Caray, Caray!

Hi all, this is my last recapping night before heading to Costa Rica. I will post a brief recap later but here is this night linked for your blogging pleasure. I still have not heard that someone is willing to recap or at least post headers for the two nights, April 14 and 21. I also need a recap substitute for May 5. Then I should be around for a while. Thanks for any volunteers.

So here it is:

Review/Preview: Leonarda warns Renato about Aimee, Jimena breaks Gabriel’s heart with the news of Estrella’ doom, Juan once again rides off in a fury not able to get out of his bad habit of Aimee passion. Aimee thinks she can give up Renato’s wealth she misses her passionate savage Juan so much. Rodrigo is in for a surprise...

Gabriel questions Jimena about why Estrella lives behind the veil. Does she have a cicatriz/scar on her face, no nothing like that. She claws for a story, oh she is so ill she can’t live long she is like an apparition. Gabriel runs off Jimena regrets losing Gabriel for ever while Gab looks like he may fall in the river next.

Leonarda fusses over the wedding dress on Aimee as Clemencia looks on, Renato walks in and the superstitious witch Leo shrieks, you have condemned us with this fracaso/failure.

Tarot Tia reads to Servando explaining the cards say Jimena will read palms well and he is to leave her alone so she can make big money. She calms him with the image of the rich woman she knows who will pay so much for fortune readings.

Renato is at wits end with Leo;s fears she runs , Aimee is frightened about what Leo says. Clemencia calms Leo, this is not the tragedy of love that has fallen on this house . Leo says the jewelry of bad luck was involved, obliquely referring to jewelry Rodrigo gave her and Rosario, I think. How will we survive this, she wails . Who is believing that the bastardo is living. She disposed of him herself, she ought to know. Clemencia gets the last grin, if Leo knew that Juan aka bastardo is very much alive and how close he really is to the Montes de Oca.

Juan practices walking in spats and bastón/cane without limping, Gabriel fights with Juan that he should not be going out in this condition. He dresses for the club and Juan comments that Gab has been very sad since he returned. Gab sobs that Jimena has told him Estrella will die. Jimena? Juan shakes his head.

Who slips beneath from bed of Tarot woman and slinks off in her veils and spangles miraculously not making a sound.

amargiata Rosario is the only one Rodrigo could have loved he avers as he admires himself in the mirror . He is tired of ALeo. What is it with women and this love thing... But Rosario appears behind him in her black veil asking for his help.
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Rodrigo help me, he falls to the ground and she continues , he is the only one who can help her.

Feddie and Arsenicio (sorry he seems like a poisonous old thing and I can’t keep all the names straight) chat at the club when Juan walks in in full black tails and smiles Madelena greets him warmly appreciating the real friend that he is. Juan talks with Madelena about Gabriel being fooled by Jimena with the story that Estrella is condemned to die. Madelena is on to the dual nature of Jimena. She agrees, This is too much, Valga me dios/God help me.

Clemencia tells Jimena she knows Gabriel a little, so the disillusioned Jimena wants advice from Regina and Clem. Regina says sure sometimes telling the truth does more damage, but but she must tell him the truth as it will be right and better in the end. How about Servando and your Tia. For advice? Clemencia doesn’t know what she is saying clearly. Jimena says something is being taken, . by Tia? Warning them about Leo’s falling for Tarot Tia’s methods it seems.

Rodrigo clutches his chest and gets up without a wrinkle in his suit, Did I see Rosario, I am thinking about her so much surely I invoked her. I won’t say anything to any one they will think i am loco.

Leo knocks are you going out . He says no I am not going out , I prefer to be alone. I only want to rest. He bars the door from her push.

Madelena flatters her guests, Without you this place would not be the same . Arsenicio says to Juan, you haven’t already gone to Vera Cruz? Juan wonders, Why isn’t Montes de Oca here tonight? He didn’t come. Juan, muses, maybe he is a coward? Arsenicio retorts, he said just the same of you. Then he suddenly knocks Juan’s leg with his cane and Juan folds down in mock pain then they all laugh. He says you have confused me with some rough person in the town who has caused trouble, I am not wounded, here, I can drop trousers... no no, that’s not necessary, Madelena looks disappointed, so am I.

Leonarda is having trouble breathing in her emotional snit about the bad omens everywhere. She looks out the window seeing Tarot Tia and Jimena. They argue presumably to decide the importance of Tarot -vs- Palmistry, but actually it is the struggle for the most lucrative clients that decides which method is most powerful. Leo runs them off and calls for Arcadio like she doesn’t know them. Not giving up so easily on card revenue, Tia promises that Jimena is good with reading the hands and they talking of her love and with all security and discretion. I can do the cards. Leo takes the bait, but not here she motions away from the front steps, lets go to the kitchen. Tia pushes Jimena off and goes to the kitchen to get her fee after finishing the Tarot session.

