Caray, Caray!

In a luxury hotel suite, "Aunt" Elsa agrees with Caramelo that the suite is nicer than her apartment; but she still doesn't want to move in there with them. Before Caramelo retires, she pokes fun at Asunción's hair comb-over when he appears newly showered and in a satin robe.

At Mario's, he frets again over Santiago reneging on the deal; but tells Abelardo he trusts Alejandra completely with the secrets of the tunnel house. Abelardo wonders if she could think of some solution.

Back at the hotel, Asunción is impressed with room service; but not nearly as impressed as Elsa is with Juan José's gorgeous transformation. When she opens the door to him, she can't even pronounce his whole name at once. Juan José guffaws gleefully, lampooning the dog carcass Asunción is apparently wearing on his head.

In their apartment hallway, Gabriela is just raking Julieta over the coals for being late for work because of Roberto, when she has to use her own keys to open the door, because Julieta can't find hers. As the door swings open, they are both horrified at the devastation of their apartment turned upside down.

Juan José leaves Asunción to his room service, preferring to invite Elsa to dinner at a nice restaurant. At the Sagitario, they argue over whether Elsa should accept part of the treasure from Juan José. He wants to get her brother a lawyer; an apartment and car for her; whatever she wants.

But she doesn't think it's right; the treasure belongs to him and has nothing to do with her, she insists. When Elsa worries about what people will think, Juan José laughs at her, pointing out she's always the first to claim she doesn't care what people think!

He feels he owes it all to her; and she's less than happy to hear again he thinks they're like brother and sister. She refuses anything. And Elsa is positively upset to learn he's contracted Alejandra to remodel the house -- with an eye to making her family suffer; Juan José points out he has much more money than they now.

Julieta alerts Leonardo to their apartment break-in; and when he runs immediately to check it out, he finds no forced entry. They see that everything's torn up, but nothing's missing. Leonardo suspects rather that someone came looking for something, and the girls can't imagine what that would be.

When Leonardo suggests the intruder came in with a key, Julieta frantically searches her purse and determines her set is missing. Leonardo sends Ramón to fetch a fingerprint kit. At Adolfo's condo, he's furious to hear Roberto didn't find the diamonds and threatens Roberto with his life if he betrays him.

Roberto hastily explains he searched the tiny place with gloves and found nothing, leaving no fingerprints. When he holds Julieta's keys up and grins -- bragging he didn't have to break in -- a horrified Adolfo orders him sharply to get the hell rid of them. Adolfo is still perplexed and frustrated Roberto found nothing.

Next morning at the breakfast table, in a spotless apartment, Julieta's just wondering if some nut job broke in when Leonardo enters to have the locks changed and inform them of a 24-hour watch outside. Also, they only found fingerprints for the girls and their father. Gabriela thinks to apologize for being rude yesterday.

Alejandra and Mina tour Juan José's house and level with him that it's going to be so costly he should just build a new one. But he's dead set on living in this house; and they head into the kitchen, where Mina wonders if they found water in the old well.

Juan José moves to Alejandra's side, fixes her in the eyes and smiles just for her, saying he found -- a treasure. He teases that he doesn't want to get scolded again, so they'll stop digging now. Alejandra's just exiting the kitchen -- chuckling and protesting that she didn't scold him -- when negotiating the step, her old accident injury makes her stumble.

She explains about the accident, unwittingly plunging Juan José into momentary despair over Piedád's death -- and connecting Alejandra's taxi to it and the bus crash. When she innocently asks if she said something wrong, Juan José shrugs it off in denial; but Alejandra wonders.

At Roberto's apartment, he snickers and hands Carlos a draft beer from the tap, explaining his car, apartment and everything came from a good job he just started at a company. Noting the trefoil ring on the hand around Carlos's mug handle, Roberto claims he'll have some news about the girls and the weekend trip tomorrow.

But he really likes the ring, Roberto says. Carlos reminds him the only identical one was somehow lost by Adolfo 20 years ago. After Carlos exits, Roberto removes the recently stolen trefoil ring from its hiding place and examines it.

At the tunnel house, Alejandra and Mina shock Abelardo by discussing their remodeling work -- for the house he utterly failed to buy; then they shock Mario by revealing the original owner was Juan José Victoria.

After the men exit into the tunnel, the women resume discussing the "Ocampo" remodel -- and Ocampo. With a knowing grin and both eyebrows raised, Alejandra tantalizes Mina, hinting she should have seen Juan José with his shirt off!

At the park, David meets a waiting Gabriela for a stolen moment before he flies to Cancún on business again. They are both happy and loving; and David's sincere need and ardor prompt Gabriela to divulge that the only way she'll be able to stay in town -- is if they were married. With a last, long kiss, David appears to be considering it.

Exiting the tunnel into Mario's office, both men regret that all Alejandra's wonderful work will be for naught if Santiago won't do his job. Mario surprises Abelardo explaining who Juan José Victoria is; that he's not sure he was guilty -- and that he's out of prison, where Roberto found him in the neighborhood, perhaps on a mission of vengeance. Abelardo's going to check on the original owner at the penitentiary.

In the hallway, Abelardo encounters Dora, whom he asks whether she worked at the Mirador Hotel when the maid was murdered. She reluctantly admits she did. Dora astounds Abelardo by confessing that she knows the man they convicted was not the one who did it!

Discussing the $5 million peso remodel they're looking at, Alejandra and Mina also discuss Juan José. When Alejandra judges him definitely attractive -- but lacking a bit of class, Mina enthusiastically rejoins that to her he's not lacking anything!

At that moment, the object of desire enters and wants to take Alejandra to coffee to talk over the remodel details. On exiting, Juan José and Alejandra awkwardly encounter Elsa entering; she's there to see Mina on clothing business, but isn't very pleased to hear Mina gush at how their new client is so fond of her friend.

David bids goodbye to Mario, who's abed, and chuckles at Mario's gossipy interest in Gabriela; but Mario is interested for David's sake, he says. As David exits, Abelardo enters and surprises Mario with news that Gregorio was murdered in prison and bequeathed the house to his cell mate, Juan José Victoria! And when Abelardo also explains Dora's admission, Mario wants to speak with her immediately.

A little later, Dora enters and Mario and she relive the details of the events surrounding the death of the maid -- her friend, Isabel. In fact, Dora claims after six years as a maid at the hotel, she asked to work in the house there due to associated painful memories. She knew Isabel about six months and they were good friends.

Mario retells and flashes back to the occasion he saw Juan José and Isabel with their heads together, whispering and giggling in the hallway. Dora becomes anxious and emotional, wondering what could be done for him after eleven years; but Mario encourages her to think positively.

Dora painfully explains her experience of the event to Mario, following the details of Carlos's nightmare -- except that Dora trailed her friend's screams and attackers down the hallway and watched one of the boys (we recognize Roberto) actually pick Isabel up and throw her over the railing! The only face she recognized was that of Adolfo's son: Carlos Ávila!

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