Caray, Caray!

Pardon my Spanish but “lo que en el diablo pasa a nuestra novela dulce?” Where’s the mariachis? Where’s the Mi amors? Where’s the sweet kisses? (The Jaimie/ Vicki kisses weren‘t cutting it, as funny as they were!) Okay, I got that off my chest, so lets get started before I change my mind and decide not to do this as our destructive winds alert has turned into a full out hurricane of misery and ugliness. I may have to seek shelter at any moment.

We start out with a few mild June showers. This was from last night, but was actually the only really funny scene so I felt obligated to include it. Ironically it has to do with Vicky. Jaimie is pleading with Vicky. He tells her Rafa is going to find out about everything. There is no way to cover it up. What are they going to do. Vicky doing an academy award performance of fragility pretends to faint. Jaimie now all flustered and concerned gets closer to try and revive her. (I thought he was going to start CPR). He starts slapping her on the face. Vicky finally having enough, slaps his hands away, but realizing she is blowing her act big time slumps back down in the bed. Her performance now resumed, in the most irritating whiny voice ever says Rafa can’t end it with her. Jaimie reassures her Rafa won’t end it but she has to calm down. He tells her this can’t be good for the baby.

At this point Vicky starts rubbing her stomach and starts talking to the (???) baby. (we still don’t know if there is a baby or not). She informs the baby that Papa is talking to him. We here imaginary baby laughter and Jaimie wants to know what the baby said. Vicky grabs him by the head and forces him to her stomach and says here get a good listen. Jaimie wants to know what the baby wants to tell him. Vicky encourages him to talk to his child. Jaimie does some chuchie chuchie coo to Vicky’s stomach then looks at her perplexed and says he isn’t listening. She tells him if you are talking all the time how to you expect him to respond and forces him down to get a better listen. Then she tells him what did you expect to hear “Hey pops how‘s it going?” well silly she tells him babies at this age don’t talk. Then she asks him if he can feel the baby. Jaimie all excited tells her yes he can. Then he starts some serious baby bonding,

We are now at Siglo where storm warnings have been upgraded from summer showers to possible thunder and lighting. Zetina gets the first lighting bolt . He is asking Susana if he could possibly talk with Rafa or Ale. Susana tells him that Ale isn’t there and Rafa is really busy. He tells her he will wait as he turns around he drops his suitcase and as he is picking it up, Trapito comes running in, trips all over him dumping the 20,000 rolls of toilet paper he is lugging around.

Ale has arrived (the thunder is getting closer). She is assaulted by an anxious bag of strong northerly wind (Ramirez) who wants to know about the morning meeting. Ale tells him not now and leaves. Ramirez turns to the Siglo crew who all seem quite puzzled and intrigued by this. She asks Susana if Rafa is here yet and Susan tells her he is in the office. She blows off Zetina as well and enters her office.

She is back to using Medina instead of Rafa. She enters the office and calls out for him and a very anxious Rafa scuttles over to her. She takes out the sinister documents and asks him if it is Lenora‘s signature. Rafa takes the document from her and tells her it is and wants to know what gives. She tells him it is a sales document where Lenora has sold the house. Rafa (getting a lighting bolt as well) is stunned. He asks her how she could even think such a thing. Ale tells him to read it. She also shows him the deposit slip where 200,000 pesos were deposited in his bank account. Rafa still dazed by the lighting bolt, assures Ale that his mother would never do anything like that. Rafa tells her there is something not right about all of this. Ale tells him to stop, they are both adults, and continues to show him the signed documents that prove Lenora’s intention to sell the house. Rafa tells her the paper could be as legal as she says but he is certain that Lenora would never do anything like that.

He asks her where she got the documents. Ale tells him they came from the man who was going to buy the house (Old break your bones Frankie). She continues to tell him that Frank told her all about it. Rafa tells Ale that this is all impossible. Lenora would never sell the house. Ale accuses him of treating her as if she was crazy and holds the papers up to him as proof of her sanity. Then she points out the date which happens to be the same day she was in Cocoyoc. Rafa reminds her he was with her there. She tells him “yes but you were making a lot of phone calls.“ He tells her but not for that. Ale says the papers say the opposite, pointing to the deposit slip. He tells her if there was money deposited in his account it was from the contest that Lenora had won. Ale desperately says I hope you can prove me wrong. She doesn’t know what they are going to do. Rafa makes a call as Ale gives a silent prayer to God that this isn’t happening.

