Caray, Caray!

At Elsa's apartment, Ramón & Co. get Dante's address from her. And Chicles guides Juan José to Adolfo's kidnap warehouse; while back at home when Carlos arrives and reports Adolfo has a beach house hideaway, he's startled to learn from Asunción that Alejandra's kidnapped, too.

Carlos takes a call from Bertha and exits to meet her at his condo, unbeknownst to him that Édgar and Valentín have her bound at gunpoint. They ditch notions of abusing her, as she's still the boss's wife. Back at the warehouse, Juan José warns Chicles that it's not the movies; and guys will really die when shot.

Instead Juan José instructs him to phone for help if he isn't back in 15 minutes or hears gunfire and to wait in the truck. Once inside, Juan José skulks the dank, inky halls without result until a loud bang erupts; whereupon he notes a stray dog nosing around Édgar's booty hiding place and recovers the infamous black shoes.

Incognito Adolfo and Dante meet Yolanda at a nondescript hotel, where Adolfo embraces Yolanda with relief. She begs him to release the hostages, which he insists are his only hole card for escaping the country. But when she reveals Mario is dead and the kidnapping now prevents him closing the contract, Adolfo is pole axed.

How stupid! Of course! The sudden strange behavior of "Mario" now makes sense. How stupid, how stupid! He could have been the owner of everything! He's realizing his awful blunder, committed in order to rescue Yolanda. No!

At Carlos's condo, he enters only to be bonked on the head, bound and carried off by Édgar and Valentín; while racing across town with sirens screaming, Ramón radios Leonardo that at Dante's, Zaida gave them the warehouse address. Meanwhile, Juan José and Chicles arrive home with the amazing diamonds to hear of Carlos's beach hideaway news.

Leonardo is disgusted to have just missed the kidnappers at the warehouse; and when he suddenly remembers Gabriela's tale of the beach hideaway, phones and learns from David it's somewhere remote without highway access. At Juan José's, he phones Yolanda to ask Carlos's address to learn more about it.

Édgar reports Carlos in hand to Adolfo at the nondescript hotel; where Adolfo assures Dante he can trust Yolanda -- with the possible exception when it concerns Carlos. She'll do something if she knows he's kidnapped. They quickly decide to adjourn with their victim to the country hideout of Valentín's choosing.

Dante's concerned about holding Carlos; kidnapping girls is one thing -- but Carlos is strong and trouble; but Adolfo needs him sequestered, due to Carlos knowing about the beach house, at least until they flee the country.

Juan José arrives at Carlos's condo just as Bertha frees her gag and shouts for help; he rescues terrified Bertha and learns of Carlos's kidnapping -- and she learns of Alejandra's kidnapping, to her dismay, along with the other girls.

Yolanda returns to the hotel to find the heavies absconded without a word. At Mario's, Santiago and David are disgusted to see Juan José bring Bertha to the house, until they hear what has happened to Carlos. Bertha is distraught and wails she loves Carlos and she'll die if anything bad befalls him!

David embraces apparently sincere Bertha and admits that everyone should have the chance to repent; and when doubtful Dora appears, explains Bertha's situation. Bertha desires to explain things to her uncle, too; but is startled and confused to hear Mario died long ago in Roberto's crash on the Veracruz highway.

The bad guys arrive at the country hideout and stow Carlos with the other victims. Back at Mario's, sobbing Bertha apologizes, if not to deceased Mario, then to Santiago, explaining that after all that's happened, she's going to behave in a very different way. Crying, she turns to everyone present and apologizes, begging forgiveness.

Later upstairs, Bertha apologizes especially to Dora, telling Dora she always felt like she never amounted to much, which she has never told anyone else. Growing up, Alejandra was the smart and talented one, always getting the parental praise; while she felt no account and acted out for attention.

Her father did seem to feel sympathetic, knowing Bertha didn't bring much; but when he died, there was no one left to help her, having no profession or education. Dora admits it must have been hard for her; but typically optimistic, smiles and counsels God will make things right in the end, if Bertha is truly repentant.

Downstairs in the living room, tempers are flaring as the family men's impatience is reaching a breaking point; and hapless, prodded Leonardo walks in just on the brunt of it. General mayhem ensues as they object to Leonardo ordering them what to do, despite their anger at feeling he has done nothing!

But they must admit since they themselves don't know the location of the beach hideaway, that they're trying to squeeze water out of a stone. Leonardo is shocked they haven't told him Carlos is missing; and they all must calm down, including the uniforms with sidearms drawn.

Leonardo wonders how in the world he's supposed to launch a search, if they don't know where the beach house is located along Mexico's one thousand kilometers of coast line! He orders them to stop taking things into their own hands and exits, leaving the frustrated boyz steaming.

Later at Juan José's, he weeps over a photograph of missing Alejandra and asks God what he's done to deserve first the death of his mother and now risking Alejandra, who is everything to him; who has been so good with him. He still believes, though, and prays for her safe return; while Asuncion looks on, wearing the world's loudest pajamas, still easily visible despite the late-night shadows.

Next day outside the country hideout, Édgar and Valentín discuss how they are going to get out of there, with those monkeys watching them all the time and the jewels guarded at the warehouse; but Valentín reminds Édgar they still have money in the bank.

While inside the shack amid the victims' moaning, Adolfo and Dante wonder similarly how to extricate themselves, with all transportation watched -- and their bank accounts probably frozen without a penny. They order Édgar to retrieve the diamonds; and he'd better not come back empty handed, or else!

At Elsa's, she admits a somber Mauricio into the apartment, who only sits for a moment to deliver bad news. He knows she doesn't love him, and he's tired of waiting for her to notice he exists. He did everything he could to encourage her self-confidence to succeed; and it wasn't easy, due to her self doubt.

He insisted because he loved her and thought she'd make a great professional. Despite doing everything he could to help her forget Juan José, the only thing it accomplished was that she loves him even more -- that she gets worse and worse, wanting him more and more, despite Juan José only wanting her as a friend.

When Elsa objects to Mauricio speaking to her that way, he tells her she will indeed listen to every word he has to say, for all the mountain of things he listened to from her. She's a stupid girl, because Juan José doesn't love her. What does she expect -- and what's more, Mauricio doesn't expect anything either, because he's tired of this.

Mauricio doesn't want to see Elsa again or hear anything about her. She's won; she finally succeeded in getting rid of him. He gave her everything, and she threw it in the garbage. What is she going to do now, that she's alone? At the door, he pauses thoughtfully and turns before saying, resignedly, to pardon him for daring to love her -- and exits, as Elsa remains behind in tears.

When Édgar arrives back at the shack from the guarded warehouse without the diamonds, Adolfo is ready to kill both him and Valentín -- until Valentín pulls his hole card and reveals he knows where Garnica's helicopter is. They get a reprieve when Adolfo returns from looking in the woods, exclaiming they are saved; the helicopter is there!

Adolfo promises Dante they'll get a big ransom for the kidnap victims; while after a few moments, the helicopter descends -- and aside, Valentín confides to Édgar he picked this hideout knowing the helicopter was hidden nearby.

The worse news is that the chopper won't hold everyone -- and two of the passengers must stay behind: which two, Adolfo plans to choose with a bullet.

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