Friday, November 05, 2010

La Verdad Oculta #037: This time Dora does not drop the tray

Roberto gulps at Olvera's rough revelation that the guy threatened him with the cops to comply, and he must accept the couple are truly married. A moment later from the condo, Carlos calls again; and he and Adolfo are both astounded to learn the real-life husband is David -- Carlos more so that crazy David would marry a waitress!

Adolfo kneads his brow, shaking like a leaf, and exits as Yolanda enters and notices the shattered cup and saucer he just dropped. Carlos marvels Adolfo would care, but Yolanda seems rather intrigued at the development when he angrily tells her.

At Juan José's suite, Asunción returns and spins Juan José's impatient anxiety into abject, toe-tapping glee at the news they can buy the hotel. Meanwhile at Gabriela's, her fears were well founded that David thought the worst, as she explains her beach-house story. He maintains too many coincidences happened for it to be true.

Her dad conveniently did not return home, the plane conveniently malfunctioned, Roberto conveniently failed to show, leaving them alone! Gabriela mentions Félix, the man with the patch; but when David still fails to trust her, she angrily demands why he married her. He won't answer and exits, with Gabriela crying in frustration.

At the architectural studio, Alejandra apprises Mina of the strange news and Mario's unbridled happiness, while Mina is tickled to report Alejandra's admirer's visit. They're just both agreeing he's very attractive -- if a bit odd -- when Juan José appears, Alejandra grinning and admitting his ears must be burning.

Luckily, Mina exits for a doctor appointment, so Juan José can gush in private over Alejandra. Commencing with a thinly veiled dinner invitation posing as a strategy meeting, Juan José angles his way into her intimate family marriage feast -- and her heart -- by passionately proclaiming that any man would be comfortable anywhere with her, even in hell. Alejandra is totally bowled over.

At the bedbug hotel, the couple on the lam are deliberating leaving town for the beach -- and as usual, baby making. Meanwhile at the condo, Adolfo conjectures to Yolanda what the recent marriage means about the diamonds.

Yolanda maintains they're just a couple of good kids; but Adolfo ponders if David knows already or will find out about the smuggling from Gabriela. Everyone has their price, and Adolfo charges Yolanda once again with uncovering the truth from Gabriela.

While Juan dresses for dinner and muses blissfully about Alejandra's eyes and mouth and even her walk, Asunción takes him to task about Elsa; but Juan contends after eleven years in jail, he's taking himself off the shelf. When Juan reckons a guy twice his age cannot understand, Asunción informs him in fact, he is still looking for his other half himself.

In Bertha's bedroom, she and Alejandra have a dust up over Bertha's obstinate interest in David. Confused to hear about the supposed fake wedding and Bertha's schadenfreude toward Gabriela, Alejandra declines to get involved, infuriating Bertha. When Bertha assails her decision to bring a guest, Alejandra cares not a whit and blows her off.

In Mario's office, he's expounding on the church wedding and the dinner to square things for Gabriela, when a confounded David interrupts to announce he wants an annulment! Admitting he behaved shamefully, he still should not have to wed a woman he doesn't trust, he shouts.

Mario resolutely refutes David's account of events, pressing his point that she's telling the truth. When David lists his string of coincidences making holes in her story, Mario refuses to believe it. He's sure Gabriela loves David and was happy to marry him. He's not going to permit an annulment.

Hapless Roberto gets the bad luck of the draw, when only Mario is available to answer his doorbell -- and Mario gathers his strength and bodily ejects Roberto, who has the temerity to snicker and claim the fake wedding was "just a joke!"

At the hotel suite, when Elsa enters, Asunción lies that Juan José has gone for a walk; and she is downcast from a string of misfortunes lately: her brother, her boss, etc. She explains she quit her job, and when Asunción shrugs that she's part of Juan José's family, that sets her off again.

She feels differently, and Asunción knows it; but counsels her to give Juan José time after his prison term. When he claims Juan José needs some fun, Elsa explodes that he should have fun with HER! Shaking his head, he insists she's not a girl to fool around with. He wouldn't even allow it; and she admits it.

