Caray, Caray!

At the restaurant, Gabriela and David crash and clash. Taking instant exception to one another, he demands to know why she's there, and she threatens to tell the owner if David bothers her. When her sister arrives, David learns Carlos hired Gabriela and counsels Julieta that her moron of a sister needs some manners. Gabriela's in a huff until Julieta reveals that David is an owner, too.

At Piedad's apartment, Elsa explains her boss is loaning the money for a good lawyer for Marcos -- and that she'll ask if he can help Juan Jose, too. Piedad tearfully regrets she has no money for lawyers, but Elsa is happy to try to help both if she can; and Piedad thanks her but worries it's unfair Elsa has to think about both instead of just her brother. Elsa likes Juan Jose a lot, she says.

Gabriela and Julieta arrive at their apartment after work, and Gabriela is sure she's going to get fired; but Julieta thinks if David were going to fire her, he would have already. Back at Piedad's, she confirms that Juan Jose is innocent and was accused by a wealthy man named Mario Genovés. At Gabriela's, Julieta worries that their dad will be angry to hear that Gabriela is now working for that family, too.

Next morning, David joins Alejandra at the Genovés mansion breakfast table, and they converse companionably. He's glad the girls came to live there and she inquires about business, which he says is problematic concerning their partners. She excuses her sister, Bertha, sleeping all day due to the death of their mother.

At Piedad's, she had a bad night with pain keeping her awake, and Elsa arranges a doctor visit, for which Piedad is very grateful. At the garment factory, Roberto fondles a mannequin while his dad explains about the sizable loan he's giving Elsa for her brother's lawyer -- with a wink, wink and nudge, nudge between them about the manner of repayment.

In the prison wood shop, Juan Jose tells Marcos that Gregorio spent 30 years in prison and picked up a skin disease there; and Marcos is taken aback to hear Gregorio's in for killing two men. Back at the restaurant, David barges into Carlos's office, complaining about their unfair business arrangement.

If they are going to meddle in the hotel side, then they have to accept his say on the restaurant side. Marcos warns David he'd better not mess with the agreements of the older partners. At Gabriela's, her father arrives home from his night watchman job, and sure enough he's upset to hear who she's working for now. But they need the money, she says.

At the Genovés mansion, Mario ponders photographs of a woman when Abelardo enters, and Mario instructs him to secure the trappings of a book seller. Santiago Guzmán loves reading, especially plays; and this approach would appeal to him. They need to confirm who the fellow at Márta's tomb is, even if he's changed his name, and that he has two daughters. Mario explains the man bears a debt to justice, that he was guilty of his wife's death. Abelardo goes wide-eyed when Mario reveals the reason he's interested is that one of the two girls is his own daughter.

At the Genovés mansion, when Berthe impatiently asks Alejandra, both dressed in black, how long they have to endure mourning, Alejandra guesses at least a month to show proper respect to their mother. Berthe is morbidly interested to hear in passing from Abelardo that Mario has a doctor's appointment and seems disappointed when Mario denies he's sick. When Alejandra hopes Mario gets better, Berthe clearly doesn't.

At Adolfo's luxury condo, Carlos is making himself a drink when somebody incessantly lays on the doorbell until Felix goes to answer, and it's Yolanda. She's there to pester Adolfo about cash for her new draperies, because his accountant has locked her out. Yolanda greets Carlos very warmly and staunchly defends him when Adolfo rakes him over the coals for being a weakling against David Genovés.

Yolanda objects to Adolfo's rudeness, insisting Carlos is a good boy and his only problem is having a father like Adolfo. Carlos doesn't understand why David can't be included in their business when they are joint owners, are they not?

But Adolfo is adamant that the Genovéses not meddle in the restaurant side and charges out, with Yolanda yelling at him that he'll be sorry if he mistreats his son! Felix turns to Yolanda and warns her one of these days Adolfo's going to get fed up with her; but Yolanda disagrees. He'll have to put up with her till she croaks, she says with a mysterious, knowing look.

At Piedad's, she is worried about Elsa paying for first the doctor and then the prescriptions; but Elsa convinces her with a likely tale of a pharmacy with a special discount. Elsa is also going to see Salomón about the loan now, and the thought of Juan Jose coming home pleases Piedad. At the prison, Gregorio visits the wood shop; and when Marcos disparages Gregorio's bloody skin disease, Gregorio surreptitiously and gleefully smashes Marcos's hand with a hammer.

Gabriela is just leaving her apartment when she encounters a "book salesman" inquiring for Santiago Guzmán. She doesn't know who that is, but the description the man gives sounds like her dad; she tells him her dad's name and suggests he come back later -- that her dad is sleeping and shouldn't be awakened as he works nights.

When Juan Jose returns to their cell, Gregorio swears the hammer attack was an accident and that Marcos is a liar. Unconvinced, Juan Jose nevertheless admits he couldn't say anything about the attack, since he didn't see it. When he warns Gregorio that Marcos is a tough guy, Gregorio's unimpressed; but he's so glad Juan Jose didn't rat him out that he insists when they get out, he'll give Juan Jose a job.

