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Eva Luna, 2/22/11, Ep #75. The Idiot Man with the Broken Heart

Recap is up! (Scroll down to bottom of the page to see a photo and a video clip link.)

Rewind of yesterday, Marcela "generously" says she'll take up Eva on her offer to rehire Alicia, but only if Giorgio gets his job back too. Eva is okay with this. But then Marcy can't shut her yap and starts insulting Eva, ending up with a veiled threat against Eva's niño, Pablito. "Better watch out for your kid," she says. WRONG thing to say!

Justa and Don Ricardo are talking about Adrian and wondering what will happen if Tomas comes back. They're going to call the detective.

An interesting scene with Daniel and Icky at dinner, each thought-bubbling about something different. The bruja Icky is thinking about her "proposition" to Tony. He's not so bad-looking, she's says to herself (which is relevant since she offered herself as barter for him offing Eva). Daniel is thinking about Eva's hija and telling himself (quite sensibly, for ONCE) that this kid is his. You can tell Daniel is warming up mightily to the idea that the boy is his. He resolves to find out the next day. Meanwhile, Jacky is serving them more food and thought-bubbling about how well they're getting along!

Quick cuts to Leo, Eva and Alicia, all thought-bubbling. I'm going to try to summarize them instead of accounting for each insanity-inducing quick cut. Alicia is worrying about Leo wanting to get together with Eva. She resolves to fight for Leo, even if her rival is Eva. Leo is thought-bubbling that he's got to convince Eva to tell Daniel that the kid is Leo's. Eva is worrying about what if Danny the Idiot Man finds out that the kid is his, will he take him away? No, no, that can't happen, she worries.

Marisol is chatting with Giorgio at the club. She confesses that when Jacky said she was engaged to Francisco, she felt jealousy. Giorgio marvels at how messed up her love life is. Forget that liar, Giorgio advises. But Marisol reminds him that she is a liar too. Giorgio mentions her burgeoning singing career, but she laments that it's not going anywhere because Damien found out she missed a day of work to sing, and he's not going to let her do that anymore because she owes him so much money.

The creepy uncousinly kissin' cousins Bruno and his pretty cousin are conspiring to get Marcela to sign some paperwork. If she signs these documents, her ruin will be complete, they chortle as they lean in for a heavy kiss. Bruno thinks that he can get Marcela to sign them after she's had a few drinks.

It's the morning at breakfast and Marcela calls up Giorgio to tell him he's got his job back. Then she chats with Renata and says she's going to fight with Eva today.

At Daniel's house, Jacky is serving Francisco breakfast and seems in an extra good mood. Francisco, who seems to have had cold feet about the kiss they shared the day before, starts to "apologize" to Jacky for it. This is not the good start of the morning that Jacky was expecting. Her face falls.

Marcela goes to her office and finds it completely empty. "No puede ser!" she screams, as if she thought that there would be NO consequences for her threatening little Pablito the day before? Get real, lady.

Alicia goes to Leo's room to confront him about what's going on between him and Eva. A big scene ensues. Leo claims he is just trying to "help" Eva. Alicia accuses him of being in love with Eva. Leo warns her that he can't stand jealous women. Whatever dude, we can tell Alicia is not done with you yet!

At the modeling agency, Giorgio and Bruno are wondering what Marcela will do when she finds out about her office. We cut to Marcela pitching a major fit after seeing her empty office. Marcela makes lots of threats. Giorgio says that people came to remove everything and he couldn't stop them. Then Deborah comes in and asks what's going on. Marcela acts all outraged as if NOTHING she said or did could have possibly precipitated this! I am amused by her astonishment. What? Did she never expect that anyone could ever fight back?

Francisco is hemming and hawing with Jacky about the kiss. He didn't mean it to end that way. WHATEVER.

Renata is thinking that if she gets Justa to see Julio maybe she can rectify some of her mistakes.

Jacky sees where this is going with Francisco, and claims, with great distress in her voice, that she only sees Francisco as a big brother. Francisco gets agitated himself and says she's like his skinny little sister. Angst and teeth-gnashing between these two as they perform their duties at work.

Daniel greets Eva at work and seems to be in an amiable mood. He's smiling. They talk about working together.

Francisco approaches Jacky and in a roundabout way asks her out, but she says she's going to be with a "friend." She calls him "big brother."

Daniel is still putting on the charm in Eva's office. She's all business as she looks something up on her laptop. He marvels that this woman before him is nothing like the Eva he knew before. She comments that that Eva was very naive.

