Caray, Caray!

In the hospital room in Morocco, the multiply broken but unbowed Lucas has just told Enrique that he doesn’t expect any trouble from Said. After all, he’d have come by to confront him by now. And in walks Said:
Lucas, tenemos que hablar.
Lucas, we have to talk.
Said tells him he got lucky, he could have died. Yeah, thanks, says Lucas. What did you want to talk about? Said is going to the US tomorrow and asks Lucas if he’d like him to bring something to Marisa. No thanks, answers Lucas. I’m going back myself. Yes, replies Said, but I’ll be there ahead of you.

After he leaves the room Lucas tells Enrique that he doesn’t understand why Said was so insistent about bringing something to Marisa. I don’t get it either, agrees Enrique. Perhaps it’s that he wants to keep me close to him so he can watch all my movements, speculates Lucas.
[Sidebar: This is a interesting scene. I think Said is trying to make Lucas feel humiliated at the idea of another man approaching his wife. Lucas honestly doesn’t care about that so the intended insult is lost on him, but the menacing tone is not.]

Dumbhead -- says the ever-maternal Hilda as she massages the sore back of Karla, recently injured in the studio brawl with her arch-rival, Diana. You ruined your chances at the audition. Well how did she even know I was going to be there? counters K. This fascinating colloquy is interrupted by a crash from outside. Peeping Tom Amin has just fallen from the ledge of the porch where he’d been spying on Ms K. This resourceful little liar tells H he came to tell her about new veils at dad’s store and how swell they’d look on a beautiful and elegant lady like H. Well, thinks H delusionally, maybe I should go over there for a dose of Mohammed magic – if Karla can’t get it done, maybe our meal ticket is across the street!

Said has just arrived in Miami. He phones Marisa and they arrange a rendezvous.

Said, now in Mohamed and Latifa’s place, is dressed to go out and carrying a red gift box. Tengo una cita, he explains. (“cita” doesn’t necessarily mean “date”; it can be just a business appointment) After he leaves, Latifa wants to know who the gift is for, but Mohamed says he doesn’t know. Must be for one of his Miami girlfriends, sniffs Latifa. Listen, says Mohamed, Jade and Said were unhappy, not blessed like us; that’s why he has a right to look for his happiness. Come, says Latifa, I have a surprise for you.

Meanwhile the Naz is asking Samira about this novio that Jadiya has found for her. His name is Enrique and he lives in Miami. The Naz is excited but she still wants to go out with her niece and look for Osvaldo in the street. Watch out for Amin, he’ll tell my dad, warns Samira. Yes, agrees the Naz, he has a long tongue, that brother of yours.

Ramoncito spots the Naz, runs to her with the latest: Osvaldo has moved in with his girlfriend. Then he asks for his earring as reward and instead receives a stream of curses – how dare you ask for a reward when you bring me bad news?

Latifa has clearly been practicing; she shows some impressive flexibility as she bellydances for the rapt Mohamed.

Marisa joins her new friend Said at a swanky restaurant and he gives her an expensive necklace which he puts around her scrawny neck. Then he runs his hands down her tattooed arms.[Sidebar: This gesture of man putting necklace on woman, in Said’s hands, reminds me of an owner putting a collar on a dog. It is tagging, possession.]
[Second point: I’m reminded of Marisa’s expensive gift to her escort, David, except in this scene she is the one for sale]

Nati is trying to persuade Alej to give her family another chance. He’s not so sure.
Tu mamá fue suficientemente clara esa noche. Si no me mató, fue porque no tenía una arma cerca.
Your mom was clear enough that night. If she didn’t kill me, it was because she didn’t have a weapon nearby.
No, no, come on, urges Nati, she was just upset because of the fight she had with my dad. When she knows you, she’ll love you. (le vas a encantar). Get ready and we’ll and see my grandfather.

