Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Llena de Amor #46 Mon 10/11/10 Death’s Door and Amor
Friday – the family is gathered outside a room of the morgue waiting to see if it’s Axel in there on a slab.
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Meantime, looks like Maximo, who is out cold, has suffered a heart attack. The paramedics tell Benigno and Tia Carlota that he has to be taken to the hospital. Loyal little Benigno grabs a gun out of the General’s desk and points it at the paramedics, telling them that Maximo isn’t to be taken from the room, by his own orders.
In the kitchen, Delicia tells Paula they have to wait to hear about Maximo, and they’ll just have to do their waiting right here. Paula tearfully tells her that it might be Maximo’s final moments and … he’s the love of her life. Paula’s chin drops.
Benigno informs Carlota that Maximo said he didn’t want to leave his basement until he’d kept his promise. Carlota observes that it’s a wise subordinate knows when it’s best to disobey orders. Benigno says if the General wakes up somewhere else, he’ll just die of fury anyway. Carlota talks Benigno into handing over the pistol.
Carlota tells the paramedics to bring the emergency unit to Maximo, money is no object. I’m surprised the paramedics don’t just perform open-heart surgery themselves – so far they’ve proven themselves to be transport, emergency personnel, doctors and pharmacy all rolled into one. Ask for an apple corer, guys, and get started!
Paula comes into the room crying Maximo! She takes his inert hand and tenderly kisses his forehead. This time it’s Carlota’s jaw that drops.
Now Marianela, Brandon, Gretel and Emanuel are viewing the body. They are horrified that it’s been so mutilated that they can’t tell if it’s Axel. How horrible! they exclaim, but nobody can tear their eyes away – they keep starting at it. Emanuel remembers that Axel had a scar from childhood on his foot, so they pull the sheet back and Gretel wails.
Outside in the hall, Fedra begins to keen, and hangs on Bernardo. Emiliano is doubled over sobbing while Oliver tries to comfort him. Ilitia bites her nail and worries for Emanuel. Fedra cries to console Emiliano, but he sobs that he’s responsible.
Gretel is hysterical, and wants to go looking for Axel because she’s sure he’s not dead. Oliver takes her out of the room. Brandon says nobody told him the body was in such bad shape. He’s going to go check on some tests they did – maybe it wasn’t Axel. Off he goes.
Didn’t the dearly difunto have on clothes? Shoes? Something a family could identify? And why oh why did the family have to identify him? Brandon or Oliver could have taken a look beforehand without putting them through all this.
Emanuel weeps and says it’s his fault too. Marianela holds him.
The paramedic says the emergency unit is on the way, and in the meantime he’ll leave Maximo alone with his wife. Carlota sternly asserts that that’s not his wife, it’s just a servant. Paula continues to stroke Maximo’s face. The paramedic leaves the room.
Tia Carlota blames Paula for creating a spectacle and tells her to remember her station. Paula says she’s not budging, and that Carlota is the fifth wheel.
Ilitia on her cell tells her mother that she’s at the morgue and it looks like there’s going to be a funeral.
Consuelo asks Begoña how she got a DNA sample from Lorenzo, and Begoña says a friend helped, but now that friend is going to have a hard time peeling sticky Lorenzo off. Cut to the agency, where Jackie is posing and Lorenzo is drooling. Jackie tells him to back off – what about Emanuel’s family and their crisis? Lorenzo says he’s checking in with them by phone, but look how short and sudden life is! Best to grab all the enjoyment we can. He puts his hands on her hips. My gosh, right in the studio where people could see.
She tells him nothing doing after that disaster the other night. Probably at his age stuff like that would probably be just a memory anyway. He says he knows she’s just playing, and he knows he’ll catch her. She blows him a kiss.
Oliver leads Gretel into the hall of the morgue where her parents are waiting. She is staring crazily, but snaps to life and yells at them that this is the worst day of her life. They beg her to tell them if it was Axel. She swoons into Oliver’s arms.
At the house, Kristel is fidgeting, and Mauricio is rubbing her shoulders, apparently trying to work up to something more. She tells him off, saying this is no time for hanky panky, and he begs a little. The doorbell rings and she goes to answer. Mauricio thoughtbubbles that she can spend her time crying if she wants to, but he’s going to go find somebody to romp with.
It’s Netty at the door – she strides in, all in black, and expresses her condolences, pecking Kristel on both cheeks. Kristel curls a lip.
They’re still waiting for word. Fedra says she hopes Gretel doesn’t get crazier than she already is. Emanuel tells her to button it. Fedra wonders why the tests are taking so long.
Brandon comes along the hall and tells them it’s negative – it’s not Axel. Jubilation!
Whoa! In a hospital, bruised and battered Axel is unconscious with a doctor checking his pupil reaction with a flashlight. I’m afraid he’s not going make it another day, says the doc. The nurse laments that his family hasn’t come – nobody should die abandoned.
Netty is fanning herself and remembering that her sister’s death just pulled her heart apart. Mauricio fakes being concerned and Kristel tells her to knock it off, nobody’s said her brother is dead yet. Here comes Carlota who asks Netty what she’s doing there.
Lorenzo’s on the phone getting the hopeful news about Axel and doesn’t notice the two thugs that come into his office, one of them pulling a pistol out of his belt. The thug points it at him. Muñeca walks in, unsuspecting, then clings fearfully to Lorenzo, wanting to know who these guys are.
Ilitia, a bundle of jumpy nerves, tentatively enters a morgue room where several blanket-covered bodies are on metal carts. Why did her baby ask her to meet him there? she wonders, shivering in the cold. She backs into a body’s foot and freaks out, jumping around. One body falls to the floor, then its hand grabs her ankle. She screams. It’s Brandon, having a good laugh and saying that was great payback for what she and her girlfriends did to Marianela. She faints and he catches her just in time.
