Cap. #80
If your screen had a green tint to everything while viewing this episodio, do not bother adjusting it. It won’t do any good. It was a little green-eyed monster covering everything like a fog.
As we begin Eva is thinking that she can’t believe she’s actually agreed to marry Leonardo tho’ Daniel is Pablito’s father and the man she still loves. She’s going to double down on her attempts to exchange her love for hate where Dano’s concerned, whatever the cost.
Meanwhile, Leo is still visiting with Mama Marcela. Both are elated that he finally got Eva to accept his marriage proposal. She’s been despairing over it, she says, and wanting to kill the shameless harpy with her own hands! Leo says no more talk like that now. The plan is for him to get a prenup signed declaring him Eva’s heir and then she will disappear and die. Then their fortune will return to them and all will be right with the world. Marci warns him it better work. “--Better not fail me in this!” Leo says not a problem!! Trust him. Tomorrow they’ll announce the engagement at a dinner party. All she has to do is dress up and look her most elegant.
At the boarding house, Marisol and Alicia are giggling like schoolgirls over Francisco’s suggestion that Mari should give their marriage a try. Mari says she’s scared the marriage will be a failure. Ali says well, since you have the piece of paper anyway, might as well live together and see what happens. A few minutes later, flowers arrive from Franc with a note asking her to tell him she loves him and an invitation to repeat their wedding night.
Marci asks if they plan to invite the mother-in-law [suegra]. Leo wonders who she’s talking about. Mama informs him that Deborah is Ali and Eva’s mother. Cara de impactado for Leo.
A bit later, Leo is getting ready for bed. He thinks about the problems he’s got to handle and starts checking off the list. He thinks back first to the time he ran over Eva’s father during the hit and run. He figures no sweat there since he’s convinced Eva that Dano did the dastardly deed. Then he thinks about Ali’s angrily threatening to tell Eva that they are lovers because he’s been playing her for a fool. No problem there, either, because if she hasn’t done it by now, it’s because she doesn’t dare to. Last thing he considers is the problem with Claudia blackmailing him about telling Eva why he broke up with her. That won’t be a problem either. He’ll go by the next day to see her and then resolve that situation also.
The next day arrives. Bruno looks on as Victoria shoots for the commercial. Icky and he exchange google eyes at each other. (Blech!!) FF>>
Justa visits Don Ricardo at the hospital. He tells her to go home and rest. She’d rather stick around, but admits she’s got things to do for the boarders. FF>>
Tía Matilde tells Eva over breakfast about Tomas shooting Don Ric and him being in the hospital. Tilde mentions Ali’s strange behavior and continual crying. Eva thinks it must have to do with Tony, but Tilde says no, it’s over some other guy she is in love with but wouldn’t tell her about. Leo comes in to have breakfast with them. They discuss the engagement party and Leo’s making sure that Dano will be there From tonight on Dano will be well aware that she will be a “happy woman.” Eva’s look says she’ll be anything but!
Later that morning, Eva calls Claw from the office to see if they can finish their discussion from the other day. Eva will be there in the afternoon.
At the same time, Leo calls V-icky while she and Bruno are driving back from the shoot to tell her he’s engaged and about the announcement at dinner. She’s elated and says she’ll never doubt his ability to come through for her again.
Justa makes a detour to see Renata first to tell her that Julio came to see her and to ask why. Ren tells her he faked his death but she has no idea why. She also warns her that absolutely no one can know he’s really still alive. Ren then advises her it’s best to speak with him to clear up whatever has been needed to be said between them once and for all. She figures let what’ll happen happen.
That morning, as planned, Leo pays a visit to Claw. He asks how much she wants to disappear for good. She leaves him dangle for a bit and then demands a million or she’ll tell Eva about how he dumped her over the baby and that his mother managed to slip her something to cause her to abort it. Eva’s coming there this afternoon, she stupidly tells him, and so he better make up his mind fast. He pretends she drives hard bargain. He has that and much more, she says. Leo says he’ll have his new assistant deliver a check to her that night. However, first she has to cancel the appointment with Eva. ¡Trato hecho! [It’s a deal!]