Rosa mentions to Marisa that Lucas will be coming home soon.
Sí, muero de dicha
Yes, I’m so happy I could die.
Enter Nati, who wants to know if Mommy Dearest still feels the same way about Alej. MD lets forth her string of insults for this muerto de hambre (pauper, literally dead of hunger) and Rosa looks heavenward for guidance and alas finds none.

Marisa is at a café with her friend Lucia. How, wonders Lucia, are you going to explain that jewelry? I was just thinking about what underwear (ropa interior) I should wear with it answers Marisa. You’re going too far, warns Lucia.

Karla and Pablo are at the pool and he tells her that Alej is dating the Ferrer girl.
Están felices comiendo perdices, says Pablo.
They are happy eating partridges (literally); something like: they are happy as clams.
Pues rico por él. (well how rich for him) says K. [Nice sardonic echo of Marisa’s muero de dicha above]

Alej and Nati go to Empresas Ferrer; she introduces him to Clara and Carolina who are impressed with what a lovely couple they are.

Clara remembers she has forgotten to remind [!] Escobar about his grandmother’s birthday. When she phones him, he says no worries, that:
Alicia se encarga de todo.
Alicia is taking care of everything.
This makes her furious. Carolina urges her to calm down. Let’s go to dinner, she suggests.

And back in Fez…
When Jade finds out the coast is clear – Ali and Enrique are at the camel markets – in spite of Zoraida’s vocal protests, she puts on her black burqa and prepares to go to the hospital to say goodbye to Lucas.

While in Miami…
Said and Marisa are sealing the deal. They have so much in common: they have the hots for each other and they both want to get even.
Marisa: Siento mucho deseo, me atraes mucho, y siento deseos de vengarme.
I feel much desire, I’m very attracted to you, and I feel desire to get vengeance.

And Jade is saying to Lucas:
Tengo mucho miedo del destino, Lucas, miedo de perderte otra vez.
I’m afraid of fate, Lucas, afraid of losing you again.
All will be well, says Lucas. You’ll divorce Said, I’ll divorce Marisa and when I’m walking again, I’ll come back here for you. My worst error was leaving you but now life is giving me a second chance and I’m not going to waste it. But I’m so afraid, insists Jade, that your wife is going to do something to keep you trapped.
Lucas: Hace muchos años era joven, era muy inseguro, tenía muchos miedos pero ya no.
Years ago I was young, I was insecure, I had many fears, but not now.
Now, says Lucas, it’s different. I’m a man and I’ll do whatever it takes. Believe in me, Jade.

Clara and Carolina discuss strategies for dealing with the odious Alicia.

Okay, this is a sweet scene:
Leo meets with Nati and Alej. He interviews him: So Nati tells me you are boyfriend and girlfriend [he says novios but I can’t think of a one-word way to say this in English: you’re dating, you’re a couple, you’re seeing each other…?]
Tell me about yourself. What do you study? Have you always been a chauffeur? Where do you see yourself in 10 years?
Alej answers simply, tells him he lives with his mom, finished high school but couldn’t afford college, is a fighter (Lucha Vale todo), suffered an injury but is training and his goal is to be national champion.
[Lucha vale todo, according to Wikipedia, is a style of fighting where you can use the techniques of any martial art or contact sport; it is like on-the-ground combat]
Leo responds graciously:
El haber puesto la cara habla bien de ti.
The fact that you met me face to face speaks well of you.
I just love your daughter; I have no reason to hide, answer Alej. Then as long as you are a gentlemen with Nati, I’m not opposed to your relationship. But, he cautions:
Despacito. De la prisa sólo queda el cansancio.
Go slowly. The only thing haste gets you is fatigue./go too fast and you wear yourself out.
Leo shakes hands with Alej, hugs Nati.

In La Casa Escobar, the boys are bickering because Clara isn’t home and Fer and his dad don’t seem to know where the kitchen is. Clara comes in, says she was at her favorite restaurant and then went to the movies. Escobar starts in on his “I worked all day…” rant but she cuts him off at the knees. I don’t have an Alicia looking after my every need, she says. Who’s Alicia, asks Fernando.

