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Eva Luna, November 30, 2010, Episode 19—Stupid galáns and broken crockery.

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We start with a rewind of yesterday's episode; Daniel parking The Red Car, Eva seeing The Red Car, running after The Red Car as it drives off, but not seeing who was driving it. (Of course she loses her job because she ran into another waitress as she was running out and the waitress dropped a bunch of crockery.)

Renata and Justa have a close encounter in the grocery store. Renata is muy impactada to see Justa, and almost approaches Justa, but chickens out at the last minute. Justa blissfully wanders around, smelling various fruits, oblivious of all of this.

Marisol is chatting with Alicia and dreamily talking about rich men giving her flowers—fantasyland stuff. Alicia wants to talk reality. No fun! The doorbell rings, Marisol answers. It's Carlos looking a bit droopy, holding a modest bouquet of carnations for Alicia. Marisol tries to dissuade him from presenting this pitiful display, saying that those little things will pale in comparison to the garden they've got inside.

Don Ricardo wins $10,000 from the lottery, from that same store where Tony and Alicia shoplifted. The clerk speaks in accented English while Ricardo responds in Spanish. I include a clip of this (link below), since I am fascinated with the use of English in this telenovela. Some unknown person is watching all of this go down.

A still-droopy-looking Carlos is ushered inside and presents his carnations to Alicia. They're to congratulate her for getting into college, he says. She gets right to the point. She doesn't want "him" (meaning Tony) to see them there together.

Video clip of droopy Carlos with flowers, and the English-speaking store clerk telling Don Ricardo that he's won the lottery.

Renata is back in the kitchen looking very shell-shocked. She knocks over some crockery as she walks out and doesn't even notice. "No puede ser!" she thoughtbubbles. She thought Justa was dead! Marcela told her that Justa was dead in the clinic! She wonders if Marcela knows the truth (that Justa is indeed not dead). Then Renata thinks that Justa will never forgive her for what she did.

Marcela approaches Eva outside of the pension and wants to talk to her.

Don Ricardo tells Justa and Marisol about his good luck with the lottery. Much elation and celebration occurs.

Marcela is at her sneering best as she makes it obvious that the pension is a pathetic place. Eva is not tolerating this very well. Marcela then suggests that maybe Eva quit just because of the "little talk" they had about Daniel? More snarking back and forth.

Adrian is out somewhere looking for his dad. Some mysterious person grabs him from behind.

Don Ricardo is talking about Adrian with Marcela. He understands that Adrian is always going to feel connected to his dad, because blood is thicker than water, basically.

Meanwhile, Adrian is being restrained by two thugs in some dark room as he screams for help.

Renata is looking after Don Julio and is dropping crockery. Julio wonders what's up. She tries to give him his medicine. He won't take it from anyone other than Eva.

Raised voices between Marcela and Eva. Finally Marcela pulls the heartstrings and tries to guilt Eva into returning because Don Julio is doing so poorly. (Yeah, as if Marcy cares about that! Ha!) This works because Eva is genuinely fond of Don Julio. Marcy even goes so far as to say that if Don Julio dies, it'll be Eva's fault.

Daniel and Francisco are talking. Daniel (who in my opinion is acting like a defeated and whipped dog), resignedly says that he wants his life back to normal, and that means sticking with Victoria. Francisco does basically a spit take and reminds Daniel that he doesn't love Vicky Icky.

Eva is telling an astonished Alicia about Marcy's plea to get her to return to work. Eva also mentions that she saw The Red Car today. Alicia says "Qué?"

Don Ricardo is wondering where Adrian is. He should be home by now. Everyone in the pension says they'll go look for him.

Adrian is kicking up a fuss and the two thugs have to gag him. One almost hits him but the other stops him.

Manure is slinging as Marcela tells Don Julio that because she loves him so much, she went to try to get Eva to return. But Eva won't come back. Don Julio isn't buying this and says she's got to try harder.

No sign of Adrian at the pension. They are talking about maybe calling the police. The doorbell rings. Nobody there, but Adrian's backpack and a note are left. It's a ransom note. You guessed it, they want Don Ricardo's lottery money or the kid gets it.

Icky Vicky is calling Daniel and oozing all over him. He is half-heartedly asking her out to dinner, but you can tell he's not totally into it. But being a clueless galán, he's going to persist with this idiocy of fooling himself that he can settle for Icky.

A resigned-looking Daniel after asking Icky Vicky out for dinner.