An unsuspecting Lenora answers the phone (doesn’t she know you are not suppose to talk on the phone during a lighting storm?) Rafa tells her they have a very serious problem. He tells her some guy showed up with papers stating that she sold him the house. Zap!!! Lenora is down. Dazed at first she says not this again. He tells her it is more complicated. He asks if she has any document besides the deposit slip that would prove she won a contest. Well of course they gave her a diploma. He tells her to go get it. He will send someone over for it. (Who can he send out in this terrible storm).

We get a little respite from our lightning storm. Jaimie continues his little game of who’s your daddy, playing peek a boo to Vicky’s stomach. Vicky practically comatose during Jaimies baby chat wakes when he starts tickling her stomach cooing to the baby. She points to a little higher lifting her shirt oh so slyly and says “give him kisses here”. Jaimie abruptly sits up and seems surprised by this request. He gives a noisy pucker kiss to Vicky’s belly. The shirt is a little higher now, with Vicky telling Jaimie to give a little kiss right there. Jaimie obliges and gives another little kiss. Now Vicky is pointing to her neck and we get an "ah caray" from Jaimie and “in for a penny in for a pound,” we have moved up to the lips. Jaimie wants to make sure this is all for the baby. Vicky assures him the kisses will reach the baby. Jaimie reluctantly goes in for a kiss and his pulled down with gale strength force by Vicky. Jaimie finally comes too and asks Vicky what she’s doing. She is just trying to get all those sweet kisses to her baby. She tells him they both need his affection. She pretends to start crying as she rubs her stomach and Jaimie pleads with her not to cry and the kissing goes on.

Jaimie is interrupted by a phone call. When he realizes it is Rafa we see a guilt ridden Jaimie answering it. Rafa tells him to go get the “diploma” at his mother’s house and to bring it to Siglo as fast as he can. Jaimie tries to excuse himself from Vicky. She isn’t done with him yet and drags him back to the bed peppering him with more kisses. Jaimie manages to free himself from her. He tells her it isn’t safe in her house what with her crazy brothers and her father. He tells her to get better and off he goes. Vicky realizing game over, reaches for a magazine. And that folks is all the kissing we are getting to night.

Back to where the storm is intensifying, we see Rafa telling Ale he is waiting for the proof that will demonstrate the truth. Ale tells him that she will be waiting for him, as leaves the office to meet Jaimie. Zetina ambushes him. “Remember Me? “ Of course he does but now is not a good time, his head is not in the right place for this. Come back tomorrow. Now Ramirez is after him wanting news about the meeting. Rafa informs him, that today there will be no meeting, so go get to work. Claudia, one not to miss out on the opportunity for some good gossip or some good gossip spreading, approaches Ramirez and tells him something smells funny here. Some new “boss crisis“ perhaps?

Susana has now entered Ale’s office and Ale is filling her in on all the details about Rafa trying to sell the house. Susana wants to know if she really thinks Rafa could be capable of doing such a thing. “Poor Ale” is trying her hardest to believe in him, but all the evidence points to the contrary. She doesn’t know what to do. (It’s called faith in your man honey). Thank goodness she didn’t tell her family she was seeing Rafa before she found out about this. She explains how Frank showed up with the documents. How her family found out and they made her call Marco to handle the whole mess. I will hand it to Ale she was not happy to get Marco involved again.


Frank and Chavez are at Marcos enjoying the “open bar” when Marco shows up and chews them out for drinking all his expensive whiskey. The noise frightens Frank and he falls off his chair. Chavez invites him to join in on the celebration. After all he is the main beneficiary of all their hard work. But with his finest whiskey. (Okay I hate these guys, but oh how I love hating them. They are pretty funny all in one room together.) Chavez brings a drink to Marco and tells him to congratulate Frank. Marco reluctantly tells him he did a good job. Frank not one to miss out on a good firm hand shake stands to offer his hand. Marco isn’t falling for this. Then Frank says well then let me give you a hug. Marco definitely doesn’t want any part of this but too late. It is a done deal as Frank squeezes the stuffing out of Marco, as we hear sound effects of broken bones and see Marcos very red face. (Well done Frank!!)

