Caray, Caray!

Poor Said. Lucas sees Jade and Said very close to each other, so Lucas leaves. Jade tells Said that she’s sad because it makes her think of her mother. She learned to dance to it for the man she would love. Said asks if she’ll dance to it for him. She looks up and sees that Lucas has left, so she can quit being nice to Said. “No, I won’t dance it for anyone.”

Zoraida arrives in Miami. Latifa is thrilled to see her. Two beach babes walk by and bat their eyes at Mohamed, making Latifa jealous. She’s afraid he’ll ditch her and take another wife. Nariza greets Zoraida and she’s walking on air. She’s glad her brothers are happy, she wants the whole world to be happy, and now it’s her turn too. Zoraida speculates that she has a love interest. Nariza doesn’t deny it. She even tells Z to sit and rest while she makes tea for her. Zoraida is convinced that the pod people came to Miami and replaced Nariza.

Cristina is unpacking her beauty merchandise. She calls Leo to thank him, at least that’s her pretexto, but he hangs up on her.

Lucas gets home. Rosa tells him the “marvelous” news - Marisa came back, and Leo convinced her to stay. Since Lucas can’t stand up to his dad nor Marisa, Lucas leaves and checks into a hotel. Rosa reports that Lucas left when he found out Marisa was here. Leo throws his usual tantrum. He shouts, “I won’t allow it!” He starts to have chest pains, but he continues his tantrum between gasps for breath. “He never showed me any consideration. Never.” Translation: He doesn’t make me the center of his universe like he should. Rosa tells the maid to call Enrique and tell him Leo feels bad. He’s about to keel over, and Rosa is walking him around the room rather than sitting him down. Finally LEO has the sense to tell them to call a doctor. The doctor wasn’t in, so the maid suggests calling 911, but Rosa says no way. If Leo saw an ambulance it would kill him. Okey-dokey.

Lucas, in his hotel room, ponders Jade. Jade, at the ruins, ponders Lucas.

Marisa arrives, but Rosa doesn’t tell her about Leo’s heart attack or whatever. She tells the maid not to tell her that Lucas came and left. Lucas calls, and Rosa tells him she thinks pop had a heart attack. Some people go to the hospital for those. Rosa tells Leo that she called Albieri, and Leo is mad (again). Leo refuses to see him.

Nariza sees Osvaldo outside. First she tries to send Latifa and Zoraida to Mohamed’s store. They don’t want to go, so she makes the excuse of going out to water the plants. Osvaldo flatters her, saying it’s a shame to cover her beauty. She tells him she has a millionaire suitor, and since she hasn’t told him no yet, she can’t be seen with anyone else. They will have to do everything in secret. Osvaldo likes adventures.

Lucas rushes in to see his dad, and Leo milks it. “I don’t need a doctor to tell me that my heart can’t endure what my son is doing to me.” Que cursi! “Cursi” doesn’t have a good translation in English. The closest equivalent is “sappy sentimentalism.” Leo’s line is a poster child for “cursi.” Leo says that if you don’t care about your father, at least care for the child you created. Marisa walks up behind them and announces, “I’m pregnant, Lucas.” Lucas’ face says, “Oh, crap.” Marisa, with all her usual charm, says, “I should’ve known not to expect anything from you.” She walks away. Leo tells Lucas he won’t allow Lucas to endanger the life of his grandchild. That comes first, even if it means losing his only remaining son. Oh, that Leo, bless his heart. Leo tells Lucas it’s time to grow up. He can’t be the irresponsible child he’s always been.

Marisa tells Rosa that if Lucas doesn’t want the baby, neither does she. He can just go have a baby with Jade! Rosa tells her that Jade sent him packing. So things can be just like they were before Lucas went to the hotel. With that, Marisa realizes that Lucas moved out when he knew Marisa was staying there.

