Friday, February 25, 2011
La Verdad Oculta EP113 02/24/2011 – Beware of the angry lion
* Hernández doesn’t understand a word that Juan José babbling so he rather leaves. Inside Leo’s flat JJ shows the photos and the letter to the cops and Leo recognizes Gaby’s shoes. When JJ mentions David’s disguise, Leo doesn’t understands anything either, but he gets angry at Blondie’s temerity. I told him it’s dangerous! Why can’t you two do follow my advises? JJ leaves hurriedly and Leo orders Ramón to ask Mauricio about the people who they met in Puerto Vallarta.
* In the study Julieta and Gaby assure their relieved father everything is okay, they love him. Group hug! *Viewerville: Awwwww.* In the meantime Ramón tells Leo the information he got from Mauricio. How strange, Édgar López showed up in Vallarta, then later JJ had problem with him when he and Zaida manhandled Caramelo, but he was the one who helped Yolanda and the kids to escape. Qué?
* Since the Genovéses have to decide what to do if Adolfo finds out what they did, David is going to meet a friend, a lawyer friend of his. After he leaves the enthusiastic girls say they would love to see the tunnel and their proud daddy shows them the secret door. There’s one tiny problem: Chicles followed them in stealth mode.
* Yolanda tells Leonardo how they escaped and she isn’t sure that poor Édgar survived the attack. Now Ramón has a new task: he has to investigate after beaten up Eddie.
* After learning from David and accepting the fact that EVERYONE, including Alejandra have known about the scam, Gaby asks him what the lawyer said. Well, he, Abe and Fausto will have to face charges, but don’t worry, they won’t end up in prison. He tells Gaby again that Fausto just wanted to protect her, and David asked him many times to tell her the truth. She admits she felt like a fool but she likes very much that David respected her father’s wish. Asunción shows up in the hall and the young couple tells him Mario died. Again, qué? Limón is shocked, but he doesn’t have to worry, “Mario” isn’t a ghost, Fausto took over his place.
* Julieta tells her father she always felt like she’s less important than Gabriela. No, no, no, he convinces Juli he loves both of them muchísimo. In the meantime little Hansel and Gretel enter the long, dark and scary tunnel. They are about to freak out when they arrive at the headquarters, where they discover and ruin the make-up room. In the bedroom Juli tells Fausto she wants to continue her studies. Proud daddy hugs her.
* Adolfo calls Mario and tells Abelardo he wants to speak with him in the villa. Great, this means Fausto has to disguise himself again. Since Gaby isn’t used to the Adolfo-FaustiMario battles yet, when she learns Adolfo is going to visit them she gets frightened. Fausto calms her down and asks her to accompany him to the tunnel house where they discover the mess the kids made. While Gaby helps Fausto she asks him about his acting skills and she’s very curious about his past in the theater… and her mother.
* Alejandra calls David, who tells her Gaby knows the truth at last, then she asks him about his El Feo outfit. What? David doesn’t understand anything either. *Viewerville: You all should create a Clueless Club.*In front of the Genovés villa Juan José warmly greets Jorge and Dora, he invites Jorge to accompany him, then thanks everything to Dora and kisses the old woman.
* At AFI Ramón tells Leo a strangled corpse was found by the police, and it seems the dead man is the one who was on the photo JJ gave them. Édgar was brought into a hospital but he wanted to leave despite his ugly injuries. And guess what who he met there? Susan Gómez, and they left the hospital on the same day!
* In the Genovés villa Abelardo tells Adolfo they are very tired with his visits and he’d better don’t make them call Leonardo. Dolphie smiles: calm down, Gordito (Fattie), calm down. In the study he asks Mario since when does he know about Fausto’s real identity and why didn’t he call the police? Mario laughs at his anger and tells him justice will defeat him soon.
* Hernández The Berserker breaks into Leo’s flat and since he doesn’t find anyone inside, he shoots the photo of Julieta and Paulita. Juli hears the shots and she hysterically calls Leonardo.
* When Leo discovers Hernández’s threat first he runs to check Julieta and to ask her to lock the door. When he arrives back at his flat he meets confident, amused Adolfo at his doorstep who came to talk with Faustiago. But what happened to Leo? Doesn’t Adolfo know? Somehow attacked him again! When Adolfo starts to call Santiago a murderer and fugitive Leo tries to attack him and tells him Fausto Guillén is out of harm’s way. And now get the hell out of here! After Dolphie finally leaves, the calm, cool policeman becomes a frightened, crying, raging animal. He’s fed up! Julieta could’ve been killed!
* In the Genovés casa Asunción discovers the kids are wearing make-up, wigs and a prosthetic belly, moreover, Chicles tells him a strange story about a tunnel. When Limón wants to scold him for lying, laughing Abelardo steps in and explains him the situation.
* Leo tells Julieta she has to leave the flat. And who wanted to kill him, Adolfo Ávila? Honestly, he doesn’t know. Speaking of our favourite Sith Lord, late in the evening Anonymous Ruffians have a secret meeting in a dark warehouse, where Édgar and Valentín want to negotiate Adolfo. Don’t be ridiculous, you are here to confess! He calls his gorillas, but instead of them a much uglier creature enters the warehouse: Hernández, his gun and his insanity that makes Psycho Eddie look like a soft, purry kitten.
Aribeth
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I missed Leo sooooooooooo much, and his breakdown was very well acted. Bravo, Harry Geithner.
Here's an article with him:
link
I won't be at home today, the recap will be ready tomorrow morning.