Eva has Dano come to her office that morning to supposedly discuss business. (Business is the last thing either of them really has on their minds once they’re together.) She asks him to sit down cuz she’s got something important to discuss. He asks if it has anything to do with her sudden exit last night. She says she doesn’t know what he’s talking about and anyway, she isn’t going to discuss anything that doesn’t have to do with work. He rides her a bit more. “--Awww. Perhaps it made you jealous that Liliana kissed me?” “--Where did you ever get the idea I was jealous?” “--Oh, perhaps because of your attitude-- it was so obvious, Eva. I’m talking about your little temper tantrum.” She gets upset again but he cuts her off. “--If it didn’t bother you to see that kiss, then why did you and Leo leave without saying good-bye?” Eva tells him she’s got no reason to discuss her personal life with him and “--BTW, I am not dying for you so get down off your little cloud!” Dan says she’s dreaming if she thinks he’s still pining away over her! (Excuse me, but are we back in high school or what?) “-- Why should you be since you’re a married man--and with lots of little girlfriends to boot?’’ (Nice zinger!) Dan says to Eva that it’s a good thing then that it doesn’t bother her. She says nope, not at all. He can do whatever he wants. They discuss the auto account again and she pulls rank.
Eva calls Ali next to see how she is and to ask about Don Ric and to tell her she has something important to discuss but it will have to wait till she gets home. Leo walks in on Eva afterward. He locks the door “to keep anyone from hearing” what he has to say. He asks if she’s told Dan yet about the engagement. She hasn’t and they agree to let him find out at the dinner party so he’ll be just as shocked as she was when she found out about his engagement to Icky.
Speaking of the bimbutt, she pays a surprise visit to Dan at the office and then Lileach shows up a minute after. Icky spies the candy box on the desk and asks who sent it. Lileach says she did to thank her gentleman of a husband for keeping her company the night before while she was away. Icky smiles at the compliment and agrees Dano’s the best!
In the meantime, Julio pays a surprise visit to Don Ric at the hospital but introduces himself with his fake name, saying he’s a distant relative that Justa thought was probably dead by now. He heard about the accident and wanted to pay his respects. Julio realizes how much Don Ric loves Justa and decides Ric’s good people. Eva walks in just as he’s leaving and she nearly gives him away. He smiles and says she must be confusing him with somebody else. Eva agrees. He leaves. Eva tells Don Ric she’s paying his hospital expenses.
At the same time, Mari goes for her audition and they like her so much they want her to return to sign a contract; they plan to make a record with her. She’s elated. FF>>
Leo joins Dan, Lileach and Bimbutt in Dan’s office and invites them all to the dinner party but won’t say what it’s about.
Justa comes back to visit Don Ric at the hospital since he’s getting out that afternoon. She’s a bit puzzled because when she went to settle his bill, they told her somebody named Vicente Olmos had already paid it. Ric thought she’d know him and explains he was there a bit ago to chat and said he was a distant relation. Obviously she draws a blank; then Ric mentions Olmos told him that she would probably think he’d died. It hits Justa then that it had to be Julio who paid their bill. She pretends she does know him but did think he was dead. (I guess Don Ric will blame this confusing moment of half-truths on the drugs they’re giving him.)
That night the guests are there for the dinner party. Eva still hasn’t talked to Ali yet to tell her about the engagement or the party. Marci gripes at Leo because Eva’s late. Deborah appears and Marci gets a weird look on her face. Just then Eva makes her entrance. Deb explains that Marci invited her. Eva says fine with her.
Mari and Franc get together for happy hour. He wants to know if she’s thought about what he told her. Franc surprises her with the rings. After a bit of hesitation Mari says she’s game if he is. He tells her then she has to quit working as a dancer at the club. She explains she can’t because she signed a three year contract and owes a lot of money that she borrowed. Franc says he’ll think of something because he really doesn’t want any wife of his working at a place like that.
Lileach tells Leo she doesn’t think Dan and Icky are going to show. Leo says sure they will because his sister wouldn’t allow him to miss the fun tonight. Sure enough, they arrive right after. Dan wants to know first thing the reason for the party. Icky, Lileach, and Marci all pretend not to know why either.
Claw answers the door and El Gallo walks in with an envelope for her. He has her sit down and, while she’s looking at the check and thinking of how she’ll probably spend it, he walks behind her and pulls out a gun with a silencer. He shoots her through the heart. Claw immediately assumes room temperature. El Gallo takes back the check and shuts her eyes. He makes sure to leave a packet of heroine in her hand in place of the check, making it look like a drug hit or something.
