Caray, Caray!

Don Julio’s revelation tonight was about the only exciting thing that happened. The rest was more of the same and when it wasn’t it was just more about nothing. Actually there was an interesting compassionate hug given by Marcella but the recipient wasn’t Victoria. But since we will be without Eva until Monday I will try and do my best to unravel the mess we saw tonight. And Yes there will be pictures. I made a back-up disk just in case. So lets get started

The more of the same starts with Eva and Daniel. Eva tells Daniel that they are finished and tells him to return to Victoria. She needs him. He tells her she is wrong. She can’t ask him to go back to Victoria. She tells him she can and to go back before something worse happens and to forget about her. He tells her he is leaving but he doesn’t accept her decision. He leaves as Eva sets at her desk hands to face leaving us all wanting to throw something at her.



I am going to condense all the seedy stripper joint goings on all together. Marisol is taking her merry time in the dressing room while all the clients are in a tizzy as to where she is. Her friend wants to know what’s going on. She tells her she is not going to leave until she talks to Damian. He bust in and want’s to know what in the devil she is doing and why hasn’t she gone on stage. She gets up in his face and tells him “because I don’t want too.”



She continues “And I am not leaving until you and I clear things up.” Damian wants to know what she is talking about. He tells everyone to leave and Marisol insists they all stay and hear what she has to say. She tells him she knows him very well and knows that he set her up the other night . He stands there with a malice smile as Marisol thumping him on the chest as she leaves, tells him his plan failed. It just brought her and Fran closer together. Damian tells her he is happy for her but her good fortune could change. She defiantly tells him her good fortune will bring her fine jewelry and nice clothes. He tells her she still owes him money and until she pays she has clients waiting for her. He turns to her friend and says, “Your stupid friend will need to learn that he who laughs last laughs the best“ and leaves the dressing room.


Marisol is finally out front and center and sees the penthouse owner from the other night. (I don’t know if is name is Horace or not but it seems to fit and that’s what I will call him.) Horace tries to stop her in mid pole swing telling her they have something pending to talk about.



The disruption of the show doesn’t sit well with the other clients and a fist fight breaks out. Horace has gotten a couple of swings in before Damian steps forward and tells the bouncers to throw him out. Horace protests telling Damian “We are friends, or did you forget you gave my keys to that women” turning to Marisol. Damian tells him if he would have answered his telephone he would have been aware of the plan he had set up for Marisol but because he didn’t he messed everything up. He tells him he hopes he finds his phone the next time he needs him and has him kicked out. Then he Tells Marisol to get to her dressing room. He turns to the crowd and tells them to party on.

Renata has summoned Daniel to the big house. She is apologizing as she tells him Victoria is inconsolable. Daniel enters the room to find Victoria “distraught” crying “You finally got here.” Daniel with hands on his hips asks her what she wants and what’s wrong. Like a spider spinning her web she pleads for him to come closer.



Hysterically and speaking a thousand words a minute Victoria is spewing craziness as Daniel sits down on her bed. She tells him he is the only one that can take her out of this horror. Daniel very softly tells her things can’t continue the way they are. Victoria still rants on. Daniel tells her the most important thing now is that she go see a specialist. Victoria protests and tells him she is not crazy. The only thing she needs to be well is to have him present. He tells her he cares for her deeply but he can’t offer her anything else.

She pulls out a piece of paper from her night stand and hands it to him. It is the wedding invitation. She tells him she just received them and that’s why she is all nuts. Daniel still not caught in the web of guilt tells her she has to do her part to recuperate from this. He tells her the most important thing is her health. Through tears she tells him the only important thing to her is him and their wedding. “Because all my happiness in life is you” as you goes in for a very clingy hug.



Alicia is trying to comfort Eva. She wants to know what Daniel was doing there. Eva tells her she told Daniel to forget about her. Alicia who seems to be a lot smarter than big sister right now, asks her how she could do something like that. Eva tells her it isn’t as easy a thing as she thinks. She tells Alicia she feels if she doesn’t break up with Daniel for good that Victoria could die.

Bless Alicia’s pea sized brain as she continues to tell Eva she is making a mistake in giving up the “man of her life” to avoid someone else’s suffering. She goes on to say Victoria doesn’t deserve Daniel. And what about her sacrifice. Eva tells her it is already a done deal. She has ended her relationship with Daniel for good.

Daniel has returned home and Fran catches him and warns him that Leo is waiting for him in the living room. Leo is poised on the sofa saying “At last you finally returned. Where have you been?” Daniel tells him he was at his house visiting Victoria and asks him what he wants. He tells Daniel now he has no excuses and they need to clarify things.

