Caray, Caray!

In the club office, Adolfo grills Gabriela about her choice of husband as much as he dare, considering it might even be Leonardo, the cop. But all he learns is who it's not -- and that she's not leaving the D.F.

At the hotel, Caramelo desultorily picks at her new, healthy dinner, already pining for the street food she grew up on. After she retires, Juan José whispers menacingly to Asunción about posing to Mario as a wealthy hotel buyer in his vengeance plan to ruin the Ávilas through buying up their properties one by one.

Asunción wishes a good man like Juan José wouldn't change, concentrating instead on his future; but Juan José insists what can't change is the rage he feels. Later, talking quietly with Elsa about car buying, Juan José flashes back to happy days dreaming with Piedád about his ambitions at the hotel chain.

When he bitterly regrets being framed, Elsa reminds him he would never have met Gregorio and reaped the huge fortune he now possesses. But Juan José claims he'd gladly have forgone the fortune to avoid prison and the death of his mother.

Next day, Gabriela, the lovely bride, and pretty Julieta arrive at the crisply decorated hotel wedding chamber, attended by the club waitresses and pianist from the taco feast. The registry judge arrives, who is definitely not Roberto's plant; and finally an ill-at-ease David appears.

Gabriela smiles through the ceremony, with David pensive and nervous. Meanwhile, Adolfo phones Roberto at home digging for facts about the marriage; and Roberto can only deny it, but promises to dig deeper. At the hotel, Gabriela happily signs the registry; and then after great hesitation, David also signs.

Taking the marriage license from the judge, Gabriela follows David, who's turned to leave; catching up with him, he apologizes sadly and continues away. Meeting up with Roberto at the elevator, David furiously blames him for getting him in all this trouble and exits into the arriving car.

Roberto heads for the wedding, where he gleefully mortifies Gabriela in front of the laughing guests by announcing it was all a big, fat joke! At Mario's, Asunción arrives dressed to the nines and mashes on Dora while she shows him in. Clumsily grabbing a few cigars, he mystifies her, gracing her with a flower from one of their own pots.

Asunción delights Mario with his hapless, unwitting jokes; luckily, Mario only thinks Asunción is pleasantly casual and funny for a business man and instantly likes him. At Gabriela's, the two sisters weep piteously and wonder at the cruel joke -- and how if Santiago knew, he'd kill the jokers.

Instead of having Leonardo arrest them like Julieta suggests, Gabriela decides to give them a piece of her mind herself and exits. Meanwhile, Juan José visits the architect studio and is disappointed to find Alejandra absent; he can hardly hide his disinterest in Mina showing him their auto-CAD plan display instead.

At Mario's, David stalks upstairs without taking Roberto's call from Bertha; and Alejandra sets up a work detail with Perez for the remodel, oblivious to Bertha's agitation at the pot boiling around them. In contrast, inside Mario's office Abelardo is all-too-aware of Asunción's embarrassing gaffs.

After Abelardo gives Asuncíon details on firming the hotel sale at the notary, he rolls his eyes at Asunción happily lampooning Abelardo's name as something you'd call a bird, which elicits a laugh from Mario. Asunción would rather Dora show him out when Abelardo rather does.

On their exit, they pass the two furious Guillén girls entering, getting past pugnacious Bertha. Gabriela yelling to speak to David brings Mario around the corner; and he escorts her to his office. Beginning to weep, she gives him the supposedly fake marriage license; but he amazes her insisting the document is legitimate.

Mario quickly claims David escaped the wedding on account of Mario's health; bids her to wait; and heads upstairs to roust a sullen, pouting David out of his bed. Julieta joins Gabriela and rejoices with relief to hear the good news.

Upstairs, Mario berates and amazes David with the fact that he replaced Roberto's ringer with a real judge and that the couple are truly married. David apologizes but resists, accusing angrily that Gabriela's involved with Carlos. Mario furiously rejects the notion, explaining the story cooked up by Roberto; which David seems liable to grudgingly accept.

Mario insists David play along to save Gabriela's feelings -- and man up to his responsibilities. David and Gabriela meet alone in Mario's office; and when he simply asks if she truly loves him -- and she simply assents -- David can't resist taking her in his arms again and thoroughly kissing her.

Outside the office, Mario mystifies Bertha and Alejandra by requesting a celebration dinner for David and Gabriela's marriage. Alejandra comes to her senses and congratulates them; but not Bertha, who launches herself out of the room. The plan is to hold the church wedding next week after Santiago returns, and Mario is elated.

At the condo, Carlos is astounded to learn from Adolfo that Gabriela resigned to get married; he doesn't know who the husband would be either and is frantic to know if it's true from Roberto. At Roberto's, when he gets an angry visit from Bertha, who expected he would be on her side helping her, he insists the marriage is fake.

He's explaining the fake judge and thinks they should wait to see what happens, when the fake judge, Olvera, arrives; and Bertha leaves with the promise Roberto will get back to her. Alone, Olvera angrily throws the facts into Roberto's face: that a guy visited him, demanding that the marriage would indeed take place -- and be real!

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