Caray, Caray!

At Juan José's, Asunción tries to convince an irritated Carlos that they're digging for water -- in the kitchen. Carlos is mostly interested in how Matos's trap went awry, though, and gets the old man to explain about the prospective buyer interrupting it.

Medina has Juan José reluctantly sign an agreement to sell his house for $3 million pesos, with an eye to completing the details the next day -- and Medina's other eye on Elsa. He's interested and hopes to see her again.

At the club, Julieta is still peeved with Gabriela, who continues along this line by ticking Carlos off, too. She suddenly won't go out with him again, period, frustrating him. At Juan José's, he disappoints Asunción with news of the house sale; but Asunción succeeds in convincing him to keep digging till the last minute.

Roberto encounters the angry Carlos abusing a vendor on his office phone and relieves him of the need to fire Gabriela with the news the sisters are moving to Baja California. They both decide to get their hands on the girls before they leave; and Carlos will secure a certain wristwatch Roberto desires, if he helps him with a plan.

Carlos relates Matos's intention to put Juan José back in prison for another eight years -- and something weird he encountered visiting Asunción: finding them digging in the kitchen, supposedly for water.

At the tunnel house, Marcos and Susana accidentally tear open the black shoes while breaking in again -- and to their gleeful astonishment find diamonds inside! They know they must be stolen, but think it's ok since they're from L.A.

At Mario's, Bertha irritates Alejandra, haranguing her about Mario possibly dying without a will and leaving them destitute. Alejandra insists David wouldn't let that happen. Later Roberto visits with Bertha and when asked explains David's and Carlos's interest in Gabriela stems from their rivalry, with David's not being sincere. He claims Carlos really has a case on her, though.

Bertha wants to meet Carlos. When Alejandra enters and explains she's going to work, Roberto assumes privately that at that hour she's meeting someone instead. At his office, Carlos phones and furiously berates Matos about the frame-up snafu and wants results.

Medina comes by Juan José's as promised; and while Asunción answers the door, in the kitchen pit, Juan José finally hits pay dirt. His head is swimming with visions of golden sugar plums, as he hyperventilates and bellows up the shaft for Limón. He can be heard from the front door to repeat "We found it!" over and over.

Asunción rushes to the kitchen to celebrate, and then they sheepishly exit to greet a perplexed Medina, both of them grinning and cackling like monkeys. When Juan José happily throws it in Medina's face that he won't sell him the house, the architect leaves, understandably incensed and sorry he ever helped Juan José.

Matos phones the scum bag from his office and rakes him over the coals, just as Carlos visits to discuss their further plan. Matos says but for the accident of the architect overhearing the morons discuss their procedure on the street, it would have worked. Matos promises to think of a foolproof method this time.

The bewigged Marcos appears at a jewelers to fence one of the diamonds, and he's glad to get $10K pesos for it and exits. The jeweler turns right around and phones a faithful customer to come see.

In a visit to Alejandra's office, Medina relates the fiasco with Elsa and Juan José, and she explains the same thing happened to her with them -- and to someone else she knows. Just then Elsa enters to see Mina, but instead gets an invitation to a serious discussion over coffee with Medina.

Back at the jeweler's, the faithful customer is no other than Yolanda. He shows her the exquisite stone he just acquired, which he says is surely stolen -- and offers it to her at the great bargain of $150K pesos. Meanwhile, over a messy table full of food somewhere, Marcos and Susana squabble over how to proceed next.

Asunción and Juan José labor and dream over their treasure pit and pile up 200 bars of bullion, amounting to about 1000 kilos of gold, they decide. Juan José wishes Piedád could share it and remembers he'll buy her gravestone.

Over coffee, Medina explains the house-sale breach of contract; and when he wonders if Elsa's in love with Juan José, she denies it. Despite that, he doubts Juan José is really what she thinks he is. If she wants him to back out of the contract, Medina says, Elsa is going to have to explain the whole story of Juan José to him. She's unsure how much to say, because Alejandra's family is involved in it, which surprises Medina.

David and Gabriela meet in the park, where she stubbornly turns down every option he can pose to keep her in town. He pulls her close, asking in a husky whisper whether she means to just abandon him.

At Mario's, Bertha and Dora have a power struggle over cleaning his office; only Abelardo is allowed in there, Dora insists. Bertha orders her to bring tea, and she exits as Alejandra enters and explains the embarrassment of getting Medina involved in the house-buying fiasco.

After a moment Mario enters, followed by Dora; and when he asks who the owner of the house is, as Juan José Victoria's name is pronounced, Dora's jaw drops open and she lets the entire silver tea service crash to the floor.

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