Caray, Caray!

Leonardo halts Juan José's lynching party at the club, where Juan José had already decided worthless, old Adolfo could better spend his remaining days in prison. Leonardo clamps Adolfo's indignation after letting Juan José exit, assuring him and Carlos that they as smugglers are the big fish.

Adolfo must silence Carlos spilling details of Adolfo's testimony against Juan José when Leonardo's curious why the ex-con would attack him. Leonardo's gaze drills them as he points out what excellent vision Adolfo must have to recognize a murderer several floors up -- but not across from him at the wedding reception!

Both Carlos and Adolfo speechless at that, Leonardo exits, warning them not to leave the country. They'll be watched. At Roberto's hotel, he tells Susana his work for Adolfo brought him to this pass; and it dawns on her it was Adolfo set Gabriela up with the shoes. Dangerous, but they can work their advantage.

They only need to guard the shoes and the photo, and of course they're being watched. For her trouble, Roberto splays a handful of bills on the table, popping Susana's eyes -- she earned it, he assures fondly. At Mario's, despondent David enters Mario's bedchamber to unburden himself to hardly sympathetic Santiago.

David doesn't expect much -- just to talk to someone. He recounts his growing love after meeting Gabriela, the painful gossip and jealousy surrounding it, his desire to strike back; pacing disconsolately, he admits his big, ugly mistake. Tearfully he swears his regret and fear of losing Gabriela.

David sobs to think of spending his whole life without her -- he has no one else now: his father is dead, he has no other family, no friends, not even his family name. Weeping David complains ruefully he doesn't know if his mother is dead or alive, whether she has brothers or sisters. He pleads to Santiago he's so alone.

What he did just seems so stupid -- and everything Santiago accuses him of. In the end it was his call, not Roberto's; and David swears his immediate relief at Mario fixing things. Santiago doesn't know what to advise him; and David relents on Mario's plan, saying weakly he doesn't care about it now and exits.

At Roberto's hotel, he advises Susana to stay working at Mario's and keep an eye on things. For starters, she reports Gabriela and Julieta's departure. And when asked, Roberto shrugs and wonders what good would come of talking about the wigs and tunnel -- he can't help it if some old nut wants to dress up.

Roberto points out Susana's "husband" sold hot diamonds, when she ponders if Adolfo could help Marcos. He's relieved to hear she thinks the police aren't hunting her -- she hasn't even visited the jail; but Roberto looks suddenly thoughtful to learn Leonardo has been calling the Genovés house repeatedly.

It's late, and Leonardo lays on the bell at Mario's to see him, insisting that they traced a call from the (tunnel) house by Santiago. When David resists, Leonardo demands whether he knows Juan José, which David denies -- but entering Alejandra admits knowing him, at Leonardo's raised voice and objections.



When Leonardo explains Santiago knows the real criminals who set Juan José up, he won't be denied; and David goes to rouse "Mario" while Alejandra keeps the policeman company. In conversation Leonardo learns Alejandra remodeled Juan José's house behind them, that they had a relationship, and that she's uncertain of his guilt.

In Mario's office, Leonardo surprises "Mario" maintaining they traced a call from the (tunnel) house by supposedly absent Santiago, warning them of Juan José's confrontation at the club -- and proves it with the correct phone number on a card. Beaten "Mario" agrees to tell all at the (tunnel) house tomorrow morning.



Outside in the hallway, before exiting, Leonardo informs Alejandra Juan José could be in trouble for accosting Adolfo while on probation. Worried, she consults with Santiago, who astounds her by revealing he himself told Juan José the incendiary news about Carlos, contained in Dora's stolen letter.

At Roberto's hotel room, he throws the decoy shoes onto the patio below as Susana dons the real ones. He gets ideas watching her stow the photo in her bosom; and Susana must then shyly turn down his oddly gentle advances, which he strangely doesn't push. They exit with the cash case and Félix on their heels.

In the lobby, the other goon watches the couple kiss goodbye as she exits and Roberto disappears to stow the cash case in the hotel safe. At Juan José's, Asunción helps him ice his injured duke and answers the door to Leonardo, who notes the palatial digs.

From Juan José he learns of the cell-mate's inheritance, which story Leonardo is fascinated to hear one day. But for the moment, he's more interested to be told that a woman named Dora apparently witnessed the maid's murder, that she worked at Mario's and disappeared, and that Mario revealed the news to Juan José.



