Caray, Caray!

(This recap was written by jardinera) Episode #85, 3/7/11

Things are suddenly upside down and inside out this time in Eva Looney-land. First the redux deluxe: Tony is overjoyed at having just gotten paid what Leonardo owes him. He leaves to head for home--on foot. Leo tells El Gallo to take care of Tony; Marcela arrives at Bruno’s for a little lovin’. Bruno wonders why Marci is back to her cheery self. Marci says she’s feeling in control of things once more. She takes a moment to warn him never to forget that nobody plays loose and fast with her without having Hell to pay; over coffee, Victoria tells LIliana that she’s not really going to a photo shoot the next afternoon; she’s actually going to some hotel for a little afternoon delight with Bruno, not just because she needs him to be her eyes and ears at the agency with Eva, but he’s not exactly bad in bed, either and her ego’s been bruised. Lileach manages to suck the time and place from V-icki for later use.

As luck would have it, Matilde drops Pablito’s poison-filled bottle of formula while handing it to Eva and the glass bottle shatters.....Viewerville cheers!

Tony the Tiger turns into a virtual pussy cat when three tough guys with knives hold him up and steal the whole wad of bills (20 grand) out of his pocket. (Nobody walks home in the dark with twenty large on them. Ever heard of a frickin’ cab?) Again, Viewerville cheers.

Marci tells Bruno she wants an unforgettable whoopi-makin’ session with him. She promises to sign his contract afterwards, but it’s got to be doubles or nothin’. She wants double the fun if she signs and she wants to feel sensational. Bruno promises she won’t be disappointed.

The next day, Tony apologizes to Adrian for not being there when his father died. He will be going to the funeral, though, and the two of them promise to care for each other like brothers from now on.

At Eva’s, Leo begs off from attending Tomas’ funeral. Marci shows up and see’s Pablito happy and very much alive little face. She’s obviously pissed her plan to kill him fell through somehow. She gets snitty and tells Renata to serve her breakfast in her room.

Next door, during breakfast, Ick-toria sits down with Laurita and mentions she heard Laurita’s little “destitute” friend’s father died. Laurita doesn’t like her calling Adrian that. Icky says she’ll says whatever she feels like. Laurita tells her she’s unbearable and it’s no wonder her father would want any other woman but her; even Liliana when they first met on the yacht that afternoon was nicer than Icky! Laurita races off to brush her teeth. Suddenly Icky wonders why she never knew about Dan and Liliana meeting on their yacht.

Everybody from the boarding house as well as Eva, Laurita and Daniel are at Tomas’ funeral. Eva offers to take Laurita home from Justa’s after the funeral before going in to work. FF>>

Meanwhile, Lileach thinks to herself that Eva’s son being Dan’s complicates thing a bit, but not much because as soon as Dan leaves Ick-toria, she’ll be there right behind him to pick up the pieces (literally). Suddenly, Icky walks over and asks what Lil and Dan have goin’ on together and why she never mentioned already knowing Dan from the yacht earlier. Lil says Dan didn’t want her to mention it. Icky was so jealous she would never accept a mere friendship between a man and a woman. Icky swears she’d better steer clear of Dano because she’s capable of doing anything when it comes to her husband and another woman. LIl says she’s got no problems when it comes to herself, but Eva’s another story. Either way, Bimbutt want’s Lil to keep away from Dan, period! After Icky storms off, Lil tells herself she’ll knock Ick-toria out of the way and has the means to do it.

At the agency, Leo questions his mother about why she seemed so disappointed at breakfast. He felt she looked like something had gone wrong. Marci says something had: she’d expected them to find Pablito dead this morning. Leo is incredulous-impactado at his Mama’s callous and shockingly murderous ways.... (I guess he must draw the line at little babies?) She felt that since Eva loves the baby most in this world, and since it’s the only tie to Dan, they needed to get rid of it, especially now that Dan knows it’s his. Leo agrees but says that doing anything to the baby would destroy Eva emotionally and she’d cancel the wedding. They’ll have to find another way. Marci agrees and says she got ahead of herself. She advises that the next best thing is to get rid of Dan and his daughter now that he’s told her his marriage to Icky is kaput. The sooner the better because that also puts Leo’s marriage plans at risk. Leo nods in agreement.

Back at Eva’s, Deb has come to plead her case to Tilde and has an envelope documenting all the bills she paid over the years to various private detectives trying to find her daughters after her husband took them from her. Tilde gets a large charge of telling her this is what she gets for cheating on her brother with another man. Deb says she thinks it’s Tilde who’s using her brother as a personal excuse to keep her away from her daughters and grandson. Eva comes out at that point and chases her away. She lost her right to be recognized as their mother when she abandoned them. Deb says one day they’ll realize that what she’s told them was all true, then walks off. Tilde asks Eva to help her keep her father’s reputation pure and unsullied.