Speaking of ninos-- Cara and Chicles were hilarious in this episode. I laughed out loud watching their antics in the tunnel house and then running through the main house. :) I was once again struck by how natural these two child actors are in these roles. It was like the director and writer didn't script it and had a secret camera on them as they played. They have great chemistry together too.
The real Hernandez is terrifying even to Leonardo. Leonardo just broke my heart, he was so disconsolate. Maybe now Julieta will get back with Gabriela at Marios.
This was the first episode that was really frightening. As they say in the country, Hernández, “just ain’t right.” When Gabriel Soto was playing a guy that looked like Hernández, it was funny, even silly......but as he played the real Hernández, he was chilling. The photo of Juli and Paulito propped on the chair with bullet holes was straight out any terrifying US crime drama. Harry Geithner was incredible. Wow! Our little LVO has taken a darker turn. Aribeth, thanks for the link describing HG’s life. Nice to know that he and his wife are doing such a great job, together, of handling his career. Also, happy to see that he has made his hyperactivity a useful tool.
Jeri, I had such a great day yesterday with a dental appointment, babysitting and then watching the storm radar to see if we needed to go down to the basement, I didn’t get back to thank you for your recap of yesterday. You hit just the right note with the complicated emotions between Bertha and Adolfo. Their scenes were like a roller coaster, very difficult to describe, but you did a wonderful job with your finely tuned translation. By the way, your punctuation is fantastic! I’m trying to learn from you. Thanks so much.
Chicles and Caramelo had an adventure going through the tunnel and trying out the stage makeup and props LOL.
When Limon found out the real story of Mario and Fausto I LOLed when he looked around as though he expected a ghost to materialize. Too funny.
So Hernandez is a psychopath with his shooting up Leo's home. He even scared Adolfo with his bellowing sadistic laugh while his finger was on the trigger of the gun pointed directly at him.
Here in Chicagoland, it starts a little later in the season, when the warm air gets up here to meet the cold.
Keep safe! I'm glad to hear you have a basement. So many homes in Tornado Alley in for example, Oklahoma and Texas, are built on slabs. I'd be terrified without a basement.
We have had tornadoes come through the village here; the F-5 that hit Plainfield, IL, in 1990 came through our village as an F-2.
Thank you for the compliment on the punctuation, which I must pass on to the Pan American School in Richmond, Virginia, where I took a year's grammar course of study of the Harbrace College Handbook, before I went to college. Highly recommend that manual.
Also, the Associated Press Style book is good. Thank you so much for the very kind words about the recap. :-) My pleasure.
Aribeth, thank you for the article link. I saw Te Sigo Amando, but I remember Harry Geithner first as the errant boyfriend of Angela in the title role of telenovela "Angela" (1998). "Angela" is one of my all-time favorite telenovelas (Angelica Rivera, Juan Soler).
I just noticed that there might have been a sexual content to the first reference because they were snuggling a bit, then he clearly rejected any sexual stuff in the second reference when they were talking about Yolanda.
I feel shades of Mañana Es Para Siempre coming on.....
I'm a bit too up tight to be condoning Chicles and Caramelo's antics though they are very funny and cute. Too traviosos for me because they are not toddlers. Boundaries, kiddies, boundaries. Everyone certainly didn't mind the kids' little adventure, though, even Fausto.
Adolfo had a curious observant look on his face as "Mario" confronted him in the office. I thought he might try to pull his nose or hair. Adolfo left but he took a second glance a Mario. Bad Bertha has put a bee in his bonnet.
Aribeth, I am looking forward to your recap and Jeri, I used some of the links. Thanks.
Six more to go. Sniff.
GinCA
I enjoyed the scenes with Santiago and his girls too. Even though he was a big coward about revealing the truth to them, in these tender moments he demonstrates again and again what a wonderful, loving father he is. Both he and Mario are/were great fathers. Marta chose her baby-daddies well the 2nd and 3rd time around.
I would have expected Lucha to lower the boom on Chicles for something like that -- before the kidnapping; but she made a pact to go easy on him since then.
Sandy, I've never heard it indicated that Adolfo cared about anyone other than Yolanda, so I guess I think it's her, too.
There wasn't any sexual component to Bertha's conversation with him, because she was comforting Adolfo like a kid (which he never got during his childhood he referred to) and speaking of being lonely and missing Carlos's loving care, in a non-sexual context.
In an earlier conversation with Jimena, Bertha told her she was in love with Carlos and that he was the only one who cared about her without expecting something in return. At the time, Adolfo was demanding she run dicey errands for him.
GinCA
Jeri, Aribeth, & Vivi, Thanks for all of the work you have done to keep this novela alive for all of us - especially for those in absentia.
Vivi, your thinking on Adolfo & Yolanda parallels mine - which I´ved thought for some time - and probably
many others think the same as well.
Re Gabi, I may have missed something,but I thought her first reaction to Fausto´s talk was very selfish. She didn´t seem to feel her father´s pain, and I didn´t see any immediate sorrow for David upon the loss of his father. Enough already of the misunderstanding of the false wedding. That was settled long ago.
The two skilled actors who hold my attention most are Adolfo and Yolanda
(Aleman & Sorte).
Enjoyed all the comments.
Dave looked exceptionally good in this episode, didn't he.
Floridia- so glad you are able to catch up and check in.
I've posted a space to comments on the next episode, but haven't posted the recap yet. That will be up later.
After just watching ep 114, I can only think they are using this Gabi madness to set something up. They just won't let it die and it really doesn't make any sense if it's not going to be used to move something forward. This is one of the few times that I am mad at the writers for using such a weak device and making a character act so out of character.
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