Rafa meets Jaimie outside Siglo who has brought the “diploma” Rafa asked for. He explains the whole mess to Jaimie. He says with this “diploma” he is about to be saved. Jaimie tries to warn him that this document really doesn’t prove anything. Rafa ever optimistic says don’t tell me that and asks him to go back to his house and wait with Lenora. Rafa blesses himself and kisses the document as he reenters a much stormier climate.


Ale is still crying to Susana. Susana tells her to handle this situation very carefully so as to not cause any damage to her relationship with Rafa. Ale tells her Rafa is upset with her for doubting him. Rafa enters with the document and hands it to Ale. Ale takes one look at it and asks him how long did it take them to make up the diploma. Rafa says “what?“ She accuses him of making it up in their house in five minutes. She tells him to quit messing with her. Poor Rafa hit by yet another lighting bolt tells her isn’t messing with her. It is the document Lenora gave him. Ale tells him it is just a piece of garbage. She tells him he is betraying her. Rafa swears he isn’t. She tells him that this diploma doesn’t prove anything.

Rafa thinking very hard, tells, her to call the radio station. Ale says okay she will try to believe him, and asks Susana to call the radio station. The call comes through and Ale listens in . The women says there never was a contest. They are not that type of radio station. Radio De Nota does not have contests. Ale is crushed, Rafa is beyond disbelief. Ale tells him to hang up. Rafa calls Lenora back. He asks her if she remembers anything else. Ale tells Rafa to have her describe the man who showed up. The description is identical to the description of the man who came to Ale’s house. Lenora is now in tears and wants to know what is going on. Ale is in the background certain that Lenora tried to sell the house. (the thunder is now so loud and near). Lenora is crying and wants to know what is going on. Rafa tells Lenora he isn’t sure what is going on. Ale is shouting she sold the house , why are you betraying me more, she sold the house.


Rafa hangs up telling ale that he need to talk to this guy that says he brought their house. “There is something not right about this. This guy pulled one over on Lenora.” Ale angrily tells Rafa to quit messing around. Do you think this guy would just give Lenora 200,000 pesos for nothing? She asks him if he is still going to deny all of this. Rafa assures her he is going to investigate this. Ale stops him and says “Look there are two possibilities. Your mother sold the house and you didn‘t know anything about it or your mother sold the house with you knowing all about it.” Rafa tells Ale that Lenora would never do anything like this behind his back. Then Ale says well then she did it with your consent. Rafa screams that didn‘t happen neither. He starts to leave and Ale accuses him of planning all of this while they were in Cocoyoc. To seduce her and then sell the house, hoping she wouldn’t do anything because they were novios. Rafa asks her how she could even think of something like that. She pleads with him (I think) to tell her the truth.

Rafa is destroyed and asks her for the papers. She hands them to him and tells him not to waste his time with calling her. She has a lawyer. Rafa asks who and Ale says Marco. Rafa can‘t believe she would call him. Ale tells him her family made her contact him. She would never do something like that to him on her own. She tells him Marco talked to Frank. Rafa tells her he will talk to Marco. Ale says I don‘t want to hear this and Rafa assures her he will talk to him alone. Rafa leaves a distraught Ale crying painfully alone. This was very hard to watch.


Okay I had to take a little break, my sister called and I needed a strong drink and a good chat before I could finish this. So it might get a little sketchy from here on out.

Lenora is telling Julieta that this woman was yelling at Rafa that she had sold the house. She was furious and was treating Rafa very badly. Julieta asks Lenora what Rafa said. She tells her he was very quiet and worried. And trying to figure this whole thing out. She tells her Ale is accusing them of some really horrible things. She is crying and says it is all her fault. Julieta reminds Lenora that Rafa wasn’t here when this all happened and it would be hard for him to try and explain it to Ale. Lenora wonders if it would help if she called Ale and tried to explain things. This was not a good idea.