Leo calls Tony with another job for him to do that day. He ‘s got to come by the house asap. Tony says that’s great because he lost his wad on the way home. Leo hangs up and smiles to himself about what a good job El Gallo did --so, it seems Leo was behind the robbery and is welching on what he owed Tony!

Back at the agency, Bruno gives his kissin’ cuz the contract to make formal corrections--after the fact. Then he plans on picking it up from her and scooting with the money. He tells her he plans one more afternoon tryst with the Bimbutt. His cuz warns him he shouldn’t chance it, but Bruno isn’t listening.

At Dano’s, Icky is swearing never to let Dan go free.

Next door, Leo shows up at Alicia’s room for a quickie. She’s ticked that she’s nothing more than a sex object. After a bit of give and take, Leo starts pushing all the right gimmee buttons and Ali let’s him take what he wants. Meanwhile, Tony shows up at the driveway and asks Renata to let him know he’s there. Ren walks into that wing of the house and hears some commotion coming from Ali’s room. They’re in the middle of gettin’ busy by then and don’t see Ren peek through the doorway at them. (One more magic bullet for Ren to use if and when necessary.) She walks back to the front door and tells Tony that Leo’s busy and he’ll have to wait. Tony gets a little too pushy so Ren finally tells him he’s busy with Alicia. Tony realizes that translates to “getting busy” with Alicia and curses Leo.

Back at Dan’s, Icky tells herself to think fast. Once she’s recharged after a roll in the sack with Bruno, she tells herself, she’ll be clear-thinking enough to figure out a great plan to neutralize Eva.

Eventually Leo and Ali appear. Tony’s job is to take Eva to the agency to work. Leo asks Tony about how he lost his cash. Tony explains about the three characters who robbed him, how they had noticed him winning at the casino and must have followed him. Leo says well, it’s not so bad since this time they let him live. He turns to Ali and bruskly tells her to get moving. They all three get into the SUV for the trip.

Next door at Dano’s, Lil has dropped by to rat on her “BFF”with Dan and get Icky out of the way. He tells her Icky’s apparently still in a photo shoot someplace. Lil says that’s precisely what she needs to talk to him about.

Leo tells Tony that he’s got to make a stop first before dropping Ali off. She complains that she’ll be late and promised Giorgi that she wouldn’t be. Leo gets miffed and says he can call him then and he’ll tell him to lay off her. Ali thinks that’s like writing it out for everyone that she’s late because she’s been boffing him. He tells her she’s not to mention a word about the two of them being an item. Ali says no problem from her end, but that doesn’t mean somebody else wouldn’t figure it out on their own. This ticks Leo off even more and he tells Tony to stop the car. He’s ready to dump her at the side of the road. He opens the car door and warns Ali that if she want to continue threatening him she can get out there and then. She starts to take him at his word but he shuts the door and prevents her leaving. “--This is to show you how easy it would be for me to put you out of my life. Got it?” Point taken. Tony is disgusted that the arrogant bastard would treat her this way. Tony starts the SUV back up and they drive off.

In the mean time, Lil comments that maybe Dan should consider that since he and Icky are essentially separated, Icky might be finding consolation somewhere else. When Dan tells her to stop beating around the bush, Lil says Icky’s been lying and he should know it. She gives him the address and the room of the hotel he’ll find Bimbutt and Bruno boffing at that very moment.

Eva drops by the boarding house to pick up Laurita and while she’s there she takes the opportunity to hand over a letter to Justa from Don Julio. While they chat, Eva admits to Justa that DJ was the man who protected and provided for her the past 18 months and that he’s become a second father to her during all this time. Justa’s muy impressed and wants the details, but Eva says it’ll have to wait for another time. Right now she needs to know whether Justa will read the letter. Justa doesn’t know whether to accept it and to read it or not because her life is changed and DJ isn’t a part of it now. That’s why, Justa explains, she’s not bothered to tell the truth about him to Don Ricardo; so no matter what’s written inside it, he can’t continue to contact her like this. Eva offers to do what she can to dissuade him.

Tony lets Ali out at the agency after Leo’s been dropped off. He takes the time to tell her she’s better than this and that he still loves her and wouldn’t dream of treating her so callously. She is only worried that he’ll tell Eva. Tony has no reason to, he says. He’d give anything though, to have the girl he knew back when at the boarding house. Ali can’t believe that he’d still be in love with her despite all that’s gone on between her and Leo. Tony says they deserve a second chance; he knows he’s made mistakes but so did she. Ali says well, she just can’t do it. It’s simply impossible. He has got to understand there are no more “opportunities”. It’s Leo for her, tho’ she’d give anything not to feel the way she does about Leo. She races into the building and leaves Tony heartbroken.

