Caray, Caray!

Ahoy all, I got a last minute invitation to the theatre tonight so here is a PREcap to hold you over until later. I probably won't get the written recap posted until quite late tonight so in the meantime enjoy the screen shots and talk amongst yourselves. UDATE: Got the recap posted, see below. Sorry, too tired to do vocab words and extra stuff but pease feel free to request further clarification or make corrections if something isn't quite right.

Last night we left Ilitia in Brandon’s arms, begging him to make love to her again. Tonight we’ll have Vicky in Eman’s arm begging him to NOT make love to her again. Gretel is searching for her mommy and once again Ilitia and Brandon easily steal the show. But enough with the talking, there will be too much of that tonight anyway. Let’s join our crazy characters...

We start with Mari telling her BFF Doris that she lost herself in Eman’s kisses and hugs. They made love. “No kidding” wisecracks Doris, rolling her eyes. Mari drones on about the magic moment, their bodies were connected, so on and so forth. Never has passion and yearning sounded so drab. Mari doesn’t know if she regrets it but she knows it can’t continue because she doesn’t want to be La Otra (the other woman). This makes me wonder, does she not want to Otra against Ilitia or Otra against herself?

In another room Eman and Jorge are javing a testosterone tête-à-tête. Jorge gripes about the incendiary chemistry between Eman and Vicky (forgetting that he threw them together) and wants to know if their evening ended in a kiss or something else.

Jorge lectures and points his finger and Eman, who has mastered the look of bored innocence, focuses on said finger as if it were an annoying gnat.

Jorge warns Eman not to use Vicky the same way he used Mari.




Meanwhile over at the RydT Manor a roamin’ Romeo (Lowrenzo) lurks outside. He finds a conveniently placed ladder and moves it toward his jumble-headed Juliet’s window.

At La Mala Noche Fedra drinks (que sorpresa) and proudly sneers that Axel has dumped Delicious for Lorena. Bernardo is in the room cracking her whip toy and begging her to let him deal with Lowrenzo. Just give him the order, CRACK!!!











I’ll take care of Lowrenzo and I’m The Queen, she insists to her reflction, swoozily waving her glass around.

The door bursts open and La Sirena de la Luna stumbles in. Fedra yells at Berni to kick her culito cubano out the door but La Sirena demands a private audience with The Queen. Fedra dismisses her lap dog and Gretel removes her mask. “You asked to talk to me and here I am.” Cara muy impactada de Fedra.

Over at the Monster Manse Kristel, lounging on her bed, is surprised to see Lowrenzo walk through her door. Guau! What’s he doing there? He admires his reflection in the mirror and tells her he wanted to see her and couldn’t rest until he got what he wanted.

Back to the battle of huevos and smirking. Eman tells Jorge that since Jorge married Vicky’s best friend he doesn’t exactly understand what Jorge is doing there. Jorge does the annoying finger point again is all “Look dude (majete), I know exactly what kind of garbage you are, you’re a heartbreaker”. They get into a silly discussion about who cheated first. Eman says he married Ilitia long after Mari married Jorge because his gordita hermosa left him forever. His marriage was a serious mistake whereas Jorge’s marriage to Mari is a happy one, no? He wants Jorge to run back to his wife and leave Eman and Vicky in peace, OK? Jorge seems to be making up the rules as he goes along, and he tells Eman that, um, his marriage isn’t working and they are now separated, so there. What if he said he also made a mistake and is here to reclaim (recuperar) Vicky? What does Eman think of that, eh?


Our two stallions (forgive me but I can’t ignore all those pics of the snorting stallions all over the wall) push each other around a bit and take turns out-sneering each other and calling each other names. They are interrupted by Vicky strutting through with her little suitcase. Eman begs her to stay.


Back at La Mala Noche Fedra lunges at Gretel who whips out a giant revolver. “It was you! It IS you! Go ahead and shoot me” hisses Fedra as she kisses the gun.




Gretel invites her mami to take a seat. She wants the truth, who is her real mother?

Eman and Jorge play tug of war with Vicky.
She’s soured on Eman and tells him the only woman in his life is his wife. Jorge yanks Vicky away, calls Eman a youngster (chaval) and punches the smirk of Eman’s face.

When will these characters learn that discretion is the better part of valor? Gretel stupidly tells Fedra everything she knows, that her mami killed uncle Felipe, is having an affair with Lowrenzo, is a burlesque dancer (if you can call it that), was a prostitute, and Eman is another man’s son. Fedra rolls her eyes. Gretel wants to know who she is if not a RydT. Sure you are says Fedra. But I’m very close to the woman, closer than you know. And if you blab then I’ll kill her and then kill you.

Over at the RydT Monster Manse Emiliano expresses his regrets to a smug Mau. In a surprising display of common sense Emiliano states that regretfully his daughter loves him and since there’s no way around it he’s got a pre-nup for Mauricio to sign renouncing Kristel’s fortune. And what if Mau refuses to sign? Well then he can forget about marrying Kristel.

Who is meanwhile freaking out as Low chases her around her room. Her papi and fiancé are nearby in the study! Low says he’s not there for himself but for his daughter Ilitia. What happened between Kristel and Ilitia? They used to be like sisters. (Uh oh.) He tries to make out with Kristel to drive his point home. Kristel tries kinda sorta to resist but unfortunately seems to be falling under his spell.