Dan goes to pour himself a drink as he tells Leo he is tired. He tells him to say what he needs to say. He tells Daniel that if Victoria tried to commit suicide it was his fault and he has a right to be upset. Daniel tells Leo he understands but it was her decision. Leo tells him it was Daniels fault she took the pills. He is the one who broke off the engagement. Daniel stops him and tells him no, he thought that way at first but doesn’t now. He tells him he accepts the consequences of his decisions but also the right to make them. “The right to decide who I want and who I don’t want to spend the rest of my life with.” Leo looks long and hard at Daniel and says “It is for Eva, right? You dumped Victoria for Eva Right?” Daniel stares back even harder and longer.


Daniels tells Leo that he broke up with Victoria because what he felt with her was an obligation and not love. That was why he broke off the engagement. Leo throws back that he broke up with Victoria because he is in love with Eva and has been going out with Eva. Daniel admits this and says “Thanks to Eva I realized that I didn’t love Victoria and would never love her and what we had was more like a habit.”

Leo again is outraged with Daniels response telling him “And above all this you have the nerve to tell me this.” Daniel protests and says “one thing is nerve the other is very distinct, it is the truth.. You wanted the truth and now you have it.” He tells Daniel what he suspected was true. Daniel looking at him asks if he has any more questions.

Leo asks Daniel if he seriously fell in love with Eva. Daniel responds “Very seriously.” Leo asks him if he knows the damage he has caused to his sister. Daniel is now outraged as he walks away from Leo now speaking very angrily and tells him of course he knows he hurt Victoria, but he is in love with another woman. Leo shouts back “You are not in love with Eva! You fantasize about her because you know I want her.” Daniel shouts back “This isn’t just a fantasy much less some compitition with you, but I love her.” Leo asks “And her?” (or as the English subtitles say “Does she do?”) Daniel tells him "yes" despite all he has done to try and get her to hate him and despite all his plans to separate them. Then he tells him “In the end it was you who got us together.”

Leo up in Daniel’s face tells him he is not going to permit this. Daniel right back at him asks him what he is going to do. He asks Leo if he has told Victoria. He tells Leo sooner or later she will find out. Leo says this has nothing to do with Victoria. Daniel wants to know who then. Leo says “It has to do with me and Eva. I am not going to make it that easy for you. I brought Eva to the house and it isn’t going to be you who ends up with Eva. She is going to be mine. And if it comes to it I will fight you to the death” and leaves.

In between some other scenes we have a panorama of flashbacks between Eva and Daniel. Each having their own little dreams of what was. We even have a scene with Eva packing the lovely gown and hat that Daniel wore in the hospital and taking it to the corner dumpster. Not for any other reason than I thought this was an adorable picture of Daniel I decided to include it.


Daniel’s flashbacks not only include the romantic interlude he had with Eva but also the night he found out about Victoria from Renata. He also flashes about the evil Marcela, the crazy Victoria and the sad Eva. He remembers Leo’s words of who will end of with Eva and says to himself “You better not touch her Leo. If you try anything with her it will be me who fights you to the death.”

One of the cutest scenes of the night was between Ricardo and Adrian. They have a grandpa grandson discussion about women. Adrian isn’t certain how he feels about Laurita. Ricardo tells him since he saved her from almost drowning they are practically “novios” because there is nothing a woman likes more than a hero. At the same time this discussion is going on we see a sad little Laurita touching the wilting flowers that Adrian gave her and wondering if it means he has forgotten all about her. She hopes this isn’t the case because she really likes him.


Eva has walked out into the garden and is crying. Leo approaches her from out of nowhere. To the best of my knowledge I think this is what went down. Eva asks Leo what he is doing there. He tells her needs to talk to her about something very important. She puts her hand to her face in worry and wants to know if something has happened to Julio or Victoria. Leo tells her what he came to talk about has to do with her and Daniel. She tells Leo she doesn’t understand what he means. He tells her “Of course you do, and the most important thing is you aren’t at fault for anything. And possibly you are a victim as well and probably the only true victim.”

Eva tells Leo she doesn’t know what to say. Leo says “My sister is really bad off. We are watching her very closely so she won’t do anything crazy again and Daniel is to blame for all of this because of his relationship with you” Eva tells him she has ended it. Leo tells her that Daniel has told him the opposite.
He tells Eva he wants to believe her because if not the outcome for Victoria would be terrible. He guilts her more and tells her how awful it would be for Victoria to find out it was her who was involved with Daniel.