Then Daniel moves in for the kill: He confronts her—Pablito is his, right? She gets defensive very quickly and insists he has no right to know and that the kid is hers, just hers. She also implies that Daniel was not the only man in her life. But Daniel is not buying it. He grabs her arm and gets her close and says he "feels" that Pablito is his, and the reason he gives is that at one time there was a "great love" between them, and that when he looks at her, deep in her eyes he sees that something is giving her away. Eva seems moved by this, but at this moment the queen bruja Marcela interrupts, all outraged and wanting to have it out with Eva right away.

When she sees how close Daniel and Eva were standing to each other, she first rants about how Daniel is married to her daughter. Then when Daniel asks what Marcela is all riled up about, she screeches about her office, conveniently leaving out the part about how she threatened Pablito.

Eva reminds Marcela of something she (Marcela) told Eva many months before when Eva was a servant at the house. "You don't exist. You only speak when spoken to." This echoes the humiliating treatment that Marcela gave Eva. Marcela stands quietly as Eva circles around her, telling her this, as Daniel looks on, confused as only an Idiot Man can be confused.

Marcela then venomously threatens Eva, telling her that she's dug her own grave or something and that she's going to kill her, and then she stalks off.

Renata comes to see Justa and says she's got something important to talk about.

Daniel chews out Eva as if she had no right to treat "Doña" Marcela that way. He says he's also a boss at this agency, she could have talked with him first! Eva just says that she has her "reasons" for doing what she did, but neglects to explain that Marcela threatened Pablito! Daniel comments that somehow she "treats" Leo differently, right? "Yeah, he's the kind of guy you can buy," Daniel says cynically.

"Of course!" Leo interrupts, leaning insolently against the door opening.

Justa is not greeting Renata with open arms, but Renata says she's got something important to share with her, and hands her a paper with directions of somewhere she's supposed to go. It has to do with Julio, Renata says, as Justa's big eyes get even bigger.

Eva sarcastically asks Daniel about why he cares about her and Leo so much. He answers because he wants to know who is the father of her kid! Who is it, me or Leonardo? Daniel asks. Then he says the things that Eva fears: If he's the baby daddy, he wants to be responsible for the kid, and claim his rights over the boy. What Daniel means is that he wants to be a good, responsible dad, but of course Eva worries that Daniel is going to fight to take the kid away. Leo gives Eva a fisheye in the background, as if telling her, "See? I told you he'd do this!" Eva looks scared.

Then Eva does what she thinks she must, since she's had her brain scrambled quite effectively by slimeball Leo. She tells Daniel not to worry himself, because "Pablito no es tú hijo! Leonardo es el padre." (Pablito is not your son, Leonardo is the father.) Poor Daniel looks shocked and devastated. Eva also looks pretty bad, like she's on the verge of tears at telling this whopper lie.

There's a video clip (with English CCs) of the following scenes (scroll down on page for link).

Tony is giving a ride to the big butted bruja. She flirtily asks him if he's thought about her "proposition" (offering her body and other goodies in exchange for killing off Eva). He says he's thinking on it and she says, well, let's get going before anyone gets the wrong impression here. (What "wrong" impression would that be, pray tell?)

"So it's true," Daniel says, still openly heartbroken and devastated. Leo smarms behind him, saying, "it's hard for you to hear, but it's also uncomfortable for us to talk about." Oh cry me a river, Leo the Slime. Daniel then congratulates them and asks, when will the christening or baptism be? Or maybe it will be before the wedding? (I think that's what he said—I consulted Spanish and English CCs here!)

He says something to Eva like, "I've noticed lately that you're always right, and that I've got nothing more to do with your life because we are nothing to each other anymore." (I also consulted both Spanish and English CCs here, but may have got the nuances wrong!) Eva replies that he's finally getting it, but her eyes are red and wet. He leaves dejectedly, saying he doesn't like to interfere with the "intimacy of couples," as Eva is barely able to hold it together. As soon as Daniel exits she dissolves into a puddle of tears as Leo rushes over to comfort her and leaves a slime trail behind him.

"You know I lied because I was afraid he'd take Pablito!" she cries. She then repeats that Daniel is the baby daddy (as if we didn't get that by now!). During the next few scenes, Leo repeats all the standard garbage about how Daniel ran over her dad, tried to get her arrested for theft, blah blah blah, and this is why you need me to protect you, let me marry you to protect the kid, blahblah de blah. Eva is crying and seems vulnerable to this nonsense.

After Daniel leaves Eva's office, he also collapses against his own office wall and cries. He can't believe it! Leo is the baby daddy! He has a mini tantrum and pushes some stuff off of his desk. She deceived us all, he thinks, as he sinks into a couch and slumps over dejectedly. "How could I fall in love with her?" he says aloud, as Icky the Bruja barges in and hears.