Oliver tells Gretel that it wasn’t Axel. She weeps with joy and hugs him. Here come Emanuel and Marianela. They stop at the sight, and Emanuel says wow, I haven’t seen her look so happy in the long time. Oliver says lovely sweet things about how he’d do anything for her, and Gretel looks wonderingly into his face. They kiss and Emanuel and Marianela look on, smiling. Marienela remarks to him that maybe love was all Gretel needed, love cures everything. Maybe it does, says Emanuel.
The kiss continues….
Love makes miracles, says Marianela. Emanuel tells her she’s the miracle, since she’s come into his life, everything has changed. Don’t exaggerate, says she, and he looks deeply in her eyes.
Oliver has finally surfaced from the longggg kiss, and notices that Emanuel and Marianela are there. He’s embarrassed; they smile.
Boy, when Ilitia faints, she stayed fainted. Brandon has gotten her into the restroom, where he tries to keep her upright by leaning her against a wall and pressing his chest against her. She starts coming around, and he frees up one hand to get water from the faucet and throw sprinkles on her face. Now she’s come to and she’s furious. For no obvious reason except to give us a fun scene, he keeps wrestling with her and finally pins her against the wall. She wants to know what his thing is with bathrooms, and tells him he’s going to accuse him of assault.
He tells her that what she did her Marianela was way worse. She remembers how he scared her in the morgue room, and passes out again.
Netty tells grumpy Carlota that she heard about the tragedy. Carlota says it isn’t just one; tragedy seems to have thrown down roots in the house. Netty laments the loss of Axel and Carlota tells her she’s premature and what’s with the mourning black anyway? Netty says she wanted to be ready. Carlota tells her that Maximo just had a heart attack.
Muñeca begs the thugs not to shoot Lorenzo. They tell her they’d be doing her a favor. The thug says they just came to tell him the boss has a favor to ask, and if he says no, he’s a dead man. They leave and Muñeca clings to Lorenzo. Ya! he says, shrugging her off angrily.
Gretel tries to be businesslike and tells Oliver thank you for everything, and please keep looking for my brother. Emanuel and Marianela are tickled. Emanuel offers to drive her home, but she says she’ll ride with Brandon. Emanuel says he’ll wait until he’s there.
Brandon meantime is splashing water on Ilitia some more. She awakes and they spar a little, then she says she wants her baby. Brandon says he’ll go get him, but she says wait! Don’t leave me alone. Of course she’s just in a restroom and we can see people right there in the hall, but whatever. He says he’ll stay and her scared look turns a little more knowing. He takes her by the shoulders and she looks at him steadily.
Netty is sure Maximo will recover. Carlota tells her that in spite of everything, she seems like a person she could trust. What is the problem between my family and you?
Emiliano arrives home and spots Netty. Fedra does too and wants to know what she’s doing there. Netty, dreamily says she wanted to say how sorry she is, and she wanted to be with him in these moments, and she starts to drift right at Emiliano to embrace him. Fedra steps forward and blocks her and insults her. Netty says she was trying to do the decent thing. Carlota tells Fedra to knock it off. Emiliano tells them it wasn’t Axel.
Oliver says he can’t find Brandon, so Emiliano says he’ll take Marianela home, but first they’ll stop by and see Carlota and Maximo. In an aside, Oliver tells Marianela that Brandon will be furious. She says she’ll explain.
Carlota says that Maximo had a heart attack, and Fedra says that she (Fedra) is going to have her own heart attack if Netty doesn’t stay away from her husband. Carlota accuses her of being jealous, it’s ridiculous, and Netty stomps out, saying she won’t be insulted by Fedra. Emiliano calls after her that he’ll take her, but she waves her hand dismissively.
Fedra tells him he’s not taking Netty anywhere. Carlota urges Fedra to have a nice lie-down and Emiliano, glaring at Fedra, says he’s taking Netty home and off he goes.
Brandon has brought Ilitia home where the maid greets them. He’s still holding her up and says that’s what comes of eating nothing but lettuce. They all fuss a bit, the maid goes off to make tea, and Brandon picks up floppy Ilitia to carry her to her room.
At the house, Benigno tells Gretel, Emanuel and Marienela that Maximo had a heart attack. They all run in.
Muñeca and Lorenzo arrive home, and the maid runs up and tells them Ilitia is woozy and a policeman brought her home.
Brandon goes to lay Ilitia on her bed and loses his balance and falls on top of her. Instead of popping back up, he stays put and they fuss at one another. He says he’s a decent guy and she calls him name. He kisses her and she kisses back!
Of course her folks come in just then. Lorenzo grabs Brandon and threatens him and Ilitia bounces around and says umm… he tried to assault me! What? says Brandon. Lots of insults go flying around, with Ilitia pretending to be very offended. He says she ought to thank him for kissing her. Lorenzo tells Brandon he’s going to ruin him. Brandon leaves and Lorenzo hugs Ilitia while she widens her eyes.
Looks like Emiliano and Netty have arrived at her place and are sitting inside. He tells her that he’s a horrible father, and he will never forgive himself if something’s happened to Axel. Netty reassures him that Axel will show up, and he’ll have the opportunity to make everything right. Emiliano doubts that Axel would walk to talk to him. He just can’t get used to the idea that his son is… is.
Netty takes his hand and says that our children make their own decisions, we can’t protect them from everything. Emiliano observes that she never had children. Yes, she says, but there have been times when I’ve had to be mother and father all at once. Emiliano asks her why she’s never given him the opportunity to know her better – she’s a wonderful person.
Benigno explains to Emanuel and Marianela why he won’t let Maximo be taken out of his room. They argue, but he’s convincing. Maximo starts to awaken a bit and Marianela rushes to his side. Here you are, he says, in your home. Promise me you won’t ever leave.
Up in her room, Fedra is staring into her mirror and tells Bernardo that she’s fed up and feels like killing somebody. Like the actress? he smiles, wondering if she’s jealous. She scoffs, saying her husband wouldn’t trade caviar for a plate of sardines. No comparison, oozes Bernardo.
She tells him to get into Maximo’s room and find a paper, any paper, that has his signature on it. Bernardo wonders why, and she says all in due time.
