Caray, Caray!

All- I must apologize but this evening my boss informed me she wouldn't be able to attend a meeting with the President of our organization that is happening first thing tomorrow morning, and asked me to attend in her place. I need to spend the evening prepping (with one eye on the show of course) but can't spend the time recapping. I am so sorry, and hope to never have to bail on you again. Please feel free to comment with any details you remember from tonight's show.

-Vivi

I couldn’t leave you with nothing. The quick and dirty:

Two main things happened tonight:

1) Our not so dumb Love Nurse Rubi suggests to Rosario, Jorge and Marco that they move to the hacienda temporarily while the city house is having work done on it. That’s the lie they told Jorge, instead of telling him the house has been embargoed. This makes Marco nervous as heck and he and Rosario tell her to butt out. They say it won’t work because 1) The hacienda is embargoed and the administrator won’t allow it; and 2) It would be a 2-3 hour drive for Ale to get to work each day. Our smart Rubi suggests that she has many clients..er, patients that are well connected lawyers and judges and can help them. And as for Ale, surely she can stay with Marco (a no no for proper Jorge) or with a single amiga during the week, and come to the hacienda on the weekends. She makes a call to one of these connected clients later and gets the ball rolling on figuring out this whole hacienda mess. Rosario lets it slip that the administrator’s name is Chavez and our Smart Rubi has figured out that it’s the same guy who is Marco’s strip club buddy, and she confronts him about it. He’ll make sure that she and Jorge get to go to the finca, or else! Marco confers with his better half, Chavez, and Chavez suggests that Marco seduce Rubi to get her on their side. He provides him with some special pills to help him with his recent bedroom problem. Rubi accepts his invitation to his apartment, but thought bubbles that there is an opportunity for a lot of money in this whole shady deal. (I really believe that Rubi cares for Jorge, but hey, a girl’s got to live. And she sees an opportunity to con some con men.)
2) Rafa makes a huge effort to get to the bottom of this Ale/Rafa/beach/romance rumor, reclaim Ale’s reputation amongst the staff, and clear his name with Ale. He has each of the staff confirm that they did not hear it from him. Claudia admits that it was Marino who got hold of the receipt from the hotel that lit fire to the rumor. Ale is mortified by the whole conversation and still doesn’t believe Rafa had nothing to do with it. Rafa doesn’t give up. He confronts Marino and speaks to Clara in accounting directly, who confirms she provided the receipt to Marino. Rafa assures her she won’t get fired if she writes a statement saying what happened. Rafa gives it to Beltran and gets his agreement that this is grounds for firing Marino. Beltran almost fires Marino…until Marino dangles a big multi-million possible sale in front of his greedy face. Marino stays, and poor Clara (much to Rafa’s dismay) gets the axe from Beltran (jerk!).

Other happenings: Rafa and Ale must go to a cocktail party together to celebrate Siglo’s anniversary (Marco is not happy and neither is Vicky); the construction work continues to give Rafa his own office- the problem is everyone has to walk through Ale’s office to get to it; Rafa gets a company credit card and is forced to take on a car loan to have a company car (he's not happy about having more debt); and Pepeto has his first day, and matches Claudia in flirting skills.

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