Caray, Caray!

Lucha and Asunción send to the doctor for agonized, treat-stuffed Chicles; while Zaida waits impatiently and fruitlessly at the ice cream parlor for his return with the letter. Across the way, Leonardo, David and Santiago stew over Adolfo's cool reaction; but Leonardo noted something worried in his demeanor.

He encourages them to keep the pressure on, and they will break Adolfo. Back at Juan José's, to avoid his wrath, Lucha feigns a friend got Chicles sick. But privately to Caramelo, Chicles has to admit it was Zaida, while convincing Caramelo to run and meet the woman, since he cannot. However, Caramelo's afraid to go.

Absent this solution, Chicles hides the letter in a narrow crack behind his dresser mirror. Later at Elsa's, Caramelo mystifies her with news a woman wanted to buy Chicles's letter for $1K pesos; but Caramelo can't divulge who, under pain of harm coming to Limón, as Caramelo swore in order to learn Chicles's secret.

Zaida visits Ulises at home; and while he makes tea, she returns Elsa's apartment key to the door rack. She then alarms trustworthy Ulises by handing him her safeguard letter to give to the police in case something happens to her, without elaboration for his own security.

Back at Elsa's, she gets busted trying to surreptitiously sneak an update on Juan José's romantic status, when Caramelo notes Elsa's long face at news he's doing fine in that department. Next morning at Mario's, David relieves Gabriela's frustration that Adolfo slipped their trap with news Leonardo thinks he has personal problems.

Up in Adolfo's condo, he's satisfied two genuine cuff link rings remain in the wall safe -- unbeknown to him that Yolanda switched in the fake to return Carlos a real one. At Juan José's, Chicles tries to fish the now-stuck letter from the mirror crack with a coat hanger, but fails.

Anxious Adolfo arrives outside Yolanda's hospital room and offers Carlos to even fly her to the U.S. if necessary, but Carlos doesn't think it will be. Carlos angers and worries Adolfo admitting he gave the trefoil ring to Leonardo as evidence in a murder; but Carlos ignores him.

Warm and loving Carlos assures troubled Yolanda they're going to put her right and that he doesn't want her ever harming herself again; that they're going to get her therapy for depression. And when he mentions Adolfo seems very concerned and caring, Yolanda weakly urges that Adolfo's not as bad as Carlos thinks.

In Michoacán at Jorge's store, he turns the tables on Dora scolding him for not taking advantage of time now to fulfill a dream of traveling with his granddaughters to theme parks in the U.S. And what is she doing? They two are not getting any younger, and yet she's hiding out and not spending her remaining days with David.

And in Mario's office, David phones Carlos to come meet him at home. Meanwhile, Zaida stakes out Juan José's house, waiting for Chicles, who brings her a bogus letter for her $1K pesos paid. She's furious to learn he lost the blackmail letter -- behind a mirror, he yells, as he escapes her clutches.

Chicles bursting through the front door, Juan José drags out of him he was meeting Zaida to give her a letter; but Juan José only connects Zaida to Garnica and proceeds to expound on the scum bag's whereabouts with Alejandra, who is still ticked off Juan José let Garnica play him for his millions.

Juan José excuses himself as wise in the ways of prison life, but not those of a millionaire; and Mauricio's involvement also assured him. Alejandra understands and sympathizes but insists now Juan José must spill everything to Leonardo; and he reluctantly agrees with a kiss and hug for her affection toward him.

Carlos arrives at Mario's and sincerely commiserates David's crippling accident, noting him in the wheel chair. David wastes no time explaining the origin and significance of Carlos's cuff link ring and Adolfo's guilt in Márta's murder and also Yolanda's in framing "Gabriela's father." Carlos is very upset, but David's convincing.

He continues explaining how Roberto stole back the cuff link and returned it to Adolfo; and as the only evidence, David astonishes Carlos asking him to retrieve it again for them. David mollifies Carlos and gives him pause, surmising Carlos is not like his father and should help make Adolfo pay for all the harm he's done to people.

Édgar phones Adolfo at home to report about the letter, and Adolfo charges him with retrieving it so he can see for himself what it says. At the AFI, Leonardo tells Ramón he doesn't think the two jewel heists are connected, but still wonders what happened to Susana and Garnica; he's thinking they might both be dead.

At Zaida's, Édgar chuckles at Zaida's obvious discomfiture at being played by a pint-sized con artist. More seriously he warns her in case the boy squeals about what she tried to do! Back at the AFI, when Juan José explains the blackmail caper, Leonardo's disgusted with his action-movie mind set.

He could have been killed or kidnapped! Having not yet learned his lesson, Juan José still demurs when asked how he met Garnica, earning Leonardo's penetrating scorn. Zaida visits Adolfo at the condo, explains the white-board fiasco, and Adolfo deduces that the letter the boy found was indeed written by a real witness.

Adolfo offers nervous Zaida to escape to the beach house to lie low. With Zaida noting his heightened anxiety, Adolfo soberly admits he's realizing how much he loves a certain woman, a woman with a very dark connection to him -- the lovely woman who's lying in a hospital bed right now after attempting to take her own life.

And at the hospital, Yolanda's nurse reports to Carlos they had to sedate her, due to panic attacks; despite that, she still seems to be having nightmares. The nurse hopes Carlos can calm her with kind and affectionate words; and as the nurse exits, he leans over to sooth Yolanda.

But instead she disconcerts him with her disturbed murmurs, and he can only anxiously make out some desperate hints of what's deviling her subconscious. What does she mean by "jewels" -- "shoes" -- "Santiago" -- "Márta" -- "Adolfo" -- for God's sake, what is she trying to tell him!

The nurse returns and pulls Carlos away, concerned he's only upsetting the patient more; but just as they're out of ear shot, Yolanda murmurs again. "Baby doll, Carlos -- Márta was your mother!"

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