Marianela calls Netty and tells her that she’s going to stay at the house for a few days until Maximo is better. Netty pitches a fit, reminding her that Fedra is out to get her.
Brandon’s home and Netty has told him about Marianela staying away a few days. He’s furious, and says they just do mean stuff to her. He says he’s going to get her even if he has to carry her home like a sack of potatoes. Netty tries to talk him out of it, but no luck.
Begoña’s baby is asleep and she talks to him, wondering why Lorenzo is rejecting him, when he is so loving to Ilitia who is only adopted.
Muñeca asks Ilitia if she was leading Brandon on. Ilitia sulks that she never believes her. Lorenzo angrily says that if Ilitia says it was attempted rape, then it was.
Ilitia changes track, and demands to know if she’s their daughter. Muñeca agrees she has the right to know. No! says Lorenzo, don’t you dare. Muñeca says it’s the best thing they could do for her now. I love you, says Muñeca to apprehensive Ilitia, you are the best thing that ever happened in my life. It’s true, though, that you aren’t my daughter. Ilitia sits heavily on the bed and Lorenzo looks at Muñeca threateningly.
Emanuel is in Maximo’s room when Gretel comes in. He razzes her about being in love with the policeman.
Emiliano thanks Marianela for agreeing to stay to make Maximo happy. Carlota beams, Kristel smiles a big fake smile and Fedra glares. Marianela says if Maximo needs her, she’s happy to be there. Kristel runs over and gives her a big hug and welcomes her to her house. It’s not mine, says Marianela, it’s Fedra’s. Fedra smiles and salutes her with a finger-waggle. Carlota says that’s what they’re working on straightening out. Fedra tells her when she gets her father’s inheritance, she’ll return it to her and she can live here happily ever after. Marianela says she’s just staying for a few days.
When will you understand that this is your home? says Carlota.
I disagree! says Brandon, who has just walked in.
Avances: Brandon tells Netty that Marianela’s in love with her primo. Ilitia takes a bottle of pills. A masked gunman (Bernardo?) holds a gun to Marianela’s head while his masked accomplice (Fedra?) holds a knife at the ready.
Check your TV listings! Llena will be playing at 11:00 here on the west coast Tuesday night.
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Meantime, looks like Maximo, who is out cold, has suffered a heart attack. The paramedics tell Benigno and Tia Carlota that he has to be taken to the hospital. Loyal little Benigno grabs a gun out of the General’s desk and points it at the paramedics, telling them that Maximo isn’t to be taken from the room, by his own orders.
In the kitchen, Delicia tells Paula they have to wait to hear about Maximo, and they’ll just have to do their waiting right here. Paula tearfully tells her that it might be Maximo’s final moments and … he’s the love of her life. Paula’s chin drops.
Benigno informs Carlota that Maximo said he didn’t want to leave his basement until he’d kept his promise. Carlota observes that it’s a wise subordinate knows when it’s best to disobey orders. Benigno says if the General wakes up somewhere else, he’ll just die of fury anyway. Carlota talks Benigno into handing over the pistol.
Carlota tells the paramedics to bring the emergency unit to Maximo, money is no object. I’m surprised the paramedics don’t just perform open-heart surgery themselves – so far they’ve proven themselves to be transport, emergency personnel, doctors and pharmacy all rolled into one. Ask for an apple corer, guys, and get started!
Paula comes into the room crying Maximo! She takes his inert hand and tenderly kisses his forehead. This time it’s Carlota’s jaw that drops.
Now Marianela, Brandon, Gretel and Emanuel are viewing the body. They are horrified that it’s been so mutilated that they can’t tell if it’s Axel. How horrible! they exclaim, but nobody can tear their eyes away – they keep starting at it. Emanuel remembers that Axel had a scar from childhood on his foot, so they pull the sheet back and Gretel wails.
Outside in the hall, Fedra begins to keen, and hangs on Bernardo. Emiliano is doubled over sobbing while Oliver tries to comfort him. Ilitia bites her nail and worries for Emanuel. Fedra cries to console Emiliano, but he sobs that he’s responsible.
Gretel is hysterical, and wants to go looking for Axel because she’s sure he’s not dead. Oliver takes her out of the room. Brandon says nobody told him the body was in such bad shape. He’s going to go check on some tests they did – maybe it wasn’t Axel. Off he goes.
Didn’t the dearly difunto have on clothes? Shoes? Something a family could identify? And why oh why did the family have to identify him? Brandon or Oliver could have taken a look beforehand without putting them through all this.
Emanuel weeps and says it’s his fault too. Marianela holds him.
The paramedic says the emergency unit is on the way, and in the meantime he’ll leave Maximo alone with his wife. Carlota sternly asserts that that’s not his wife, it’s just a servant. Paula continues to stroke Maximo’s face. The paramedic leaves the room.
Tia Carlota blames Paula for creating a spectacle and tells her to remember her station. Paula says she’s not budging, and that Carlota is the fifth wheel.
Ilitia on her cell tells her mother that she’s at the morgue and it looks like there’s going to be a funeral.
Consuelo asks Begoña how she got a DNA sample from Lorenzo, and Begoña says a friend helped, but now that friend is going to have a hard time peeling sticky Lorenzo off. Cut to the agency, where Jackie is posing and Lorenzo is drooling. Jackie tells him to back off – what about Emanuel’s family and their crisis? Lorenzo says he’s checking in with them by phone, but look how short and sudden life is! Best to grab all the enjoyment we can. He puts his hands on her hips. My gosh, right in the studio where people could see.
She tells him nothing doing after that disaster the other night. Probably at his age stuff like that would probably be just a memory anyway. He says he knows she’s just playing, and he knows he’ll catch her. She blows him a kiss.
Oliver leads Gretel into the hall of the morgue where her parents are waiting. She is staring crazily, but snaps to life and yells at them that this is the worst day of her life. They beg her to tell them if it was Axel. She swoons into Oliver’s arms.
At the house, Kristel is fidgeting, and Mauricio is rubbing her shoulders, apparently trying to work up to something more. She tells him off, saying this is no time for hanky panky, and he begs a little. The doorbell rings and she goes to answer. Mauricio thoughtbubbles that she can spend her time crying if she wants to, but he’s going to go find somebody to romp with.