Back at the dinner party, Leo announces to Dan and the others that this is an engagement party. He and Eva are marrying in one month. Dan suddenly looks gut-punched-impactado. Eva enjoys seeing the shock on his face. In the back of the room, Ali has peeked in by the doorway to see what’s up. Her mouth drops to the floor when she hears Leo’s announcement. Tilde is on the other side of the room but notices the look of shock and disbelief on Ali’s face as she stands in the doorway. All the evil conspirators are smiling from ear to ear. Eva now looks haughtily over at Dan who looks betrayed and angry. Ali races away to her room in tears.
Leo says he knows it’s a bit of a surprise, but he hopes all will join them in a toast. Dan literally chokes out a toast to be polite since he can’t exactly do otherwise. Bimbutt says something like she guessed it would happen since there was some history there and something about marriage being the best state a man could live in. She asks if Dan doesn’t agree. Dan just keeps quiet and looks at the spot of dirt on his shoe instead. The shocked Renata whispers to Marci that she wonders if Leo is nuts or what. Marci snickers a bit and says, no, he knows exactly what he’s doing.
A few minutes later, El Gallo leaves a voice message for Leo telling him the job is done. Leo smiles self-assured that all is going to plan, and then publicly gives Eva an engagement ring with a rock the size of a tennis ball! Dano’s face is almost to the floor by now. Leo makes a toast to their happiness and then he twists the knife into Dan… “—and to that of our son”. Dan is totally destroyed with that last remark. He watches Leo and Eva kiss to the applause from the guests.
Ali is in her room crying her eyes out.
Eva goes over to Dano to rub his nose in it. She asks him if he isn’t happy for her. He says it doesn’t matter to him. He’s neither happy nor sad and wants to know why it matters to her. She says the look on his face gives him away. She walks to the other side of the room. Marci gets in Eva’s face now. “--Who’d a thunk it? My D-I-L [nuera] !! Eva gets snotty and says yep! She has Marci’s money and in a month she’ll have her last name as well! (Damn! Eva’s hitting on all cylinders tonight!) Marci calls her nouveau-riche and says something like she finally managed to get all she wanted; but that was what she came for, right? (I think.) Eva says with the same “bite-me!” grin that, yeah, and that perhaps someday she’ll have to thank her! Eva walks off to speak with Tilde.
Tilde tells Eva not to ask her to congratulate her because she won’t. She doesn’t like the idea a bit and doesn’t like Leo at all. Eva needs her support. Tilde says nope. Why? Because she’s not in love with the guy and is only getting married to get revenge; but the one who’s going to get hurt will be Eva! Eva gets stubborn and says her mind’s made up and that’s that! She asks where Alicia is. Tilde doesn’t’ know, so Eva goes to check at Ali’s room. The door’s locked. Ali lies that she has a headache and can’t talk. Eva says then they’ll talk in the morning.
Meanwhile, Bimbutt and her BFF gloat over finally getting Eva out of the way. Lileach warns Icky to pay close attention to hubby because it’s obvious Eva and Dan’s past is still very much in the present . “--When a man and a woman look at each other with the kind of rage they look at each other with, you’d just better be careful!” Icky says then Leo better finish what he started. Lileach asks what she means by that. Icky smiles and says she’ll know all in good time.
Eva turns away and finds Dan coming through the hall, wanting to talk to her.
At the same time, Bruno and his kissin’ cuz are at some bar. She tells him she’s pissed at him for going to bed with Ick-toria. He gets a kick out of her being jealous and says he did it because he felt like it! She denies she’s jealous and then says she’s just worried he’s overexposing them both.
Eva races off to her office but Dan follows her in. She asks what he wants. He breaks down and says he’s really not at all happy about her engagement. She says she knows, it’s written all over his face. He tells her that finally her mask is off. She doesn't understand. He says this means that she was in love with Leo the whole time and never cared for him at all. She gets angry and hisses at him that he was the one who played with her! “--You made a fool out of me!” “—But, then what? Are you marrying him because you love him --or to get even with me???” She tells him not to be so self-centered; that she doesn’t do things thinking about him. He is not the main man in her life! He says then Leo was the main man in her life from the get-go, right? She says he needs to worry about other things, like maybe his wife, or about hiding his new lover. Eva’s voice cracks a bit. Those are your problems, not my marrying Leo. Their faces are only millimeters apart when Icky and Lileach show up in the doorway looking for him.
