Caray, Caray!

First the rerun: Leonardo tells his sister, Victoria that she screwed up by sending Eva over to take care of Daniel. Dan's a man and Eva is a woman… and the two could eventually get together. Vicky says not really. What’s been obvious for a while now is that Leo is jealous because he's falling for Eva. Claudia and she both know it, but as far as "another woman" getting in the way, Vicky knows how to take care of it herself and woe to the woman who gets in her way!

At the boarding house, Marisol tells Alicia she wouldn't want to be in her shoes when big sis Eva finds out she cheated on her entrance exams and got caught. Alicia frets over what she’ll say and how.

At Daniel's, Vicky is waiting up for him again and sends Laurita to bed. Laurita isn't too happy she's taking all his time up and leaving nothing for her. Vicky says it’s adults’ time and since she’ll be her mother soon she needs to obey her. Laurita makes a face and goes upstairs to bed.

Outside in the dark parking lot at the college, Tony sweet talks the teacher in charge of the exams--and who caught Alicia cheating-- into letting him help her carry her load of books to her car.

Dano gets home and is surprised to see Vicky waiting for him again. He was looking forward to spending a little time with Laurita. Vicky lies and says Laurita was too tired to stay up. Our persistent bimbutt wheedles him into going out with her for a little one-on-one beso fest in bed.

Back in the uber-dark and deserted college parking lot, Tony suddenly jumps into the back seat of the teacher's car and pulls a knife on her. He threatens her with the knife at her throat. He wants her to overlook the cheating on Alicia’s test and and threatens her not to let his "sister" (Alicia) or anyone know about this little encounter of theirs or something nasty might happen to her kids. The frightened teacher gives in.

When Eva gets home that evening, Alicia can't bear to tell her the truth about the test. All she says is that it was extremely difficult and she's worried she won't get into college. Eva tells her she's worried over nothing because she's too intelligent not to have passed the entrance exam.

Poor Victoria! Dano can't perform--at least not with Vicky--tonight. (What gives with the loud smooches? Dano’s distracted enough as it is.) He says he's just got too much going on with work and all. She changes the subject to (what else) their wedding. She tells him that her mother keeps asking her about the date, the church, the place they'll go on a honeymoon, etc. Dan says well at this point he doesn't know when or even if there'll be a wedding. He tries to make all sorts of excuses and then just loses it. Dano stops being Mr. Nice Guy and tells her he's fed up with being pressured about getting married and the way she seems so obsessed about it. (Guess he’s getting tired of batching it and spending bedtime with empty-headed bimbo’s.) Vicky gets pissed and says if he's dumping her because of another woman, then he'd better get a clue because she's capable of anything to keep that woman from getting him! Dan is wide-eyed impactado to hear this kind of threat out of sweet Vicky.

Later that night in bed, Alicia hears Eva crying in her pillow and asks her what's wrong. Eva's problem is of course Daniel and she says she doesn't understand how she fell in love with him, but now she can't get either his kiss or his look out of her head. The problem is that Sr. Leo told her Dan likes to play with women and that's what he's been doing with her, but in the meantime she went and fell in love with Daniel anyway. Alicia reminds her that the mouth can tell lies but not the eyes. Eva says well since he's got a girlfriend the only thing she can do is find a way to forget him and it won’t be easy!

The next morning Carlos drops by the boarding house to speak with Alicia about the exam. She tries to lie about it but he says he knows the truth from one of his friends.

Eva does the morning shopping at the market near the shore and takes a walk along the beach. She remembers again all her chance meetings with Daniel.

Carlos guesses right that Tony gave Alica the idea to cheat. He doesn't understand why she lets him influence her like that. She says she doesn't know either, but anyway, nobody else around there knows the truth about what happened except Marisol. Alicia is afraid of disappointing Eva, she says, and doesn’t want to tell her anything about it.

At the office, Leo taunts Daniel about Leo's "date" with Eva the other afternoon and puts a little bug in his BFF’s ear saying that Eva isn't little Miss Snow White after all. Dan is left jealous and angry and definitely wondering about what exactly happened.

At Marcella's manse, Vicky asks Mama if she arranged for her to get the t.v. commercial she's doing. Motherly Marcy tells her no, she got it all on her own. Vicky smiles, pleased with herself.

Mr. Swish, aka, Gorgio--Marcy's personal office assistant-- arrives at the mansion to talk over the day’s business with Marcy. Eva answers and he chats with Eva politely for a couple of minutes about her being the one who came up with the apple account’s slogan till Renata rolls in and shoos her away with a nasty remark about never speaking with the guests. As Gorgio comes in, Vicky has had to fire her personal assistant so Marcy offers Gorgio as her assistant for the day. Problem solved.