It’s Netty at the door – she strides in, all in black, and expresses her condolences, pecking Kristel on both cheeks. Kristel curls a lip.
They’re still waiting for word. Fedra says she hopes Gretel doesn’t get crazier than she already is. Emanuel tells her to button it. Fedra wonders why the tests are taking so long.
Brandon comes along the hall and tells them it’s negative – it’s not Axel. Jubilation!
Whoa! In a hospital, bruised and battered Axel is unconscious with a doctor checking his pupil reaction with a flashlight. I’m afraid he’s not going make it another day, says the doc. The nurse laments that his family hasn’t come – nobody should die abandoned.
Netty is fanning herself and remembering that her sister’s death just pulled her heart apart. Mauricio fakes being concerned and Kristel tells her to knock it off, nobody’s said her brother is dead yet. Here comes Carlota who asks Netty what she’s doing there.
Lorenzo’s on the phone getting the hopeful news about Axel and doesn’t notice the two thugs that come into his office, one of them pulling a pistol out of his belt. The thug points it at him. Muñeca walks in, unsuspecting, then clings fearfully to Lorenzo, wanting to know who these guys are.
Ilitia, a bundle of jumpy nerves, tentatively enters a morgue room where several blanket-covered bodies are on metal carts. Why did her baby ask her to meet him there? she wonders, shivering in the cold. She backs into a body’s foot and freaks out, jumping around. One body falls to the floor, then its hand grabs her ankle. She screams. It’s Brandon, having a good laugh and saying that was great payback for what she and her girlfriends did to Marianela. She faints and he catches her just in time.
Oliver tells Gretel that it wasn’t Axel. She weeps with joy and hugs him. Here come Emanuel and Marianela. They stop at the sight, and Emanuel says wow, I haven’t seen her look so happy in the long time. Oliver says lovely sweet things about how he’d do anything for her, and Gretel looks wonderingly into his face. They kiss and Emanuel and Marianela look on, smiling. Marienela remarks to him that maybe love was all Gretel needed, love cures everything. Maybe it does, says Emanuel.
The kiss continues….
Love makes miracles, says Marianela. Emanuel tells her she’s the miracle, since she’s come into his life, everything has changed. Don’t exaggerate, says she, and he looks deeply in her eyes.
Oliver has finally surfaced from the longggg kiss, and notices that Emanuel and Marianela are there. He’s embarrassed; they smile.
Boy, when Ilitia faints, she stayed fainted. Brandon has gotten her into the restroom, where he tries to keep her upright by leaning her against a wall and pressing his chest against her. She starts coming around, and he frees up one hand to get water from the faucet and throw sprinkles on her face. Now she’s come to and she’s furious. For no obvious reason except to give us a fun scene, he keeps wrestling with her and finally pins her against the wall. She wants to know what his thing is with bathrooms, and tells him he’s going to accuse him of assault.
He tells her that what she did her Marianela was way worse. She remembers how he scared her in the morgue room, and passes out again.
Netty tells grumpy Carlota that she heard about the tragedy. Carlota says it isn’t just one; tragedy seems to have thrown down roots in the house. Netty laments the loss of Axel and Carlota tells her she’s premature and what’s with the mourning black anyway? Netty says she wanted to be ready. Carlota tells her that Maximo just had a heart attack.
Muñeca begs the thugs not to shoot Lorenzo. They tell her they’d be doing her a favor. The thug says they just came to tell him the boss has a favor to ask, and if he says no, he’s a dead man. They leave and Muñeca clings to Lorenzo. Ya! he says, shrugging her off angrily.
Gretel tries to be businesslike and tells Oliver thank you for everything, and please keep looking for my brother. Emanuel and Marianela are tickled. Emanuel offers to drive her home, but she says she’ll ride with Brandon. Emanuel says he’ll wait until he’s there.
Brandon meantime is splashing water on Ilitia some more. She awakes and they spar a little, then she says she wants her baby. Brandon says he’ll go get him, but she says wait! Don’t leave me alone. Of course she’s just in a restroom and we can see people right there in the hall, but whatever. He says he’ll stay and her scared look turns a little more knowing. He takes her by the shoulders and she looks at him steadily.
Netty is sure Maximo will recover. Carlota tells her that in spite of everything, she seems like a person she could trust. What is the problem between my family and you?
Emiliano arrives home and spots Netty. Fedra does too and wants to know what she’s doing there. Netty, dreamily says she wanted to say how sorry she is, and she wanted to be with him in these moments, and she starts to drift right at Emiliano to embrace him. Fedra steps forward and blocks her and insults her. Netty says she was trying to do the decent thing. Carlota tells Fedra to knock it off. Emiliano tells them it wasn’t Axel.
Oliver says he can’t find Brandon, so Emiliano says he’ll take Marianela home, but first they’ll stop by and see Carlota and Maximo. In an aside, Oliver tells Marianela that Brandon will be furious. She says she’ll explain.
Carlota says that Maximo had a heart attack, and Fedra says that she (Fedra) is going to have her own heart attack if Netty doesn’t stay away from her husband. Carlota accuses her of being jealous, it’s ridiculous, and Netty stomps out, saying she won’t be insulted by Fedra. Emiliano calls after her that he’ll take her, but she waves her hand dismissively.
Fedra tells him he’s not taking Netty anywhere. Carlota urges Fedra to have a nice lie-down and Emiliano, glaring at Fedra, says he’s taking Netty home and off he goes.
Brandon has brought Ilitia home where the maid greets them. He’s still holding her up and says that’s what comes of eating nothing but lettuce. They all fuss a bit, the maid goes off to make tea, and Brandon picks up floppy Ilitia to carry her to her room.
At the house, Benigno tells Gretel, Emanuel and Marienela that Maximo had a heart attack. They all run in.
Muñeca and Lorenzo arrive home, and the maid runs up and tells them Ilitia is woozy and a policeman brought her home.