Susana has entered Ale’s office. Susana wants to know what happened. Ale says there is nothing left to do. She shows Susana the “diploma” Rafa gave her. She says he still can’t explain the house deal. She says it a fake, anyone could have made it up. (Even our dunce Marco perhaps?) Susana admits that the paper is a fake. Ale informs Susana that Rafa told her this is the proof that Lenora won the 200,000 pesos from a contest. She says he is either very naïve or thinks she is an idiot. Or at best, Lenora sold the house without him knowing about it. At this point Susana tells Ale that Lenora is on the phone and wants to talk with her. Ale wants to know what she would want to talk to her for her. (Duh? The house maybe). Susana tells her it is probably to clear up all this misunderstanding. Anyway it is important. Ale has not lost her sense of sarcasm and tells Susana “yea something important’ and takes the call.

Lenora tells her there appears to be a misunderstanding between them regarding the contest. Ale interrupts her and rudely says “ No there was no misunderstanding. Your son called and explained everything very clearly. You tried to sell your house and had no right to do that“. Lenora tries to explain that she won a contest and sent the document that stated this. Ale says the document is a fake and there was no radio station that gives out prizes. Lenora defends herself and says she is certain of what she won. Ale says yes it was the same man who came to my house and gave her the papers that she signed selling the house. She tells Lenora she is tired of all of this. She tells her to stop trying to convince her the money was from a contest. She is not that naïve and is getting offended that they think she would believe such a story.

Lenora is now offended that Ale would doubt her honesty let alone Rafa’s. Lenora tells her she will not permit her to treat her like a thief. Ale shoots back and I won’t permit you to treat me like an idiot and slams the phone down. Susana chews Ale out for loosing it like that. She reminds her that after all the sale did not go through. They can just return the money and be done with it. Ale says no way. Do you understand what is going on here? Susana tries compassion, and says Lenora made a mistake. Ale says I believed in this man 100 percent, now I am starting to think the worse. Maybe Rafa is with me just for the money. (I was sick when she said this. Why wouldn’t she ever think this about Marco). Now she doesn’t know what to do. Susana advises her to take some time to think about this. Ale says she has and he hasn’t come up with anything to convince her otherwise. Susana again pleads with her. She tells Ale she believes in Rafa and to just wait and hopefully she will see this is all just a mistake. She tells Susana she couldn’t beg for any more than for this to be all a mistake.

We are now at Marco’s. Frank is polishing off his whiskey. The phone rings and Marco warns everyone to be quiet because now begins the third act (fase tres part or scene) Medina. Rafa is in the Siglo bathroom and wants to know if he is talking to Marco. Marco wants to know if he is taking with the swindling (estafodor) criminal. Rafa tells him he is not a crook nor a swindler and he will prove that they are all wrong.

We start hearing this "showdown at the okay corral" type music. Marco informs Rafa that this will be impossible to prove and that Lenora is up to her neck (cuello) in problems. Marco tells him he is wasting his time if he is calling him to convince him otherwise. Rafa tells him he is not calling for that. He was told by Ale he needed to deal with him in order to clear up this whole house incident. Marco corrects him and says “incident, no this was fraud” ( estafa). “and yes you do have to deal with me. You will no longer be able to continue to fool (embaucando to fool or swindle ) Ale or her family. Rafa says fine then where should we meet. The music continues as Rafa reaches for a paper towel from the dispenser to note the directions. (I only point this out as I am always using paper towels from a patients bathroom if I have to write down something important.) Marco hangs up quite pleased with his master plan looking very much like Snidely Whiplash. He hangs up and tells Frank the final part is coming. Frank reminds him the final part is when he gets paid. Marco tells him he will get paid when he finishes his job.

Jaimie is trying to sort things out back at Rafa’s house. Lenora says Ale treated them like they were thieves. She can’t believe this. She thought things were getting better. Julieta says God set him free from the clutches of this women who made Rafa’s life impossible. This gives Jaimie the opportunity to sell the fine attributes of Vicky. Julieta says yea “here comes the devil and has put Rafa in the middle of both of them”. Lenora however, thinks Jaimie might have something there. Vicky after all loves him and respects him, even though she does have her faults (can you think of any?). She explains that since Rafa has become involved with Ale he has forgotten all about Vicky.

