Caray, Caray!

Tonight, Giselle Blondet is "Luz, Arrolladora" (Luz, who runs over).

Luz Mercedes, aka Mercedes, played by Cynthia Klitbo, is driving down the street saying, "You and I are going to be very happy together. You'll never leave me, you'll never cheat on me. And I'm going to decide when to trade you in for another." She kisses her steering wheel. Having just purchased a new Latinamobile two days ago, I know the feeling.

Meanwhile, Amado is in bed, passionately kissing Vera, played by Margarita Magana (the feisty and financially motivated Karla on Guapos). Amado calls a halt, as things are not working. Oh? Which "things" exactly? Vera's reaction to this declaration is to tell him she wants an identical car. Amado says he'll think about it.

Mercedes calls him as he and Vera are walking through a lobby or foyer. He asks if she's happy with the new car, and while she says she is, he doesn't think she sounds like it. Well, that's cause last time he gave her a car it was because he was cheating on her with "Lucha." She demands to know who he's cheating with this time. He says they've already talked about it, and he gave her that car because it's the one she deserves. So, he's riding a bicycle? Roller skates, maybe? As soon as he gets done with this "meeting" he's having at the "hospital" he'll head directly home and they can talk. She doesn't answer and Vera walks out without him.

Mercedes sees them both walk out of a building and start having one of those fights you don't have with someone you're not sleeping with. She pulls a gun out of her purse and says this is what he deserves.

This season the background for the opening theme song is red and all the asesinas are in black. Meh. I liked the red dresses better. Ana Brenda declares them all lost souls. The bloody butterflies fly around. I miss Gloria.

A few weeks ago…

Vera sits behind the desk of a medical practice, saying she's nervous. She looks homely, badly dressed, with stringy hair. Meanwhile, Mercedes is all dolled-up and coiffed. She tells Vera that she'll do fine as the receptionist for her husband's medical practice. Well, Vera's sure gonna try. She's grateful for the opportunity. Mercedes warns her that she'll be busy as her husband is very sought-after. "There's never a lack of ugly women with aspirations." Vera looks uncomfortable.

"Luchita" aka, Luz Maria, aka Giselle Blondet, cries to Amado that she's been the perfect receptionist and has even saved him some money, so why is she being fired? Um, cause his wife found out you've been going above and beyond the call of duty? Just a guess. Amado asks her to stop crying before she makes him cry. She pretty much refuses to calm down, since calming down will help everyone BUT her. On top of losing her job, Amado has just informed her that this thing with them isn't going anywhere. Burn! Dude, you are so gonna die!

Back at the office, Vera worries that the Doc won't like her. Mercedes says she'll hit him like a bomb. And if he doesn't like her, too bad, since it's Mercedes making those decisions in his office. Vera wants to tchotchke up her desk, which is fine by Luz Mercedes. She tells her to let her know if she needs any stationery and if she finds anything belonging to the previous receptionist…burn it! Mousy little Vera is shocked! Mercedes tells her that Lucha made some mistakes that she couldn't forgive. Vera hurries to grab a pencil and write down what she needs to not do so that she doesn't lose her job like Lucha. "Well, let's see…she kept the agenda perfectly…she was great with the patients…she kept a close eye on the inventory…she even saved us money!...she did a great job of scheduling the surgeries…." Vera is heartbroken. Lucha was perfect! "Well, yes, but she also screwed my husband." Mercedes walks off as Vera sits there with her mouth hanging open, wondering if she should write "Do not screw the boss" with just one exclamation point or two.

Lucha complains that Amado has used and discarded her. Sure, his wife suspected something was up, but he should have defended her! Amado says he just didn't have any choice.

Back at the office,

Mercedes continues to Vera that Lucha was trying to seduce her husband, so she had to be fired. She was a "buscona" (from "buscar" to look…she was looking where she shouldn't…ho, slut, loose woman, etc.). Vera thinks getting rid of her was the best thing to do. Mercedes can tell that Vera is different. They'll be great friends.

Lucha tells Amado he's a coward. Amado has found her another job, but he tells her not to go sleeping with her new boss. Lucha warns him that if it's not a good job, her tongue just might get loose. Amado doesn't think she'd dare. "I have nothing left to lose." Amado says it's all going to be fine, but he gets nervous when she threatens him. He needs them to cool it while things calm down and then they can pick up back where they started. Lucha doesn't like the sound of that. She blows him off when he sweet talks her again, saying whatever, it's not a big deal. Amado is confused by her change of attitude and says "Who can understand you?" She grabs him by the throat and says probably his wife can understand her.

