Caray, Caray!

Friday: Paula has a bad feeling. Me too. Begoña offed, the baby abandoned by the roadside, Oliver shot, Bernardo and Fedra dragging Gretel away, Marianela having another spell.

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Eman tells Mari she has to get to a doctor first thing tomorrow. She wants to go home. He says he wants to be with her tonight. They kiss. I feel better!

At the big casa, Paula and Benigno are preparing a welcome-home for the new beauty queen, flowers and music and everything. Brandon comes into the living room with Nereida in her civvies (a sexy dress) in tow, looking for her, but the Nereida says she left with Eman.

Eman is telling Mari that she’s beautiful – she shyly says no man has ever said that to her. He tells her he wants to be with her forever. More besos. Oops! He’s taking off his coat. Mari says she’s scared he’ll just evaporate. He says he wants to love her completely, which is usually an icky come-on line, but this is our Eman, so it’s actually sincere. More besos.

The two mafiosos are having a beer. The bald one feels bad about what they’ve done. Not the woman so much, but abandoning the baby. They get a call from Lorenzo in jail. He says he has a little problem, but there better not be a scratch on that baby, or he’s siccing the big boss on them. The non-bald one tells Lorenzo everything’s fine and hangs up. The two guys laugh and head out to find the baby.

At the hospital, Emil calls home to reach Fedra, but gets Axel, who says she’s not there. Emil wonders where the hell she is.

Fedra and Bernardo have dragged Gretel into a clinic, into a padded cell in fact. Fedra tells her that one day she’s going to thank her for separating her from that policeman. No, no no! protests Gretel. Boo, hiss, boo!

Mari and Eman are in bed, but fully clothed. She says she’s dreamed of this moment. He love-talks her. More besos, lots of candles. Adjusting her glasses, she tells him she’s never been with a man. He says they can just hug.

Gretel sobs to her mother that she is her living conscience, the conscience she never had. Fedra is an excrescence, she killed her tio, and now her lover. Fedra tells her that where she comes from, survival is everything, and to survive, you get rid of whatever stands in your way. Kill me too! Gretel begs. Fedra strokes her face and hair and tells her that death is a prize, and she hasn’t earned it. Better they leave her here. Bernardo throws Gretel against the upholstered walls and he and Fedra knock to get out. They leave and Gretel freaks out.

Marianela tells Eman that she’s afraid her she won’t please him, meaning her body. Aw, poor kid. But he tells her he’s crazy about her, and he’s discovering himself what real love feels like. Meantime, her powerful superstructure bra juts a huge breast skyward like Mt. Everest, almost dwarfing Eman. That alone could inspire a fellow, I’m thinking.

The two baddies drive back to where they left the baby in a pile of branches, but it’s gone!

Brandon asks Axel if Eman has a bachelor pad or something where he could have taken Mari – he’s worried that she’s okay. Axel gets mad and says she’s not the victim, Kristel is. Why, she was taken straight from the contest to the hospital. Axel tells him to get out, but Brandon plops down on a couch, folds his arms defiantly and starts waiting.

For some reason, there’s a breeze in the lovers’ chambers, we can tell from the candles. The hot winds of love? Mari wants Eman to snuff them all out so he can’t see her, but he wants to soak her in. Things get hot and heavy, and we can see a bare arm, so she has her shirt off at least. Maybe everything!

The baddies are circling the neighborhood in their mobmobile, looking for the baby, but no luck. The bald guy tells the other one that if Lorenzo tells the boss about it, it’s all his (the other guy’s) fault. Okay, says the other guy, inexplicably. They keep looking.

It’s getting even hottier and heavier! Eman wants Mari to feel completely desired. If it weren’t for the gutting candles in the foreground and a huge bouquet of roses, we might see things that would make us blush.

Outside the clinic, Fedra tells Dr Peralta he knows what he’s to do. He tells her not to worry, he’ll take good care of her daughter. He walks off a little heavy-hearted maybe. Fedra and Bernardo figure they need to go get rid of Oliver’s body. Fedra thinks it would be a good idea to burn the cabin. Brilliant! says Bernardo.

Papito! Calls out Gretel, troubling deaf heaven with her bootless cries. Get me out of here!

In the cabin, we see Oliver, wounded in the chest, but trying to get up to save his damsel in distress.

Axel still wants Brandon to leave, but he says he’s glued to the spot until Mari comes home. He gets a call – Oliver! He’s on his way.

Ceiling shot of Mari and Eman in passionate embrace.

Brandon’s GPS must’ve gotten him to the cabin (Calle del Bosque, turn left at the toadstools) because it looks like he beat Fedra and Bernardo there. Maybe they stopped off for matches, a hot dog and a can of gasoline at the Seven Eleven. Brandon carries his friend out, swearing Fedra’s going to pay.

Oliver doesn’t want to go to the hospital because the police are looking for him. He doesn’t want to be behind bars where he can’t find Gretel and save her.

Fedra and Bernardo arrive with, sure enough, big cans of gasoline. Though it’s raining, Fedra splashes hers around on the outside, and Bernardo does the inside. Neither seems very concerned about keeping the gas off themselves, but what the hey. While happily splashing the furniture inside, Bernardo realizes Oliver isn’t there. He rushes out to tell Fedra, and they realize they can say they came and shot Oliver because he had kidnapped Gretel. Perfect! But Fedra just can’t resist, she throws a lighted match. Bernardo is furious – how will they explain a fire?

