Caray, Caray!

Santiago admits Mario knew Márta, but hastily distracts Gabriela with the theft of the cuff link. When he posits Adolfo sent someone to seek the infamous shoes who stole only the trefoil instead, Gabriela is busied with phoning Julieta to see if she ever remembered where she lost her keys that day.

But Julieta can't recall, so Gabriela hangs up and returns to the topic of Mario and Márta; but his stress relieved, Santiago has time to invent a story of Mario being taken with Márta's beauty on one single occasion of seeing the theater troupe.

Asunción attracts Mina to Juan José's on an architectural pretext to ask her help finding the extortionist's helicopter. He plays her the video and must divulge the reason for it, which Mina doesn't like the sound of. At Mario's, David and Santiago discuss Gabriela's name problem; but Santiago refuses to reveal the truth.

At Adolfo's condo, Yolanda reports Carlos's desire to return to work; and if Adolfo asks nicely, he may give him the ring. At Leonardo's, Paula lobbies for him to make Julieta his wife to take care of Paula, at which the dad must affectionately lay a few ground rules. For starters, Julieta's not even his girlfriend yet.

In Puerto Vallarta, deliciously anguished Juan José sees Alejandra's dainties laid out on the bed and needs a nano-second to think about joining her in the shower, where he makes her a very happy woman. Back in the D.F. at the club office, harried Adolfo sits amid messy stacks of paperwork, just waiting for Carlos to arrive.

When he does, Carlos declares he wants his life and his office back, where he'll take care of business as usual. All Adolfo wants, Carlos insists, is not to see him -- which they can arrange; and Adolfo agrees. He earns enough to live elsewhere, but there's one other condition.

Carlos jumps to conclude and refuses to partake in Adolfo's clandestine deals; but Adolfo merely means the trefoil ring. His son was loathe to return it as the regretfully single affectionate gesture he thought his father had ever made. Before Carlos returns it he relates how he never understood Adolfo's hatred for him.

He's not the loser Adolfo always accuses him of being; he's always worked hard and tried to make his father proud. When Carlos suggests earnestly they try to get along better, without insults and hostility, Adolfo agrees -- but not without the ring. Ring in hand, Adolfo clasps his son's shoulder on the way out.

Back at Juan José's, Mina phones around to learn to what office to bring a photo of the helicopter's model and registration number for identification. During a companionable stroll on the beach in Puerto Vallarta, Garnica charges Zaida with promise of good pay to cozy up to Juan José and learn his plans.

Mina impresses Asunción by printing out a helicopter picture from the video on Juan José's computer and assures him Juan José and Alejandra won't mind her taking time out to go and have the aircraft identified. It makes her angry to hear of the blackmail.

Gabriela phones Julieta, and after learning she spent the whole day with Leonardo and Paula, wishes Julieta wouldn't mention recent developments to Leonardo, even though he offered to help Santiago and doesn't think he's guilty either; Santiago wants Adolfo to be proven guilty.

Speaking of which, Julieta explains Carlos's visit of the other day and suddenly becomes enraged realizing Yolanda knew all along. Julieta's intending to brace her on their next meeting, and Gabriela is just squelching that when the doorbell rings, and it's Leonardo asking Julieta on a date to the movies.

Julieta happily forgets to mention it's Gabriela on the phone and hangs up on a "friend" in a hurry to get back to him. Bertha meets Adolfo exiting the club to bring him Mario's doctor's name; and he convinces her to visit the doctor to learn the reason for her uncle's care, before leaving Bertha to stay and visit Carlos.

In his office, Carlos doesn't need to be buzzed twice to admit Bertha; and when she wants a kiss in greeting, newly daring Carlos knows just how to thrill the thrill seeker. After threatening the receptionist with no admittance -- especially his father, Carlos and Bertha get busy right there on the premises.

Later in his apartment, Carlos promises an ecstatic Bertha that this is only the beginning. When she regretfully must take leave of her artful lover in favor of his father's house, Carlos becomes irritated at the reminder; and she must explain Adolfo's just helping her, and nothing's going on -- for the moment.

So before Carlos drives her home, he wants to put his stamp on her one more time. Far away in Puerto Vallarta, Garnica introduces Zaida at the business lunch as yet another investor; but Mauricio assures Juan José there are enough profits to go around -- and also prevents Garnica co-opting Elsa as his own secretary.

During a tour of the marina, second-most important only to Los Cabos's, Zaida lags behind to eavesdrop on Asunción phoning Juan José about the chopper. She feigns horror at his blackmail tale of losing $10 million pesos -- incidentally the sum total of her net worth she claims -- until he insists he was just teasing her and actually intends just to buy a helicopter.

After Alejandra pointedly repossesses Juan José from the blonde, Garnica draws Zaida aside urgently to spill what she learned; and she hears Garnica decide to rid himself of the chopper right away. In Carlos's car outside Adolfo's condo building next morning, Bertha can't prevent herself from asking Carlos if he's a smuggler.

Surprised, Carlos suddenly claims it's the truth, after learning Adolfo alleged that; and decides they shouldn't be seen together on penalty of Adolfo ordering him killed. Annoyed at her connection to Adolfo, he dumps Bertha out like a sack of potatoes; but not before suffering a quick farewell peck.

Back at the beach hotel, while playing "airplane ride" with Caramelo, Chicles decides he needs more manly accoutrements than her girlie luggage and goes to find a handcuff-chained briefcase instead. Out in the breezeway, he notes Garnica enter his hotel room with just such a wonder.

In his suite, Juan José is hanging up with Garnica calling to arrange a business dinner when Chicles appears; and after some requisite roughhousing, he lobbies Juan José to buy a briefcase -- so he can lend it to Chicles, of course. He's not to keen to hear Juan José planned to buy him one anyway -- for school.

Chicles planned on selling gum for a living. Over in his suite, Garnica urgently calls Valentín and charges him to get rid of the chopper -- destroying it if necessary -- and to claim it was done three weeks ago already. Outside, Chicles reappears at Caramelo's with a briefcase "chained" to his wrist with a necktie.

When she teases him about the tie, Chicles rushes out in a disgruntled huff. In the breezeway, though, he ducks behind a corner and watches Garnica drop his room key on the ground after using it, distracted by kissing Zaida goodbye for the moment. Chicles bounds over a planter to retrieve the card; and while Garnica showers, enters.

Stealthily, the boy makes off with the infamous security case and returns with the genuine article this time to impress Caramelo. Instead earning him a threat of tattling to Elsa, Chicles rushes out again to return the case. But in his haste, it pops open, spilling the contents out on the ground.

After shoving the papers back in, Chicles quickly replaces the case in Garnica's room, him none the wiser. But outside on the sidewalk, Chicles spies one last thing he missed -- a letter, which he retrieves to show to Caramelo. Claiming he found it on the beach, as she holds it up, it plainly says: …I am the mother of David…

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