Brandon goes to lay Ilitia on her bed and loses his balance and falls on top of her. Instead of popping back up, he stays put and they fuss at one another. He says he’s a decent guy and she calls him name. He kisses her and she kisses back!
Of course her folks come in just then. Lorenzo grabs Brandon and threatens him and Ilitia bounces around and says umm… he tried to assault me! What? says Brandon. Lots of insults go flying around, with Ilitia pretending to be very offended. He says she ought to thank him for kissing her. Lorenzo tells Brandon he’s going to ruin him. Brandon leaves and Lorenzo hugs Ilitia while she widens her eyes.
Looks like Emiliano and Netty have arrived at her place and are sitting inside. He tells her that he’s a horrible father, and he will never forgive himself if something’s happened to Axel. Netty reassures him that Axel will show up, and he’ll have the opportunity to make everything right. Emiliano doubts that Axel would walk to talk to him. He just can’t get used to the idea that his son is… is.
Netty takes his hand and says that our children make their own decisions, we can’t protect them from everything. Emiliano observes that she never had children. Yes, she says, but there have been times when I’ve had to be mother and father all at once. Emiliano asks her why she’s never given him the opportunity to know her better – she’s a wonderful person.
Benigno explains to Emanuel and Marianela why he won’t let Maximo be taken out of his room. They argue, but he’s convincing. Maximo starts to awaken a bit and Marianela rushes to his side. Here you are, he says, in your home. Promise me you won’t ever leave.
Up in her room, Fedra is staring into her mirror and tells Bernardo that she’s fed up and feels like killing somebody. Like the actress? he smiles, wondering if she’s jealous. She scoffs, saying her husband wouldn’t trade caviar for a plate of sardines. No comparison, oozes Bernardo.
She tells him to get into Maximo’s room and find a paper, any paper, that has his signature on it. Bernardo wonders why, and she says all in due time.
Marianela calls Netty and tells her that she’s going to stay at the house for a few days until Maximo is better. Netty pitches a fit, reminding her that Fedra is out to get her.
Brandon’s home and Netty has told him about Marianela staying away a few days. He’s furious, and says they just do mean stuff to her. He says he’s going to get her even if he has to carry her home like a sack of potatoes. Netty tries to talk him out of it, but no luck.
Begoña’s baby is asleep and she talks to him, wondering why Lorenzo is rejecting him, when he is so loving to Ilitia who is only adopted.
Muñeca asks Ilitia if she was leading Brandon on. Ilitia sulks that she never believes her. Lorenzo angrily says that if Ilitia says it was attempted rape, then it was.
Ilitia changes track, and demands to know if she’s their daughter. Muñeca agrees she has the right to know. No! says Lorenzo, don’t you dare. Muñeca says it’s the best thing they could do for her now. I love you, says Muñeca to apprehensive Ilitia, you are the best thing that ever happened in my life. It’s true, though, that you aren’t my daughter. Ilitia sits heavily on the bed and Lorenzo looks at Muñeca threateningly.
Emanuel is in Maximo’s room when Gretel comes in. He razzes her about being in love with the policeman.
Emiliano thanks Marianela for agreeing to stay to make Maximo happy. Carlota beams, Kristel smiles a big fake smile and Fedra glares. Marianela says if Maximo needs her, she’s happy to be there. Kristel runs over and gives her a big hug and welcomes her to her house. It’s not mine, says Marianela, it’s Fedra’s. Fedra smiles and salutes her with a finger-waggle. Carlota says that’s what they’re working on straightening out. Fedra tells her when she gets her father’s inheritance, she’ll return it to her and she can live here happily ever after. Marianela says she’s just staying for a few days.
When will you understand that this is your home? says Carlota.
I disagree! says Brandon, who has just walked in.
Avances: Brandon tells Netty that Marianela’s in love with her primo. Ilitia takes a bottle of pills. A masked gunman (Bernardo?) holds a gun to Marianela’s head while his masked accomplice (Fedra?) holds a knife at the ready.
Check your TV listings! Llena will be playing at 11:00 here on the west coast Tuesday night.
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Great title tonight Maggie. "Ask for an apple corer..." was brilliant. They do seem to have the paramedics serving all sorts of functions, don't they?
Good for Paul for telling off Carlota! I like the scenes with these two actresses.
There was some exceedingly goofy plot flow in this episode. You pointed out the scene where they stood, horrified, for a very long time staring at the apparently badly mutilated body then Brandon saying gosh he didn't realize it was so bad. What? Then somehow miraculously they do a test and determine it's not Axel; they couldn't have done that before? Weird, but OK Axel's alive!! So that's good.
I'm not sure that Brandon's method for dealing with a fainting victim is the best. Carry the victim around then smash them up against a wall in a vertical position holding them up by the neck and sprinkling water in their face. I don't think Carlos will approve of his technique. Then again, maybe he will? Carlos, please weigh in.
I noticed that Eman kept fanning Marianela in the morgue scenes. I couldn't help but think that the poor actress is probably really hot in her fat suit and wig. Poor thing, I'll bet her rosy cheeks aren't makeup; she's probably really roasting.
But hey, amidst all the silliness we got some major quality Oliver and Gretel time. I love them! And finally Brandon and Ilitia have made contact. I fear (gleefully of course) that there is probably no going back for them.
Thanks Maggie for the terrific recap of a goofy but fun episode.
Axel's alive!!! More Oliver and Gretel!
Good for Paul for telling off Carlota! I like the scenes with these two actresses.
There was some exceedingly goofy plot flow in this episode. You pointed out the scene where they stood, horrified, for a very long time staring at the apparently badly mutilated body then Brandon saying gosh he didn't realize it was so bad. What? Then somehow miraculously they do a test and determine it's not Axel; they couldn't have done that before? Weird, but OK Axel's alive!! So that's good.
I'm not sure that Brandon's method for dealing with a fainting victim is the best. Carry the victim around then smash them up against a wall in a vertical position holding them up by the neck and sprinkling water in their face. I don't think Carlos will approve of his technique. Then again, maybe he will? Carlos, please weigh in.
