night, Lucas seems to be in convulsions [or he has the hiccups], calling for Diego.

Meanwhile, Jade waits for Lucas into the night.

Leo and Cristina are happy happy. Leo says that Diego is old enough to have his own life and he won't let Diego ruin the life that Leo is going to have with Cristina.

Rosa is crazy with worry about Diego after she finds out that he didn't make it to the party in Daytona.

Albieri is at a bar with Julio from the lab complaining that he feels like an alien in his own house with the feminine knick knacks Luisa has brought there. He finds out that Luisa lied to him about having work done in her house.

When Lucas never shows up, Jade has nowhere to go but back to Ali's.

Zoraida lets her in. Jade is devastated. She thinks that Lucas stood her up. Zoraida tells her that it is destiny and she is better off that it has happened now. Jade is sure that Lucas loved her. She tells Zoraida that if she can't marry Lucas, she won't marry anyone.

Luisa fusses over Albieri when he comes back from the bar. Finally he gets her to leave him alone.

Shacked up with Cristina, Leo still isn't answering the phone.

The police come to the house and tell Rosa that Diego died in the helicopter crash. She has to go and identify the body.

Ali returns home and asks to see Latifa and Jade. Latifa, who is watching the video of the telenovela again, is sure that her wedding has been called off and her whole life ruined.

We find out that Ali's bark is worse than his bite. He tells Jade that what happened was his fault because he didn't insist that Jade return to Morocco when her father died. He has decided that Jade and Latifa will marry on the same day. He tells Jade that her mistake was due to ignorance and he won't ruin Latifa's life and stain the good name of the family. He says that her punishment is over. He warns her that once she is married, she will belong to her husband's family and they may not be as benevolent as he is. Jade walks away without a word.

Once back in Latifa's room, Jade swears to Zoraida that she won't get married and no one can make her. Zoraida tells her that events have clearly shown that it is her destiny to marry and she can't stop it. Jade grabs the phone, calls Said [how does she know the number?] and tells him that he has been lied to. Once he knows the truth, she is sure that he won't want to marry her. She tells him that she has defects - hideous scarring from an accident with boiling water when she was a child. She also says that she has no teeth and can't laugh or her dentures will fall out.

Said, Mohammed and Nazira believe Jade and conclude that they were deceived by Ali. Of course, Said and Mohammed blame Nazira but she says that she was deceived as well. Once again, Mohammed refers to himself in the third person and laments that he has lost the gold he paid for Latifa. Said tells him that they are going to get the gold back from Ali right away.

When Ali asks who could say such lies about the women in his house, Said says that it was Jade. Jade and Latifa are summoned. Ali asks them who made the prank call to Said. Jade admits that it was her. Once Said sees Jade, he is not eager to call off the wedding. He has an idea - Nazira will inspect the girls for defects. Ali agrees. Nariza inspects Jade and Latifa including looking into their mouths like horses.

Zoraida smugly tells Nazira that she has to admit that the girls have no defects.

Osvaldo runs into his Mom's neighbor at the club and Dora finds out that in fact Osvaldo doesn't have any children and has been lying to her.

Albieri turns on the TV and finds out that Diego has been killed.

Rosa is taken by the police to the scene of the crash. She is sure that there has been a mistake until she is shown Diego's watch.

Leo comes home from his night of love and the staff of the lab are waiting for him. They tell him that Diego is dead.


The credits roll.

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Thanks Jean, love the pictures!

We laughed hard at my house at how quickly Said changed his mind about marrying Jade once he saw her. Can't say that I blame him, of course, but he hasn't seen the "I will die before I marry you" part of her yet.

I was bored with the Dora/Osvaldo story but it just got waaaay more interesting.
 

Thanks, Jean, for this excellent recap. I loved the title and your remark about Lucas having the hiccups.

I'm really enjoying this TN, in part because it's refreshingly different from most of the others I've seen. I don't know whether I'll be able to continue watching two at once (Corazón Salvaje is the other), but I don't think I'll be able to give this one up.
 

Thank you for the recap, Jean. Was it intentional, that when the cuñada was inspecting Jade's teeth, that you called her "Nariza" instead of "Nazira"? She certainly was being nosey!

When Mohammed, Said, and Nazira were putting their heads together after the phone call, didn't one of the brothers say that their problems were because Nazira said she was their sister? Any more clues than that, in that exchange?

Also, when the sheriff's officer came to the house, didn't Rosa tell him that she was Diego's mother? Any clues on that?
 

It must have been 'freudian' typing that made me write Nariza instead of Nazira.

Mohammed and Said accuse Nazira of pushing them into marrying the girls because she wants to be Ali's 4th wife. She replies that she only wanted the best for them. Ali has a good reputation. She says that she sacrificed everything for them since their mother died and she was deceived too. She saw the girls' faces and no one could think that they had defects. I just watched it again and I didn't hear her say anything about being their sister.

As for Rosa, she isn't the boys biological mother but they called her 'Mama Rosa' and it was she who raised them so she considers herself their mother.
 

Great recap, Jean. I am really enjoying this novela. I've got on my beanie with ties on the side for easy tightening.

I guess we were meant to believe that the time Lucas spent on the sand gave him a heat stroke or something. It seemed odd how out of it he was, having been found the same day. And I also assume we're meant to believe in the psychic connection of twins and that Lucas sensed Diego's distress at being converted into a crispy critter. Gave the left side of my beanie a good twist for that part.

Maybe my prediction of a few days ago might be true - that Osvaldo is sterile and hiding it from Dora. Or he could just be a selfish jerk who doesn't want children at all. Dora needs to lose this guy anyway. If he's playing around with other women that much now, imagine what a life she'd have with him going forward.

Yes, Chris, Said's quick desire to have this all be a joke on Jade's part was pretty funny. He obviously thinks he really lucked out getting the second choice bride.

I'm really having a beanie moment (no spoilers) about the likely cloning of Diego. How are they going to have him grow up fast enough to be a character in the novela as they showed in the promos?
 

Thank you Jean. Enjoying readying your work
Alberi is really so very gentle and considerate in his rejection of whats-her-name. I think I'm going to enjoy their romance.
I didn't understand Papa's look on the news that Diego is dead. Undoubtedly some parents would block or not compute those words together like dead and your child. But his look? What did it mean and his words too? Or is that this actor's portrayal of shock?
 

i ownder what osvaldo's problem is with having children with dora. i'm sure alot of other manwould love to be in his positon. i do like how she is standing up to him when it comes to those skanks he flirts with. nice to see a women on a tleenovela who isnt taking it lightly
 

Jean: Thanks a bunch. Got a few chuckles at "nariza/Nazira." I am having a hard time accepting Luisa cuz she is some pushy dame moving in with her boss like that and taking over the apartment. OTH a guy like Albieri needs pushing I guess. He is taking this rather calmly for a professed bachelor.

Said is in for a bundle of trouble with Jade --and watching his mouth drop once he got a look at her was rich. I love that girl's spunk.
 

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