But all the time he was in jail, she was dreaming of the two of them having a relationship together. Asunción counsels her once again to just have a little patience, and Elsa agrees and thanks him for being like the father she never had. When Asunción asks about Mauricio Medina, Elsa admits he's got a lot going for him; but it's so tedious! Her heart is already taken long ago.

At Gabriela's, Julieta is just contending that David is only jealous, when Leonardo comes to the door. He's almost speechless to learn that Gabriela and David were married. How? When? he asks, slack jawed.

At Mario's, Bertha answers the door to an extremely sharp looking Juan José, and she definitely likes what she sees and treats him very solicitously. He learns she's Alejandra's sister.

In the kitchen, Abelardo gossips with Dora a moment and finds she's known David since he was a little tyke, but has never been married herself. She says she fell in love with someone at 17, but that he deserted her for the United States and now she has no family. But David is like a son, she avers.

Alejandra greets Juan José looking sexy as hell in a black gown nearly frontless and backless; and when they sit together closely on a love seat, he's moved to huskily whisper inanities about her house to her. They share a mutual nervous laugh until she mentions it's her uncle's house -- which sobers Juan José up.

Presently a hopeful and happy Mario emerges and greets Juan José -- as Juan Ocampo -- in a fateful handshake. Finding his tongue, Juan José expresses his admiration for Mario's beautiful niece; and as they sit to wait for cocktails, Dora is bringing a tray of hors d'oeuvres when she spies Juan José and begins gasping for air.

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Interesting ep. :-)

You Tube links for #37:

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5
 

Thank you!

This time Dora does not drop the tray

At last! One more broken china tea tray and the Genovés family goes bankrupt.
 

Thank Jeri for the recap. I think Elsa will have to give up her fantasy about having a relationship with JJ. That ship has sailed and he is completely enraptured with Alex. Loved the snark about the bedbug hotel especially with the resurgence of the irritating creatures. So I'm beginning to think that Dora could be David's mother. I wonder will she let on that she recognized JJ. LOL at least she didn't drop the tray this time. Loved Mario throwing slimy Roberto out the house. That was a great moment. Looking forward to tonight's show.
 

Thanks Jeri and Aribeth. Without the recap and YouTube links I would be up the creek without a paddle.
 

Jeri, perfect title. Seeing Juan was literally Dora's worst nightmare springing to life. I give her credit for steeling her nerves and holding onto the tray. She was not quite as successful keeping the stunned look off her face though. I was surprised that while she recognized Juan, Mario did not. He is so astute and observant.

Jeri, this was excellent. Thank you so much for translating so many of the all important conversations that took place. I knew David wasn't softening toward Gabriela and now understand that he thought there were "too many coincidences...for it to be true".

Jeri, you summarize these characters' hearts and souls with great care and attention: Elsa's "heart is already taken long ago", "muses blissfully" and "thinly veiled dinner invitation posing as a strategy meeting".

Loved seeing Carlos seething with jealousy but felt badly Leo was blindsided by Gabi's marriage.

Mario throwing Roberto out? Priceless!

I could go on and on...Jeri, you made my day. Gracias amiga.

Diana
 

Thanks for the recap and links, Jeri. Great as always and I see a bit of clever alliteration.

It's cute to see J J and Ale reduced to babbling and giggling over their attraction for one anther.....so Junior high but cute.

You have to give David credit in that he is not hung up on Gabi being a mesera but just being unfaithful. Carlos is so angry that David has Gabi but he can't understand how he could marry someone from a lower class. I think Ale is a bit hung up on class and Bertha sees workers as inferior and treats them as such. I can't wait for Bertha to be hit by her pie cart for wasting space and air and thinking David should be her meal ticket for life.

Robert is screwing up and soon won't be able to cover up his lies. He is now banned from the Genoves house, yeah, thanks to Mario. So it should be harder for him to knock off poor Mario.