I noticed that Eman kept fanning Marianela in the morgue scenes. I couldn't help but think that the poor actress is probably really hot in her fat suit and wig. Poor thing, I'll bet her rosy cheeks aren't makeup; she's probably really roasting.
But hey, amidst all the silliness we got some major quality Oliver and Gretel time. I love them! And finally Brandon and Ilitia have made contact. I fear (gleefully of course) that there is probably no going back for them.
Thanks Maggie for the terrific recap of a goofy but fun episode.
Axel's alive!!! More Oliver and Gretel!
"Ask for an apple corer, guys, and get started!" Could you just choke laughing??? Maggie, you nailed this one. Someone better put a 24 hour guard on Maximo because he just got served up on a silver platter to Fedra. And who is going to monitor all the equipment...a nurse with the stuff would have been a stellar idea...beanie time!!
Sylvia I agree with the silliness on Brandon trying to revive Ilitia, but it was good slapstick, which always happens with these two. They play off each other really well.
And ALWAYS love Oliver and Gretel. Those two just make me go "Awwwwwww!"
Fedra: I feel like killing someone? Most of us feel like having a spa day or splurging on a chocolate eclair when we've had a tough day...what a nut case. I chuckled at the preview - Bernie and Babe dressed in black masks, and we know this won't pan out to anything since Mari's our heroine. be interesting to see how their plot gets foiled.
Sylvia I agree with the silliness on Brandon trying to revive Ilitia, but it was good slapstick, which always happens with these two. They play off each other really well.
And ALWAYS love Oliver and Gretel. Those two just make me go "Awwwwwww!"
Fedra: I feel like killing someone? Most of us feel like having a spa day or splurging on a chocolate eclair when we've had a tough day...what a nut case. I chuckled at the preview - Bernie and Babe dressed in black masks, and we know this won't pan out to anything since Mari's our heroine. be interesting to see how their plot gets foiled.
Great job, Maggie. You always manage to crack me up.
Sylvia, for a while there I had no idea what Brandon was up to. His technique for reviving Ilitia was unconventional. I think one of Brandon's endearing charms is his social awkwardness. He always makes a valiant, self-confident effort but always ends up looking like an uncertain, unsteady adolescent puppy. I think it's interesting to compare Brandon with Beto (Gancho), played by his brother, who had a slick, almost oily presence.
I loved how quickly and effectively Fedra leaped to shield Emiliano from Letty's embrace. The Houston Texans could have used her Sunday to protect Matt Schaub from the Giants' rush.
Carlos
Sylvia, for a while there I had no idea what Brandon was up to. His technique for reviving Ilitia was unconventional. I think one of Brandon's endearing charms is his social awkwardness. He always makes a valiant, self-confident effort but always ends up looking like an uncertain, unsteady adolescent puppy. I think it's interesting to compare Brandon with Beto (Gancho), played by his brother, who had a slick, almost oily presence.
I loved how quickly and effectively Fedra leaped to shield Emiliano from Letty's embrace. The Houston Texans could have used her Sunday to protect Matt Schaub from the Giants' rush.
Carlos
Maggie, your rant about the paramedics doing heart surgey with an apple corer is one of the funniest I've ever read. HOW DO YOU COME UP WITH THIS STUFF!!!??? I'll never be able to look at my apple corer the same way again.
That scene of Ilitia in the morgue and the arm jumping out gave me the heebie jeebies. Can't blame her for fainting the first time. She sure got her revenge on poor Brandon though. Their chemistry is phenomenal. So is Oliver and Gretel's. If they keep heating up my family room like this, I'll save a lot on gas bills this Winter.
That scene of Ilitia in the morgue and the arm jumping out gave me the heebie jeebies. Can't blame her for fainting the first time. She sure got her revenge on poor Brandon though. Their chemistry is phenomenal. So is Oliver and Gretel's. If they keep heating up my family room like this, I'll save a lot on gas bills this Winter.
Maggie, thanks for an awesomely funny recap. You know, heart surgery at home with an apple corer would actually make more sense than a lot of telenovela medicine. I'm thinking of Dr. Juan Miguel San Roman, of course, Doctor Extraordinaire.
I never thought I could enjoy scenes in a morgue so much. The slapstick with Brandon and Ilitia made me cry, I was laughing so hard. Good one, Brandon. And then Gretel and Oliver, awwww, they're just the sweetest. Emanuel is such a metiche, standing there agog.
Yay, Axel's alive!!! In bad shape, but surely he won't actually die. Right? But Emiliano can take the opportunity to become a good guy.
11:00 tonight on the west coast?! Egad; how am I going to recap? I hope that's some kind of mistake.
I never thought I could enjoy scenes in a morgue so much. The slapstick with Brandon and Ilitia made me cry, I was laughing so hard. Good one, Brandon. And then Gretel and Oliver, awwww, they're just the sweetest. Emanuel is such a metiche, standing there agog.
Yay, Axel's alive!!! In bad shape, but surely he won't actually die. Right? But Emiliano can take the opportunity to become a good guy.
11:00 tonight on the west coast?! Egad; how am I going to recap? I hope that's some kind of mistake.
Thank you all! It was kind of a goofy episode.
Julia – You’ve got a job to go to the next morning! None of us expect you to do a recap of a show that starts at 11:00… why don’t you just put up a discussion link?
Carlos – the Brandon actor has an acting brother? Do you remember what his name is? I’d like to Google a photo of him. The Brandon actor was very oily in Pecado, very evil. So convincingly evil in fact that one commenter refused to watch Llena because he was in it.
Julia – You’ve got a job to go to the next morning! None of us expect you to do a recap of a show that starts at 11:00… why don’t you just put up a discussion link?
Carlos – the Brandon actor has an acting brother? Do you remember what his name is? I’d like to Google a photo of him. The Brandon actor was very oily in Pecado, very evil. So convincingly evil in fact that one commenter refused to watch Llena because he was in it.
