Caray, Caray!

I don’t even know how to begin with this one. The first 14 minutes were very intense. I was repulsed but slightly intrigued at the same time. It was kind of like watching a train wreck in progress, knowing there is going to be all sorts of carnage and horror; not wanting to look but not being able to look away.
So lets get started with a very difficult episode. There was lots of carnage. (in a manner of speaking)

We start out with Marino . He accuses our fake Ale of having a bad attitude towards her star salesman and thumps her on the head. This is just the beginning for our psychopath . He finishes verbally abusing her, walks away, turns around and returns to continue attacking her.

He is so enraged that he takes his belt off and starts thrashing the fake Ale. Everyone is looking on in shock except for Beltran who seemed to be in some sort of stupidly stupor. (Is that redundant) Susana is peeking through the blinds talking to Ale telling her she cant believe what she is seeing. She tells Ale she better get back here quickly.

Marino is still at it and it takes Dandy and Ramiro to pull him off her, all the time Marino is yelling she deserves it. He bows thanks everyone and they all applaud. (Has anyone ever seen Lord of the Flies?)

Bowtie guy is combing our dummies hair and Beltran says it is Claudia’s turn. She says she is embarrassed to participate in this. Beltran gives her a little pep talk laced with lust and that is all she needs.

She starts yelling at the dummy and tells her they have a little war going on. She accuses fake Ale of persecuting her unjustly and from keeping the list of clients from her that she deserved.

Claudia turns the tears on and lecherous Beltran is up to assist her to calm her down. (Yea that’s the ticket you old goat, undo her blouse a little bit. ) He tells her they understand her pain and are all there to help her as he yells at everybody “Right we are all here for her.”

Now Claudia is on the verbal attack. She tells the fake Ale that she could never please her boyfriend the way Claudia could. As Claudia now starts unbuttoning her blouse a little more and strutting ever so seductively and Marino and Dandy are up on their feet to get a better view.

Beltran is yelling at her to stop and Marino and Dandy are telling Beltran to let her be. Claudia is not done and starts up again with her little seductive rant. Marino has fallen on the floor and Dandy is having a hard time controlling himself. Poor Rafa is looking at them with disgust. Beltran is trying to convince Claudia to wrap it up. They all applaud her and give her hugs and kisses. (I feel like I have just fallen down the rabbit hole.)

We have a quick little break from the madness and find Marco looking for Chavez. He is apparently at Chavez house and the housekeeper is telling him she does not know where he is. He tells her it is urgent that Chavez get in touch with him. Marco than tries to call him and gets his voicemail. He tells him that they cant go on like this as they have a lot to loose. (honestly that scene was all to brief.)

Back to the freak show. It is now sweet Bebes’ turn. (I adore him). First off he calls our fake Ale a complete lady. We see a huge Rafa smile and everyone else is booing. He continues to say despite her faults she continues to be professional and he gently fixes her hair. He says after all we are all human with our faults. Bow-tie slaps Bebes face with the dummies hand. Then he tells Bebe to go away.

It is now Rosauras’ turn. She gets all flustered and says she cant do this. Bow-tie guy asks her why not and she says this dummy doesn’t look at all like Ale. They urge her to use her imagination and she tries to fix her up a bit. She is a little miffed at Ale because after all they are practically cousins and rattles on and everyone is looking confused. She feels discriminated against and then starts shoving the dummy around.

Marco is still on the hunt for Chavez. What would be the obvious place. A stripper bar. (At this point it is much better than what is going on at Siglo.) He asks the girls if they have seen Chavez. No one has seen him.

Next!! It is Ramiro. He starts out stuttering barely able to talk. It takes Marino coming up from behind to whack him on the head (Why not everything else has been just totally nutso). That’s all it took and Sweet sniffling Ramiro goes off on a tangent to equal Marinos‘. He compares her to his monster-in-law and starts choking her. I think he has gotten a little carried away and thinks it is actually his mother-in-law. Finally it is Dandy and Marino who tear him off the dummy.

This part was just stupidity working harder to be stupid. Marino punches him out to calm him down and then mob mentality takes over with everyone else slapping Ramiro. Even Bebe goes in for a slap. Our sweet Rafa was the only one who didn’t slap him. Then we see a very drained Ramiro. Finally we go to commercial.

Ramiro is asking forgiveness, and Beltran is telling him to calm down. Bow-tie guy is going on about transference. Beltran says Dandy is next and Rafa will be last. We hear Rafas’ voice over saying this will be his opportunity to finally talk about his feelings towards Ale.

