Caray, Caray!

Escobar, si te vas de esta casa, te lo juro que no vuelves a entrar.
Escobar, if you leave this house, I swear to you that you won't enter it again, says Clara after objecting to the Chump 'lending' their savings to the supposedly homeless Alicia. The Chump makes his choice and leaves. Clara reinforces her position by throwing his possessions off of the balcony much to the amusement of Alicia and the neighbors.

Zoraida arrives at Said's house and Jade hustles her off to her room. Jade tells Zoraida that Said has made her a prisoner and she can't go out or call out. Zoraida replies that she knew something was wrong. Jade hatches a plan to have Zoraida pretend to call Ali when in reality she would call Lucas and somehow pass the information about Jade's circumstances. Just as well that this plan doesn't materialize because Lucas would be too dimwitted to figure out what is going on.

Rania tells Amina about Jade's promise to make her first wife but Amina warns Rania not to trust Jade.

Osvaldo and Dora have gotten married and are having a reception in Cristina's club. Daniel looks very sullen but Dora and Osvaldo are happy.

Cristina and Vicki are running late for the party. There's a knock at the door and it's Pablo who is going to the party with Vicki. Cristina and Pablo seem much taken with one another. Back at the party, two old homies of Osvaldo who have come to the party discuss the fact that Osvaldo can't father a child in Daniel's hearing. [These are the same guys that gave Dora the same information.] Daniel confronts Dora with what he heard.
Por el amor de Dios, no me vayas a arruinar el matrimonio, ¿si?
Mamá, tú me estás arruinando la vida.
For the love of God, you're not going to ruin my wedding, right? says Dora.
Mother, you are ruining my life, replies Daniel, who like most young people, is totally self centered.

Ay Mamá Rosa, sentí como una mezcla de sentimentos: tristeza, rabia, ansiedad.
Ah, Mama Rosa, I felt such a mix of feelings: sadness; rage; anxiety, says Lucas as he picks up Daniel's emotions the same way he did Diego's. Rosa thinks it might be Diego's spirit but Lucas doesn't believe that.

Daniel leaves the party [before Vicki and Cristina, who would recognize him as Lucas] arrive.

The Chump tells Alicia that his marriage to Clara is over and they kiss.

Fernando's concern upon learning that his parents have split is who will come to the launch of his band.

Alicia tells Luisa that she is going to live with Escobar.
Escobar es casado y su esposa es Clara.
Era. Porque quien está con Escobar ahora soy yo.
Escobar is married and his wife is Clara, says Luisa to Alicia as if she were slow on the uptake.
He was. Because the person with Escobar now is me, replies Alicia with malice.
Poor Luisa never seems to have heard of adultery or homewreckers. She is impactada.

Said catches Jade and Zoraida trying to make a phone call. Zoraida says that they are trying to call Ali. Said dials the number and gives them his cell phone. Zoraida indicates to Ali that there is a problem and he needs to come to Miami at once.

Said refuses to let Jade go to Mohamed's house with Zoraida and the rest of the family. Zoraida asks Said why he is treating Jade badly. Said replies that Zoraida is aware that he always treated Jade like a queen but she never appreciated it.
Hay mujeres que son así. No les gusta lo bueno.
There are women like that. They don't like good things, says Said.

Jade tells Zoraida that she can't take any more. Zoraida counsels waiting until Ali arrives. Jade justifies her behavior by saying that it wasn't a secret that she didn't want to get married and was still in love with Lucas. [And Said spent 20 years trying to win her love and all she did was treat him like dirt, secretly use a contraceptive and finally cheat on him with Lucas and now she's upset that he's had enough?]

At Mohamed's house, the Naz is spreading her usual sweetness and light. She compares Latifa and Jade unfavorably with Rania and then launches into the usual diatribe against her selfish brothers. The guests arrive including Amina.

Dora and Osvaldo return home after the wedding reception. Osvi says how happy he is to finally be the father of her son. Dora doesn't tell him what happened and asks to be left alone to think. She wonders where her baby is. He has apparently slept on the sidewalk.

Enrique tells Leo that there is no legal way for Leo to get control of Lucas' shares in the company unless Lucas gives them to Leo or Leo has Lucas declared mentally incompetent to manage them. Leo isn't accepting this and calls a meeting of his legal staff.

Everyone at the lab is shocked that Escobar and Alicia have shacked up.

Luisa calls Clara and commiserates. Clara is shocked to find out that Escobar is with Alicia.

Ali arrives in Miami and goes to Mohamed's house. Latifa pours out her troubles and Ali replies that he has come to put this house in order and he will do that.

Cristina is flirting with Pablo. When he goes to the bathroom, Vicki asks for a chance to get Pablo for herself before Cristina snares him. Cristina protests that she would never take a man from one of her friends.

Carolina confronts Enrique with his strange absences and asks if he has another woman. Enrique denies it and says that he just likes to be alone [with a bottle???] sometimes. He protests that he loves her a lot and wants to start a new life with her.

When Amina finds out that Said never lets Jade leave the house, she deduces that there are problems between Said and Jade and advises Rania to lock the door of her room so Jade can't use her telephone and get Rania into trouble.

When Said leaves with Rania and Amina for the dinner at Roberto's, Jade sees her chance to escape. Zoraida wants her to wait until Ali arrives but as usual she can't say no to Jade. Jade drugs the coffee for the guards, waits until the maid has gone to bed and escapes in a taxi with Jadiya.

At Roberto's Lucas greets Said cautiously. Said warns Lucas to be careful running on roofs in Morocco because he might be taken for a thief and in Morocco there are severe penalties for those who take things that don't belong to them. Lucas, of course, has no comeback to this and he just stares at Said.

Jade goes to Lucas' house and is told that he went out. Rosa, who evidently confined her sympathy for Jade to the past, has the guards tell Jade that Lucas has gone to New York. Then Jade shows up a Mohamed's house. Ali is there. When she tells him that Said is mistreating her, he says that he can take her back but not Jadiya. She isn't part of his 'blood.' She is of Said's blood. Even though she has been told this many times, this news appears to come as a shock to Jade.

The credits roll.

[I know, I know that for purposes of the story Jade has to behave like an idiot but here is what I would have Jade do: take her box of gold that Rania admired so much and go to one of those gold buying places. Now she has cash and both she and Jadiya are US citizens. She and Jadiya check into a hotel. The next morning she calls a lawyer, files for divorce from Said, gets a restraining order and informs the authorities that Said is a polygamist and has held her in his house against her will. Maybe Said would be deported. The downside is that there would be an ugly custody battle for Jadiya but at least it would happen in the US where women have rights.]

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