Maggie, I agree with everyone that this was stellar and (as always) hilarious and very well written. "Didn’t the dearly difunto have on clothes?" was one of your many great lines.
I had no sound for most of this. Even though I understand only bits and pieces of dialog overall, it was frustrating to have missed Brandon and Ilitia's exchanges and whatever accompanied Oliver and Gretel's very hot besos. Whew!
Sadly, Carlota is a snob and bestows her kindness accordingly. While caring and catering to Mari, she is condescending and cruel to Paula: "Tia Carlota blames Paula for creating a spectacle and tells her to remember her station". Blech.
Diana
I had no sound for most of this. Even though I understand only bits and pieces of dialog overall, it was frustrating to have missed Brandon and Ilitia's exchanges and whatever accompanied Oliver and Gretel's very hot besos. Whew!
Sadly, Carlota is a snob and bestows her kindness accordingly. While caring and catering to Mari, she is condescending and cruel to Paula: "Tia Carlota blames Paula for creating a spectacle and tells her to remember her station". Blech.
Diana
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: Tuesday, October 12, 2010 at 2:09:00 PM EDT
: Tuesday, October 12, 2010 at 2:09:00 PM EDT
Maggie, Armando Araiza's brother's name is Raul. They look pretty different, with completely different demeanors (at least in the shows I have seen them in), yet are strangely similar. Both seem to have a real ability to show onscreen chemistry...if you think Brandon and Ilitia have got it, you should watch some of the Beto/Constanza scenes from Gancho. Screen-melting.
It was kind of overshadowed by the hilarity going on at the morgue, but I loved Jackie's digs at Lorenzo, like when he said you have to get love (or lust, whatever) when you can, and she snidely said, "yeah, if you can." Causing him a supposed disfunction was brilliant in several ways...now she's getting in so many good jabs at the virility he's so proud of.
Carlos - that's wierd. Your comment has disappeared. Well, anyway, thank you for telling me "Brandon's" brother's name and wow, he does look really different than his brother. Is he also kinda petite?
Maggie, looks like my comment made it back. I forgot to mention Axel.
The good news... he's alive.
The bad news... COMA!
Possibly worse news... amnesia.
Here's a clip fron un Gancho al Corazón featuring Beto (Brandon's brother) and Coni.
Carlos
The good news... he's alive.
The bad news... COMA!
Possibly worse news... amnesia.
Here's a clip fron un Gancho al Corazón featuring Beto (Brandon's brother) and Coni.
Carlos
BRILLIANT, BRILLIANT recap! Awesome! I was really looking forward to yesterday's episode and then when it was on, there were distractions and I missed a lot. So I thank you from the bottom of my heart for this very hilarious and brilliant recap. I was laughing out loud with much of it. You are a genius.
I'm currently in a different time zone and I think I can do a recap tonight, if no one else is able. I see Llena as being scheduled at its regular time and I've got it set to record. (Though I don't think I have the ability to start a new entry here, so someone else will have to do that.)
Brandon's method of "revenge" on Ilitia was bizarre, but hilarious. I missed him giving his explanation for doing that. Good for you, Brandon, though of course we see that it has backfired. Oops, sorry about that Brandon. Yes, this couple has a lot of chemistry and a long road ahead of them!
Loving Oliver and Gretel too! We know that something is going to have to mess them up (because we've got at least 100 more episodes to go, right?) but I'm enjoying their relative "happiness" at the moment.
Yay for Axel, I'm sure he's going to be fine. And I think the same for General Maximo. He's got unfinished business with Paula, after all.
It looks like Emiliano is FINALLY seeing Netty in a new light. Dare we hope (based on the avances that I saw at least) that he is going to get from under Fedra's spell once and for all? And perhaps Emanuel finally will get a clue too? Or do I hope for too much?
I'm currently in a different time zone and I think I can do a recap tonight, if no one else is able. I see Llena as being scheduled at its regular time and I've got it set to record. (Though I don't think I have the ability to start a new entry here, so someone else will have to do that.)
Brandon's method of "revenge" on Ilitia was bizarre, but hilarious. I missed him giving his explanation for doing that. Good for you, Brandon, though of course we see that it has backfired. Oops, sorry about that Brandon. Yes, this couple has a lot of chemistry and a long road ahead of them!
Loving Oliver and Gretel too! We know that something is going to have to mess them up (because we've got at least 100 more episodes to go, right?) but I'm enjoying their relative "happiness" at the moment.
Yay for Axel, I'm sure he's going to be fine. And I think the same for General Maximo. He's got unfinished business with Paula, after all.
It looks like Emiliano is FINALLY seeing Netty in a new light. Dare we hope (based on the avances that I saw at least) that he is going to get from under Fedra's spell once and for all? And perhaps Emanuel finally will get a clue too? Or do I hope for too much?
My local program guide shows Llena on at the normal time, followed by STuD, then the fútbol starting after that. So I'll plan on doing the recap, and if it turns out that it comes on late, I'll just do a short-format recap.
Thanks Maggie and all the other recappers for a wonderful job. I spent all weekend reading past recaps trying to get caught up on everything. There were too many episodes to watch although I had recorded them all while I was on my trip. I watch the other 2 primetime shows plus the one at midnight.
I am looking forward to watching again this week and commenting again.
I am looking forward to watching again this week and commenting again.
Permalink posted by : Tuesday, October 12, 2010 at 4:50:00 PM EDT
: Tuesday, October 12, 2010 at 4:50:00 PM EDT
Julia - my online listing shows soccer tonight until 11:00. Maybe that's just in the L.A. area? It's a game with Venezuela..
Julia, whew, good to know that you'll do the recap. (I prefer reading your recap over reading mine! Definitely! :D ) I'm looking forward to tonight's episode!
Maggie, our local listings show that same match, but starting at 9:30 and running until midnight, with the telenovelas on before the game. Maybe they're delaying it here? Maybe the listings are wrong? Who knows; if the show doesn't start at 7 I'll just set the recorder for the whole evening and check back and do a recap whenever it does come on, and do less detail if the show is on late.
