Caray, Caray!

Albi walks into his office and sees nosy Alicia reading his cloning diary, the one she pulled out of his desk drawer. He throws a rod, and she uses tears to soften his heart. Which is like using a buggy whip to get your car’s horses to start running. She runs out of the room and uses her tears on a more receptive audience, Escobar and Luisa. Luisa marches into Albi’s office and chews him out for being so harsh to poor little Alicia. Albi is surprised that Luisa is standing up to him like this, but Luisa explains that hurting her niece is like hurting Luisa herself. If that’s the case, Luisa should be sitting quietly, afraid to say anything. In Luisa’s office, Alicia says that she was just straightening magazines on Albi’s desk, and Luisa is angry that he made such a scene over something so inconsequential. She must not have watched the scene where Albi told Luisa that Alicia was looking at client records.

At breakfast, Lucas gets a call that he wants to take privately. He tells the caller that they will talk at the “office.” He tells Marisa that it was Roberto. So after he leaves for “work,” she calls her “therapist” to make an appointment for today. She tells Rosa that her therapist, David, is the only one who knows how to make her feel better.

At the gym, somebody introduces Alejandro to Victor the Hawk Nose. Alex challenges, Victor accepts. Today.

Leo admits to Enrique that Cristina is looking better than ever. Ric asks if he’s having second thoughts about the wedding. No way. He needs a wife who doesn’t look and act like a fifty-cent hooker. Though Leo might have said it more delicately than I did. Just then the AntiCris walks in (love that moniker, Jean!). She brings Ric the article about men who are attracted to low-class women.

Cris tries to waltz into Leo’s office, but Carolina secretary stops her and calls Leo to announce her first. Leo sticks with Sofia to avoid talking to Cris. Ric goes out to greet Cris and trade flattery. Carolina looks on, jealously. Ric explains, aw, shucks, Leo just left for New York this morning. Did you ever notice, in telenovelaworld, there are only three cities in the US? Miami, New York, and LA. Nobody ever goes on business trips to Dayton or Des Moines.

At Little Morocco, Latifa asks if Jade still wants to go find Lucas. Jade explains that she‘d like to, but the last time, Said tried to find Lucas to kill him. Jade made an oath that if Allah saved Lucas, she‘d never look for him again.

The primas are talking girl talk. Jadiya can‘t wait to get her period so she can wear a beautiful veil. Zamira says that she doesn‘t want to wear a veil. She wants to wear short skirts and expose her belly button. She doesn‘t want a husband. She wants a career and independence instead. Haley Mills and Haley Mills decide to trade places, trick their parents, and get the forbidden life they dream of. Not really, but while we wait for the clone to show up, I decided to insert some plot into the plot.

Natalia is on campus and hears Fernando‘s friends teasing him about kissing the nerd. She runs off. He follows and apologizes. She says it‘s true, she is the nerd. He pours on the flattery.

Lucas stops at home to get some papers. Rosa tells him that Marisa is at therapy, which comes as a surprise to Lucas. Natalia comes home early. Lucas asks why and she has your typical teen girl hissy fit. Nobody cares about meeeeeeee! Marisa arrives home and Lucas blames her for Natalia’s problems because she’s never home taking care of her family, and she’s always spending loads of money. He asks her, “What? Are you maintaining someone? What is it you’re busy with? Or who?” She just smiles. She says Lucas has betrayed her with a whole parade of amantes. Lucas tries to talk to Natalia. I love you, you’re important to me, etc. Y’know, they really do look a lot alike. They have a cry together.

Roberto gets home from work. When he goes upstairs for a shower, his wife checks the calls on his cell phone. She teaches her daughter to spy on her husband at least once a day. Andrea warns that he who seeks finds.

At Tobim, Ozzie and Miguel have their usual conversation about Ozzie’s new hottie, Karla, vs. his old hottie, Dora.

At Torim, Said and Jade see Albieri. Said invites him to the opening of his new Miami hotel, for the sake of his old friendship with Ali. Said discovers that Lucas is Albi’s godson. When Albi leaves, Said asks Jade how she felt when she heard Lucas’s name. Jade asks why he brought her to Miami when she didn’t want to come? Why does he remind her of things she doesn’t want to remember? He says she’s never forgotten him, and she says he has never let her forget. Up in the room, he tells her that he’s desperate to know that Lucas is really out of her heart. He says all this, right next to Jadiya sleeping on the bed. I sure hope the kid is a sound sleeper!

Leo comes home and finds Diego looking for answers in the bottom of a bottle. He says that he was never as good as Diego, and Leo consoles and encourages his son by telling him he’s drunk. Lucas charges that Leo would’ve preferred if he was the dead one, even though Leo has denied it thousands of times. Funny, I never remember any of those times. Lucas is on a roll. He says he doesn’t love his wife, his wife doesn’t love him, and his daughter thinks he’s a bad father. Now Marisa knows that he’s had amantes, plural. Leo tells him to stop destroying his family; Marisa is a wonderful girl. (Lucas bad. Marisa good.) Lucas says his problems all started when he lost Jade because he was too weak, and because he listened to everyone else instead of listening to himself. Because of his weakness, he lost his only chance at love. Leo runs out of bad advice and simply hugs his son.

Alejandro has his big fight with Hawk Nose. He gets hammered, brutally and quickly. Mama comes running into the cage to save her baby. Back at the bar that looks more like a café, Alex says that his mother has ruined his career, and no one will fight him after what she did. She says it’s better that, than to have his body broken in two. She tells him no more fighting, and no more talk of fighting in her house. Alex goes to find Karla. He wants to get a job and earn some money so he can propose to Karla. But Karla has a date. With Hawk Nose. Who looks about 30 years older than her.

Marisa goes to talk to Natalia. She explains that Papa has lovers. Not one, but many. Further, Marisa says that the only reason they have stayed together is for Natalia. In other words, she is the cause of all this friction. Natalia tells Mommy Dearest to separate if she wants to, and Natalia is on her side. The good news is, in novelas, the worser they are, the worser they die. And Florida’s got alligators!

Hilda congratulates her daughter for snagging a great catch like Hawk Nose, considering that he bought her an expensive dinner. As they approach Gloria’s establishment, Gloria comes out and starts screaming at them like Cuban trailer trash. Latifa is scandalized as usual.

Ali calls Zoraida down to be his chaperone, just before Nariza arrives. He informs Nariza that he is leaving for Miami as soon as possible, but Said wants her to stay in Morocco to take care of things at the house. He wishes he had a transporter beam so he could get out of there even faster. Nariza does not share his enthusiasm.

Natalia comes down to breakfast and informs Lucas that he doesn’t have the right to make her mother suffer for Natalia’s culpa. She says, “You’re both suffering. Nobody’s happy. And it’s all my fault.” Have a good day, Dad.

At the office, Enrique tries to talk to Carolina but she slips out. Enrique points out to Leo and Lucas that there is a news story about someone who claims to have cloned a human. Lucas doubts it’s true. They ask Albi when he arrives, and he says no scientist would announce such a thing. Then he tells Lucas that he saw Jade in Torim.

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