Caray, Caray!

So before I begin tonight, lets have a few moments of silence for our dear departed Don Julio. Now you will just have to suffer through a few pages of what happened tonight before we get to the best part. Which happens to be the previews for tomorrow.

Marisol is visiting Carlos in Prison. The stubble does do him justice.
The story line is still boring. He tells Marisol he is not the same man. Marisol wants to know if his family has been there to see him. He tells her his mother became sick after he went to prison and is now living with his uncle. He tells her it is just as well because he would be embarrassed if they came to see him. She tells him not to be so hard on himself. After all what he did he did for love. I don’t think Carlos is feeling the love anymore. He tells Marisol he will go find Alicia himself once he is free and collect what his due him for her indifference (desamor/coldness or indifference.)

Renata enters Don Julio’s quarters and finds him having one of his severe attacks. He tells her to call Dr. Garcia. She calls him and tells him to come over immediately. She has never seen Julio look so bad. She hangs up and runs over to an unresponsive Julio and slaps him repeatedly on the face to revive him. Things don’t look so good.



Alicia is on the phone with Aunt Matilda. Matilda inquires about Eva. Alicia lies and tells her she is fine. Matilda knows better because the cards told her something bad was going down. Justa asks Alicia if she thinks she did the right thing lying to her Aunt like that. Justa tells Alicia she won’t tell Matilda what is going on. Alicia tells her that Eva is not cable of doing what she is accused of.

Next we go to Giorgio who is dressing up the models. Alicia shows up and tells him she is looking for Leo. He haughtily tells her to go look somewhere else because he hardly ever shows up. Alicia looks stunned and asks if he isn’t the owner of this place. Giorgio tells her he may be the owner but he has nothing to do with this part of the agency which is new. Alicia now disappointed says she had an appointment with him for a job interview as a make-up artist. Giorgio is all “What?” and just then Leo shows up. Alicia gives a cheery face, Giorgio scowls and Leo grins sinisterly.

He tells Giorgio to relax and remember who is who at this agency. Giorgio asks if he is telling him he has to interview her. Leo tells him whether he likes it or not he has to at least give her a trial. Giorgio tells him it is not a question of whether he wants to or not, the question is whether she can do the job. Leo tells him he knows this girl has lots of talent or does he doubt him. Giorgio then asks him if he has forgotten about the last person he tried to help (Eva). Leo assuredly tells him he hasn’t forgotten. Giorgio goes on to explain the last person turned out to be a disappointment and a delinquent Alicia looks very confused as Leo tells Giorgio that Alicia is very different and is pure talent as he looks at her and says “or am I wrong.” Alicia shakes her head no. She thanks him for the opportunity and he wishes her luck as he gives her a perv kiss on the cheek.

Who knew, it turns out Alicia actually has talent for this as she skillfully makes up one of the models. Giorgio is impressed with her work. He asks her where she was trained. She tells him it was from reading magazines. He says “Then you have never had any formal training/” She tells him truthfully no. Giorgio, pauses looking at himself in a mirror then says “Maybe Leo was right after all. You really are talented.” Alicia asks him what that means and he tells her she has the job. She practically knocks him over as she rushes him to thank him. He tells her to settle down, don’t cause trouble and just do her job. But he is actually quite sweet about this.


Ricardo encounters Adrian in the kitchen and asks him if he needs help with his homework. Adrian confesses that his father chewed him out for wasting his time with school. Thomas shows up and starts yelling at the both of them. Ricardo threatens to call the police to report him as an abusive father. Nasty words ensue and poor Adrian is caught in the middle.

We have Victoria getting fitted for a dress and Daniel shows up. He tells her he needs to talk to her. She is all charm, but we know she is all vermin.

Leo is now behind his desk and Tony walks in. He tells Tony he needs to find someone for him. Tony asks who. When Leo tells him it is Eva, Tony acts all dumb (again not a far stretch. At least he has lost the lollipop.) He asks Leo to describe what she looks like. Leo gives him a picture. Just leave it to Tony he will find her. Leo warns Tony to not try anything with her. Tony seems offended by this remark. Leo tells him he needs to find her before the police do.


