Caray, Caray!

• Dandy tells Susana he has a new apartment -- and the first new furniture he's ever owned. She suggests dinner tonight at his place to get friendly with the new couch.
  
  
• Remember how this has been a terrible month for sales at Auto Siglo? It's the last day of the month, when quotas are due. The sales team is desperate for money. They badger Dandy to get Susana to bend the rules and allow them to count some of next month's sales this month.
  
  Jimenez: "Lend us all a hand, we're in trouble here, I'm going to lose my house." Marino: "And my nine wives and nine sons are going to be here for money soon..." Rosaura: "I don't have the money to pay my children's private-school bills."
  
  Dandy says he doesn't want to do it, he doesn't want to 'use' Susana. "Hey, that's why we PAID you, to get her to fall in love so you COULD use her." "Well things have changed, now I'm in love with her."
  
  Jimenez is mad and...
  
  
• ... won't help Dandy when a bombon arrives with a suitcase. She is Lucia, a 2009 conquest who had gone back to her husband. Dandy had said, "If you ever leave him, come to me," and now she's done it.
  
  "But that was a year ago!" "There was no time limit on your offer!" He says there's somebody new in his life. Lucia demands he put her up at least until she finds work. He says he'll buy her plane ticket to Miami where her sister lives. That's not what she wants. He gives her the keys to his apartment! "I'll be waiting for you" she purrs warningly.
  
  
• Beltran threatens Ale: the new guy better be as good as Medina. Ale is miserable to hear that M-word again. She complains to Susana: "When I stop torturing the salesforce, they don't sell."
  
  Susana tells her Rafa called to say "Even if Ale hates me, I will comply with my promise and show up with the money first thing in the morning."
  
  
• Ale hauls the new guy into her office. He hasn't tried selling yet, he is still analyzing the macroeconomic climate of Mexico City. "You've been talking to Ramirez, haven't you!" "I bought three of his books." "Oh, and after you finish analyzing those tomes, I suppose you'll be ready for a vacation?" Zetina is happily ready to accept vacation time (he doesn't get it about sarcasm)
  
  
• Auntie Rosario calls from the hospital: Jorge is awake. Auntie extols Marco's devoted attentions. Marco would force-feed Jorge if necessary, since Jorge must survive long enough to sign over the hacienda.
  
  
• In actual fact the hacienda is no longer under embargo and Chavez is no longer administrator. However, since Marco was able to intercept the official notification, the family doesn't know it yet. Chavez and Marco must keep it quiet until the marriage, or they will both be behind bars. This letter was a hand grenade. Chavez doesn't have important enough friends to hold back the notifications any longer.
  
  
• Add to Marco's problems, he has the smoldering hots for Karen. Remember how he wheedled her into getting her uncle out of town last time he visited? Because the uncle is friends with Jorge and could have facilitated the end of the embargo? Well, now the uncle's in town for tests in the very same hospital as Jorge!
  
  Flashback: Marco's previous parting from Karen. He was afraid her attentions would come to the attention of Ale's family, so he pretended to be a paranoid nutcase and busted up her apartment.
  
  Now, he doesn't want the uncle to know Jorge is in the same hospital, so says he's here visiting, uh, uh, CHAVEZ! Chavez is sick.
  
  Hilariously, he then calls Chavez (who is poolside) and tells him to come to the hospital and be sick! Chavez (unconvincingly disguised in sunglasses) shows up and tries to book a cheap hospital room.
  
  Marco says Chavez must get his fixers to fix things. "How can I do that if I'm here in the hospital?"
  
  He groans in bed and Karen is convinced; she tells Marco she'll be in the hospital all night and he can come back if he likes. After she leaves, Chavez asks why Marco is doing this. "Because she is a bombonzazo."
  
  It's going to take the sale of an awful lot of cows to cover the hospital bills.
  