Mercedes sits in Det. Capellan's interrogation room, asking what's going on. She doesn't understand. It's some kind of nightmare. She's Mercedes Manjarrés, widow! Capellan brings up the car being in her name. Mercedes says her husband was a skirt-chaser, but she never could have…. No, she doesn't know what happened. She doesn't understand anything.

Two snotty brats sit at a kitchen table, the older one playing with a laptop, the younger with a handheld game of some type. The younger brat asks Mercedes when the new secretary is going to come to the house and play with them. She hopes she'll give them popsicles like Lucha did! The older brat tells her little sister that the new secretary is nothing special, and she'll be just another of dad's secretaries. Mercedes says no, the new one isn't just one more, she's staying indefinitely until "se hace vieja con tu padre" (she grows old with your father). Daughter counters, "o se hace la vieja de mi padre" (or she becomes my dad's 'old lady' [wife]). Mercedes is shocked to hear her say it. "Well, he left my mother for you, he almost left you for Lucha, so we'll see." She says she'll have to check out the new girl. "Maybe she's pretty. Dad likes them pretty." Mercedes tells her the new girl is completely ugly, so there!

Lucha is pissed that her meal ticket has gotten away. She is standing in a phone booth in the lobby of a hotel, talking to herself. She says now Amado will bring the new girl here and she'll never be his wife. Damnit!

Amado comes home and is let in by Mercedes. He claims to have forgotten his keys. He looks panicked when she asks him why his phone was going straight to "buzon" (voicemail). He tells her he had to turn it off because of that, um, conference. Yeah, they changed the date and he had to just quickly put something together for it. "What about the patients?" Amado jokes that they had to wait…isn't that why they call them "patients"? Mercedes doesn't appreciate the humor.

A parking garage attendant hears noises and goes to investigate. He finds Lucha crouching by Amado's car. She says she was just looking for some papers. "At this time of night?" Lucha storms off, saying she doesn't have to answer to a "portero" (doorman) but he claims he's a "conserje" (superintendent, or concierge). He goes over by the car, checking to make sure she didn’t install a bomb. He mumbles about terrorists.

Mercedes is really pulling out the big guns. She's got a face treatment on that seems to include some kind of cloth or paper mask, and she's rolling her hair up and pinning it like it's in curlers (just without the actual curlers). Tip: Guys love this. Amado complains that he's tired after the butt lipo he did earlier. He claps off the lights. Mercedes claps them back on and climbs into bed…immediately Amado whines that he's really too tired for it tonight. But Mercedes just wanted to talk. Well, he's too tired for that too! He says if Vera makes her feel more secure, he's really glad. Mercedes asks if he saw Lucha again. Amado tries to pretend he doesn't know who this "Lucha" person is. "Oh, well, why would I have seen her? The only one who's going to be seeing her is our lawyer, if she sues for wrongful termination." Mercedes peels off the mask and says Lucha was trying to steal her husband and let's see what a judge will say when she explains that Lucha was trying to get in the way of her "dicha" (good fortune, happiness). Amado complains that she was just his secretary, a "pelusita" (a little bit of fluff). "I was your secretary. Was I just a little bit of fluff?" Amado whines that no, she's everything to him…everything! But not a bit of fluff. They get it on.

Lucha comes to the office and surprises Vera asleep at the reception desk. She asks where the doctor is and says it's an emergency. Vera says he's not in the office because he's operating. "Don't you mean, 'he's in surgery'?" Vera agrees that yes, it does sound better that way. "And won't he possibly be back in the afternoon, depending on how many surgeries he has scheduled?" Vera supposes so. Lucha comes behind the desk and criticizes Vera's wardrobe, telling her she shouldn't be wearing flip-flops. Vera realizes this must be Lucha and she asks her to leave. "Fine, but I'll be watching you. If you make me lose Amado I will turn you into carne molida with a scalpel." (mincemeat) Vera agrees not to tell Mercedes that Lucha was there.

Amado and his older daughter go down to the parking garage. He's complaining about her attitude and she's complaining about not being a kid anymore. She warns him that if Mercedes gets sick of him she'll go back to her mother. Amado swears he'd never cheat on Mercedes with anyone. "Even your secretary?" Amado tries to sweet talk his daughter, reminding her they're best buds. Daughter is over it. The doorman/superintendent/whateverheis apparently tells Amado about the previous night.

