Caray, Caray!

Much of our show tonight was about a bunch of good intentioned people and some not so good intentioned people that have too much time on their hands to make a mountain out of a molehill. Unless you want to read about a lot of nonsense that happened tonight, I suggest you just read the good parts with Rafa and Ale and skip everything else. So let’s get to the forest and see how Ale is doing.

We find an injured Ale face down on the ground with a coyote howling to the full moon in the background. We quickly transition to another coyote (Daniel) who is meeting with his sister Muskrat. She is not pleased that he has put her in the midst of his scraps. ( no me gusta que me metas en tus broncas). He is on to a new conquest and wants her to accompany him and Marian to a restaurant than casually leave so he can be alone with his next prey. We then get our famous split screen ploy of Daniel thinking to himself “I wonder what ever happened with Ale. I didn‘t run into her on my way back. Did she make it back okay to the office?” and Ale lying in pain alone in the dark crying sorrowfully.

Daniel shrugs off this fleeting thought of decency as Chespis ushers them into Marians office. There the two of them team up and bully poor Marian into going to dinner with them.

Back in the dark forest, we see Ale on the ground pleading for help. Another attempt at her cell phone proves futile. She can’t get a signal and is unable to move. And we quickly move to Claudia pumping the General for information about Marco wondering why he is still at Siglo. The General informs her she doesn’t have a clue, all she is worried about is Rosaura. She left a long time ago to talk with Doña Arcadia and hasn’t returned. Claudia chides her and tells her not to make such a fuss about nothing (no hagas tormenta en un vaso de agua / literally don’t make a thunderstorm in a glass of water).

A disgusted General leaves as Claudia makes a phone call to Marco. Marco does not seem overly pleased to hear from her. She tells him she is leaving and wants to know if he wouldn’t want to accompany her to her apartment. Marco tells her he can’t. Claudia replies “You can’t or you don’t want too?” Marco tells her “Neither of the two. I am waiting for my wife.” Claudia (whose lipstick by the way matches the color of her phone , blazing red) laughs as she taunts Marco telling him Ale is more than likely with Rafa. And if she is cheating on him well than he might as well cheat on her. Marco more disgusted at Claudia’s suggestion than tempted hangs up.

Susana now aware of Marco‘s frustration wants to know if something’s wrong. Marco yells at her telling her to find Rafa and Ale. Well we know where Ale is. She continues to lie face down on the ground unable to move. We also know where Rafa is. He is trudging through the tall grasses trying to locate Ale, calling her name out. Ale is trying to muster strength to get up as we see Rafa continue his search in the dark. Ale has managed to prop her self up part way only to discover a huge spider (I swear it was a tarantula) crawling closer to her.



Ale starts screaming louder for help as Rafa is still fumbling around and has suddenly heard her scream for help. He starts yelling back at her “Where are you? Yell back so I can find you.” We see the creepy crawler inch closer to Ale. Rafa hearing her starts running towards her voice and yep, he trips face down nose to nose with the tarantula.

We get a little breather here with Rosaura who is as blitzed as the Hindenburg chatting away with Doña Arcadia. More motherly wisdom pours from her mouth as she councils Rosaura and plies her with liquor.. And I really will just leave it at that. We have a damsel in distress who needs to be rescued.

None other than Rafa to the rescue. In panic mode he tells Ale to not move (as if she could) and picks up the offending arachnid and puts it aside. He then goes to Ale and properly sweeps her up in his arms to take her to a safer place. Once on safer ground we get what we have all been waiting months for, a very sweet tender kiss. Rafa than takes his coat off and puts it around Ales shoulders, telling her they need to get her to a hospital. Ale smiling, tells him not to worry and graciously thanks him and once again our gallant hero picks her up and carries her off.

More Siglo gossip as everyone is wondering how Doña Arcadia got wind of Rosaura’s husband showing up and sparring with Pepito. Marino chimes in that “This old lady has a pact with the devil. I don’t know how else she could figure out what goes on here.” Ramirez is certain she has a spy amongst them. Bebe adds “It’s like she hears and sees everything” (si todo lo viera y todo lo oyera). At that instant Trapito, arms pull of waste baskets, happens by. He is summoned forward and the crew accusingly ask him how it is that Doña Arcadia found out about the fight between Rosaura’s husband and Pepito. Trapito stutters and stammers that he doesn’t have a clue. He only knows that she asked him to get Rosaura. Marino grabs him and threatens him telling him if he is spying he better be careful or he could wake up floating in Texcoco (puedes amanecer flotando en Texcoco). Trapito wises off to Marino then splits. Ramirez wants to know if he could actually do something like that to Trapito. Marino answers “Of course not, but when one threatens you have to be forceful and serious to be respected.” then casually tells everyone so long and takes off.