Ale in the meantime is trying to wrap up her business over at truckerville. She tells them she has to get going. As she leaves she wonders what those jerks are up to back at Siglo. (Oh Ale you don’t want to know what is going on over at the nut house).

Dandy’s up next. His little scene was actually amusing. He starts out by spraying a little mouth freshener. (New approach. Lets try a little seduction.) He thinks it would be a good idea if they went out. Perhaps diner a dance, a little sex. Everyone is sitting a little locked-jawed at the site of Dandy dancing around with the fake Ale . (okay he gets a little carried away. Like get a room Dandy) and he has to be escorted away from the fake Ale. They all tell him to calm down and Rosaura pours a glass of water over his head.

It is now Rafas’ turn. Saved by the bell. His phone rings and it is ( all together now) Vicky Vicky Vicky.

So Bow-tie guy gets his turn. This was the funniest bit and a lot easier for me to tolerate. He simply bores everyone to sleep by talking about his books and how much they could all learn.

Ale has finally returned to Siglo and encounters Trapito in the parking lot. She asks him where everyone is. Trapito doesn’t want to tell her, but Ale knows is weakness and tempts him with a candy bar. She was really cute opening the candy and tempting him as if he was a two year old.

Poor Trapito can’t resist and takes the candy and tells her everyone is in the conference room. It was Beltrans orders and they are all inside with him. She thinks he is there to get them to work on the monthly sales objectives. (Oh Ale if you only knew what that jerk was up to).

We return to the conference room and everyone is snoring as Bow-tie guy drones on. They suddenly awake and all start yelling for Rafa to take a turn.

Rafa nervously approaches the fake Ale and is urged on by Dandy to finally speak his mind. After all he is the best salesman and Ale continues to treat him badly. Claudia tells him to finish her off.

Rafa tells her that she has helped him to discover that he is a great salesman. Everyone boos. He yells it is the truth if it wasn’t for her he would never have been able to sell as good as he has. Bebe is the only one looking pleased at Rafas’ words. He says she has made him feel things he couldn’t even imagine feeling.

He continues on stating that on the day of the accident he had encountered the most beautiful women he had ever seen. (okay I admit it, my jaw locked). He admits to having fallen in love with her. But she never even noticed the way he looked at her. Why would she when she was only worried about how he was going to pay her back all the money he owed her because of the accident. (My jaw is still locked).

Every one gets up and walks up to Rafa with looks of disbelief. Rafa is almost crying. He says despite the fact that he loves her he has to leave because he can’t take it any more being treated like a slave.

Everyone is circling poor Rafa now chanting at him to be tougher. He says he cant do that and starts hugging the fake Ale for dear life as everyone else is slapping at her and yelling at him to be tougher. This has gotten very intense and guess what? It was one of those tricky telenovela moments. (I will admit to being fooled for about the first minute or so). It was all a dream/wish sequence.

Rafa is standing now and everyone is asking him what’s wrong. You haven’t said a thing. She really has been unfair to you. Beltran wants to know if Rafa is so afraid of Ale that he cant even say anything. Rafa assures him that isn’t it.

Rafa simply and eloquently asks her to reconsider her treatment of him as he doesn’t feel it is fair. Then simply says thank you. Bow-tie guys wants to know what the heck was that. Everyone is very disappointed. Rafa sits down and looks very stressed.

Ale is asking Susana what is going on inside. Susana says it would be best if she saw with her own eyes. She tells her to be careful though because Beltran is inside and she wouldn’t want to get caught. Spying.

Beltran stands and says it was a very interesting exercise where everyone got a chance to express what they were feeling. He says the purpose of the exercise was to obtain a more positive attitude towards Ale. (oh yea right, what a load or horse radish). He hopes this will help them to be better sales people and hopes to see better sales. He tells them to all get to work and leaves.

Once Beltran leaves they all start attacking the fake Ale. Susana and Ale are peaking through the window and Ale wants to know what is going on. Susana says they are all attacking the dummy. Ale wants to know why she wanted her to return to watch them attack a dummy.

Susana explains to her that Beltran was giving this exercise and that the dummy represents Ale. Ale is horror stricken as she watches the mob like actions of the Siglo crew. Poor Bebe is valiantly trying to put an end to all the craziness. Marino once again has lost his mind and grabs the fake Ale and pounces on it.