Mercedes fights with the younger daughter, trying to get her to fess up to where her "mochila" (backpack) is. "If we don't find your backpack, they're not going to let you into school!" Daughter sagely suggests they just go to the movies instead, and problem solved. Mercedes finds the backpack and tells the daughter to go down to the car. Daughter had been playing with dad's cell phone and Mercedes looks at it and finds a text message from Lucha that says "You can't just throw me away like an old rag."

Amado and the portero check out the car, which has had "Amado es pu" (Amado is a pu… "puto"? Male slut?) scratched into it. The portero hasn't been able to get rid of it even with some stuff that's supposed to come from China, so you know it works. He suggests they complete the word so it reads "Amado es PUMA" like the university mascot. Amado doesn't like that suggestion. He gets in the car with the daughter and says they'll be on their way in a just a minute. He's about to run into the other car, but the portero gets in the way. Amado tries to explain that if he hits the other car, problem solved, but just then Mercedes and Lupita, the younger daughter walk up. Amado says he'll drop everybody off today, since he'd asked the portero to clean the car for her and it isn't ready yet. The portero obligingly stands in front of the scratched door. The two daughters look at each other, agreeing that dad is craaaaazy!

After they drop off the girls, Mercedes confronts him about the text message. "Who did you throw away like an old rag? It's Lucha, right?" Amado says yes, but she's crazy and he didn't want to worry her. She's been bugging him since they fired her and she's been doing some really strange stuff. Really. Strange. Stuff. He still denies sleeping with her. He says she came on to him, but he resisted and she is crazy…not a little crazy but CRAZY! Just then, Lucha comes out of the building, pulling on a pair of black elbow length gloves and glaring menacingly at Amado and Mercedes. Way to look sane, there, sister.

Capellan asks Mercedes how many times Amado cheated on her. She says he always denied it and she always believed him until the day she caught him with Lucha in the office. She says he was enjoying himself like he never did with her and his face just looked so happy. "And why did you forgive him? Because he bought you a luxury car?" "No. And it wasn't that much of a luxury car…not like the last time."

Months before...
The girls run down the steps and get into Mercedes' new SUV. She tells Amado she's forgiven him partly because he got rid of Lucha, partly for telling her the whole truth, and partly because of her new car. Amado keeps trying to talk to her and she keeps saying "el horno no es para bollos" (the oven's not ready for rolls; not now, leave me alone). She drives off with the kids and Amado and the portero exchange a look.

Mercedes tells Capellan that she thought he was going to change and that’s why she forgave him. Capellan wants the truth. "What truth? I don't know anything. It was all so fast!" Mercedes says they stole her car. "Then why are your fingerprints the only ones on the steering wheel? He cheated on you, you forgave him, he did it again and that's why you killed him." Mercedes says she didn't kill him.

Down in the lab, Forense Gerardo, Aranda, and Moran are waiting to check out the body. Capellan walks up and says the wife still denies having run him over. Gerardo says the woman's body was found about 50 meters away, with 2 bullets in her. They haven't found the gun yet.

Amado is doing a post-op on a patient. He tells her she's healing nicely and she looks about 40 now. "I'm 42." Well, that's ok, he was just joking. Go see the nurse for some antibiotics. Vera comes in to talk to him. She fell and hurt herself yesterday and while it's nothing serious, she'd like him to check her out. She sits on his desk and says his 4 o'clock isn't there yet. "Well, let them wait. That's why they call them 'patients' ja, ja, ja." He looks at her knee and says it looks fine, but he's got to check all the bones and make sure nothing's out of place. We all know where this is headed. Vera's been waiting for this for a long time.

Gerardo and Capellan talk behind the glass. She's sure the two murders are related. Gerardo says they didn't find any gunpowder residue on the dead guy. Capellan asks him to see if he can match Mercedes' prints to the gun and to check her for powder residue.

At the office, Mercedes asks if she can trust Vera. She doesn't think Amado loves her anymore. He's still being very loving, but they haven't had sex in weeks. Vera says that's normal in some couples. But she agrees it's weird for a man who loves you not to want to have sex with you. Mercedes is convinced he's cheating. "When? He's always working. When would he have another lover?" Emphasis on "another" and Mercedes hears it. Vera says she meant another aside from the many Mercedes has said he had. Vera says they have to investigate. Mercedes says if it's Lucha again, she'll kill her. Mercedes finally realizes that Vera is looking a lot cuter than she used to.