Rafa is carrying Ale to the car and she asks “Your not going to drop me?” Poor Rafa, responds “how could you think that? I am incapable of hurting you.” He puts her down and Ale patting the car says she never thought she would be so happy to see the Pantera again. Rafa tells her “even though you don’t like it, it adores you.” and helps her in the car. He tells her she should be honored to be getting in this car.

Rafa has now gotten in the car and Ale wants to know how he found her. Rafa tells her “I take care of you as if you were mine” (yo te cuido como si fueras mia). He continues “I couldn’t let anything happen to you.” We get a very bright smile from Ale. Which doesn’t last very long as Rafa attempts to start the car. He is pleading with it to start ( arranca) and we soon discover it is out of gas. Ale gets a little irate and says “Why me? Why? Why are things with you never normal? Why do things with you always turn into misfortune.?” Rafa turns to her and answers “ perhaps this is a great opportunity for us to be together so I can try and demonstrate how much I love you.” Ale gives a cute ira ira and Rafa responds the same.

More time with worried relatives as Jorge and Rosario are discussing Ale’s disappearance. Jorge seems a little cranky tonight and gets even crankier when Quintana shows up. Quintana inquires how his memory is doing. Jorge answers “Bad very bad” and calls him by the wrong name. Quintana reminds Jorge that the family’s happiness doesn’t depend on finding the money. He turns to Rosario and tells her they should set a date for their wedding. Rosario tells him this isn’t a good time to talk about their wedding. Quintana want’s to know why not and she tells him Ale is missing.

Our missing Ale is asking Rafa what they should do. She reminds him it is quite dangerous to be out on the roads late at night. The conversation soon turns into an argument about Ale being out with Daniel. Ale tells him that Doña Arcadia made her take the car for a test drive for Daniel. She was against the idea. She reminds him that Daniel is an important client and a friend of Doña Arsenic (can’t blame that one on spell check). Rafa tells her if Daniel were here he would knock his teeth out (que se trague los dientes /literally means to swallow his teeth). We get another cute Ale grin at the thought of this.

Ale suggests that instead of just staying there why not go to the cabin (cabaña/hut or cabin) that is really close by. Rafa wants to know how she would know there is a cabin close by. Ale quickly explains because Daniel took her there and that’s where she ran away from him and hurt herself. Rafa now a little irate wants to know what that jerk did to her. He wants to know if he made a pass at her (sobrepassar/I’m just guessing at that). Ale explains she wasn’t exactly certain what his intentions were but she thought it best if she got out of there. Rafa tells her “Who knows what might have happened if I hadn’t overheard you were going to go with him.” Now it is Ale‘s turn as she says “Now the truth comes out” (ya salio el peine / literally now the comb comes out). “You were listening in on my conversation.” We get a cute little argument about eavesdropping.

More Siglo time. Dandy is ready to leave but Susan is all worried about Ale. Are circle of worry grows as Pepito and Ramiro decide to go to Rafa’s house and get Lenora all worried about Rafa missing. Rosaura has finally left Doña Arcadia’s free bar and grill and is confronted by the General. She tells her all about the little chat they had and how she should confront Old Gab. They both agree this would be the best time to confront him. (Or something like that). The General than escorts a barely coherent Rosaura to her apartment.

Back to things that matter. Rafa and Ale finally make it to the cabin. Rafa has carried her all the way to the front door with Ale begging pardon for the fact he had to carry her. He sets her on a bench asking if she is certain this is the right place. Ale answers “Yes my love“. (Did you all catch how naturally Ale said that?) Ale than asks if he if is tired from all the heavy lifting and Rafa tells her yes than proudly says “How much better would it be if you were my wife and I were carrying you into our house.” Spoil sport Ale takes the flash light and shines it in his face saying “Listen I am a married women.” Rafa tells her “Yea I know you have only told me no less than two thousand nine hundred ninety-three times.” Ale smiling, corrects him and says “Ninety-four.” Rafa’s answer was priceless as he tells her “Do you think that just for that I would stop loving you?” The cold has gotten to both of them and Ale remembers where the key is hidden and Rafa picks her up yet and again and carries her across the threshold.