We are back to the Arismendi household where we see an ambulance parked outside. Along comes Marcella in her black Escalade as she runs frantically towards the house screaming “What’s going on?”
She is dressed in black pants a ridiculously red poncho and has a pair of aviator sun glasses on. She runs up screaming at Renata asking what happened. Renata is crying and trying to tell her what happened and Dr. Garcia chimes in and tells her Don Julio is dead. We get a performance fitting our Doña from the dark side as she puts her hands to her face in “utter disbelief.” (Got to love the shades though)



Still at dooms day manor Marcella continues her charade as the grieving widow as she asks Dr. Garcia what happened. He tells her it was a heart attack. Then she goes off on poor grieving Renata and yells at her saying “You let this happen. You were suppose to be watching over him.” Renata truly distraught and crying tells her she tried to but he wouldn’t listen to her. She tried to get him to rest because he didn’t look so good and he even asked her to give him his medicine. Marcella asks her if she gave it to him. Still crying she tells her yes and she saw him take it and she just can’t understand how he could have had another attack. Marcella is going on about how he had stopped taking it for a while and his heart had to be very weak. Dr. Garcia tells her that they will have more clear answers once they do an autopsy. This quickly catches Marcella’s attention as she looks up saying “Autopsy, oh no Dr. you can’t do that.” and starts rambling on assuring Dr. G. that it has to be a heart attack no question about it. “He never took care of himself and sooner or later death was going to catch up to him. An autopsy would be just horrible.” and pleads with Dr. G. not to do one. She tells him she has confidence in is diagnosis. Dr. Garcia tells her if that is what she wants all she has to then is sign the death certificate (acta de defuncion) and start the funeral process. She thanks him profusely and as she gives him a phony little hug. Dr. Garcia looks repulsed.

She releases her hug and crying says in these times the only consolation is to know that her husband can finally rest in peace. She turns and gives a truly over acted performance as she looks to the sky and says “Why Julio. Why did you have to leave me alone. What am I going to do without you my love. I am going to miss you.

More Dan and Vicky stuff. She has changed and approaches him all smiles and asks what he needed to talk to her about. This was all putrid as he thanks her for being so swell during his time of need.

Marcella is still playing the grieving widow to the hilt. Renata offers her a glass of water and tells her to try and calm down. Marcella yells, “I can’t. He was taken so suddenly and this is too much for me.” Renata offers a comforting hand and tells her she understands her pain. Marcella turns sharply and snaps at her “You don’t understand anything. He was my husband, not yours!!” A hurt Renata tells her that she also cared for him. Marcella mellows her tone a bit and apologizes telling her she is really anxious. She continues and says “Lately we had our differences but that’s just the bread of life (El pan de cada dia) that every marriage has. But deep in his heart I know he cared about me. The same as I cared for him.”

Warning, not so subtle dominos pizza product placement coming up. Four women in various shades of yellow office befitting dresses have dominos pizza for lunch and discuss absolutely nothing.

Dr. Garcia hands a folder over to Marcella telling her they are the documents he has to give to the authorities and asks her if she would kindly sign them. She grabs them from him and asks them what they are. He tells her she can read them if she wants. She seems all flustered and tells him “At this moment I just don’t have my head on straight to review these papers.” A most understanding Dr. Garcia tells her it is just probably a routine step ( trámite de rutina) they have to take since they won’t be doing an autopsy. He just said the magic word as Marcella quickly takes his pen and says “Where do I have to sign?” you can just barely see a snicker appear across Dr. Garcia’s face as he watches her sign.



More Daniel and Vicky craziness. She is all sweet and loving and he is acting like he has just been turned into one of those “Stefford wives” as he thanks her once again for being so understanding. She tells him they both did some absurd things. He tells her he realizes after all these years what fine qualities she has. Enough already!!!

Poor Eva is walking the streets and clutching her stomach in hunger. She wrestles with the thought of stealing an apple from a street vendor and hunger wins over as he she grabs one and runs. A chase ensues as the vendor drops the paper he was reading and we see her picture on the front page.



She ducks into a bathroom or something absconding from the vendor. He walks away chiding himself that he lost out on her reward (recompensa.) We see Eva leaving her hiding place and happily giving her apple over to some women thanking her for her help.

Marcella continues with her theatrics as they wheel out Julio’s body and she asks to say goodbye. She pulls the white sheet down and gets nose to nose as she whispers with pure hate



“ Julio you can’t imagine the number of times I have dreamed about this moment my love. You are a total nuisance (estorbo/ nuisance or obstacle.) Now as they say, alone at last, your money and me. Good bye Julio Arismendi. I hope you rot in hell.” (pudras/rot) Then she gives him her kiss of death pulling the sheet back over his face and continues her bad acting of the grieving widow.