Poor Rafa tries to rescue it and tries to pull it away from Marino. Ale is watching all of this but is totally misinterpreting Rafas’ actions. She thinks he is in on the mob scene and just wants his turn with the dummy. Then the head is ripped off and Rafa is left standing there holding the fake dummies head as Ale walks in. (my stomach started turning south at this moment).

Ale demands to know what is going on. Marino blames Rafa and said he broke the dummy. Bow-tie guy tries to explain what they were doing. Rosaura tells her she got there just in time to stop the madness. Ramiro says he thinks this exercise was a waste of time and its best if they all got back to work. (That's the first smart thing said all night.)

Poor Rafa is left holding the bag, I mean head and Ale goes off on him. She starts screaming hysterically, wanting to know what is going on. It is a very chaotic scene and bow-tie guy continues to try and explain the unexplainable. She wants to know why her face is on the dummy and why were they all hitting it.

She gives them two options. One to get back to work and try and make-up for what they lost or stay where they are and tell her if this is really her corpse (or something like that). They all scatter.

Poor Rafa is standing with a look of death on his face and Ale goes off on him like never before. She is crying and so am I. She calls him a disgusting jerk and a hypocrite. Rafa has not said a word and walks out. (This was a heart wrenching scene to see poor Rafa just devastated and Ale believing that Rafa was a part of it.)

Ale and Susana are alone in the conference room. Ale is destroyed and tells Susana she can’t believe what just happened. She screams for Trapito to come and clean the mess up and she leaves. Trapito picks up the dummies head and says but it has your face on it. Then he gets a wicked smile on his face and starts yelling at it then starts wiping up the floor with it. (This was way to much craziness for me).

Ale is in her office and cant believe what happened. She cant understand why they would do this to her. Susana tries to explain to her it was just an exercise for people to express how they feel. A way to get the bad feelings out they hold towards her.

Ale says they all hate her. Susana tries to calm her down. She tells her she doesn’t believe everyone hates her, well they don’t hate her a lot. Then Ale says and what about Medina. He was the worse of them all.
(I just so wanted Ale to have been there and seen how Rafa defended her.) She wants to know if Susana saw how he ripped her head off. She still cant believe it all.(That's because that is not how it happened.)

The group is walking out now blaming Bow-tie guy for the crazy experiment. Bow-tie defends his exercise and says it has been practiced at the most prestigious places.

Marino chides Rafa and Bebe for being on Ales side . (Now why couldn’t Ale be listening in to this conversation?) Rafa defends Ale, even though she treats him badly she has given him the opportunity to work at Siglo.

Ale still can’t believe Rafa was a part of this. Susana reminds her that she really doesn’t treat Rafa very well. She wants to know what she expected. To have him fall in love with her? She says she would expect him to at least be grateful for what she is trying to do for him. Susana accuses her of being more affected by what Rafa did then what all the others did.

She admits to being affected by this. She thought he would protect her and not be a part of the massacre. Susana tries to get Ale to calm down. Ale isn’t buying this. She is going straight to Beltran after all he was the one who promoted this crucifixion. She is not going to take it anymore. Susana can’t believe that she is going to resign.

Rafa is outside the door as Ale leaves her office and wants to talk to her about work. Ale goes off on him about the accident and reminds him of all the damage he caused her. The only thing he didn’t do was rip her head off. (Remember sarcasam is one of Ales' strong suits.) She wants to know if he wants to continue with all the damage he has caused.

Rafa tries to explain to her that things aren’t what they seem to be. He tells her he was trying to defend the dummy because Marino was beating the beeswax out of it. She does not believe any of this. She tells him not to worry though. He will never have to see her again because she is quitting. Rafa tries to get her to listen to him but this is not going to happen any time soon as she storms off.

Marco is still trying to get in touch with Chavez. He leaves a message telling Chavez what he is doing is very dangerous . He tells them they have to be a team and work together or they will both end up in jail.

Rafa is out and about now feeling very badly about what happened to poor Ale and the whole ugly dummy business. And the worse thing is she is going to quit because of this.

We have a little salon scene. They were talking about eating and food and where food was originated or some such stuff. I didn’t get too much of the conversation but found myself smiling anyway just because it felt like a bit of a break from all the other madness of the night.

Poor Rafa is out on the streets approaching everyone he sees trying to sell them trucks. He strikes out with the police, a stranded motorist and with two truckers who are repairing their big rig.

He settles for buying a sandwich and sitting on the sidewalk eating it ever so sadly. Ale barges into Beltrans’ office and tells him she quits. That is where we end.

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