There is this strange scene now with Daniel, Marian and Muskrat at the restaurant. As promised Muskrat tells them she has to leave and Daniel is left alone with Marian.

Back at Siglo where Susana thinks it is time to call the police. Marco starts ranting on about Rafa and if he is out with Ale he will have him thrown in Jail. Dandy tries to calm him down saying they could be stranded out on the highway without a phone. Marco is not buying this. He thinks there is something fishy going on. “Neither on of the two told anyone where they were going. This is very strange.” Susana disagrees with Marco and tells them both Ale and Rafa are very responsible. She than accuses Marco of feigning his worry. He tells Susana that he knows she would be very happy if Ale sent him packing so she could be with Rafa. Dandy has now become annoyed with how Marco is talking to his Nonecita and touches Marco on the arm chastising him for his behavior. Marco looking disgusted tells Dandy not to touch him then asks what kind of a name his Nonecita. Dandy tries to explain it is his pet name for her and a little argument ensues between Susana and Dandy. Then more arguing amongst the three of them. Finally Susana suggests they all just calm down.

That lasted a second as Marco goes off again on a rant about Rafa being off with his wife. The whole gang is here now with Ramiro and Pepito checking in and informing them that Lenora doesn’t have a clue where Rafa is. More Marco rant which is interrupted by Doña Arcadia who is about to leave. Susana explains to her what is going on and it is decided that she should just call Daniel and ask about Ale. After all she sent Ale out with him this morning to test drive a car. Daniel informs them that he hasn’t seen her for at least five hours. He is explaining his version of what happened . They went to the cabin in Cuernavaca and Ale just decided to leave on her own. We see Marian intently listening to Daniel.

After Daniel hangs up Marian asks him what is going with Doña Arcadia. Daniel tells her she called to ask about a car he is interested in buying. Marian wants to know what Ale has to do with this. Daniel wants to know how she knows Ale. Marian continues with her questions and Daniel explains that she brought the car over for him to test drive. They went to the cabin and when he went to get the papers she went crazy. He tells Marian he doesn’t have a clue what happened. She just left and disappeared. Marian asks if any one talked to Rafa. Daniel wants to know what he has to do with anything. Marian tells him that they work together and sometimes they are “Very” together. Daniel says “Isn’t Ale married?“
Marian tells him she is but since when does that pose a hindrance to go out with a friend.? Daniel mutters “How interesting. I would never imagined this carnival signer to be so appealing” (I think that’s what he said.) Marian asks him if he is jealous? He tells her “Not at all. Each to his own territory. Rafa might be able to conquer with song, but I have my own abilities.” He then sashes and sways as if he were charming and asks Marian if she wants to dance. Marian declines.

Back to Siglo where everyone continues to be worried about the disappearance of Ale and Rafa. And our circle of worry has turned into a three ring circus as Dandy, Pepito, Susana, Ramirez and Marco as our master of ceremonies decides to go out and look for them.

Finally we have some alone time with Rafa and Ale. Rafa has started a toasty fire and sits down on the sofa where Ale is lying down. He starts rubbing her injured ankle with some horse liniment (?) (It looked like a jar of carmex to me) but he does this with such love and care. He asks her if she wants him to make her some coffee. Ale sweetly says later and sits up next to Rafa and asks him to hug her. They are snuggling next to each other when Ale says “Rafa can you imagine what might have happened to me if you hadn’t shown up?” Rafa responds “Don’t think like that. I would never leave you alone even though you have told me a thousand times you are married. Do you know what? I finally after a lot of time understand that God put me in your path to take care of you, to love you , to always be at your side. Ale joyfully thanks God . Rafa than tells Ale “Are you aware that I could never live without you. And that everything I do, I do it because I love you?” Ale weakly protests and Rafa softly puts his fingers to her mouth and tells her not to say anything just enjoy the moment. (Yes lets all just enjoy this moment.) We end with our theme song and a very passionate kiss.

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