Caray, Caray!

Bertha won't divulge her source about Carlos's diamond ring and protests David can easily determine if she's lying, whereupon David speeds off to do so. At Santiago's, he makes one excuse after another why Gabriela can't contact him at work. Her next question is even worse.

Santiago's unnerved when Gabriela reveals she learned from Bertha he visited a grave supposedly their mother's, marked "Marta;" and when he denies it, she flatly calls him a liar and begs him to talk about this possible relative. When Santiago desperately claims the mother is buried in San Luis Potosí, she points out they've never even visited.

Saved by the door, Julieta enters with Leonardo and explains he put Carlos in his place about the returned ring. Then David arrives, cold and distant to Gabriela. At the hotel suite, Caramelo mystifies Asunción and Juan José, agitating to procure electronic toys like Angela's, about which they are clueless.

At the bedbug hotel, Marcos admits his heightened fear of discovery and outrages Susana by even considering ditching the diamonds. She suggests hiding them and himself in the tunnel house; but he wants to check with Elsa first. Susana insists he should take care of hiding and leave the rest to her.

Back at Juan José's, his main focus is preventing Caramelo from calling Mauricio her uncle; but he agrees to buy whatever new toys she wants. Caramelo exits, and when Asunción notes to Juan José that his jealousy indicates Juan José's in love with Elsa, Asunción warns he'd better tell her.

At Mario's, when David angrily accuses Gabriela about the ring and other doubts sown by Bertha, Gabriela can only weakly explain she thought he'd be angry and that he shouldn't think badly of her. Tearfully she asks why he distrusts her so.

Susana pays a furtive visit to Elsa and assures her Marcos is fine, learning the police are watching and that neither she nor Juan José revealed anything -- but that they both think Marcos should turn himself him. Elsa is mystified by Susana's story of "Juan José" feigning ignorance of the jail break over coffee; and Susana will contact her tomorrow.

At Mario's upstairs in their suite, Gabriela entreats David to believe nothing occurred with Carlos; he gave her the ring to cause trouble, and she didn't even know what was in the box. She took it to not offend her then-employer; David has no right to doubt her like this!

It's not everyone's opinion: Bertha invents stories, because she hates her! Gabriela implores. He has to believe her; she'd never do anything to hurt him. She loves him: he's her everything! Look into her eyes, she begs, taking his chin. David does and can't resist holding Gabriela and kissing her again. Making up is so very easy to do.

At the hotel suite, Juan José happily informs Asunción he's inviting Elsa to dinner; and when Asunción assumes Juan José and Alejandra have broken off, Juan José blankly stares and denies it. Why should they? Exasperated Asunción needles Juan José by prompting Caramelo about her "Auntie" Alejandra, friend of her "Uncle" Mauricio.

At the AFI, Ramón brings Leonardo a file showing Marcos's picture and finger prints with his truck license under a false name, and they're sending the information to all the jewelers. They exit to make a little visit to the hotel address given.

Across town Gabriela wanders the cemetery, seeking the grave with Marta's name and dates on it; and she notes the location information. Meanwhile, in Mario's chambers, Abelardo is just telling "Mario" he had Mario interred in the family plot, when David enters and is astonished to hear "Mario" was at the movies, which he never attends -- a gaff on Santiago's part.

After nervously weathering a business conversation on a new advertising campaign, "Mario" is relieved to see David exit and pleads with Abelardo to know how long this is supposed to go on before he's discovered! Abelardo insists Santiago should relax -- he is almost exactly like Mario, he assures him.

At the cemetery office, when Gabriela requests information about the grave, she's surprised to hear the woman's name is Márta Saldívar de Guzman -- and that the burial was paid for by Yolanda Rey! At Mauricio's office, he invites her to help host a welcome dinner for some U.S. business visitors and will pay her extra.

Marcos phones Susana to tell her the tunnel house was locked and to change hotels, not using her name. He'll meet up with her later, he says. She reports that Elsa wants to see him and hangs up to phone the hotel office for their checkout bill.

Elsa has a nice scene, trying on prospective outfits for her upcoming hostess duties. Presently, a smiling Juan José knocks and invites her to dinner and dancing -- turning into a stormy frown and snide remark upon learning she has work plans with Medina. At his departing back, disappointed Elsa calls after him to no avail.

Leonardo and Ramón visit Susana's hotel room too late, learning she just left and that the "husband" was already gone the night before. They plan to look him up via the truck at the DMV. Meanwhile, a resentful Juan José boots Asunción and Caramelo out of the SUV with toy money and cab fare, in a rush to get to Alejandra's.

Roberto considers investing his $5 million pesos in BMW's for himself and two mini-skirted friends during a frolic at the dealership. At the welcome dinner, Mauricio is so ecstatic at Elsa's beauty and intelligence that he offers to make her head of public relations, which includes a company car. When she objects she doesn't deserve it, Mauricio searches her face closely and is tempted to convince her with a kiss.

Marcos ambushes Susana at a public park, and she tells him their new hotel -- and her idea of returning the diamonds to the shoes they originally came in to hide them. When things cool off they can sell them again. He still has some money from leasing the truck to Roberto; he wants to work, but is afraid -- and doesn't even want to visit Elsa now. He just wants them to go to ground for a while.

Juan José sneaks up on Alejandra at the studio, eliciting a giggle and setting a fun tone; he wants her to take him to a really good restaurant. A while later in a sharp looking location, Juan José is suddenly very self conscious; but insists he wants her to put a restaurant like that in the Mirador. When she agrees to use a Minimalist style, he objects he wants a great, big one -- making her laugh.

Then rather wishing to talk about something that he does understand, Juan José brings up the subject of luck. When Alejandra points out few have had luck like his, Juan José protests that for the preceding eleven years he had the absolute worst luck. And then Alejandra wants him to explain everything to her.

Back at Mario's, Bertha stirs David's pot by inferring Gabriela took off the moment David left that morning for who knows where. David heads straight for the phone and can't find Gabriela at Santiago's; but Dora's following behind and diffuses the situation, revealing Gabriela told her she was going to the cemetery.

This simple explanation throws David into a rage at Bertha, figuring she sent Gabriela off on some nasty gossip again. She strenuously objects, but he's past tired of her meddling with one or the other of Gabriela's family; and when threatened with ejection from the house, Bertha heads for "Mario's" office for backup.

Santiago and Abelardo, jollied by a classic mariachi concert on TV, are suddenly thrown into disarray by a pounding on the office door. With Santiago finally getting his wig on straight, the two cousins boil in through the office door yelling their positions.

When Bertha arrives at the part where she saw Gabriela's old man standing in front of his little girlfriend's grave at the cemetery, "Mario" disappears, and the real Santiago jumps to his feet, yelling in defense of his family -- astonishing the cousins and dismaying Abelardo.

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