  Chavez is a delirious, inspired poet describing how Rafa and Ale may sometime have a chance encounter which will began with whips and chains and end with them naked and writhing on the desk. "Where there was fire, [hot] ashes remain." His fantasy does not dim in the least even though Marco calls Claudia and finds out Rafa is persona non grata with Ale and Beltran.
  
  They hatch a plot: Rafa is technically in breach of contract today since he didn't pay his monthly obligation to Ale in the morning. Marco will go seize Rafa's home this very night - and do it in Ale's name.
  
  
• Pepeta meets up with Rafa. We find out Rafa's dad was an alcoholic and abandoned the family; Rafa still misses him.
  
  Pepeta wants to get Julieta (now that she is "of age") something nice to put a sparkle in her eye. Rafa doesn't care for that, but Pepeto protests: "Do you want your sister to die a virgin?"
  
  Rafa would also disapprove if he knew Jaime is carrying a big bunch of flowers for her birthday party. Jaime advises Rafa via telephone to forget Ale. Rafa is still wondering why Susana accused him of having a "long tongue."
  
  
• The workday is ending. Nelson/Dandy rushes back to his apartment where Lucia is wearing a scanty negligee and expecting to seduce him. But he keeps his fly zipped, gets his clothes, and leaves.
  
  
• Another birthday, another party. Julieta has been primping anxiously. Bell rings, it's Jaime, with the roses and a necklace. When Leonora is in the kitchen the two profess their love, Jaime gives Julieta a much better kiss than he'd have come up with before the many VVV attacks he's suffered recently, and they declare themselves boyfriend and girlfriend. Mom comes in, sees their kiss, is shocked, then gives her approval.
  
  
• More mariachis (courtesy of Don Gaston this time), Rafa sings Las Mananitas again.
  
  
• Dandy arrives at Susana's place with his spare clothes. He is sweet: "I want to say my life has changed since I've been with you, now it's full of vegetables, incense, meditation, and my wish is to be with you for many years. "My life has changed too." "I don't see that - you haven't had a taco or pastor, not a gram of meat." "But I've gotten to know your skin."
  
  His phone rings. Don't answer it! He doesn't! It's Lucia; he pretends it's work. "Our time is sacred." Kisses.
  
  
• No longer a cardiac patient, Chavez is frolicking with his callgirls in the hacienda's pool when the doorbell rings. It's Enrique Quintana, supposed friend of the Alvarez family and erstwhile wooer of Rosario, and he's come to investigate. He tells the girls he's an official with the hacienda secretariat (?) but admits to Chavez he's on the take too. "You don't want Jorge to know the place is free of embargo and that you are using it. And neither of us wants to close down this gold mine, so why not share the benefits?" "How much money are we talking?" Quintana wants some time to poke around and see if he should ask for more. In the mean time, he settles in with one of Chavez' "little friends."
  
  
• While singing, Rafa frowns at Jaime and Julieta sitting so close. After, he takes Jaime into the kitchen and asks what's going on. "We dared to take a step forward." He promises it only just now happened. "Why my sister?" "I always have loved her. I never thought until now that she could want me too."
  
  At last Rafa says OK - just, take care of her. Out in the party: "I just found out my sister and best friend are together now and she's in good hands."
  
  Vicki Vicki Vicki's brothers offer Rafa their knives: "We have experience taking care of sisters."
  
  
• Ominously, VVV pulls Jaime into a corner and throws him down again and again. "Why didn't you tell me [about Julieta], you make fun of me - don't do this to me, you have to respect me!"
  
  
• There's a banging at door. It's Marco and the police. "Look at this, now with the debt you owe me you're celebrating? Ale is tired of this." Rafa is indignant: "I've paid every single month, I am bringing her money tomorrow." "Well, the money is due by 6 pm today."
  
  Rafa offers to pay part tonight and the rest in the morning, but no deal.
  
  They start an inventory of the house contents - including VVV's tape recorder! The "pseudo-lawyer" Jaime can't stop them. VVV starts shouting for her dad. The brothers grab Marco and threaten with their knives. "Don't go to jail for killing a fifth-rate lawyer" their father advises.

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