Leonardo warns Juan José that someone on probation has no business pulling a stupid stunt like tonight's and that Leonardo can help him. If he persists taking matters into his own hands, he could lose everything. Before exiting, Leonardo reminds pointedly he'll be back sometime for the inheritance story.

Juan José phones to talk to Santiago; and when be-robed Alejandra doesn't like his tone and he threatens to appear in person, she hangs up on him. At Adolfo's, Félix reports back as Carlos listens in the shadows above. He hears Adolfo doubt the shoes were in the case in the hotel safe, hotel room or apartment.



Félix describes Susana, and just then Adolfo looks up, stopping short to see his son looking down. Braced on the railing, Carlos fixes his father with a look and declares now he knows just what sort of business he's in. At Mario's, a nicely redressed Alejandra is surprised to hear from Juan José at the door that he learned all.

At the condo, Carlos asserts that Adolfo has been tired of him since the day he was born. When he continues that he's leaving the house, because his father is involved in dirty deals he doesn't want to be mixed up in, Adolfo nastily points out Carlos is already mixed up in murder and a frame up.

Outside Mario's office door, Juan José is overcome by Alejandra's beauty; and as they search each other's faces, they draw near; but Alejandra departs, leaving Juan José looking disappointed. Inside, Santiago insists to Juan José it would be much easier to find Dora and solve things by telling Leonardo everything.

Back at the condo, Carlos bitterly admits he knows Adolfo thinks he's useless, but he still wants to leave before he implicates Adolfo. He could tell the police everything he knows, Carlos says, choking up; but he doesn't want to -- because in the end Adolfo is still his father.

Hateful Adolfo doesn't care and is glad to learn Carlos is also leaving the job. When Adolfo berates further saying he's a coward who messed around having the good life for 30 years without knowing how to get it, Carlos bitterly asserts he does know how to get it -- but the decent way!

Adolfo laughs and points out the stupid waitress caper; and Carlos angrily insists there's a big difference between pranks -- and being a career criminal! Carlos shouts at his father, stopping Adolfo from pulling back to strike him. Admitting he was an accessory to the maid's death, Carlos vows it's Roberto who caused it.

Carlos exits with a stiff lip, almost sobbing, to hear Adolfo order him out forever even if he starves. Across town, Leonardo visits Julieta and learns the scene of the DVD looked like Mario's office and that she knows nothing of any closed-circuit TV there -- only about recent security placed outside on the grounds.

Later Gabriela pours out her heart to Leonardo about the ugly revelation. She's hurt -- and confused how Mario could have made everything legal and then yesterday know nothing about it. When she relates David called and insisted they were married, Leonardo offers to investigate so she'll feel better.

Leonardo gets the DVD from Gabriela to watch and learns from her even if they are legally married that Gabriela wants a divorce. When sympathetic Leonardo kneels to assure her there are those who truly love her, he suddenly rebounds in embarrassment for how that sounded at that time.

He digs in deeper starting to explain it makes him angry, but just grabs the DVD and exits promising to get back to her. Presently Santiago phones Gabriela, who cries and begs him to return from supposedly Chihuahua. At Mario's, Bertha phones a relieved Alejandra, who will meet to discuss Bertha's luxury hotel room.

David brings a copy of the marriage license to reassure Gabriela, who won't even look at him. He explains desperately it was precisely for that DVD that his father made everything legal -- and that he has no excuse. But he wants to stress how sorry he is, how he loves her more than anyone else in the world.

Gabriela insists she's never going to forgive him and that she'd a thousand times rather he just told her he wanted to sleep with her instead. David swears he ran off afterward for feeling disgusted and was so relieved that Mario fixed things -- and he would have told her himself if Mario hadn't.

When Gabriela smartly demands -- before or after the honeymoon, David won't say anything that would make her doubt his sincerity, because he wants to be married for real! Well, nice way of showing it, she retorts. When David begs her to forgive him and pounds his heart swearing his love, Gabriela is not impressed. So what.

What's it worth to be loved by someone like him! If it's true they're still married, then she's getting a divorce. She never wants to see him, his father, his family or anything of them again! David exits, dejected; and Gabriela sinks to the upholstery weeping.

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