In Morocco, Jade arrives home and Said wonders where she’s been. He orders her to iron his clothes. Tio Abdul tells Said that he needs to teach his wife better, and that she ought to dress more modestly. Jade gets a fiendish, impudent smile and intentionally scorches Said’s shirt. She presents it to Said and says, “I told you I don’t know how to iron.” Abdul comments, “In this house the camel rides the Bedouin.” Said drags her off to their room. He accuses her of doing it to torment him, so that he would lose his temper. She tells him he knew what he was getting into when he married her (that is QUITE a stretch!). She begs him to reject her and marry someone else who will take good care of him. Then it dawns on him. He realizes that she wants to get him so mad that he will divorce her. He says he might marry other women, but he will never, ever give her her freedom.

Ugly scene. Lucas returns from the hotel. Marisa insists on talking to him right now. She tells him, “Do you think I’ve always wanted to be married to a man who tells me I’m just a result of confusion in his life”? Well, considering how much she tried to confuse him back then, I’d say she got the dessert she ordered. He says, “If I returned, it’s because I felt like I should. Satisfied?” She replies, “Don’t look at me as if I planned all this to trap you. Did someone force you to sleep with me?” Well, remembering when she delayed him from meeting Jade at the beach, I’d say she tried pretty hard to force him! She tells him he has to decide whether to ask her to stay, but it has to be with full rights as his wife, his only woman. It’s up to him whether or not this child gets born.

Jade goes to visit Ali, all sweetness and light. She asks, “What happens if a man doesn’t pay the bride price? Is that cause for divorce?” Ali reminds her that Said has paid almost the entire dowry, and he’ll finish payments in a couple months. Jade insists, “What if he doesn’t?” I don’t want to think about how Jade would assure that he couldn’t pay the dowry. Ali agrees, in that case the woman could get a divorce. Jade is delighted. But then Ali inserts one other point. If she divorces him, she has to pay back all of the dowry and the gold that he has paid so far. Now Jade’s not so happy. If Jade would spend half as much energy getting along with her husband, as she spends trying to get away from him, their marriage would look like something from 1950’s TV.

Albieri arrives at Leo’s house. Rosa tells him the doctor just left. Leo pretends to be sleeping. Albi says he’ll wait. He pages through the planner he’s carrying, and out falls a photo. Rosa picks it up and is delighted to see a childhood picture of Diego, but she can’t understand how Luisa can be in the picture. Albi says that he PhotoShopped the picture. (Even THAT is pretty creepy. This guy puts someone else’s child in a picture with him and his wife?) Rosa observes that Diego never had a shirt like that. Albi says he bought it one day when he took Diego to his house. Leo “wakes,” and Rosa can’t wait to show him the photo. But when she looks around, Albi has left. He goes to Cristina’s to see Daniel. When he realizes that Leo goes there and might one day see Daniel, he gets more flustered and leaves.

Ozzie and Dora have their usual scrap at the bar. She walks off. Vicky tells Ozzie that it’s obvious that he’s still wild about her. Osvaldo denies it and says he found out the truth - that Albieri is the baby’s father.

Albieri is at home, pondering how long he’ll be able to keep Daniel hidden. He suggests to Luisa that they move to LA. Luisa reminds him that he hates LA; how about London where Mary Brown and Sylvia are? No, Albi is fixated on LA. In that case, Luisa is fine with it. She’d like a chance at a new start with him. He says that if Daniel could go with them, he’d leave today. This worries Luisa. Then he says, “Do you think Dora would like to live in LA?” This worries Luisa a lot more. Albi explains, Dora wouldn’t want to be separated from Daniel. Oh, yeah. Then it all seems perfectly normal!

Lucas reports to Marisa. She gives the requirements if this child is going to be born.
1. That he returns to her.
2. That she has the full position she deserves in this house, and in his life.
Lucas says he wants this baby to be born, and he’ll do everything possible to give the baby a home. Marisa agrees that the baby will be born, and their marriage will continue. And then she goes in for the kill, with condition 3:
You will take back / renounce everything you told me that day in Morocco. Lucas the invertebrate agrees to everything.

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