Eva walks away from Leo and tells him to stop. She promises that everything will return to normal. Daniel will return to Victoria. Leo wants to know if she is serious. Eva tells him yes and Leo tells her that is great news since Victoria is quite impetuous and one never knows. She may try and kill herself again and this time there might not be anyone there to save her. Eva now filled to the top with guilt turns back to Leo and says “Oh I hope not” and Leo says the same.

Eva then begins to ask if Daniel had said something and Leo implies that Daniel said it wasn’t over. That is why he came to her because he knows how valiant (?)she is. Eva promises him that his sister will be happy. Leo tells her that if something were to happen to Victoria now, no one could blame her. Eva tells him if he has finished telling her everything he needs to she would be grateful if he would leave. He tells her not to worry he won’t tell his sister what happened and he hopes that nothing will happen again between her and Daniel. He also tells her that it is important that she forgets about Daniel. He thanks her for himself and for his sister. And with “heartfelt” gratitude leaves a sniffling Eva behind.

There was a bunch of fragmented Marisol/ Fran sub plotlines going on as well. Marisol is talking with her friend about her hopes that Fran will propose. She wonders what it would be like to have a millionaire propose to her. Our Millionaire is practicing his said proposal to a pillow.


The back and forth continues. Now Marisol is thinking about the kind of ring she might get from a rich man. Fran is also worried about the type of ring and has impressed himself with a great story he came up with to avoid getting her an expensive ring. He will tell her that a man in his family had given a brilliant diamond to someone, and something bad happened to that women. So in their family they don’t give “bling” to their women.

Marcella is in Victoria’s room wanting to know how things went with Daniel. She tells her not very well and she is beginning to loose hope. Marcella chides her and tells her she gives up to easily and ends up making the same mistake. She climbs out of her pity bed and tells Marcella she did everything Marcella told her to do including telling him the next time she would use a pistol. “Nothing worked. He doesn’t want to marry me.”

Marcella tells her they just have to find something that will work. Victoria wants to know what will work. Marcella tells her she doesn’t know but they have to find something that will coral him in. Victoria reminds her that she isn’t totally inept alluding to the suicide attempt. Marcella laughs at her as she sits down. She tells her that her idea did work, after she interceded. Victoria mockingly says “You? You didn’t do anything. She just chewed me out and called me stupid for letting Daniel get away. You told me you would think of something but never told me what.” Marcella tells her she did do something but she isn’t aware of it yet. At this moment we see Julio walking in the hallway.

She continues to tell her that she never leaves anything half done. As she is saying this Julio is ever so close to the door. She tells Victoria the part she played in assisting her “suicide.” At that very moment we see Julio at the door listening in as Marcella continues “Who do you think gave you all those pills?” Victoria incredulously says “It was you?” and Marcella proudly claims responsibility for this trickery saying “it was me who overdosed you to buy more time with Daniel.” We see Julio listening in in utter shock.


Victoria is shocked and tells her she put her life at risk. She wants to know why she didn’t tell her any of this when she woke up. Marcella tells her she had to play her part right so that everyone would believe she really tried to kill herself. Victoria thinks about this for a second than thanks Marcella for helping her. We see a broken hearted Julio listening to this as well as Marcella tells her daughter “never forget the extreme measures because they always get extreme results. You have to continue to fight for Daniel.”



She tells Victoria she can count on her for what ever she needs and gives her a “Godfather” like kiss on the cheek and leaves. After she has gone Victoria sits on the bed and I am not certain if she is grateful or scared silly. Holy spit!!!


Julio is sitting on the sofa with Max trying to wrap his head around what he just witnessed. He tells Max that bad times (Mala hora) have crossed his pathway. He continues to say “I married a Monster. The worse part is she created Victoria. In her likeness and in her image.” He chides himself for being such an imbecile as he continue to talk with Max telling him what a great friend he is even though he can‘t do any thing to help.



Eva has decided to call in sick. Her nerves won’t allow her to face Julio. She thanks Alicia for being so good to her. She worries what Julio will think when he finds out she is the reason for what his daughter did.

Julio is in bed with Max as Renata enters with breakfast. He wants to know where Eva is. Renata tells him she called in sick. He tells her he to take everything away. She tells him he at least as to take his medicine as she prepares it and brings it to him. He points to the night stand and tells her to leave it there and to leave. Before she leaves she tells him if he was worried about his daughter he doesn’t have to worry any more because she woke up in a really good mood. He snarls “Thank God. Now leave me alone.”