As they sit at the kitchen table Tia assures Leo, I will hardly talk it is the cards that talk , She shuffles and tells Leo to cut the cards into 3 montons/ piles,

Gabriel sees Juan who is laughing about how Fulgencio set him up in a trap by disfraz/disguise . But he hit him in the equivocada pierna/wrong leg. Juan so pleased with himself brags about his deception.
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Jimena oh luna gitana/gypsy moon counsel me . Aid me with Gabriel, she remembers the moments as Estrella, She and Gabriel meet at the fiesta of disfraz/costume ball. She cries what a beautiful dream of love. this mentira/lie that ended my dream my dream of love. Jimena and Gabriel are spending entirely too much time crying in my opinion. But neither can seem to throw off the game they are entangled in.

Gabriel thinks of the same fiesta where he had his first kiss from Estrella . Estrella fugaz/shooting star, (he makes a nice Spanish allusion) and now I only suffer.

Back in the kitchen, the satin bustled Leo dishes the dirt with Tarot Tia, What to do you see in my future? Problems! In the future and the past. There is a great tragedy in your family with a man whom you love intensely who is NOT your husband! She has Leo reeled in now, Is this man going to love me some day? Oops they hear Renato yell and Leo makes Tia hide outside the kitchen, she will pay her later, just hide so my son doesn’t find you.

Juan talks to his father the picture (the really bad painting). He says he agreed to make the people that hurt his mother suffer, But, he can’t really be supposed to do the same with the innocent offspring...

Leo nags and whines about the curse of Renato seeing the wedding dress. Renato teases that someone dead may appear. Leo is shrieking about not invoking evil illusions.

Regina imagines that she will be always at Aimee’s side to help her keep her promise to be happy at Renatos’ side. (Ewww, feels like getting stuck in a honey jar.)

Juan wakes up hearing Aimee’s voice why did you abandon me. His sleep is certainly ruined and the wind is blowing in the window.

He wakes up fully dressed and the bed made a second later, (weird scene cut, who dressed him, who made the bed so nicely?) I can’t stop thinking about Aimee. I need her besos/kisses , her caricias/caresses. Aimee. I will go to the Finca to carry her far away. He rides madly on the horse but encounters Renato on a fast horse coming toward him in the middle of the fields. And Renato says I was coming to see you. You are the one who saved my life Juan feigns bad memory or nearly bad manners, You wanted to be taken to the tomb of your mother, Renato reminds him how close he really was. I am in debt to you for this act for ever, professes the loyal Juan. Renato tells him who her is, Juan doesn’t have a clue before this moment. (What are these people drinking that takes their memory so profoundly)...
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I am the owner of the Finca del Mar. What is your name. Juan hesitates and is saved by Remegio riding up to tell about construction problems at Paraiso that boss needs to see, Don’t you recognize him, asks the innocent Renato. He is the one I saved. Remeio plays dumb Juan acts dumber, glad to meet him. He presses he has to go off to his pressing business, but Renato insists he come with him.

Madelena sees Rosenda, in the square and tries to be friendly but Rosenda says MADAM Madelena, I know exactly what- who you are. Later at home in tears, Felipe listens to Mady cry of her punishment for being a bad mother. Ac child has no right to judge his parent. says Felipe Don;t mortifique/torment yourself, Madam. he soothes with tenderness.

Rosenda comes to the barred gate and Arcadio gives her some present, apparently not nice enough she scoffs, these are corrientes/common, she complains. he opens the door and says she will have to do more than talk to get the good jewels. She tries to plan to see him tonight. Rosenda complains about the marriage of Renato whom Aimee doesn’t deserve. Arcadio is easy to engage in his insecurities of Rodrigo and Leo in close quarters, She says it is a good way to engarte/hook Leo and Don Rodrigo don’t you think. HE stalks off and she steals the keys.
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Arcadio replays Rosenda’s taunts that they could both be dead. Around the corner in the same dungeon, Rosario replays the the surprise visit to Rodrigo. He can’t help me, he can’t forgive me and for this he hates me. We see keys in the straw.(How come her black veil isn’t all stuck with pieces of straw?)

Renato brags about his rainproof roofing he is installing, thatch wasn’t new then but maybe to Mexico?? Remegio and Juan argue about Renato being unlike the rest of his ratty family.

Rodrigo tells himself that he hallucinated Rosario because he has been thinking about her so much. He is a coward, he calls himself. Rosario thinks no one can help her now. Will her old Juan come for her?

Remegio gives a fake good by to take care and Juan pretends to remind himself of . Why are you doing this a compromiso sociale/social commitment. I have had a blessed life of privilege. The least he can do is improve the lives of these poor workers who have so little. Ahhh, the nobility of it all.

Renato Montes de Oca enunciates Juan, who would think that I would owe my life to one of my sworn enemies.

Next: Jimena and Gabriel cry and part, and then come together for a tender kiss. So nice they can console each other in their hour of illusion.

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