Albieri is saying goodbye to his friend Ali who tells him he plans to go to Miami after Said’s wedding.

Jade is very nervous. She tells Zoraida she has a bad feeling. She knows Marisa is cozying up to Said just to make Lucas jealous. What if it works?
Zoraida says if Lucas is in your destiny, no one can take him from you.
Jade: Cuando sientes humillado el amor propio es fácil confundirlo con celos. A mí me pasó.
When you feel humiliated, when your pride is injured, it’s easy to confuse that feeling with jealousy. It happened to me.
Replies Zoraida: You’re afraid he doesn’t love you as much as you love him; you remember the times he left you, suitcase in hand…

In Miami, Rosa enters Marisa’s room and expresses surprise that she is up so early. You got home very late, didn’t you? When she sees the necklace Said gave her, Rosa says:
Debió costarte un ojo de la cara y parte del otro.
It must have cost you an eye of your face and part of the other eye /an arm and a leg.
Marisa says that yes, it cost a fortune, but it was a gift, and clearly I’m worth it.
Rosa says Lucas will need a special hospital bed and she’s having it set up in Diego’s room. No, says Marisa, Lucas will stay here.

Nati runs out of the house to the waiting Alej and Marisa is incredulous that he is back. Rosa explains that Leo has given him permission to visit. She tries to reason with Marisa, to consider that Alej might actually be good for Nati, but Marisa insists that Nati should be with someone like Fernando (ugh!), but who after all would look twice at her, dressed like a hippie from the 60’s [better than a hooker from the 90’s, Mommie Dearest!]
¡No, no quiero esa relación!
No, I don’t like/want this relationship.

And across town another mom is stamping her foot:
¡No, no acepto ese noviazgo de Alejandro!
No, I don’t accept this relationship of Alejandro’s.
Gloria is ranting to Pablo that she saw how hurt and humiliated her son was after the ‘cancelled’ dinner. Her son needs to find someone of their class:
Cada oveja con su pareja.
Every sheep with its partner. [This means you should find a partner similar to you , of your social class. Like with like? I couldn’t think of a comparable English dicho]

Warning: Nasty scene ahead
Mohamed tells the family that all is arranged, his cousin will watch the store while they are in Morocco for the wedding. The Naz asks if they are all happy to be going and Latifa says no, it makes her sad to think that a man is marrying a second wife. Samira agrees that it’s unfair. The Naz says it is proper and pious, and follows the prophet’s example, for a man to have several wives because it offers protection to the women. Mohamed nods in agreement. But the Naz isn’t finished. I always thought that Mohamed was the most religious of my brothers, she continues, but now I see that Said is following the teaching of the prophet more closely.

To the children she sneers: Your mother is selfish! [because she's unwilling to share her husband with other wives] It’s because of selfish women like that, that I’m still single. Well maybe your father will meet a woman he likes in Morocco and marry her.

The children are appalled. My father never wanted that, says Amin. Well maybe he has never met a woman who llenó sus ojos (filled his eyes/dazzled him).
[Every time I start feeling a little sorry for the Naz she does something so breathtakingly mean, that she goes right back in the bruja column]

Lucia is busy checking Roberto’s cellphone but quickly sets it down when he comes in looking for it. Lucas is coming home today, he says. They agree to go visit later, she to offer support to her friend Marisa. They are making out a little when Fernando – yes Fernando – wanders in, eating a snack. Lucia is embarrassed and apologizes to the little turd! He’s waiting for Andrea, he says. The subject of Nati’s new beau comes up. He takes the opportunity to stir up a little more trouble by saying that, oh yeah, he seems ok, Nati is thinking about marriage and everything… Andrea, who has now joined them, looks on with dismay. [I mean really, why is anyone still friends with this jerk Fernando?]

Credits roll.

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