Rafa has called Jaimie to see how things are going. Jaimie tells him that Lenora called Ale and things didn’t go so well. Rafa tells Jaimie that on top of everything else he now has to deal with Marco. Jaimie warns him to be careful. Rafa asks Jaimie to check this Frank fellow out giving him all the details on how to reach him.

Rafa is still in the bathroom when Beltran comes looking for him. He wants to know what he is doing in the bathroom so calmly. He reminds him he needs to get to the meeting. Rafa says he has important things to deal with and will get to it tomorrow. Beltran tells him I don’t live for tomorrow. I live for today. Than he inquires about the Celeste deal. Rafa tells him he has a meeting with her today. Beltran warns him if he shows up empty handed there will be no tomorrow for him at Siglo. (Another zap of lightihg).

There is some more Ale family stuff here, and Quintana shows up for Rosario. Jorge wants to know what is going on with the whole house “incident”. Rosario assures him that Marco will take care of everything. Quintana even manages to ask Rosaura to go steady with him.

Rafa shows up at the restaurant where Marco is waiting for him. Rafa walks over to him and throws the papers down and says “I am here lawyer.“ Marco trying to play suave and cool invites Rafa to sit down. Rafa is not up for this crap. Marco advises him to not be so arrogant (altanero). Rafa says what do you want. Marco says what are you up to? Selling your house and hoping to keep the money? Or are you trying to take advantage of Ale in hopes that she will lift the lien against the house. Rafa says neither and insists that Lenora did not try to sell the house. Marco tells him he has proof that states otherwise.

Then Marco asks Rafa if he knows his rights. Rafa says he is a salesman not a lawyer. Marco tells him to consult with who ever he cares to. He then spells it out to Rafa. Lenora is in big trouble. Showing him all the papers Lenora signed. Trying to sell the house, faking papers that said it was clear of liens and we all know the rest by heart. Marco says to Rafa holding the papers “is this not Lenora’s signature? Is this not Lenora’s house?” Rafa tries to put a but in there and this is kangaroo court, no buts allowed as Marco asks if he has proof to the contrary. He goes on to tell Rafa what Lenora did was a crime. There are penalties for this, maybe even jail time.

Rafa stops him and says, “No way lawyer, I am not that naïve. We will cancel the sale. Give back the money. And that will be the end of it“. Marco says not so fast here. Only if my client accepts this. How convenient that Marco represents Mr. Vega (alias Frank) And how convenient that Mr. Vega has signed a paper that gives Marco full power of attorney regarding this affair. He tells Rafa that his client is outraged and wants Lenora in Jail. Rafa tells him to forget that. Marco smugly remarks try and stop me.

Time for Rafa to lawyer up. Unfortunately the only almost lawyer he knows is Jaimie who is having a difficult time in locating Mr. Vega. And a very difficult time trying to get a rock out of his shoe. Rafa tells Jaimie something is not quite right here. How could this guy disappear so fast. After all if this guy could recover his money what would he gain by causing all this fuss. Rafa says there is something very suspicious about all this and the worse part is that Marco is threatening him with the fact that Lenora could go to jail. Rafa asks Jaimie if he could do that? Jaimie says that if she did what they say she did she could go to jail and for a very long time. Rafa tells Jaimie to stay close to his phone he will get back to him.

Rafa has returned to Marco‘s table. Marco tells Rafa not to waste his time trying to contact his client. He has left the city for good. “I am in charge and have accepted this with great happiness." Rafa asks Marco how far would he go to persecute him? Marco denies this. He then says to Rafa I want to see your face when your mother goes to jail. Rafa has finally figured out Marco’s game. He asks Marco what he wants. He says “It is easy, give me the money and give me Ale. It is Ale or your Mother. I want you to tell Ale it is over.

Batten down the hatches. The hurricane has made landfall and it is called Hurricane Marco. And I am off to seek refuge.

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