I am so confused about the 17 years and if Dora is David's mom cause I swear David is over 25 years old and Dora hasn't worked in the house more than 11 years. She did work at the hotel but how could she bring him up as a son unless he grew up in the hotel. I probably missed something somewhere. Help.

I think J J might have dodged a bullet with Dora and her tray, hopefully, but what about Gabi. Will she recognize handsome cleaned up J J as the handsome grubby guy from the market and bus? Oh, Oh.

GinCA
 

Thank you ladies for the very kind words. :-) Pirate Babe, I think the same about Elsa; she is getting a bit insistent.

If it's true she hoped for a relationship for eight long years, she could have said something during all that time.

And since Juan José never said anything either, there isn't much reason to think she's entitled.

Diana, since David does not know he's living in a telenovela, he's not expecting so many coincidences, LOL.

I felt sorry to Leonardo, too; but Gabriela told him before that she's interested in David.

GinCA, exactly my concern about Dora's conversation. That's why I decided to write she "claimed" she fell in love 17 years ago.

One of those things is a red herring: either the family feeling between her and David -- or the 17 years.

Let's review: in the beginning, she said she followed a man from her home town, and he abandoned her; thus branding him as a villain to the viewers.

Then we found out David is not Mario's son, that he's adopted -- and that Dora asked to come work in the house.

And we know from this episode that David thinks of her as a mother.

He said so, and they had another such scene the other day. So I was thinking the 17-year figure might be a red herring.

He's definitely older than 17, so maybe she's talking about another man she fell in love with. Just have to wait and find out.
 

Jeri, thanks once again for a great recap.

Does anyone remember why Marcus was sent to jail?

Rosemary
 

Rosemary:

Marcos and Elsa had an aggressive, disgusting stepfather, who tried to rape her when she was a teenager and also beat up their mother. When Marcos tried to defend her he had to kill that jerk.
Elsa owes him much, and he knows it.
 

Just checking in quickly as it's a busy day. Thanks for the great recap, and I loved the title. :)

Rosemary- Marcos killed his and Elsa's stepdad, defending Elsa from his attentions.

I don't remember Dora saying 17 years, but I'll have to go back and watch that part again.

David is still being an ass. Loved JJ in this episode.
 

Thanks Jeri for the great recap.

The best part. When Mario gave the boot to Roberto. But obviously Roberto has a few screws loose coz he was laughing the whole time thinking it was so funny being kicked out of the house. How will he explain to Adolfo that he can't spy on Mario because he is not allowed through the front door of Mario's.

I wonder if JJ recognised Dora as well. Loved the look that Mario gave Dora when she stood there with a shocked look on her face.

I really want to know, what is JJ's revenge plan exactly. I don't understand it. He will buy all the hotels and make Mario richer? Why was JJ surprised to hear that the house was Marios. He knew that already didn't he,and he also knew that Ale was his niece.

Margaret
 

Fine job, Jeri. Got all the highlights and the lowlights. JJ does clean up well. I wonder if Dora will tell Don Mario that she recognized this fellow as the same one he once wrongly accused.

I'd already forgotten Gabriela had had an encounter with JJ at the market and on the bus. Even though viewerville thought they were a good match for each other, neither of them may remember it tonight. JJ only has crindly ojos for Ale and Gabi only has sad, teary, down-cast ojos for David.

For a guy near la muerte, Don M certainly has shown a lot of spunk: arranging for the real marriage, planning the boda celebration dinner, giving David the what-for about the annulment and physically throwing Roberto out of the house. Yay DM. Who needs Fausto now?
Una Norteamericana
 

Margaret- I thought that JJ was surprised to learn that Ale lives with Mario. I think he assumed she lived with her parents, and she has explained to him that her parents died and her good uncle took her in. He keeps refusing to believe anything good people say about Mario. Frankly his revenge isn't well thought out as far as Mario goes. And each time he sees Ale, he forgets that's supposedly why he's hanging out with her. Then she mentions her uncle, and it all comes back to him, and he gets that weird look on his face. When she doesn't mention her uncle, he's in lala land thinking only of Ale.