Gerardo and Aranda inform Capellan that they have the results back and it looks like the doctor's secretary is the one who fired the gun. Capellan figures he must have been sleeping with her too. The wife ran him over and the secretary killed the lover.

Lucha grabs Amado by the neck and asks if he's going to leave her. They're sitting in the backseat of a car. He says he won't and they get to mackin'.

Amado hangs out in a hotel room with Vera. She's complaining about Mercedes getting suspicious and accusing him of not sleeping with her anymore. "Well, that would be like cheating on you. And I'd rather be touching you anyway." Vera is worried and she doesn't like the implication that there's a time limit on their relationship. Amado says it's no problem. He's done paying off the car and they offered him a discount on a new one, so he'll buy her a new car and that'll be the end of it. Vera says that Mercedes thinks Amado is cheating with Lucha and she said she'll kill him. Amado looks worried and says Mercedes does have a gun. "Maybe I should hide it?" Vera says if it's true, Mercedes will kill him and so will she. "Damn, all that's left is for Lucha to kill me!"

Capellan shows Mercedes a picture taken by the hotel security cameras after her husband was shot. "There's a woman getting into a car. Do you recognize her?" Mercedes does recognize her, but doesn't answer Capellan's questions about who she is or where she lives. She just keeps repeating "She killed him." Capellan takes her iPad back and gives Mercedes a meaningful glance.

Lucha gets dragged into the police station. She cries to Capellan that what she had with Amado was more than just a relationship…she was the love of his life! And now she'll miss him more than anyone.

Lucha pulls on her gloves as she looks around a corner and sees Mercedes' car.

Lucha tells Capellan that she was angry at that moment because Mercedes had everything. But she says she didn't do it. "She left the keys in the car and after than I…I don't know."

Lucha watches Mercedes sneak into the building and she runs out to the car and gets in. She drives off in Mercedes' car.

"You know perfectly well what happened! You got into Mercedes' car and you ran over Amado!" Lucha says Mercedes was smart to marry Amado, but really she was like all the others. He didn't love Mercedes, but he did love her, Lucha. "If he couldn't be mine, he couldn't be anyone else's either."

Lucha is surprised by Amado walking out of the building. She screams and hits him with the car. He rolls off the hood and lies there for a few moments and then she turns the wheels for a better angle and drives over him. No butterfly so far.

Capellan tells Mercedes that they have her husband's killer. And also the killer of her husband's lover. Mercedes fusses with her hair and asks "Who?"

The portero polishes the car. Mercedes comes out and the portero tells her it's a really nice car. She gets in and drives off, with no message for her husband. She pulls up in front of the hotel and calls her husband. We get a repeat from the scene near the beginning. This time, Vera tells him she's pregnant, but no worries, she'll get an abortion tomorrow. Amado is shocked. Mercedes hides around the corner and then follows Vera.

Capellan points out that four lives have been lost--Amado, Vera, and the two killers. Gerardo adds the unborn baby as #5. Mercedes says she didn't kill him. She wanted to, but she didn't. Her, yes. She was a piece of fluff trying to steal her husband. It was fair, wasn't it?

Mercedes catches up to Vera and shoots her twice in the back. The bloody butterfly flies away.

Lucha gets out of the car and another butterfly flies away.

Mercedes drops the gun in a nearby trash can, then sees that her car is missing. She sees it parked around the corner and looks inside first, then sees Amado lying dead under the front of it.

Mercedes and Lucha are walked down the hall in handcuffs. They stop to look at each other, then turn and face the camera.

"La parte investigadora demostró que Luz María arrolló, con un lujoso auto, a Amado Manjarrez pasando un par de veces por encima de su cuerpo. Fue diagnosticada como maniaco-depresiva y recluida en una clínica psiquiátrica de la capital. Luz Mercedes confeso haber baleado a Vera, la última amante de su marido. Fue condenada a 45 años de prisión. Las dos hijas de Amado, Elsie y Lupita quedaron al cuidado de su primera esposa, madre de Elsie."

The investigative department showed that Luz María ran over, with a luxury car, Amado Manjarrez, passing over his body twice. She was diagnosed as manic-depressive and interned in a psychiatric clinic in the capital. Luz Mercedes confessed to having shot Vera, the last lover of her husband. She was sentenced to 45 years in prison. Amado's two daughters, Elsie and Lupita, stayed in the care of his first wife, Elsie's mother."

Next week, Zuria Vega is sold to an abusive old guy.

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