Caray, Caray!

Capítulo 156: In which Marisa tries to find a way to help her daughter, but keeps blocking the path with her giant ego; Zein finds a shark to defend Dora; Lucas gets a mini-makeover; and Jade, still single, returns to Miami.

Clara tells the security guard at her gated community not to let Fernando back in and asks for his discretion about her troubles – you know how these neighbors are!

At her restaurant, Gloria asks Alej indignantly:
¿Es cierto lo que me dijo Ramoncito, que te vas a ser papá?
Is it true what Ramoncito told me, that you’re going to be a father?

At Casa Ferrer, Marisa peeks in on Nati. Nati tells her she wants to get better and Marisa promises to help her.

Enrique: An addict can destroy the very best of families. And no meaningful recovery is possible without the addict’s complete buy-in.

Marisa to Natalia:
No te preocupes, estás aquí en los brazos de tu mamá y nada malo te va a pasar.
Don’t worry, you’re here in your mother’s arms and nothing bad is going to happen to you.

Marisa tells Lucas she’d like to take Natalia to a clinic in Orlando. Don’t you want to talk to Enrique about it? asks Lucas.

Enrique has been listening to Rosa chatter about her favorite topic, the reincarnated Diego. When Marisa and Lucas join him, he tries to make them understand that they can’t control the process of recovery. The fundamental effort must be Natalia’s. Marisa is offended by the idea that there’s something she can’t control.

At Mohamed’s place, Latifa and Samira are arguing about using a veil. Samira says she won’t end up like her Aunt Jade because she intends to study and work so she can be independent. Once again, Mohamed blames Latifa for Samira’s refusal to wear a veil, and once again says that she failed to teach her daughter anything.

The phone rings. It’s Tío Abdul inviting Mohamed to Fez on business. He tells Abdul he’ll be there in two weeks. We’re going to Fez? asks Latifa. No, corrects Mohamed, I’m going to Fez.

At Alí’s house in Fez, Jade stands happily before a mirror as she gets ready for her wedding. When Said appears, she asks: ¿Lllego el sheik? (Has the sheik arrived?). No, el sheik no va a venir. Cancelé nuestra boda. (No, the sheik’s not coming. I cancelled our wedding.). Come to Miami, says Said, be close to Jadiya, but let’s postpone the marriage until we are sure.

At Salamandra, Zein asks Rogelio if he and Clara broke up. No, says Rogelio, and he’s quite uncomfortable with the way things are, especially his hasty and impulsive invitation to Malicia to go to Paris with him. He and Malicia aren’t even friends. Go to Paris with her and I’m sure you’ll become friends, advises Zein. (Boo, hiss!!!)

Enter Cris and Dora looking for Zein. They’d like him to read a document and explain it to them.

Malicia tells Pablo that she has to go to Paris. It's for her job. She tried to get someone to go in her place, but couldn’t manage to find anyone.

Gloria sets off in full matriarchal plumage to confront her nemesis, Marisa (la cabeza de fósforo.)

Zein is explaining the document to Dora and Cris: Leo is seeking to nullify Daniel’s birth certificate and have himself declared legal father and his deceased wife Isabel, his legal mother.

Girl reporter Amalia has tracked down Roberto and wants to interview him and Leo about the clone. He backpedals – you know Albieri and his crazy ideas, he says. He is rescued from his own stupidity when his cell phone rings – You couldn’t have called at a more opportune moment, he tells his obsessive wife as escapes from Amalia.

And at the Del Valle home, Andrea mentions to her mother that Nati is entering rehab voluntarily. Lucia didn’t know because Marisa is still not talking about it, even to her best (really, her only) friend.

In Fez, Alí tells Jade not to be sad; it’s all for the best. And she does seem calm until she steps outside and notices Daniel staring at her, and holding her necklace in his outstretched palm. Then her eyes widen with fear.

At the Casa Ferrer, Rosa urges Lucas to eat something:
No has probado bocado en todo el día.
You haven’t had a bit to eat all day.
But Lucas is still in his “forty’s no fun when your 20-year-old self is there reminding you of your failure and ready to steal your life” mood. He leaves.

Shouldn’t Nati go to the doctor? asks Rosa sensibly. Marisa has asked the doctor to come to see her in the house. She is trying to figure out a way to get Natalia away from Miami, and in particular, away from Alejandro. [After everything that has happened, she is still blaming him for Natalia’s addiction.]

Marisa goes to her daughter’s room. Do you need anything? No. Do you want to go look at baby clothes with me? No. Do you want to take a trip with me, anywhere you want? ¡No insistas, mamá! No quiero nada. (Stop insisting, mom, I don’t want anything.)

Clara is talking on her cell phone as she walks through the scary drug barrio looking for Fernando. She’s asking Caro to make excuses for her at work. Enrique takes the phone from Caro and tells Clara she’s going about things the wrong way. She needs to find a group for support. (Good advice, but lousy timing. This is the time to get Clara to a safe place.)

Just then, Clara spots Paula. Paula tells her she and Fernando were fighting – look at this bruise on my forehead – and she called the police. They took him away but she’s not sure where. Were they downtown? At the beach?

Daniel rejoins his tour group in Fez. He asks the guide, Guillermo, how long a clone can live. I think you’ve been in the sun too long, he answers in befuddlement.

Lucas is looking at the window display of a clothing store in Miami.

Daniel is looking at pendants at a stall in Fez.

Lucas is in a barberchair: Is that the look you wanted? asks the barber.

Back at Salamandra, Zein is going to refer Dora to a lawyer who can help her.

Apparently that lawyer is named Cecilia Levi. Or that’s what Roberto has heard, and, he tells Leo, she is a force to be reckoned with. Enrique advises Leo that it would be better to settle the matter out of court. A court proceeding not only would bring unwanted notoriety, it would harm Albieri. But Leo insists on proceeding. Daniel is going to bear his name!

Dora and Estela are home when they get a call from Daniel: he is on his way home.

When Clara gets back to the office, she tells Caro what Paula said. But she has looked at several police stations and hasn’t been able to find him.

Enter Lucas sporting a white polo shirt and a new haircut. You look twenty years younger, the women tell him.

And what about Paris? asks Caro as the friends resume their conversation. No, says Clara, how can I go? I’m a disaster as a woman and mother. Even so, Clara admits that she loves Rogelio and doesn’t want to lose him. She wants to tell him the truth.

Mohamed is home with his family. He offers to take Samira to buy a cell phone – provided she wears her veil. She refuses. Mohamed and Amin go ahead leaving Samira behind. Samira tells her mother that she is sure Allah would not want custom or belief imposed by force on anyone.

Latifa is stewing about Mohamed’s plans to go to Fez without her. She’s afraid Abdul will push him to take a second wife. When the Naz comes in, Latifa begs her to talk to her brother and try to persuade him to take Latifa with him on his trip. The Naz can be in charge of the household in her absence. The Naz, rather nastily, agrees to consider it.

Rosa announces to Marisa that Alejandro’s mother has arrived. Tell her I’m not here, snaps Marisa. She’s not here to see you, she’s here for Natalia. And after all, the baby is her grandchild, says Rosa.

Gloria walks in and at first her gaze wanders as she takes in the wealth on display. But she is as focused as a laser when she enters Natalia’s room. If you still have any brain cells working, warns Gloria, you’d better stay away from that garbage. And after the baby is born, if you can’t take care of it, then I will, she promises. I’ll raise the kid just like I raised my baby.

Credits roll

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