I think Ilitia was pretty disappointed that notmom and dad came home. When Lorenzo hugged her she had a definite expression like those were not the arms she wanted around her. I think she faked the second fainting spell so she could ask Brandon to take her home... She wants him, but she also wants to be able to deny wanting him.
I think Ilitia was pretty disappointed that notmom and dad came home. When Lorenzo hugged her she had a definite expression like those were not the arms she wanted around her. I think she faked the second fainting spell so she could ask Brandon to take her home... She wants him, but she also wants to be able to deny wanting him.
Carlos – thank you so much for the clip! He really is different, and it looks like he’s a better kisser than Armando (our Brandon). Armando was the world’s worst kisser in Pecado, and I thought it was because he was evil there, but he didn’t look much better at it last night kissing Ilitia.
Sweeney – you are very generous! Thank you for your kind words. And it was great of you to offer to cover for Julia, though it doesn’t look like she needs it after all tonight. For future reference: You can post for any novela because you’re writing the title in yourself. You just use a different tag when you tag it, or you can leave it untagged and somebody else will tag it later.
Sweeney – you are very generous! Thank you for your kind words. And it was great of you to offer to cover for Julia, though it doesn’t look like she needs it after all tonight. For future reference: You can post for any novela because you’re writing the title in yourself. You just use a different tag when you tag it, or you can leave it untagged and somebody else will tag it later.
How amusing. Univision pre-empted all the telenovelas to show the Chilean rescue, but will not preempt the soccer! Obviously, nothing can come between a hispanic man and his soccer not even the rescue of 33 miners trapped for 2 months! Go figure.
Permalink posted by : Tuesday, October 12, 2010 at 10:08:00 PM EDT
: Tuesday, October 12, 2010 at 10:08:00 PM EDT
Barbara, yeah, I noticed that too! I was waiting to see if they'd stick with the Chilean mine rescue (after all, American TV is covering it) but NO. No, nothing must get in the way of soccer, apparently! My jaw dropped open.
I don't know what they're going to do for the rest of the week, if they are going to preempt soaps tomorrow or what? The Chilean rescue is going to take a while. (I'm finding it incredibly inspiring and riveting! Right now they've rescued the third miner.)
Has this ever happened before? Do we know what Univision's policy is when the soaps are preempted for news coverage? Do they skip the episodes or show them the next day?
I know of a *cough* source online to see the episodes, so I watched the next episode. (I'm sure I'm not the only one who does this! LOL.) But I am a closed caption girl, so I really miss the closed captions. (Though I did actually get some of the episode and I think my comprehension of spoken Spanish is gradually improving thanks to these telenovelas! Squee!)
I'm really hoping they'll show the next episode tomorrow and not skip it! (Or show it the next day, whenever . . .)
I don't know what they're going to do for the rest of the week, if they are going to preempt soaps tomorrow or what? The Chilean rescue is going to take a while. (I'm finding it incredibly inspiring and riveting! Right now they've rescued the third miner.)
Has this ever happened before? Do we know what Univision's policy is when the soaps are preempted for news coverage? Do they skip the episodes or show them the next day?
I know of a *cough* source online to see the episodes, so I watched the next episode. (I'm sure I'm not the only one who does this! LOL.) But I am a closed caption girl, so I really miss the closed captions. (Though I did actually get some of the episode and I think my comprehension of spoken Spanish is gradually improving thanks to these telenovelas! Squee!)
I'm really hoping they'll show the next episode tomorrow and not skip it! (Or show it the next day, whenever . . .)
I don't think Uni really has a policy about this sort of stuff, at least not that I can tell. My Tivo was recording for hours last night and neither Llena nor STuD was on, just the miner rescue. However, I'm sitting here at 5:00 watching Univision "just to see" and they just played the preview for tonight's Llena and it's the same one we saw after Monday night's show, so I think Tuesday's episode is postponed until tonight.
Wow, that sounded bad when I said "just" the miner rescue. I didn't mean it the way it sounded. Actually, I watched the rescue for quite a while last night and think it's an amazing story. I had serious doubts whether they would ever be able to get the miners out alive. Thank goodness the rescue is going well.
That is good to know, Cap'n Sylvia (that the previews look like the next episode)! I really didn't want to miss the episode—it has some good stuff in it (from what I could figure out from my downloaded version).
No worries, I never took the "just the miners" in the wrong way! That story been something else, hasn't it? What a miracle! The coverage has made me verklempt more than once. Incredibly moving. The eyes (and prayers) of the whole world are on them.
No worries, I never took the "just the miners" in the wrong way! That story been something else, hasn't it? What a miracle! The coverage has made me verklempt more than once. Incredibly moving. The eyes (and prayers) of the whole world are on them.
I was wondering, too, whether they would show novelas tonight. They don't seem to have said one way or the other. I missed the soccer game to go to a photography seminar last night, but once I got home I was glued to the mine action. That was riveting. I finally went to bed after the fourth guy surfaced but it was so exciting, right when they stepped out of the capsule finally.
Well, I was watching that while trying to restore my home internet service, unsuccessfully. Ugh. Tech support will be hearing from me tonight, I suspect.
Well, I was watching that while trying to restore my home internet service, unsuccessfully. Ugh. Tech support will be hearing from me tonight, I suspect.
I don't think they showed TNs tonight. It seems to have been mostly coverage on the miners (fascinating!) with the odd program thrown in including La Verdad Oculta two hours earlier than advertised. It's pretty confusing to say the least. I'm guessing the TNs were preempted again and will likely resume Thursday.
Julia, what a pain about your internet service. Best of luck in getting it restored.
Julia, what a pain about your internet service. Best of luck in getting it restored.
Internet service is back off the fritz, and I'm hoping telenovelas are back tonight also. The miner rescue made much more compelling television, but it was kind of frustrating that after it was over Uni just started putting an assortment of shows on (I think Don Fernando came on early? And then La Verdad Oculta at 10?) at random times and didn't announce what they were going to show.
But I'm ready to get back to our usual! Axel has been hanging in limbo way too long!
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