Caray, Caray!

Abelardo astounds "Mario" with the news that Dora has fled the house! They both bemoan the loss of her potential testimony and the whereabouts of her letter. At Roberto's, he explains to Adolfo who Susana is and his plan to infiltrate Mario's affairs through her to kill him again.

Roberto relates distractedly Mario's odd behavior; how Mario once bodily tossed Roberto out -- but yesterday seemed not to recognize him. Adolfo listens intently to obviously confounded Roberto, who anguishes again he saw Mario's burning body; and Adolfo agrees something odd is going on.

At the AFI, Leonardo confides to Ramón he believes all the shadows in Mario's office served to hide his reactions rather than alleviate a migraine. Though Mario denied knowing Márta, her name made him nervous; at least Adolfo didn't deny he knew her, although he was also nervous, he adds.

Leonardo tries to reach Gabriela to ask about Santiago, but only reaches Bertha -- who is tickled to plan to meet him for lunch the next day to discuss what's going on with her uncle. Outside Mario's office, Abelardo and Santiago fret that Dora has no relatives and no friends to flee to.

Encountering Gabriela, Julieta and David entering, Santiago cheerily lies to them that Santiago called from Zacatecas and all is well. David follows a pensive Gabriela upstairs, who confides she doesn't buy the excuses given her why Leonardo visited Mario; David puts her off, but she is not mollified.

David finds Santiago to confide Gabriela's suspicions and ask that he phone Leonardo and they all get their story straight about the ostensible convention in case she asks. Meanwhile, Roberto takes Susana for her day off, and she nearly spills everything she knows to him about the tunnel house, how they entered, the wigs, and Mario's odd behavior.

Importantly, she reveals that the tunnel likely emerges into Mario's bed chamber. Up in her bedroom suite, a distraught Gabriela confides to Julieta she feels wretched thinking her inquiries to Leonardo about Márta brought the police down on Mario. And now she can't tell David, in case Márta is his mother.

Julieta reassures her sister she's blameless that Adolfo revealed David is adopted and suggests Gabriela just talk to Mario. Down in his office, "Mario" phones Leonardo, and he counsels "Mario" against worrying over Adolfo's blackmail.

Hanging up, when Santiago frets Leonardo will visit again tomorrow, David advises to let him handle it. At Roberto's, to complete blurting everything she knows, lonely Susana lets Roberto cozy her into explaining about Marcos in jail, the stolen diamonds and his arrest, the shoes, L.A., etc.

But since Adolfo earlier refused to put Roberto on his need-to-know list, Roberto just thinks the stories are nuts and can't connect them so far. Across the way at Juan José's, everybody's in a funk: Caramelo for missing Elsa and Juan José for his break-up with Alejandra.

After Caramelo retires, Juan José tearfully mourns the differences that killed their relationship: he's an ignorant, old-fashioned country boy; and she's a modern, classy, educated woman. Choking up, Juan José laments that no matter how rich they are, they'll always be the same.

When Juan José admits they fought over his accusations about her past lovers, Asunción takes the chance to put in a plug for his favorite, Elsa, who is more suited to them. Juan José reluctantly agrees, wiping the tears away, that she is more like them; but he is unenthused about it.

That night at the mansion, Gabriela presses David again with her suspicions that something's happened -- and he's not telling her why Adolfo's being investigated. He claims not to know and tries to reassure her that in a month the contract with him with be over.

At a club, Alejandra with Mina tries to drown her indignation and fury in alcohol over Juan José calling her a slut, despite Mina's observation he didn't actually call her that. Never mind -- the sentiment's the same! Imagine that idiot insulting her over her love life! She's so sorry she ever met him!

Feeling supremely stupid, she admits she sincerely fell for him; now she has no idea how she could have fallen for a guy with such notions about women! The unfortunate thing is they got along so beautifully; that's what hurts so much. So sweet, caring, tender -- and wild! But he's a moron! And men NEVER change, she insists.

At the AFI, Ramón failed to squeeze any more out of the jeweler, and Leonardo instructs him to pull Santiago's marriage license with Márta -- also to look up the daughters' birth certificates and check the family name to see if it's changed. Ramón notes if the name has changed, Gabriela's marriage won't be legal.

David learns from a nervous Abelardo that Dora has, er, taken time off to visit a sick relative, as David bids Julieta and Gabriela goodbye heading off to classes -- and he to the cemetery. Across town at the condo, Carlos unnerves Yolanda grilling her on Leonardo's investigations into "someone," making her jump the gun and suggest "Márta" out of the blue.

So now Carlos is suspicious but can't pester any more out of her, even threatening to ask Adolfo instead. She's about to abscond when Leonardo appears to question her, and Carlos exits himself. Yolanda denies knowing where Santiago went or that Adolfo knows he's Fausto Guillen; she admits she never wanted Adolfo to denounce Santiago, because she's sure Santiago couldn't kill someone.

Yolanda pointedly denies she's in the habit of protecting criminals; and when asked if Márta was a good woman, she pauses before lying that she was. It was an unpremeditated murder, not motivated by robbery, Leonardo observes.

When Leonardo then asks if not Santiago -- who could have killed Márta, Yolanda jumps to her feet denying she knows anything. Yolanda turns with a penetrating look as Leonardo gives her a little friendly advice: talk while you still can.

In her bedroom suite, Gabriela charges Susana with emptying David's suitcase from the hotel; and of course, Susana finds the one remaining L.A. photo, with which she quickly escapes to her room -- to compare her black, platform shoes to the shoes in the picture.

Upon confirming they're identical, Susana pulls the diamonds out of the shoes to hide them in a scarf in her bra, puts the photo and shoes in a shopping bag and phones Roberto to come pick them up. Meanwhile, poor David visits his father's grave with Abelardo at the cemetery.

David speaks from the heart to the man who truly was his father in every meaningful way and vows to make all Mario's plans come to fruition. He calls his father the best man in the world and declares his love, as Mario loved him. Then after bidding Mario rest in peace, David oddly remarks "…see you soon…"

Roberto roars his car up to the corner, where Susana hands him the bag of seemingly extraneous stuff and runs off. Now Roberto has all the information and the evidence, except for the actual diamonds. Inside Mario's office again, David declares to Santiago and Abelardo he intends to have hotel security guard the house now. Adolfo's a criminal and murderer of his father.

There's the contract clause still remaining, and he recognizes the description of Mario's cuff link matches Carlos's ring. Santiago piles on the rap sheet the jewel theft inside Gabriela's shoes, which David hadn't connected yet -- but which now makes sense of Leonardo asking for the photos and Bertha stealing them for Adolfo.

David heads straight upstairs to secure the one remaining photo in his suitcase; but when it has disappeared, rakes Susana over the coals to no avail. Failing that, David accuses the objecting Bertha, threatening her with ejection for the theft -- and turning over her room in search.

Bertha launches herself down into "Mario's" office for backup, making the mistake of insulting Gabriela in the process, losing points with Santiago. She's yelling at the top of her register in indignation, Santiago coming over the desk wagging his finger, when David adds his fury to the mix. Opening his wallet and pulling out cash, David shouts Bertha better come up with the photo -- or stack her duds and scram!

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