This is great. We’re back at the cantina and Top Model Ilitia stumbles out of the bano with a streamer of toilet paper stuck to her shoe.


Brandon hauls her over to a table but not before she grabs a bottle of booze. She coos that she wants her polis to make sweet love to her again. Brandon’s tempted but he says he’s a man not a game. Ilitia shoves him around and pounds some shots while she considers her options.

Good Lord Jorge and Eman, now acting like “gentlemen”, are STILL discussing their situation ad nauseum. They finally agree on the obvious, it’s up to Vicky to decide what she wants to do. Welcome to the 21st century guys. Vicky says she’s a professional and will complete the job but she’s leaving with Jorge.

Fedra tells a despondent Gretel she’s not her blood but Gretel is every bit a RydT. Her real mother is close to the family and to Gretel’s father above all. Their love was impossible and doomed. Tia Carlota engineered it all, and grabbed baby Gretel from her mother’s arms at birth making baby mommy think her baby had died.

Bernardo’s loud knocking at the door interrupts this sweet moment with Fedra STILL NOT TELLING Gretel who her real momma is. I hate when telenovelas do this. Gretel runs out the side door hurling threats over her shoulder that Fedra will end up in jail and she’s in league with Marianella to destroy Fedra. Berni busts down the doors and gives chase.

Unbelievably, Mau signs the documents without further discussion and heads toward Kristel’s room. Meanwhile Beni is strolling the grounds and removes the ladder from Kristel’s window. Inside, she is still resisting Low’s octopus caresses but her resistance is fading. I notice there are no tongues, so yep, she could be his kid, but still, eww. She is saved by Mau rapping on her door and she desperately tries to hide Low. He heads for the window but oops, the ladder is gone. Too bad, says our freaked out fresa and defenestrates him. She pulls herself together and opens the door to her beloved rapey snake. Low might have warmed up the engine but if Mau plays his cards right he’ll get to drive the car.

Ilitia is getting maudlin and wants to get a hotel room. Then she changes her mind and wants Brandon to man up (making the naco gesture of holding a pair of huevos she says “ten pantalones”, wear pants) and yell at him to tell Eman that they made whoopee (mochi mochi). After chasing Ilitia around the bar and saving her from offering herself up to the clientele Brandon catches his passed out princess and carries her out of the bar.


A taxi drops off La Sirena at Netty’s perpetually unlocked pension. After Gretel sneaks in the door a large black limousine that could have been spotted a mile away passes slowly in front of the door. Spiderus is at the wheel.

Netty catches Gretel clunking up the stairs. Gretel recalls Fedra’s words, “it’s a woman very close to you and to the family, an impossible, doomed love”; could Netty be her mami? After some questioning by Gretel Nety tells Gretel that she has been in love with Emiliano for years, all her life, but it was an impossible, doomed love. (Oh brother.) Tia Carlota banned her because she was an actress.” “Ay Dios mio, Netty is my mama” thought bubbles Gretel.

They hug and the writers lay it on thick. L-“You’re like my daughter.” G-“Have you always wanted a daughter like me?” L-“My friends are my family and you are too.” G-“I would love to be your family.” Netty was going to meet Muñeca and Gadiola for drinks but since Gretel’s got the weepies she tells Gretel to run upstairs and put her Gman costume back on while she makes some tea.

Oh why do these people not lock their doors? As Gretel clunks around upstairs Bernardo walks (doesn’t even sneak) in and rifles her red sequin purse. He sees the gun and follows Gretel upstairs.

Muñeca and Gladiola are in some high class joint getting drunk on big glasses of red wine and dissing her low-life husband. Muñeca is glad to have Gladi there and she pines that she used to have a friend she could confide in but she doesn’t trust her anymore. Her name is Fedra Curiel. Gladiola chokes that the woman is a viper, a snake, satan, ugly, the worst, Salud! They toast, and Muñeca reveals that she thinks there might have been something between Lowrenzo and Fedra. Gladi chums up and admits that the gossip would support that theory.

Jorge and Vicky are at the hotel and he asks what happened between Eman and her. “The inevitable” she sighs. She couldn’t resist him. Jorge insists that Eman doesn’t love her, like all men it’s physical with him. “He’s confused” she replies, confused. Jorge doesn’t like it when she tells him she loves Eman with all her strength.

Bernardo surprises Gretel and holds her at gunpoint. Her situation is rapidly going from bad to worse. He says Oliver has a debt to pay for locking him in the cellar.
He eyes her lustily and growls that he’s always wanted a woman like her in his bed and they have all night to have fun. If she doesn’t want anything to happen to Nety she’ll stay quiet. Oh please writers, no no no!!

MarVicky tells Jorge in great detail how much she loves Eman. She wants to believe in him and she wants to believe in love blah blah blah. Jorge wishes she felt the same way about him. Maybe it’s just me but knowing how he feels about her isn’t her candor rather cruel? She blathers on that thanks to Jorge her eyes have been opened to her true feelings. In fact she almost told Eman everything. Jorge thinks that would have been a mistake because there are too many things that keep separating MarVick and Eman and foremost among them is Fedra Curiel. She’s ready to renounce all vengeance for love.

Jorge tells her NO, don’t forget everything she’s done against your family.



They hug and Jorge thought bubbles that he’s going to fight for her love. He silently vows that he hasn’t played his last card yet and Eman does not deserve her.

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