We go to the fruit orchard where Matilda is talking with Jose. I think he was the orchard foreman from the first episode. She is telling him she doesn’t like any of this. Jose reminds her that she just talked with Alicia who informed her everything was fine. She says Alicia sounded really strange. He wants to know what the cards said to have her so worried. She says it was really ugly. She saw Eva up to her neck in trouble. Jose wants to know how. Matilda tells him it is hard to explain but she sees a women who wants to harm her. Jose tells her he doesn’t know about these things but he understands her anguish. She tells him she won’t stop worrying until she can talk with Eva. He asks her if she has any idea who the people are that she is messed up with. She tells him she read the cards again and this time saw two women that were both very dangerous. They were “enemies to the death” for her niece.

Leo is talking to the detectives. He is asking them if they have any information about Eva. They have nothing new to tell him. He thanks them and tells them to keep him informed and hangs up. He says out loud “Tony has to find her before they do. I want Eva for myself. How can I convince my mom and Daniel to drop the charges against her? I am sure dad will help me with this.”

Just then he is interrupted by his secretary telling him he has an urgent phone call. It is Renata who informs him that there has been a tragedy. Leo immediately stands and asks what has happened to Victoria. Renata tells him it isn’t her and informs him that Julio is dead. Leo drops to the chair at this news.

Eva is still out wandering about. She is thinking about her Aunt Matilda wishing she had the money to return home. She has to leave this city as soon as possible.

Matilda and Jose are also missing Eva and Don Ismael (Eva’s father). Matilda wishes they had never left for the big city. She tried to keep him from leaving. Jose was surprised that they left. Matilda tells him they were only gone a few days when her poor brother was hit by a car and killed. Jose wants to know why he would just suddenly up and leave to go to LA. We get a flashback of Matilda talking with Ismael asking what the policemen told him. He told him he saw an article about Deborah in one of the newspapers. This was the clue that they needed. He tells her his contacts in LA have her address. He has finally found the mother of his daughters. Jose snaps her back from her flashback and she tells him she just remembered a conversation she had with her brother. The only thing she has to say about this is he decided to leave because he was stubborn. To go and look for someone that he was never able to find and she hopes to God she is never found.

More Dan and Vicky, she asks him to join her for coffee. He agrees but first she has to go retrieve her purse from the models trailer.

Matilda is looking at a magazine cover pointing to it and saying “Deborah Aldana, you are the reason my brother is dead. It is your fault he went to Los Angels. And this he will take to his grave. Your punishment will be that you will never get to know your daughters. Eva nor Alicia will ever know anything about you.”

Giorgio and Alicia are hitting it off famously. She thanks him for the opportunity and they talk about the money she will earn. Or something like that.

Renata enters Julio’s quarters and looks around. She walks over to the leather sofa and slowly beds over and stands there sniffing it. (What the heck?)



Victoria and Dan have gone to retrieve Vicky’s purse as Dan almost has a close encounter of the Alicia kind as he sees her standing with her back to him talking to Giorgio. He ponders for a moment and before he can verify it is Alicia Leo barges in asking him where Vicky is. He takes her by the hand and leads her away with Daniel trailing behind.

Renata is lamenting that Julio died without knowing the truth. The truth about what she did. Victoria was his daughter. The daughter he had with Justa. Marcela didn’t get her from an orphanage. She went and stole her and now she is very sorry for what she did.

Leo finally gets Victoria alone. She is ticked off because her and Dan were just about to get coffee. He breaks the news to her that Julio is dead. Victoria is quite distraught and Daniel is ever the sympathetic ear. More family dramatic tragedy as Leo fills her in on the details. Victoria wants to know if her mother knows. Leo tells her yes. She is at the house. Daniel is comforting Victoria telling her he was very ill and this was bound to happen any moment. Victoria is all upset because she never told him she loved him. (I doubt very much if she loves anyone but herself.) Leo tells her to calm down. Julio knew she loved him.
Daniel tells her they need to go to her house to be with Marcella. Now Victoria is all torn up saying that her father died thinking she hated him. She clings to him tightly and Leo goes in to complete this very strange group sympathy hug.



We have Marcella alone at the house toasting to herself about her good fortune of finally being the owner of everything. After all she deserves it. Life owes her. With the death of Julio she killed two birds with one shot. Now there is no one left to defend Eva. And she will finally be rid of her as well.