Asked what he did to get in there, Juan Jose says he came from Veracruz to a restaurant and hotel in the federal district; one night a female employee was found raped and murdered, and he was blamed for it. Bitterly he explains that no matter how he denied it, nobody believed him. He was sentenced to 19 years, and he swears when he gets out of there, he's going to get back at them.

Fausto opens the front door at Gabriela's to find a book salesman who simply wants to leave a brochure and return the next day. In the prison yard, Juan Jose tries to dissuade Marcos from causing Gregorio trouble; Marcos only has two years left, and it's not worth it, he says. Juan Jose is suddenly past tired of being in prison. If he'd not stayed in that damned hotel, he wouldn't be in prison now.

He didn't know anything about the law; plus, it was his word against his boss's. When he gets out, he's going to get back at the people who did this to him -- and most of all, to his mother. Marcos points out, importantly, that it won't be any different when he gets out: Juan Jose will still be poor and his old boss will still be rich. Juan Jose frustratedly agrees.

Bertha continues her morbid interest in her uncle's health, as Mario returns home to the mansion from the doctor's appointment, and once again appears unhappy when he claims nothing is wrong. As the doorbell rings, she disgustedly yells for Dora to answer; and it's Adolfo, who charges right past Dora. He startles Mario, barging into his office, where he insists that Mario keep David's nose out of Adolfo's side of the business.

If Mario doesn't step in, then Adolfo will, he threatens. He'll tell him to pipe down unless he wants to see his father in prison, Adolfo claims; to which Mario objects that Adolfo well knows it was not he who killed Márta. Adolfo sneers and says all he knows is that he found Mario in front of the body and that Santiago was trying to protect him. Mario protests it was not him!

Look, Mario says, David only sees that as associates, they have rights, too. He doesn't know Adolfo has him under his thumb. Why don't they sever their relationship once and for all, he begs. Adolfo has made plenty of money, he points out. But Adolfo isn't buying it. They made a 20-year deal, which is up in six months; and they are sticking to it, Adolfo insists as he exits.

Adolfo almost runs over David on the way out, and when Mario follows in a moment, he has to explain why Adolfo was there. David is furious that his father knuckles under to Adolfo: not only is he meddling, but he's making decisions for them, as well! he claims. Are they equal partners or not? Well?

Mario can only looked stressed and nervous and claim he doesn't want problems, to which David points out that it's not Mario's problems, but his own! David begs his father to let him manage everything. He knows he's perfectly capable. David's not going to let Adolfo continue with this plan and much less the way he's managing it. David turns to his dad finally and asks -- what does Adolfo know? What's he blackmailing him with?

Abelardo enters at that moment and breaks the tension, allowing Mario to claim Adolfo has nothing on him and to go speak with Abelardo. In the office, he tells Mario the man's name from the cemetery is Fausto Guillén and that he has two daughters, which brings Mario upright with realization.

In their cell, when Gregorio asks Juan Jose what book he's reading, it turns out to be The Count of Monte Cristo (a story with a prison sentence, a disguise and a treasure). But Gregorio needs to talk, and he mentions he has no family except a sister he hasn't seen in a long time. He looks around surreptitiously and says he knows where a treasure is: mountains of gold!

He found out about it from some rare book fanatics who liked to look up old stories and told him about it. Those are the two guys he killed -- and now he's the owner of all of it! Gregorio cackles. Even with prison and the skin disease, it's still worth it! He can hardly sleep at night thinking of how rich he's going to be when he gets out!

Gregorio is momentarily taken aback when Juan Jose asks what happens if someone else finds it in the meantime? But no. Gregorio is sure nobody will -- it's buried like eight meters underground. Juan can't help but laugh when he realizes Gregorio has never even seen the treasure. And dismayed to think he killed two guys for something he doesn't even know exists! But Gregorio swears it exists! It must be there! he desperately insists.

David is antagonized to see Robert show up at his house; but reluctantly accepts the news that he's Alejandra's boyfriend, come to pick her up. The two men don't socialize at their homes; and when Alejandra disappears to get Roberto a drink, David threatens that she may not know what he's like, but he does -- and Roberto had better never do anything to hurt her.

When she returns Alejandra learns Roberto has movie tickets and wonders if her uncle would think ill of her for going to the movies during mourning. David doesn't think so, but Roberto feigns concern and facetiously says Mario is the man he most admires in life, to which David looks daggers at him.

After Roberto exits to go for the car, when David asks Alejandra if she's in love with him, she denies it. He's just kind of entertaining. David says he knows Roberto because of that idiot, Carlos; and Alejandra agrees Carlos is an airhead. David thinks Carlos is as bad as Adolfo. After Alejandra exits, Berthe comes down and asks David whether his father is ill.

In Mario's office, Abelardo gets a chuckle out of relating Gabriela's spunky protectiveness of her father, that she told Abelardo to come back and not wake him up. Mario is pleased to recognize the same traits as her mother. The older girl is his daughter, he says. After Abelardo exits, David asks about the doctor visit; and when Abelardo informs him Mario is having headaches, David asks to be kept informed of any test results.

At Gabriela's, Fausto is shocked to learn from her that the "book seller" was asking for someone named "Santiago Guzmán."

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