Back at the no-tell hotel (gotta say this room looks quite a bit tackier than the rest), there’s a knock at the door. Bruno gets up to answer it, saying it must be room-service with the champagne he ordered. He answers the door with a humongous gloat on his face, but it suddenly turns to shock as ...“SURPRISE!” ….Daniel storms his way past and spies a nekkid bimbutt in the bed. “--Well look who it is! The woman who’s soooo jealous of me, who’s soooo in love with me!!” V-eeeek!-y is begging to explain, but Dan says this scene doesn’t need any explanation! He turns to Bruno, grabs him by the neck and throws him on the floor with fisty cuffs galore. “--Wouldn’t you just know it would be you who she’d be here with!!” Eeeek!-y squeels in fright and begs him to stop or there’ll be problems. Dan stops himself and lets Bruno up for air. (The rug burn on his butt probably hurts like hell, though! Je, je, je!) “--If I don’t kill you here and now it’s because I don’t want to dirty my hands! But you’ve done me a favor, anyway! Now I know the type of woman I married! “ The still eeek!-ing Icky tries telling Dan that it isn’t what he thinks. He screams back that it’s exactly what he thought. What kind of photo session would she call it? Who cares, anyway? He’s leaving them to enjoy the rest of their time together! Dan slams the door on the two of them and heads down to the parking lot. He gets ready to get into his car when who should appear out of nowhere but Lileach! “--What are you doing here?” (That’s what we’d all like to know! Talk about your blood-suckers!)

Back at Justa’s, the kids beg Eva for a bit more time together. She says that’s impossible today, but promises that the three of them will share a day together just the three of them. Maybe the day after tomorrow if not the next.

Lileach tells Dan she followed him supposedly expecting the worst and was feeling rotten about what she’d started. He wonders if she really came to warn her BFF that he was on the way. She denies it and says she only wanted to stop him from committing some crazy thing or other. (But, if she had gotten a chance to sneak in behind him she’d have loved poking her head in the door, she’d have loved seeing Icky’s extreme mortification. I’m certain all of Viewerville sure did!) He tells her the only crazy thing he did was to marry Icky in the first place. She suggests they go for a drink. Dan would rather go home. She convinces him to accept the invitation because even though he may not need to talk about it, she feels so horrible about what just happened that she does.

Marci asks Rosaura (Bruno’s kissin’ cuz) where Leo and he are. She says Leo went out and she has no idea about Bruno, but she’ll call and try to locate him. Marci says no need. She handle that herself.

Bruno, meanwhile, is majorly pissed and wonders how Dano found out and found him and Icky. Icky blames him. If he’d asked who it was before stupidly opening the door then none of this would have ever happened!! (Seriously, what hotel doesn’t put fish eyed peep holes in the door these days?) He says he hopes that he doesn’t tell Marcela. Icky yells back that she could give a rat’s patoot who tells her. She just doesn’t want Dan to leave her. Bruno says she’d better get used to the idea. She races out and tells him never to darken her door again..... (No problem. It wasn’t in the plan.) He tells himself he could care, but the thing he won’t do without is Marci’s milliones de stolen money.

Justa reads Julio’s letter which essentially tells her he hasn’t stopped loving her all these years. Julio, at the same time, admits to Garcia that he wrote the letter hoping she’d understand he doesn’t care that she’s married. He knows Garcia disapproves of his actions, but he won’t stop hoping they’ll get back together until Justa convinces him that she’s doesn’t still love him also.

Back at Eva’s later that afternoon, Marci finds Renata laying out baby bottles. “--Oh, so now you’re nana to the little bastard?” Ren explains that she simply had to get more of them since one broke the night before. Marci mumbles something about how she understands it all now. Ren asks what she means, but Marci cuts her off and tells her to start a bath for her.

At the boarding house, Marisol and Francisco are discussing a “honey do” list for him at the market. FF>> Franc leaves for work and Mari gets a visit from her friend at the club warning her that Damien will come after her at any time. She did sign a contract, after all, and still owes him money. Mari doen’t seem worried and swears she won’t go back no matter what. She has Franc now and he promised to defender her.

Eva pays Jackie a visit while bringing Laurita home. Jackie looks a mess and Eva tells her she’s got to forget Franc now and look for somebody else to help make her forget him. Jackie tells Eva if she hasn’t really been able to forget Daniel then she can’t exactly expect her to forget about Franc!