Frankly, I've never understood why he's so ticked at Mario. All Mario did was tell the truth that he say JJ chatting up the maid earlier in the evening. Nothing more, nothing less. Just the truth. It was Adolfo who lied. I don't see how JJ's current strategy to buy the hotels (if it's at a good price) would hurt Mario, but it could really hurt Adolfo when all of a sudden JJ owns the hotels in which his restaurants are located. All JJ would have to do is shut down the hotels and there goes the restaurants down the tube.
 

It was my cold fingers--I meant to type crinckly ojos.
 

Thanks all for the background on Marcus. I knew he killed someone, but I couldn't remember the circumstances.

Rosemary
 

Couldn't be cold fingers, just bad spelling. It should be crinkly.
 

Yeah...that business about Mario and Alejandra: Juan José knew even before he met Alejandra down in the tunnel that Mario's neice lived with him, I think. IIRC, Elsa told him that long ago.

It's why he's been interested in sucking up to her -- to get to Mario. So any surprises he shows are pretense. And the one who's getting sucked up is he.
 

Vivi, I had a laugh the way you described JJ when he is with Ale and then when she mentions her uncle's name he gets that revenge look on his face. That is so accurate, lol.

Apart from that, I just thought that he knew his next door neighbour was Mario. Maybe JJ has no sense of direction and doesn't know his house is right next door, lol.

We don't know JJ's whole revenge plan yet, so maybe eventually it does include Alolfo. Just have to wait and see.

Margaret
 

Una Norteamericana, nice to see you; I think your screen name is new to me.
 

Jeri, so it is all an act on JJ's part being surprised at the house being Marios. Well he is doing a good job, because even I was believing that it was the first time he was hearing that info, lol.

Margaret
 

Margaret, I think so. The reason he went to her architectural firm was that she was the niece; and I could be wrong, but I think Elsa told him long ago that she lived with Mario. She found out the day Mina and she went to Mario's to talk to Alejandra about buying Juan José's house.

But last night Juan José did tell Asunción that he was not even sure what he was doing himself, when Asunción asked him. I think he's kind of winging it.
 

Thanks for this Jeri! I'm a little late to the party, but my thought is if JJ and Gabi recognize each other (which they should) David is going to go off the deep end. He's already suspicious of Gabi and Carlos, and Gabi's friendship with Leo, *another* guy (even from an innocent encounter) is going to send him over the edge. I'm not liking David much right now.

I think Mario is not long for this world. I thought he was going to pass out after throwing Roberto out the door. I'm wondering if he's going to tell Gabi and David the truth before he dies, or if that will be up to Fausto.
 

FLASH!! Jeri and everyone--I rechecked my tape of Dora talking to Abelardo in the kitchen.

She says me enamore a los 17 anos. That means she fell in love at 17, not 17 years ago. That makes it VERY possible that she could be David's mother.

Remember in Amor Real when Rosario became a servant in the household just to be close to Manuel, her illegitimate child? The more the telenovelas try to be different, the more they are really the same, no?
Newbie-one-Kanobe
 

I'm late to the party too!  

Jeri, you are a true wordsmith, beautiful recap, thanks. 

Xint, I'm not liking David much either. Surely the writers will give him a cooler head eventually. He proved Gabi's fear of telling him about the trip to be reasonable by flying off the handle like she thought he would!!  JJ is an unusual novela galan, EY is intrepreting him as the "dimmest bulb in the chandelier."  
He looks nice though. 

Maybe Dora followed the guy and dated him a while before she had the baby a few years later and was dumped.      
 

Newbie-one-Kanobe, well, that is a little more like it! :D Thank you.
 

Newbie-one-Kanobe: awesome name. :)
 

Sandy in TN-- Actually Dora says she fell in love like a loca at 17, but he left for the US and she never saw him again.

Methinks she got pregnant by this guy and gave up baby (to Mario???) because she looks down with some regrets when Abe says so you never married or had any familia and she answers no, looking down. Then she says that's why David is like an hijo to her.
Newbie-won-Kanobe (I got tired of Newbie in MD)
 

Newbie, thanks for your clarification!
 

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