Meanwhile, Marci continues to play naive and nasty. She tells Deb it’s obvious she likes Eva’s child a lot –it’s almost as if she were his grandmother. Deb gets a shiver down her back.
On the other side of the room Leo asks Tilde where Eva went. He gets upset when he hears Eva went to speak with Ali in her room. He races off to do damage control.
Dan tells Icky he was there speaking to Eva and says they should all go back to the party now. Icky says he and Lileach can go, but she’s got to talk to her new sister-in-law first. Dan and Lileach leave them alone.
Mari and Franc come back from the bar to the boarding house. Mari tells Justa that they are back together and are going to live there at Justa’s. Justa and Don Ric are happy for the two of them. Mari later tells Franc about the recording contract. Franc is excited. It may be a way for him to fix the problem about the club. Thoughts turn to him being her manager and how then the “money will stay all in the family!” (Sorry, Jackie! Better set your sights on somebody more your style.)
Icky warns Eva off Dan. Eva laughs haughtily and lets her have it right between the eyes. “--You mean to tell me that after being married all this time you still can’t be sure he loves you” If looks could kill, Eva would be six foot under five minutes ago! “--That’s not true! You don’t know what you’re talking about! Daniel does love me! You just take every chance you get to flirt with him so that you can continue to force yourself on him! [meterse por los ojos = mesmerize, brainwash] Eva looks down her nose imperiously at Icky and smiles mockingly. “--You’re mistaken.” “--No I’m not! You’re still the same slut that doesn’t miss an opportunity to insert yourself into Daniel’s life!” Eva stands up behind her desk and literally looks down on Ick-toria. “--Enough already, Victoria! I’m not your enemy! Better you worry about other women much closer to you!” Icky takes a moment to absorb this.
Back at the party, Dan is worried about what’s going on between Eva and Icky. Lileach tells him not to worry about it; they’re both adults and he should just let them alone to say what has to be said. You don’t know Victoria, though, he says. Leach says she’s known Icky for years and yeah, she’s defensive, obsessive, and aggressive. “--What’s the matter? Doesn’t Eva know how to defend herself?” “--Oh yeah, I’d say so. She’s learned rather well!” Ok, so if he wants to see if she’s killed her go ahead, says Lileach. She’s leaving, though. She gives him a sensual kiss on the cheek good-night. He heads back towards Eva’s office.
Leo gets a box out from under his bed and heads for Ali’s room. She tries slamming the door on him but lets him in after. (Bad mistake.) He tries to sweet talk Ali, but she’s not having any of it. “--Don’t call me lover! Why don’t you go look for my sister! He acts like he doesn’t understand what the fuss is about. “--Why are you getting this way? Hey, it will all work out.” She screams at him. No it won’t! He tells her his marrying her sister won’t keep him away from her, and then he starts loving on her. (OMG! I have got to wash this slime off me. He’s just so up from the deep!) She’s angry and disgusted, but too weakened and heartbroken to resist him or his disgusting and depraved ways.
Back in Eva’s office, Vicki yells at her that she’s not going to get wrapped up in let alone confused by her lies. “‘--I know you want Daniel! It is pure gall [el colmo] that the night of your engagement party you do almost the impossible to be alone with him!” Eva sweetly denies this and says he was the one who came looking for her. Icky spits back that it’s obvious that she just loves the fact he’d do that! “--Because when I arrived you were stuck to my husband like glue!” Eva continues to speak in a reasonable tone while Icky’s screaming makes her sound even more irrational than she usually is. “--It’s obvious to everyone how insecure you are about him. It must be horrible living with a man you can’t trust.” V-icky screams back that Eva’s the one she can’t trust!! She wants to kill her!! “--Really? Are you thinking of trying it again?” (Whoa! Eva just keeps racking up the points tonight!)