This was the weirdest scene. Marcela has entered her office and we see Giorgio sniffling away. Marcella wants to know what’s up. It turns out that Victoria’s suicide attempt has affected him more than Marcella. Marcella wants to know how he found out. He tells her it was a friend who is a medic. She warns him not to tell anyone. If her daughter finds anyone gossiping about it they will be fired as well as him. Giorgio sniffling back his tears tells her he understands. He wants to know how Victoria is. She tells him she is fine, perfect, it was nothing more than a stupid stunt. Giorgio tells her that it isn’t a stupid stunt. Marcella turns to look at him slightly intrigued as he continues to tell her “ I know what it is like to try and end one’s life.” Marcella asks “You Too?” Giorgio tells her yes “It was the worse day of his life.” Marcella gives an uncomfortable giggle and hides her face. Giorgio calls her on this and says “ That makes you laugh? You can’t believe that I could feel bad? That I am all smiles and ‘Good day?’ Well that’s not the case.” He tells her he is not as proud of himself as he appears to be. I think he tells her he tried to kill himself but either for good or bad luck he wasn’t successful.

Giorgio is now in tear overflow as he continues his story. And tells her he needs some one to show a little care and as my mouth dropped to the floor old Marcella walked over to him and gave him an honest to goodness hug with what even looked like a semi-tender pat on the back.


This bit is barely noteworthy. Tony shows up at Jacky’s house, gets out of his car and starts bouncing around. I think he asks her if he can use the bathroom. Next think we know he has come out of the house and starts charming Jacky. He asks her to go to the movies or go eat. She tells him she has to think about it and walks away. She quickly turns around and tells him she has thought about it and the answer is yes. (I just heard you all groan “Euew” in unison.)

Another barely noteworthy scene is with Marisol and Alicia. Alicia is helping her with her makeup. Marisol tells her she would make a great make-up artist. Hey what a great idea Alicia tells her. Maybe her millionaire boyfriend can help her get started as a make-up artist to his famous cousins friends. (Or something like that)

All right finally a noteworthy scene. Julio is calling for Max He says “I have to think really hard about what I am going to do. Marcella is a very dangerous woman. A very dangerous woman. But I won’t let her continue causing so much harm. I will confront her.” (OH!! I don’t think that is a very good idea)

We have a little Laurita and Jacky time. Jacky tells her she has no idea about the gossip she is about to tell her. Laurita all excited blurts out “Fran told you he likes you?“ She tells her “No such luck” and continues to tell her about Tony.

Daniel is at his office. He has called Victoria to see how she is doing. She tells him she still feels weak and is still in bed with the lights off, as we see her sitting poolside with drink in hand.



Then she asks him how he is. He tells her he is hard at work trying to catch up. Victoria says it is her fault because he lost all day yesterday spending it with her and apologizes. He tells her not to worry about it. He tells her the most important thing is for her to continue to try and get better. She tells him she hopes he hasn’t told anyone that they broke up. He tells her no because she asked him not too. But he has been thinking about doing it. He tells her it doesn’t make sense to continue hiding it. Sooner or later people are going to find out.

Victoria does not want to hear this and starts strutting around the pool telling him he promised to give her time and that he would let her tell everyone. He tells her that it doesn’t make sense to keep it form people any longer. Even Leo and her mother already knows. She tells him her father doesn’t know yet. Her friends and the press doesn’t know either. Then she lays on the guilt and tells him she hopes she has the strength to confront the scandal this will create. Daniel gives in and tells her that’s fine.

She then tells him she has another favor to ask. Daniel, tapping his pen on the desk with apprehension asks “What?” She says “Have diner with me tonight.” Daniel tells her he can’t. Victoria asks “You can’t or you don’t want too?” Daniel starts to answer her and Victoria stops him telling him he doesn’t owe her any explanations. She understands. “I know that the I am no longer your future wife. That time is over. Now I am a hindrances (estorbo). And you see me as a great sacrifice. I should just kill myself Daniel. Daniel tells her not to be like that. She replies “ And how should I be if I have to beg you for a little gift of time.”

Daniel with hands to face asks her why she would invite him to come over? She tells him he doesn’t understand the only thing she wants is to see him. To help her end their relationship little by little. “That’s the only way I can let you and to go and continue living.”

Daniel reluctantly tells her he will try his hardest to make it. Victoria thanks him and tells him she will be waiting for him as she closes her phone and suddenly looks very evil.

Well that's it for tongiht. I hope you all have a safe and happy holiday. I did want to leave you with one final gift however, that I had left over from the LFMB board.

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