Back at the boarding house, Tony comes in with a surprise for Alicia. She tries to get angry at him but the surprise wins out again. It's the notice from the school that has the exam results saying that she passed and is accepted into the college after all. Alicia is so excited she gives Tony a kiss on those sticky lips of his. His-’n-her-mones take over the two and the mouth-meld continues indefinitely. (Dunno. Maybe Alicia’s lips just got stuck from all the lollipop goo.)

Vicky is having problems finding jewelry to match her outfit for the commercial shoot. Eva finds the perfect item so Vicky takes Eva to the set of the commercial to be her dresser for the day.

A little later in the day in Vicky's dressing room, Eva's putting away clothes while Vicky is on the set. Daniel walks in unexpectedly looking for Vicky. They start slinging meaningless insults out of nowhere at each other. Dan tells Eva if he'd known she was there he wouldn't have come; she says ditto for her. He tells her he doesn't believe her cuz for sure she would have found some excuse to see him again for a chance to play little Miss Virtuous. Eva doesn't know what he means. He tells her for once he thought he'd finally found a different type of woman, somebody really decent, but he realizes now that he was mistaken. She grabs his arm and asks him why he's speaking to her like that.

Back at Marcy's Manse: Leo's there to discuss Bruno with her and his doubts about the guy. He tells her that he's essentially a gigolo. Marcy tells Leo that's no problem because she sees him strictly as a business associate. (Guess she's got all her toes crossed inside those pumps.) She can take care of herself. Once Leo’s gone Marcy takes a sip of her soda and smiles to herself over the fact that poor ol' Bruno doesn't know who he's dealing with.

Once again at the dressing room: Dan eventually says it's no use to waste his time explaining anything because Eva just wouldn't understand; it's like she told him that time that they belong in two different worlds. She yells at him to stop insulting her. He says he's not trying to insult her, only to put his mind straight. He starts telling her that for once he got to thinking that she was somebody who—but then he stops and says he really doesn't know what he thought. (I suppose we’re supposed to feel sexual tension building here, but it’s not coming through.) Eva spits right back at him saying she was thinking there were plenty of things he told her that she believes weren't true either!

Meanwhile, Vicky is told to go back and change into a less provocative dress for the commercial to please one of the advertiser’s personnel. Vicky starts towards the dressing room but she's stopped for an autograph and a snapshot by one of the crew. (The clock is ticking for Dan and Eva. Viewerville wants them to get this pathetic patch-up over before somebody walks in on them!)

Back in the dressing room, Dan snidely tells Eva what frustrates and disappoints him most is when somebody pretends to be something or someone they are and takes the trouble to win over others, but then the mask comes off and she turns out to be a whore! (Ouch!) Eva slaps him across the face. (Double ouch!!) He grabs her and kisses her. (That was a come-on? And, what gives with all the smooch sounds? We already know it’s lip-smackin’ good.) Vicky tries to open the dressing room door but the lock jams. She tries the door knob and suddenly Eva and Dan realize they're about to get caught. He wipes off the lipstick and looks like a kid caught smoking in the boy's bathroom at school. (Ol’ Dano was smoking all right, but it wasn’t tobacco!) Eva breathes heavy herself and starts putting clothes on hangers again. No reason to because the door won't open anyway. Outside the door Gorgio finds Vicky by the dressing room door and tells her to forget the dress change. They need her back on the set immediately.

Inside the dressing room again, Eva hisses at Dan for acting crazy like that. He says sure, he should have known it was a waste believing in her innocence again. She tries to slap him again but he grabs her arm. This time she accuses him of liking to beat up on women. Dano looks like he might be wondering if he really is so jealous that he's getting violent. "--Oh, so it turns out that I've been treating you disrespectfully and I'm an opportunist!" Eva accuses him of only being nice to her because he’s wanted "something else" that small town girls are well aware of despite not growing up in the big city. She knows about men and their pretty words and what they want! They all want the same thing from her! He says that's exactly what he supposed, that she got around and certainly does know LOTS of men.... He taunts Eva by asking her what sort of “things”. She refuses to describe the lurid. (I think her modesty just scored points with Dan again, but neither of them knows it.) He finally asks, “Who's deceiving whom here, Eva?

Vicky finds out from the director that Dan came by the set and that he sent him to her dressing room.