Eva is still out looking for work. She runs into some guy who sells “meat” and she looks like some fine meat. He could really sell her. Not certain but do you think he was a pimp? Eva walks away in disgust.


The infamous Deborah gets out of a car and as she is checking her cell phone we see Eva walking in a huff still insulted by the pimp man’s offer and the two bump into one another. Apologies are shared as they excuse one another. They stare at one another for a moment and Deborah asks if they have met before.


Eva tells her no and smiles brightly as she apologizes once more and leaves. Deborah is left pondering this for a moment thinking that she seems familiar. She then shrugs it off and leaves.





Marcella is still congratulating herself on finally being the owner of all. She picks of Julio’s picture and tells it she has won it all and quickly drops it face down. She holds her glass high and toasts herself. This celebration is abruptly ended as she hears Victoria’s shrill cry and once again turns back into the grieving widow. Leo and Victoria run to her for comfort. Marcella fakes the ever comforting mother and I am left with an uneasy feeling at watching the three most evil people in telenovela land grieve.

More fake grieving from Marcella as Daniel looks on uncomfortably. Victoria is crying and going on that he left them all alone. Marcella hugging them tells them they are not alone they have each other and she reaches out for Daniel and says “and we have Daniel and soon he will be your husband my love.” as she takes Daniel’s hand. He is now left standing there with a most dreaded look on his face.



Eva has now entered a restaurant looking for a job. The owner seems eager to hire her. He tells her he may be the owner but his wife is the boss. Or something like that. Any way the wife has the final say and agrees to hire her. Only she feels if someone as pretty as Eva were to work closely with him he might be tempted to stray. So the wife ends up giving Eva the job, but instead of being a waitress her job is to clean the bathrooms.

Now Renata is joining the family and the grieving continues. I am beginning to think the only one who sincerely misses him is poor Renata and I actually feel sorry for her. Giorgio enters and offers his condolences. Daniel tells Marcella that he will take care of all the arrangements. Marcella thanks him because she is just so grief stricken she can’t do it. But lets get this done and over with. She is certain Julio would not want a wake (velorio/ wake or celebration.) Renata isn’t so sure about this, but Marcella insists that he would want to be buried as soon as possible. Like maybe tomorrow. Leo and Daniel take off to make the final arrangements.

Leo and Daniel are outside and Daniel calls him his brother as he tells him he knows what he is going through. Leo comments that it has been a long time since Daniel has called him his brother and thanks him for being there for them.

Renata is gently caressing Julio’s photo and says “Julio I loved you so much. And you never knew it.” as she clutches the photo ever so tightly and sits down.

We have a few more minutes to go and lets waste a couple of them with Marisol and Fran. They are out and about eating ice cream cones. They are discussing where they should live. His fake mansion or her bogus penthouse. Well that’s a no brainer. Why not buy a new house. Marisol is all delighted at the possibility of a lovely grand house. Fran is horrified at the prospect of having to buy a grand lovely house.

Leo thanks Daniel for not leaving him alone in his hour of need. Daniel tells him he isn’t alone. Leo then says for a while there they were cats and dogs. Daniel agrees. Leo adds but it wasn’t our fault. He said they were both betrayed by Eva. Daniel shaking his head tells Leo it is best if they don’t talk about that. Leo tells Dan that they both survived her. He tells Daniel that he has forgotten her already and that he needs to do the same. Daniel looks down then looks up and tells him, “You don’t have to tell me, She doesn’t even exist for me.”

This was a sad little scene. Thomas is hiding behind a tree and poor little Adrian is out trying to sell the stolen merchandise. He almost has a bite, but the man is spooked and takes off. Thomas comes out from behind the tree to yell at Adrian. Adrian tells him he got scared and thought the guy was a policeman. Or something like that. Thomas continues yelling at him and suddenly we hear police sirens in the background.
He tells Adrian they have to get out of there quickly.

The restaurant owner and his wife are talking. He can’t believe that she has Eva cleaning the bathrooms. She tells him she needed a job and that’s what she has. She didn’t want her up front so he could make eyes at her. He huffs and quickly picks up the paper to avoid her and we see Eva’s picture on the front page as the wife looks at it closely. That’s where we end. But I wanted to leave you all with one important picture from the upcoming previews. I told you it was the best part. Life gives you surprises.

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