Caray, Caray!

Today was an especially whacked day for me, so this recap will be abbreviated or in reality, more of a summary, much of it based on memory. I'm adding a lot of screenshots because I feel bad about the delay of the video clips. Many screenshots include the English CC, which sometimes is unintentionally hilarious. (I've got a few of the Daniel-Eva screenshots out of order a bit—but they help illustrate what's going on so I'm leaving them as-is.)

I may try to flesh out some of the scenes later on, but at least I'm getting something up in case real life gets in the way. Also I'm working on adding some clips (including a very revealing scene with Marcela and the corrupt doctor) which will be up in the wee hours or tomorrow morning. The video encoding process is taking longer this time because . . . (oh, you really do not want to know! LOL).

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Now onto the episode summary . . .

Marcela tries to put in the screws and play the guilt trip with Danny, but he's not buying this. I guess after years of being in a stupefied daze and stuck with the Bruja Icky, he's had enough. After finally being reminded of what "happy" feels like, thanks to Eva, he's not eager to give it up and reattach himself to the Bruja. He steadfastly refuses to relent. He won't agree to say the engagement is on again. He insists that this suicide attempt is not his doing, he didn't make that choice, and he had no idea that Victoria had that in her mind. (Viewerville knows how true this is, since it wasn't even Icky's idea to take the pills in the first place.) Marcela is very adamant, but Dano juts out his jaw and is totally not going for it.

Danny's not going for the guilt trip. (Click on image to see HD version.)

Eva, on the other hand, is the weak link here. She is a total wimp and is dissolving in guilt. She whines about it's all her fault, she and Danny should call it off, blah blah blah. We expected this. How tediously predictable.

Eva is overcome with guilt, guilt, guilt. Click on image to see HD version.

Daniel of course isn't buying this B.S. from Eva either. He's NOT going back to Ictoria. It's NOT Eva's fault. He CANNOT marry a woman he doesn't love. Blah blah blah some more.

Daniel and Eva comfort each other, after learning of the bruja's attempted "suicide." Click on image to see HD version.

Marcela has a private chat with Ictoria and tells her to amp up the crazy suicide-guilt-trip with Danny. Ictoria takes this advice to heart and tells Daniel later that if she doesn't marry him, "next time, I'll shoot myself with a gun!" Oh yeah, this crazy talk is just the kind of thing to get a guy running back in your loving arms, Ictoria. He looks horrified. (I would think that any sensible man—and for this moment Daniel is seemingly in possession of some sense—would be even more determined to extract himself from a bruja who has explicitly said that she knows where a pistol is and knows how to use it! What father would want a woman like this around his young daughter?)

Daniel looks suitably horrified as Icky spews crazy talk. Click on image to see HD version.

Daniel says he won't be blackmailed. Ictoria starts slathering on all sorts of nonsense about how her "love" for him is so great and she won't let him go. He looks at her as if she is nuts. Which of course she is.

Ictoria threatens to use a gun next time. Click on image to see HD version.

Leo of course is playing the grieved, outraged brother. He also tries to put in the guilt trip on Daniel (Daniel still not buying).

Leo gives the fisheye to both Danny and Eva and tries to make them feel guilty for Icky's alleged suicide attempt. Click on image to see HD version.

Then Leo dances around both Ictoria and Marcela, hinting that he "suspects" he knows who the other woman is. Both Marcela and Ictoria snap this up and are all over him, demanding to know who this woman is. He hems and haws and delays actually telling them.

Leo visits Ictoria and hints around about "la otra" (other woman). Click on image to see HD version.

Don Julio, who I am loving more and more with each episode, has a lovely conversation with Ictoria and asks her why she would do this, and gives her all sorts of loving, sensible, fatherly advice. He also starts thinking to himself that something is not right here and he's going to find out what's behind all this B.S.

Don Julio gives sensible fatherly advice to Icky. Click on image to see HD version.

Marcela has a very revealing conversation with the jolly doctor who is her cohort in crime. She casually tells him of all the stuff that's going on. She drugged Ictoria and convinced her that she tried to commit suicide. This was done to guilt Daniel into marrying her. Why? Well, Daniel owns a whole lot of the stock in the agency. Marcela wants Icky to be the heir. Wait a minute, Daniel has a daughter who is the heir. We'll talk about that later, Marcela says. (Oh noooooo!) What if Danny refuses to marry Ictoria, even after all this industrial strength guilt-trip therapy? Well, Marcela sneers, I know there's an "otra" and I'll just KILL her! (Oh nooooo! Oh wait, we totally knew that Marcela was capable of this.)

Video clip of Marcela telling all to her equally evil doctor.

Meanwhile, our other characters are having their drama as well. Don Ricardo goes to a lawyer to see about getting custody of Adrian, only to be told that since Tomas is his father, that's that. No, it doesn't matter that Tomas is a deadbeat criminal who abandoned Adrian. Poor Don Ricardo is pretty broken up about this as he relates it to Doña Justa. She is appropriately outraged that the system is as it is. They both discuss this for a while.

Don Ricardo is frustrated that he can't do more to help Adrian. Click on image to see HD version.

Alicia is insisting that Tony do right by poor Carlos who is still rotting in jail. No expressions of affection from her until Tony does the right thing. Tony visits Carlos in jail and spins some B.S. tale. (I need to go back and watch this again to get all the details, but it has something to do with Tony and Alicia going off to New York together, since Tony has work there.) Carlos is reluctant to believe that Alicia would take off with Tony like that. Tony is smug and smirking and talks a lot about "mi novia" and really rubs it in that she's his girl and not Carlos's.

Carlos rots in jail, while looking curiously attractive wearing a sleeveless jumper thing. (Okay, maybe it's just me who finds that attractive. Moving on. . . ) Click on image to see HD version.

But of course, Tony being the slimebag that he is, tells Alicia a completely different story about what went down when he visited Carlos in jail. He assures her that Carlos is getting out of jail Real Soon Now, but Alicia, in a rare moment where her sparse brain cells kicked in, refuses any affection until she SEES Carlos free and walking down the street.

Daniel is going to change his clothes before visiting Eva at the pension. He has a chat with a concerned Francisco about what's going on. Click on image to see HD version.

Video clip of this scene. Notice how the English CCs translate "patrón" into "pattern"! LOL

Leo visits Danny's house and tries to pry out of Francisco the location of Danny, but Francisco isn't telling.

Back with our main couple, Eva and Daniel, we end the episode with Eva insisting to Daniel that they must break up because Daniel is emotionally and morally "obligated" to Ictoria. Oh please, spare me this nonsense.

Here are multiple screenshots showing guilt and distress between our main couple.

Eva is telling Daniel to go back to Ictoria. Daniel is not finding this acceptable. Click on image to see HD version.

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