Meanwhile, Eva is still crying and hysterical, feeling guilty and heartbroken, as Leo reinforces his slimy tactics on her. He says that Daniel would be the worst person to be a daddy to Pablito. (No shame! Leo, you have no SHAME!)

Icky is kvetching that Daniel's in a bad mood. He makes it obvious that he does not want her there and is not in the mood for her B.S. She can connect the dots and figure that this has something to do with Eva. Finally she and her big behind leave him alone to wallow in his misery

Leo again urges Eva to marry him, telling her that this will be a good way to avenge her father's death. But Eva has a better idea—Leo can testify against Daniel and get Daniel put in jail FOREVER! But Leo's fishy eyes betray him—he doesn't like this idea at all!

Justa wonders what the paper that Renata gave her will tell her about Julio. But she put all that behind her, she thinks. Then Don Ricardo pops in with some roses he's given her. Wow, he's such a sweetie. He gives her a tender kiss.

Creepy Bruno and Marcela scenes. In essence, they pan out like this: Bruno has a business proposition (to start a new modeling agency) and he wants her to sign the paperwork. He plies her with liquor. When she is sufficiently baked he pulls out the documents and hands her a pen to sign them. But she's not that baked and puts him off. She does, however, want him to kiss her. Ugh.

Happy family scene where Eva visits the pension with her hijo and everyone gushes over him.

At the pension, Marisol and Eva are talking. Marisol is ashamed because Eva knows what she does for a living. But Eva is okay with that and thanks Marisol for looking after Alicia for all those months.

Then Eva has a chat with Justa about her marriage to Don Ricardo and stuff. In a later scene she has a chat with Don Ricardo about what's going on with Adrian and all the horrible stuff with his useless dad. Eva offers any help she can give—money for lawyers, whatever.

A quick scene with Tomas, at some motel somewhere, thought-bubbling that he's going to get back at Don Ricardo for all the trouble he's caused.

A big scene with Eva telling Alicia about all that went down Daniel and Leonardo and her telling Daniel that Leo was the baby daddy. Alicia is very impactada by this. She tries to pump Eva for info on her feelings for Leo. Eva says that NOTHING went on between her and Leo before, but that she's thinking that she needs Leo's protection or else Daniel will try to take the baby. When Eva tells Alicia that Leo has been asking her to marry him, Alicia freaks out, as one would expect.

A quick scene of Jacky though-tbubbling that Marisol is a "tramp" and that Francisco deserves a real woman like her, Jacky. I anticipate that things will not go well here.

Another gratuitous scene showing off Julian Gil's (Leonardo's) hot body. I notice they are doing a lot of that lately. Leo is getting undressed for bed and Alicia barges in to confront him. He immediately starts in with how he doesn't like her jealousy. She accuses him of being in love with Eva, but also being after Eva's money. He tries tactics to try to calm her down, but in the end she continues to threaten him—before the wedding to Eva, she'll tell Eva that she's marrying her sister's lover! Leo doesn't like the sound of that.

It's the morning and Eva is telling Don Julio all the stuff that went on the day before. Don Julio approves of her treatment of the evil Marcela. "Perfecto!" he says with satisfaction. "The minute she gives you the slightest reason, OUT of the house!" he tells her. She replies that she'd feel "guilty" of putting her out of the house. Then she tells him how Daniel says that Eva fired her for personal reasons, and Eva almost seems apologetic about this. Julio asks why on earth would she? Don't feel sorry for that snake! And Viewerville is thinking the same thing. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot girl, that woman deserves NO sympathy!

Then Julio asks how things are going with Daniel. Professionally, they are fine, Eva says. Julio discusses business for a while. Then he asks, how are things going personally with Daniel? She says, almost sheepishly and with a smile (a smile!) that she told Daniel that Leo is the baby daddy. Julio looks impactado, big time. We end the episode there.

Photo and Video Clip:

I present you with Idiot Man Dan, who is (even though he is an idiot) breaking my heart. See photo below:

Okay, even I will admit it. I feel sorry for you, Idiot Man. (Click on image to see larger version.) Guy Ecker really knows how to play on the heartstrings. In order to protect her hijo, Eva claims that slimeball Leo is the baby daddy. Daniel was really counting on that kid being his. And as we know (but he doesn't yet) his wife isn't going to be producing any offspring anytime soon. Plus, there's the detail about her being a flaming bruja. Here's an extended video clip of the aftermath of Eva's lie to Daniel. We first start with the Bruja Icky and Tony thinking about her "offer" to him, then we go to Daniel reacting to Eva's claim that Leo is the baby daddy. Leo is sliming in the background, all eager to confirm that he's the daddy, while Daniel is falling apart inside.

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