During coffee at Lil’s hotel restaurant, Lil tells a whopper about having warned Icky thousands of times to break it off with Bruno and to repair her relationship with Dan. He says sourly that that relationship ceased to exist a long time ago. Lil loves her “BFF” dearly, but she totally disagrees with what Icky has done to him, she empathizes. Dano has finally got his thinking cap back on now. He asks Lil if she’s such a good friend then why did she betray Icky this way? Lil says she could see what Icky was doing and it offended her so much that she would rather betray her friendship than continue standing on the sidelines. He says in the long run it was better it all happened like it did. He never really loved Icktoria and knows he should never have married her. Lil agrees and says that it was obvious; she thinks for that reason and for the benefit of both him and his daughter--as well as Icktoria-- he should get a divorce ASAP!

Marci is trying to reach Bruno, but all she gets is his voice-mail. She tells him to give her a call because she needs to talk to him. He’s pouring himself a stiff one at the apartment and refuses to pick up. The only thing left between them is those millions of dollars of hers waiting for him. He calls the cuz and tells her to have the papers ready for him.

Adrian and Ric share a tender moment talking about Adrian’s thoughts of possibly becoming a doctor so he can help save the world..... There’s a knock at the door and Julio is there hoping to chat with Justa. Ric gives Julio a moment of evil eye but treats Julio like old friends and thanks him for paying his hospital bill.

Justa, though, has gone to Julio’s looking for him. The major domo tells her he’s gone out and doesn’t know where, nor when he’s due back.

Bimbutt gets home and the last thing she expects to see, let alone appreciates seeing, is Jackie chatting it up with the likes of Worsty Enemy Numero Uno! She scolds Jackie and then kicks Eva out.

Next door, Marci’s finished her bath and finds a mysterious box on the bed. Lots of haunting nasty laughing accompanies its accusatory “assesina” note. Marci freaks; she yells he can’t kill her because she killed him first! Ren walks in at the ruckus and picks up the box, then reads the note: “Assesina?”

Dan comes home and enters the bedroom. No more lies. The act is finito! He found her with another man in bed. What else is there to say? She swears it was because she was in so much pain because he’d never really gotten Eva out of his mind. (Yeah, the ol’ blame it on Eva b.s.) Bimbutt tries getting down on her knees and begging to explain, but Dan says talk to the hand cuz his handsome face ain’t listenin’ any longer! She doesn’t love anybody but herself and there’s nothing left between them, so get up and get over it! She swears he can’t leave her or--He asks ”-- or what?” She’ll run back to her mommie to have her help her with another attempted suicide?

Next door, Marci continues to freak. Ren stays cool and calm and suggests that the note makes a very serious accusation. Marci wants the box and the note dumped. She wonders who sent it. Ren says she doesn’t know since she only found it left on the doorstep. Marci swears somebody wants to drive her crazy. Ren offers to bring her some tea and then takes the box out of the room with her.

Icky cries to Dan and says he’s being totally unfair to her. Dan wonders why she’s always the victim here? It’s his fault for getting with Eva, she whines. He corrects her and says no, he was with Eva before marrying Icky. Their marriage was a big lie. He was depressed and furious; so he only married her to get back at Eva. She knew that and also knew he never loved her. V-icky says it’s not true, cuz if he didn’t love her then why did he haul off on Bruno? Dan says it was out of pride not out of love! This is killing her, she pleads. He says that they’ll end up killing each other if they stay together!

Rosaura brings Bruno back the corrected contract and he tells her how Dan found out and nearly busted his chops over the whole thing. Rose says she told him so. That’s not what he wanted to hear. He grabs the document in a race to get to the bank, empty out the account, and then head for the sunny shores of Europe before Marci realizes what’s going on. Rose warns Bruno not to even think of cheating her out of her share of the dinero. Bruno says he’ll contact her once he’s found a place to hide out.

Marci drinks her tea and wonders who found out what she did to Julio. It’s obvious they know and want to drive her crazy.

At the same time Mari comes out and sees Julio there with Ric. She mentions that they already know each other because he came by while Ric was in the hospital. Justa couldn’t talk just then. Ric wonders why Justa never mentioned it to him. Justa arrives home at that point and looks guilty when she notices that Julio is there waiting to see her.

Back at the Villanueva’s, Icky tells Dan that they can get their life together again if they want to. Da points out to her that’s the operative word, but that’s the point: he doesn’t want to and he’s told her that very plainly. “-- Well, then, if not with her, then Eva, or maybe Liliana?” He swears he’s got nothing going on with her friend. She swears he does. “--Go on! Go ahead and take consolation with those women of yours!” He gets ready to leave the bedroom and she immediately begs him not to leave her. He says he’s not the one leaving. Nope, he’s getting the Big D first thing tomorrow, so she can just take her things and get the effin’ out of his house NOW!

(This recap written by jardinera and posted by Elvira)

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