Renata is still so freaked out that she spills the wine she's pouring at the dinner table. Icky Vicky is crowing about going out with Daniel to dinner.

A new person walks into the room where Adrian is being held. Adrian looks up with blissful amazement. It's Papa! Creepy Loser Dad manages a small smile in return.

Our stupid galán is going to actually propose to Icky Vicky. She of course is elated and thinking of all the wedding plans. You can tell he's trying to convince himself he'll be happy.

Eva and Alicia talking about Adrian's kidnapping and Don Ricardo paying the ransom money.

Creepy Loser Dad isn't explaining to Adrian about what is going on, but says he won't be coming home.

Don Ricardo returns to the pension. He paid the money but no sign of Adrian yet.

Loser dad is insisting that Adrian lie about him being involved in this whole kidnapping thing.

Tony the Lollypop boy returns to the pension, his mood all buoyant, and the rest of the residents of the pension clue him in about what's happening. Ah! Adrian has now returned! Of course he won't tell them that his own dad was involved. He's quite distressed and Don Ricardo can tell that he's hiding something.

Francisco is in Daniel's room. He's imagining that Marisol (the millionairess) is wondering why he only has more than one suit. Francisco comes up with the grand idea of "borrowing" one of Daniel's suits. Of course none of them fit, though Francisco tries to fool himself otherwise.

Meanwhile Marisol is basically doing the same thing—wondering about what kind of clothes a millionairess should be wearing and talking about it with Alicia. Alicia would like to help with the clothes, but she's got to go to class.

Jackie walks in on Francisco trying on suits and chews him out. He says something clueless and cheeky. She ends up slapping him across the face. Well-deserved, too! Francisco can't figure out what's bothering her.

Lollypop boy Tony is shoveling manure to Alicia. Blah blah blah.

Tony also reminds her that he's the one that made college work for her, after the cheating episode. She gives him a little beso then runs off to class.

Eva at her dad's grave, talking about what to do, what to do . . . she wants to forget about Daniel, but she wants to help Don Julio. He's not to blame for this. Then she smiles and ponders, maybe Alicia is right, and Daniel is in love with her for real?

Trouble at college for Alicia.

Adrian is at home, happy happy happy. Justa and Ricardo fuss over him lovingly. He almost spills the beans about his dad, but doesn't. Ricardo gets him alone and wants to have a man-to-man talk and wants Adrian to tell the truth.

Turns out that the Math professor has told the college that she was coerced into letting Alicia into college. Alicia is of course flabbergasted.

Celebration at the big house, as they toast to the wedding plans. Leonardo whispers in Daniel's ear all sorts of manure, further convincing him that Eva never cared for him, is never coming back, blah blah blah. You can see the resignation in Daniel's face—he'll settle for Icky Vicky. (Idiot!)

Adrian is getting distressed as Ricardo tries to press him for details about the kidnapping. Don Ricardo figures that Adrian is afraid to tell him what happened.

It all comes out—the math teacher was a victim of extortion. Alicia has no clue of course.

They're planning on announcing a formal commitment of Daniel and Icky Vicky tomorrow. "Welcome to our family," Leonardo says. Yeah, yeah, whatever.

Ricardo is one smart old dude. He asks Adrian, "Is your dad the one who kidnapped you?" Adrian looks impactado.

Poor Alicia protests her innocence but the school isn't buying it. They are going to start a legal investigation.

Daniel is in the hallway as the doorbell rings. It's Eva! Impactado looks are exchanged.

Here's a video clip of the last two scenes.

Avances: It looks like it really hits the fan. Video clip of Avances.

Note about the video clips: I just got HD on Dish Network. I am getting an HD video capture device tomorrow (hopefully). Because I am a geeky fangirl, I may add some more high quality video clips tomorrow or the next day. Check back on this page because (if things go well) I'll update this with links to HQ or HD clips. (Wow, HD looks really fabulous!)

Closed Captioning video clips: And yes, being the geek that I am, I have discovered that since upgrading to HD, the closed captioning works differently. I was able to make a sample video clip which shows the English closed captioning on Eva Luna. With this upgrade, I believe that the English CC is as accurate is it can be (not sometimes jumbled around, like it was before). This video clip (from yesterday's episode) shows how "accurate" the English subtitles are! LOL.

This clip (from yesterday's Soy tú Dueña) show the closed captioning in Spanish, and explains a little more about how the closed captioning works with HD.

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