Back in Ali’s bedroom, in between fighting Leo’s kisses off and bawling wildly, she threatens telling Eva that they’re lovers. Leo says that’s why he brought her the box. “--Open it.” Inside is his father’s gun. He warns her that if she says one word about the two of them to her sister that he will kill her. (No doubt about it. This apple sure didn’t fall far from the tree! Definitely a case of like mother, like son.) Ali takes it out and suddenly aims it at him. Leo stares her down. “--Ok. If you really hate me, then kill me!” Unfortunately she can’t bring herself to pull the trigger and she collapses in tears onto the floor. Leo calms her down eventually, picks her off the floor and takes her to the couch. He continues giving her what she really wants-- sweet nothings about how he really cares about her and a few tender kisses. (I am emotionally drained after this scene. I’ve got to have a smoke. Back in a sec.)
Ok. The pause that refreshes...... Dan now walks down the hall towards Eva’s office and hears the two women yelling at each other. “--You’re not taking him away from me, you damn wench! You’re a liar and a phony!” “--No, the only phony here is you!” Dan stops just outside the closed door and continues to eavesdrop as Eva lets the anvil drop on Bimbutt’s head. “--You did the impossible to keep Daniel, or have you forgotten faking your suicide attempt??” “--That’s beside the point! [no venir el caso = neither here nor there] Apparently not for Dano! He’s suddenly all ears! (Eva is still on a major roll. Damn! This is way better than chocolate!) “--That was your mother’s idea—and you supported it to manipulate him so that he’d feel sorry for you and would come back to you!” “--Liar!” “--No lie, Victoria! Don’t waste your time denying it! I know your mother managed the attempt at suicide, but when you found out , you actually thanked her! Why? To keep Daniel at your side out of a sense of guilt, right? “--Who told you that?” “--Your father!!” Dan is now one major, saucer-eyed-impactado hombre.
The bimbutt, now in tears from Eva’s below the belt emotional judo, screams back that her father could never have told her that! Eva yells back that he heard her and her mother discussing that it was the way to get him to come back to her. “--But you never really managed it, because remember that the only way you married him was because I left him!” “--You’re crazy!! He loves me! Daniel loves ME!” Dan walks in on them at that point and Icky wipes away her tears--a first! He looks at Eva and tells Icky innocently enough that if they’re done with their chat they should leave. Icky says he’s right. She sneers over at Eva. We have nothing else to say to each other. Eva watches the two of them leave and takes a few deep breaths.
Leo returns to his room and hides the gun again under his bed.
Back at the party, Tilde tells Deb that she usually doesn’t mind what Eva decides to do because she’s always had a good head on her shoulders; but this time she’s really stepped in it. Why? Because the man she’s marrying is a charlatan and she wouldn’t be able to swallow his B.S. even with water. She’s sure he’s setting some sort of trap for Eva. Just then Malicious Marci walks up to them with a sh!t-eating grin on her face from ear to ear. “--Well, I suppose that since we’re going to be family we can speak frankly to one another, right? I’d like to hear more about your two poor, abandoned nieces. It wasn’t so bad having you and your brother to raise them, huh, or they’d have been even worse unfortunate wretches.” The operative words she left out: “than they already are”
Eva now comes in to speak to Ali, who fakes a headache. Eva sits down on the bed with her and begs her to tell her what is going on.
Leo calls back El Gallo to see if he took care of things. El Gallo says sure, he cleaned everything up. Leo says the party went even better than he thought, especially after the message he left him. El Gallo says it’s a pity about the girl because she was some real eye-candy. Leo agrees, but says she went too far with him and got too big for her britches. They agree to meet the next day so El Gallo can get paid for the job. He warns Leo that he won’t stand for anyone dealing from the bottom of the deck either.
Back in Ali’s bedroom, Eva apologizes for not telling Ali sooner about the engagement. She wanted to this morning but Ali wasn’t around, and then at the hospital, but something else came up. Ali says she’s got no reason to forgive her. Eva can do what she wants to. Well, Eva says, she still feels bad because they were going to discuss the pro’s and con’s about hooking up with Leo. Ali says it’s all the same to her, and what does it matter anyway? She just wants to be left alone.
Tilde tells Marci that her two nieces were never unhappy wretches! They had plenty of love from her and their father! Marci tells her not to get so offended and starts to philosophize: “--Some are born poor in spirit and others are born to riches, beauty, money and intelligence.” Tilde gets miffed and asks what she’s getting at. Marci says that coincidences simply fascinate her. “--Two abandoned daughters and Deborah now looking for hers for who knows how long.... Could it be that her two daughters are Eva and Alicia?”
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