Vicky heads back that direction while Dan and Eva keep the verbal fur flying. Eva hisses that he has no right to complain to her since he's already got a girlfriend! “The relationship here is between you and Srita. Victoria!” He yells back he knows that because Eva's made it very clear that there is nothing between the two of them! “--Good! You understand!” He gets frustrated with the argument and says it's absurd and they're better off with each of them going their own way. Eva’s all for that too! “--We'll both forget each other exists and that we ever met each other!” Just then Gorgio walks in and sees them nose to nose and suspiciously a little too close for comfort. "--Am I interrupting?" Ruh-roh..... Eva and Dano are suddenly very self-conscious. The two pull apart and try to look normal, but it isn't working with Gorgio, who knows something's been happening in here. The sexual tension is so thick you could cut it with a knife.

Dano excuses himself and walks out. Gorgio nicely reminds Eva that Victoria is Daniel's fiancee and that she's the daughter of the woman who signs Eva’s paycheck every week! “--Better not forget that.” Eva swallows hard and nods.

Once the taping is done on the set, Dan walks over and greets Vicky. Vicky’s ready to go out to eat like they'd planned but he's too tired and has no appetite. (Query: Does she keep making these plans and steamrollering over him, or does he lie and say fine just to get her off his back so he can get back to work without being badgered? Can't tell but I vote for option #2.)

Gorgio brings Vicky home from the set and tells Marcy that Vicky was depressed because Dano would take her out to dinner this evening. He asks Marcy if it is a wise thing to have a girl as pretty as Eva working there at the house. Marcy laughs to think she'd ever be jealous of Julio. Gorgio says it’s not Julio he’s thinking about. No, the reason he's worried is because of her future son -n-law! Marcy is suddenly all ears and her expression turns to stone. Gorgio mentions how he interrupted Eva and Dan right after hearing them having a very heated discussion. Eva was standing a little too close to Mr. Dan. Marcy tells him she'll take care of it.

Back at Dan's, Francisco is arguing with Jackie again over his love life and the way he's been lying to Marisol about his supposedly being wealthy. He arranges another dinner date the next night with Marisol.

Dan comes home that evening and finds Laurita's gifts on his bed as he gets ready to take a shower.

At the boarding house, Eva prays for a way to forget Daniel. Daniel is thinking the same thing about Eva. He says to himself in the mirror that he's got to get Eva out of his head. Unfortunately he can’t and he thinks back to the various times they met. Suddenly he thinks he sees her standing there and smiling at him. (Dopey plot element!) The mirage disappears and he's still stuck in the same rut.

Alicia shows Eva her notice of entrance into college. The two share a hug and a smile.

Leo has gone gambling again at El Gallo’s. He is definitely feeling lucky after winning a pile of pesos that evening. Leo spins the wheel once more after carelessly betting every centavo of it--and he loses! El Gallo digs at him and says let’s see where you get the money to pay what you owe this time. Leo struts out the door. The words "good mood" no longer exist side by side in his vocabulary.

The next morning, Alicia and Eva leave early so that they can stop by their father's grave. Eva swears that someday she'll get justice. She's got that red car engraved in her memory and one day it and the driver car will reappear and she’ll get even with the coward who killed their daddy.

Before Dan leaves for work he calls Franc into speak to him about a large supper charge Franc made on Dan's credit card.

Marcy tells Eva she want's a private chat with her about Daniel Villanueva.

It turns out the credit card Franc used was only to be used for emergencies for Laurita. Franc explains what happened with the hot date he had and swears he will pay it all back the day he gets married to this gal. He kind of hints about a double wedding with Dan and Victoria. There’s that boda thing again. (Obviously “Boda” and” Vicky” don’t sound good in the same sentence any more.) Dan says he's going to tell Franc something because he feels he can confide in him. Francisco’s flattered. That is that he feels that wedding will be long way off. Franc says that it doesn't surprise him because it's quite obvious he's interested in another girl and that girl is obviously Eva! Dan looks sheepishly surprised by that astute observation. (I think Dan is long overdue for a Vicky-dump, but guess he hasn’t figured out how to manage it yet.)

In the library, Marcy at first tries to coax Eva into telling her what's been going on with Daniel by asking i if she had “noticed things” when she took care of him the other day at his home. “--What kind of ‘things’?” Marcy asks if he got phone calls from other women for example. Eva says not that she noticed and clams up. The Mellow Marcy isn't getting Eva to give up anything juicy so she changes her tactics and persona. Malicious Marcella becomes stern and threatening now with Eva. "Ok. “--Let's take off the masks here. I'm going to be direct with you and I want the truth, or it's going to be very bad for you otherwise! What is going on between you and Daniel??!!" Eva's lower jaw drops a foot and her eyes get three times their size.