Bernardo literally tries to drag Fedra from the scene, but she shakes him off, transfixed by the fire. How like the burning boat it is! she exclaims. Look at those flames!

It’s morning now, and Axel is having breakfast, while Delicia, Nereida, Benigno and Paula wonder where Marianela and Fedra are – their beds weren’t slept in. Delicia figures Marianela spent the night at her aunt’s, and says she’s got good sense. Axel gets mad at her for always defending Mari, who’s not a good person.

In come Fedra and Bernardo who said they were trying to rescue Gretel, and they had a good lead, but the policeman got away. Axel tells her that Emil is at the hospital with Kristal, who lost her baby, but is going to be okay.

We’re in Kristel’s hospital room. Kristel’s asleep, and so are Emil, who has fallen asleep on the couch, and Netty, who has fallen asleep against him. She awakes and thinks how lovely it is to wake up next to him. He awakens and goes to Kristel’s bedside. She feels hot, maybe a fever. Netty takes a look and realizes she’s hemorrhaging.

In another bed, Mari wakes up to find Eman looking at her adoringly. Lots of love talk. He’s joyful, and says she’s all his. More kisses. Miraculously, the candles are still burning.

The doctor tells Emil and Netty that it’s serious – they’re going to have to do an emergency hysterectomy. No babies in Kristel’s future.

Dr Peralta tells the psych nurse that Gretel is schizophrenic and dangerous. Also, if anybody inquires after her, the nurse is to say that there’s no one at the clinic by that name. He tells her to give Gretel a double injection. The nurse protests that it’s dangerous. He tells her to hop to it, he’s ready to start electro shock therapy. The nurse is worried that that’s inhuman, the injections alone should suffice. The doctor orders her to do as told. The nurse approaches Gretel, who must be already drugged, because she’s asleep.

At Netty’s the ladies (minus Netty) all wonder how Begoña is doing on her flight to Italy, and they say the house seems so empty without her and the baby. They hope Marianela shows up before Netty finds out she’s missing. Yowza! Here comes Brandon, with bleeding and agonizing Oliver, who he plops on the couch.

Gretel awakes just as the nurse is about to inject her. She asks her to let her leave. The nurse strokes her forehead and says everything will be okay. No! Fedra! whispers Gretel. The nurse injects her and she drifts off into drugland.

The nurse looks at the syringe and says to herself that a double dose would kill Gretel. She decides not to follow orders.

Oliver is in Gladiola’s arms and Brandon rebukes him for running off. Brandon says he’s going to do things the legal way, and off he heads do Do the Right Thing, though I have no idea what that is.

He’s going to turn me in! wails Oliver, who wants to leave, but Gladiola wants him to wait for the doctor.

Eman has taken Mari to a big patio restaurant which is completely empty, which must mean a big savings on extras. He tells her that they make the best quesadillas in Mexico, though it’s puzzling that nobody is there ordering them up. Mari says she felt good after exercising, and he says he’ll be her personal trainer. They gaze into one another’s eyes.

Ilitia has dialed up her mama and while she’s waiting for her to answer, their maid tells her to just let her mother enjoy her vacation, and tell her later. Ilitia tells her to mind her own business and get back to making breakfast, and also that she happens to be very tactful at delivering bad news. This I gotta see.

Ilitia tells her mother that while she’s off lying around the beach, her husband is in jail. Great tact, says the maid. Ilitia smirks.

Mauricio’s cousin Lorena comes to see him in jail. Other jailbirds leer, and so does Lorenzo, who thoughtbubbles that she’s hot. She tells him she couldn’t reach his father who’s still missing, and his mother is on vacation in South Africa. He asks her to get hold of the family lawyers. She tells him that Kristel just lost their baby, and why didn’t he tell her about Kristel being pregnant?

Axel tells Nereida he’s going to go see Kristel in this hospital. Nereida observes that he and Kristel used to fight like cats and dogs. He’s surprised. Anyway, he says, she’s a good friend of my girlfriend. Nereida can’t believe he has a girlfriend. Of course, he says, Lorena. Nereida says the one who came here and threw a big scene because you rejected her? Axel asks her to explain. She asks him when he came to be interested in women, because from what she heard, his tastes were um… different.

In the hospital corridor, Netty tells Emil that Kristel needs lots of love right now. He sighs that he wishes Fedra were like Netty. Netty would have been such a wonderful mother to his children. They can’t turn the clock back, but there’s still the present. His marriage to Fedra is shot. He asks Netty for a hug, just a hug. She hesitates, then hugs him.

Fedra of course walks by and sees. She comes over and fake-calmly asks them what they’re doing.

Mari and Eman are walking in a park, and are remembering when their parents brought them there as kids and they played together. Mari finally confesses that she was in love with him since she was a kid, and that she’d always dreamed of being with him. He’s touched by the knowledge and says he will always be with her. In fact, one day, he is going to marry her.

Avances: Mari and Eman are still missing, lost in their little love bubble. Gladiola reassures Netty that they’ll show up. Mari and Eman ride horses, carve their initials in a tree, kiss. He proposes, they walk up the aisle of a church. They know they’ll have to face the family.

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